Crisis communication is hard. You need to balance the right message with appropriate timing and send it to the right people through their preferred channels. This equation can become complex for even the most seasoned communicators. Add on multiple crisis scenarios happening at the same time and you have a big challenge that many districts are facing today—communications overload and messaging burnout.
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Project Tomorrow: 90 Days That Changed K-12 Teaching and Learning: Sponsoring Student Ownership of Learning
School closures and remote e-learning has presented an unprecedented opportunity for education leaders to think constructively about the purpose of school and the role of the student in the learning process. These critical discussions have the potential to lead to new discoveries around student engagement, how to create contextually relevant learning experiences, and empowering greater student ownership of the learning process.
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The sudden and unplanned move to remote e-learning resulted in a spotlight on the challenges to ensure that every student has appropriate, safe and consistent access to digital tools and resources to support learning outside of school. But creating equity in learning environments is about more than provisioning a Chromebook and a Wifi hotspot to a family. Equity in access to quality teaching and learning matters too.
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The cavalcade of school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the sudden and unplanned shift in the delivery mechanism for instruction, from primarily face-to-face, in-classroom instruction to digital learning facilitated over the Internet from home. This forever changed our expectations for teaching and learning in K-12 education, and most certainly has shone a new spotlight on the role of digital tools, content and resources within the learning experience.
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Parents want to be informed about every part of their child’s academic experience. To help students be successful, parents need critical data like assignments, grades, and attendance. Providing that valuable data from your SIS and gradebooks, and adding it to your communication channels, will help you strengthen student support and parent engagement.
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Within our American system of education, a trust-based relationship between parents and their child's school is absolutely essential. Parents rely upon that relationship every day when they send their child to school with a hopeful aspiration that what happens during the school day will result in their child being well-prepared for further college or career success.
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Like most technology companies, we at Blackboard track what’s taking place in other industries. We do so both to inform our own innovation, and also to help us anticipate learner, educator and administrator expectations. While in its early stages, the path to personalization in EdTech will be informed, in many ways, by the journey other industries have taken. Let’s take a look at a few examples.
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The closer communication gets to the classroom, the more relevant it is to a parent. Grades, behavior updates, upcoming assignments, and student successes are extremely important to parents because they directly relate to their child. Sharing this kind of information should be done in a collaborate and safe environment. Use this guide when selecting a vendor for a two-way communication tool for your teachers and parents. Conversations between these two stakeholders is crucial to ensuring the success of your students.
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Between March 2020 and March 2021, the United States federal government passed three relief packages that included more than $190 billion of funding for K-12 education. Use this worksheet to identify the challenges your district is facing and how they align with solutions and allowable uses of funding.