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From Suzy Rollins, author of Teaching Vulnerable Students, a collection of effective practices to move students forward in a positive way when they have gaps in learning, whether due to the COVID-19 slide or other factors. In this QRG in the new set of Strategies for Distance Learning Guides, Rollins outlines how to tactically address academic gaps in the context of new learning situations, using well-tested strategies:Learning mapsScaffolding devicesPrior knowledge activationVocabulary-buildingCooperative LearningMotivational TechniquesWith extensive tips for how to maintain these goals in both synchronous and asynchronous learning activities, this guide will be a go-to resource for teachers of newcomers and English learners.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

Two maths coaches who have spearheaded the transition to remote learning in their district have distilled their experience of what works into a guide for teaching maths from a distance. Filled with ready-to-use strategies, this QRG in the new set of Strategies for Distance Learning Guides is organised by 4 priorities:mathematical identitygrowth mindsetreasoning and problem-solvingengaging activitiesSamantha Bennet and Alaina Barkley show how to incorporate routines into online learning that support these priorities, from connecting with students, to supporting their learning with games and problem-solving tasks, to assessing their work.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

From Laura Alvarez, one of the authors of Supporting Newcomer Students, a guide on how to continue to support multilingual students’ language development and rigorous learning in a remote environment. In this QRG in the new set of Strategies for Distance Learning Guides, Alvarez provides questions to guide instructional planning and key teaching moves for English learners, within a framework of 4 principles for distance learning:Facilitate meaningful interactionsBuild relationshipsUse technology purposefullyHold an inquiry stanceWith extensive tips for how to maintain these goals in both synchronous and asynchronous learning activities, this guide will be a go-to resource for teachers of newcomers and English learners.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

This QRG in the new set of Strategies for Distance Learning Guides explains how to get your students to engage with you, with the content, and with each other during online learning. It is all about bridging “transactional distance”—psychological rather than physical—in the onscreen environment, by using carefully crafted lesson design and teaching strategies. Written by an expert in instructional design, this guide is packed with ideas and tips across grade levels, to help:create communityfacilitate interactionsadjust assessmentReplete with examples and suggested tools, this QRG is an indispensable resource for teachers grappling with how to keep students motivated when learning from a distance.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

From Nancy Boyles, author of Classroom Reading to Engage the Heart and Mind, this Guide helps ease the stress of transition to remote learning OR to a return to classrooms, for teachers and students alike. This guide features 15 award-winning picture books to facilitate conversations about social emotional issues, carefully chosen for age-appropriate themes matched to 5 SEL skills as well as to highlight different aspects of diversity. The suggested units, which include questions to pose about each book and theme, are:Find Your Happy: Staying PositiveMaking Choices: Choosing KindnessRise and Shine: Overcoming Challenges to SucceedVoice Lessons: Using Your Voice to Inspire ChangeEquity: With Social Justice for AllThis QRG in the new set of Strategies for Distance Learning Guides is an invaluable resource, providing a ready-made curriculum within which to explore children’s social emotional needs as they seek to understand how to relate to a world that has changed dramatically. The mini-lessons can be conducted either in a traditional classroom session or online. Its companion Guide, Take Heart 3-6, provides content for older students.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

From Nancy Boyles, author of Classroom Reading to Engage the Heart and Mind, this Guide helps ease the stress of transition to remote learning OR to a return to classrooms, for teachers and students alike. This guide features 15 award-winning picture books to facilitate conversations about social emotional issues, carefully chosen for age-appropriate themes matched to 5 SEL skills as well as to highlight different aspects of diversity. The suggested units, which include questions to pose about each book and theme, are:Find Your Happy: Staying PositiveMaking Choices: Choosing KindnessRise and Shine: Overcoming Challenges to SucceedVoice Lessons: Using Your Voice to Inspire ChangeEquity: With Social Justice for AllThis QRG in the new set of Strategies for Distance Learning Guides is an invaluable resource, providing a ready-made curriculum within which to explore children’s social emotional needs as they seek to understand how to relate to a world that has changed dramatically. The mini-lessons can be conducted either in a traditional classroom session or online. Its companion Guide, Take Heart K-2, provides content for younger students.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

Drawn from The ABCs of How We Learn, this playful yet practical Guide focuses on the five teaching approaches crucial to cultivating active learning in the classroom:I is for Imaginative PlayJ is for Just-In-Time TellingM is for MakingQ is for Question DrivenV is for VisualisationLearn why each of these “core learning mechanics” really do work—as well as the positive changes you can expect to see in your students as a result. This Guide explains how to use these teaching approaches to enhance your students’ learning and make the most of every lesson.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

When students miss class, forget homework and misbehave, they lack the skill rather than the will to succeed. With this philosophy in mind, this Guide provides a clear framework for working with students to address challenging behaviour. This Guide offers proven steps for solving a problem collaboratively with a student:Empathise: Clarify the student's concernShare your concernCollaborate: Brainstorm, assess and choose a solution to tryFrom youth psychology experts J. Stuart Ablon and Alisha R. Pollastri, this easy-to-follow Guide is an essential tool for tackling challenging student behaviour effectively, collaboratively and compassionately.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

From the author of SEL Every Day (2019): a guide to integrating practices into everyday instruction that promote equity as well as develop students’ crucial social and emotional learning, from self-awareness to relationship skills and responsible decision making. Educators will learn how to implement the three keys for integrating SEL into any classroom:Making lesson plans with SEL in mind, right from the startDeveloping your own SEL practiceStarting small, building consistency and evaluating outcomesWith these simple and effective steps, the Guide is invaluable for any busy educator looking to incorporate SEL into their teaching practice.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

Understanding the effects of trauma on students, and how teachers can make a real and lasting difference, has never been more crucial. Here, mindfulness expert Patricia A. Jennings explains how resilience can be developed from within the classroom. This Guide offers three keys to compassionate and trauma-sensitive teaching:Helping students build supportive relationships with teachers and peersSupporting student empowerment, voice and choice by creating a safe and equity-centred learning environmentBuilding upon strengths by supporting the development of self-regulationWith exercises for staying calm, focused and positive, this Guide helps both students and teachers cultivate resilience—inside and outside the classroom.Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

J. Stuart Ablon and Alisha R. Pollastri, authors of The School Discipline Fix, present this Quick Reference Guide to their Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach for changing child behaviour in mental health and home settings. This must-have resource distills the multistep approach into six easy-to-follow panels, in the convenient form of an 8.5"×11" laminated card for in-the-moment reference.Here, clinical staff, parents, guardians and other CPS trainees will find crucial information about the guiding philosophy of the approach; the cognitive skills that contribute to children’s behaviour; the key aspects of a CPS assessment; information on planning and prioritising the treatment; and step-by-step instructions for completing CPS itself.

Since the start of the pandemic, educators all over the world have been learning on the fly how to use the power of digital texts, tools and technologies for “remote emergency instruction”. As teachers quickly discovered, conducting nearly nonstop Zoom meetings, in an effort to replicate in-classroom learning in an online environment, is both ineffective and exhausting.In this series of three guides, Renee Hobbs and her colleagues at the Media Education Lab introduce central principles to guide instructional planning for real time (synchronous) and anytime (asynchronous) learning. Each guide unpacks the application of these principles—to connect, guide and create—with specific lesson examples and technology tips tailored to one level of schooling: elementary, middle or high school.

Since the start of the pandemic, educators all over the world have been learning on the fly how to use the power of digital texts, tools and technologies for “remote emergency instruction”. As teachers quickly discovered, conducting nearly nonstop Zoom meetings, in an effort to replicate in-classroom learning in an online environment, is both ineffective and exhausting.In this series of three guides, Renee Hobbs and her colleagues at the Media Education Lab introduce central principles to guide instructional planning for real time (synchronous) and anytime (asynchronous) learning. Each guide unpacks the application of these principles—to connect, guide and create—with specific lesson examples and technology tips tailored to one level of schooling: elementary, middle or high school.