Curriculum & Instruction

Why families are forming in-home learning pods

One company is providing substitute teachers to lead homeschool learning pods and is also seeking funding to help low-income families form 'bubbles.'

5 reasons why SEL is essential in the COVID era

Why teachers restarting learning post-COVID should focus on student social-emotional learning, or SEL, before trying to make up for learning loss.

COVID-era SEL means preparing students for the unknown

Clayton County Public Schools near Atlanta has created school-level teams to serve as SEL coaches for teachers as classes resume.

SEL priority: Students must feel safe before they can learn

Administrators in Naperville School District 203, where SEL has been entrenched in the curriculum for years, have focused first on professional development for teachers in the post-COVID world.

How Chicago’s 200 student voice committees solve problems

In Chicago, students as young as elementary age learn to organize and build civic leadership skills within the district's 200 student voice committees.

How a superintendent builds a ‘high level of student voice’

Student voice has had a significant impact on diversifying the curriculum and altering the dress code in Maryland's Howard County Public School System.

Student voice creates a greater sense of belonging and diversity

Asking students for feedback but not taking any action is worse than not asking them at all, says Principal Arria Coburn of the Springfield Renaissance School principal.

How risky are school activities? This chart has answers.

Walking to school, prepackaged meals and non-contact sports outdoors run a lower risk of transmitting coronavirus in schools. Contact sports, choirs and bands, and buses pose the highest risk.

Paraprofessionals’ part in school reopening plans

Here are 4 actions to take in including paraprofessional staff in new school year scenarios, with at least part-time remote instruction in mind.

Report: Two-thirds of teens concerned about return to school

A recent Junior Achievement poll shows that students are worried about safety of in-class instruction but also feeling uneasy about the prospect of remote learning.

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