Importance of connection via edtech. How are your learners interacting with one another or with mentors, experts, etc.? Not just are they getting the content.

"Traumatic news, plus the stress of a pandemic and upcoming holidays, make this a critical time for young people and their parents and school staff" ... "The biggest things that adults and our communities can do right now are to provide consistency and structure, to keep open lines of communication, and to find time each day to check in with one another," Joanna Quigley, MD, Child psychiatrist at University of Michigan's medical center

Applies to parents, teachers, or any adult having these difficult conversations.

Results from Univ of Michigan's Commission on Carbon Neutrality. In person vs. virtual events. I was surprised by the finding re: cameras off!

From Box of Crayons.

Could be very useful for PD, stand-alone resources, or to share with teachers who are building HyperDocs/Choice Boards.

Excellent perspective and suggested solutions around how to proceed with student learning. The phrase "learning loss" is problematic for various reasons and also impacts the kinds of solutions that are generated. Excerpt: How we define problems shapes the solutions we develop to solve them. Casting the academic impacts of COVID as "learning loss" is no different. As Steve Holmes, superintendent at Sunnyside Unified School District, a high-poverty, urban district in Tucson, AZ, warned at a conference last month, "No one loses learning, but it becomes part of the narrative and rhetoric. It drives ideas, and more importantly it drives solutions."