The Guides
These guides are designed to help educators understand different kinds of digital tools and services and how they can fit into your instruction. If you're not sure which tool fits which need, these guides are designed to help you make the right choice.
Planning for Effective Remote and Hybrid Learning
With the physical closure of schools and the pivot to remote and hybrid learning, educators face unplanned and unprecedented challenges in their effective use of digital tools and services in the classroom.
COVID-19 & Remote Learning: How to Make It Work
As part of their How We Go Back To School project, Education Week focuses on both technical and instructional considerations to make when planning for remote and hybrid learning.
Navigating Uncertain Times: How Schools Can Cope With Coronavirus
This rich guide from EdSurge and ISTE provides helpful blog posts, podcasts, and webinars covering practical challenges of learning and teaching online.
How to Plan Online Lessons With Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Universal Design for Learning is a framework for designing instruction to reduce barriers to learning. This helpful overview from Understood.org provides practical considerations and a wealth of related guides and resources.
Social and Emotional Health and Learning
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is not a new concept, but the pandemic requires educators to teach and design instruction with SEL in mind.
Washington State Social and Emotional Learning Resources
This official site provides information about the SEL standards and other resources.
Teaching Social-Emotional Skills Amid COVID-19
This Education Week guide focuses on SEL and the pandemic with simple guidelines for educators. Additional links provide 'deep dives' and detailed guides.
Copyright, Fair Use, and Educational Resources
When using digital content in the classroom, both students and educators need to know if, how, and when they can use resources created by others.
Educators Guide to Creativity and Copyright
Creativity and copyright can be confusing and overwhelming. This no-nonsense resource explains what educators need to know about their (and students) use of any materials in the classroom setting. Includes a printable pdf, a useful quick guide infographic, and additional resources for more information.
Student Safety and Privacy
The use of digital tools with students requires both common sense and legal considerations, particularly with younger learners. In addition to federal and state laws, local school district policies and practices need to be taken into account, particularly when using online services and resources that require students to register or provide identifiable data or information.
Educators Guide to Student Data Privacy
Like their guide to creativity and copyright, this resource from ConnectSafely.org provides an accessible FAQ about how, why, and when student privacy considerations must be made when using digital tools and online services in the classroom.
Common Sense Education Educational Technology Reviews
Common Sense Education provides independent reviews and guidance in the use of digital learning tools. When available, the Common Sense Education review is included with tools included in the TeachKit resource.
Educational Technology Standards
In 2018, the Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction adopted updated educational technology standards based on national ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Standards for Students. These are designed to complement existing grade level and content area standards.
Washington State Educational Technology Standards
This official site provides detailed information about the standards including grade level guides with connections to other student learning standards.
This simple overview provides a quick snapshot of the seven standards with links to videos and additional resources.