Learning Forward will update this page regularly with the latest resources from Learning Forward and other organizations for supporting your educators during COVID-19.
COVID-19 impacts educators and students across the world. We know that Learning Forward members are coping with an unprecedented situation and Learning Forward is here to help.
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Resources
Below we have grouped available resources that are educator-focused, free, and align with our mission and vision into these four categories:
- Building capacity to teach and lead in a time of uncertainty
- Strategies for staying connected
- Social and emotional support for educators
Building capacity to teach and lead in a time of uncertainty
Beyond Barriers: Encouraging Teacher Use of Feedback Resources
Learning Forward study that investigated factors that drive teachers to embrace or challenge the use of products and services designed to support improvements in practice. One key element of of the student focused on technology-based resources designed for video observations, peer feedback and collaboration, online professional learning, and learning management platforms.
Tapping Technology's Potential
Article by Joellen Killion is excerpted from Meet the Promise of Content Standards: Tapping Technology to Enhance Professional Learning. This brief is just one of several resources created as part of Learning Forward\'s initiative Transforming Professional Learning to Prepare College- and Career-Ready Students: Implementing the Common Core.
Technology Takes Coaching to Scale
Article by Nicole Breslow on using technology tools to strengthen, scale, and sustain instructional coaching models.
6 Strategies to Help Principals Become Technology Leaders
This article from EdTech K-12 offers practical suggestions to help principals think about how to an instructional leader and a technology leader.
A Quick-start Guide to Distance Learning
A useful guide by Stephanie DeMichele, especially for those with limited or no experience navigating distance learning. The guide includes practical ideas to "put a plan in place" and "make it work".
Extending Classroom Management Online
A blogpost by Heather Walpert-Gawron with nine suggestions to help you provide online learners with class norms and expectations and a sense of community.
Rapid Transit Online Learning is an emergency roadmap for a rapid transition to remote learning during forced school closures. This short program walks you through a simple step-by-step guide to maintain your continuity of teaching and learning in a crisis.
5 Things Districts and Educators Can do to Support Instruction for English Learners During COVID-19
High-level guidance from English Learner Success Forum (ELSF) for districts and educators to plan for the curriculum and learning needs of English learner students during school closures.
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
10 strategies for online learning during the Coronavirus outbreak
Many professional learning facilitators and classroom teachers use Kahoot to formatively assess learner understanding. Kahoot! has put together a guide to distance learning and offers free access to Kahoot! Premium for the remaining months of the academic year.
Myths About Technology-Supported Professional Learning
This article byJoellen Killion and Barbara Treacy examines three commonly held myths about technology-supported professional learning. Each has significant implications for how state or provincial agencies, school systems, or schools support professional learning and how individual educators experience it.
Teaching Through a Pandemic: A Mindset for This Moment
Article from Edutopia with advice from teachers around the world who have been teaching with distance learning. The article includes insight from teachers in Italy, Hong Kong, Washington and elsewhere.
Social and emotional support for educators
Coronavirus: Keeping Our Children And Ourselves Safe
In this special edition of The 180 Podcast on the coronavirus, host Chris Riback talks with Pamela Cantor, M.D., Turnaround for Children\'s Founder and Senior Science Advisor, about how to address the fear, stress and disruption caused by the pandemic.
How Teachers Can Navigate Difficult Emotions During School Closures
Article from the Greater Good Science Center with practical tips for educators to manage stress. The article includes strategies for self-compassion, mindfulness, affirming your values, reaching out to others, and more.
Six Daily Questions to Ask Yourself During Quarantine
Article with six helpful questions to check in with yourself every day and help you stay strong and centered. This article includes a succinct graphic you can post or refer to as a reminder of the 6 questions.
Strategies for staying connected
School Closures and Online Learning: Creating Community, Centering Students
On-demand webinar from Facing History and Ourselves about how to create community and sustain student-centered learning in a digital environment.
Creative Connections While Apart
Blog post from Usable Knowledge provides strategies on staying connected with your school community. Researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education share their ideas.
7 Ways to Maintain Relationships During Your School Closure
Article about how to stay connected with your school community even while phsyical distancing.
4 Tips to Avoid a Communication Breakdown When Working Remotely
Article from Inc. about how leaders can continue to communicate well with staff while transitioning to remote work. Though the article was written for businesses, its recommendations apply equally well to schools.
