We Need to Know the Impact of School Closures in Tennessee on Student Learning
June 25, 2020 by Gini Pupo-Walker You can’t fix what you can’t see. It wasn’t that long ago that our systemic failures to serve students from low-income backgrounds, students of color, English learners, and students with…
Schools That Already Had Cohesive Cultures Did the Best.
June 24, 2020 by Karin Chenoweth, Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D. Dr. Sonja Santelises joins ExtraOrdinary Districts in Extraordinary Times to discusses the Black Lives Matter protests and the decisions she faces as superintendent of Baltimore in planning for the return…
Our Hope Is to Come Back as Close to Normal as We Possibly Can.
June 19, 2020 by Karin Chenoweth, Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D. By using gyms and deploying every possible teacher, even if they don’t have all the proper certifications, Steubenville’s superintendent Melinda Young is hoping to “open up all day every day.”…
Virtual Learning on Steroids.
June 17, 2020 by Karin Chenoweth, Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D. Increased costs in the face of massive budget cuts means that the already difficult task of re-opening school buildings becomes even more complicated. “It’s overwhelming,” says Vincent Romano, principal of…
#COVID19PBL Educators Connecting Across the Distance and Exhibiting Anti-Racist Values
June 11, 2020 by Joe Truss My school’s transition to distance learning was much like a lot of principals. We rushed to pass out technology, upload assignments to Google Classroom, and anguished about how we would…
We Have the Resources.
June 11, 2020 by Karin Chenoweth, Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D. “The money exists to ensure that all students are served,” says Tricia McManus, the brand-new deputy superintendent of Winston-Salem Public Schools in North Carolina. The question, she adds, is whether…
John B. King Jr. Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Going Back to School Safely During COVID-19
June 10, 2020 by John B. King Jr., J.D., Ed.D. United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions COVID-19: Going Back to School Safely June 10, 2020 OPENING STATEMENT JOHN B. KING JR. PRESIDENT AND CEO OF…
Why Schools Should Consider Online Coaching for Teachers
June 08, 2020 by Allison Rose Socol, Ph.D. “Rrrr – aaaa – t.” A five-year-old boy on my computer screen looked up at his teacher quizzically. He was unsure of what the word was, so his teacher patiently…
This Is so Much of a Harder Task to Perform.
June 08, 2020 by Karin Chenoweth, Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D. Providing distance learning is much harder than providing an education in person, says Mary Haynes-Smith, principal of Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School in New Orleans. Bethune is a school that…