A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

These unprecedented and uncertain times have spawned a paradigm shift in the way teaching and learning are conducted. With many schools and districts struggling to not only maintain effective engagement with their students but to be able to quickly and easily adjust to changing and ambiguous guidelines is equally as challenging. The ability to swiftly and seamlessly adjust to the unknown, short- and long-term future of curriculum facilitation is essential for maintaining education continuity for

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Adjusting to a rigorous curriculum, learning new skills and understanding the nuances of classroom learning are just a few of the many pressures students face. For students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia and related language processing difficulties, these struggles are amplified even in the most ideal learning environments. Shifting to remote learning because of the pandemic also posed additional challenges for these students.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Guest article by Brian Miller College enrollment was down this fall due to fears of COVID-19. To their credit, many schools did adopt innovative measures to promote safety. Purdue University, for example, put testing protocols in place and installed Plexiglas barriers in classrooms. Despite these and various other measures to protect students and staff, plenty of students were hesitant to return to college campuses.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Among the reasons many K–12 schools have made Chromebooks their tech of choice for remote and hybrid learning is the protection they provide against cyberattacks. Because most of their operations are based in the cloud and are easily controlled by system administrators, the devices are widely seen as highly secure. Still, K–12 IT professionals say, the standard security perks that come with most Chromebooks aren’t enough on their own to prevent bad actors from accessing private data — or to keep

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Teacher Tech

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The art of leading looks vastly different for school administrators today. They are now tasked with adapting their leadership practices to an environment where digital tools and remote collaboration and communication are the norm. While this is no easy feat, it does provide a great opportunity for school leaders to create a stronger school community and embrace innovative learning and teaching methods.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Small group learning is absolutely essential today. In a virtual classroom, the instructor typically does most of the talking when leading a synchronous lesson. Students may find it more difficult to participate or think out loud in this environment. But with breakout rooms, educators can improve student engagement, differentiate instruction and give students more voice and choice in their learning outside of a traditional classroom.

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The Jose Vilson

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

For EduColor’s Medium blog, I wrote a bit more about the Secretary of Education using some inspiration from Vanessa Siddle Walker’s The Lost Education of Horace Tate , a must read: “I’ve witnessed how the narrative of public schooling and education writ large has forced parents to run towards alternatives, even when those alternatives are often used for exploitative and racist means.

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MiddleWeb

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

For years teachers have used the gradual release model to shift ownership and responsibility by degrees from themselves to students. In a remote setting, gradual release is often even more important, as students need structure to learn. Barbara R. Blackburn shows how.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

I began to focus on seeing students for who they are rather than all of the things that they one day might become. The post Shifting Teaching From What They Might Become To Who They Are Today appeared first on TeachThought.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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SecurEdge

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

There are three common safety measures that businesses are taking: reconfiguring indoor spaces, getting outdoor WiFi, and implementing contact tracing. All of them involve your WiFi network in some capacity and it's important to understand how in order to keep everyone safe.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Parents and students nationwide have held protests advocating for a full return to classrooms. Credit: Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. It was the second week of the fall semester when Cassandra Wooten realized her teenage daughter was sinking. The high school junior often spent hours a day on her computer for online school, only to tell her mom at the end of the day that she wasn’t sure she’d learned anything at all.

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SecurEdge

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

There are three common safety measures that businesses are taking: reconfiguring indoor spaces, getting outdoor WiFi, and implementing contact tracing. All of them involve your WiFi network in some capacity and it's important to understand how in order to keep everyone safe.

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SecurEdge

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

There are three common safety measures that businesses are taking: reconfiguring indoor spaces, getting outdoor WiFi, and implementing contact tracing. All of them involve your WiFi network in some capacity and it's important to understand how in order to keep everyone safe.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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