Presents ideas that can help you make sure your online learning environment provides opportunities for individualized learning that can help students with learning and linguistic differences. Many of the strategies are also useful for students who cannot yet access complex texts independently.
20 Tips for Teaching an Accessible Online Course
Twenty guidelines, along with links to resources, that provide a good starting place when designing an accessible course. The tips include how to create accessible videos for free.
Distance Learning: 6 UDL Best Practices for Online Learning
UDL practices to proactively reduce barriers to learning so all students can engage.
Co-teaching in an Age of Remote Learning
Tips to encourage practice and creativity of co-teachers online.
COVID-19’s Impact on English Learner Students
A commentary that builds from research evidence to provide recommendations for how policy can support EL students and schooling both if schools are physically closed and providing distance education, and once they partially or fully reopen.
3 Participation Strategies for Live Video Instruction
Offers how-to strategies on: getting student input using polls; using the chat function to ask compelling questions; and prompting discussions with word clouds.
Trauma-informed practices
Use the reflection questions and list in this article to inform your district or school’s selection of trauma-informed practices. For example: begin class time with a social ritual; introduce a short “mental stretch” break during class; offer monitored hangout time before class starts; and create small groups that meet socially.
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.
2020-21 Priority Instructional Content
A resource to help a school/district plan how to identify priority standards.
Digital Skills Support Binder
This “binder” can help a district or school plan how to introduce Google tools to school communities. It also provides mini lessons and activities teachers can use to get students comfortable using basic Google tools.