Educators have a better chance of keeping students engaged in online learning with synchronous class meetings, small-group instruction, social media and some other strategies.
Social capital, or who a student can rely on for support, leads to success in education and the workforce. But not all students have equal opportunity to build such a network.
School leaders must weigh the risks of COVID infections with the academic, social-emotional and economic benefits of reopening classrooms for in-person learning.
To stem "COVID slide" learning loss, new policies are needed to boost testing equity and to adapt assessments to online and hybrid learning, according to NWEA.
When designing classrooms, K-12 leaders should provide tools that allow teachers and students to move easily back and forth between physical and virtual learning environments.
Among growing concerns about the "Covid-19" slide, a new study has found that more than half of students experienced learning loss every summer between grades 1 and 6.
Social-emotional learning will guide students and their teachers in having potentially controversial discussions about their experiences of COVID, the killing of George Floyd and other pressing issues.
Social-emotional learning for the coming school year actually began in July with professional development in Naperville School District 203 in the Chicago suburbs.
