Strategies to Support Your Teachers’ & Students’ Well-Being

English learners struggle to learn new content and language simultaneously. They need ample opportunities to access, interpret, and produce content in English. During this webinar, we will engage in a variety of strategies to support English language learners in developing content knowledge and language across the curriculum. It will provide insights into how to maximize oral language opportunities in all disciplines through quick daily oral language practices.

In this webinar, we sat down with Mary Jane Warden of Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 to discuss why awareness and communication should be critical components of a district’s cybersecurity and data privacy plan. Districts must educate all the members of their community about safe practices and ensure they know where to look to see what software or apps are approved for use. You’ll learn how an edtech effectiveness system can: Make it easy for teachers, students and families to see what apps are approved for use and which are not (and why); Educate your community on the privacy features of specific edtech apps Support consistent app vetting and review processes with a single pathway to request new products.

Tutoring programs have become a leading strategy to address COVID-19 learning loss. What evidence-based principles can district and school leaders draw on to design, implement, measure, and improve high-quality tutoring programs? And what are districts who are piloting these programs learning about how to maintain fidelity to those principles, while also adapting to the specific needs of their contexts?

Between March 2018- and March 2020, students in England were over three times more likely than average to have experienced sexual assault. In this video, Dr Penny Turnbull, Assistant Director of Student Services, Kara Stewart, GotConsent Coordinator and Leonor Capelier, StaAnd Together Intern discuss how consent workshops delivered at have been developed at the University of St Andrews. These workshops have been developed with students and were adapted to meet the demands of online learning in addition to individual student needs.