Scholarships are a great way to pay for college without the obligation to repay funds. Maximizing scholarship potential can be especially useful for Latino students, who on average received less in institutional grants than their white counterparts in 2016, according to a statistical brief from UnidosUS.
For students attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), scholarships, internships, and fellowships can make higher education more affordable. HBCU scholarships and grants can supplement federal financial aid to help students fund their degrees and, ultimately, launch their careers.
Are you looking for a way to improve your mental health? If so, you may have heard about mindfulness. What is mindfulness, and what are some of the benefits? If you are able to put these mindfulness tips into practice, you may be able to improve your overall mental health.
Everything you need to know to take advantage of all the internet deals available for educators and students.
Since there is no telling how long COVID-19 will shape school closures moving forward, now is a great time to help prepare your student for a different learning environment. One of the first steps is creating an online school setup. Doing so allows your child to adapt quickly to a new learning schedule and environment.
Thanks to the Digital Age, you don’t even need to leave your house to experience a whole world of excitement and adventure. No matter your hobbies or interests, there’s something for you to enjoy with today’s virtual field trips and activities.
Most of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) coverage has been on how it has affected the elderly. However, children can also suffer from the virus. According to the CDC, at least three children have died from the coronavirus. It is important to remember that it is rare for children to display symptoms or have adverse outcomes from coronavirus.
With many schools across the U.S. closing their doors, students and families, who have been affected by the pandemic, struggle to continue their education from home. Our initiative, CovEducation, aims to promote greater access to web-based curricula and academic support for K-12 students, facilitating the transition to virtual learning for students with limited access to resources.
Welcome to All Digital School, an online education resource platform that curates lesson plans, materials, and educational tech with the sole goal of helping educators and parents create better learning experiences for students.
Although campuses are likely to reopen in the fall, the school day may unfold in starkly different ways, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday, suggesting staggered start times, “reconfigured” classrooms that allow for social distancing and some continuance of online learning.
Take a virtual field trip with TGR Foundation and Discovery Education to the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. as we showcase some of the innovative careers that fuel this Silicon Valley powerhouse.
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For as long as schools are closed, we're open. Right now, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across eight different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.
DreamBox is a K-8 online math program that supplements core instruction in the classroom or at home and is proven to increase math growth. DreamBox dynamically adapts to the learner, providing personalized instruction. Our lessons are available in English and Spanish, and are aligned to all state standards.
Reading comprehension instruction that works. FREE content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grade.
GoNoodle® gets kids up and moving to fun, engaging content and games. Every dance party, yoga session, mindfulness activity, and game session is an opportunity for kids to wake up their bodies, engage their minds, and be their best.
Outschool classes can be used to fill in gaps where school districts are unable to provide full-time remote schooling. Outschool teachers are background checked and classes are vetted to ensure they are safe, age-appropriate, objective and secular.
Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer.
Live and on demand interactive classes. For ages 18mo-6yrs. Free during COVID-19.
So, when you welcome back your students after a school closure, what tips would be helpful to alleviate their fears and anxieties to make them feel more at home?
While we often tend to associate cost-effective digital bulletin boards with the business world, did you know you can utilize them to communicate with your students and their parents when teaching remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic?
This article is intended to provide you with some tips to ease the burden of returning to school in these difficult times and help you mitigate your psychological stresses.
Mystery Science is the creator of the most popular science lessons in U.S. schools. We’ve curated this starter set of science lessons that you can use remotely or share with families.
Bamboo Learning offers FREE Alexa skills that focus on fun, home-based, family-friendly learning, and are available on all Alexa devices. Additionally, you can register on Bamboo Grove (https://grove.bamboolearning.com/) – a web application that will enable you to follow your child’s progress and review their work in Bamboo Learning Alexa skills.
Math Games offers online games and printable worksheets to make learning math fun. Kids from pre-K to 8th grade can practice math skills recommended by the Common Core State Standards in exciting game formats. Never associated learning algebra with rescuing animals or destroying zombies? Time to think again!
We know there’s a lot on your minds—from health and safety to child care and jobs. These are exceptionally challenging times as we close schools to stop the spread of COVID-19, and we want to do everything we can to support you.
Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
The potential in our experience of collective trauma is collective healing. What is possible now? For our schools, our communities, our relationships? For ourselves? Can we fill our resilience tanks until they are overflowing? Until they spill into the reserves of those who are struggling?
It’s not news that whether you’re the head of an organization, the leader of a team, or an individual contributor, our current context of COVID-19 requires you to reprioritize your work. If you haven’t already, it’s time to let go of some prior commitments and add in new ones. The concept sounds simple—decide what to focus on and let go of the rest (for now). Of course, like most things, the process of reprioritization is easier said than done.
Mindfulness is the practice of observing and accepting the present moment. Mindfulness offers a wide range of potential benefits, from improving physical and mental health to promoting prosocial behavior. Join us for 30 minutes of mindfulness and calm-breathing techniques as we explore moves from our Social Emotional Learning Playbook. You’ll learn strategies to cultivate self-awareness and support anxiety and stress.
As RULER school communities adapt to changes influenced by the COVID-19 outbreak, the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence is committed to helping all leaders, educators, students, and families in their effort to build and sustain positive emotional climates.
Search Institute has identified five elements—expressed in 20 specific actions—that make relationships powerful in young people’s lives. We refer to this as the developmental relationships framework.
Resilience is a lifelong practice. Building it, shaping it, and accessing it all take practice, bravery, and time. In a special webinar, Bright Morning Senior Associates Lori Cohen and Janet Baird talked through ways to build, practice, and tap into resilience in times of crisis.
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During these unprecedented times and school closures...how can a PBL teacher keep students connected and engaged, so a project is just as powerful as what would be expected in their face-to-face classroom?
As an organization supporting states, districts, schools, and classrooms during this time of distance learning, we have observed many educators pushing forward on instruction, curriculum, and assessment prior to ensuring the health, safety, and emotional well-being of students and families. As we brace for a longer engagement with distance learning, we want all leaders, coaches, and teachers to think through four key considerations that will help ensure greater equity, scale, and sustainability during this time of national crisis and compassion.
Three-quarters of U.S. states have now officially closed their schools for the rest of the academic year. While remote learning continues, summer is a question mark, and attention is already starting to turn to next fall.
Learning at home, 12-year-old yearns for more contact with teachers
To ensure equity and engagement in remote learning, schools need to zero in on key priorities, including enrichment and manageable projects.
Essential medical supplies, from exam gloves to ventilators, are in short supply. In response…the world’s open-source enthusiasts have banded together to dig up and catalog blueprints of critical do-it-yourself gear and tools that can save lives.
Drawing from the Make For All community of commitment makers, partners, and supporters, we’re highlighting a set of inspiring resources that can help educators, families, and students bring maker-centered learning home. Access to these activities and ideas are free and the projects, which focus on K-12 students, are accessible because they mostly use materials and supplies that can be found around the house.
With 1.5 billion students out of school and hundreds of millions attempting to learn solely online, the experiment will reshape schools, the idea of education, and what learning looks like in the 21st century. The pandemic is forcing educators, parents, and students to think critically, problem-solve, be creative, communicate, collaborate and be agile. It is also revealing that there is another way.
As schools and students, families and educators adapt to the current health crisis, WGBH is supporting them by gathering some of our free, trusted digital resources from PBS LearningMedia and our award-winning educational preschool programming.
Join other teachers, counselors, school leaders, and district leaders across the nation for free virtual learning offered daily.
Here are some strategies that leaders can employ to ensure their teams continue to collaborate effectively and maintain momentum in the business.
These days it’s hard to get people to pay attention in any meeting, but when people aren’t in the same room, it can be especially difficult.
Supporting your Children’s Social, Emotional, and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
