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With the summer break winding down, it's time to prepare for welcoming a new school year; however, for most teachers, this year will be quite different from years past. School districts will be reopening with modified school schedules, remote learning, distance learning, or a combination with a hybrid system. Professional development has included training for digital platforms, available resources for curriculum delivery, and Universal Design for Learning Guidelines.

As a learning team, we must come up with multiple ways to interact with learning and demonstrate that learning with and for our students.

It's time to get ready, set, and go!

1. Engagement is a key: optimize individual choice and autonomy while providing that information is presented in more than one way, including text, audio, and hands-on formats. Students and families need to be able to access and learn how to use the platform chosen by the school district. This may be using Schoology, Google...

The decisions to start school with remote learning are starting to come in across the country, and many teachers are scrambling to figure out how to take their curriculum online without losing the academic rigor needed for student growth.

Here are a few key strategies from Teacher to Teacher for taking your teaching online:

1. Create meaningful relationships with students and parents.

Put together a tutorial for parents that equips them with the essential skills needed to facilitate learning at home. Make sure to include access to the learning program you will be using. Explain your classroom expectations, routines, instruction delivery, and grading policy for assignments. It is also important to teach e-safety recommendations during your tutorial.

There are a couple of ways to do this tutorial via Zoom: record yourself walking through the steps of logging on and provide a tour of your online classroom or record the tutorial with parents so that they can get answers to their...

How We Go Back to School...Pivoting Back to Remote Learning

Each day there's more news, opinions, and worries about reopening schools, and educators, parents, and students know that one way or another, school starts in the fall.

Many children experience anxiety about returning to school under normal conditions; however, with the uncertainty and health risks of Covid-19, the anxiety levels are higher and shared among students, parents, and educators. Parents juggling working from home and facilitating their student's schooling have had the opportunity to understand and show empathy for teachers. "I love my twins, but I don't want to be their teacher; I'm their mom. I just bless their teachers for spending all day with them Monday through Friday and having the patience to deal with their nonstop questions and teach them what they need to learn," Shelly said. 

What are some of the things learned from the emergency shut-downs this past spring and the turn to remote learning?

Three...