Parents: Supporting Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic offers practical tools and easy-to-implement tips to help children learn at home during the school shutdowns caused by COVID-19. Created specifically with parents in mind, this module covers strategies to help parents get children ready to learn; support reading and mathematics instruction; promote children's social and emotional wellbeing, and help struggling learners and students with disabilities.
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Living Well With Autism is an online resource that provides parents and caregivers with ideas, and free or inexpensive resources for living well with autism. Here, you will find social stories, visual helpers, tips, and recommended resources.
This website includes daily schedules, quizzes, and other tools and resources to prepare students and families for remote and virtual learning. Experts are also available for office hours to answer questions through virtual mediums.
This website includes books and games tailored to engage and enrich the learning of younger children. (ages 2-7)
A free online resource that provides ways for kids and families to move and learn together. The fun videos can help students at home stay active, focused, and calm while infusing good energy in their remote learning environment.
Education Modified: Provides two research-based strategy bundles for families of special populations students (or all students) that contain strategies and activities parents can use at home to complete schoolwork or provide enrichment learning activities for their children.
This article from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) describes specific considerations and strategies for parents when supporting their students with disabilities in beginning online instruction.
Do2learn provides thousands of free pages with social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment and life skills.
The Learning Lab provides teachers access to millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian's museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more. Collections include lessons, activities, and recommended resources made by Smithsonian museum educators and classroom teachers and are supported by trainings, office hours, and models of best practice.
This website provides comprehensive, content-rich learning materials based on the Core Knowledge Sequence. Student readers, teacher guides, activity books, and other materials are available for Language Arts and History and Geography. Materials for Science, Music, and Visual Arts are in development.
Code.org offers supports for teachers currently teaching these computer science courses and provides resources to help students learn from home.
Bookshare is a leading provider of print materials for students with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers, these pages provide resources to continue learning remotely.
Presents math word problems geared toward children from preschool to late elementary school. A new vignette with built-in math problem is posted daily, with a full archive of problems.
A product of the OSEP-funded DIAGRAM Center and WGBH, this page includes videos with captions and descriptions and games that are keyboard navigable. All videos are captioned in Spanish.
This report from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)’s professional learning networks identifies key practices for successful online learning.