Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE) engages, empowers and transforms families by providing the knowledge and the skills to partner with schools and communities to ensure their students achieve their full potential.
What is Lesson Study?
Teachers can plan, execute, and reflect on a hybrid lesson. In a large school, they might all plan the same lesson. In a smaller school where no teachers teach the same grade/subject, they might simply use some of the same strategies for building student engagement and interaction and then reflect on the results.
Planning Guidance for Hybrid Teaching
This one-pager provides guiding questions and a quick activities checklist for districts and schools to use with teachers providing hybrid instruction (adapted by FHI 360 from An Introduction to Hybrid Teaching, College of DuPage)
Socratic Seminar
Schools have also taken advantage of small hybrid classrooms to have rich, structured discussions or debates, where students can prepare in advance while remote. Facing History and Ourselves provides guidance on Socratic Seminars.
The Field Guide for Accelerating Learning, Equity and Well-Being
The Field Guide provides LEAs with tools to reflect on key lessons learned from 2020, plan a safe return to campus, respond to logistical needs of scheduling, develop effective communication plans, create continuity of learning, facilitate goal-setting, gain inspiration for what lies ahead, and more. It also includes a Personalized Planning tool.
Distance Learning with Common Sense
These webinar sessions are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore strategies and best practices while connecting with other educators from across the nation—all from the convenience of home! Free and open to all educators, you can watch the webinars live or recorded on YouTube. (For those watching live, each session will be a 30-minute video conference …
The Center for Racial Justice in Education
Curated lists of resources for a variety of essential areas. Resources for Talking about Race, Racism and Racialized Violence with Kids A Racial Justice Guide to the Winter Holiday Season for Educators and Families
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.
Culturally Responsive Teaching: What You Need to Know
Provides the research base and rationale for culturally responsive teaching (CRT) and describes what it looks like, how to put it into practice, and ways to make family connections more culturally responsive, including a family survey in English and Spanish.