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Prioritizing Self-Care While Working From Home: Teachers adjusting to teaching from home while schools are closed may need to work out new routines to stay grounded.

Prioritizing Self-Care While Working From Home Teachers adjusting to teaching from home while schools are closed may need to work out new routines to stay grounded.

Edutopia: “It's tough enough assessing students' learning in real time in the classroom—here are ideas about how to do it asynchronously."

Formative Assessment in Distance Learning Schools are closed but schooling goes on, and it remains crucial that teachers find ways to see what students are learning.

7 Ways to Maintain Relationships During Your School Closure.

7 Ways to Maintain Relationships During Your School Closure Suddenly, you’re not in the same physical space as your students. We asked teachers to share strategies for maintaining relationships—both peer-to-peer and student-teacher—when everything’s gone remote.

A Deceptively Simple Strategy for Promoting Critical Thinking.

A Deceptively Simple Strategy for Promoting Critical Thinking Using giant whiteboards is an easy way to encourage teamwork, differentiate, and foster deep engagement with content.

4 Ways to Celebrate High School Graduation This Year.

4 Ways to Celebrate High School Graduation This Year With coronavirus school closures extending into the fall, districts are coming up with clever alternatives to give seniors the graduation ceremony they deserve.

The Neuroscience Behind Productive Struggle. Edutopia

The Neuroscience Behind Productive Struggle Challenging tasks spur the production of myelin, a substance that increases the strength of brain signals. Here are four strategies to incorporate productive struggle into your lessons.

How to Make Effective Videos for Learning.

How to Make Effective Videos for Learning Instructional videos can help students learn at their own pace and free up time for teachers to support students individually.

Fostering a Strong Community in a Virtual Classroom.

Fostering a Strong Community in a Virtual Classroom The shift to working online requires teachers to think a little differently about how to build the culture they want with their students.

Teachers Continue to Fight for Education Equality While Instructing Virtually.

Teachers Continue Fight for Education Equality Despite Virtual Barriers Despite a lack of resources, students and teachers work to find feasible solutions.

Schools need to be ready on the first day back with a strategy for diagnosing lost learning and putting every student on a fast track back to grade level. TNTP released a new resource to help schools do just that.

TNTP's Learning Acceleration Guide The COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools across the country to confront unprecedented challenges. This guide will help school and district leaders plan for accelerating student learning when schools reopen.

Manno: How Do You Keep 21st Century Students Engaged? By Building Up Their ‘Vocational Selves.’ Some Programs That Make That Happen.

Manno: How Do You Keep 21st Century Students Engaged? By Building Up Their ‘Vocational Selves.’ Some Programs That Make That Happen New partnerships are emerging across the U.S. that create innovative educational approaches to preparing America’s young people for jobs, careers and further education, helping them develop an occupational identity and vocational self. These pioneering efforts can counter young people’s disengag...

Teachers don't have time to correct every mistake that English language learners make—but peer feedback will go a long way, too.

A Strategy for Giving Corrective Feedback to ELLs Using sentence frames and explicit feedback thoughtfully can provide the right balance of structure and scaffolding for English language learners.