University of Virginia: UVA Helps Educators Wrestle With How To Appropriately Teach Current Events. “In the coming months and years, educators will grapple with how to most appropriately and effectively teach about recent events that illuminate the deep, troubling divisions in America and the history from which they emerged…. To address this need to support […]
Princeton University: Middle Ages for Educators website brings Princeton scholarship to an international audience. “Princeton’s Program in Medieval Studies and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity have launched a new website, Middle Ages for Educators, aimed at high school and college students and educators worldwide and, more broadly, at anyone interested in studying […]
San Francisco Chronicle: The risk of getting coronavirus at Bay Area schools is low. So why is fear of returning still so high?. “Teacher Liz Duffield was terrified to return to her classroom in September, scared she could spread COVID-19 to her students or get it from them. Three months later, the Novato teacher is […]
MIT Technology Review: Kids are sick of Zoom too—so their teachers are getting creative. “A few times a week, Vincent Buyssens’s students in Mechelen, Belgium’s Thomas More University College get on Instagram while he’s lecturing about creative strategy. They swipe through stories, add posts to their profile, and get lost in rabbit holes. But they’re […]
EdScoop: New website for university faculty will explain remote-teaching tech. “The Center for Innovation, Design and Digital Learning will support higher education faculty as they continue to deliver instruction to students online during the pandemic and help universities and colleges better use digital tools as they invest in online instruction, the organizations announced last week. […]
New York Times: Plastic Dividers and Masks All Day: What Teaching in a Pandemic Looks Like. “Returning to the classroom has not been easy; neither has remote learning. Educators looking to get back in front of students have had to navigate conflicting guidance from politicians and public health officials. Some teachers’ unions have refused to […]
New York Times: Teaching in the Pandemic: ‘This Is Not Sustainable’. “All this fall, as vehement debates have raged over whether to reopen schools for in-person instruction, teachers have been at the center — often vilified for challenging it, sometimes warmly praised for trying to make it work. But the debate has often missed just […]
Business Insider: How to archive a Google Classroom on a computer or mobile device when you no longer actively need it. “As the end of your term or semester rolls around, consider archiving your Google Classroom. A feature available only to teachers, archiving is a way to keep you organized and preserve materials as you […]
Los Angeles Times: Kindergartners struggle to learn online. But this mother-daughter duo keeps them glued. “A year ago, mother and daughter taught in classrooms one room apart at Bushnell Way Elementary School in Highland Park — Mrs. Carter with 4-year-olds, Ms. Tai in a mixed group of children ages 4 and 5. Many of the […]
Gulf News: Saudi Arabia: Don’t ask questions Google can answer, examiners told. “Saudi educational experts have called for a move away from questions that Google can answer in remote tests and evaluation. They urged examiners to ask good test questions that allow students to demonstrate what they have learned, elicit answers that reveal students’ intellectual […]
CNN: Mother of teacher who died of Covid-19 dies from it weeks later. “Shirley Bannister, 57, passed away from complications from Covid-19 on [September 27], according to her brother, Dennis Bell. Bannister is the mother of Demetria Bannister, a 28-year-old elementary school teacher who died earlier this month, just a few days after testing positive […]
CNN: North Carolina elementary school teacher dies days after testing positive for Covid-19. “A third-grade teacher died in North Carolina days after testing positive for Covid-19 and while her students were quarantined as a result of the exposure. Julie Davis, who taught at Norwood Elementary School in Stanly County, died from Covid-19 related complications, according […]
Education Week Teacher: It’s Notoriously Hard to Evaluate PD. A New System Aims to Change That. “The Professional Learning Partner Guide got started with little fanfare earlier this month. Its first round of reviews evaluates 16 providers who offer PD in math, English/language arts, and science. Some are curriculum publishers, such as Zearn and Great […]
PRWeb: California Public Media Education Service Integrates Educational Resources from Multiple California Public Media Stations in One Place for Teachers (PRESS RELEASE). “The California Public Media Education Service puts the educational resources from multiple California public media stations all in one place for teachers to easily browse and use, regardless of which region they might […]
Slate: “It Feels Like There’s No Winning”. “Christopher Pinto is a high school math teacher at the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District outside of Houston. His school only decided to take on a hybrid model—both online and classroom education—less than a week before the fall semester started, even though it had gone fully remote in […]