Quick tips are bite-sized videos designed to give you strategies that you can start using today
Digital Learning & STEM
Thinking Routines
Thinking routines are simple structures, designed to help our students think deeply. It can be used with anyone, anywhere.
Innovation and Learner Engagement & Tech Services
Chromebook Errors
Have a locked Chromebook? Check out this video to learn how to unlock those Chromebooks and get your students back to learning.
Help Desk Phone Line
The Department of Innovation and Learner Engagement and Department of Research Assessment and Evaluation recently changed how you receive phone support.
How to Open a Tech Services Work Order
Get help with technology by opening a Technology Services Work Order.
Instructional Technology
Accelerated Reader Single Sign On
Login changes are coming to Accelerated Reader to make it easier for you and your students.
Immersive Reader
Immersive reader is a tool that can help struggling learners improve their reading and writing.
Check out Originality Reports in Google Classroom to check documents quickly for plagiarism.
Push Changes in Kami to Google Classroom
Push changes in Kami allows teachers to make edits to a Kami document after they’ve assigned it in Google Classroom.
Paper (Student Facing)
RUSD offers free, online tutoring, 24/7 to 7-12th grade students.
Phishing Awareness & Prevention
Explore strategies to protect your own, and RUSD’s sensitive data.
Knowledge Base
This is Knowledge Base, RUSD’s all-in-one solution for digital training materials.
Interpreting & Translation Services
The Difference Between Interpreters & Translators
Knowing which to request will save you time and stress.
Language and Literacy
Cognates Part 1
The connection between English and Spanish vocabulary, and how the relationship builds word recognition and vocabulary skills.
Cognates Part 2
Explore the connection between English and Spanish vocabulary.
Cognates Part 3
The final video in the Cognate Series.
Phoneme Graphing Mapping
1-6 grade teachers who's students are struggling with letter sound correspondence, try this orthographic mapping strategy - Tap it. Map it. Graph it.
Fluency
In this Quick Tip, we will explore the reading strategy of fluency as we move from decoding to automaticity.
Close Reading
Use these strategies to help your students with understanding text!
Secondary Math
Secondary Math Essential Standards
Essential standards provide focus for secondary math instructors to dig deep in order to ensure competency.
Social Emotional Learning
Introduction to Social Emotional Learning
SEL strategies and resources for the Riverside Unified School District.
Social Emotional Learning: Greetings at the Door
Positive Greetings at the Door fits in the relationship skills aspect of SEL.
Social Emotional Learning: Check-in Questions
2 students + 10 mins a day = significant improvements in individual student behavior and classroom climate.
Social Emotional Learning: Check-in Questions
Quick strategies you can use to build positive relationships with your students
Instructional Videos
Full Class Phonics
Students continue to struggle with basic phonics acquisition due to the confusing alphabetic system that is English. Due to the unusual learning conditions of the last few years, we have students in seats who have more and more gaps in their encoding (spelling) and decoding (reading) skills.
In direct response to this need, the Language & Literacy Team offers these Foundational Focus Facilitated learning opportunities to build capacity with teachers to deliver full-class foundational skills. The first of this series is Full Class Phonics.