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Reimagining Student Supports in a Year of Distance Instruction

Digital Promise

In many cases, parent involvement understandably extends to supporting students in taking online assessments. Teachers and principals are emphasizing to parents and caregivers that assessments help identify student needs so that educators can better plan instruction to meet those needs. Now it drives instruction.

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

But this innovation is at odds with a generations-old notion of what school should look like and it is spurring debate of the merit of online schools. The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea.

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42 Distance Learning and Inspiring Resources for Educators

The CoolCatTeacher

Distance Learning Excellence 10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – an infographic and information about excellence in online learning Be Education’s Overcomers – 3 minute video with some principles to help you.

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Keeping Teachers Committed to Teaching: Make Them Happy

edWeb.net

Teachers seek curricula that enable them to differentiate instruction for an inclusive approach to addressing students’ learning diversity. They often find that mandated commercial or district-created curricula don’t allow for differentiation. Curricular Options. Bringing Up Teacher Morale: Additional Tips.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

The shift in mindset involves moving away from a teaching model that is centered on curriculum and meeting benchmarks toward being student-centered in ways that demand differentiated instruction based on a child’s interests, strengths, weaknesses and background. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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Actionable advice for school leaders on how to create an effective teacher training program

Neo LMS

With lesson planning, assessments, and lining up everything with school and federal standards and policies, all while juggling virtual and face-to-face classes, you know that teachers are busy. In the meantime, an online microlearning approach is the best option. Be flexible with PD time. Divide and conquer.

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What Lessons Does Special Education Hold for Improving Personalized Learning?

MindShift

The shift in mindset involves moving away from a teaching model that is centered on curriculum and meeting benchmarks toward being student-centered in ways that demand differentiated instruction based on a child’s interests, strengths, weaknesses and background. Much of this may sound familiar to teachers of special education.