Regardless of what school looks like this fall, distance learning will probably play a role in the lives of our learners for at least the short term. As administrators, we need to help our teachers make the experience as powerful as possible while recognizing the inherent difficulties of “quarenteaching.”
This article by the co-authors of John Hattie’s The Distance Learning Playbook offers four steps for powerful distance learning. Feel free to share it with your staff.
Experts are now predicting a school funding crisis unlike anything ever seen in modern history! Due to the COVID 19 crisis, states have seen drastic drops in revenue. As a result, most districts across the nation will face enormous cutbacks in funding for 2020-2021 that would have been inconceivable just a year ago.
This article takes a closer look at the situation and the financial devastation many districts may encounter in the coming year. If “forewarned is forearmed,” then this is a must-read for all educational administrators.
Due to the COVID 19 crisis, the second semester of last school year was challenging to say the least. As you prepare for the coming school year, this article outlines the four primary scenarios most U.S. schools are planning to implement (based on their local situations).
More importantly, the article contains a link to a new pandemic planning guide that discusses these scenarios and how they relate to advice from the CDC and other health experts on the fall re-opening of schools.
When a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, a natural disaster, or similar event upends your community, how should you respond?
This article offers five essential trauma-informed priorities that can provide a solid foundation for these extreme situations. While the focus of the article is on the COVID 19 crisis, there are several useful ideas that can be applied to any situation where learning is suddenly outside the norm.
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