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District leaders must consider how to address students recovering from coronavirus who are returning to school, particularly students with disabilities who may have lingering issues that interfere with learning.
On the first day of school when classrooms reopen in Texas' Ector County ISD, teachers are more likely to cover social-emotional learning than math or English, Superintendent Scott Muri says.
Teens have turned to social media not to cut themselves off from current events, but to seek connections that boost mental health during this age of coronavirus-induced anxiety and isolation.
Music can play a major role in helping students cope with school closures and other coronavirus disruptions—and give them more control over their learning.
As districts make plans to reopen schools, IEP and 504 teams should be identifying and planning how to serve students with medical conditions that make them especially vulnerable to COVID-19.
Classroom pets serving as guest stars in online learning sessions this spring gave students separated from teachers and friends a social-emotional learning boost.
Evidence of systemic racism exists in schools even in progressive cities where "Black and brown" students are still too often labeled as underperforming, expert says.
As Florida schools reopen, teachers will offer flexibility for families facing health and financial impacts of the coronavirus but still hold students to high academic standards.
Don't lose sight of social-emotional learning as the pandemic continues. Many students are in need of social-emotional support, even if they haven't needed it in the past.
Media coverage of school achievement gaps appears to perpetuate racial stereotypes that lead people to blame students—rather than structural racism—for poor academic performance.
When a school has a gay-straight alliance, students in the LGBTQ community report being bullied less often "for stigmatized identities other than those related to their gender or sexual orientation."
An early childhood English teacher in South Korea, originally from West Virginia, shares how social distancing and sanitizing measures have been frustrating and distracting to learning—and have helped keep students and staff safer.
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