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McShane, Michael Q. – EdChoice, 2023
Crises have a way of shaking up the status quo and creating space for new thinking. When shocked out of their familiarity, people start to ask questions as to why things are the way that they are and brainstorm ways to make them better. Enter entrepreneurs. They are the people who take those ideas that are lying around and attempt to create…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
Wiseman, Rosalind; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Hattie, John – Corwin, 2020
Parent involvement has always been a vital part of any child's education, but the pandemic and resulting remote instruction require that parents and educators partner at a deeper level. Following the tremendous success of "The Distance Learning Playbook, K-12," education authorities Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie have teamed up…
Descriptors: Guides, Parent Participation, Distance Education, Kindergarten
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Patrick, Susan Kemper; Grissom, Jason A.; Woods, S. Colby; Newsome, UrLeaka W. – AERA Open, 2021
We conceptualize students' opportunities to learn remotely during the initial school closures associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. We then examine variation in remote instruction using an original statewide survey of teachers in Tennessee, deployed just a few weeks into the closures. Using three-level logistic regression models, we explore…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Opportunities, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Lake, Robin; Worthen, Maria – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the U.S. education system in both immediate and long-term ways, calling into question how K-12 accountability will function in the 2020-21 school year and well into the future. States face considerable uncertainty about how to meet federal and state accountability requirements for this school year and beyond. It…
Descriptors: Accountability, State Standards, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Loewenstein, Melanie; Slay, Laura E.; Morton, Tami – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2021
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers to shift teaching and learning from face-to-face in brick-and-mortar classrooms to online learning platforms. For many teachers, this abrupt change was not an easy transition, particularly when working with students in early childhood who are reading and writing in the early years of literacy…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Educational Change, Electronic Learning
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Steele, Patricia B.; Burleigh, Cheryl; Young, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2020
With the proliferation of students' abilities to use technology, in particular virtual reality (VR) applications, teachers are experimenting with VR in virtual learning environments (VLE) to engage students; but clear ethics and safety guidelines are not available. Within the field of education additional research is needed to determine how VR is…
Descriptors: Ethics, Safety, Virtual Classrooms, Technology Integration
Kaempf, Rochelle C. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to discover how a virtual learning project affects the global readiness and reading attitude in a third-grade classroom. For this study, global readiness for elementary students was defined as a global citizen who can work in a global society through multiliteracies. The research question that guided…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Projects, Electronic Learning, Phenomenology
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Beach, Kristen D.; Washburn, Erin K.; Gesel, Samantha A.; Williams, Paula – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
This exploratory investigation examined the transformation of a traditional summer reading intervention (SRI) to synchronous virtual format in response to school closures due to COVID-19. Goals were to adapt and describe the adaptation of the in-person intervention to the virtual environment, examine program outcomes, and understand tutor and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
Stephenson, Stefani Pautz; Hardy, Angela; Seylar, John; Wayman, Jeff; Peters, Vanessa; Beylin, Melissa; Roschelle, Jeremy – Wallace Foundation, 2021
While virtual learning environments are not new for many school leaders, the unexpected shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in intensified focus on the need for school leadership to ensure equitable learning in virtual environments. When considering virtual learning for the future, new and current adopters will have…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, COVID-19, Pandemics
Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Almarode, John – ASCD, 2020
Student learning communities (SLCs) are more than just a different way of doing group work. Like the professional learning communities they resemble, SLCs provide students with a structured way to solve problems, share insight, and help one another continually develop new skills and expertise. With the right planning and support, dynamic…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Skill Development
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Moser, Kelly; Chambless, Krista; Miller, Nicole – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2020
The past decade has been marked by a shift toward practice-based approaches in teacher education. Rehearsal has become an important dialogic strategy for encouraging candidate reflection as they work toward deconstructing and enacting high leverage practices (HLPs) during their preparation. Despite the frequent reference to rehearsals in the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Galanti, Terrie McLaughlin; Baker, Courtney Katharine; Morrow-Leong, Kimberly; Kraft, Tammy – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2021
Purpose: In spring 2020, educators throughout the world abruptly shifted to emergency remote teaching in response to an emerging pandemic. The instructors of a graduate-level synchronous online geometry and measurement course for practicing school teachers redesigned their summative assessments. Their goals were to reduce outside-of-class work and…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Tang, Shifang; Guerrero, Cindy Lynn; Lopez, Tamara; Tong, Fuhui; Irby, Beverly J. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Using a low inference observation instrument, we investigated the effect of an ongoing, intensive, and structured virtual professional development [VPD] on fidelity of implementation across conditions in a randomized control trial validation study implemented in seven Texas school districts. The observations were collected three time in the…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Program Implementation, Randomized Controlled Trials, Virtual Classrooms
Carroll, Catherine; Brackenbury, Gill; Herbert, Elisabeth; Lee, Frances; Roberts, Amelia; Cameron, Claire; Freitag, Sara; Crombie, Kerry; Farley, Claire; Parrott, Suzanne; Pike, Jo; Prodohl, Fiona; Connolley, Kelley; MacCarthy, Barbara; Buchanan, Anne-Marie; Brian, Rachael; Lawford, Sarah; Walkey, Amy; Barnes, Kieran; Lane, Sarah; Bettencourt, Michael; Black, Emma; Bland, Michelle; Borrell, Vicky; Middleton, Serena; de Bossart, Jennie; Stanbridge, Peter – Institute of Education - London, 2018
As of March 2017, there were 72,670 children and young people in care in England. The number of looked after children has continued to increase steadily over the last eight years. Sixty per cent of these children are in care because of abuse or neglect and three-quarters are placed in foster care arrangements. Children and young people who are in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Low Achievement, Student Needs
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Brendler, Beth M.; Adams, Vanessa E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study investigated the nature and degree of difference in students' behaviors, participation, and power structures in classroom based online book discussions versus face-to-face discussions using pseudonyms, to determine whether online discussion is a useful adjunct to face-to-face literature circles in involving all students as participants.…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools, Grade 3
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