Getting Through
Focusing on Learners and SEL: Looping Strategies to Welcome Learners Back
As social-emotional learning becomes more integrated into our systems of learning, we must consider a specific structure to tend to the whole child returning to some form of schooling in the fall, looping.
COVID Could Worsen Summer Melt: How Some Colleges Are Responding
By: Dennis Pierce. To ensure that as many first-year students as possible enroll in classes, colleges and universities are using campus apps, virtual orientation sessions, and other innovative methods to engage with newly admitted learners.
We Can’t Put the Genie Back in the Bottle: Designing Next-Generation Education in the Time of Crisis
By: Hiller A. Spires, Ph.D.. Dr. Hiller shares her takeaways from the Friday Institute's Next Generation Education webinar series to provide guidance for the future of education.
Linking Global Knowledge, Project-Based Learning and the Pandemic: One School’s Journey
One school takes the opportunity to link project based learning, global competency and the pandemic to create a whole school project that links all subject areas.
Artificial Intelligence: Growth in many sectors in light of a Pandemic
Rachelle Dene Poth shares some of the latest developments using AI to explore trends and devise solutions to some of the challenges that we are facing.
The Pandemic & Literacy: Achieve3000’s Early Insights
Achieve3000’s new report surfaces data for literacy loss between school closures and the start of the new school year.
What is Really Keeping Us Apart Right Now? Bringing Home and School Together
By: Jennifer Ghidiu. Remote learning can provide complex issues but Jennifer discusses how to view it as a rich opportunity for teaching and learning.
Shining the Competency Education Light on Education in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 has created the conditions for a radical transformation in our schools. Chris discusses how personalized, mastery-based, competency, and proficiency-based approaches help teachers and schools.
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.
Remote Learning: Lessons Learned and Reflections to Inform the Future
Rachelle Dene Poth shares reflections and questions to consider for remote learning and the future of schools.