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2020-03-23
Missoula Public School Grades 9-12 Suggested Remote Learning Curriculum
A weekly lesson plan for remote learning issued by the Missoula, MT County Public Schools for the week March 23-27, 2020. It suggests daily activities in core subjects including reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and P.E. for grades 9-12, utilizing primarily online activities for students to complete at home. -
2020-03-23
Missoula Public School Grades 1&2 Suggested Remote Learning Curriculum
A weekly lesson plan for remote learning issued by the Missoula, MT County Public Schools for the week March 23-27, 2020. It suggests daily activities in core subjects including reading, math, science, social studies, art, and P.E. for grades 1 and 2, including both online and paper activities that students and parents can do at home. -
2020-03-13
Memorandum Closing Alaska Schools
A memorandum to the staff and families of Alaska Public Schools closing schools until March 30, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It outlines the expectations of the Department of Education & Early Development for remote schooling and school responsibilities, as well as offering an overview of the Department’s commitments to staff and families during the closures. -
2020-04-29
One College Student's Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As I imagine it is for many other people in the United States, particularly in the northeast, the emergence of the Coronavirus, and the subsequent panic and declaration of a global pandemic, was surprisingly quick. The first that I heard about the virus was from a news article during Holiday Break. At this point, my thinking was that because it is in China, it was not that big of a deal. However, the picture of doctors in full protection gear carrying a body bag was disturbing. Being a person with contamination fears that accompany my obsessive-compulsive disorder, I immediately Googled the symptoms of the disease. I was slightly comforted that one of the symptoms was not nausea and vomiting because my main phobia is vomit. A few weeks after this initial introduction, I was back at Bates College for my Winter Term. Coincidently, I was enrolled in a course called “China in the World.” Part of this course was to analyze media relating to China and connecting it to our core concepts. The first week that we got into small groups to share our individual pieces of media that we chose, most of my classmates choose news articles about the novel Coronavirus. In the weeks following our initial discussion about COVID-19, the virus was present on everyone’s mind, but it did not seem as an eminent threat. People would bring it up in conversation, but we were told not to worry. We had our winter break during the week of February 16th, and many people traveled with friends or went home. I went back to my home in Connecticut. Being that we live an hour away from New York City, my dad commutes into the city every day, and we visit the city often. My mom planned for us to go into the city and watch the Broadway show, Hadestown, before I left to go back to school. At this point, I saw some people taking precautionary measures, but the majority of people did not seem to be worried. My sister brought hand sanitizer, and we all used it before eating and after touching handles or anything else. After break, I headed back to school. During the next two to three weeks, the nation saw the confirmed cases of the virus rapidly increase. Once it became prevalent in the Boston area and colleges started to shut down, it was only a matter of time before Bates closed. The last week before we were sent home—the week of March 8—things started to change each day. Each day brought cancelations, new dining protocols, and a lot of uncertainty for both students and professors. I found it hard to concentrate on getting the work I needed to accomplish completed. By the time it got to Thursday, the high school in my town—where my sister is a senior—had moved to remote learning, the preschool that my mom works at had closed down, and many other colleges and universities have sent their students home or asked that they stay home after spring break. Thursday, I tried to spend a good amount of time with my friends, assuming that we were going to be sent home and not going to be able to see each other for an unknown period of time. Friday morning, around 10am, Bates College President Clayton Spencer announced that we would need to pack up all of our belongings and leave school by the following Tuesday. Subsequently, we would begin remote learning. My 11am class was canceled and very few people showed up to our last in-person China in the World class. During this time, our professor put up the live stream of President Trump’s address to the American public declaring a national emergency. We all sat there pretty quietly. The whole situation still felt so surreal. One invisible entity was causing mass destruction around the globe. My sister and my dad drove up to Maine and picked me up Saturday the 14th of March. It was quite difficult to say goodbye to all of my friends, especially since I wanted to give them all hugs. I said goodbye to the vast majority of people I wanted to see and we headed to Portland for the night. It occurred to me as we were driving by the historic quad a Bates that this would be the last time I would be there for a while; I was planning on going abroad in the fall before the chaos of the virus. Arriving at the hotel, I was feeling pretty down. I am such a homebody, so I never thought that leaving school and spending the rest of the semester at home would be upsetting. It truly was. The week after being sent home, I got an email saying that I was exposed to the one individual who had a confirmed case of the disease on Bates campus. It was a little alarming feeling like I might have exposed my family to the virus. However, my sister happened to be talking to her best friend that night and her friend confessed that her whole family had the virus. Therefore, we had been exposed to the disease twice. We all quarantined for fourteen days, and luckily no one developed symptoms. Over the last month, I have been trying to stay busy and focus on my schoolwork. As more and more people perish from disease, it has been difficult to get up each day not dreading the worst. I have tried to limit the amount of news that I have watched in order to decrease my anxiety. I have tried to ignore some of the “news” presented on social media sites that provide misinformation about the disease. I wish I could help with the crisis more than I have already because, honestly, it feels like staying home is not enough. It has helped to talk to my friends and family over Skype, Zoom, or FaceTime. Now that school is over, I am going to focus on doing things for my mental and physical health. As I mentioned before, having contamination fears during this pandemic has been challenging. Through therapy, I have been taught to limit my hand washing and other compulsions having to do with my phobias. During the pandemic, though, it is necessary for everyone to be extremely cautious and wash their hands pretty constantly. All of the precautionary measures have been triggering, but I am proud to say that I am handling the pandemic a lot better than I would have imagined I would have a few years ago. I am extremely grateful to be able to be living at my family home safely, and having access to food and other resources. I feel extremely privileged being in the situation I am in, and sincerely feel for others who may not find themselves in a similar circumstance. -
2020-04-01
Distance learning
Photo of someone learning from home during quarantine. -
2020-04-24
1yo looks on as 5yo participates in Zoom class
1yo Julián Peralta-Kole looks on as big sister Maya (5yo) joins her weekly Friday Zoom class offered by Tempe Public Schools. Her Zoom classes take place every week on Fridays at 10 AM. It's always a moment that we look forward to, because she gets to connect with her classmates and teacher. Class activities range from singing songs, show and tell, writing, and practicing "sticky," words (common words that are hard to sight read, so her teacher encourages them to memorize i.e. "stick" them in their brain). Maya attends Scales Technology Academy near the intersection of 5th St. and Beck in Tempe, AZ. -
2020-04-20
Apr 20, Topic: My Take on This Moment in History 1
A story about how an individual is coping with the changes that COVID-19 has brought to our world. -
2020-04-03
Rebirth of a teacher
Reflection of a teacher's experience with online teaching. -
2020-03-30
Michael Wager
As the Covid-19 virus comes closer to reaching its expected peak, more and more of New York State is shutting down. For almost everyone, the economy is the most impactful result of this virus, with many workers now out of work. My entry is going to reflect on how the Covid-19 virus is impacting students in higher education. I am currently a sophomore at Siena College in Albany, New York studying history education, but might be switching to business. During our spring break, we received an email from the interim president that our break would be extended for an additional week as the school continued to monitor the virus. A few days later, we received another email from our interim president stating that our classes would be moved online until after Easter break. SUNY schools had moved online for the remainder of the semester weeks prior and most of the private schools had also made the decision to move online were slowing following. Siena College, on the other hand, decided to wait it out as long as possible, but on Friday, March, 27th, we received the email stating Siena College would now be closed for the remainder of the semester. Typical days for students and professors now seems to be uploading assignments on Canvas, a program that we had used previously, and conducting classes online via Zoom and Google Hangout. While this type of learning is not ideal, it will have to do as we continue to hope that this pandemic comes to an end. -
2020-03-12
an overflowing to-do list
an overflowing to-do list from the day after my institution made the decision to transition to remote learning -
2020-03-26
Defined Learning Blog Post: PBL Tips for Parents
This blog post gives parents/teachers tips for implementing project based learning at home during COVID-19 school closures -
2020-03-26
WIDA News COVID-19 Update
An email from WIDA, an organization that supports language education, on resources that can be used during transitions to remote/online learning during the COVID-19 school closures -
2020-03-27
PJ Kennedy School Weebly Website
Text and images from the PJ Kennedy School Weebly created for communication during the COVID-19 school closures. -
2020-03-27
PJ Kennedy School Weekly Plan (for week of March 23-27, 2020) for remote/online learning for Students in grades K0-5 (Version 2)
This shared document outlines all of the online work for students in grades K0-5 at the PJ Kennedy school in Boston, MA during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures. It includes detailed guidelines for specific assignments and resources that students should be using, and is broken down by grade level. *Living Document (GoogleDoc) for the School Community, including teachers, staff, parents, and students -
2020-03-27
WGBH Webinars to Help Your Students Email (Version 2)
This email from WGBH Education provides links to webinars and other resources for teachers who are transitioning their classes and students to remote/online learning because of COVID-19 related school closures. -
2020-03-27
PJ Kennedy School Remote Working Expectations (Version 2)
This shared document outlines expectations for teachers, paraprofessionals, and other school staff at the PJ Kennedy School in Boston, MA during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent school closures. It includes detailed guidelines for work hours, communication with students and families, and guidelines for working with particular student populations. -
March 27, 2020
Facing History and Ourselves Email with teacher resources for remote/online learning (Version 2)
This email provides links to resources for teachers as they transition their classes and students to remote/online learning, from the Facing History and Ourselves team. -
2020-03-28
Arizona State University
A few snapshots of the very empty Arizona State University -
2020-03-13
Handwashing Station at Faubourg Wines New Orleans
A handwashing station set up in the doorway of Faubourg Wines in New Orleans, before the city went on complete lockdown. As of today that was only two weeks ago, yet it feels like eons. I'd come to New Orleans from New York City for spring break; now I'm quarantined here and teaching my classes at Fordham University remotely. #VART3030 -
March 11, 2020
UMass Boston COVID-19 Preparedness Update
Email from the five chancellors and the president of the University of Massachusetts system and UMass Boston Interim Chancellor Katherine S. Newman announcing the decision to shift to a remote-learning plan in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. The email also lays out specific expectations for faculty, staff, and students to prepare for the shift to remote learning and limit the activities of the UMass Boston community. -
2020-03-10
BGSU announces proactive COVID-19 response
The first official announcement from Bowling Green State University president Rodney K. Rogers concerning COVID-19. It was sent to all students, faculty, and staff. -
2020-03-18
Stonehill College shifts the semester to remote learning
On the evening of March 18, 2020, the Office of the President at Stonehill College sent out an email notifying the Stonehill Community that the school would be shifting to remote learning for the remainder of the semester due to COVID19. -
2020-03-11
Stonehill College shifts to temporary remote learning (email)
On March 11, 2020, the Office of the President at Stonehill College sent out an email notifying students that the school would be making a temporary shift to remote learning. -
2020-03-14
A Concern
Professor Diaz expresses concern over the many responsibilities students shoulder, referencing her own family situation and elder care. -
2020-03-13
Stay Frosty
Arizona State University President Michael Crow sent an audio message to faculty, staff, and students at the university keeping them focused on their health and the university mission. He urged them to "stay frosty," slang for remain alert and engaged.