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Healthy Reminders During COVID-19 and School Closures

The COVID-19 outbreak and resulting social distancing guidelines affect the way we teach, learn and maintain relationships with our students and one another. These resources include a reminder to check our priorities, tips for making online courses culturally responsive and strategies for speaking up against coronavirus racism.

A Healthy Reminder to Educators During School Closures
Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive
How to Respond to Coronavirus Racism

April 1, 2020

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March 31, 2020

Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive

Amid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.

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Dr. Rachael Mahmood

Dr. Rachael Mahmood is a fifth grade teacher in a large school district outside of Chicago. In addition to teaching, she works as an equity ambassador designing and delivering equity workshops throughout her school district as well as in surrounding schools. Dr. Mahmood shares ideas, lessons, and frameworks for culturally responsive teaching with other educators on her YouTube channel and on Twitter. Her doctoral research re-examined parent involvement models to credit the involvement of African American mothers with low incomes. In January 2020, she was featured in the Chicago Tribune

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March 30, 2020

A More Complete Women’s History

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Go beyond “famous firsts” and teach about the many ways women show up in the world.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Supporting Students Through Coronavirus

We’re grateful to the educators continuing to support students and families through the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve developed these resources to support student well-being and learning during school closures, and we will

March 23, 2020

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March 23, 2020

A Trauma-informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus

Empty desks in a classroom with a blackboard in the background.

Experts from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network share their recommendations for educators supporting students during the COVID-19 crisis.

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March 20, 2020

How to Respond to Coronavirus Racism

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As COVID-19 infections increase, so too does racism and xenophobia. Use our “Speak Up” strategies to let people know you’re not OK with racist or xenophobic comments about coronavirus or anything else.

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Teaching Through Coronavirus

This week, we asked you what you needed in the face of uncertainty caused by school closures and the COVID-19 pandemic, and many responded. We compiled these lessons and resources to help guide you, your students and their caretakers right now.

Teaching Through Coronavirus: What Educators Need Right Now
A Healthy Reminder to Educators During School Closures
Speaking Up Against Racism Around the Coronavirus

March 19, 2020

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March 19, 2020

Teaching Through Coronavirus: What Educators Need Right Now

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We asked educators what they need, and we listened. We hope this message—and these resources—offer some help.

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Lakota Pearl Pochedley (Shishibéniyek Bodwéwadmik)

Lakota Pearl Pochedley (Shishibéniyek Bodwéwadmik) is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) for the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (also known as the Gun Lake Tribe). She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation located in Shawnee, Oklahoma. In 2013, Lakota graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in sociocultural anthropology and ethnicity and race studies with a specialization in Native American studies. During this time, she had the opportunity to work with a pre-K literacy Program, AmeriCorps Jumpstart, as a corps member and

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