Coaching Remotely
Coaching In Crisis Volume 2
Educational Collaboration in Crisis
A great way to collaborate with your colleagues and share ideas is to find and join online groups. The following two groups have been highly recommended and are posted on Facebook.
Educator Temporary School Closure for Online Learning: This group, open only to educators, was created to support educators who are planning remote or online learning due to school closures for COV19.
Dealing with Educational Inequities in Remote/Online Learning: This group was created in response to the growing list of resources and practices during the COVID-19 shutdown that further increase the educational divide as it relates to accessibility; race; socio-economic status; gender; and other marginalized communities. We want to demonstrate real solutions in remote learning that can provide solutions for all learners.
As a friendly reminder, please check the Remote Media Center on your school's website for a wealth of resources.
Childhood Toxic Stress
NCDPI ELA Collection of Free Texts
Access thousands of free e-books, poems, articles, short stories, and plays. The site includes a large reference and nonfiction section as well as several detailed study guides for texts of classic literature, drama, and poetry.
NCDPI Remote Learning Math Resources
NCDPI has provided a collection of interactive, standards-based tools, resources, and apps for grades K-12 mathematics and beyond. These resources focus on topics where doing, seeing, and listening provide information and encourage insights that conventional methods cannot. Built in accordance with how students learn, the engaging content can be differentiated to meet varied needs. Also, these resources provide learner-centered activities with measurable outcomes and targets higher-order thinking skills
Apps for Special Needs Students
One of the main concerns for both teachers and parents is keeping students on track to reach their individualized education plan (IEP) goals and objectives as they are tailored for each student. Teachers must also work much more closely now with parents/caregivers to support this learning at home. In some cases, students are accustomed to having aides, in addition to teachers, in the classroom. It is a lot of responsibility for caregivers to bear, but luckily some of the digital tools now available can really help.
My PlayHome is a free app that gives kids a digital doll family of up to 15 people in various skin tones with whom they can explore, play, and share stories with other people. These shared stories help to increase student verbalizations, provide a place for social and emotional learning, and teach necessary early language skills.
SoundingBoard is a free mobile augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app designed for children who are unable to speak (or who have limited speech) to help them communicate. In order to meet the needs of this particular population, the app comes with preloaded boards using symbols with recorded messages. Students select and press images on the board to prompt a verbal message.
LetterSchool promotes early literacy and numeracy skills by guiding children to tap, touch, and trace colorful animations. Children learn letter formation, letter sounds and names, spelling, counting, and other preschool and primary skills. This app, which offers a free trial, also does an excellent job of developing fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.
Tales2Go, an audiobook service that offers a free one-month trial, helps students who struggle to read while boosting their listening skills. This app has an extensive collection of stories and books for all ages, with scores of splendid narrators who bring stories from every genre to life.
Epic! is an e-library that is great for supporting reluctant or struggling readers. It provides access to more than 20,000 high-quality children’s books and educational videos and includes an assortment of both fiction and nonfiction books from prominent publishers. Epic is offering free access to schools during this time.
Instructional Coaches #remotecoaching
catherine.foxworth@robeson.k12.nc.us
Marilyn Sweat-Locklear
marilyn.sweat-lockle@robeson.k12.nc.us
Website: www.robeson.k12.nc.us
Location: Public Schools of Robeson County, Kahn Drive, Lumberton, NC, USA
Phone: 910-671-6000