A school in California built this student engagement tracker that made it easier for teachers to fulfill the district’s requirement to log student engagement. Schools can save a copy on their own drive and customize it to their needs. While this tracker is specific to engagement, districts can use it as a model for simplifying …
Back to school: A framework for remote and hybrid learning amid COVID-19
Back to school: A framework for remote and hybrid learning amid COVID-19 provides a useful summary (Exhibit 5) on the “teaching value chain” to help guide hybrid learning models.
Tools for Educators to Listen to and Learn from Families During COVID-19 School Closures
A guide for family engagement that offers sample scripts and surveys for outreach in both Spanish and English. Other strategies for engagement are offered.
Virtual Family Engagement Coaching
A two-week family engagement plan focused on improving student reading with daily messages and ideas (and scripts) for connecting personally with families through videos, chats, Facebook live events, or phone calls.
Congrove Distance Learning Model
A distance learning plan that contains clear, concise language on: a distance-learning theory of action (page 2); Sample schedules (pages 3 and 5); Weekly individual learning plans and after-school support (page 4); Structures and operations for non-instructional staff (pages 6); Instructional design and delivery (pages 7-10); Learning community for school and family (pages 11-12); Systems …
Virtual Coffee Hour
A toolkit for educators that helps them share resources about Google’s technology with families and guardians.
Tech Toolkit for Families and Guardians
A toolkit for educators that helps them share resources about Google’s technology with families and guardians.
Black Lives Matter at School – Resources
Resources that include classroom-appropriate lesson plans, guides on how to have tough conversations with peers and students, and more.
6 Ways to be an Antiracist Educator
A video of educator Dena Simmons on engaging in antiracist work in the classroom.
Virtual Culturally Responsive Resources: Middle Schoolers
Each includes a curriculum, a syllabus, and other practical resources such as a video playlist, a book list, and activities and guidance for caregivers.