Our goal is to make resources easy for you to find. The following are key areas of focus that districts from around the country have shared with us as needs. For each category, you will find articles, podcast episodes, and collections that address the area of need.
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As the pandemic continues, the rate of teacher burnout is on the rise. Teachers want to create a safe and supportive environment for their students. They want to provide social and emotional learning (SEL) and teach emotional intelligence, resilience, well-being, and self-care so that all students can thrive in this moment and in their future.
But to have the energy to support students, teachers need to start prioritizing their own self-care. The following resources share tips for helping teachers take time reflect on their needs and to design self-care goals with their specific situation in mind.
Explore 12 ways to recharge and take care of yourself.
Explore strategies to reduce your teacher workload to save time and effort.
Explore strategies for maintaining a positive presence to keep students engaged and informed in your virtual classroom.
Help students transition to the new year by teaching and fostering their growth mindset.
Discover how learning mindsets can affect both teacher and student performance.
Reflecting on 2020: among the challenges there have also been many things worth celebrating. Let’s take a look at our 9 lessons learned.
Sending warm wishes for 2021! Join us for the final episode of our special holiday series for tips to establish a self-care routine for the new year.
Are you prioritizing everyone else in front of yourself? The holidays are the perfect time to start prioritizing you with these 4 ways to start!
Join us to begin the countdown to the holidays with a three-part series that focuses on teacher self-care.
Explore tips for finding time to take care of yourself, while also supporting students’ social and emotional needs.
Explore strategies for maintaining a positive presence to keep students engaged and informed in your virtual classroom.
In remote and hybrid learning environments, social and emotional learning (SEL) needs that have always been present become amplified, and new needs may also emerge.
Teachers and students are separated by time and space, so normal support systems are being disrupted. Students feel isolated from their peers and disappointed to be missing out on milestone events.
Below are resources that include strategies, best practices, and tips for providing continual SEL support to students throughout the year.
Discover how learning mindsets can affect both teacher and student performance.
Explore strategies to celebrate, cheer-on, and encourage students during remote learning to build their confidence and to create a positive classroom culture.
Explore tips for finding time to take care of yourself, while also supporting students’ social and emotional needs.
Cultivate a culture of trust in your virtual classroom by nurturing relationships and helping students build empathy and understanding for each other and you.
Explore strategies for engaging students in the first day, first week, and first month of school to support pivots to different learning models.
Develop strategies to establish and maintain a positive classroom community, nurturing virtual connections that are essential to the learning experience.
Incorporate social and emotional learning (SEL) strategies to help ensure the overall well-being of your students.
Blended learning provides individualized data, timely feedback, and flexible pathways. Students are empowered with control over the pace of their learning, and they progress based on mastery rather than a predetermined schedule that may not suit their learning needs. In addition, the integration of technology opens up a world of opportunities and allows students to reach beyond the classroom walls to share their learning with a global audience.
The following resources explore rigorous blended-learning strategies for virtual learning, best practices for hybrid learning, as well as introductions to project-based and inquiry-based learning to provide students with real-world challenges to engage them in the learning process.
Explore how three blended-learning models may help you provide structure to your classroom and inspire your students to succeed in a virtual or hybrid learning environment.
Explore the four key elements of blended learning and how to apply them to your current teaching context to engage and motivate students.
Develop meaningful assessments of student learning in your virtual classroom.
Learn to use eBinders and ePortfolios to help students collect exemplars of their work, so they can reflect upon, share, and celebrate their learning growth.
Leverage technology to provide differentiation to help students learn content effectively, according to their needs.
Explore strategies to reduce your teacher workload to save time and effort.
Guide students towards effective and efficient virtual collaboration with the 4 strategies shared in this week’s podcast.
Utilize these strategies to increase student engagement in your live video classes during remote and hybrid learning.
Implement these digital teaching strategies and tech tips to successfully deliver your virtual learning lessons to your students.
Learn an effective focused note-taking practice that incorporates digital strategies and tools to help students take notes and process their learning.
Explore how to create learning experiences where students are empowered to make choices and create across multimedia modalities.
Introduce your students to the skillset they need to navigate the online world where they are engaging with their learning resources.
Explore inquiry learning to help your students learn to think critically, ask higher-order questions, and effectively search for and find answers.
Explore five blended-learning models and how they can be adapted for face-to-face, remote, and hybrid teaching.
To be successful in this digital world, our students need new critical reading and viewing skills to help them interact effectively with information online.
Help students develop future-ready skills to collaborate across time and space through a variety of digital channels.
Explore this dynamic classroom approach where students acquire deep knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems.
Incorporate these strategies to design your lessons and units with flexibility to meet the needs of your learners in multiple delivery models at once.
Explore the following resources as we prepare existing materials for districts to introduce AALI. Articles can be repackaged into new collections that focus on specific topics.
Explore resources, tips, and strategies to help you prepare for the start of the school year regardless of format (face-to-face, remote, or hybrid).
Review these five strategies for addressing academic gaps when students return in the fall.
Help students transition to the new year by teaching and fostering their growth mindset.
Discover how learning mindsets can affect both teacher and student performance.
Find resources and strategies to help you embrace differences in your classroom and promote equity.
Explore five tips for communicating and connecting with families in order to develop a positive home and school partnership.
Develop strategies to establish relationships and build a positive classroom community for your students.
Explore strategies for maintaining a positive presence to keep students engaged and informed in your virtual classroom.
Explore how three blended-learning models may help you provide structure to your classroom and inspire your students to succeed in a virtual or hybrid learning environment.
Explore the four key elements of blended learning and how to apply them to your current teaching context to engage and motivate students.
Create a positive, trusting environment to teach students digital collaboration skills.
Discover how to help students develop skills for living in a knowledge-based society through the implementation of project-based learning.
Develop strategies to establish and maintain a positive classroom community, nurturing virtual connections that are essential to the learning experience.
Explore how to create learning experiences where students are empowered to make choices and create across multimedia modalities.
Introduce your students to the skillset they need to navigate the online world where they are engaging with their learning resources.
Explore inquiry learning to help your students learn to think critically, ask higher-order questions, and effectively search for and find answers.
Keep your key stakeholders informed throughout the remote-learning process with these guiding principles, practical strategies, and technology tools.
Explore five blended-learning models and how they can be adapted for face-to-face, remote, and hybrid teaching.
Help students develop future-ready skills to collaborate across time and space through a variety of digital channels.
Explore this dynamic classroom approach where students acquire deep knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems.
Design summative assessments for your virtual classroom that will motivate and engage students to demonstrate their learning.
Explore ways to empower your students with the confidence, skills, and strategies they will need to be future-ready learners.