Nancy Frey's Blog, page 38
February 19, 2021
Three Ways to Use Student Evidence When Coaching from a Distance
None of us expected that our students would be engaged in online and hybrid learning for so many months. This reality has created very real barriers to knowing and assessing our students in meaningful ways. The good news is this very challenge has created rich opportunities […]
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February 15, 2021
How to Support the Teens at Your School Through COVID-19
For the past 10 months, many teens have been cut off from their key sources of social support. They, like all of us, have struggled to adapt to long hours at home with few interactions outside our immediate households, and many have lived with anxiety, sadness, anger, and depression. For […]
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February 9, 2021
Coming Back from COVID: Anything but Retention
The negative effects from teaching during COVID-19 are a hot topic. While there have been positives resulting from the pandemic—especially the need to value and teach self-regulation and to have teachers engage in higher levels of release of responsibility (Hattie 2021)—there are many students who have failed to thrive, been denied access to technology, and been absent and not engaged. While these results occur also in regular schooling, too, COVID-19 spotlights the need to […]
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February 8, 2021
Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners in a Virtual or Hybrid Setting: Where Do We Go From Here?
Beginning in March 2020 and continuing to the present, educators across the nation have shown remarkable resilience, creativity, and compassion as they work to educate their students. The COVID-19 pandemic and the dramatic shift to virtual and hybrid learning have revealed and exacerbated educational inequities […]
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February 5, 2021
How to Motivate and Engage Learners in Any Environment
Has the sudden shift to virtual learning sent you searching for motivating, engaging, and challenging activities for your online classroom? More and more, I am hearing teachers and parents lament over students who are logging in but tuning out. And as schools transition back to face-to-face, […]
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How Can We Support Overloaded Teachers to Keep Getting Better?
Rigorous, sustained and job-embedded professional learning for teachers is critical; the research is clear that a rise in student outcomes is not possible without an investment in our teachers. But on the ground, enhancing teacher practice is hard. School terms move at a frenetic pace, […]
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February 3, 2021
Success Criteria: An Essential (and often underutilized) Component of Teacher Clarity
Before you read any farther, I want you to consider the following. How would your students, whether face-to-face, hybrid, or at a distance, respond to these three questions? What am I learning? Why am I learning this? How will I know that I have learned it? […]
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February 1, 2021
Re-envisioning Classroom Assessment: Why Now?
Let’ s admit it, this past year has been one of anguish, turmoil, anxiety, and sheer havoc for every segment of society, in particular, multilingual learners and their families who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and racial unrest. It has also been a time for educators to take stock of their […]
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January 29, 2021
3 Proven Strategies for Removing Labels From Students
Humans make assumptions about individuals based on what we see. Although we like to say that we get to know a person first, science suggests otherwise. Experiments have demonstrated that people make trait judgments based on seeing someone’s facial features after 100 milliseconds (Willis & Todorov, 2006). That’s one tenth of […]
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January 25, 2021
Poverty’s Impact on Reading
Poverty is complicated. It is a compilation of many issues, many of which have broad–reaching impact. Perhaps most critical for our education system is that research finds that many of the risk factors associated with low socioeconomic status (SES) impede brain development and functioning. And in cases of generational poverty, the impact is even greater. One of the most consistent findings is […]
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