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Non-Verbal Engagement
Utilize non-verbal feedback (e.g., emojis) to visually show when students are ready, need more time, have questions, or want to convey another reaction. This strategy allows students to quickly communicate in a low-stakes – and even entertaining –...
Facilitating Student Participation on Zoom
This resource from Boston College’s Center for Teaching Excellence provides an overview of several strategies to facilitate student participation including how to facilitate hand raising.
Remote Pathways
Just like in an in-person environment, students in remote and hybrid environments can benefit from working in small groups for a variety of reasons including content support and enhanced, personalized working environments.
Digital Equity: Introduction
Access to digital technologies that enable powerful learning is more important than ever. Leaders and their communities are navigating rapid advancements in areas like artificial intelligence (AI) and community demand for flexible virtual and hybrid...
Digital Equity: Essential Conditions to Support Digital Equity
The concept of digital equity is nuanced and complex. Beyond ensuring powerful access and meaningful use, it also incorporates the surrounding ecosystem. To fully realize the promise of the learning opportunities presented in the previous section,...
Digital Equity Audit: Companion Workbook
The digital equity audit process and tools are intended to foster productive dialogue within leadership teams in an iterative manner. Whether you are just beginning to think about digital equity or have been working on it for years, cycling through...
Three Steps to Effectively Engage Learners in a Synchronous Video Learning Experience
Explore ways to design an effective synchronous video learning experiences, starting with what you already know and exploring the effective in-person strategies you used prior to remote learning.
Report: Learning Found, Not Lost - Examining Learner Growth and Supports in LUSD During and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis
To examine the impact of COVID-19 school closures on their own learners, Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) partnered with The Learning Accelerator (TLA) to design a mixed-methods study using quantitative data captured from benchmark assessments...
Vaccine Lesson Plans for Elementary, Middle, and High School
The Vaccine Makers Project developed lesson plans for different grade bands about vaccine science with scientifically supported, historically accurate, and emotionally compelling content.
Reopening Schools: Ideas Across Scenarios
The Highlander Institute compiled resources to support re-entry planning from a review of 50+ resources as well as the collective brainstorm of 50+ talented teachers and leaders across the state of Rhode Island.
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...