Act like entrepreneurs and avoid missing opportunities. Educational leaders should be less risk averse, seize opportunities and try out new ideas, even if you only have 50 percent of the information, writes Henry M. Smith, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and a former U.S. assistant secretary of education.

This report, Learning and teaching reimagined: a new dawn, is the result of a five-month higher education initiative to understand the response to COVID-19 and explore the future of digital learning and teaching. (pdf) -

Substituting online kindergarten for the critical first year of formal education will have consequences for decades. Kids living in poverty will be hurt the most.

Tips for planning professional development that supports teachers’ growing skills in using video to enhance students’ learning.

Many teachers are finding their work to be more demanding this year, so looking for ways to simplify some of it is important.

Support students struggling with trauma by creating rich communications environments in classrooms, with a focus on observations, feelings, needs, and requests.

The K-12 model has been overturned since spring, but these principals and superintendents say focusing on people first and finding joy are key to success.

Students to show the work they did to solve math equations, writes math teacher Michelle Russell. In this blog post, Russell shares a grading rubric that she says helps ensure students understand math concepts and are able to communicate that knowledge.

While pandemic shifts to remote learning set the stage for significant change, a variety of factors will determine how far and fast it goes, a new report shows.

Are your students’ annotated texts hard to make sense of? Do they underline entire sections of a source? And write very few comments? This kind of annotating can be a waste of time and a huge impediment to meaningful learning for some of our learners. How can we turn this around?

Teachers across California are adopting various approaches to assess what students have learned during remote lessons. Brian Shay, a high-school math teacher, says assessing students has been more challenging this year, leading teachers to gauge understanding in different ways, including using online polls, exit tickets and Google forms.

Using the popular game in station rotation activities during distance learning is a way to bring an element of play and collaboration to writing assignments.