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Six tips for effective remote math instruction
September 24, 2020

Adam Lavallee says a lot of math teachers are unsure as to how to start virtual learning. So the Pennsylvania teacher/learning design coach put together six ideas that can help educators get started. Lavallee's checklist has been featured in the Mar...

Making the Case for the Liberal Arts
September 16, 2020

Liberal Arts in Crisis? You don’t have to look hard to find news stories and books questioning the value of higher education. Bryan Caplan recently published “The Case Against Education – Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money.”

How a K-12 software company built contact tracing and quarantine reports into their existing software.
September 09, 2020

In much of the South, public school has been back in session for weeks. School admins are already implementing in-person, hybrid, and virtual learning while simultaneously navigating flareups of COVID-19 in their classrooms.

Haven't started back at school yet? Here's how we're doing in the South.
September 02, 2020

In Episode 165 of Class Dismissed we want to give you a preview of how in-person class is going here in Mississippi. Co-host, Kristina Pollard has been working with students for over a week and she'll share whether or not her return to the classroom w...

How do we help the ones who are presumably doomed to fail?
August 25, 2020

One of the greatest challenges to teaching is not knowing if you're making a difference in a child's life at the time. More than likely, you are, but it can sometimes be difficult to see the impacts in realtime. 

Steps to humanize your classroom from a distance
August 19, 2020

When it comes to education in the Fall of 2020, it's clear that little will be uniform. Some schools are trying to open in person, some elected for the hybrid model, and others will be 100% remote. Last spring, in record time,

Will COVID-19 cause us to rethink school design?
August 11, 2020

Better and Safer The world is racing for a vaccine to COVID-19. If we're lucky, we'll have one in late 2020 or early 2021. But what if we're not? What if living with COVID-19 is something we have to adjust to longterm?

Why students need to see a reflection of themselves in a book
August 04, 2020

“What does it mean if you never see yourself in a story?” – Jennifer Buehler “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a beautiful story, and it is one of the most commonly taught books in the secondary curriculum. But educator, Jennifer Buehler,

Meet the teacher determined to keep school assemblies alive
July 28, 2020

Is there a student anywhere in the world that doesn't love a school assembly? You know, that moment, your principal fires up the intercom and announces that we're all headed to the auditorium to be entertained and inspired. Unfortunately,

How COVID-19 magnified the inequities in Special Education
July 21, 2020

Nathan Levenson, a former school superintendent, has consulted with hundreds of districts about ways to improve special education. But in March of 2020, the challenges surrounding special education became magnified by COVID-19.