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Remote Learning Resources for PreK-12 (Foundations for a Brighter Future)

Literacy and Language

Award-winning children’s literacy website where famous actors read books aloud! Author Dan Gutman will be doing a daily read-aloud of his newest My Weird School book Miss Blake is a Flake! Free elibrary for everyone – including children’s books in Spanish, Chinese, and more! Keep up the foreign language learning while learning remotely with Duolingo! Free reading comprehension tools for both parents and teachers. Astronauts doing read-alouds from SPACE!

STEAM and Creativity

Free, complete science lessons for K-5 including at-home activities. Eureka Math has online resources for grades PreK-8, plus typical high school subjects – Algebra I and II, Geometry, and Pre-Calculus. Not just for bedtime, Bedtime Math offers daily activities for kids K-5 to think about math in new and fun ways. An hour of code for pre-readers through high school, with Minecraft, Frozen, Star Wars, and more! Daily lunch doodles with beloved author Mo Willems, complete with activity pages! Activities to spark creativity – including “Finish This Comic!” and drawing/writing prompts.

History and Social Studies

Free American history lessons for grades 4-12 on a wide range of topics. A teacher has compiled 30 virtual field trips for students who are beginning to get stir crazy! Explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art from home, with supplementary projects to keep kids engaged. Bonus: Follow by reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler with OpenLibrary! Visit 12 famous museums from around the world! The NY Times Learning Network offers free resources for middle and high school students on geography, current events, and more. Civics and current events lessons for middle and high school students from PBS News Hour.

Physical and Mental Health

Mind and body wellness for at-home learning from health and physical education teachers. GoNoodle offers hundreds of activities for getting up and getting active! Looking for some focus and calm? Try GoNoodle's Good Energy series.

Resource Hubs for Multiple Subjects

Free, easily sortable resources for all subjects and grade levels – from warm-ups to full lessons and virtual reality adventures! Scholastic Classroom Magazines is offering cross-curricular daily projects for PreK through middle school, each with four thematically related activities.  PBS Kids is offering a daily newsletter with activities and advice while schools are closed!

Full Schedules

Khan Academy is providing full daily schedules for PreK-12, including lots of course content and ideas for brain breaks. A free schedule builder, plus an assortment of links with ideas to help you fill out the schedule.

Tools to Facilitate Remote Learning

Fun accessible apps to provide assistive technology during remote learning for students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, dyslexic, or have other reading difficulties. Online platforms for teachers looking for the best way to interact with their students and share content during remote learning.

Advice for Caregivers at Home

Time Magazine: The Secret to Keeping Your Kids Happy, Busy and Learning if Their School Closes Due to Coronavirus NPR: Coronavirus and Parenting: What You Need to Know Now The Atlantic: How Parents Can Keep Kids Busy (and Learning) in Quarantine NY Times: 10 Questions Parents May Have About Coronavirus NY Times: What Are the Rules for Play Dates During the Coronavirus Crisis?

Now that you are Teaching Online

The following excerpt and list of tech tools are from The Chronicle’s Advice Guide “How to Give Your Students Better Feedback with Technology.” The authors are Holly Fiock, an instructional designer in the College of Education at Purdue University, and Heather Garcia, an instructional-design specialist at Oregon State University Ecampus.

Technology has the potential to make course feedback better — more effective, more engaging, more timely but that won’t happen automatically. Technology must be thoughtfully applied, not just used for the sake of using it. As an instructor you may have a variety of feedback tools already at your disposal, via your institution’s online platform or learning-management system (LMS), such as Google Classroom, Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn, or Canvas… What follows is a list of applications and technologies found to be most useful in providing feedback. We do suggest that you first check with your department to see what is already available.

Free Tools

•  SoundCloud: An easy audio-recording tool that you can embed in your learning-management system so students can click an arrow and play your recording.

•  Vocaroo: A simple, PC-friendly tool for recording your voice. You can immediately get a link to the recording and give it to students.

•  Screencast-O-Matic: A screencasting tool that allows you to record up to 15 minutes.

•  Kaizena: A site that helps you provide verbal feedback directly on student documents and track their progress by comparing your feedback history over multiple assignments.

•  Screencastify: A screen recorder for Chrome that requires no download.



Paid Tools

•  VoiceThread: A learning tool that allows the instructor and the students to participate in a pre-uploaded presentation by providing text, audio, and/or video discussions.

•  Snagit: A screenshot program by TechSmith that captures both video and audio.

•  Camtasia: Another program by TechSmith that allows users to create video via screencast or direct recording.

•  Panopto: A program that provides recording, screencasting, and video streaming for users.

 •  Hippo Video: A all-in-one, cloud-based, video-management system that allows users to capture, edit, and share video, audio, and screen recordings.

I saw this on Facebook and it really touched my heart!! Please comment and share with others.

This is what his teacher said... 

Have to shout this out. Had honestly never seen this...

One of my guys, a straight A+ guy, offers up his 5 bonus points to someone in need. Anyone. Totally offering up what is rightfully his, his earning, to any peer that may have been struggling especially hard the day of the test.

He didn’t care if he considered them a friend, didn’t care if they were cool, didn’t matter to him what situation had caused them to score lower, he just wanted to help, be kind, commit a loving act.

This note gave me so much hope. 

Let us all be a little more like this young man!!

Five Day Week "Survival Buffet"

Principal Appreciation and Motivation Group

Future of Our Nation

Using Post-It Notes for Accountability... What a Great Idea!

Never too early to start planning for summer: SUMMER READING TIPS

In honor of "Black History Month" donate a book to your child's school or after-school program.

Use this calendar to enhance your lessons.

Spring or Winter, you choose!!

Celebrating National School Choice Week

Prek-12 And Beyond is a proud participant in National School Choice Week, which will be held from January 26 - February 1, 2020. National School Choice Week is the world’s largest annual celebration of opportunity in K-12 education. The week provides an opportunity for families to search for schools and learning environments for their children, while shining a positive spotlight on traditional public schools, public charter schools, public magnet schools, online schools, private schools, and homeschooling. Learn more at schoolchoiceweek.com.

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2020 An Amazing Year!

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2020 New Year's Resolution

Want to Make Your Own Wishes Book?

First, make a simple accordion book with pockets. Decorate the front side. Be sure to add the year (2020). Then decorate the pockets and add the phrase “Wishes for the 2020 New Year!” 

Write your wishes, goals, and hopes for the new year on one-inch strips of colored construction paper.

Think of places you would like to go, skills you want to improve, books to read, or milestones you are looking forward to.

Keep your "Wishes Book" all year long.

Christmas #Reading Tradition

What special holiday traditions does your family have or what new traditions would you like to start this year?

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