2021 Takeaways: New Classroom Methods Learned During All This Madness
In this week's podcast, host Kevin Hogan examines some of the lessons learned in the middle of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic.

5 instructional practices that drive student engagement
Teachers must build strong, trusting, and collaborative relationships with their students in order to ensure student engagement increases.

Focusing on key standards to accelerate learning
Each standard is important, but some are critical for future learning--this year, focusing on those critical standards is key to helping students get back on track.

Schools, at halftime, need to put funding into play for the second half of the year
Schools that focus funding on modernizing the staffing model create sustainable structures that can last beyond ESSER.

What Tech Should Stay With The “New Normal”
While best-case scenarios suggest back-to-school this fall may look like ones pre-pandemic, the way we teach and learn inside and out of the classroom, especially in grades k-5, may never be the same again. What new tools, techniques, and innovations should stick around in primary schools even though COVID has been tamed? In this webinar, veterans educators recall their work-around strategies during the massive shift to remote learning and suggest which ones should be kept to create new hybrid learning models for younger students.