EALA

Theme: Scheduling and Operational Systems

  • Advancing Digital Equity for All

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    The “Advancing Digital Equity for All: Community-Based Recommendations for Developing Effective Digital Equity Plans to Close the Digital Divide and Enable Technology-Empowered Learning” resource illuminates insights from the Digital Equity Education Roundtables (DEER)  to highlight the barriers faced by learner communities and promising solutions for increasing access to technology for learning.

  • Prioritizing Mindset and Relationships in a Tiered Behavior System

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    This case illustrates the importance of taking time to shift educator mindsets and hiring educators with asset-based views of their students, particularly those from the communities they serve. For the case study school, these factors were an important foundation for the success of their tiered behavior system.

  • Responding to Recovery Needs by Creating a More Equitable Whole School Schedule

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    It takes all members of the school team including – classroom and specials teachers, building leaders, paraprofessionals and aides, counselors and clinicians, special education teachers, families, and last, but certainly not least students – to improve a school or district’s special education program. This resource provides a written guide, recorded webinar, and downloadable School Scheduling…

  • 6 Tips for Setting Up Virtual Professional Learning Sessions

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    Virtual gatherings for professional learning are convenient and likely to continue, but they should be designed differently than in-person gatherings.

  • Designing a Better Staff Meeting

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    With the right planning, these meetings can maximize collaboration and even be uplifting and a little fun.

  • Tools for Solving the Teacher Shortage

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    To give every child a quality education, we need a quality teacher in every classroom. But severe teacher shortages in communities across the country deprive many children of the opportunities they need to prepare for college, a career, and civic participation. In 2017, more than 100,000 teaching positions were filled by teachers with inadequate training.…

  • California’s Special Education Teacher Shortage

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    This study is part of a series of research briefs examining special education in California produced by Policy Analysis of California Education.

  • Teacher Retention: Reducing the Attrition of Special Educators

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    Perspectives & Resources around teacher retention. 

  • Georgia Tech experts: Online learning doesn’t have to be inferior

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    Two prominent Georgia Tech computer scientists maintain online classes can be as effective as face-to-face instruction and urge expansion of opportunities that liberate students from the confines of a classroom and an 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily schedule.

  • Reopen-Reconnect-Reclaim

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    Get effective tools and information to help ReOpen schools after the pandemic, strategies to ReConnect with students for their mental well-being and accelerated learning, and ReClaim your own sense of connectedness, community and power.