EALA

Resource Format: Web-based Content

  • Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education Part 1: Building an understanding of family and community engagement

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    The Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education is a four-part resource that brings together research, promising practices, and useful tools and resources to guide educators in strengthening partnerships with families and communitymembers to support student learning. The toolkit defines family and community engagement as an overarching approach to…

  • Supporting Your Child’s Reading at Home

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    Learning to read begins at home through everyday interactions with children, long before they attend school. Your continued support of literacy development as children enter elementary school and progress through the grades positively affects their reading ability. We are pleased to provide these Family Activities with easy-to-follow instructions to help your child practice foundational reading…

  • Script for Calling Families of Students Who Are Learning Remotely

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    Sample script to be used when reaching out to families.

  • Learning About Your Child’s Reading Development

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    This toolkit helps parents and families understand the many different skills involved with teaching your child to learn to read and how to support your child’s reading development at school and home.

  • Supporting Students with Disabilities at School and Home: A Guide for Teachers to Support Families and Students

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    In this guide, we provide 5 key practices for teachers and families to support all students, including students with disabilities, at school and home. This is not an exhaustive list of “best practices.” Instead, we identified a small number of practices that have a big impact on student learning and social-emotional-behavioral growth.

  • Classroom PBIS

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    You might know classroom PBIS as positive classroom behavior support, positive and proactive classroom management, or by some other similar sounding name. They’re all different ways of describing the same critical features of PBIS – practices, data, and systems – tailored to create better outcomes in your classrooms.

  • Project Zero’s Thinking Routine Toolbox

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    This toolbox highlights Thinking Routines developed across a number of research projects at PZ. A vast array of PZ’s work has explored the development of thinking, the concept of thinking dispositions, and the many ways routines can be used to support student learning and thinking across age groups, disciplines, ideals, competencies, and populations.

  • How Can Educators Tap Into Research to Increase Engagement During Remote Learning?

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    As university professors and researchers who work closely with K-12 online teachers and learners, we’ve heard from many newly remote educators who are struggling. Recent class discussions have focused on the difficulties of getting through to students without in-person contact, especially during a time of enormous stress. Some teachers report that their students lack interest…

  • Preventing Students from Ghosting Your Class

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    The first few weeks of class are over, the newness has worn off and now the reality of a new semester, or the first semester, is setting in for faculty and students. The first week or two of a semester is always exciting. We’re all at our best. As faculty, we’ve designed our classes to…

  • Teaching Tools: Active Learning while Physically Distancing

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    We are all looking for practical strategies to make our teaching engaging and impactful during these unusual times. The chart below outlines some common teaching goals and the face-to-face (F2F) active learning techniques often used to achieve those goals, along with corresponding approaches for online synchronous, online asynchronous, and physically-distanced settings.