One of the benefits of being in a physical classroom is being …
One of the benefits of being in a physical classroom is being able to create a sense of community among your students. They can see your face; they can have impromptu conversations with their peers. They know one another and can respond to each other in ways that cannot be done over a computer or phone. How can you and your students form this group identity even in a remote environment?
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Focus groups can give an opportunity for stakeholders to share specific information …
Focus groups can give an opportunity for stakeholders to share specific information and deep insight specific to the objectives and prompts. Developing the right questions is essential in ensuring you have an effective focus group that meets specified goals and objectives. Eight to ten questions is the maximum number of questions for any one group.
The importance of community helpers is a building block of civics understanding. …
The importance of community helpers is a building block of civics understanding. In this episode, children investigate who community helpers are, and how they have changed over time through exploration of a rich photograph (from the Library of Congress) of a man delivering ice to a schoolhouse in 1899.
Children explore the photograph by revealing it in sections, observing the details they find (See), and working with in-game character Ella to figure out what jobs the helpers are doing. Children collect elements of the photograph to their journal, and use what they have collected to help them decide what the jobs are (Think), and then to connect those jobs with community helpers today (Wonder)
Conducting a detailed community needs assessment can help you gain a better …
Conducting a detailed community needs assessment can help you gain a better understanding of your community, increase community engagement, guide your planning, and help you make a positive impact. This resource is a set of questions that can be posed to a school community to determine the educational needs of a community / town / city.
The following document provides literature regarding the benefits and impact of community …
The following document provides literature regarding the benefits and impact of community schools. We rely on both peer-reviewed sources, evaluations, and reports.
The Community School Self-Assessment (CSSA) is a tool designed to assess and …
The Community School Self-Assessment (CSSA) is a tool designed to assess and guide community school implementation. Developed by the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative and National Coalition for Community Schools, CSSA gathers multiple and diverse perspectives on key structures and practices that influence community school implementation.
This is a research brief summarizes the evidence base on Community School …
This is a research brief summarizes the evidence base on Community School initiatives as a school improvement strategy, including implications for ESSA compliance.
This brief examines the research on community schools, with two primary emphases. First, it explores whether the 2015 federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) opens the possibility of investing in well-designed community schools to meet the educational needs of low-achieving students in high-poverty schools. And second, it provides support to school, district, and state leaders as they consider, propose, or implement a community school intervention in schools targeted for comprehensive support. The brief is drawn from a larger research review, available at https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/comm-schools-equitable-brief. The online research compendium can be found at https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/online-research-compendium.
Link to the research brief is here: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/equitable-community-schools
In this toolkit, we will explore ways to maintain a compassionate presence …
In this toolkit, we will explore ways to maintain a compassionate presence in our interactions with students, families, and colleagues. The rationale for this work as described in the first circle (Compassion Resilience) on the school toolkit home page, points to many positive outcomes for us and others. It turns out that coming from a mindset of compassion greatly contributes to our job and life satisfaction.
Simply put, Compassion is concern for the wellbeing of others. It includes both the awareness of others’ distress coupled with a desire to alleviate it. At the same time that we desire to alleviate another’s distress, we also are confronted with the reality that we cannot “fix” another person’s pain. Throughout this toolkit we will explore our professional role in alleviating student, colleague and other’s distress while maintaining our well-being, in other words, we will focus on growing our compassion resilience.
This video from Wide Angle tells the story of two identical twins, …
This video from Wide Angle tells the story of two identical twins, one of whom was classified as white and the other as black, highlighting the difficulty in defining race in Brazilian society.
This online textbook addresses the population of individuals with disabilities that experience …
This online textbook addresses the population of individuals with disabilities that experience complex lifelong needs across multiple areas in their lives. Drs. Sennott and Loman drafted this book (along with the help from some friends) with the hope of providing pertinent, practical, and current resources to future special educators who plan to serve individuals with complex disabilities.
Accuracy of measurement in navigation depends very much on the situation. If …
Accuracy of measurement in navigation depends very much on the situation. If a sailor's target is an island 200 km wide, sailing off center by 10 or 20 km is not a major problem. But, if the island were only 1 km wide, it would be missed if off just the smallest bit. Many of the measurements made while navigating involve angles, and a small error in the angle can translate to a much larger error in position when traveling long distances.
This free ESL lesson plan on computers has been designed for adults …
This free ESL lesson plan on computers has been designed for adults and young adults at an intermediate (B1/B2) to advanced (C1/C2) level and should last around 45 to 60 minutes for one student.
Covers computational and data analysis techniques for environmental engineering applications. First third …
Covers computational and data analysis techniques for environmental engineering applications. First third of subject introduces MATLAB and numerical modeling. Second third emphasizes probabilistic concepts used in data analysis. Final third provides experience with statistical methods for analyzing field and laboratory data. Numerical techniques such as Monte Carlo simulation are used to illustrate the effects of variability and sampling. Concepts are illustrated with environmental examples and data sets. This subject is a computer-oriented introduction to probability and data analysis. It is designed to give students the knowledge and practical experience they need to interpret lab and field data. Basic probability concepts are introduced at the outset because they provide a systematic way to describe uncertainty. They form the basis for the analysis of quantitative data in science and engineering. The MATLABĺ¨ programming language is used to perform virtual experiments and to analyze real-world data sets, many downloaded from the web. Programming applications include display and assessment of data sets, investigation of hypotheses, and identification of possible casual relationships between variables. This is the first semester that two courses, Computing and Data Analysis for Environmental Applications (1.017) and Uncertainty in Engineering (1.010), are being jointly offered and taught as a single course.
These materials document the philosophy and activities of the Concerned White Citizens …
These materials document the philosophy and activities of the Concerned White Citizens of Alabama, who fought for racial equality and voting rights for African Americans; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
Purpose:This tool helps leaders guide teams in evaluating the conditions for continuous …
Purpose:This tool helps leaders guide teams in evaluating the conditions for continuous improvement in their school.Description:As a tool to determine readiness for improvement, this resource is designed to guide leaders in assessing four organizational conditions needed to support continuous improvement. The tool guides leaders through four conditions with indicators that stimulate questions, evidence reflection and coaching tools that might be used to prompt each condition.
Congress is made up of a group of people who work together …
Congress is made up of a group of people who work together to improve the quality of lives of citizens throughout the nation. Long ago Congress decided that it was important to pass labor laws to protect children. Students will answer the question why child labor was a problem? They will explore this question by investigating a series of photographs of children working in fish factories long ago. In addition, In this episode, students will engage in careful observation to identify objects and note details (See), generate and test hypotheses based on evidence they have collected (Think), and reflect on their learning by applying it to related questions (Wonder).
Classrooms consist of diverse populations, which include students with disabilities and students …
Classrooms consist of diverse populations, which include students with disabilities and students from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds. It is important that we maximize learning opportunities by providing multiple and flexible methods of instruction and strategies that correspond to specific learning needs.
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