How We Can Support Educators and Parents in the Midst of ‘Crisis Schooling’
[…] son. We’re in month two of ‘crisis schooling,’ which is not remote learning. There are two key reasons for this distinction: Schools are requiring teachers accustomed to classroom instruction to navigate a challenging online learning landscape with little to no training, support or tools. There are lists of resources cropping up and ed tech companies […]
A Lifeboat in an Education Crisis: Supporting Educators through Inclusive Actions
[…] high school special education teacher, Kareem Neal. In this case study, he discusses the online tools and strategies he used to connect with his students during remote instruction amidst the stay-at-home orders of the pandemic. So EALA has the Resource Library, which provides resources from case studies, to resource compilations, to strategies that you […]
The importance of a Stellar Ambassador Team when Introducing New Tech
Continuing the digital curriculum is not an easy feat for all educators. Kiddom is a great resource for growing ELA in a time of virtual learning.
Creativity Made Easy: How Your Students Can Practice the Skill for the 21st-Century
[…] programs and high-intensity tutoring. We are trying to catch up and in doing so we need to ask ourselves if we are promoting more memorization, more top-down instruction? Are we eliminating creativity? Is that the kind of education we need to produce students who think creatively and independently? The pandemic has created many problems […]
Getting Clearer: Schooling Loss, Not Learning Loss
[…] controls of location and delusional thinking that students at school, in buildings, sitting in classrooms means that they are learning has been unable to translate to remote instruction. The static outcomes for what we learned in schooling a year ago, no longer apply. Our human ecosystem has shifted. We will never be back to […]
A Resource for COVID-Weary Parents: New eBook on Doing PBL at Home
[…] “ifs.” Instead, many students may have “virtually dropped out” of school for a while. For those that hung in there, parents and caregivers may have noticed the instruction their children were getting did not engage them or teach them very much of value. And now, faced with a long summer and the likelihood that […]
Lining Up Career Dreams with Reality
By: Dr. Suzette Lovely. Suzette discusses how to build exposure and aspirations around careers that may not currently exist.
Podcast: Beth Anderson on Learner Differences
[…] students with learner differences. Their mission is to transform students who have learning differences through a variety of programs that are research-based and distinguished by being highly differentiated: direct, small group instruction in reading, writing, math, and executive function. In just the last year, they’ve reached about 1,000 students directly and have trained over […]
Town Hall Recap: Learner-Centered Ecosystems as a Public Education Reality?
[…] by the National League of Cities during the pandemic, we explore how communities can support learning hubs, emphasizing the diverse opportunities for learning that extend beyond academic instruction. The journey from systems to ecosystems involves reimagining the interplay of people, places, and possibilities, as highlighted by the work of Tom Akiba and Maria Hecht […]
Sydney Schaef on The Future9 Competencies
[…] reDesign Sydney Schaef LinkedIn Future9 Competencies Press Release Overview: On this episode, they discussed implementing developmental level progressions in learning systems, focusing on competency-based learning with personalized instruction. Sydney Schaef from Redesign introduced nine competencies and 34 skills across six levels, emphasizing future readiness and skill progression development through extensive research over a decade. […]