This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Co-teaching is not new, but the pandemic has forced many of us to iterate the model to prepare future teachers, especially as it has stretched their technological know-how and comfort level,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In my three years at the McCormick Foundation, I have had the privilege of working with the Democracy Schools Initiative, which has strengthened schoolwide civic learning and engagement throughout Illinois. Illinois…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of educational technologies. But experience and know-how about using those technologies to their greatest advantage has not been so easy to transplant. Survey results…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Annual state end-of-year tests have been the mainstay of federal and state accountability systems for nearly 30 years. In spring 2020, given pandemic-related disruptions in learning, the federal Department of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. There have been several studies about how the lack…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Libraries have been key partners to cities during the pandemic in tackling the digital divide, among other critical needs, and are now eligible to receive billions of dollars in coronavirus…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It can be hard to draw lessons from a crisis when you are still in the crisis. While hope is on the horizon, we are definitely still living with the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. These students, about a thousand juniors and seniors, are collecting, analyzing and interpreting sets of data from their own lives. In the process, they are learning basic statistics and computer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We have been exploring how authentic public presentations of learning may lead to increased student engagement and why a campaign called Share Your Learning has been advocating for more teachers, schools, districts,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More now than ever before, there is a critical need to invest in high-quality early childhood and kindergarten programs that set students up for long-term success. Kindergarten is an instrumental…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s never been more important to take a new look at how we think about school discipline. We need to shift away from thinking of discipline as the thing you…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Compared to a normal year, students learned less in 2020, were more likely to fail their classes and were less likely to be in school at all. Is this all…