COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry

This is a resource website by the American Academy of Pediatrics, with guidance for school re-entry. The purpose of this guidance is to support communities, local leadership in education and public health, and pediatricians collaborating with schools in creating policies for school re-entry during the COVID-19 pandemic that foster the overall health of children, adolescents, educators, staff, and communities, and are based on available evidence.

Meeting the Challenges of the New Normal in School Education: An Online Workshop for Policymakers, Teacher Educators, and School Leaders

The global COVID-19 pandemic has had huge disruptive effects on normal life, difficult as it already was in many countries. For schools, students and parents, the impact of closed schools and children stuck at home with little or no access to learning, the effect has been devastating. Experts estimate that a whole year of learning could be lost, meaning a whole cohort of students could be permanently lagging behind in their learning.

Ashish Dhawan

Ashish Dhawan is one of India’s leading philanthropists and a key voice for system reform in the country. Ashish is the Founder and CEO of Central Square Foundation (CSF) with the mission to improve the quality of school education for all students (especially from low-income communities) through the pursuit of evidence driven and innovation led system reform.

Harnessing Digital Technologies for Education amid COVID-19

The seventh Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogue on “Harnessing Digital Technologies for Education amid COVID-19” discussed technology and digital innovations that can improve learning, expand education access, and empower higher education and work force development. Over 60 government officials from Southeast Asia and the People’s Republic of China participated in the Dialogue, sharing country experience on education and EdTech policies and solutions taken to mitigate the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate recovery.

Diponegoro University-ADB Webinar: Future Education, Sustainable Cities, and SDGs

Amid COVID-19, governments around the world are compelled to find innovative and practical approaches on teaching and learning. How will the pandemic help us to rethink and reimagine future of education in collaboration with other sectors? The webinar discussed means to incorporate new ways of teaching and learning into cities’ planning and management as part of the new normal.