K-5 Plan for Digital Ed

Exploratory Year 2021-2022

Purpose: What problem is this plan trying to solve?

One of the many lessons we learned during the COVID-19 Pandemic is the importance of digital skills in our everyday lives. Through daily practice at school, we will build students' digital literacy skills to support them for their next steps in their education, careers, and life. Everything we do with students digitally will support students to set, monitor, achieve, and reflect on their learning goals.

Guidelines: Have we made agreements as a district around digital education in K-5 classrooms?

Daily Digital Practice in Every Classroom

At a minimum, teachers should:

Use Google Classroom as the home base for communicating about assignments with students and families.
Integrate the teaching of basic digital skills into core instruction.
Develop classroom routines so students can fluently use online curricular tools for the grade level.
Assess students using digital platforms when possible.

Clarifications RE: K-5 Digital Education Plan & Quarantine Learning Situations

Examples: How could educators use Google Classroom?

The three examples shown below demonstrate some of the ways K-5 teachers might use Google Classroom to communicate with students and families. The examples range from basic use to full integration to support the varied needs of teachers and students.

Communicate Basic Instructions in the Stream

This strategy may be most helpful for K-1 teachers, or while Grades 2-5 staff are learning to navigate and integrate Google Classroom with their students.

How-To Video for Students:

Find Clever & Clever Apps (English)
Spanish version

Week-at-a-Glance for Seesaw

Post Your Schedule in the Stream

This strategy may be most helpful for teachers in Grades 1-5 who plan to rely mainly on ConnectED, Dreambox, and Seesaw.

It will also be helpful for all staff as they are teaching students the expectations and procedures for their online classroom.

Teachers may use the templates provided below, or create their own template in Google Slides, Docs, or Bitmoji Classroom PDFs, for example.

Schedule Templates:

Use the Classwork Tab to Assign Activities & Resources

This strategy is the goal we're working toward for students in grades 2-5. Developing fluency with Google Workspace Applications is critical to preparing students for middle school.

Assignments shared through the Classwork tab give teachers more opportunity to track students progress and provide feedback, especially for Bridges Math, Science Kits, and Social Studies lessons.

While students and teachers are working to learn Google Classroom routines, teachers should continue to post instructions in the Stream to make sure students and families learning from home are able to find their way to the Classwork tab.

Digital Week at a Glance Template

This is an optional template that staff might use to organize the week's digital activities for their class.

In class, teachers might use this tool to preview the week and help students track their progress toward their learning goals, or as a menu students can choose from during independent work time, small groups, or intervention.
At home, students and parents could use it to see the big picture of their assignments and a guide to know which pieces to complete first, as well as monitor what may have already been completed in class.

Here are a few more things to note:

Yellow Highlighted Text = replace with information specific to your class or delete as needed.
ConnectED Activities: Weekly resources are automatically visible to students in ConnectED. There is no need to assign activities through the To Do List, unless you prefer to do so. Click here to learn more about ConnectED.
Bridges Activities: to select digital activities available from Bridges, see this page.

Digital Week at a Glance - Template for K-5 Classrooms

Week-at-a-Glance - Seesaw Version

This Weeks ActivitiesListen to goals and instructions on each page. Complete the activities and mark them each day. Save as a :draft: Click the :check: at the end of the week to turn it in.

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