Meet the CAS 2020 Assistant Principals of the Year – Anjanette Belmonte, Henry James Memorial School; Garrett Dukette, Ashford School; and Todd Manuel, Trumbull High School! These award-winning administrators share strategies for relationship-building, empowering students, building positive school climate, and maintaining the critical balance between work and home. Don’t miss this dynamic conversation with these extraordinary educators!

These are grim and scary times. A tolerance for ambiguity is often considered to be a hallmark of a creative personality, but the complete uncertainty we are facing would daunt even the most open of people. Like many, I have been trying to seek out silver linings.

The Neag School’s Educating Bilingual Learners online graduate certificate program offers general education teachers and other school personnel an opportunity to learn how to better support English Learners in their classrooms. The four-class, 12-credit graduate certificate can be earned fully online, making it accessible to educators across the country. 

Stephen T. Slota, assistant professor in residence of educational technology, shares eight quick tips for K-12 and higher educators in the process of transforming face-to-face instruction into online instruction.

“This is one more vivid example of how the playing field is not level,” said Richard Schwab, a professor in educational leadership at UConn’s Neag School of Education and the former dean of the school. “Zip code is determining your education, not only in schools but online and I don’t think this is going away.”

“These books are going directly home to kids,” said East Hartford Superintendent Nate Quesnel. “The thought process is that we’re trying to really push literacy and to help families to provide opportunities for rich text opportunities in their home.”

Dr. Devin Kearns, an associate professor of special education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, is studying different forms of dyslexia intervention for students using technology.

Schools haven’t been unprepared for this moment, said Michael F. Young, an associate professor of educational technology at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education. But the immediate strain of wholesale migration to digital learning technologies will be felt by districts, he said.

Can everyday creativity be a small silver lining during the outbreak?

“The new provost will play a crucial role in developing, implementing and evaluating a new academic plan,” Chafouleas told The Daily Campus when the search began. “Thus, it is important that the committee find a strong academic leader who brings capacity to take multiple perspectives on important issues when selecting paths forward.”