Start With Hello asks students, educators, parents, and other community leaders who interact with children to take steps in class, the lunchroom and/or on the bus to be inclusive and connected. This easy-to-use guide is designed to assist adult educators in delivering the Start With Hello program. It includes classroom objectives, discussion questions, key messages, activities, extension options and additional resources.

Build the capacity to create solutions to help you efficiently and effectively support teachers. The learner will acquire strategies to aid in building teacher capacity to build a sustainability/scalability plan for leveraging instructional technology for the following school year.

Approximate time to complete this course is 3 hours. A micro-credential is available from Digital Promise upon completion.

Scholastic Learn at Home makes it simple for parents to keep their students engaged with high interest, age-appropriate content while at home. Complete lessons for grades PK-12 available now through April 20, 2020.
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Additional resources and certificates of attendance (available through 12/30/2020) are available at www.ohioedtechs.org.,Equip your child with the tools and creative confidence to think big

This guide offers key action steps for instructional staff to contribute to an improved school climate.

This learning module includes several lessons designed to illustrate best practices in school leadership and spark conversation, reflection, and new thinking in schools and districts.

Learn the basics for managing your Ohio school library. This INFOhio Learning Pathway is for new Ohio school librarians or Ohio school library staff who have not completed a graduate program in library science. Choose to complete individual classes in this INFOhio Learning Pathway or complete the full School Library Basics Learning Pathway to earn up to 11 contact hours.

This simple page does a good job of articulating why research is an important process to teach to students, and it also provides a number of resources for teachers planning to do this.

School librarian Marcia Mardis describes what the library can offer to teachers and students who want to produce a focused, engaging, and effective science fair. This article appears in the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which explores the seven essential principles of the climate sciences for K-grade 5 classrooms.

LabXchange scrollable interactives make learning science more flexible. This content type puts the pace of learning in your hands. As you scroll, you'll learn about processes like CRISPR through graphic animations. Accompanying text provides useful context. You can control the speed as you go back and forth, making it easier to examine a particular step in depth.

Creating the perfect recipe for a blended learning environment can be a tricky balance. Join us as we discuss key ingredients for the blend of digital content and activity with face-to-face content and activity. We'll also share some of our favorite webtools to use in blended learning

Google Classroom has a plethora of fantastic features, but that doesn't mean getting started needs to be overwhelming. Join us as we discuss setting up your first class, organizing your content with topics, getting students into your class, and adding your first assignment.

Transform your content and simplify your grading process with one tool: TeacherMade! TeacherMade allows educators to convert images, pdfs, and Docx files to digital assignments, featuring interactive answer fields and auto-grading! With tons of free features and an intuitive user interface, this is one online tool you won’t want to miss!

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Get the latest on the University of Cincinnati's Economics Center’s $martPath, a new, online teaching resource for grades 1-6 geared towards economic and financial education. There will a tutorial of the tool and discuss ways to implement $martPath in your classroom.

Featuring more than 300 options, the teaching resource collection includes activities, videos, and literacy resources for Grades K-12.

This is a collection of resources for teaching and learning from the Smithsonian Institute including grade leveled interdisciplinary resources, classroom-ready content for contemporary issues, and Signature Smithsonian Programs.

Social-emotional learning is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions. Research demonstrates that students who receive support for social and emotional learning in schools do better academically, socially and behaviorally. Social-emotional learning has also been shown to positively impact economic mobility and mental health outcomes. Developing these skills in our students is an important part of meeting the needs of the whole child.

WOSU Public Media is uniquely positioned to foster social-emotional development in a pre-school and elementary schools. The broadcast and digital assets of PBS Kids are trusted by parents, have a wide following with families, and are aligned with early learning and development standards recognized by educators and policymakers. This session provides a strong foundation in social and emotional awareness content integrating PBS Learning Apps, WOSU Public Media’s Ready to Learn resources, and a new video series, Drawing with Mr. J, to engage early learning educators with students and their families. Educators will learn how to put into action educational programming to open the door for rich conversations between children, parents, and educators about self-regulation, agency, identity and emotional balance aligned with Ohio’s Social and Emotional Learning Standards.

Educators will examine effective ways of connecting and communicating even in the most challenging situations and strategies for building collaborative classroom communities and positive learning environments. Educators will explore concepts and skills related to social and emotional learning.

Approximate time to complete this course is 4 hours. A micro-credential is available from Digital Promise upon completion.

Social-Emotional Learning is an important component of being successful in school and society. In this session, each of the 5 components of social-emotional learning (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making) will be explored. That exploration will be done through tools connected to lesson plans. In the time allotted for this session, the participant could potentially be introduced to 10-15 new integration tools. Each of those tools will be weaved into a lesson that supports social-emotional learning.

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The State Board approved the Social Studies Standards and Model Curriculum in February, 2018. This document contains the K-high school courses.