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Class Example: Creative Furnishings and Spaces at West Belden
CICS West Belden uses different types of furniture to offer students choice over where they learn throughout the day.
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...
Cohorting Students for In-Person Learning Toolkit
This toolkit from the Parabola Project helps school leaders make key decisions driven by the values and priorities of their school or district. Leaders need to determine the resources they have available (time, people, and space) and think...
School Air Quality Assessment Guide
This toolkit from the Parabola Project is designed to assist district and building operations and facilities leaders by providing a checklist of priority steps related to improving air quality to prepare for in-person learning.
Thought Starters on Reopening Schools for SY2020-21
The School Nutrition Association's publication provides topics that school food services need to develop plans for in order to keep students and staff safe during the pandemic. This includes what different models of food distribution can look like...
Back-to-School Meal Service Toolkit
No Kid Hungry's toolkit provides guidance and ideas on how to feed students and keep students and staff safe amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Step-by-Step Lunch Procedure in Classrooms
This video from Sha Tin Junior School in Hong Kong communicated to families, students, and staff how students will eat lunch safely.
Back to School RI: Health and Safety Guidance to Reopen Rhode Island’s Elementary and Secondary Schools
This document from Reopening RI provides guidance on a variety of topics schools need to consider when reopening their buildings including busing, classroom layouts, and screening students.
Team Work Tables
LPS Navigate uses tables rather than desks to allow better teaming, collaboration, and conferencing.
Rethinking Spaces and Opportunities for Learning, Especially the Arts
Meriden Public Schools leveraged partnerships and community spaces to create safe, outdoor learning spaces for the district’s classrooms during the pandemic.
Inquiry-Based Outdoor Immersion Programs at Hopkins Public Schools
Ann Ertl, Interim Director of Innovation, Design, and Learning at Hopkins Public Schools, describes their inquiry-based outdoor immersion program piloted with a second-grade class at Eisenhower Elementary, which was created to bring students back to...