This week’s question-of-the-week is: What are your “go-to” instructional strategies and tools for making a virtual classroom work? Most Classroom Q & A columns begin with some comments from me, ...

In a March 13 executive order on school closures, Gov. Gavin Newsom stated that school districts and charter schools should continue to deliver “high-quality educational opportunities to the extent ...

Instead of asking yourself, “What am I going to teach today?” ask, “What will my students learn today?” and curate your teaching strategies accordingly. Next: Additional Resources and References Book ...

EdSource · A University of California in the heart of farm country aims to attract more students One does not have to look hard to find evidence that when you close schools due to a pandemic, students ...

This is especially effective while teaching in person, and also can be done during virtual learning. Teaching in a distance learning classroom Even with the best resources, it can still be difficult ...

Erin Simon had big goals for this school year. The director of student support services for Long Beach Unified School District wanted to reduce the number of local students who were chronically absent ...

On day four of the second round of distance learning this fall, I saw something on my first-grade daughter’s Zoom meeting that broke my heart—both as a parent and as a school psychologist who supports ...

Parenting a child with additional learning, attention, social-emotional, or behavioral needs has never been easy—and it’s not exactly getting easier. Distance learning and hybrid learning have created ...

What is considered an Active Learning Strategy? An active learning strategy is any type of activity during class (face-to-face, online, or outside of class) that engages learners in deep thought about ...

It’s important for teachers to find ways to teach social-emotional learning and character development to help their students build the skills necessary to process the events of 2020 and to persevere ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...