Teacher Training Initiative Takes Shape Under COVID-19 Federal Grant - Honolulu Civil Beat
The initiative to develop digital lesson plans is being funded with $5 million in federal relief funds. Reading time: 5 minutes.
Hawaii community groups plan to convene dozens of local educators this summer to help build an open-source digital collection of lesson plans and teaching materials that will be free and accessible to students, teachers and parents by 2022.
Funded with half of the $10 million of a federal grant the state received last April to address pandemic-related learning loss, the effort addresses the need to develop more place-based, culturally relevant content for use in the classroom and home.
Tenn. Dept. of Education awards $1 million to PBS stations supporting learning during pandemic
The Tennessee Department of Education partnered with PBS stations across the state to engage families and support learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 2:55 PM EST January 8, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Six PBS stations across Tennessee will receive awards for supporting education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Tennessee Department of Education announced that WPNT Nashville, East Tennessee PBS, WCTE Upper Cumberland, WKNO Memphis, West TN PBS and Chattanooga WTCI would be awarded $1 million. They partnered with the department to engage families and support education during the pandemic.
TN Department Of Education Awards $1 Million To Tennessee’s PBS Stations Friday, January 8, 2021
The Tennessee Department of Education on Friday announced $1 million will be awarded to Tennessee s six PBS stations- WNPT Nashville, East Tennessee PBS, WCTE Upper Cumberland, WKNO Memphis, West TN PBS, and Chattanooga WTCI- for their partnership to engage families and support quality education for students across the state. The department is pleased to award the state’s six PBS station $1 million to support the critical role our public television stations have played, especially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, to engage families and provide access to educational resources and supports,” said Commissioner Penny Schwinn. “We thank the Tennessee PBS stations for their partnership to ensure students can have daily access to Tennessee teachers and classroom lessons.”
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Whether it was in a third grade classroom, on a community college campus, or in the most advanced university research lab, it is fair to say the 2020 fall semester looked different than any we have seen before.
As the country rushed to adapt to the pandemic in mid-March, the nation’s education enterprise scrambled to alter instructional fundamentals that had been in place, in many cases, for more than a century. Virtual learning, long viewed as a supplemental approach, became a primary instructional tool. Teachers donned PPE and reconfigured their classrooms, seeking to find ways to connect with students in between frequent outbreak-driven closures. Perhaps most challenging, even as these structural and pedagogical shifts have occurred, severe disruptions to the financial models of both K-12 and higher education have occurred.
Just as dozens of COVID-19 protections were set to expire, President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion stimulus package Sunday that extends unemployment benefits, continues the federal eviction moratorium, sends out another round of relief checks and provides assistance for states, among other things.
Here s what New Jerseyans will get from the COVID relief bill and what we know about when the benefits will arrive:
Extra unemployment benefits
Federal unemployment programs will now be extended through March 14, 2021, instead of the Dec. 26 deadline, and workers will receive an extra $300 a week on top of their usual benefits through mid-March. While I am relieved that the president signed the bill, because of his delay it is possible an estimated half a million New Jerseyans will not be receiving vital federal unemployment benefits this week because they lapsed on Saturday while the bill languished on his desk, Gov. Phil Murphy said.