Choose the school level and theme you want to plan improvements for
Elementary
Student Engagement
Academic Challenge
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Relationships
Choose a question and explore activities to improve relationships for younger students
Culture
Instructional Methods
Secondary
Student Engagement
Choose a question and explore activities to boost engagement in older students
Academic Challenge
Relationships
Culture
Adults in my school respect people from different backgrounds. (For example, people of different races, ethnicities, and genders.)
College and Career Readiness
Peer Belonging and Collaboration
Academic Support Services
Distance Learning
Improving the Quality of Distance and Blended Learning
This brief is one in a series aimed at providing K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic. Click here to learn more about the EdResearch for Recovery Project and view the set of COVID-19 response-andrecovery topic areas and practitioner-generated questions.
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Restarting and Reinventing School: Learning in the Time of COVID and Beyond
Across the United States, state education agencies and school districts face daunting challenges and difficult decisions for restarting schools as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. As state and district leaders prepare for what schooling will look like in 2020 and beyond, there is an opportunity to identify evidence-based policies and practices that will enable them to seize this moment to rethink school in ways that can transform learning opportunities for students and teachers alike.
Take a look at the report here.
8 Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom
Educators share their best synchronous and asynchronous strategies to boost student participation during online learning.
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Trauma Informed Distance Learning
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Transform Homework into Home Learning
Far too often, students view any schoolwork that they need to do at home as an imposition—something to get through, or worse, avoid completely. This age-old problem has always been an impediment to learning, but it takes on new significance during the COVID-19 pandemic and the remote teaching and virtual learning it has necessitated. We must address this problem head on, because if students and their parents are of the mindset that learning at home will always be a form of drudgery, then our best efforts to teach remotely will be compromised. Think of it as trying to plant a garden on a concrete slab: No foundation to support growth leads to the inevitable result—no growth.
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