At East Granby Public Schools, we want to create lifelong learners in our students. Furthermore, as educators, we embrace this model for ourselves. We are continually seeking ways to improve our content knowledge, deepen our understanding of good teaching and learning practices, and discover techniques to add to our repertoire that will engage students in their own learning.

Seven Steps for Districts Navigating to Remote Learning by ASCD Leadership

Steps for Sending Children Back to School and Parents Back to Work

A Blueprint for Back to School

Return to School Roadmap - Where Public Health and Public Education Meet

Pandemic Plan for Distance Learning

A New Vision for Education After the Pandemic

From The Marshall Report - A 36 page document with links to all of his findings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Grading Policies for Equity

Formative Assessments and Distance Learning

What if We Don't Return to School as Usual? - by the National Equity Project

Skipping the Screen - A virtual lesson from Hong Kong and providing students with mental health breaks

What it Means When a Child Won't Do Schoolwork An article to share with Parents and Guardians

Avoiding Racial Equity Detours

Unconscious Bias in the Classroom (Scroll down to #5)

But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Teaching Tolerance – Tolerance.org - Race & Ethnicity

“Avoiding Racial Equity Detours” - Paul Gorski, EdChange

“The Critical Work of Racial Identity Development” - Dr. Daren Graves presentation to Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE)

State Education Resource Center’s (SERC) “Equity in Education: A Transformational Approach to Teaching and Learning” The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement developed a guide -- Talking to Kids about Tragedies (Such as Shootings and Terror Attacks) in the News – which helps explain for parents and guardians the importance of discussing the event with children and helps inform parents of common questions children ask in the aftermath of tragic events. Compilation of Racial Identity Models - Racial Equity Tools

“A look at Implicit Bias and Microaggressions” – Todd Finley, Edutopia

A Talk to Teachers by James Baldwin

Association of Middle Level Instruction and Microaggressions in the Classroom – Rick Wormeli, AMLE

“How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids” - Sierra Filucci, Common Sense Media

The National Education Association (NEA) has several online resources for teachers, students and parents to help engage in a dialogue about racism, hate and violence which can be accessed and found on NEA’s website HERE.

Resources for Addressing Trauma, Violence, and Grief is a compendium produced by CSDE staff. Please consult this guide for links to additional resources.

ASCD - Various Educational Leadership Articles on Race in America's Schools

Education Week - What Teachers Should Learn from the Murder of George Floyd

Ten Essential Principles and Practices - From the Chronicle of Higher Education - some wonderful points to consider as you continue moving forward in an online learning platform.

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From the University of Central Florida - This is a GOLD MINE of resource for online teachers. Start Here MANY different ways to engage and teach online learners

Also, this from UCF related to PBL online

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Beyond the Worksheets: Project-Based Learning Adapted for Online (While you can't see the full lesson plan without a subscription, the article is helpful for sparking creative ideas.)

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Understanding PBL in the Online Classroom: https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/understanding-project-based-learning-in-the-online-classroom/

Online Project- Based Learning - Another useful article for seeing how others approach PBL online and helping you to think outside the box

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The CT Commission for Educational Technology offers a large variety of resources for remote teaching and learning

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Incorporating Social-Emotional Learning into Lessons, which is one of the important focus points in EGPS

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