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Webinars

For the balance of the 2020 school year, the CDE plans to host Altitude Learning webinars on Thursdays.

Completed:

Implementing the 2019 Arts Standards Through Distance Learning: Lessons from the Field
This webinar is hosted past the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division in collaboration with the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) Arts Initiative and The California Arts Project (TCAP). Presenters will provide a high-level overview of the 2019 California Arts Standards and and then feature voices of arts educators from several disciplines sharing how they are implementing the 2019 standards through distance learning.
- Implementing the 2019 Arts Standards Through Distance Learning: Lessons from the Field Slides (PPTX; Added 22-Jul-2020)
- Implementing the 2019 Arts Standards Through Distance Learning: Lessons from the Field Notes
Universal Pattern for Learning in Distance Learning for Early Childhood
Hosted by the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Sectionalization in collaboration with the Early Learning and Intendance Division and the California Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Coalition, this webinar volition provide information on UDL and its application to altitude learning for early childhood education.
Kelly Wylie and Kathy Wahl from the Santa Clara County Part of Education will provide a wide overview of UDL and guidance on integrating UDL principles as educators plan and deliver instruction in a altitude learning format for preschool students.
- Universal Design for Learning in Distance Learning for Early Babyhood Slides (PPTX; Added 11-Jul-2020)
- Universal Design for Learning in Distance Learning for Early on Babyhood Notes
The Role of Loftier–Quality Instructional Materials to Support Distance Learning
The California Department of Education and CalCurriculum examine the office of high-quality instructional materials in a altitude learning context. This webinar includes information and guidance for local educational agency considerations related to instructional materials and the upcoming school year.
- The Role of High–Quality Instructional Materials to Support Distance Learning Slides (PPTX; Added nineteen-Jun-2020)
- The Office of Loftier–Quality Instructional Materials to Support Distance Learning Notes
Going the Distance with World Languages: Proficiency-Oriented Distance Learning, May 28, 2020
Nicole Naditz—Program Specialist for Instructional Technology and World Languages at San Juan Unified Schoolhouse Commune, National Board Certified Teacher, and former Chair of the World Languages Subject Matter Committee in the Instructional Quality Commission—facilitates this webinar focused on sharing ideas for engaging students of languages other than English. Ms. Naditz shares tools and resources that teachers can employ in the context of distance learning to ensure students continue to develop and strengthen their linguistic communication conquering.
- Resources related to this webinar:
Resource for Remote Learning for Students who are Bullheaded and Visually Dumb, May xix, 2020
Presented by California School for the Blind and the Clearinghouse for Specialized Media & Technology, this webinar provides resources and case studies for providing remote learning to students of all ages and abilities who are blind and/or visually impaired.
- Resources for Remote Learning for Students who are Blind and Visually Impaired Webinar Slides (PPTX; Added 28-May-2020)
Support for Distance Learning: the History–Social Science and English Language Arts/English language Language Development Frameworks, May 14, 2020
Hosted by the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Partitioning in collaboration with the Monterey Canton Office of Education and the California History–Social Science Projection, this presentation provides an overview of how the state-adopted curriculum frameworks in history–social science and English language arts/English language evolution tin support teachers and administrators in implementing a distance learning instructional plan.
- Support for Altitude Learning: the H-SS and ELA/ELD Frameworks Webinar Notes
- Support for Distance Learning: the H-SS and ELA/ELD Frameworks Webinar Slides (PPTX; Added 28-May-2020)
Virtual Support Circle for Educators Webinar May 7, 2020
Hosted past the State Superintendent of Public Didactics, Tony Thurmond, and the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division, this Virtual Back up Circle for Educators features an online panel of educators and experts who share their experiences, tips for educator wellness, and resources. This was originally streamed on Facebook live. You can find our posts and videos by following CAEducation on Facebook.
- Virtual Support for Educators Webinar Notes
- Virtual Support Circle for Educators Webinar Slides (PPTX; Added 08-May-2020)
Implementing UDL in a Distance Learning Environs, Apr 24, 2020
Hosted by the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resource Division in collaboration with the California Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Coalition, this webinar volition provide information on UDL, a framework that can assist in the planning of instruction through a lens of equity and inclusion, whether that instruction is delivered in a classroom or from a distance.
- Implementing UDL in a Distance Learning Environment Webinar Notes
- Implementing UDL in a Distance Learning Environment Webinar Slides (PPTX; Added 06-May-2020)
Central Principles for a Quality Distance Learning Approach Apr 17, 2020
This video presentation is designed for G–12 instructor teams to virtually collaborate and larn together nigh some key principles and practical examples to consider as you design your lessons in a distance learning environs. Throughout the video presentation, you'll have an opportunity to talk over with your colleagues the ideas presented and how y'all can apply new learnings into your planning.
What Districts are Doing to Back up their Students and an introduction of the English language Learner Support Division Resources, April 9, 2020 (Added 14-April-2020)
This webinar highlights the work of Glendale Unified School District and Natomas Unified District in transition to distance learning. Information technology also introduces California Department of Education English Learner resource, presented by the English Learner Back up Sectionalization.
- What Districts are Doing to Support their Students and English language Learner Support Strategies Webinar Notes (Added ten-Apr-2020)
- What Districts are Doing to Support their Students and English Learner Support Strategies Webinar Slides (PPTX; Added 10-April-2020)

The links below are to information and resource provided in consultancy session webinars presented by the California Partnership for Math and Science Education (CAPMSE). These webinars did non record the breakout sessions, although future webinars volition include that content. For more information, please visit the CAPMSE website .

Creating meaningful math and science learning experiences for loftier schoolhouse online, April 2, 2020 (with the Exploratorium'south Institute for Inquiry)
Using engineering, applications, and other resource to support all learner access to math and science from a distance, April ix, 2020 (with Dr. Nathan Swett)
Exploring UDL for Stem in a distance environment, April 16, 2020 (with Dr. Rachel Lambert and Dr. Alexandria Hansen)
Creating meaningful math and science learning experiences for One thousand-8 students, April thirty, 2020 (with teachers from the Instructional Leadership Corps)

A comprehensive listing of all CDE webinars related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

State, County Part of Instruction, and District Resources

This section contains links to resource, tools, and programs that local educational agencies (LEAs), county offices of education, and land partners take shared with usa to support California teachers and families.

Developed collaboratively with CCEE, Riverside COE, and San Diego COE, the Continuity of Learning Playbook provides guidance nearly how to best leverage existing resources, translating individual activities into an action-oriented preparedness plan for the delivery of services to support the continuity of learning for all students. Whether LEAs are implementing an on-site, remote, or hybrid model, this Playbook will support school and district leadership teams make evidence-based decisions aligned with all-time practices to accost the following topics and needs:
- Communication/Family Engagement
- SEL/Trauma-Informed Back up
- Constructive Scheduling
- Special Education
- Staff Engagement and Professional Learning
- Cess of Needs and Progress
- English language Learners
- Integration of Programs and Resources

Kern County Superintendent of Schools: At-Domicile Learning Resource .
Kern County schools are using a combination of newspaper packets and online tools like Google Classroom, Canvas, Zoom and other virtual learning applications. The Calm Learning Resources page includes resources related to Sail, as well as Supplemental Distance Learning, Military camp KEEP Digital Content, and Distance Learning Support.
The California Collaborative for Educational Excellence has adult a series of modules on equity, learning systems and strategies, special education and additional matters related to distance learning. For more data visit the CCEE website .
San Diego Unified Schoolhouse District has created an instructional resource page designed to provide family support during school closures.
Digital Learning Integration and Standards Guidance Project
The 2019–2020 California State Budget allocated funding for the Sacramento County Office of Instruction to develop draft distance learning curriculum and instructional guidance for mathematics, English language arts, and English language language evolution to be adopted past the Land Board of Teaching by May 31, 2021. For more information, see the Funding Upshot of Accolade Notification to Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools.
Online Educational Resource is a crowdsourced master certificate of free resource that is beingness circulated among teachers and parents. Information technology has not been vetted past the CDE, just it contains an extensive list of resources and how to access them for gratuitous.
San Diego County Function of Educational activity has designed distance learning units of study in grades M-12 that are focused on grade-level essential learning in each content expanse. These units integrate English language language arts, English language language development, mathematics, scientific discipline, history/social scientific discipline, arts, computer science, and concrete education content and provide flexibility and student choice.

Quality Altitude Learning Guidance from California School Library Clan (CSLA) Teacher Librarians

Nosotros believe: Learning takes time. We recommend being open-minded and flexible. We emphasize developing and maintaining a supportive customs. We believe that instruction can be synchronous as well as asynchronous. We believe that students need fourth dimension every day to read both for understanding new content likewise as self-selected reading for personalized learning.

Steps to successfully implement distance learning:

Bank check with your school commune for guidelines and expectations
Utilize and connect with your Teacher Librarian for support:
- Promoting reading literacy in all formats and forms including but not limited to e-books, audiobooks, read alouds, library card back up
- Collaborating with curriculum development, inquiry, formative and summative assessment
- Implementing instructional lessons beyond the curriculum
- Providing Professional Development
- Curating digital resources in multiple formats to target diverse student needs
- Providing online opportunities, preparation, and support for students to employ digital library resources for research, individual exploration, independent reading and personalized learning including CA Library Database support
- Providing ane to ane support and training for implementation of technology
- Building relationships and learning communities
- Teaching and implementing Data literacy skills and research integration
- Integrating digital citizenship lessons to go on our students safe online
- Transitioning face to face lessons to distance learning
- Implementing tools and pedagogy to increase pupil engagement
- Supporting ELL and Special Needs teachers and students with resources and guidance supporting IEP and 504 needs
- Supporting synchronous and asynchronous educational activity
- Supporting SEL
- Supporting MTSS practices and needs
For specific information most online digital resources for the classroom contact your schoolhouse or district librarian, your county office of education librarian or contact the School Library Technology Consultant every bit the California Department of Education
CA State Library Database is California's online content project for kindergarten through class twelve. It provides no cost access to Encyclopedia Britannica, ProQuest, and TeachingBooks.net, a collection of volume guides and lessons.

Bank check with CSLA for additional resources and help. Email assist@csla.net

The Orange County Office of Education has curated resource for instructional continuity.
The San Diego County Role of Didactics provides a list of distance learning resources by content area.
Santa Clara County Office of Pedagogy has posted online resources on its spider web page.
Free Access to University of California A-1000 Online Loftier School Courses (PDF; Updated 01-Apr-2020)

Content Enrichment and Extension

This department includes links to state and local systems, agencies, and organizations that provide opportunities to raise altitude learning. This collection includes content, resources, and tools that teachers and parents can apply to enrich curriculum and promote student engagement.

Digital Resource by Content Area

Arts Education

Online resources to support remote arts instruction education.

During the pandemic, some in-person activities associated with performing arts courses (dance, music, and theatre), such as groups practicing and performing, may sometimes non be possible. Despite this, teaching can continue to focus on the 2019 California Arts Standards associated with the artistic processes of creating, responding, and connecting, and students tin continue to do for performances during contained practical learning fourth dimension. Educators may as well consider how to approach rehearsal and performances through shared engineering platforms and other innovative approaches. On April 14, 2021, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued new guidance including industry-specific guidance for Outdoor Seated Live Events and Performances (PDF) and Indoor Seated Live Events and Performances (PDF). These documents include guidance for rehearsals which may also be useful for schools and districts. Delight annotation that CDPH guidance is subject to change as conditions evolve.

General Arts Teaching Resources

For users of Apple products, Apple's K-12 Teacher Resource includes Anybody Can Create with gratuitous project guides that help teach students to develop and communicate their ideas through drawing, photography, video, and music.
The Arts Media and Entertainment (AME) Distance Learning Task Force has compiled distance learning collections for the industry sector pathways Design, Visual and Commercial Arts, Performing Arts, Production and Managerial Arts, and Game Design and all 11 sub-pathways in the AME industry sector.
The California Department of Pedagogy, the California County Superintendents Instruction Services Association (CCSESA) and The California Arts Projection (TCAP) have collaborated to produce an Arts Standards Webinar Serial which may be useful to arts educators to build understanding of the 2019 California Arts Standards as they plan standards-based distance learning lessons.
The CCSESA Arts Initiative produced Creativity at the Core, Professional person Learning Modules , 21 Professional person learning modules for arts educators on various topics. Module two is Altitude Learning Through the Arts: Equal Admission for All.
Educators may wish to contact the CCSESA Regional Arts Leads and the TCAP Regional Site for their county to find out nearly additional supports for distance learning that may exist available in their region.
CaArtsEd Chat is hosted weekly by a small-scale grouping of arts didactics leaders from several different school districts in California. Sample topics include the 2019 Arts Standards, the 2020 Arts Framework, and distance learning.
The DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative offers a Distance Learning Resource Database which is organized for searching for lessons by elementary, middle, and high school. Information technology includes online and printable visual and performing arts and humanities learning resources for students, teachers, and families.
Classroom Resource from The Kennedy Center include "a robust collection of hundreds of digital learning resource: lessons, articles, performance guides, how-tos and much more than." The free resources include a range of different approaches to arts integration. While all of the digital resource here tin can be useful for remote arts learning, there is also a page dedicated specifically to Arts Education at Home.
The National Endowment for the Arts web folio Resources to Assist Ensure Accessibility of Your Virtual Events for People with Disabilities includes guidance for online learning events.
PBS Learning Media provides resources and activities for dance , media arts , music , theatre , and visual arts .
TedEd has a curated collection of lessons and videos arts educators in all disciplines may observe useful to supplement and illustrate concepts when designing standards-based distance learning experiences.

Dance Pedagogy

Media Arts Educational activity

Adobe Educational activity Exchange offers Adobe Altitude Learning Resource for educators and students who employ Adobe tools in their media arts classes with free lessons, projects, and activities for primary, center, or secondary school students and teachers.
The University of Notre Dame Remix page supports students to larn, explore, and build multimedia (prototype, audio, video, information) projects. The tutorials, assignments and projects tin can support loftier schoolhouse students every bit they master the Producing media arts standards equally well as educators who wish to build their own understanding of media arts.
The Pedagogy Development Center, Inc., an international, nonprofit arrangement website Digital Media Arts offers costless Career Technical Education curriculum for loftier schoolhouse students that tin can be used to provide distance learning in media arts. The website includes overviews and tutorials.
Kahn University offers several storytelling lessons such as Pixar in a Box, and Imagineering in a Box, thanks to a collaboration with Disney, where students can learn about and practice media arts production.

Music Instruction

Theatre Educational activity

Visual Arts Instruction

English Language Arts

Online resources to support remote English Language Arts/literacy and reading didactics, including lesson ideas and mobile apps for students and teachers.

Curriculum Associates Free Downloadable Reading Packets Printable at-home action packs that are designed to provide students with valuable self-directed exercises and practice during extended absences from school. Each pack is designed to reinforce cardinal concepts for a given course. i-Prepare's engaging online lessons can support at-home learning.
Myon a student-centered, personalized literacy environment that gives students access to more 6,000 enhanced digital books.
Starfall Reading a free public service to teach children to read. It includes language arts and mathematics for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third class. Starfall emphasizes phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity.
StoryKit is a simple storybook creation app, with a individual online sharing tool. It caters to students in grades 1-4 and above, and allows them opportunities to create stories, add pictures, and infuse recordings of their own voices.
Cadre Knowledge provides open admission to an exemplary curriculum for preschool through eighth grade.
Open Culture allows visitors to download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 thespian or computer. Beneath, y'all'll observe slap-up works of fiction , poesy , and non-fiction , by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more than.
Librivox - Gratis Public Domain Audiobooks features recordings of books in the public domain read by volunteers from effectually the world.
CommonLit - Gratuitous reading passages in all literacy and nonfiction genres for grades 3-12.
ReadWriteThink Free Mobile Apps helps students engage in literacy learning using tablet devices. No internet connexion is required once the apps are downloaded. Offers resource for grade levels K-12.
ReadWorks , driven by cognitive science research, ReadWorks aims to create world-class content, teacher guidance, and integrated tools that amend teacher effectiveness and educatee accomplishment. They leverage cognitive-science research to create high-impact instructional materials and tools that are designed for immediate utilize inside the practical realities of current U.S. classrooms.

Health – Comprehensive Sexual Health Pedagogy: The California Healthy Youth Human action

Because the California Healthy Youth Deed (CHYA) requires instruction to develop student's knowledge and skills, online instruction has non been previously considered for this type of educational activity. In response to the closure of schools, every effort is existence made past the CHYA curriculum providers to brand instruction every bit interactive as possible. If your school district has purchased a CHYA compliant curriculum, delight contact the publisher at present for new online resources.

General guidelines for comprehensive sexual health pedagogy during distance learning:

Be mindful of the surroundings in which comprehensive sexual health instruction will accept identify in the home
If possible, picket privately or with a trusted adult
If possible, use headphones and be discrete with the laptop screen

Gratis Resources:

Essential Access Health . This resources helps parents/guardians talk to their own children in an age advisable mode most sexuality, healthy relationships and so much more.
ETR . This resources will help with the transition from in-person didactics and grooming to online design and commitment. Additional resources are embedded.
ETR . These lessons from Health Smart for K-12 focus on hand washing, hygiene and general health. There are multiple lessons for each grade level.
Be Real. Be Gear up . San Francisco Unified Schoolhouse Commune's comprehensive relationship and sexuality pedagogy curriculum designed for loftier school students. It is medically accurate; skills based; and LGBTQ inclusive that meets both the California Healthy Youth Act and the California State Health Education Content Standards.
For all other guidance regarding the California Good for you Youth Deed, please see the California Department of Education website.

History and Social Science

Digital and online resources for teachers to develop lessons, locate principal and secondary source materials, and connect students with resources for research and inquiry-based lessons.

Education Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators apply our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to assist teachers finer apply principal sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.
The Stanford History Instruction Group is an award-winning research and development group that seeks to ameliorate educational activity past conducting research, working with school districts, and reaching directly into classrooms with gratis materials for teachers and students. Their current piece of work focuses on how young people evaluate online content. Their Civic Online Reasoning curriculum to assistance students develop the skills needed to navigate our current digital landscape.
The Smithsonian
Many museums, cultural sites, and historical sites offering virtual tours and livestreaming. Here are a few, only an internet search will reveal many others:
Take a virtual tour of a California country park .Thanks to a partnership between California Country Parks and Google Maps, you tin can now visit many of our beautiful parks correct from your computer, tablet or smart phone. A full of 110 state park destinations have been filmed using Google Trekker, a haversack-mounted camera that provides 360 caste footage.
The Zinn Educational activity Projection promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in classrooms beyond the country. They aim to equip students with the belittling tools to make sense of and better the globe today. Their website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme , fourth dimension period , and grade level. The pedagogy materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history.
World History For Us All is a national collaboration of K-12 teachers, collegiate instructors, and educational engineering specialists. This is a great site for eye and high school teachers to locate powerful, innovative model curriculum. World History for Us All helps students understand the past past connecting specific field of study affair to larger historical patterns, and draws on upward-to-date historical enquiry.
Teaching California offers costless online instructional materials to support the California History-Social Science Framework, with an emphasis on primary sources.
The Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship (CLIC) Projection offers resources for educators to take an inquiry-based approach to learning about various topics including Armenian Genocide, the Bracero Program, Environmental Literacy, and approaches to civic learning (Check with regional leads for additional resources available for online learning).
California History-Social Science Project provides professional person learning and free resources such as The History Blueprint and The Source. See links to regional sites for additional information and support.
BBC Bitesize History Bitesize is the BBC's free online study support resource for school-age students in the United Kingdom. It is designed to help students in both schoolwork and, for older students, exams.
CrashCourse History Channel on YouTube Crash Course believes that high quality educational videos should be bachelor to anybody for free. The Crash Course team has produced more 15 courses to date, and these videos accompany high schoolhouse and higher level classes ranging from the humanities to the sciences. Crash Course transforms the traditional textbook model by presenting information in a fast-paced format, enhancing the learning feel. With hundreds of millions of views on our YouTube channel, Crash Grade has a worldwide audience in and out of classrooms. While the show is an immensely helpful tool for students and teachers, it as well has a large viewership of casual learners who seek out online educational content independently. It has changed attitudes towards education past creating a community of learners who are looking for more than simply help passing a test.
Oyez is a resource for teaching Supreme Court Cases that includes the instance history, relevant precedent, arguments, and the Supreme Court Determination and applicable dissents.
The National Athenaeum features a website that is easy to navigate and includes lots of teacher resources. They feature a daily historical document relating to an outcome from that twenty-four hours in history. The online catalog can be searched using keywords, and 100 "milestone" documents are identified every bit significant to American history.
National Athenaeum: Elementary School Altitude Learning Programs Gratis, interactive programs that feature primary sources from the Distance Learning Programs. Each program aligns with National Social Studies Standards and Common Cadre State Standards. It likewise provides teacher guides with pre- and post-program lessons.
DocsTeach is full of activities for educators. The documents are organized past different periods in American history. If you're teaching "Civil War and Reconstruction" or "Revolution and the New Nation," just click on the topic to find hundreds of master source documents. DocsTeach provides sound, video, charts, graphs, maps and more.
Spartacus Educational is a resources for global history. It contains free encyclopedia entries that direct connect to primary source documents, making it a useful tool for educators looking to give students a starting indicate in their research.
Fordham Academy is another resource for global history. It organizes principal sources into periods of American history, from the "Reformation" to "Mail-World State of war 2 Religious Thought." Teachers can detect full texts available from Fordham or like institutions appropriate for the middle school and high schoolhouse classroom.
Broken downward by time period then listed in alphabetical social club, the Avalon Project at Yale University offers primary sources for global history teachers. This database starts with ancient and medieval documents and moves into nowadays times. In addition to categories that accost specific historical periods, the Avalon Project includes links to human being rights documents as function of Project Diana .
USHistory.org Gratis Online Textbooks provides loftier school courses for students, teachers, home-schoolers, and history lovers.
Google and Life Magazine have a search engine that lets users search millions of images from the Life Magazine Photo Annal. Users can type in key terms to guide their searches, look through images organized past decade (1860s through 1970s), or significant people, places, events or sports topics.

Mathematics

Online and digital resources for math instruction, assessment, and independent practice, including tutorials and videos.

Curriculum Assembly Free Downloadable Math Packets Printable at-dwelling house activity packs designed to provide students with valuable self-directed exercises and practice during extended absences from schoolhouse. Each pack is designed to reinforce cardinal concepts for a given grade.
PhET Simulations support math and science learning.
Zearn is offering their unabridged K-v curriculum - including 400 hours of digital lessons with on-screen teachers and supportive remediation.
Eureka Math offers its curriculum as PDF downloads for gratuitous, not-commercial use. The curriculum is accompanied by a selection of instructional materials and support resources for teachers at no additional price.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics provides access quality standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics, including interactive tools for students and instructional support for teachers. Lessons and activities on Illuminations align with NCTM's Principles and Standards for Schoolhouse Mathematics and the Mutual Core Country Standards.
National Clan for the Education of Young Children encourages mathematics learning at home.
Illustrated Mathematics Gratuitous Educational Resource and Videos
California Partnership for Math and Science Education (CAPMSE) One thousand-8 Math and Science Repository
The Repository is a resource for educators to design meaningful instruction in remote, hybrid, or in-person environments. The Repository offers ready-to-use lessons, a altitude learning framework, not-digital supports for students, supports for leveraging applied science, guidance on how to use Universal Design for Learning in conjustion with the lessons, SEL supports, and English learner supports.

Concrete Education

Resources to promote and maintain concrete teaching curricula in altitude-learning environments. Many of these resources are designed for students who are homeschooled just could exist used or adapted for use in a distance-learning environment.

Science

Online and digital resources for scientific discipline didactics, including tutorials, videos, and online labs.

PhET Simulations back up math and science learning.
Legends of Learning provides educational games for grades 3–8. These resources have been fabricated available for costless due to school closures.
National Scientific discipline Teaching Association contains resources from NSTA to assist yous support your kid'due south learning in science at dwelling and at school.
California Scientific discipline Teachers Association Resource is a collection of resource for educators curated by CSTA.
MysteryScience has made their resources gratis in response to the Coronavirus.
NASA Education Resources (searchable by topic) provides informative educational materials that appoint student interest in science, engineering, technology and mathematics.
Teach Engineering - This collection aligns with land and/or national science, mathematics and technology educational standards, and uses technology every bit the vehicle to integrate science and mathematics concepts for K-12 students.
US Department of Energy Education Resource is a partnership between the US Department of Energy partnered with the National Energy Teaching Evolution Project (Need) to create free energy didactics resources for classroom and educational use.
The Physics Classroom is a collection of online tutorials, concept builders, and interactive lessons for students.
Edutopia: 10 Websites for Science Teachers offers summaries and links to x websites covering topics such equally the process of science, field research journals, evolution, PhET simulations, World exploration, EdHead interactives, plants, chemical science, scientists, and more.
California Academy of Sciences Educator Resources provides lesson plans, science videos, and distance learning programs.
Bill Nye The Science Guy offers a collection of episode guides and videos also as directions for home demos that can be found under the "Learn" section and cover topics such as life science, physical science, and planetary science.
Discovery Education is an online Yard-12 learning platform. Information technology provides multimedia, virtual activities and easily-on labs with model lessons in Scientific discipline, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Switcheroo Zoo helps kids larn about animals by playing games.
Californians Dedicated to Instruction Foundation is hosting a Lunch Bites webinar serial that aims to provide short sessions that provide tangible tools y'all tin can immediately use to provide online teaching.
California Partnership for Math and Science Education (CAPMSE) K-8 Math and Science Repository
The Repository is a resources for educators to blueprint meaningful pedagogy in remote, hybrid, or in-person environments. The Repository offers ready-to-use lessons, a distance learning framework, non-digital supports for students, supports for leveraging engineering, guidance on how to use Universal Design for Learning in conjustion with the lessons, SEL supports, and English learner supports.

Earth Languages

Online resources to back up remote world languages instruction.

Writing

Online and digital resources to promote student engagement though creative writing and writing prompts. This list also includes resources for students working on sustained academic writing, including research.

Career Technical Education

Online resources to support remote Career Technical Educational activity (CTE) instruction.

The Career and College Transition Division has nerveless links to distance learning resources that tin aid educators with providing support with Career Technical Educational activity (CTE) curriculum and lessons for teachers and administrators. For the latest data and resources regarding CTE from the California Department of Education, including altitude learning, please visit the CTE Distance Learning Website.

Pre-K Learning, Games, and Activities

Complimentary and open-source resources and guidance for fostering early childhood/pre-k learning at habitation.

Current Events and News Outlets for Students

Digital and online resources that provide educatee-friendly access to current events. Some of these resource besides provide reading guides, quizzes, and activities to back up educatee learning.

Free Educational Resources for Distance Learning

We are providing a list of publishers offering free altitude learning resource. At the links listed, users tin can learn about the specific resource available as publishers go along to expand their offerings. In this list beneath, educators and parents/guardians may detect the private resources they desire for a particular need.

Articles to Navigate Altitude Learning

These articles that provide guidance on developing distance learning lessons and units also as advice specifically related to moving to online instruction every bit a result of the coronavirus

Supporting Students with Disabilities in Distance Learning

Resource to help support students with disabilities consummate tasks and assignments and adjust to new routines in the transition to distance learning.

Virtual School Programs

It is a local governing board decision whether or not to laurels credit for courses completed outside of the district. A variety of courses are available online, including those that are grounded in the Common Cadre State Standards adopted by California and that meet A–G requirements.

Resources

Districts should acquit a careful analysis of these courses and consider awarding credit where advisable.

Language Support

The English Learner Support Division has collected links to distance learning resources that tin assist educators with providing linguistic communication support to students and families. For the latest information from the California Department of Education regarding resources for English learner education, including altitude learning, please visit the English Learner Updates Newsletters web folio.

English language Development Learning, Games, and Activities

Online resources to support remote English language Language Evolution (ELD) instruction, including lesson ideas and mobile apps for students and teachers.

COVID-xix Information: English Learners provides responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs), ELD resources, and multilingual resource to support English language learners and their families during the COVID-nineteen pandemic.
BrainPOP ELL is BrainPOP's English language instruction site for English Language Learners of all ages. The curriculum is comprised of short, animated movies equally well as games, quizzes and interactive features. Users practice the four principle language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Colorín Colorado offers resource for families that can exist used for distance learning with English learners. They as well appear to be growing their collecting of resources in response to the COVID-nineteen school closures, and then more than resources for distance learning may be available in the futurity.
CommonLit is a collection of reading passages in all literary and nonfiction genres for grades 3–12. Reading passages are available in Castilian.
Duolingo is a gratuitous language acquisition tool that is extremely similar to Rosetta Stone.
Pedagogy.com features digital resources, tools, and learning materials are developed by educational experts to comprise leading pedagogical practices. They are useful in whatever type of education moment. They offering differentiated resources that can see a wide range of educational needs and enhance kids' confidence in learning.
English Media Lab offers gratis English Exercises Online—English as a 2nd Language (ESL) Interactive Learning.
Insert Leaning is a dandy style to annotate and scaffold content on webpages.
International Children's Digital Library offers a library for the world'southward children.
Khan Academy En Español offers Khan Academy's repository of video resources in Spanish.
Learning English is Vocalization of America'south multimedia source of news and information for millions of English learners worldwide.
Listen and Write is a dictation and cloze creator.
Literacy Network is dedicated to designing exceptional didactics experiences for young children.
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Tween Tribune is a collection of nonfiction articles and current events for kids, grades Yard–12.
Tween Tribune Español is a drove of nonfiction articles and current events in Spanish for kids in grades 1000–12.
USA Learns offers video lessons and thousands of activities focusing on English speaking, listening, vocabulary, pronunciation, reading, writing and grammar that helps older students and adults larn English.

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Newsela en Español offers news in Castilian and includes different reading levels.
Storybook Canada offers stories from the African Storybook bachelor with text and audio in multiple languages.
Tween Tribune Español is a collection of nonfiction articles and current events in Spanish for kids in grades K–12.