Weekly Update
Wayne Township LAP 5/15/2020
Latest COVID 19 Information for Indiana Schools
The Indiana Department of Education's COVID-19 webpage offers a variety of resources, including links to the FAQ document and Dr. McCormick’s Weekly Webinar for School Leaders. The next webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 19 at 10:00 am.
The IDOE EL team has collected quality resources for ELs during COVID-19 school closures here. It includes resources for connecting with families and for teaching English Learners online.
COVID 19 Resources from WIDA
Mental Health Awareness in May
Project AWARE can be a valuable resource to help maintain and support mental health for students.
Surveys for Families and Staff
IDOE is partnering with Panorama Education to provide schools with the opportunity to collect valuable data when planning for the 2020-2021 school year. The two free resources available to all districts can be found in this memo.
IDOE is also pursuing a competitive federal education grant that would bring millions to Indiana to better support technology readiness and online course access. IDOE requests that traditional public schools, charters, and nonpublic schools complete this optional survey by June 1, 2020, to provide further data needed to make the argument for this additional support. The survey can be found here.
Resources from CIESC
The Central Indiana Educational Service Center launched Keep Indiana Learning, a website to share resources and best practices for online and continuous learning activities for schools looking to create or refine continuous learning plans.
Professional Development on Creating Digital Courses
IDOE will provide a two-day (mix of synchronous and asynchronous) training session on June 17 and 18 to assist teachers in developing virtual courses within learning management systems. Participants will focus on building the necessary skill set and knowledge base required for digital course curation and will begin building a course. Click here to register.
Resources to Support Summer Learning
MetaMetrics partnership with the State of Indiana allows teachers to register for their Lexile/Quantile Tool Hub with an Indiana school email address. The hub provides teachers with access to free resources such as lesson plans and vocabulary lists.
Parents and students have acessss to the Lexile® Find a Book tool and the Quantile® Summer Math Challenge. The Lexile® Find a Book tool helps students create a personalized reading list and then locate those books at the nearest library or bookseller. The Quantile® Summer Math Challenge is a six-week course for students in grades one through eight. For more information, visit MetaMetrics’ Summer Learning website.
Restarting School
Many schools are creating a plan to accelerate student learning back to grade level whenever they reopen. The guide available to download here from The New Teacher Project offers advice for assembling the people, information, and processes to help schools prepare their plan to reopen.