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Episode 10: Distinctive Schools on Communities of Care and Thoughtful Instructional Strategies
On this episode of What Will We Take With Us?, a series featuring our conversations with education leaders across the United States on how they grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in K-12 education, we speak with two leaders at Distinctive Schools...
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.
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.
Adult Wellbeing in Schools
The same pandemic, economic, social, and political forces that have impacted students have also adversely affected many educators across roles and contexts.
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: 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: Digital Equity in the Classroom
In our urgency to remove barriers to digital equity, conversations often start with the “boxes and wires” of technology itself. However, even if every student (and their family) gains equitable access to powerful devices and high-speed internet,...
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.
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...
5-Step Guide to Checking Ventilation Rates in Classrooms
Healthy Buildings, an initiative of the Harvard T.H. Chan Public School of Health, has created a detailed how-to guide for measuring ventilation rates, including materials needed and helpful strategies.