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Aug 18
Why Self-Compassion and Emotion Regulation Are Key to Coping with COVID-19 by Marc Brackett
“healthy emotion regulation involves monitoring, tempering and modifying emotional reactions in helpful ways in order to reach personal and professional goals.”
Aug 17
To overcome the stress of this pandemic, educators must lead with relationships, routines and resilience by Katie Brackenridge
” The real question is whether we can afford not to invest in practices that support students’ social, emotional AND cognitive development right now. If we really care about student success, then we need to honor the biology of our brains — our interconnected centers of emotions, focus and learning.”
Aug 16
Reduce teacher burnout and student absenteeism by asking this one question each day
“What are the 1-2 things that I need to achieve today in order for this to be a successful day?”
Aug 15
Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning by Wade Tyler Millward
“Hedy Chang, executive director and founder of Attendance Works, says that when the new school year resumes, school officials may well find more students at risk for chronic absenteeism due to economic or housing instability. Parents may have lost their jobs, students may need to work to support the family, family members may have died due to COVID-19. And students may be unwilling to return to school in person if they have a health condition or live with someone who is more vulnerable to the virus.”
Aug 14
“No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship” James Comer
“Many schools across the country are not sure what school will look like in the fall. Building relationships is the key to a successful classroom environment that promotes academic success so we need to think about ways we can build relationships virtually.”
Aug 13
10 Things To Do in the First Weeks of School to Connect with Learners in Distance Learning by Katie Martin
“As the role of the educator evolves, human connection and guidance will become increasingly more- not less- important”
Aug 12
Exploring our reactions: deepening learning from Diangelo’s White Fragility from restorativeteachingtools.com
“Students will reflect on white privilege and how they may have felt defensiveness and responded in unhelpful ways when that privilege or their own learned racism was identified.”
Aug 11
2 Simple Ways to Improve Online Instruction from Edutopia
“In the months since the pandemic caused an emergency rush to distance learning, many teachers have made significant strides in improving the remote teaching skills they need to reach all learners. “
Aug 10
Teaching in Troubled Times: A Q&A With a Trauma Expert (NEPC)
“National Education Policy Center Fellow Elizabeth Dutro responds to difficult questions about how teachers can effectively and respectfully address the traumas that are touching so many of their students’ lives, either in person or from afar, even as they, themselves, may be experiencing similar traumas of their own.”
Aug 07
Tracking Student Attendance Under Remote Learning Is a Complicated Mess
“Tracking student attendance under remote learning this spring was complicated and oftentimes ad hoc, a messy process that could continue to be a big problem if schools return to full-time virtual learning anytime this school year or do some combination of in-person and online education.”