Everyone is looking to understand all the implications a year of cancelled in-person learning will have on educators, students, and families. A recent Household Pulse Survey administered by the U.S. Census Bureau reported that by Fall 2020, 1.1% of households with school-age children reported homeschooling. That change represents a doubling of U.S. households that were homeschooling at the start of the 2020-21 school year compared to the prior year. In response to this, district-owned homeschooling creates an opportunity for districts and parents to partner for individualized learning by providing resources and curricula for families.

The realities of pandemic teaching have made the concept of a flipped classroom and flipped learning more appealing than ever before for many educators. "Flipped learning always asked this one simple question: what's the best use of your face-to-face class time," says Jon Bergmann, a high school science teacher and pioneer of flipped learning. In flipped classrooms, material that would be traditionally introduced during in-class lectures is assigned to students outside of class time often in the form of videos or reading. Class time is reserved for students to actively engage in higher-level concepts and problem solving with the teacher available to help them.

Screencast-O-Matic is a free screen capture system that allows teachers the opportunity to easily share their device screen with students, both in class and during remote learning. Users can share screenshots and record video of actions being carried out - such as showing a student how to use an app they need to work with on a project, for example. Since storage and publishing are online and video editing is built-in, it is a capable yet easy-to-use option for teachers who need to share a screen video quickly and easily.

Charts, graphs, and diagrams are essential tools students and teachers use to visually present data in an informative, attractive, and engaging manner. Multiple sites are available to students to create charts, graphs, and diagrams for assignments in every subject, especially those that rely heavily on data and statistics, such as science, math, history, or social studies. These sites are also great for creating lessons or keeping track of student progress in the classroom, whether in-person or online.

The recently opened literacy lab at a Muskogee, Okla., elementary school features a room that allows observations by others, such as district literacy specialist and Reading Recovery coordinator Mary VanEtten, to watch and dissect the interactions between teachers and students to improve teaching and accelerate learning. In this interview, VanEtten says she has future plans to train classroom teachers to use the observation room for professional development.

From the multigenerational family tale of "The Joy Luck Club" to the humor of "Crazy Rich Asians," several movies offer varied views into Asian American culture and history. Among the eight films listed here is "Minari," an Academy Award-nominated movie about a South Korean immigrant who yearns to start a farm in Arkansas.

Students in a Kentucky high school's work transition program are gaining employment skills and experience through a partnership with local nonprofit Snacks in Sacks, which provides care packages for people experiencing food or housing insecurity. The students, who would typically travel to job sites, are sorting through the supplies and putting together packages in school classrooms because of social distancing requirements.

Data shows some teachers are considering maintaining at least some level of hybrid or remote instruction after the coronavirus pandemic, according to Carol DeFuria, president and CEO of the nonprofit VHS Learning. In this blog post, DeFuria asserts that educators can build on the success of teachers and leaders in this space to improve these learning approaches going forward.

Schools should prepare for a kindergarten "bubble" caused by disruptions to learning during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released by NWEA. The report predicts more kindergartners will be enrolled and suggests educators prepare to accommodate children who may have had limited opportunities for learning and socialization.

Race should be part of conversations about school leadership, writes Mark Anthony Gooden, director of the Endeavor Antiracist & Restorative Leadership Initiative at Teachers College, Columbia University. In this commentary, Gooden describes how principals who wrote racial biographies raised awareness of race, had greater drive to build communities and had a greater focus on equity.