Continuity of Learning During COVID-19 Resource Database

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This Voices From the Field piece includes a discussion with Amy Campbell who has been working with students who experience moderate to profound impact from expressive and receptive communication barriers as well as other disabilities or conditions (e.g., Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism) as a special education teacher for the past 12 years in the Camas School District in southwest Washington state. In the piece she highlights how she has adapted her instruction to support students during Spring 2020.

Tags: Educators | Webinar | Cognitive Disabilities | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

Grade level standards-based curriculum can be taught through authentic learning activities at home. This resource shows teachers and parents how to collaborate to support a child’s progress on his or her individualized goals at home.

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | Cognitive Disabilities | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

This resource discusses how schools can plan for transitioning students with significant cognitive disabilities back into their schools after distance learning. The resource focuses on relationships, communication, and data.

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | Cognitive Disabilities | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning

How do we provide instruction at school, at home during distance learning and, if needed, pivot between the two environments for students with significant cognitive disabilities? The TIES Center's 5C Process and Learning Matrices focuses on meaningful learning for students in inclusive environments and helps to make transitioning between instruction at school and at home during distance learning straightforward and easier for both schools and families.

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

This overview is intended to communicate a framework for supporting all students (including those with significant cognitive disabilities) to actively engage with classmates, learn grade-level general education curriculum, and learn other essential skills.

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | School Administrators | Technical Assistance Product | Cognitive Disabilities | COVID-19 | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

The U.S. Department of Education released a new resource to provide information and resources to enhance the promotion of mental health and the social and emotional well-being among children and students. This resource highlights seven key challenges to providing school- or program-based mental health support across early childhood, K–12 schools, and higher education settings, and presents seven corresponding recommendations. This resource includes many real-world examples of how the recommendations are being put into action by schools, communities, and states across the country.

Tags: Educators | Health/Related Services Providers | Local/District Agencies | Parent/Families | School Administrators | State/Regional Agencies | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

Rebuilding the Pyramid: Reconnecting After a Break is a one page tip sheet to help preschool practitioners intentionally plan and think about how to support children’s use of social and emotional skills that are important to re-teach or remind children after being away from a classroom.

Tags: Educators | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Early Childhood | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

This tipsheet includes suggestions and resources to help you take care of yourself so you can support your child.

Tags: Educators | Health/Related Services Providers | Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

Helping your child during the pandemic provides families with a few strategies to help their child cope during the pandemic. Programs and professionals are encouraged to post this resource on their web sites or share through social media.

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

Use this visual choice board to help young children select and use a classroom greeting while maintaining social distancing.

Tags: Educators | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Early Childhood | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

Tips for helping your child during the pandemic provides families with suggestions and resources for helping their child cope with stress, changes, and staying at home.

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | School Administrators | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Distance and Remote Learning | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

Programs can use this form to gather information from families as to the impact from the pandemic and best ways to support the child and family.

Tags: Educators | Health/Related Services Providers | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Family and Community Engagement | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

This document is designed to guide the Program Leadership Team around considerations for supporting children, families, and staff as they return to the program. The guidance includes Pyramid Model practices you know and encourages you to think about those strategies from a trauma-informed perspective.

Tags: Educators | School Administrators | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Family and Community Engagement | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

Here are tips and ideas for helping children identify emotions when your face, your most expressive feature, is covered by a mask. Use these strategies to let children know that behind the mask, a kind and warm expression is still there!

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Early Childhood | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports

This scripted story helps to explain to children the how, why, and when of wearing face masks.

Tags: Educators | Parent/Families | Technical Assistance Product | COVID-19 | Early Childhood | Mental Health and Social & Emotional Supports