Partner responses may seem impossible when students are online and not sitting next to each other in a classroom but Dr. Anita Archer, author and beloved teacher of teachers, offers a few work arounds in a video conversation with Pivot Learning.

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Love choral response to help give students with word reading difficulties more opportunities to respond but hate the noise it makes when students are responding online? Dr. Anita Archer, author and beloved teacher of teachers, demonstrates in this video how to make choral response work when teaching remotely.

In this recorded conversation, Dr. Anita Archer, educational consultant, author, and beloved teacher of teachers, talks about how to adapt explicit instruction for students with word reading difficulties when distance learning. Along with the video is a free downloadable tip sheet that outlines three ways to use hold ups to encourage active participation.

Pivot Learning’s Dr. Monica Ng and CORE’s Dr. Carrie Thomas Beck kicked off Dyslexia Awareness Month with a conversation with Dr. Sherril English, Clinical Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University, about how school systems can reduce barriers so that all students, including those experiencing difficulties with reading, can receive the support they need to become successful readers.

Whether learning in-person or remotely, students with word reading difficulties, including dyslexia, require explicit, systematic, evidence-based instruction and intervention. This hour-long video provides educators with tips and tricks for how to continue presenting high-quality reading interventions virtually. How to use a free downloadable virtual lesson planning template is presented in the video.

Whether learning in-person or remotely, students with word reading difficulties, including dyslexia, require explicit, systematic, evidence-based instruction and intervention. This hour-long video provides educators with tips and tricks for how to continue presenting high-quality reading interventions virtually. How to use a free downloadable virtual lesson planning template is presented in the video.

When California’s schools reopen for the 2020–21 school year – whether in person, online, or some combination of the two – it will be critical that each student receives rigorous instruction and the academic, social, and emotional support needed to thrive. This new brief, whose authors include Dr. Arun Ramanathan, CEO, Pivot Learning, provides recommendations to policymakers on the appropriate state role in supporting teaching and learning as the pandemic continues. This report was published in partnership with Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE).

Pivot Learning and UnboundEd have created a free Equity Reset Toolkit that provides district leadership teams resources for a nine-week data collection and analysis process focused on equitable learning recovery in K-12 ELA and math. Watch our on-demand webinar to learn more about how to use the resources in the toolkit and how Pivot and UnboundEd can support your team as you work to create an equitable learning recovery plan.

This spring, local school districts scrambled to adapt to COVID-19 with a wide range of responses largely focused on securing delivery of online resources. Now is the time to shift the conversation back to the core purpose of school: learning. The state should establish a minimum amount of instructional time; create an instrument of diagnostic assessment and require its use; adopt instructional continuity plans; and advocate for and secure additional funding.