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Using ESSER Funds to Support PD Focused on Student Acceleration
By Jennifer Wolfe
Over the last year, there have been several major pieces of legislation passed that provide funding to the nation's K-12 schools. Congress has provided financial support through the Elementary and ...
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Acceleration, Not Retention? The Case for Leveraging New Blended Learning Skills to Keep Students Moving Forward
By Rohiatou Siby
During a recent car ride to New York, I sat in the passenger’s seat while the driver kicked the speed up several notches out of my comfort zone, to better accommodate our time schedule. After ...
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Social Emotional Learning Matters in Middle and High School
By Cassondra Corbin-Thaddies
Over the past year, being aware of our emotions and feelings was highly socialized as a way to remain healthy during the pandemic. Our students were vulnerable as well. According to a survey ...
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Developing a Next Generation Approach to PD for Agency, Innovation, and Future-forward Classrooms
By Kate Schuster
For the past year, I have worked with a group of bold and brave administrators to revolutionize how they support their staff as they work towards reimagining learning environments. Our objective was ...
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Leveraging the PAACC to Build Meaningful Relationships
By Jennifer Bernier
This past 18 months, teachers have gained new skills, tried various strategies, and aimed to create more equitable classrooms. Educators and students alike grew together and took risks in their ...
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Introducing the Accelerating Student Learning Series
By Jennifer Wolfe
Our team at LINC is working with educators across the globe on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reimagine education, enabling all learners to meet their full potential. This collaborative team ...
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Smart Supports for Professional Learning Communities Part 4: Leading Effective and Engaging PLC Meetings
By Sandra Noguera
Welcome to the fourth installment in my blog series, Smart Supports for Professional Learning Communities. In this piece, I focus on how to plan and lead effective PLC meetings to achieve your ...
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Exploring Counter-Narratives: Adjusting the Lens Through Which You View Your Students
By Rohiatou Siby
Have you ever wondered why you can recall the lyrics from jingles you sang along to as a child? For instance, most 80s babies will remember, “My buddy, my buddy. Wherever I go he goes.” This is not ...
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Reimagining and Designing Equitable Classrooms that Work for All Learners
By Cassondra Corbin-Thaddies
We’re at a pivotal moment of change in education where we can recalibrate and reimagine what education can mean for Black, Brown, and White students. Now more than ever, we are aware that the way we ...
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We Must Never Go “Back” To School
By Tiffany Wycoff
In March 2020, a line was drawn in educational history. On one side of it is the before - community, classrooms, reading circles, shared tins of pencils sitting on tightly grouped desks, high fives ...
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What Our Students Learned (NOT LOST!) During the Pandemic
By Jennifer Wolfe
As a mom of three kids and a professional working in the education innovation field, this has been an intensely challenging year. While we engage in many conversations about what we lost during this ...
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During the pandemic resourceful educators adopted a wider range of instructional practices to meet the needs of students no longer in their classrooms full time. Many of the new practices that were ...
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