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Strategies Schools Can Use To Become More Trauma-Informed. Many teachers are working to modify their classrooms and schools to offer a more supportive environment for students who have experienced trauma in their lives.

Strategies Schools Can Use To Become More Trauma-Informed

They're taking heed of research showing that adverse childhood experiences like poverty, neglect, and exposure to violence affect children's brains and may have a negative impact on learning and behavior. How to use Zoom like a pro: 13 hidden features to try at your next meeting. The Zoom video meeting and chat app has become the wildly popular host to millions of people working and studying from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

How to use Zoom like a pro: 13 hidden features to try at your next meeting

While the video chat service's rapid growth has led to the reveal of a number of privacy and security issues, there are some ways to protect your account and your chats from Zoombombing and other privacy flaws. Whether you've been using Zoom for years or have only just signed up, there are a number of helpful and fun tips, tricks and hidden features you can find to upgrade your video chatting experience and make your video meetings a little less weird. These courses will sharpen your skills in Adobe's graphic design tools. Graphic design skills are useful for professionals and hobbyists alike.

These courses will sharpen your skills in Adobe's graphic design tools.

So whether you’re looking to boost your earning potential, or just make better use of your digital creative tools, this trio of courses in three top Adobe creative apps will give you the skills you seek. The 2020 Adobe Graphic Design Certification School covers Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. And the whole thing is available at a small fraction of the usual cost. Whether you’re into photography, digital illustration or publishing — or, more than likely, all three — these courses will give you the skills you need to kick butt with these industry-standard apps. The courses are CPD-certified and taught by expert instructors. In Photoshop, you’ll learn all aspects of the photo-editing process, from importing source files to producing publish-ready images. Students won't get through all school content while learning at home: here are 3 things to prioritise.

5 Technology Documentaries Streaming Now. Hello, NOVA fans!

5 Technology Documentaries Streaming Now

We understand that many of you may be spending more quality time at home than usual. And, as schools across the country remain closed, fostering student learning at home is a top priority. In the upcoming weeks, we’ll be sharing collections of some of our favorite NOVA films—all organized by subject to make bingeing, learning, and entertainment as easy as possible for science lovers of all ages. Have you ever wondered about the ethics of genetic engineering or considered whether autonomous vehicles will someday take over our roads? Get ready: The subject of this collection is “Technology.” TBC: Read Watch Learn. Tumblemath. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.Learn more Dismiss Menu prev next New Books Sir Cumference Books!

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How to Create Self-Grading Quizzes in Google Classroom. Google Forms is a fantastic tools for making self-grading assessment for students.

How to Create Self-Grading Quizzes in Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a wonderful way to assign and collect work from students. Wouldn't it be great to put these two great tools together? Well, just like the peanut butter and chocolate in a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, Google Forms and Google Classroom work together perfectly to make it easier than ever to create, distribute, and grade assessments in schools. When you create a quiz through Classroom, many of the needed settings in Google Forms are automatically taken care of for you, there's no need to worry about copying the correct link for the quiz, and the student grades are easily imported right into your Classroom grade book!

Seesaw Icon Shortcuts. 9 free computer science classes you can get a certificate for taking. Listen to Hundreds of Free Audiobooks, From Classics to Educational Texts. With classrooms closed due to COVID-19, millions of students across the United States are venturing into the realm of distance learning.

Listen to Hundreds of Free Audiobooks, From Classics to Educational Texts

To support these efforts, Amazon’s audiobook service, Audible, has launched an online collection of hundreds of free audiobooks primed for both education and entertainment. The website doesn’t require a log-in, sign-up or payment information. To peruse Audible’s selection of novels, poetry and fables—from classics to modern favorites—simply click “Start Listening.” “As the world grapples with new challenges, Audible’s younger listeners in particular have an immediate need,” Audible CEO Bob Carrigan tells Daryl Austin of Business Insider. The best free online learning resources for students. The best free online learning resources for students. Arts & Culture.

Age-by-age guide to the best educational apps for kids. Allowing your kids more screen time can feel like a necessity during social isolation.

Age-by-age guide to the best educational apps for kids

Here's a list of educational apps they're sure to love. We all know too much screen time isn’t the best idea for kids. However, in these difficult quaran-times stuck at home, you may be willing to be a bit lax on the limits. If the kids are going to be glued to the iPad anyways, you might as well have them learning something, so here’s a list of educational apps that are great for each age range. Download a few and let the kids tap, tap, tap away so you can get just a little bit of time to yourself. MoMA Is Offering Free Online Courses for Art Lovers. (59) SeeSaw Lesson Tutorial. Challenge Cards. Resources For Teaching and Learning During This Period of Social Distancing - MindShift. Leaders can best serve their schools and districts by prioritizing mental health over curricular efficiency.

Resources For Teaching and Learning During This Period of Social Distancing - MindShift

The anxiety produced by the evolving crisis is compounded with teachers who may now have their own children to care for at home, ill family members, the stress of managing household resources to comply with social distancing measures, or they may fall ill themselves. Projects - Teachers’ Guide to Global Collaboration. FAQ for the National Emergency Library. The Scramble to Move America's Schools Online. Tips and Tricks for Teachers Educating on Zoom.

Remotelearning Archives. Resources that Support Distance Learning - Health Services & School Nursing. It is important that LEAs leverage their existing distance learning technology platforms as they transition to distance learning environments for the coming weeks and months.

Resources that Support Distance Learning - Health Services & School Nursing

This will speed the transition time for both educators and students to be able to engage virtually. If these systems are already in use, administrators and teachers should communicate directly with families to articulate the ways the existing system(s) will support distance learning. If these or similar resources are not in use already, the list of available resources below will provide educators with options for creating a foundation for communication, sharing, and digital learning. Below is a table of contents to navigate these resources effectively. 1. A curated list of resources that will support educators and students transition to digital spaces to communicate with students, develop content, and manage student progress 2. 3.

Share My Lesson allows teachers to post and share lessons they have developed. Moodle. (878) Tutorial: Using Google Slides New Q&As & Laser Pointer. What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Past Month. Since February 17, I’ve been teaching 11th-grade humanities writing to students who are self-quarantined in China. Our teachers were in the same position several weeks ago that U.S. teachers are in now—we were expecting to teach in classrooms in Beijing. Now we’re teaching virtual classes remotely from our homes in China and countries around the world. We had about half a week to prepare for online school, including setting up a digital platform that none of us had ever used before. The One World Schoolhouse by Salman Khan — A Review. Going Online in a Hurry: What to Do and Where to Start. During Coronavirus, a Teacher Describes the Scramble to Go Digital. At the end of school two days ago, I heard students talking excitedly in the hall outside my classroom.

Our school near New York City, in Bergen County, New Jersey, was closing for the next 10 days due to precautions surrounding COVID-19—the coronavirus. Though we learned officially from the district an hour later, the students had picked up the news before us via local TV and social media feeds on their phones. As the announcement spilled out among staff, teachers gathered briefly, concerned that someone had been stricken with the virus—no one had, but someone died in our county—then rushed off to gather the hardware we’d need to use from our new home offices. Earlier in the day, my students told me that their biology teachers were saying we’d be out for the rest of the year.

I expressed skepticism, but now I’m not so sure. In some ways, the announcement at my school is a relief.