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Using the Olympics to bring STEM excitement into classrooms
The Summer and Winter Olympic Games can add real-world context and relevance to a variety of science and engineering lessons.
Lauren Barack • July 7, 2021 -
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Why having too many or too few special education students matters
With a predicted rise in the number of referrals, schools should have tiered supports in place and monitor for inappropriate identifications.
Kara Arundel • June 1, 2021 -
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Weaving anti-bias and equity into curricula begins with self-reflection
Through professional development and other avenues, educators can root out their own biases to support culturally responsive approaches to learning.
Lauren Barack • May 26, 2021 -
Adeline Kon/K-12 Dive
Decoding the Divide: How COVID-19 thrust a long-widening digital gap into the spotlight
The pandemic forced emergency investment to connect all students to digital learning opportunities, but holes remain in access and training.
Roger Riddell • May 25, 2021 -
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Decoding the Divide: Pandemic highlights struggles, silver linings of digital special education
Virtual learning led to stronger school-family partnerships, but some students with disabilities couldn't access individualized services from home.
Kara Arundel • May 25, 2021 -
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Decoding the Divide: 29M disconnected households remain an 'unknown known'
Students who fell into the digital divide were especially impacted by COVID-19 shutdowns. Many still lack access due to affordability or infrastructure gaps.
Naaz Modan • May 25, 2021 -
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Decoding the Divide: Closing the digital gap rests on effective policies, practices
Educators seek sustainable and reliable solutions to make internet access a permanent part of education on school grounds and in students' homes.
Kara Arundel • May 25, 2021 -
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How to weave real-world phenomena into science lessons
From vaccine development to climate change, these examples can help students find relevance in what they're studying.
Lauren Barack • April 21, 2021 -
CDC/Alissa Eckert, MS. "covid-19 coronavirus on black background". Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/media/subtopic/images.htm.
8 ways a year of dueling crises is shaping the future of K-12 schools
The impacts of a pandemic disrupting school from the ground up and the nation's reckoning with systemic racism will be felt for years to come.
Roger Riddell, Kara Arundel and Naaz Modan • March 10, 2021 -
Proactive approaches help districts avoid COVID-19 special ed litigation
Despite challenges, districts have worked to communicate effectively with parents, document efforts and use early dispute resolution approaches throughout the pandemic.
Kara Arundel • Feb. 10, 2021 -
Districts brace for pandemic-related special ed litigation
As the COVID-19 crisis persists, school districts nationwide are increasingly vulnerable to challenges under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Kara Arundel • Feb. 10, 2021 -
Sox524 at English Wikipedia / Public domain. (2008). "The Lincoln Memorial on the morning of October 8, 2006.". Retrieved from Wikimedia Commons.
An Inauguration Day like few before it provides ample curricular topics
The event provides a variety of opportunities for educators to tap into the ceremony, the language and the role of politics around the event.
Lauren Barack • Jan. 13, 2021 -
4 ways schools use video game design to spark interest in computer science
Districts can hook students with existing enthusiasm, helping them build technical and soft skills while also broadening STEM diversity.
Lauren Barack • Dec. 9, 2020 -
How schools are navigating meal logistics during pandemic
Where students have returned to in-person learning, entire processes have been overhauled — from the lunchroom to the classroom.
Katie Navarra • Dec. 1, 2020 -
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What role will schools play in COVID-19 vaccine distribution?
While schools have been "very active" in vaccinations during prior epidemics, they now face increased polarization and other concerns.
Natalie Gross • Nov. 25, 2020 -
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4 ways COVID-19 could alter long-term curricular approaches
From the times and places learning occurs to what schools look like, pandemic shifts to education are unlikely to revert, experts say.
Lauren Barack • Nov. 18, 2020 -
Kara Arundel/Education Dive, retrieved from the CCSSO Annual Policy Forum, 2020/K-12 Dive, data from Council of Chief State School Officers Annual Policy Forum
3 ways K-12 schools can evolve post-pandemic
With COVID-19 creating a scenario where "things a year ago that seemed impossible are not," educators and advocates see a system ripe for change.
Kara Arundel • Nov. 17, 2020 -
Retrieved from Department of Education on September 29, 2020
School communities largely embrace masks despite lawsuits
Among lawsuit claims are that students asked to attend virtual learning for not following mask rules are subjected to a "separate and unequal" education.
Kara Arundel • Nov. 12, 2020 -
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'Relationships matter': Remote learning places new hurdles in fight against chronic absenteeism
Schools are employing a variety of tactics — including coaches, phone calls and dance parties at lunch — to boost attendance in virtual environments, but defining students' "presence" remains a challenge.
Natalie Gross • Nov. 12, 2020 -
Kendall Davis/Industry Dive/K-12 Dive, data from Marc Nozell
What do leading K-12 organizations expect from a Biden presidency?
Feelings are mixed, but hope remains as to how much Joe Biden may be able to impact areas like IDEA, COVID-19 relief for schools and civil rights.
Naaz Modan and Kara Arundel • Nov. 11, 2020 -
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Rubric for Recovery: Low-income students of color at edge of widening opportunity gap
Schools are improving engagement in part by understanding student apprehensions to being on camera and limiting unnecessary assignments.
Naaz Modan • Nov. 5, 2020 -
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Rubric for Recovery: Tightening budgets, litigation add to pandemic special ed pressures
Dedicated in-person sessions and group interventions have been among districts' strategies for additional supports amid remote learning challenges.
Kara Arundel • Nov. 4, 2020 -
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Rubric for Recovery: How schools are educating marginalized students during COVID-19
In a four-part series, we explore the challenges districts face teaching at-risk groups in-person and online, and how they are creatively addressing them.
Nov. 3, 2020 -
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Rubric for Recovery: For rural communities, it's all-hands-on-deck to help low-income students
With some families so remote they lack access to reliable connections, rural schools have reached students with lessons on USB drives and more.
Naaz Modan • Nov. 3, 2020 -
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Rubric for Recovery: ELs face more hurdles amid lost in-person learning
Schools are employing extra English development courses, individualized support delivered to students' sidewalks and more to maintain progress.
Kara Arundel • Nov. 2, 2020
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