TERMS & STRATEGIES
PEER LEARNING
Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers
Trends in Peer Learning: Educational Psychology: Vol 25, No 6
From Marbles to Instant Messenger™: Implications of Piaget's Ideas About Peer Learning
Alameda County Office of Education COVID-19 Resource Guide: This is a crowdsourced living document that has been curated across districts and community partner organizations in Alameda County as part of the Professional Learning Network.
Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) is a 5-hour interactive course designed for providers to help survivors gain skills to manage distress and cope with post-disaster stress and adversity. This course is for individuals who want to learn about using SPR, learning the goals and rationale of each core skill, delivering SPR, and supporting survivors in the aftermath of a disaster or traumatic event.
Mental Health First Aid is a course that teaches you how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The training helps you identify, understand, and respond to signs of addictions and mental illnesses. Due to COVID-19 it is available virtually.
West Ed: Self-Care Strategies for Educators During the COVID Crisis: Personal Social and Emotional Well-Being This brief offers practical information and guidance on self-care for educators, recognizing the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic and resulting school closing on educators, building on a growing research base about self-care
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL)
Social and Emotional Learning Present and Future Book chapter - the foundations of SEL.
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Caring for Preschoolers at Home. Guidance for creating structure and routine and developing SEL skills while preschool-aged children are staying home
Free Resources to Support E-learning: Members of the SEL Provider Council have curated their resources and curriculum. Please note that these have not been evaluated by CASEL through our program review process.
Greater Good in Education: Supporting Learning and Well-Being During the COVID Crisis. This resource provides practices for families and educators to support learning and well-being for young people in kindergarten through college
Teaching Tolerance: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus. Experts at the National Child Traumatic Stress Network respond to questions about trauma-informed practices to support students during school closure and distance learning
WestEd: Strategies for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning. Introduction to the concept of trauma-informed practice and why it is especially crucial during distance learning. This research-based brief provides actionable strategies for applying a trauma-informed lens during school closures
Education Week: How to Teach SEL When Students Aren’t in School. EdWeek speaks with SEL experts about specific strategies to help student maintain social connections, manage stress, and build supportive environments through distance learning
AIR: Building Positive Conditions for Learning at Home: Strategies and Resources for Families and Caregivers. Four basic elements for parents on creating a supportive learning space at home, with concrete strategies in both English and Spanish
Child Mind Institute: Single Parenting During the Coronavirus Crisis. Provides strategies for single parents during COVID-19 grounded in the ideas of radical acceptance & self-compassion.
FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
Pedagogical Supports for Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Practices
Wide Open School: An online platform developed in response to COVID-19’s disruption to our children’s learning due to the closing of schools across the nation. Designed for both families and educators, Wide Open School is a free collection of PreK–12 resources curated by Common Sense Media.
Adrian-Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors: Developed by parent leaders, access videos, materials, resources and more in Spanish.
CreatED by Crayola: Creative at-home learning resources: Art-infused lesson plans, parents resources, create-to-lea kits, and art sets & inspiration.
FamiliesInSchools: Research shows that helping our students create a flexible structure around learning is not a bad idea. This site helps you find a list of free resources to support student learning during school closures.
Reading Partners: Resources for parents, guardians, and other relatives to stay educated and informed about early literacy.
Wonderopolis: More than 2,500 Wonders of the Day® pose intriguing questions about the world to jumpstart students' critical thinking. Each unique Wonder comes with hands-on activities to reinforce learning, and content is available for free in over 60 languages through Microsoft’s Immersive Reader.
Class DoJo: ClassDojo is an educational technology communication app and website. It connects primary school teachers, students and families through communication features, such as a feed for photos and videos from the school day, and messaging that can be translated into more than 35 languages and has been used in 180 countries.
Say Hi: Have a conversation in two languages and hear your voice translated instantly. This works best for text messaging or in person for short conversations.
Sustain and Gain: Blueprint for a long-term, thriving family literacy/parent engagement program
A critical component of educational excellence is parental engagement, but how do communities and schools effectively implement parent engagement and family literacy, especially during challenging budget times? This resource outlines tangible methods of sustaining engagement through all seasons.
Cultivating Readers: Available in both English and Spanish, this family guide provides tips to grow reading skills from birth to age eight. The guide will help parents keep their shared learning activities with their children fun and part of their everyday routine.
How do I talk to my child about the Coronavirus?: Compiled by the National PTA, this list has great information on how to talk to your child(ren) about COVID-19 and more.
Coping Tips for COVID 19: A webinar highlighting coping strategies for families and children.
The COVID-19 Education Coalition: Learning Keeps Going. A coalition of education organizations has curated this collection of best practices, free tech, ideas for parents, and webinars & podcasts to support distance learning
LOGISTICS & CONNECTING
Bloomz: A free app to easily communicate with families. You can send pictures and instantly message parents.
Ready 4K: ParentPowered PBC is offering an enhanced version of the core Ready4K program for free through the end of the 2019-2020 school year to US early education providers to support at-home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. No internet required, as they use text messaging, the only technology that reaches 98% of families.
Flyer Connect: Their free-forever service connects families with schools, districts, and non-profits in 100+ languages without dealing with account setup, disconnected numbers or emails. Communicate, collect forms/surveys and share social assistance, behavior and academic resources with all families.
ReadyRosie™ is a research-based family engagement and early learning resource that is uniquely content-driven, with mobile-friendly digital tools that support families with Modeled Moments videos. These videos are filmed in English and in Spanish and show real families modeling fun activities and games that support learning standards in authentic ways. Through ReadyRosie's Share platform educators can customize content for families, track progress and assess data to measure impact. Families can comment on content shared and provide educators with powerful insights about their children and family goals.