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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
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.
Personalized Learning
Embracing Partners: 7 Human Resources of PBL
By: Michael Niehoff. Michael outlines the partners that should be involved in project-based learning when creating authenticity and high-quality student work.
Future of Learning
How Interviewing an Innovator Can Expand A Student’s Network
By: Kevin Anselmo. Kevin of the Global Innovators Academy shares the benefits for students of interviewing professionals and writing content online.
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.
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.
Personalized Learning
Why SEL is More Important Than Ever: Meeting SEL Needs Virtually
Rachelle Dene Poth shares ideas for promoting SEL in distance learning.
Getting Through
An Opportunity to Disrupt Education for the Better: Lessons From Starting a School in a Pandemic
By: Tom Woelper. The disruptive forces at play in American education due to COVID-19 present challenges, but they also provide an opportunity for us to rethink the educational experience we’re delivering. For a startup school, the pandemic has presented lessons that can be extended to better education for all.