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Muted Share-Aloud Video Explanation
This video describes how students read synchronously while on video, but muted, to show their engagement and silently celebrate their successes.
Requiring Cameras Only for 1:1 and Small-Group Time
This video describes the importance of allowing students to keep their cameras off at times during a lesson and then prompting students to turn their cameras back on during one-to-one meetings with the teacher and in small-group settings. These more...
Muted Share-Aloud
To help combat Zoom fatigue, anxiety, and connectivity issues, allow students to be flexible about when they turn on cameras during synchronous lessons.
Breakout Group Roles and Expectations
This slide deck includes breakout group roles and descriptions, norms, expectations, and a template for shared working notes.
Breakout Group Work Expectations
This slidedeck shares breakout group expectations and a note about facilitation.
Expectations Ensure Engagement
Regardless of whether students attend school in person or remotely, being explicit about roles and expectations in small groups is vital to engagement and the effective use of time. In remote settings, expectations may change, so educators must be...
“I’m on Top of the World” Tuesday
This Pear Deck slide includes an example prompt for a social-emotional learning small-group conversation about a time a student accomplished something, conquered a fear, or felt proud.
Social-Emotional Learning Small Groups
Create small groups for students to engage in guided and structured social-emotional learning while also building classroom culture and relationships.
Active Spelling
This screencast shows how one teacher engages her students in an active spelling activity. In this video, the educator explains and models the strategy in action, sharing how she guides students through physical movements (e.g., jumping jacks) to...
Active Activities
Provide students with opportunities to engage in physical activity while learning to support them mentally and physically.
Mere Engagement: Reflections about the Connections Between Online Learning, Student Agency, and Student Engagement
School leaders mustn’t lose sight of the need for student agency and student engagement as they contend with the myriad challenges posed by COVID-19. In fact, they must reimagine what agency and engagement can look like in cases when students are...