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February Pandemic Funding Update: Understanding the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act

I often wonder what I'd be doing right now if I were still in one of my former roles as chief of staff, policy director, education advisor to a...

Prioritizing Social-Emotional Learning and Mental Health Support During the Fall Semester

With the coronavirus pandemic casting a shadow over the weeks and months ahead, school communities may find themselves shifting among three...

Slowing the COVID Slide: 6 Action Steps for Educators This Fall

Unlike the summer break, federal holidays, and other scheduled interruptions in instruction, the shutdowns of spring 2020 were wholly unplanned. And...

Silver Linings: Why Remote Learning Allows Some Students to Shine

Don't have time to read? Listen Now » March 2020 saw a massive upheaval in Americans' day-to-day lives as the COVID-19 pandemic began...

5 Ways to Nurture Self-Awareness in Students

Could nurturing students’ self-awareness be the key to unlocking academic potential?

Many researchers seem to think so. In a 2019 piece...

Serving Special Education Students During COVID-19 Shutdowns

Alarm bells are ringing in school communities across the country due to the upheaval wrought by the COVID-19 crisis. For many, a particular area of...

3 Things All English Learners Need But Aren’t Always Receiving: Funding, Attention, and Respect

In his 2019 piece for The Nation magazine, North Hollywood High School senior Scott Lee noted: “It’s easy to forget that the United States has no...

Biliteracy Seals Offer Hope, Recognition for EL Students

Millions of K–12 students in the United States are non-native English speakers or English learners (ELs), a status that has historically been seen as...

Examining the Link Between Poor Literacy Skills and Dropout

More than 1 million students drop out of high school every year in the United States (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2010), which equates to...

“Disrupting” Dyslexia: How to Use Brain Science to Promote a Love of Reading for All Kids

One in five students has a language-based learning disability—and, according to the Dyslexia Center of Utah website, the majority of these have...

Details, Please! Exploring the Benefits of Mastery-Based Learning

Mastery-based learning is a growing area of interest for many educators. A 2019 post on the Hechinger Report website documents both the challenge and...

Want to Improve Teacher Effectiveness? Embrace the Flock Approach

There has been much discussion in recent years about the need to find and hold on to high-quality teachers using a combination of recruitment efforts...