Posts by Eric Tucker
Equity & Access
Educating All Learners Alliance Launches Flagship Site, Shares Personas Educators Can Use to Understand Students’ Lived Experience During COVID-19
Vulnerable learners will need more from our school communities this year, whether we’re operating in fully remote, hybrid, or in-person instructional environments.
Getting Through
Preparing for a Healthy and Safe Return to School: Public School Facilities Planning in the Era of COVID-19
This new guide outlines how Brooklyn LAB safeguarded their school community’s health and shares best practices for other schools.
Future of Learning
How Schools Can Help Cultivate Learner Identity and Agency
The Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools team shares how educators can cultivate opportunities to develop a strong sense of identity and agency.
Getting Through
It’s Time to Prepare for COVID-19 Resurgence: Six Steps Your School Can Take
Before the Fall arrives, Eric Tucker shares advice on how leaders can prepare for the COVID-19 resurgence.
Getting Through
Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
Success coaches are powerful resources for connection and healing and can help shepherd our student communities through this pandemic and its lasting traumas.
Getting Through
The Front Porch: A New Approach to Support the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Our School Communities
Brooklyn LAB Charter School met the crisis head-on with agile problem-solving, an innovative porch rollout and a commitment to equity.
Equity & Access
How We Move Forward: Practicing Three Inclusive, Anti-Racist Mindsets for Reopening Schools
The authors share three key commitments to keep in mind when reopening school to ensure a steadfast focus on equity.
Equity & Access
Reopening Schools: A Scheduling Map for Educators to Plan the Who, What, When, Where, and How of Learning this Fall
InnovateEDU and Brooklyn LAB have assembled a scheduling map for reopening schools this fall to help address the who, what, where, when and how's of reopening.
Getting Through
Safeguarding Back to School: Preparation for a Healthy Return to School in Downtown Brooklyn
Eric shares Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (LAB)'s Back to School Facility Tool Kit. The toolkit will provide ideas for addressing health, safety, and the requirement for social distancing.
Equity & Access
Preparing to Reopen: Six Principles That Put Equity at the Core
By: E. Tucker and L. Kruse. The authors address some of the challenges facing schools trying to make an equitable reopening plan, particularly keeping in mind students with disabilities.