September

 Building A Classroom Community- 

Virtually or F2F

Teaching Tolerance offers Resources for Back to School 2020 to help discuss racism, police violence, and self-care.

In Remote Learning for Our Youngest Students, Jen Schwanke details ways primary teachers are reaching out to students across barriers in age, language, ability and engagement. 

In How Do We Create a Community of Learners in a Virtual or Hybrid Model?  Clare Landrigan writes about creating familiar and predictable systems and structures for online communities. 

How to Build Relationships Virtually, by The Albert Team gives the why, challenges, and how to build relationships in virtual teaching and learning spaces. 

Registration is Live for Fall & Winter Virtual Professional Learning! 

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Literacy Support in Our Community

YpsiWrites offers tutoring and programming for youth writers across Washtenaw County. We encourage teachers who are looking for extra support for their student writers to check out these programs.

-      YpsiWrites Virtual:  Offers both synchronous and asynchronous writing consults with trained YpsiWrites volunteers.

-        Using Writing to Make Your Voice Heard - Writing matters! Join this virtual workshop (via Zoom) to learn how to make our voices heard--and make a difference in our communities, lives, and world--through writing. (Saturday, Oct. 17, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) Register here

 

Washtenaw County Writing Center forSecondary Students

TheWCWC is designed to be a youth-led, youth-driven space that provides peer-to-peer online literacy and writing support for all students in Washtenaw County, engages students in using writing for advocacy and activism, and amplifies student writing in all forms. We’re in the beginning stages of this work and seek input from teachers and especially students.  If you’re interested in learning more or if you have a student to nominate for the Advisory Board, let us know through this form.

 

 

Stay Home- Stay Safe During COVID 19

Health and Wellness

• UM SOE Teacher Hierarchy of Needs-  COVID-19 Resources

• Michigan Cares- MVU free courses for emotional and mental wellbeing

• KQED exercise to help families stay balanced at home

• Teaching Tolerance-  Teaching Through Coronavirus: What Educators Need Right Now

• Cosmic Kids Yoga and Mindfulness

• Countering Online Hate Speech

• Teacher Interrupted:  Leaning into Social-Emotional Learning Amid the COVID 19 Crisis

English Learner Resources

• Serving EL Students and Families- Teaching Tolerance

• Wayne RESA Padlet of EL/Multilingual Resources

• COVID Fact Sheets in 15 languages

• Spanish children's Stories

TV Resources

• Netflix Documentaries 

• Detroit Public Television- PBS Learning at Home During the COVID Crisis-   Many resources and exact weekly schedules for ALL ages

Reading Resources

• FREE Time for Kids Digital Library

• Free Ranger Rick from NWF
• Story Time from Space- astronauts read aloud!

• PBSKids and YouTube offer full episodes of Molly of Denali, helping kids age 4-8 interact with Informational Text

• Authors Everywhere features Children's and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators sharing their work.

• Author Grace Lin reads her works online.

• The Classroom Bookshelf-  K-8

• Even More Authors and Illustrators...

• Storyline Online

• Elementary Reading Challenge

• NEWS ELA is offering FREE access to their ELA, Science, Social Studies and SEL articles for the rest of the school year. 

• Free Graphic Novels at Comic Extra.

• Scholastic Learn at Home resources 

• Illustrator Jarrett Lerner offers activity sheets and comic book panels 

Writing Resources

• 826 Michigan and 826 Digital Writing Resources 

• My COVID-19 Time Capsule 

• Journal Prompts to facilitate coping during the COVID 19 Pandemic

• Student's Journals Could Become Primary Sources

• Sharing Our Notebooks- Writing teacher

• Using and Creating Informational Texts at Home

• At Home with Kwame Alexander- free poetry writing lessons

• NY Times Mentor Text 

•  Kelly Gallagher- building deep readers and writers

• 100 Writing Prompts from John Spencer
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• Story Starters- Creative Writing Prompts for Kids- Scholastic

• Outdoor Writing Activities

• Outdoor Activities to Improve Writing

Science/STEM

• The Science Penguin 8 Free Elementary Science Activities 

• STEM Activities for Families

• 84 Easy Science Lessons You Can Do at Home

Math

• Khan Academy Schedule

• DreamBox

Social Studies

• Echoes and Reflections online webinars for teaching the Holocaust

• Webinars from Teaching Primary Sources

• SOCIAL STUDIES Shutdown Learning Community on Flipgrid by Dave Johnson-  Password: KeepLearning

• KQED- Above the Noise for Teens- Current topics 

• Read Write Inquire:   Social studies inquiry, reading, writing, and reasoning. From UM

• People's Historians Online

Music, Art, Travel

• UMMA Writing Prompts

• Resources from the Detroit Institute of Arts

• Seattle Symphony

• Discovery Education- from the Discovery Channel 

• 12 Famous Museums you can Tour Online- Travel and Leisure

• Common Sense Best Museums online

• Google Arts and Culture


• Hamilton's America

• Cincinnati Zoo virtual visit 

• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems

Sample Lesson Plans and Tips from Teachers

• Pernille Ripp: Choose your Own Adventure

• Schedule of Learning Template

• Tips from Teachers on Teaching Online

• Spreadsheet of categorized digital resources- Melissa Wing

• Remote Learning Toolkit- Wayne RESA

Teaching Online Resources and Sample Lessons

• CMU Writing Project Continuity of Learning Webinar Series 

• WISD Remote Learning Tech PD

• REMC Google Classroom course

• Friday Institute MOOCs

• EdSurge has many articles, podcasts and resources for PK-12 Teachers facing online instruction

• Catlin Tucker tips for designing online lessons

• Free K-12  online learning resources for teachers from We Are Teachers 

• Education companies offering free subscriptions

• Free apps

• Achieve 3000 webinars for online teaching

• Suggested daily schedule from NESCA and suggestions