Taos Academy’s Homework Hotline
Taos Academy offers a virtual homework hotline every Friday from 8 AM to 12 PM during the school year to support students with their questions and needs.
January 13, 2022
Tag: Actively Engaging
Laurel Springs School (LSS) Live
LSS Live is a synchronous academic support room at Laurel Springs School which is open for 15 hours each day and held in an Adobe Connect room set up specifically for student support. They offer general academic support as well as topic-specific labs for help in math, world languages, and writing. They also offer specific times for Lower School and Middle School students to receive support. The screenshot above is what students see when they enter the room. There is also a resources pod at the bottom of the room that students have access to as well.
January 13, 2022
My Vaccine Activity Book
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia created this activity book for children to learn more about how vaccines work.
January 10, 2022
A Kid’s Guide to COVID-19: How Vaccines Work
Boston Children’s Hospital explains how vaccines work in this child-friendly video
January 10, 2022
Learn About Vaccines from BrainPop
In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby discuss vaccines and how they work.
January 10, 2022
Lesson Plan: Invent Ways to Help Get Your Community Vaccinated
PBS Newhour developed a lesson plan where students are equipped with knowledge of how the vaccine works and why it is important. With this knowledge, students can research challenges to vaccine distribution in their own communities and invent ways to get vaccines to community members who may face obstacles to vaccination
January 10, 2022
Vaccine Lesson Plans for Elementary, Middle, and High School
The Vaccine Makers Project developed lesson plans for different grade bands about vaccine science with scientifically supported, historically accurate, and emotionally compelling content.
January 10, 2022
Agency by Design: Making Learning Engaging
“Learner agency is about having the power, combined with choices, to take meaningful action and see the result of those decisions. It can be thought of as a catalyst for change or transformation. Learner agency is about students having the understanding, ability and opportunity to be part of the learning design and taking action to intervene in the learning process to become effective lifelong learners.”
–Derek Wenmoth
The global COVID-19 pandemic pulled back the curtain on the growing need for greater student agency and student engagement. As we rethink the future of education in a post-pandemic world, learner agency must be at the center of learning designs and learning models so that we can support students anytime, anyplace, and at any pace. We must re-imagine what agency and engagement can look like in contemporary practices.
This report offers guidance – including practical advice – to education leaders and teachers in redesigning schools and classrooms by centering on learner agency, through a shift in the ownership of learning. It also provides clarity around the definition and meaning of learner agency and addresses the implications for high-quality practices in new learning models.
October 19, 2021
Facilitating Student Participation on Zoom
This resource from Boston College’s Center for Teaching Excellence provides an overview of several strategies to facilitate student participation including how to facilitate hand raising.
October 18, 2021
Managing Hand Raising in Zoom
This video shows how to manage the raised hands feature in Zoom to facilitate participation.
October 18, 2021