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Insights from CoSN Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity Winners

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He says, “We need to teach students the way they want to learn, not necessarily how we were taught.” Dr. Kelly May-Vollmar has worked in education since 2004. She plans to continue impacting students’ lives through advocacy and consultancy. You can follow him on Twitter @scaughtsb.

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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

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In an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate and Battelle for Kids , school administrators emphasized pandemic-triggered changes are lessons learned that can frame effective educational practices moving forward. At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, schools defaulted to online learning.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. Arizona has the highest student-to-counselor ratio in the nation at 905-to-1. But as the coronavirus freezes Arizona’s economy, securing that money seems much less certain.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.