• IU1 Return to School Task Force Website

• Pennsylvania School Reopening Task Force Report from P Groups

• District Induction Days 1 and 2 will be moved online.   All district induction courses will be offered online only!   More information as well as the online schedule will be released soon.    

• As noted in PDE’s Phased Reopening of Pre-K to 12 Schools preliminary guidance distributed on Wednesday, a Health and Safety Plan template is now available for use in crafting and documenting your LEA’s reopening plan.  Any questions regarding school reopening or Health and Safety Plans can be emailed to RA-EDContinuityofEd@pa.gov.

• Join us virtually for the 2020 IU1 Summer Institute: Quality Online Learning on July 28 and July 29!  To view the offerings and to register, please click here.   Also, please share this link and information with your staff!

• IU1 and the Fab Foundation are excited to offer a 90-minute PancakeBot workshop on June 10 from 11:00am-12:30pm EST.  This free workshop will address unboxing and parts checking; gantry assembly; software download and install; pancakebot design; and bot operation troubleshooting.  See below for additional details and click here to register!  (Please share this registration link with the teachers who will be using your PancakeBot during the next school year!)  Please contact Matt Weightman, matthew.weightman@iu1.org, if you have any questions.  We hope to see you all on June 10!  

• Online Snapshots - Also, as instruction continues through a variety of virtual learning platforms, the Department would like to remind LEAs/schools that it is important to safeguard personally identifiable student information, including photos and video, as required by local district media policies and protections provided under FERPAOpens In A New Window. Be aware that taking screenshots of students is the equivalent of taking photos and all of the same local practices for photographic images that ensure student privacy should be followed. 

• Quarantine Gap Analysis Resources - Math, ELA, and Science

• Virtual College Visits

• PreK recommendations

• Graduation Ceremonies update

• Closed Schools (retrieving personal belongings) 

• May 11, 2020 - Senate Education Committee Hearing with Pedro Rivera

• IU1 Summer Institute - July 28 and 29, 2020

  • • Registration in Frontline at the end of May 

• Research-Based Instructional Models

  • • TPACK model - is a useful model for educators as they begin to use digital tools and strategies to support teaching and learning.  This model, developed by educational researchers Mishra and Kohler (2006),  is designed around the idea that content (what you teach) and pedagogy (how you teach) must be the basis for any technology that you plan to use in your classroom to enhance learning. 

    • 5E Model - active learning model

    • OREO Online Learning Model - 

• Loom - Communication Tool

• Stanford Graduate School for Educators - resources for parents and teachers 

• K-12 Online Resources in OER (Open Educational Resources) Commons 

• Transition in SWPA Website - https://sites.google.com/view/tcswpa/home 

• Fusion Flex Program for 2020-2021

• • Recorded Session: https://paiu.zoom.us/rec/share/yeIsFO_s8SBIabPV0GTNBI4KRLTLT6a81nUe-aEJzkqBFcUsvvkiHb2rQsfZJuCz     Password: 9G^5D=f3  

• PDE's national partner, Dr. Paul Gorski, has just released FREE online training modules.  PDE highly recommends taking advantage of this opportunity, as well as consider sharing widely.   https://equity-literacy.thinkific.com/

  • • Understanding Equity and Inequity (or; What the Heck(uity) is Equity?) – 20 lessons

    • Learning to be a Threat to Inequity: An Introduction to the Equity Literacy Framework – 18 lessons

•  EColors PD - April 30 - May 21, 2020; first three modules are FREE!

• EdCorp Applications for 2020-2021  

• Mark Your Mark Student Contest!  For more information including prizes, rubric, and submission form, on the Make Your Mark: Create for Good Challenge visit: https://sites.google.com/iu1.org/make-your-mark-create-for-good/home 

• Resources for Engaging Parents 

  • • Talking Points - This resource enables teachers, administrators, and support staff to type a message to parents that is sent as a text message in their native language.  This is a great resource for English Learners.

    • Teaching Tolerance - Advocate for students and families during this crisis by using this resource to evaluate your district’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and offer recommendations for changes.

    • PBIS World – This supports a 3-tiered model for intervention and offers ideas for parents.  

• Below are a few resources that can be used as a roadmap to reopen schools and provides essential actions to help you plan and implement a safe, efficient and equitable return to school (whenever that may be).

  • • https://returntoschoolroadmap.org/

    • https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/842528906/what-it-might-look-like-to-safely-reopen-schools

    • How to Reopen Schools: A 10-Point Plan Putting Equity at the Center (Brooklyn Lab's Eric Tucker)

    • Considerations for Reopening Schools (McKinsey)-This one follows the article from McKinsey & Company. 

    • Restoring Hope and Seizing Opportunity in the Face of Crisis: https://knowledgeworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/restoring-hope-in-crisis-Covid19.pdf

    • Here is a link to a set of guidelines from the San Diego Office of Education: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2020-04-21/county-official-the-pandemic-will-change-public-education-for-decades-to-come

Jo Beth McKee

David Dunham

Content Gap Spreadsheets, coming soon!

These sheets are designed to help teachers determine where there may be gaps in content for the students, for the upcoming year.

This will allow you access to the drop-down menus, under each standard.

• • "Taught before quarantine" - Students should be proficient here, but still pre-assess.

  • "Taught during quarantine" - Proceed with caution; Assess the students and possibly reteach concepts.

  • "Not taught" - This is a major gap in content knowledge for the students.

Sarah D'Urzo

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