Experienced and new teachers shared what they learned in the spring about how to make mentoring work during the pandemic.

Reports of child abuse declined between 30% and 70% nationally during the coronavirus pandemic when more students were learning remotely. In this interview, Bart Klika, chief research and strategy officer at Prevent Child Abuse America, offers strategies to help educators identify and prevent potential neglect or abuse.

Studies in the Baltic state moved seamlessly online thanks to its early adoption of education technology.

Initially geared to help educators, the free program was designed to help everyone from parents, grandparents, clergy of all faiths, youth-group leaders and the general public seeking a way to begin to understand what really happened.

Examining the human impact of climate change through fiction and nonfiction texts allows students to connect climate science to the human cost of climate change, develop empathy for communities impacted by climate change, and discover more about climate justice, writes ELA teacher Kasey Short.

Standardized math and reading scores are higher in schools with more trees, according to a study of 50,000 students at 450 middle schools in Washington state. Previous studies by lead author Ming Kuo of the University of Illinois have shown that students concentrate and engage better and are less disruptive when they have more exposure…

Online sensory tools and assistive technology can be used for students with dyslexia needing interventions in virtual environments, experts say.

Act like entrepreneurs and avoid missing opportunities. Educational leaders should be less risk averse, seize opportunities and try out new ideas, even if you only have 50 percent of the information, writes Henry M. Smith, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and a former U.S. assistant secretary of education.

Educators who have felt their joy for teaching wane as the pandemic has worn on can reclaim their bold passion for their work, Apex Learning Chief Academic Officer Jean Sharp writes. In this blog post, Sharp writes that reexamining shared experiences, reflecting on life-changing moments and recommitting to a common mission can help rekindle this…

One of my biggest fears about the new academic year was that school would no longer be a social place for staff, that some of the joy would disappear from the job. That fear has been realised, writes John Tomsett, York, England.

This report, Learning and teaching reimagined: a new dawn, is the result of a five-month higher education initiative to understand the response to COVID-19 and explore the future of digital learning and teaching. (pdf) -