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The new leverage briefs are the culmination of OSEP’s Attract, Prepare, Retain: Effective Personnel for All Initiative and highlight 13 leverage points covering strategies recognized by various stakeholders as essential to addressing critical shortages in the special education workforce.
This website features resources including videos and documents topics from on science, nature, history and more.
This website outlines how to create positive and productive environments in our homes while so many schools are closed.
This article includes five modules that show ways of making online learning more accessible so that everyone has a fair opportunity to learn.
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.
This website includes books and games tailored to engage and enrich the learning of younger children. (ages 2-7)
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 checklist, offered in Chinese and Spanish as well as English, provides early childhood educators with practical information about integrating educational technology in their classrooms – and can be adapted for out-of-class use.
Shares what parents, caregivers, and teachers can do to provide hour-to-hour care and learning opportunities as they co-teach young children sheltering-in-place at home and provides links to additional resources.
This webpage details eight strategies for building and maintaining a community of learners in a virtual environment.
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.
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.
Provides tips and resources in response to the top eight questions you should consider before facilitating online learning.
This report from Hanover Research outlines best practice approaches in the development and implementation of high quality online and hybrid courses for K-12 students. It includes four profiles of exemplary district-level online and hybrid programs and details the elements of the online learning options offered to secondary students.
This document from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) lays out steps for preparing and executing an online course that can meet the needs of students with disabilities.