Hanover has compiled research around key themes associated with student success and teacher development for reference below. Please contact us if you would like a consultation and to learn more about custom research and workshops available.
ENSURING STUDENT SUCCESS
- Toolkit: How to Overcome Learning Loss – This toolkit examines tools and resources teachers can leverage to develop the nonacademic needs of students in alternative education programs and explores classroom-level strategies available to teachers in supporting the academic needs of students in alternative settings.
- How to Succeed in Distance Learning: 5 Tips for Families – In collaboration with Utah Leading through Effective, Actionable, and Dynamic Education (ULEAD), an online clearinghouse that supports innovative, effective, and/or efficient practices in public schools in Utah and across the United States, Hanover Research has prepared the following tip sheet for families to support their children in distance learning.
- Equity Scorecard (for members only) – This dashboard allows district leaders to understand their achievement gaps, prioritize resources for underrepresented student groups, and to communicate progress to the larger community.
- Fall 2020 Hybrid and Online Learning Evaluation Plans (for members only) – This overview summarizes a planned approach to provide district leaders with actionable and timeline information about the delivery of hybrid and/or online learning across the 2020-21 school year.
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
- Superintendents Leadership Council – Hanover will be reconvening the superintendents group for a live Q&A this Thursday, August 20th at 8pm EDT to discuss the equity challenges you are facing as you prepare different reopening scenarios. Many thanks to WASA, ACSA, and MASA for co-hosting this event. Please click here to register.
SUPPORTING TEACHERS
- How to Succeed in Distance Learning: 5 Tips for Teachers – In collaboration with ULEAD, Hanover Research has summarized five critical strategies for teachers to succeed in distance learning. This one-page overview includes links to additional sources and a toolkit for planning and delivering online instruction.
- Professional Development Needs Assessment (for members only) – This instrument is designed to assess professional learning needs among all district and school staff. The results can give administrators a better understanding of where to focus growth efforts for educators in the upcoming school year.
- Virtual Professional Development – Hanover’s Educator Learning Center is a new online professional learning platform created for teachers by teachers to equip districts with virtual, sustained, and interactive development. Our current course material includes five priority areas – remote instruction, social-emotional learning, culturally-responsive teaching, instruction design, and multi-tiered systems of support. Click here to learn more.