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Is The Grass Greener on the Other Side? The Pros and Cons of Teaching Online, In-Person, and Hybrid Models in a Pandemic

April 7, 2021Caitlin Gawlowski Current Affairs, Education Policy, Uncategorized

Which teaching model best serves students in a pandemic? This year has shown that there is not a one size fits all model for teaching in a pandemic and that no matter which learning model you have chosen there are

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The Kids Will Be Okay

March 31, 2021Nicole Wolff Current Affairs, Education, Social Issues

When you’ve been in education long enough, you learn a valuable lesson: Adults will frustrate and disappoint you far more than any kid will. Right now, I am really disappointed in a lot of adults. We are being flooded with

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Leaps of Faith

March 25, 2021Nate Rios Current Affairs, Education, Elementary, Equity, Life in the Classroom, Social Issues

30 feet high and nothing but crystal ocean and coral sand below. Jumping wasn’t just an act but a declaration. A chance to risk.  Being 11 is difficult. Moving across the world complicates things. In my previous post I mentioned

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Enemy, Obstacle, Trap, Puzzle, Lie, Truth

March 23, 2021Sandy Merz Books, Current Affairs

Can you find the six title words in the puzzle above? A book I finished last week provides insights I’d never considered before about how to view problems. In the novel The Nix, Nathan Hill tells the story of a

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The Power of Music

March 3, 2021Susan Collins Current Affairs, Education

“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them – a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education

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Bringing the Inside Classroom…Outside

February 24, 2021Yolanda Wheelington Current Affairs, Education, Life in the Classroom

The first two rounds of COVID immunization have been given out and all eyes are on the levels. With the governor mandating in-person testing, districts that have not returned to school will most likely return to some form of in-person

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The End or Just the Beginning?

February 22, 2021Nate Rios Current Affairs, Education, Elementary, Equity, Social Issues

Sitting in the ER of the Kwajalein hospital, my wife turned to me and teared up. “I can’t believe we’re here. After all we’ve been through, we’re finally here – and nobody else here really understands,” she said. Moments later,

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Caption This…

February 21, 2021Sandy Merz Current Affairs, Education, Life in the Classroom, Social Issues

The third quarter is always the longest, and this year has been longer than most by about a decade. Participation is way down and classes seem to go on forever. And it’s my job to do something about it. So,

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The New, New Normal

February 19, 2021Rachel Perugini Current Affairs, Life in the Classroom, Web/Tech

It has been almost a full year since our school closed for Spring Break last year and COVID quarantine began. In that time, I have mastered Zoom (most days), digitized all of my files, loaded my entire life onto Google

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Why is Student Growth Different This Year?

February 4, 2021Caitlin Gawlowski Assessment, Current Affairs, Uncategorized

“Teachers are working so hard teaching virtually, but the students’ test scores showed that they did not make the growth we were expecting,” my principal said. “Why do you think that might be?” She asked me. At this point, I

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