Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey on Accelerating Literacy Learning Post Pandemic

How to focus on learning leaps rather than loss and identify where students are and how to build up their critical skills. (Although recorded as educators were making the transition back to in-person learning, the discussion is as applicable today.) *This video is excerpted from a full session.

Speaker(s): Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

Cornelius Minor on Values That Must Guide Pandemic and Future Teaching

Values that will create safe, flexible, more student-centered classrooms that focus on human-centered care, rich opportunities, and social justice. (Although recorded when schools were in shutdown, the discussion is as applicable today.) *This video is excerpted from a full session.

Speaker(s): Cornelius Minor

Collision, Connection, and Conflict? Writing (Righting) Community Amid COVID-19

A look at how, from a community literacies perspective, the concept of community has shifted—and how writing develops a sense of unity and collaboration.

Author(s): Gabrielle Oliveira and Jon M. Wargo

Facilitation Literacy: Circulating Power in Professional Learning Conversations With Teacher Colleagues

How literacy leaders studied their own efforts to address challenges faced in supporting teacher colleagues, and how that led teachers to better advocate for themselves and their students’ literacy learning.

Author(s): Danielle Lillge

Fostering Hope With Children’s Literature

How teachers and students can use children’s literature and literature-based activities to intentionally foster hope and support academic development.

Author(s): Dixie D. Massey, Margaret Vaughn, and Elfrieda Hiebert

Framing Policies and Procedures to Include Digital Literacies for Online Learning During and Beyond Crises

The need to consider digital literacies as part of comprehensive plans for online learning inside and outside of the pandemic.

Author(s): Mary Frances Rice and Don Zancanella

Impact of COVID-19 on Early Literacy Instruction for Emergent Bilinguals

A look at teachers’ perspectives on how literacy instruction for bilingual children changed during remote instruction and what areas of literacy development are most in need of support.

Author(s): Amy C. Crosson and Rebecca D. Silverman

Prioritizing Care in the Classroom: Three Key Mind-Sets for Literacy Leaders in the Wake of COVID-19

How literacy leaders who prioritize care are critical in the reestablishment of social relations during and after COVID-19.

Author(s): Jennifer Soalt and Bridget Nolen

Reading Aloud, Building Community: How Reading Together Allows Us to Build Worlds Together During COVID-19

What the company of books—and each other—can do to help provide comfort to students during and after crises.

Author(s): Thu Anh Nguyen

Reimagining Equitable Possibilities: A Focus on ELs and Other Underrepresented Learners After COVID-19

Equity-centered approaches that educators can take to better support the success of English learners and other students in the margins affected by the pandemic.

Author(s): Shalander “Shelly” Samuels and Donna-Marie Cole-Malott