ns from the US Department of Education.
Supporting Middle Level Educator through COVID-19: Promotes learning events and collaborative online spaces to support middle level educators through the COVID-19 pandemic. The Association for Middle Level Education [AMLE] offers tips for selecting remote learning resources and how to effectively use them to keep students engaged outside the classroom.
Best Practices for Creating Take-Home Packets to Support Distance Learning: Documents ways in which take-home packets can be used as a primary mode of instruction during at-home learning and as a supplemental resource when school is back in session. These best practices are compiled and presented by the US Department of Education's Regional Educational Laboratory [REL-Pacific].
Best Practices for Educating Online: Guides educators and clinicians through best practices, teaching strategies, tips and tricks for delivering high-quality instruction and therapy online with a quick turnaround. This guide, developed by the Council for Exceptional Children and eLuma Online Therapy, walks professionals through preparation (technology, software, environment, apparel) and execution of instructional strategies for live, online learning in a clear and succinct 8 pages, including numerous hyperlinks to original primary resources.
Supporting Children's Reading at Home: Family Resources for Kindergarten through 3rd Grade: Features a 46-minute webinar recording. Viewers will gain the knowledge and ability to utilize the REL Southeast’s Supporting Your Child’s Reading at Home family resources for kindergarten through 3rd grade in their home setting.
Wide Open School: Offers families and educators a large collection of free resources to enrich and support distance learning. More than 80 partners and supporters have contributed their preferred resources to meet the change in learning needs of students, teachers, and families due to the coronavirus pandemic. Common Sense Education provides this collection, introduced by a short (5-minute) video to guide families to select and use high-quality media and at-home learning opportunities for their children.
Free Distance Learning Plans for K-2 Students and Their Families: Introduces “fun and friendly” weekly learning plans for K-2 children, assists educators of young students with opening up lines of communication for their families, and engages students in new digital learning routines. Common Sense Learning offers these free resources as a quick-start guide to help establish a comfortable distance learning climate at home. The three packets – one each for kindergarten, grades 1 and 2 students - are structured around basic principles including: 1.) Start with digital citizenship, 2.) Set reasonable goals, and 3.) Attempt a schedule.
COVID-19 Information for Specific Groups of People: Discusses risks and vulnerabilities, COVID-19 vaccine information for people at increased risk for severe illness, and how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] is making vaccine recommendations for specific groups of people (e.g. children and teens, teachers, school staff and child care workers, people with specific allergies, disabilities and medical conditions (including immune-compromised individuals).
Questions for Proactive and Equitable Educational Implementation and Questions for Proactive and Equitable Educational Implementations - Associated Resources: Poses proactive questions for decision-makers to address the collective and individual needs of diverse learners in the wake of the disruptive pandemic. COVID-19 has most deeply impacted learners that the education system has disadvantaged. 11 groups — students who are American Indian, Black, and/or identify with other racial and ethnic minority groups, have disabilities, are learning English as a second language, are experiencing homelessness, are low income, in the foster system, identify as LGBTQ, served by migrant education programs, and/or live in rural and remote areas of the country — are less likely to have access to devices and technology, while m