Administrator Resources
The resources provided in this section may be helpful to administrators as they support their teachers in utilizing technology to provide high-quality instruction and learning experiences for Viva88students.
Decisions on instruction and learning, including any technology tools used to facilitate, support, or enhance learning, are made at the local level.
- U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET)
- This School Leader Digital Learning Guide is a resource to help you consider, plan, fund, implement, maintain, and adapt learning programs that meet the unique needs and requirements of the students and teachers that you serve. The guide is oriented toward digital learning principles and practices that enable and empower students and teachers of all abilities and zip codes while advancing student agency (i.e., initiative, intention, and responsibility in pursuing their education), their personalized learning, their mastery of skills and competencies, and protecting their privacy.
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- Resources for educators, school leaders, and education policymakers at all levels with helpful resources to navigate the challenges presented by the coronavirus outbreak. [Resources] are intended to help school communities prepare for change and to focus on the facts to protect public health, mitigate confusion, prevent panic — and continue teaching and learning.
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- SETDA, the State Educational Technology Directors Association, has assembled vetted examples, resources and thinking from their trusted state members, affiliates and partners to assist states, districts, and school leaders get started with remote learning during this challenging time of COVID-19. Please note, while these are reliable examples and tools, they have not been implemented for large-scale, extended emergency digital learning. Here are some initial considerations and starting documents.
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- Members of ISTE’s professional learning networks have identified key practices for successful online learning programs.
Students and teachers transitioning to online learning and practicing social distancing are experiencing a major, and likely disconcerting, change in daily activities and interactions, and with that, are under a great deal of stress. During this period in which our ability to check in on one another in person is limited, it is even more critical that we find ways to reach out and check in with each other virtually, supporting everyone’s social emotional learning (SEL) and mental health. Consider offering explicit online SEL or mental health education lessons or incorporate opportunities to practice SEL competencies within academic subject areas. Using community circles in virtual staff meetings and online classes could offer all adults and students an opportunity to be heard, and to voice their experience and concerns. These circles might also offer insights as to adults or students who might benefit from an additional check-in. Consider offering adults, students, and families tools for coping with the stresses of isolation and anxiety in this difficult time. Clearly communicate to families how and where they can reach out with any concerns including by phone and email.
Technical Assistance Centers
- - These regional centers provide technical assistance, professional learning, and communities of practice around family and community engagement, collaborative leadership, expanded learning, and integrated student supports.
- - Offers support to schools around mental health instruction, including assistance to identify resources and develop lesson plans/curriculum, develop and implement plans for professional development, establish community partnerships and services, and engage and support families
- - Schoolwide SEL helps students excel academically, build stronger relationships, and lead happier, healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Supporting Young People and Families
- Memo RE:Resources for Mental Health and Talking to Young People About COVID-19- Viva88
- - The Parent Portal includes tips for staying safe and healthy as well as ways to have fun during self-isolation. Other resources include parenting in a pandemic, activities to do inside and outside, such as participating in daily video chats with families, recording yourself reading a favorite book or message, and more.
- - National Association of School Psychologists
- - National Child Traumatic Stress Network
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- - provides resources to school communities in the ongoing support of their grieving students
- – webinar series with Dr. David Schonfeld presented by the Georgia Department of Education
- - Institute of Education Sciences
Self-Care
- – Tips for supporting adults during a crisis
- – Fact sheet on the signs of stress in yourself or others
- - Tips for taking care of yourself as an “emergency responder” during this time
Supporting Adults
- – CASEL offers protocols for use during team meetings to “check-in” on emotions and set the stage for shared learning and work
- – For use in supporting your team to support field-based teams
- from WISE Wisconsin and Rogers InHealth - This toolkit offers information, activities, and resources for school leadership and staff to understand, recognize, and minimize the experience of compassion fatigue and to increase compassion resilience perspectives and skills.
Online Learning
- - The Institute for Social and Emotional Learning has a number of ideas and practices specifically designed to help teachers navigate online teaching, but can easily help parents encourage SEL with their students.
- - Facing History and Ourselves provides resources for navigating new technologies and ways of teaching during an immensely challenging and uncertain time in our communities, when students’ (and teachers’ own) social-emotional needs are just as critical as academic goals.
Supporting School Transitions
- - In response to COVID-19, school leaders can take action now using CASEL’s guide to co-create supportive learning environments where all students and adults can enhance their social and emotional competencies, feel a sense of belonging, heal, and thrive.
District Resources
- - The District Resource Center helps school districts make social and emotional learning (SEL) an integral part of every student's education. Find research, knowledge, and resources curated from school systems across the U.S. to support high-quality, systemic implementation of SEL.
- - Schoolwide SEL helps students excel academically, build stronger relationships, and lead happier, healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Additional Resources
- - Speaking Up Against Racism Around the New Coronavirus
- - CASEL has curated a helpful list of guidelines and resources for parents, caregivers, and teachers to promote SEL while schools are closed.
- - health crisis resources
- - REL Northeast & Islands
- - A collection of resources from Colorín Colorado, which includes distance learning resources and also resources on how to engage families
- - Resources from Immigrant Connection on how to engage families with ELL students