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Summer Learning Toolkit: PLANNING HIGH – QUALITY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Wallace Foundation’s Summer Learning Toolkit includes the Planning High-Quality Professional Development tip sheet, which offers guidance on maximizing professional development time and resources.
Summer Program Planning Tools: Part 1–Getting to Work on Summer Learning & Summer Learning Toolkit
Start this presentation at approximately 14 minutes and follow along on slides 19-23 as RAND’s Jennifer McCombs describes barriers to teacher recruitment, mitigation strategies, and how to retain high-impact staff.
Supporting Children’s Mental Health: Tips for Parents and Educators
A website with a list of practical tips.
Supporting Learning in the COVID-19 Context: Research to Guide Distance and Blended Instruction
Ten recommendations distill the key findings from the PACE report, Supporting Learning in the COVID-19 Context, which offers a framework for educators and district leaders to use in their preparation to provide quality instruction through distance and blended models.
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
A compilation of research-based coping mechanisms for students.
Supporting Young People in the Wake of Violence and Trauma
A guide that helps adults build relationships with youth that affirm their experiences and cultivate safety after violence or trauma.
Systems Change and Parent Power
“Systems Change is Education Philanthropy’s Only Exit Strategy: And Parent Power is What Will Change Systems” – Alex Cortez, New Profit Philanthropy will never transform education systems until it transforms its own relationships with parents and communities, and then supports them in exercising their innate power to change policies, practices and resource flows in education. …
Tapping Federal Dollars to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism
For districts or schools thinking about how to use COVID-19 funding to improve attendance, FutureEd provides this guidance around using federal funds to invest in attendance.
Teacher Planning Notebook
The handbook has various SEL-focused openers and closers (Slides 13-15) that teachers can use in remote or hybrid instruction. It also includes templates and strategies for planning for asynchronous and synchronous instruction.
Teachers Fold Wildfires and Other Crises Into Lesson Plans
A 7-minute interview with two teachers about bringing current events, including wildfires, protests and the coronavirus, into their teaching.
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