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Reopening Considerations Checklist
This tool from LunchAssist provides a checklist of all of the considerations schools need to think through for reopening their meal service programs.
Artifacts
Response Process for Staff/Students Who Are COVID-19 Positive
This tool builds off of principles included in the Parabola Project's School Reopening Readiness Guide. It is intended to help superintendents, principals, and other staff understand the response steps once a positive case has been identified (i.e.,...
Artifacts
COVID-19 Indicators to Support School Closure and Reopening Decisions
This tool from the Parabola Project provides indicators for school officials to monitor with their local health departments in considering if and when to close a classroom/cohort, school, or district, and when to open again.
Artifacts
Feedback-Based Family Facebook Groups
At My Tech High, parents and families use the program's Facebook group to share notes, feedback, and questions on different curriculum providers and tools. Families have a large number of options for curriculum platforms, so peer feedback is crucial...
Strategies
Discussion Boards
Students can connect with their peers asynchronously in a meaningful way through online discussion boards.
Strategies
Learning Studios
Learning studios offer a different classroom design in which students collaborate in groups and instructors serve as facilitators.
Strategies
Synchronous Virtual Learning
Schools can offer synchronous live classes for students to receive ongoing academic support, SEL check-ins, and real-time modifications.
Teaching Practices
Virtual Learning: What types of supports enable successful student-driven learning?
Learning virtually can create opportunities for students to work flexibly, self-direct, and access the personalized resources they need. However, learning independently online can also pose a host of new challenges. Educators can proactively address...
Teaching Practices
Virtual Learning: How can I engage families remotely to connect, collaborate, and support them as partners for students?
Strong relationships and communication with families (including parents, guardians, and other adults at home) is a vital and often under-utilized force for students' ongoing success, especially when learning occurs in a virtual setting. Explore this...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Measuring Unfinished Learning: A Guide for Schools and Systems to Understand and Measure Student Progress
This insight investigates how education leaders can take an asset-based approach to measuring student learning, offering concrete processes and methodology to examine learner growth during times of disruption to student learning.
Teaching Practices
Unfinished Learning: What system conditions are needed to address unfinished learning?
Although long-term, systemic inequities ultimately need to be addressed, unfinished learning presents an immediate challenge. In the short term, schools and districts can organize their current systems around learner-centered principles and...
