Continuity of Learning During COVID-19 Resource Database

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Many educational materials are not purchased, but created by educators and staff as they are needed. This resource focuses on five practices for getting started with the creation of accessible documents and slide decks that can be shared with families to support continuity of learning for all students, including those who use assistive technologies to interact with educational materials.

Tags: Educators | School Administrators | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Education Technology

The shift to remote and hybrid learning have highlighted the importance of accessibility as a way to ensure educational equity for all learners. This resource focuses on concrete steps educators and administrators can take to ensure the technology they are purchasing meets accessibility requirements.

Tags: Educators | School Administrators | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Education Technology

State, district, or other MTSS/PBIS leadership teams can download and use this action planning template to (1) confirm and re-establish commitment, (2) consider capacity and resource allocation, (3) invest in supporting structures, and (4) promote competency development.

Tags: Educators | Local/District Agencies | School Administrators | State/Regional Agencies | Technical Assistance Product | Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

Brief guidance provided on key questions to consider when planning purposeful adaptations to evidence based practices for new contexts such as online learning or blended learning environments.

Tags: Educators | Local/District Agencies | School Administrators | State/Regional Agencies | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Inclusive Practices

This guide is designed primarily for use by district teams seeking to reduce racial and ethnic disproportionality in school discipline, regardless of whether they are implementing SWPBIS. It provides examples of content that could be included in board policies or district administrative rules and regulations. School teams may also use this guide in developing school- specific policies and procedures. This guide is not intended to replace legal counsel for policies required by local, state, and federal legislation.

Tags: Educators | Local/District Agencies | School Administrators | Technical Assistance Product | Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline | COVID-19 | Equity and Disproportionality

This guide highlights 5 key practices for teachers and families to support all students, including students with disabilities, at school and home. For each practice, the guide provides (a) tips for teachers to support students with disabilities during instruction; (b) tips for families that educators can share to support or enhance learning at home, especially during periods of remote instruction; and (c) free-access resources that include strategies shown to be effective by research (e.g., informational guides, downloadable materials, research-based programs).

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

Families and caregivers should consider using positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) in their homes on a daily basis. It is especially helpful when events disrupt normal routines – events like worldwide health pandemics. This practice brief provides recommendations for families and caregivers on how to use PBIS to continue to support their students’ social and emotional growth and minimize behavioral disruptions in the home.

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

This brief provides considerations and suggestions for adapting Check-in Check-out (CICO), an evidence-based Tier 2 school intervention, for situations where students are learning from home.

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

This brief adapts the suggestions and strategies provided in Improving Attendance and Reducing Chronic Absenteeism to guide practice during remote instruction.

Tags: Educators | Local/District Agencies | Parent/Families | School Administrators | Technical Assistance Product | Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

This resource focuses on how to use inclusive practices in online environments and highlights how the best practices for including special populations are also the best practices for all students. There are also considerations for teachers around planning inclusive online learning.

Tags: Educators | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Inclusive Practices

Communication is necessary whether students are schooling at home or in school. This resource describes what teachers can do to support students who are using Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) even when they are not in the same location as the student.

Tags: Educators | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Inclusive Practices

Even during distance learning, children’s independence can be improved. This resource discusses how parents can support their child’s time-management skills to improve their child’s independence and help parents find time to meet their own needs.

Tags: Parent/Families | Website | Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

Even during distance learning, children’s independence can be improved. This resource discusses how self-determined schedule making can be used to increase a child’s independence.

Tags: Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

This resource offers ideas to support teachers as they set norms and build routines in an online learning environment during the first days of school.

Tags: Educators | Technical Assistance Product | Positive Supports for Behavior and Discipline | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

Families may start to feel “stuck” during distance learning. This resource offers strategies and tools to help families and students get “unstuck” when frustrated with distance learning.

Tags: Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Inclusive Practices