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Getting Through
Always Ready For Learning: Meeting the Rapidly Evolving Needs of Educators Throughout COVID-19
Always Ready For Learning, a collective action initiative of The Learning Accelerator, brings together edu & health experts for support & change.
Place Based Education
Connecting Classroom and Community: 7 Strategies to Try (even virtually)
By: Kyle Conley. As students return to learning this fall, this is the time to lean into the challenges of delivering deeper learning remotely. Here are seven strategies educators can try to build critical connections for students with their classrooms and communities.
Series
Getting Clearer: Student Access
There are key inequities in student access that need to be addressed across the country to support improvement in learning experiences and outcomes.
Future of Learning
Camera ON or Camera OFF? It’s a Complicated Question
By: Beth Holland. Before requiring or suggesting that students turn on their cameras during video conferences, teachers and leaders need to engage in a conversation around four critical considerations.
Personalized Learning
Engaging Families During Distance Learning
By: Erin Gohl and Kristen Thorson. The pandemic has disrupted many of the traditional opportunities to connect and engage with families. Erin and Kristen provide ways educators can connect through distance learning.
Getting Through
5 Research-Based Recommendations for Remote Learning: Lessons from LUSD
Consider what remote instruction might look like in a rural, high-poverty district that set personalized expectations for each student, monitored their growth and engagement, and not only encouraged ongoing feedback but also stressed the need for educators to maintain a safe and supportive learning community.
Future of Learning
Welcome To Human-Computer Co-Creation: What GPT-3 Means For Education
By: Tom Vander Ark and Rachelle Dene Poth. Tom and Rachelle discuss Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), a new deep learning language model that produces human-like text and it's implications on education.
Competency-Based Education
Our Schools Must Adjust to a COVID-19 World
By: Ulrich Boser. Ulrich shares how educators should focus on community and project-based learning projects during remote learning to create an education system that works for all students.
Leadership
Redefining Pre-Service Learning In The Virtual Age
Whether it’s modeling better virtual instruction, as well as increased emphasis on social-emotional learning, school leaders and professional learning facilitators are having to rethink how to prepare teachers for the school year.
Getting Through
Movement in a Time of Isolation: Music and Dance
Rachelle Dene Poth shares ideas on resources for engaging students in active learning in the arts.