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Visual Virtual Classroom Background
This slide deck shares various virtual classroom backgrounds used for an elementary, bilingual classroom. It also includes a “star student” slide that the teacher uses as a background once a week to announce and celebrate their classroom’s exemplary...
Explanation of Wait Questions
This video gives additional information and framing around Wait Questions, along with two other types of questions you can use with remote synchronous instruction: Speed Questions and Verbal Questions. These same techniques can be used in person as...
Virtual Scavenger Hunt
Virtual scavenger hunts are a way for students to engage and move around while learning remotely.
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...
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...
Pumpkin Launch Challenge with Remote Buddies
This video shows students in fourth and fifth grade working with their remote buddies on a pumpkin launch design challenge at Design 39 in Poway, CA.
Kahoot Exit Ticket
This screenshot shows the final results from a geometry exit ticket administered on Kahoot.
Back to School Success Coaching Playbook
This playbook outlines critical steps to engage students in success coaching and provides tools and resources to implement this process during the back-to-school period. Additionally, the playbook includes a case study that provides an overview of...
Multi-Grade Level Classrooms
As a result of the pandemic and changing class sizes for students returning in-person, elementary schools shifted from single grade level classes to multi-grade level classes. This allowed creating even class sizes with frequently shifting numbers...
"Walking Time" to Support Standards Mastery
To help students recover unfinished learning time, teachers spend twenty-minute blocks teaching a specific standard to support student mastery.
Expanding Community “Creative Learning” Initiative
Austin ISD created and maintained a community-wide partnership to increase "arts-rich" opportunities for all students in the pandemic.