COVID-19 Back-to-School News Roundup

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6 min readJun 27, 2020

A collection of the latest K-12 news and resources for June 27, 2020

Back to School Preparation and Support | McGraw Hill

Teachers and administrators using McGraw Hill can get their back-to-school questions answered in one place about topics…

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CARES Act | Back to School Preparation and Support | McGraw Hill

Each state will receive a share of the $3 billion Governor's Education Relief Fund, which governors can use at their…

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Where States Stand On Reopening for BTS:

Map: Coronavirus and School Closures

The coronavirus pandemic forced a near-total shutdown of school buildings in the spring of 2020-an historic upheaval of…

www.edweek.org

What does the CDC say about reopening schools?

Guidelines for stemming the spread of coronavirus when reopening schools have been released by the Centers for Disease…

districtadministration.com

Data: When Will School Start This Fall?

A guide to states' dates for starting the 2020-21 school year Updated: June 11, 2020 This page will be updated when new…

www.edweek.org

See How All 50 States Are Reopening

All 50 states have begun to reopen in some way after the coronavirus thrust the country into lockdown starting in…

www.nytimes.com

Educational News & Updates:

Education Dept. Rule Limits How Schools Can Spend Vital Aid Money

In a new rule announced Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos signaled she is standing firm on her…

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New Hub Aims to Help Schools Find the Right Ed-Tech Products During COVID-19 - Market Brief

As schools and businesses around the world work to address the impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning, developers…

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Want to Maximize Student Learning When Schools Reopen? Minimize Classroom Interruptions

During even the most normal school year, there are a lot of little interruptions to teaching and learning each day-a…

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Feeling Nostalgic for In-Person Schooling? That May Hurt Our Chance to Rethink It. - EdSurge News

Around the world, people are mourning. For loved ones, principally. But also for the rituals and rites of passage from…

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How much will it cost to reopen the nation's schools?

Programming announcement: Our newsletters are evolving. Morning Education will continue to publish daily for POLITICO…

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The State of K-12 Cyber Safety & Security: Student Data Privacy in Remote Learning - Security…

Student data privacy in remote learning situations requires specific considerations that district IT teams must address…

securityboulevard.com

How To Hybrid Homeschool This Fall

As someone who has written a lot about hybrid homeschooling, the plans that school districts have been drafting for…

www.forbes.com

Educators prepare to apply lessons learned in spring, summer to next school year

As online lessons during spring and summer school sessions disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic have shown, engaging…

www.educationdive.com

Plans are Being Developed to Reopen Schools

Home › Plans are Being Developed to Reopen Schools States and districts are at various stages in planning to reopen…

www.electroniceducationreport.com

Schools Need $245 Billion to Reopen Safely, State Education Chiefs Estimate

Schools will need as much as $245 billion in additional federal support to safely reopen in the midst of the…

www.usnews.com

How Does A Pre-Pandemic Building Inventory Serve A Post-Pandemic University? What's Next For Campus…

What seems inevitable, especially if the transition to hybrid learning is permanent, or if Coronavirus persists, or if…

www.forbes.com

4 ways schools can prepare for the future of e-learning

The pandemic has struck the education system especially hard as schools had to swiftly adjust operations to fit within…

www.eschoolnews.com

The Pandemic Should Be A Catalyst To Triple Public School Funding

Congress should triple Title I funding, the largest federal aid program for public schools, so that public schools…

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Why Schools Are Not Holding Students Back to Address COVID-19 Learning Loss

One thing is clear from this spring: Countless students will start next school year with considerable learning loss…

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COVID-19 Has Widened the 'Homework Gap' Into a Full-Fledged Learning Gap - EdSurge News

It's a problem that many educators have been grappling with for years, but one that has been exacerbated-and made more…

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What Does Good Classroom Design Look Like in the Age of Social Distancing? - EdSurge News

Where we learn matters. This truth has exploded as we have waded through the realities of emergency remote learning. As…

www.edsurge.com

5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

subscribe to Coronavirus Daily podcast There is no one answer for what the coming school year will look like, but it…

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'A Punch to the Gut': Dealing with Suicide in a Pandemic

California schools closed in mid-March to prevent the spread of coronavirus. In the first full week of April, Chris…

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Planning the COVID comeback: Tools for school reopenings

If there's one thing that's certain about the current situation for school and district administrators, it's that…

districtadministration.com

Like It or Not, K-12 Schools Are Doing a Digital Leapfrog During COVID-19

Things have changed. On that, we can all agree. But will they be forever changed, especially regarding the use of…

www.edweek.org

What Teachers Want: 'Looping,' Grouping by Ability, and Digital Devices, Survey Says

Teachers are worried about the learning gaps that students may have at the beginning of next school year, and they…

blogs.edweek.org

Back To School For Real? Texas Officials Say Yes

Will students actually go back to school this fall? In Texas, state officials say yes. Texas Education Commissioner…

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Rapid switch to online learning created cybersecurity risks

The shift to online learning presents cybercriminals with new opportunities to attack, as technology becomes more…

www.educationdive.com

School During Covid-19? One Laptop Per Child Not Required

Just as swiftly as school buildings across the country closed for millions of students, the transition began to…

www.forbes.com

It's going to take more than one semester to fix the 'COVID slide'

Claudio Estrada is principal of PUC Community Charter Middle School in Lakeview Terrace, California, and Mariana…

www.educationdive.com

Most Parents Polled Want Full-Time, In-Person School To Resume This Fall

56% of 1,200 parents surveyed supported a return to full-time, in-person schooling, compared to part-time instruction…

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Sustaining online learning during COVID-19

When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student…

www.eschoolnews.com

Texas Students To Head Back To Class This Fall, No Face Masks Required

School districts will not be required to make students wear face masks or test them for Covid-19, a spokesperson for…

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Survey: What District Leaders Say About School Finance in the COVID-19 Era

The EdWeek Research Center surveyed more than 300 district leaders nationwide May 6-7 about the financial outlook for…

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PreparED: In a year on 'pause,' a new principal keeps student growth, staff morale at forefront

Editor's note: This article is the final installment in a year-long series on the experiences of a new principal in…

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'Dear NPR': In Postcards From The Shutdown, Kids Show Us Life - And Learning

A few weeks ago, we asked parents to help us out. Have your kids draw or sketch or write us a postcard, we said, and…

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What Parents Told Us About Their Teen's Remote Learning Experience [Survey Results]

A full 78% of respondents said that remote learning was okay but not as good as being in the classroom. They seemed to…

grownandflown.com

Children with ADHD can now be prescribed a video game, FDA says

The first video game-based treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been approved by the US…

www.cnn.com

Mental Health First Aid Should Be as Common as CPR Training in Schools

When teacher Holly Downey was in high school, she remembers being lonely, anxious, and irritable. She needed help but…

www.weareteachers.com

Podcasts & Webinars:

[Podcast] Rethinking Education

Technology and social norms are rapidly evolving. And as they do, they are re-shaping the workplace and the workforce…

www.educationdive.com

What a Forgotten Instructional Fad From the '60s Reveals About Teaching - EdSurge News

Back in the 1960s, an experimental form of teaching made a big splash at colleges. It was called PSI, or the…

www.edsurge.com

Webinars

In light of the current health crisis, Digital Promise is committed to bringing you relevant and informative webinars…

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Resources:

Planning the COVID comeback: Tools for school reopenings

If there's one thing that's certain about the current situation for school and district administrators, it's that…

districtadministration.com

District Re-Entry Models: Key Trade-Offs Calculator | Education Resource Strategies

As part of our suite of tools to support districts in their Fall 2020 reentry plans, we have created the Key Trade-Offs…

www.erstrategies.org

14 Online Summer Courses for Teachers That Are FREE (or Almost)!

For most of us, the summer of 2020 is still a big "who knows?" There are so many unanswered questions. Will camps be…

www.weareteachers.com

Free teaching resources and free education services

As more schools and districts continue to be affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic, solution providers…

districtadministration.com

COVID Comeback Models | Education Resource Strategies

To help school and system leaders develop locally relevant school models for 2020-21, we developed a series of "COVID…

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