Strategies to Encourage Students to Turn Their Cameras On

Incorporating SEL approaches, playing games, and giving students options can inspire them to show their faces.

Particularly in this difficult year, providing clear feedback is key to helping elementary students achieve learning goals.

Experienced and new teachers shared what they learned in the spring about how to make mentoring work during the pandemic.

Teaching in distance and hybrid models is time-consuming, so teachers need to make sure they use their time well.

High schools face unique difficulties reopening, a teacher finds, when her school goes back to virtual learning after a case of Covid-19.

Teaching young students to tune in to facial expressions—even when partially obscured by a mask—can support the development of emotional literacy skills.

It’s harder to read a class when students are learning at home, so teachers need to explicitly ask for feedback.

When students act out in class, it can be challenging to find positive ways to address their behavior. Here’s what the research suggests works best.

Recognizing that social and emotional learning would be especially important this year, one district created a program to address that need.