Did you know there are more than four billion Google hits for education? Well, we’re here to help narrow the field. We’ve curated a collection of tried-and-true resources for teachers, leaders, and parents in the rural schools community. Happy clicking!
College Resources
College, Career & Student Educational Attainment
Diverse & Special Populations
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
This section contains resources for diversity including cultural, linguistic, social-emotional, physical, and intellectual information.
Cultural
- How to Fulfill Interpretation & Translation Requirements: Tools for Guiding Decisions (Great article and linked resources)
- National Education Association/EdJustice (Advocate for racial and social justice in our schools and communities)
- Racial Equity Tools (Support for individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity)
- Welcoming Families of Different Cultures
Linguistic
- Center for Applied Linguistics (Resources/professional development for educators surrounding multilingualism/world languages)
Healthcare, Mental Health & Emotional Health
- 12-Step Programs
- Addiction and Mental Health Resources for Students
- Addiction Center
- Addiction Codependency in Families
- Addiction Resources
- Health World Education
- Homeless Students and Education
- How Healthcare Administrators Are Tackling the Binge Drinking Epidemic
- Rehab Programs
- Rural Health Association
- SEL/Healthcare, Mental Health & Emotional Health
- ASCD Resources to Support Social-Emotional Learning: ASCD has collected useful resources to help teachers integrate SEL into the classroom. The resources include book chapters, articles, videos, webinars, and quick reference guides.
- Adult SEL Toolkit: This toolkit provides resources for supporting educator wellbeing and social-emotional capacity, including:
- Panorama’s Adult SEL Measures (includes 15 survey topics)
- Four Adult SEL Strategies from Panorama’s Professional Learning Library
- Three Activities for Adults to Practice Modeling SEL
- SEL Exploration Worksheet
- Child Mind Institute: (Brain research/science behind mental health, learning disorders, and behavioral issues. Resource aimed at optimizing learning environments for students.)
- Latinx Therapists and Speakers: (Wellness resources, courses, workshops, and search tools for locating therapists and motivational speakers nationwide.)
- Teaching Strategies for Learners with Social and Emotional Needs
- Vaping Daily
- Vision Center
- Vet Bills: Should You Get a Personal Loan?
Legislative & Government
National Organizations or Services
- American Association of Educational Service Agencies
- American Association of School Administrators
- ACT, Inc.
- Committee for Education Funding
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
- National Association for Multicultural Education
- National Association of Secondary School Principals
- National Association of State Directors of Special Education
- National Council of Teachers of English
- National Education Association
- National Farmers Union
- National Indian Education Association
- National Parent/Teachers Association
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
- Native American Scholarships
- Native American Student Scholarships and Resources
- Navigating Resources for Rural Schools
- Organizations Concerned About Rural Education
Podcasts
Regional Educational Laboratories
Remote COVID-19 Resources
- Digital Technology
- GetSetup For Remote Learning – Teachers shifting to remote learning are navigating a lot of challenges, including learning how to use tech. This resource, created in partnership between GetSetUp and The Learning Accelerator, offers educator-to-educator training on the tools they need to plan, connect, and provide instruction and support for students
- Digital Equity Resources from Beth Holland – Beth wrote two reports for CoSN that might be helpful for your members. You could also let the group know about the EdWeb series she facilitated this year.
- School Reopening Guidance and Information:
- The Parabola Project – Ariadne Labs and The Learning Accelerator recently announced the launch of The Parabola Project, an initiative that aims to rapidly develop evidence-informed guidance and tools to help school system leaders consider options for school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Parabola Project draws on expertise from both the education and health communities with the goal of minimizing health risks to students, staff, and teachers while maximizing learning for all students. Resources, which are available free of cost, include:
- School Reopening Readiness Guide: This evidence-informed guide is intended to assist district and school leaders in developing, evaluating, and executing operational plans for reopening schools, as well as in assessing readiness to implement these plans.
- Practitioner Toolkit: How to Build a Mask Culture: This resource aims to help educators consider how to best help students adjust to and sustain mask-wearing.
- Practitioner Toolkit: Learning Together In Socially Distanced Classrooms: This resource aims to help educators consider how to support small-group, collaborative, and one-to-one learning while physically distancing
- The Parabola Project – Ariadne Labs and The Learning Accelerator recently announced the launch of The Parabola Project, an initiative that aims to rapidly develop evidence-informed guidance and tools to help school system leaders consider options for school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Parabola Project draws on expertise from both the education and health communities with the goal of minimizing health risks to students, staff, and teachers while maximizing learning for all students. Resources, which are available free of cost, include:
Remote Learning
- Age of Learning – This site provides schools closed due to the coronavirus with free home access for all affected families to leading digital education programs such as ABCmouse, Adventure Academy, and ReadingIQ. The programs serve students in preschool/pre-k, elementary school, and middle school.
- BetterLesson – Distance Learning
- Digital Teaching Tools:
- Teaching and Learning: Remote and In-Person/Remote Learning
- Teachers (engaging students, resources for developing remote teaching, technological resources, and skills (Google Meet, Zoom, Google/Apple Classroom, etc.)
- Eight Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom: This article discusses strategies to improve student participation in asynchronous and synchronous online learning.
- Five Synchronous Strategies: Spider web discussion, using chat to check for understanding, flip your classroom to stimulate deeper discussion, adapting think-pair-share to Zoom, and a new twist on show-and-tell.
- Three Asynchronous Strategies: Online forums create back-and-forth dialogue, seeing and critiquing peer work through virtual gallery walks, and moving station brainstorming online.
- Six Classroom Strategies that Work for Generating Student Discussions Online (synchronous): The six strategies include check-in as a class, private think time, ask “What do you notice?”, validate student thinking, make use of small groups, and be ok with Asgard silence.
- Seven Activities to Build Community and Positive Classroom Culture During Online Learning.
Activities include: - Turning Mistakes into Teachable Moments: This article includes multiple strategies such as strategies for avoiding “shutdown” in students, encouraging students to learn from mistakes, etc.
- COVID-19 Resources for Educators: This website includes crisis response resources by topical areas including:
- Engaging ELs Who Are Disengaged During Virtual Learning: This article provides six basic tenets for teaching ELs in virtual learning
- Making Grades Meaningful: ASCD Express publishes and provides a series of articles on meaningful grading for K–12 educators to consider.
- Eight Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom: This article discusses strategies to improve student participation in asynchronous and synchronous online learning.
- Teachers (engaging students, resources for developing remote teaching, technological resources, and skills (Google Meet, Zoom, Google/Apple Classroom, etc.)
- Professional Development Resources/Teacher Professional Development
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- Center for Applied Linguistics: (Professional development for educators surrounding multilingualism/world languages).
- Helping ELL/ESL Students Succeed (professional learning community) (Resource library for educators, webinars, and online discussions on current practices for teachers of English learners).
- WestEd: nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency working with education and other communities to improve education and other important outcomes for children, youth, and adults.
- English Language Learners Online: This three-credit online course addresses all the English Learner Professional Development Quality Standards, provides teachers a foundational knowledge of first and second language acquisition and literacy development, explores tools and strategies for selecting curricular materials, makes literacy and content more accessible to English learners, and discusses equitable assessments that better support English learners for success in the classroom.
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- Instructional Support
- Quality Learning at Home
- Rural Resource Hub
- The PBL Project
Rural Community & Families/Resources for Parents and Families
- Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues
- Resources for Parents and Families
- Tutorials for Google Classroom (Multiple languages):
- Tutorials for Zoom in Spanish
- Strategies or Things Parents Can Do to Help Their Children
- We Can Do This Campaign
School Reopening Guidance and State Plans
- Arkansas Department of Education Information for Reopening
- Georgia Department of Education School Reopening Guidelines
- K–12 State Reopening Plans
- Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association Guidance
- New York State Reopening Roadmap
- Pennsylvania Phased Reopening Preliminary Guidance
- Re-Entry Resources and Guidance
- Washington State Reopening District Planning Guide
Teacher Leaders
Teacher Professional Development
Resources for TE Programs/Teacher Professional Development
- Grad Courses – English Learner Portal: (Workshops, coaching, collaborative lesson planning, online courses, program development)
- Free webinar recordings: (Series of webinars highlighting the best of the best professional learning ideas from English Learner Profile experts)
- Teacher Educators
Teacher Recruitment & Retention
Teaching Candidates/Resources for Teacher Education Programs
