BOSTON, May 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Learning
company Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt (HMH) today announced a new and important
resource for K-12 districts: The Connected Learning Era:
Mitigating the COVID-19 Learning Loss, a
research-based guide created to empower educators and school
leaders as they navigate the learning loss brought on by recent
school closures, and plan for the 2020-2021 school year and
beyond.
Written by HMH's Learning Sciences and Research teams, The
Connected Learning Era offers best practices that inform the
development of short-term, medium-term, and long-term strategies
and action plans for establishing connected teaching and learning
systems that prioritize support for social-emotional learning and
academic growth.
"While it is impossible to predict the exact impact COVID-19
will have on individual student learning, The Connected
Learning Era is designed to help educators prepare for
challenges ahead," said Francie
Alexander, Chief Research Officer, HMH. "By examining and
reimagining the cultures and structures that define our learning
communities, this comprehensive guide works toward resolving many
of the inequities that the crisis has revealed and encourages deep
connections between communities, districts, schools, leaders,
teachers, families, and students."
"A system of connected teaching and learning combines the best
from in-person, virtual, remote, distance, and online learning to
move beyond stop-gap fixes and get to holistic solutions," added
Jack Lynch, CEO, HMH. "We want
teachers and learners to achieve positive outcomes and nurture
relationships regardless of physical location, and as we approach a
new school year, we hope this important contribution to the urgent
conversation around the 'COVID slide' helps us address the
uncertain future together."
The guide introduces a new "Connected Learning Model,"
which focuses on five key phases—covering social-emotional
learning, assessment, purposeful use of data, high quality
curricula and learning sciences, and professional learning—that
center on student experience and community-wide support. It offers
concrete recommendations to help support students, educators,
families, and the community as they work together on a path forward
to help all students thrive. For example:
- For Students: Provide a safe and open space for student
voice by enabling opportunities for respectful sharing of feelings,
ideas and experiences within class routines and integrated in the
curriculum through the creative arts.
- For Educators: Lead with relationships built on mutual
feelings of care, trust and safety, focusing on establishing
connections between students, and families and ensuring that
everyone has the resources and support they need to succeed.
- For Families: Draw upon effective learning methods that
can be applied in the virtual classroom, even if the delivery
mechanisms will have to be adjusted when students are learning at
home.
- For the Community: Foster a mindset and culture of
growth that values everyone's contributions and fosters learning,
innovation, and action.
To download The Connected Learning Era: Mitigating the
COVID-19 Learning Loss, please visit hmhco.com
About Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ: HMHC) is a learning
company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage
learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a
leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and
intervention solutions and professional learning services, HMH
partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions
that unlock students' potential and extend teachers' capabilities.
HMH serves more than 50 million students and 3 million educators in
150 countries, while its award-winning children's books, novels,
non-fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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