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Summer Learning

1. 20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer – a blog post I wrote on twenty concepts to help you this summer along with links to some suggested courses from Advancement Courses. (Remember to use COOL20 to save 20%)
2. 3 Things to Learn Over the Summer to Be Better at Distance or Blended Learning with Class Tech Tips Monica Burns
3. 7 Ways to Pick PD that Fits Your Personal Plan this Summer with Danielle Strohmeyer.

Distance Learning Excellence

4. 10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – an infographic and information about excellence in online learning
5. Be Education’s Overcomers – 3 minute video with some principles to help you.
6. Mastery Learning Excellence at a Distance with teacher Rae Hughart
7. Assessment and Grading in Distance Learning – How to Get Better with Assessment Expert Dr. Thomas Guskey
8. All Systems Go – How We Went to Distance Learning without Missing a Day – the story from my school
9. How to Engage Kids in Distance Learning with teacher Mary Howard
10. 10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom – some ideas from me on courses to improve how you teach in a distance learning environment
11. Community and #RemoteLearning Conversations with Brad Currie – where to connect and build your PLN for learning
12. What Montana State Teacher of the Year Dylan Huisken Says Is Happening There
13. An Oregon Teacher on Distance Learning at his School – Tyler Cienfuegos
14. US Edtech Policy Conversations Amidst Coronavirus Concerns with Tom Murray
15. How to Teach Students Effective Learning in an Online Classroom

Leadership in Distance Learning and for the Fall

16. What Educational Leadership Looks Like Today with Dr. Joe Sanfelippo
17. What Will School Be Like in the Fall after a Distance Learning Spring? with Policy Leader and teacher Joseph Fatheree
18. The Covid-19 Education Question: Is this Really Learning? some of my thoughts on learning in Covid-19

Edtech Tools for Distance Learning

19. 6 Tips to Close Out the School Year in Google Classroom with Kasey Bell from Shake Up Learning
20. 8 New Productivity Tools & Tips for Working from Home – Some of my personal faves
21. Wakelet and WeVideo: Powerful Distance Learning Edtech with teacher Bruce Reicher
22. Boom Cards: Engagement for Learning from a Distance with teacher Mary Howard
23. 21 Tools I Use to Manage Distance Learning – my toolkit from distance learning
24. 4 Security Issues for Schools During Covid19 Distance Education – some thoughts from me on security concerns with tools and apps.
25. How to Use Wizer to Create Digital Worksheets that Differentiate Instruction a video tutorial with Wizer CEO Nira Sheleg
26. Free Ideas for Teaching Middle School Math Online with Noelle Pickering
27. Google Bootcamp Duo Demo video series

Pandemic Education and Social Emotional Learning Needs

28. 10 Trauma Informed Principles for Educators During the Coronavirus with Dr. Eric Rossen – some important principles to understand for now and the fall
29. Some awesome SEL resources are at WE.org/SEL for free resources
30. Helping Kids Be Healthy and Whole While Learning from Home Dr. Kim Schonert-Reichl
31. Absolutely Essential SEL Skills We Need During the Pandemic with Dr. Amy Cranston
32. 5 Ways to Build Effective Social Emotional Learning Environments Online with Dr. Amy Cranston
33. 6 Super Parent and Teacher Resources to Promote Social Emotional Learning at Home – a blog post with some resources
34. How a 17 Year Old Student in New York is Giving Back – teenager Jameson Cohen shares how he volunteers from home
35. Top 10 Ways to Give Back While at Home – how to volunteer from home with Dr. Kim Schonert-Reichl
36. SEL and Physical Exercise – 8 weeks of Free Lessons with Rupa Mehta

Other Education Topics

37. Sustainability Spotlight: How to Empower Students to Tackle Sustainability Issues with Dr. Michael Walker
38. Why Second and Third Chances Matter for Kids Kim Piper, New Hampshire Teacher of the Year 2020 who works with the prison population in New Hampshire and talks about how teachers can help kids not end up there.
39. 5 Major Elements of a STEAM Mindset with Tim Needles
40. Why Kids Never Stop Moving: Neuroscience and a Student’s Need to Move with neuroscientist Susan Cresswell
41. How PBL in Math Class Can Make Projects Unforgettable with Lauren Harris
42. I celebrated my birthday in quarantine and shared 50, Fit and Fantastic! — How I celebrated my quarantine birthday with joy.

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