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.
Integrating SEL into Staff and Grade-Level Meeting
Covers key ways to integrate SEL: The Three Signature SEL Practices for Adult Learning tool for incorporating three critical elements into any student or adult class, meeting, or engagement and Using Grade-Level and Content Area Team Meetings to Support SEL tool, which provides guidance for using grade-level team meetings to address four areas: supportive classroom …
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Family Guides: Supporting Learning in the 2020-21 School Year
Seek Common Ground and the experts at Student Achievement Partners have created Family Guides to help parents, grandparents, caregivers, friends— anyone helping a child to learn in the 2020-21 school year— understand more about what children should know and be able to do by the end of each grade in literacy and math. Other academic …
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Attendance Playbook: Smart Strategies for Reducing Chronic Absenteeism in the Covid Era
A playbook of 26 strategies to address student chronic absence, whether it be mild, moderate, or severe (the three tiers of intervention). The COVID-19 considerations, included with the strategies, show ways to adapt evidence-based practices when it is not possible to meet face-to-face.
Strategies to lessen chronic absenteeism
Strategies on how to use 5 metrics that paint a holistic picture of whether students are positioned to benefit from distance and hybrid learning opportunities.
Teachers’ Experiences Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A survey administered in the summer of 2020 in which teachers reported concerning levels of student engagement with remote learning overall and stark differences along racial and socio-economic lines that make engagement in learning markedly more challenging.
National Survey Tracks Impact of Coronavirus on Schools: 10 Key Findings
10 key findings that include “Up to 1 in 3 students from the poorest communities had not checked in with their schools via online learning platforms as of April 2020.”
Embrace
A SEL hub on a district’s website to promote SEL skills and well-being across the whole community.
Remote Learning Free SEL Resources
A searchable site of free resources for building students’ SEL competencies and overall well-being.
My Feelings Reflection
A ready-to-use Google form for students to record daily reflections each week.