September 2020 Inside the Issue

Begin from Within
In the third installment of our Pass the Mic series, Lavette Coney explains how self-examination with a racial lens can help educators redirect their teaching

Developments in Remote Assessment

Nikki Eatchel suggests options to improve at-home testing

The New Normal Takes Testing Online

Tanya Davis sees the benefits of online testing

Is There a Proctor in the House?

Srikant Gopal shares the experience of adapting one of the world’s most widely taken tests for home completion

Adapting Assessment to Personal Learning 

Kristal Bivona adds compassion to post-lockdown testing

How to Best Support English Learners at Home

Carol Johnson and Doris Linville suggest how educators can best support English Learner students facing additional obstacles regarding distance learning

Climbing Back Up Safely

In the third installment of our Pass the Mic series, Lavette Coney explains how self-examination with a racial lens can help educators redirect their teaching

Begin from Within

Dr. Sandra Love combats COVID-19 learning loss with social and emotional learning

Will COVID be the Death of Language?

Annamaria Paolino assesses the impact of the pandemic on our most vulnerable languages

How Schools Can Help Children Recover

Education researchers share detailed expertise on how to recover from COVID school closures

Assessments that Count

Finding out where students are at is even more difficult with remote learning, so here’s a selection of specific tests that can help pinpoint what students need to succeed

Preserving Academic Integrity

Tom Beeman argues that it’s up to teachers to instill the importance in students of producing their own work

Facilitating Sustainable Virtual PD

In the first of a new series of columns from the Center for Applied Linguistics, Annie Laurie Duguay suggests six standards for effective virtual professional development  that will serve teachers well beyond the pandemic