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Deepening Arts Enrichment Through Three-Week Focus Scheduling
Modifying arts enrichment schedules to minimize risk to enrichment teachers also leads to deeper engagement in the arts for students.
Setting Expectations Through Surveys
As students and teachers return to in-person learning, it is important to align on expectations, leverage learnings and students' skills from remote instruction, and design experiences that will support students in effective ways.
Sanitizing and Cleaning Your Classroom
The virus that causes COVID-19 is mainly spread through respiratory droplets. Having students and staff sanitize themselves, objects in classrooms, and high-touch surfaces reduces the risk of exposure to COVID-19.
Digital Equity: Getting Started
Across the country, schools and systems find themselves in very different places when it comes to digital equity. Some may be looking at the devices and platforms implemented during the pandemic and now wonder, “What’s next?” Others might be seeing...
Digital Equity: Taking It Forward
This guide exists as a starting point to help school and system leaders have meaningful, actionable, and iterative conversations around digital equity and to develop concrete plans of action. Now that you have explored the content and begun to work...
A Balanced View of Risk
The decisions around the return to school must reflect a global view of risk. This graphic from the Parabola Project shows that schools must balance the risks of COVID-19 infection with in-school learning, with other significant risks to the overall...
Taos Academy "Bearhug" Protocol
Administrators at Taos Academy work closely with students and families to support students from a 360-degree view. If a student’s data indicates they need additional support, the staff does a “Taos Academy Bearhug” by meeting with the student and...
How to Develop Research Questions
Learn how to to develop research questions that can guide your investigation and data analysis.
Daily Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Check-ins
Teachers set aside some time at the beginning of each class to engage in some quick SEL activities and better understand how students are feeling.
Family Contract
Families commit to supporting their student’s journey by agreeing to a digital contract.
Discussion-Based Assessments
Demonstrating mastery through a one-to-one conversation with an educator, in place of a traditional written assessment.