Teach and Learn from Home

Transitioning to At-Home Learning

This slide deck provides considerations and recommendations for Opportunity Culture schools to continue achieving high-growth student learning and developing students’ critical social-emotional skills, and providing strong support to teaching teams. It suggests high-connection and lower-connection learning options, reviews the shifts needed in technology, roles, instruction, and schedules, and provides a basic action planner.

Guiding a Crisis Move to At-Home Learning

Multi-classroom leaders can help smooth and lead the way for their teaching teams and students when a crisis requires a move to at-home teaching and learning. This suggests some ways they can continue their job of guiding and supporting teaching teams to ensure that all students continue learning—and to provide the social-emotional support students need.

Stories of Educators Teaching & Leading from Home

With little time to prepare for at-home teaching and learning, Opportunity Culture educators are bravely and innovatively doing what’s best for students. We’re collecting their stories and will be sharing them here:

For This MCL, A Week of Team Planning and Parenting

In Georgia, Leading a Team on Distance Teaching and Caring

Quick Guide to Online Technology

In response to the COVID-19 school shutdowns, we have created a resource table to provide a quick comparison of several popular online platforms; the elements included here will be helpful if MCLs need to evaluate and select platforms to use with their team’s students. Please share your additional thoughts with us on these and other platforms.

More Resources

Many media and education organizations are compiling useful resources; here are a couple that we found helpful. Share your other favorites with us.

The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, which has extensive experience in online teaching and did a pilot last year of Remotely Located Multi-Classroom Leadership, provides guidance on online teaching during emergencies, with many video tutorials for using tech platforms, advice on considerations for students with IEPs, and more.

EdNC.org’s coverage includes links to resources for educators.

Teach Plus posted tips for online teaching here.

Public Impact shares its quick tips on using Zoom.

Remotely Located Multi-Classroom Leadership

In 2019, the first pilot of a part of the concept of Remotely Located Multi-Classroom Leadership took place in North Carolina. Though not designed for at-home teaching and learning, it may provide useful tips for multi-classroom leaders leading a team remotely when all teachers and students are working from home.