Distance Learning - District Sites
Anoka-Hennepin
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North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale
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Distance Learning - EC Teachers
General Resources
Online Activities
- America’s Test Kitchen. Lot’s of ideas and recipes to help teach kids about cooking and food. This is a free web page for kids.
- Bedtime Math - Engaging math ideas that children can do at home. Easily adaptable for children of various ages.
- Classical Kids Storytime. Minnesota Orchestra joins up with noted author and illustrator, Nancy Carlson. The website includes the illustration of the story and the orchestra provides the music. Check out Harriet’s Recital to get started! Designed to meet learning standards.
- ClubSciKidz. Try a simple science experiment each day! Perfect for young scientists at home!
- Go Noodle. Good Energy at Home. This web page is designed for activities, games and videos to do at home. Grown-ups can sign up for a email newsletter that have more tips for activities to “shake the wiggles out!”
- iHear: Videos and trainings for providing distance learning from Birth through school age. While developed initially for children with hearing loss learning to listen and talk, iHear’s HIPAA and FERPA compliant methods can be used with every child. They have been doing distance learning successfully with infants, toddler, young children, families, and school districts since 2009.
- Hearing First: live webinar: Hearing First will host a “crash course” on tele-intervention to help you get up and running online with confidence! Led by a speech language pathologist and built around listening and spoken language for children with hearing loss (strategies can be applied to all children/families).
- JumpStart provides free resources and activities appropriate for preschool.
- Lunchtime Doddles with Mo Willems. Every day at 12 noon (central) kids (and their grown-ups!) can learn how to draw simple characters using materials found at home. The website also includes activity sheets to download, color and cut-out. These activity sheets are terrific for story telling!
- PBS Kids Games Provides fun, engaging games that foster learning, movement, social-emotional development, collaboration, and creativity. There is also an email sign-up to get ideas each day for activities to go with kids.
- PBS Learning for Preschoolers Offers lessons, interactives, audio, and websites to foster preschool learning and development.
- Pig Farm Videos (360 Farm Tours) Families and teachers can learn all about pigs through a virtual tour on a pig farms – what they eat, how they live ad what it is like to be a farmer.
- Ranger Rick. This website offers a wide variety of free activities, videos, games and more for the next several months. A great way to learn about natural science.
- Scholastic. Scholastic has put many of their interactive lessons online for free. New lessons are added daily. This website has a lot of resources for families and teachers. Scholastic Learn at Home provides 20 days’ worth of active learning journeys designed to reinforce and sustain educational opportunities for those students who are unable to attend school.
- Scratch Jr. Older kids (5-7 year olds) can create their own games and activities by learning soe more coding techniques and strategies.
- Sesame Street - YouTube channel
- Sesame Street Spanish
- TeacherVision provides free resources for pre-k in multiple subject areas and for many areas of interest, including art and music.
Distance Learning - Families
LENA
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Minnesota parents, too, are tested as education moves back home
Click Here, Star Tribune, March 30, 2020
Distance Learning - Systems and Strategies
MDE - Prekindergarten Distance Learning Guidance 3-24.2020
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MDE - Selecting an Online Platform for Student Services
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MDE - Student Instruction COVID-19 Resources
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Transitioning to Online Learning: Pro Tips on What You Need to Know
Click Here, ASCD
Family Outreach & Engagement
Family Engagement
National Center for Families Learning (NCFL)
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National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (NCPFCE)
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National PTA - Tackling COVID-19 Together
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The Eight Ps of Parent Engagement
Click Here, neaToday
Family Needs & Resources
Family Needs
During Distance Learning With children being home from school, many working from home, or not working, etc.
- Home ideas to keep children busy and learning
- Parent Connection: Message, Video, etc
- Resources: Food, Income, Housing, Social Workers, Lack of Internet Access, 1:1
- Home Make and Take Ideas: with things they already have at home
- Balance, schedules and routines
- Parenting Support: New topics vs what they originally had while in the classroom
- Record Songs from Circle Time Routines
- Visual Schedules
- Social Stories: Why we cannot go to school
- Wanting Relationships with trusted Staff: funnel/filter all the “staff” out there
General
**COVID-19 and At-home Resources **
Click Here, Action for Healthy Kids
Supporting Families During COVID-19
Click Here, Child Mind Institute
Food
Feeding America
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Food and Nutrition COVID-19 Resources
Click Here, MN Department of Education (MDE)
Income/Job
Coronavirus In Minnesota: How To Apply For Unemployment Benefits
Click Here, CBS Minnesota
Economic Assistance
Click Here, MN Department of Human Services (DHS)
Mental Health
Latest information about COVID-19 for providers of adult mental health services
Click Here, MN Department of Human Services
Latest information about COVID-19 for providers of alcohol, drugs and other addictions services
Click Here, MN Department of Human Services
Latest information about COVID-19 for providers of children’s mental health services
Technology
Utilities
Parenting/Caregiving
Center for Parent Information and Resources
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Dear Therapist: What’s Your Advice to Parents Whose Kids Are Stuck Home During the Coronavirus Lockdowns?
Click Here, The Atlantic
Here’s What Parents Dealing With Coronavirus Isolation Want You To Know
Click Here, Buzzfeed News
How to Ease Children’s Anxiety About COVID-19
Click Here, National Alliance on Mental Illness
How to Support Children (and Yourself) During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Click Here, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
In lockdown with your partner? Here’s how healthy couples survive
Click Here, Washington Post, March 25, 2020
Manage Anxiety & Stress
Click Here, CDC
PBS for Parents
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Parent Guide to Helping Families Cope with Coronavirus 2019
Click Here, The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Talking to Children About COVID-19 (Coronavirus): A Parent Resource
Click Here, National Association of School Psychologists
The American Academy of Pediatrics Advises Parents Experiencing Stress over COVID-19
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