DA guest columnists Matthew X. Joseph and Christine Ravesi-Weinstein offer strategies for continuing learning opportunities and addressing student wellness—for the first week out and beyond. Joseph, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment at Leicester Public Schools, is a featured speaker at FETC.
Ensuring students can still learn during coronavirus-related school closures has become as big a priority for many district leaders over the last several weeks as has disinfecting their buildings.
Coronavirus closed schools in New York City, which will move to distance learning, while LAUSD calls for community resource centers to provide childcare. ACT reschedules national test.
Disclosures under "health and safety emergency" exception to privacy law are limited to law enforcement, public health officials, trained medical personnel and parents.
A previous Districts of Distinction honoree continues to expand the TK-5 student mindfulness and social-emotional learning curriculum that DA recognized in 2016.
LRP Media Group, a recognized leader in the special education publishing industry, has released a new pamphlet, Walking the Line Between Compliant Response and Advocacy-Based Retaliation. Rather than bog readers down with heavy legal terms and concepts, this all-new pamphlet provides plain language guidance on what constitutes a retaliation claim under Section 504, ADA Title […]
LRP Media Group, a recognized leader in the special education publishing industry, has released The Special Ed Administrator's Training Toolkit: Professional Development for Paraprofessionals — Applying Instructional Strategies to Develop Student Independence. This training binder identifies up-to-date instructional concepts that paraprofessionals can use with students. Strategies addressed include using cues and prompts, modeling, shaping, wait […]
