Staff Resources
- ESD 105 Online Registration for Professional Development - https://www.escweb.net/wa_esd105/
- FREE ESD 105 Online Professional Development Sessions via Zoom - https://www.esd105.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=10&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=4085&PageID=1
- This is a great video explaining the use of Google Meet, if you are considering it as an option for interacting with your students. Jon Scott - https://youtu.be/_qjFGJ4XQi8
- Here is a quick cheat sheet on Google Meet. https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9300131?hl=en
- Here is some help with Zoom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5KGJ3DqvE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBI6uv-Or40
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is offering 100 Days of Professional Learning with live 60-minute webinars presented by selected speakers from the NCTM Centennial Annual Meeting & Exposition program that was to take place in Chicago. Each webinar will be held at 7 p.m. Eastern time on 100 selected days from April 1 leading up to the October NCTM 2020 Annual Meeting & Exposition in St. Louis. A variety of speakers and topics are geared to meet all grade bands and interests. Webinars will be recorded and made available at www.nctm.org/100 up to the St. Louis Annual Meeting.
- Kansas State CONTINUOUS LEARNING TASK FORCE GUIDANCE provides guidance for Kansas educators to meet the immediate need of supporting learning outside of our normal practices. https://www.ksde.org/Portals/0/Communications/Continuous%20Learning%20Documents/Continuous%20Learning%20Task%20Force%20Guidance.pdf?ver=2020-03-25-082114-427
- Amazon Future Engineer offers free online virtual robotics & coding classes for any student or teacher affected by COVID-19 in the US. https://gocoderz.com/amazon-future-engineer/?utm_source=Email_Campaign&utm_medium=Amazon&utm_campaign=2020
- Florida Center for Reading Research created Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. https://fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca.html
- In response to school closures due to COVID-19, OSPI content experts have curated a selection of links to external organizations providing high-quality online educational materials – courses, lessons, videos, physical and outdoor activity suggestions, etc. https://www.k12.wa.us/about-ospi/press-releases/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-resources/resources-continuous-learning-during-school-closures
- This is a nice resource from the National P-3 Center. https://nationalp-3center.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/PreK-3rd-At-Home_24Mar2020_FINAL.pdf
- The science assessment team is excited to announce the WCAS: Nuts and Bolts online course, available through the OSPI Moodle. Six free STEM clock hours are available upon completion of the course and evaluation. Guidance for obtaining clock hours is embedded in the course. During the course, educators learn how item clusters are developed for the Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS), including:
- learning how the performance expectations (PEs) from the state science standards are bundled for WCAS item clusters;
- learning how phenomena are used to develop an item cluster;
- learning how stimuli and items are written to form an item cluster;
- learning how items and item clusters align to the three-dimensional WCAS Item Specifications and the three-dimensional WA State 2013 K-12 Science Standards (the Next Generation Science Standards), and;
- exploring the WCAS online training tests. WCAS: Nuts and Bolts
- Distance Learning with Agile Mind Webinar - The webinar recording is available on our page dedicated to supporting educators and families through COVID-19 disruptions and closures.
- The ESD 105 Science webpage will archive links to resources to support your efforts to sustain K-12 student learning in Science. There are links to web-based resources and files that can be downloaded and printed. Many of the K-8 resources are available in both English and Spanish. Science Online Learning Resources
- Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. https://www.oercommons.org/
- WABE is committed to the equitable and effective education of multilingual learners in Washington state. In this time of coronavirus crisis, we extend our resources to all educators everywhere. https://wabewa.org/e-learning-resources/
- School Responses to COVID-19: ELL/Immigrant Considerations - https://www.colorincolorado.org/coronavirus-ell
- 7 Tips to Help Make Remote Learning More Effective - https://blog.epson.com/education/7-tips-to-help-make-remote-learning-more-effective/
- Do These 4 Things To Keep Hackers Out Of Your Zoom Call - https://blog.epson.com/featured/do-these-4-things-to-keep-hackers-out-of-your-zoom-call/
- Integrating Technology Into The Classroom - https://docs.google.com/
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