Teaching in this new Pandemic Environment:
The Stress Mess (and how to clean it up!) Join Dr. Kate LD for a discovery session about how to help your body & mind during times of stress...for kids AND adults!
The Stress Mess (and how to clean it up!) Part 2 Join Dr. Kate LD for a discovery session about how to help boost your immune system during times of stress...for kids AND adults!
It's OKay The Pep Talk All Teachers Need to Hear Right Now (MAY, 2020)
COVID-19: Help Kids Navigate the Terrain
Music Specific:
NAMM foundation has great recorded webinars: Bridging the Gap: Teaching and Learning Music Online, Music Making Online: How To's for Private and Group Lessons and Music Making Online: How To's for Ensembles
Online Teaching In General:
10 Best Practices for Teaching Online Designing for Learning provides great advice for the teaching on any subject in an online format that is applicable to all disciplines. It also has a great reference list for scholarly articles on the subject of online learning (2006)
How To Be a Better Online Teacher This advice guide by Flower Darby appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Lengthy but helpful advice for teaching in online environments for all disciplines. (2017)
Safety & Sanitation:
Interim Guidance for Administrators of US K-12 Schools and Child Care Programs Use the Center for Disease Control (CDC) site for updated guidance on schools re-opening and maintaining best practices.
How to Santize Cloth Masks at Home Good Housekeeping offers easy to follow instructions on sanitizing cloth masks. Important for you and also a resource to share with students. (APRIL 2020)
Pre-Covid Instructions on How to Clean a Marley Dance Floor offered from Stagestep. Refer to pont #6 for disinfection.
Biologist featured on CNN in this interview discusses concerns with activities like singing and other heavy breathing or loud talking when it comes to the potential spread of COVID-19. (MAY 2020)
World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Guidance Visit this site for WHO guidance and publications including downloadable information on disinfecting, social measures, and more updated regularly. (MAY 2020)
Re-opening Schools
How schools around the world are reopening during the coronavirus pandemic This May 17, 2020 appeared on ABC discussing how some schools around the world are approaching reopening and things to consider at states begin to negotiate the path forward in the U.S. (MAY 2020)
9 Ways Schools Will Look Different When (And If) They Reopen This NPR produced report by Anya Kemenetz was first on All Things Considered and projects how schools may look different come fall. (APRIL 2020)
Under pressure to reopen this fall, school leaders plot unprecedented changes This article by Laura Meckley, Valerie Strauss, and Moriah Balingit appeared in the Washington Post and features discussion from several states about the plight of schools reopening. (APRIL 2020)