Teacher Resources
Learning Snapshots
Learning Snapshot: PBIS Basics in a Remote Learning Environment
In this webinar recording, participants will learn about why they should develop remote instruction teaching matrices, steps for developing a remote instruction teaching matrix as well as other helpful tips to help set their students up for digital success.
Theme: Helping Others Transition to a Remote Environment
Audience: For use by teachers for students of all ages.
Presentation: PBIS Basics in a Remote Learning Environment (voice-over), PBIS Basics in a Remote Learning Environment (slides)
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Learning Snapshot: Supporting Mental Health Needs of our Students: An Integrated Approach
In this session, participants will walk you through the process and practical tools that our JCISD Whole Child Team is recommending to support the mental health needs of students utilizing an integrated approach.
Theme: Taking a Holistic Approach to Addressing Student Mental Health
Audience: For use by administrators and teachers for students of all ages.
Presentation: Supporting Mental Health Needs of Our Students: An Integrated Approach (Webinar), Supporting Mental Health Needs of our Students: An Integrated Approach (slides)
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Learning Snapshot: Building Relationships and Classroom Culture in a Blended Environment
In this webinar recording, participants will capture strategies and tools to help check in on your students, give them tools to help them get ready to learn and walk through a variety of strategies to help you develop a positive classroom culture that could easily be implemented into your virtual classroom as well as in your physical classroom.
Theme: Building Relationships: Making and Sustaining a Connection
Audience: For use by administrators and teachers for students of all ages.
Presentation: Building Relationships and Classroom Culture in a Blended Environment (voice-over), Building Relationships and Classroom Culture in a Blended Environment (slides)
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Learning Snapshot: Essential Instructional Practices for Remote Learning
This Learning Snapshot provides a framework to guide teachers in transitioning common classroom instructional practices to an online environment. Participants will learn examples of several essential Ed Tech instructional practices.
Theme: Helping Others Transition to a Remote Environment
Audience: For use by teachers for students of all ages.
Presentation: Essential Instructional Practices for Remote Learning (voice-over), Essential Instructional Practices for Remote Learning (slides)
Additional materials: Visual Summary and Discussion Questions
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Learning Snapshot: Identifying Signs and Symptoms of Mental Health Needs in Students
This resource is intended for teachers to use to help them in the early identification of students with mental health concerns. It includes an overview of the signs and symptoms a student may show when struggling with mental health issues, resources teachers can use to help them talk with students about COVID-19, risk factors for intense reactions in stressful situations, things you can do to support those students and how to connect them to the appropriate resources.
Theme: Recognition of Signs and Symptoms of Mental Health Needs (ie signs of anxiety, depression)
Audience: For use by teachers for students of all ages.
Presentation: Identifying Signs and Symptoms of Mental Health Needs in Students (Voice-over), Identifying Signs and Symptoms of Mental Health Needs in Students (Slides)
Additional materials: Signs and Symptoms Flyer and Discussion Questions
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Learning Snapshot: Connecting Students to Resources
What happens once you have identified a student with a mental health need? This learning snapshot will give the tools on how to connect students with needs to resources in our community.
Theme: What to Do Next? How do I get someone help?
Audience: For use by parents and school staff for students of all ages.
Presentation: Connecting Students to Resources (voice-over), Connecting Students to Resources (slides)
Additional materials: Connecting Students Resource Flyer and Connecting Students Discussion Questions
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Learning Snapshot: Reconnecting With Your Students During Closure
This resource is intended to equip users with ideas for reconnecting with students while transitioning to distance learning. Relationships are forged through shared experiences and the “new normal” requires educators to meet these needs in creative ways. Here are a few tips to consider as you retool support for your students.
Theme: Building Relationships: Making and Sustaining a Connection
Audience: For use by teachers and administrators for students of all ages.
Presentation: Reconnecting with Students During Closure (slides)
Additional materials: Reconnecting with Students Accompanying Notes and Discussion Questions, Tips to Reframe Relationships for Distance Learning
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Learning Snapshot: Take Note: Listening to the Voice of Staff, Parents and Students
Have you gathered the voice of staff, parents and students? This snapshot will go over why you should gather their voice and some ways to do it.
Theme: Building Relationships: Making and Sustaining a Connection
Audience: For use by teachers and administrators for students of all ages.
Presentation: Listening to the Voice of Staff, Parents and Students (voice over), Listening to the Voice of Staff, Parents and Students (slides)
Additional materials: Listening to Voice Flyer, Listening to Voice Discussion Questions
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Learning Snapshot: Taking Care of Yourself During This Turbulent Time
We are all going through a uniquely stressful time with COVID-19. This resource provides tips and resources for reducing stress and taking care of ones self. Intended for teachers, these resources could easily be adapted to be shared with students and their families.
Theme: Self Care/Staff Wellness
Audience: For use by teachers and administrators, but can be adapted for students and their families.
Presentation: Taking Care of Yourself During This Turbulent Time (slides), Taking Care of Yourself During This Turbulent Time (voice-over)
Additional materials: Discussion Questions, 30 Tips for Self-Care
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Learning Snapshot: Connecting with the Hard to Reach Student
The purpose of this resource is to offer an organizational framework to your efforts communicating with students. As we transition to a remote learning environment some students will have regular access to online resources while others will need alternatives.
Theme: Building Relationships: Making and Sustaining a Connection
Audience: For use by teachers and administrators for students of all ages.
Presentation: Connecting with the Hard to Reach Student (voice-over), Connecting with the Hard to Reach Student (slides)
Additional materials: Discussion Questions , Tips to Communicate with Every Student
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Learning Snapshot: Engaging Parents in this Distance Learning Environment
Parents play a critical role in the success of a student's distance learning experience. Join Jennifer Ganzel of Jackson's Great Start Parents to learn about some of the feelings parents are expressing and practical tips for connecting with, and engaging, them in your work.
Theme: Building Relationships: Making and Sustaining a Connection
Audience: For use by teachers for students of all ages.
Presentation: Engaging Parents in this Distance Learning Environment(voice-over), Engaging Parents in this Distance Learning Environment (slides)
Additional materials: Discussion Questions , Visual Summary
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Learning Snapshot: How to Know if I'm Struggling
Educators spend a lot of time making sure that their students and coworkers are happy and healthy but it's also important that everyone takes the time to reflect upon themself. This snapshot will give you some signs and symptoms to recognize if you're struggling with anxiety or depression.
Theme: Recognition of Signs and Symptoms of Mental Health (ie signs of anxiety, depression)
Audience: For use by teachers.
Presentation: How to Know if I'm Struggling(voice-over), How to Know if I'm Struggling (slides)
Additional materials: Discussion Questions , How to Know if I'm Struggling Visual
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Learning Snapshot: Prioritize Your Body to Maximize Productivity
Participants will learn to identify activities that contribute to a balanced physical wellbeing and how healthy habits can lead to better cognitive abilities.
Theme: Self Care/Staff Wellness
Audience: For use by teachers, parents and students of all ages.
Presentation: Prioritize Your Body to Maximize Productivity (voice-over), Prioritize Your Body to Maximize Productivity (slides)
Additional materials: Discussion Questions , Visual Summary, Wellness BINGO Board, Screen Time Break Tips
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Learning Snapshot: Think Clearly to Maximize Productivity
Participants will learn how to practice mental activities that contribute to a balanced well-being.
Theme: Self Care/Wellness
Audience: For use by teachers, parents and students of all ages.
Presentation: Think Clearly to Maximize Productivity (voice-over), Think Clearly to Maximize Productivity (slides)
Additional materials: Discussion Questions , Visual Summary
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Additional Resources
A Positive Classroom Climate, Even from a Distance
Our teaching lives changed substantially as schools rapidly moved to online and distance learning formats. Many of the rituals caring educators have relied on suddenly became impossible. The warm handshake at the classroom door, the encouraging hand on the shoulder of a student who is working through a problem—these small gestures, as well as the other rituals we have embedded into our classrooms, don't all travel well.
The positive climate of the classroom and school fuels student learning. We sometimes hear the terms school culture and school climate used interchangeably. Our working definition is that the school climate comprises the rules, norms, and procedures that govern the classroom. But school climate is essentially how it feels to be part of the classroom community. It is students' perception that matters, regardless of what we say we are (or are not) doing.
In fact, whole-school efforts to positively affect school climate have promising results on student learning and achievement (Daily et al., 2020). Much of the school climate data out there focus on school connectedness—a sense of belonging and closeness with peers and adults. But how can this happen at a distance? We're learning along with you about how to foster a positive school climate from afar.
Teachers Are Anxious and Overwhelmed. They Need SEL Now More Than Ever.
In the span of just three days, over 5,000 U.S. teachers responded to the survey. We asked them to describe, in their own words, the three most frequent emotions they felt each day.
The five most-mentioned feelings among all teachers were: anxious, fearful, worried, overwhelmed and sad. Anxiety, by far, was the most frequently mentioned emotion.
The reasons educators gave for these stress-related feelings could be divided into two buckets. The first is mostly personal, including a general fear that they or someone in their family would contract COVID-19, the new coronavirus. The second pertains to their stress around managing their own and their families’ needs while simultaneously working full-time from home and adapting to new technologies for teaching.
Teachers Are Anxious and Overwhelmed. They Need SEL Now More Than Ever.
Physical Activity Resources for Distance Learning
How Positive Student-Teacher Relationships Create Resilient Learners
In her viral TED Talk “Every Kid Needs a Champion,” 40-year educator Rita Pierson, recounted a time when she heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.” When most of us think back to our time in school, our stories tend to include the teachers with whom we had real, lasting connections. Our favorite teachers often changed our outlook on learning, made class fun, and inspired us to push beyond what we thought we could do.
How do those things happen? Through positive student-teacher interactions and relationships, which are truly the gateway to learning.
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