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Some helpful tips from teachers for navigating the challenges of #concurrentteaching (from Larry Ferlazzo). Excited to kick off this new chapter of learning w/ Alexandria City Public Schools, and thankful to our MacArthur ACPS 💫 teachers and DouglasMacArthurPrincipal for their dedication! bit.ly/3beziiQ

Legit concern: "Paradoxically, the risk now may be less that we don’t come back from the pandemic educationally than that we snap back and move on so fast that the actual challenges to a more equitable education system are swept aside in our collective relief."

Check out our new brief sharing 5 creative strategies for school systems to invest in much needed school personnel using federal stimulus funds. bit.ly/3AeUQ9U #schoolfinance

🤔 As school systems decide how to allocate $200b in federal aid, WestEd's Dana Grayson Chambers, Kelsey Krausen and Jason Willis share 5 strategies for investing in school staff to address critical learning & well-being needs for students: bit.ly/3AeUQ9U #schoolfinance

(5) Extended day and SY options for students needing additional support. (6) Leverage OST providers to deliver targeted tutoring (h/t Dana Grayson Chambers on these two ideas).

Thank you MacArthur ACPS 💫 for the fun family STEM/paper airplane event! Our MacArthur Star and her lil’ sister had a great time!

⬇️⬇️⬇️ test before returning to school if you can! And please sign students up for on site Curative testing. Soon ACPS will have tests for at-home administration.

Excited to share a new brief Trang Hoang and I wrote for WestEd/ Region2CC looking at #educatorshortage challenges in RI, NY, and CT and creative strategies for addressing short term shortages while investing in the future pipeline. @CompCenterNet tinyurl.com/2kez3mum

New brief from WestEd & R2CC offers short & long-term strategies to address instructional & non instr. staff shortages e.g., (1) exploring flexible/shared roles for certified non-employed tchrs to attract a broader pool of certified talent; bit.ly/3tfkbPo (thread 1/3)

Principal Coach Harvey (Ronnie W. Harvey, Jr.) texts students and provides morning wake up calls. Kevin Brown says schools have pizza parties to get kids to attend. Despite this, Dana Grayson Chambers notes we've seen big increases in chronic absenteeism in the past 2 years. More here: marketplace.org/2022/08/11/sch…

💰 In this new "Money Matters" blog, WestEd's Dana Grayson Chambers Dana Grayson Chambers and Jason Willis Jason Willis discuss how states can determine the best approach to increase teacher compensation: bit.ly/3otQDOq #teacherpay #teachersalary #schoolfinance