ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. Despite the setback, I believe there is still a way for students to re-engage in school, support their communities and learn leadership skills.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Only a few years ago, before the pandemic, finding a school district with a dedicated leadership position focused on data privacy was like spotting a “unicorn”—something so rare it was practically mythical. Despite its efforts, the district suffered a big ransomware attack in 2020.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Having served on the leadership team of our local PD organization for many years, I’ve planned numerous conferences and knew what needed to be done, but this year was different. As a result, leadership positions remain vacant, and conferences go unattended.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. Leigh Bozard, Director of Special Projects, SELF (Special Education Leadership Fellowship).

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. A 2020 report for the U.S. What does Monarch School's leadership think? The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I say a few affirmative words aloud to center myself, then I reach into a drawer and pull out a small bottle of lavender aromatherapy that my leadership team gave me as a “wellness gift.” By the end of the 2020-2021 school year we resumed in-person learning with full days. For a moment, like Calgon, I’m taken away.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

The commission also proposed a career ladder that would provide classroom teachers with leadership opportunities without pulling them out of the classroom, as well as a rebalancing of the educator workday to include more time for educators to improve their instruction and plan lessons.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

On March 18th, 2020, my principal pulled me into a meeting with the superintendent, principals, and assistant principals from other high schools in the district. Support Through the Pandemic As the safer-at-home orders extended into the 2019-2020 school year came to an end, the leadership team met to discuss how we would support our students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. It was all hands on deck.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

MIT leadership team provided nine monthly Parent Technology trainings to teach about the educational technology tools students use everyday. MIT partnered with Redwood City 2020 Socios For Success for monthly Parent Engagement trainings on team building and leadership training.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Support for Educators Historically, it’s been challenging to find adequate time and resources to train teachers on using edtech effectively in the classroom. We know that technology is not a panacea for all of the issues that prevent equity in education. Yet, this is only a starting point.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I speak and consult nationally on public education, youth development and child well-being, and since March 2020, I have integrated real-time polling into my speaking events, asking thousands of teachers, counselors and administrators about the well-being of their students, families and school communities.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 31, 2023

Hawaii experienced a spike in retirements during the 2020-21 school year. And a recent Louisiana Educator Workforce Snapshot revealed that 26 percent of teachers who left their jobs in the 2020-2021 academic year had 21 or more years of experience. In the 2020-21 school year: 12.4 teachers into four buckets.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been following the situation — with eyes, especially, on the early care and education workforce, says Katie Hamm, deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development at the department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF). government.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

School Leaders Take Note: Teacher Care is a Lot More Than Self-Care by Sean Slade “We must stop expecting educators to save themselves and instead start to address the group climate and culture of our schools,” writes school leadership expert Sean Slade. That means calls for teachers to practice self-care are not enough.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Around this time four years ago, a seismic event was rippling across education. In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. For most educators, the pandemic was a defining moment in their careers, a situation more disruptive than they could’ve imagined.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the summer of 2020, not only did my students bear witness to a catastrophic pandemic that uprooted their sense of normalcy, but they also bore witness to the power of the Black Lives Matter Movement right after the murder of George Floyd. A classroom that centers joy is a classroom that centers leadership, culture and academics.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These responses—and lack of responses—were deeply troubling to many Asian American educators. The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. Photo by RYO Alexandre / Shutterstock.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Early childhood educators are tired and burned out from the onslaught of changes since early 2020.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2024

Just as I was beginning to get settled into this new role of leadership, COVID-19 arrived in the spring of 2020 and completely changed the way we functioned as educators.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

With the escalation of online teaching and learning in 2020, Duolingo leadership noticed that product usage was steadily increasing despite the shakiness of the platform. They knew we had to do better for teachers but didn’t know exactly what that might look like.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

One moment would be 2020, at the start of COVID. And I’ve always loved helping others more than I love trying to help myself. Did you ever reconsider your career path? There were moments where I did think about other things, yes. I was a senior in high school when the pandemic started. What gives you hope about your future career?

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Parachuting In, Unprepared for Duty During the first quarter of the 2020-2021 academic year, I needed to make my first-ever parent call. As TFA cuts a quarter of its staff after reporting its lowest recruitment numbers in 15 years , I feel angry.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Schools Have to Work on Themselves When I started therapy in 2020, I quickly learned that simply attending therapy sessions wasn’t enough to improve my mental health. My sessions were important, but I had to put in the work in my day-to-day life to really improve my mental health.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2023

Yet anecdotally, and with some data on hand, it’s clear that not all districts have abandoned the skills they picked up in 2020. Last fall, as the seasons began to change and the weather turned cooler, many school districts experienced high numbers of student and staff absences, due to a combination of flu, RSV and COVID-19.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Unlike their counterparts in K-12 schools, these kinds of programs are still relatively uncommon in higher education. The program began enrolling classes of 75 in 2020. Experts say an overall lack of awareness by college leadership that courses for people who primarily speak Spanish are needed has held back their implementation.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In 2021, the fund at Milwaukee Area Technical College commissioned a researcher at the nonprofit Opportunity@Work to conduct a survey of all 488 students who applied for emergency aid in the 2020-2021 academic year, to determine who they were, what needs they had, and what their experience was like accessing aid.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

American University Pays Tutors American University’s School of Education established the Future Teacher Tutors Program in fall 2020. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, teacher accounts were abuzz with reading lists and calls to adopt culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogies. It’s a way for binational and bicultural students to connect to families and cultures, and for students to see their national identities celebrated and validated.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It was fall 2020, and here I was, sitting at my computer in tears. I had just received a notice from my school about the push for teachers and leaders to return to school for in-person learning. The email highlighted a “hybrid plan” that involved teachers rotating in and out of the building on specific days and periods.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

The hope that the pandemic would force leaders to reevaluate their priorities concerning education seemed to dwindle by the day. Every moment I inched closer towards the third school year following 2020, it felt as if I had to do something different.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2023

So in January of 2020, I re-enrolled in school and started taking my classes again. But I think it does take growth and sometimes it takes time and maturity. Being able to go back to school at the age of 25, I was able to take it much more seriously.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

Adam has written on education technology topics for various publications, including Education Week, Forbes and EdSurge. And he has been an invited speaker about education technology and teacher training for conferences at home and abroad.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Earlier this year, the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) released numbers from the 2020-21 school year, using data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. For every school counselor in the country, there were 415 students in 2020-21 , down from 491 in 2013-14, the new data shows.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2021

Reflecting on 2020 with the hosts. Making education change a reality: Gabriel Rshaid from Argentina. Outreach of the penguins with science educator Jean Pennycook. Innovative sustainable forest management education in the Asia-Pacific region. Tony Wagner speaks to Iowa educators, Part 2. Related Posts.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

It was the Fall of 2020, and I delivered my testimony on Zoom to the Texas State Board of Education. This was the first time in many years that Texas was revising its sex education standards, which would impact millions of students in Texas for many years.

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