Just in Time Supports

Just in Time Supports

 

 

English Language Arts (ELA): Secondary 

Purpose and Vision

Communicating Expectations to Families:

Reimagine Learning: Remote Learning Communication Tips
Utah Education Network (UEN)

Quality Core Instruction - Adapting for Virtual Learning:

Adapting High-Quality Instructional Materials for a Virtual Teaching Context
Learning Forward

Going Deeper with Distance Learning
Corwin

Manageable Online Teaching with the KonMari Approach CoLab with Deanna Mascle
Planning for Hybrid and Flexible Instruction CoLab with Mike Caulfield
National Writing Project (NWP)

National Writing Research to Improve Teaching and Evaluation (WRITE) Center
Google Docs

Customized Supports

Digital Tools to Enhance Learning:

Scrible Welcomes Utah Schools

Effective Engagement Strategies - Including Virtual:

Strategies to Encourage Students to Turn Their Cameras On
Edutopia

The Thrill of Accelerating Comprehension in Any Setting
Corwin

Engaging Students in Academic Discourse:

Fostering Academic Discussion Online
Achieve the Core 

Intervention Resources to Address Learning Gaps:

Addressing Unfinished Learning and Essential Content Series
Achieve the Core

Prevention and Intervention of Writing Difficulties for Students with Learning Disabilities
AdLit

What Works Best for Literacy Instruction? Visible Learning for Literacy in History/Social Studies and ELA
University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Scaffolding Strategies:

How Complex a Text Can I Scaffold?
Reading Rockets

Reading (and Scaffolding) Expository Texts
Reading (and Scaffolding) Narrative Texts
AdLit 

Student Agency

Opportunities for Students to Have Choice and Voice in Designing their Learning:

About Choice Boards
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

Small, Bright Things: Using 100-word Stories in the Language Arts Classroom
National Writing Project

Supporting Choice Reading for Students in Distance Learning
Edutopia

Teacher Practices that Impact Reading Motivation
Reading Rockets

Relevance and Demonstration of Learning Rather than Task Completion:

How to Help Students Focus on What They’re Learning, Not the Grade
How to Make Sure Grades Are Meaningful and Useful to Students
Edutopia

Equity

Distribution of Resources:

Equity Reset Toolkit: Re-envision Instruction Through Equitable Systems
Pivot Learning

The Secondary Teacher’s Role in Ensuring All Students Are Provided Access and Equity in a Multi-Tiered System of Supports
WestEd

The Text Disrupters
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

We Need Diverse Books (WNDB)

Demonstrated Competency and Assessment

Essential Standards/Skills:

Utah's Essential Standards English Language Arts - Secondary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Portrait of a Graduate

Feedback:

Less Teaching, More Feedback
Utah Education Network (UEN)

Formative Assessment Strategies to Inform Instruction:

7 Ways to Do Formative Assessments in Your Virtual Classroom
Edutopia

Measuring Student Learning in Any Setting Webinar
YouTube

"'I'm Not Stupid': How Assessment Drives (In) appropriate Reading Instruction" by Danielle V. Dennis
International Literacy Association (ILA)

Social Emotional Learning

Examples of Social and Emotional Learning in High School English Language Arts Instruction
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

Establish and Maintain Positive Relationships:

Community Building Activities
Equity Unbound and OneHE 

Self-care:

May 2020 #NCTEChat – Writing to Cope: Social-Emotional Learning during COVID-19
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Self-Care Strategies for Educators During the Coronavirus Crisis: Supporting Personal Social and Emotional Well-Being
WestEd

Fine Arts

Purpose and Vision

Quality Core Instruction - Adapting for Virtual Learning:

Art Shop
SpyHop

Arts Education Is Essential
State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE)

How to Teach Art When No One Can Go to School
The Art of Education University

Learn@Home: Teachers - Fine Arts
Utah Education Network (UEN)

On-Demand Webinars: Teaching Online
National Dance Education Organization (NDEO)

Online Lesson Plans
Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT)

Removing Barriers to Effective Distance Learning by Applying the High-Leverage Practices
University of Florida (UF) Ceedar Catner

Customized Supports

Effective Engagement Strategies - Including Virtual:

COVID 19 Resources
Utah Arts Educators Association (UAEA)

National Organizations/Associations
Utah Dance Education Organization (UDEO)

Professional Development
Utah Advisory Council of Theatre Teachers (UACTT)

Remote Teaching Resources
Utah Music Educators Association (UMEA)

Student Agency

Opportunities for Students to Have Choice and Voice in Designing their Learning:

Process Over Product: The Importance of "Open-Ended” Art in Child Development
Active Family

The Students’ Voice during the COVID-19 Disruption
National Association for Music Education (NAfME)

Equity 

Distribution of Resources:

Evenings for Educators 2020-2021
Massively Integrated Data Analytics System (MIDAS) Education

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) as a Lever for Equity and Excellence
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

Webinar with Michelle Love-Day
UAEA

Demonstrated Competency and Assessment

Essential Standards/Skills:

Secondary Media Arts Essentials for 2020

Utah's Essential Standards, Fine Arts, Dance K-6 (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Essential Standards, Fine Arts, Dance Secondary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Essential Standards, Fine Arts, Drama Elementary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Essential Standards, Fine Arts, Music K-6 (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Essential Standards, Fine Arts, Music Secondary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Essential Standards, Fine Arts, Threatre Secondary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Essential Standards, Fine Arts, Visual Art K-6 (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Essential Standards, Fine Arts, Visual Art Secondary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Portrait of a Graduate

Social Emotional Learning  

Understand and Manage Emotions:

50 Activities that Support Social-Emotional Learning
How to Help Students with Feedback Online
Making Remote Learning Meaningful
The Art of Education University

Arts Education and Social Emotional Learning Framework
SEL/Arts

Fostering Social-Emotional Learning In and Through the Arts
Optimism Through the COVID-19 Disruption: Utilizing Social Emotional Learning for Reflection and Growth
Arts Ed NJ

Health/Physical Education (PE)

Purpose and Vision

Quality Core Instruction - Adapting for Virtual Learning:

20 Indicators of Effective Physical Education Instruction
Society of Health and Physical Education (SHAPE) America

Appropriate Instructional Practice Guidelines, K-12: A Side-by-Side Comparison
SHAPE America

Appropriate Practices in School-Based Health Education
SHAPE America

National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) Resource Brief Quality Physical Education
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Institute of Education Science

Customized Supports

Effective Engagement Strategies - Including Virtual:

ConnectedPE

COVID-19 Resources for Health and Physical Education
SHAPE America

Education is Evolving
EverFi

What Is Curriculum-Based Professional Learning?
Carnegie Corporation of New York

Student Agency

Opportunities for Students to Have Choice and Voice in Designing their Learning:

K12 Lab
Stanford University

Equity

Distribution of Resources:

The Health Equity Framework: A Science- and Justice-Based Model for Public Health Researchers and Practitioners
SAGE Journals

Demonstrated Competency and Assessment

Essential Standards/Skills:

Utah's Essential Standards Health Education, Physical Education, and Recess - Elementary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Essential Standards Health Education, Physical Education, and Recess - Secondary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Social Emotional Learning

Establish and Maintain Positive Relationships:

Healthy Relationships
Love is Respect

School and Community Based Program
Prevent Child Abuse Utah (PCAU)

Feel and Show Empathy for Others:

How to Support a Loved One's Mental Health
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Videos for Kids: Empathy
Kid World Citizen

General Social and Emotional Learning (SEL):

Aligning SHAPE America National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education with CASEL Social and Emotional Learning Core Competencies
SHAPE America

Aligning the National Health Education Standards with CASEL Social and Emotional Learning Core Competencies
SHAPE America

Make Responsible Decisions:

Decision-Making Process
UMass, Dartworth

Set and Achieve Goals:

An Interactive Lesson Plan for Teaching Students How to Set Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely (S.M.A.R.T.) Goals
Teacher Vision

Student Goal Setting in Elementary School
What I Have Learned

Understand and Manage Emotions:

A Child Therapist's Favorite Resources for Calming Anxiety in Children
Coping Skills for Kids

National Survey on Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer or Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth Mental Health 2019
The Trevor Project

Teen Mental Health

Youth Suicide
The Jason Foundation (JF)

Mathematics

Secondary Mathematics Reference Documents

Book Studies: Book Study Registration | Registration - Learner-Centered Formative Assessments
Google Docs

Purpose and Vision

Quality Core Instruction - Adapting to Virtual Learning:

Secondary Mathematics Task Bank
Google Docs

 Catalyzing Change in Early Childhood and Elementary Mathematics: A Book Study Sponsored by the Utah State Board of Education
Google Docs

Customized Supports

Effective Engagement Strategies - Including Virtual:

Mathematics Instruction and Tasks in a Professional Learning Community (PLC) at Work
Refer to Book Studies Above

Effective Teaching Practices:

Elementary Mathematics Specialist (EMS) Endorsement

Principles to Actions: Executive Summary
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

State Mathematics Education Coordinating Committee (SMECC)

Digital Tools to Enhance Learning:

Teaching Math at a Distance: A Practical Guide to Rich Remote Instruction
Refer to Book Studies Above

Intervention Resources to Address Learning Gaps:

K-12 Mathematics: Self-Paced Mini Utah State Board of Education (USBE) Professional Learning
Refer to
Learner - Learner-Centered Formative Assessments Above

Utah's Multi-Tiered System of Supports for Mathematics (UMTSS) 

Student Agency

Taking Ownership of their Learning:

Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
Refer to Book Studies Above

Relevance and Demonstration of Learning Rather than Task Completion:

Strength in Numbers: Collaborative Learning in Secondary Mathematics
Refer to Book Studies Above
 

Equity

Ensuring all Students Have Access

Humanizing Disability In Mathematics Education
Refer to Book Studies Above

The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics
Refer to Book Studies Above

Demonstrated Competency and Assessment

Essential Standards/Skills:

Mathematics Core Guides

Major Works

Open Middle Math: Problems That Unlock Student Thinking
Refer to Book Studies Above

Putting Essential Understandings of Equations and Expressions Into Practice for 6th-8th Grades
Refer to Book Studies Above

Putting Essential Understandings of Functions Into Practice for 9th-12th Grades
Refer to Book Studies Above 
 

Utah's Portrait of a Graduate

Formative Assessment Strategies to Inform Instruction:

K-12 Mathematics: Self-Paced Mini USBE Professional Learning
Refer to Learner - Learner-Centered Formative Assessments Above

Utah Core Standards Assessment: Grades 1-2 Mathematics

Social Emotional Learning

Understand and Manage Emotions:

Registration - Leading with Social-Emotional Wellness
Google Docs

Establish and Maintain Positive Relationships:

Registration - Social Emotional Learning In The Mathematics Classroom
K-12 Mathematics: Self-Paced Mini USBE Professional Learning

Preschool

Purpose and Vision

Communicating Expectations to Families:

7 Tips for Managing Distance Learning in Preschool
How to Coach Parents Who Are Teaching at Home
Edutopia

10 Family Engagement Ideas that Work During a Pandemic
Better Leaders Better Schools

How Educators Can Help Parents: 6 Remote Learning Tips
Education Week

Parent and Caregiver
Preschool Pioneer Utah Education Network (UEN)

Successful Family Engagement
National Center for Families Learning (NCFL)

Quality Core Instruction - Adapting for Virtual Learning:

Davis Head Start Virtual Learning Program Individualized Instruction Components

Principles for Remote Learning
Massively Integrated Data Analytics System (MIDAS) Education

Student Activities
Wide Open School

Customized Supports

Digital Tools to Enhance Learning:

Preschool Pioneer
Utah Education Network (UEN)

Effective Engagement Strategies - Including Virtual:

Ready Rosie

Engaging Students in Academic Discourse:

Classroom ‘Circle Time’ Moves Online During Coronavirus Pandemic
Education Week 

Student Agency

Opportunities for Students to Have Choice and Voice in Designing their Learning:

Observing, Planning, Guiding: How an Intentional Teacher Meets Standards through Play
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

Relevance and Demonstration of Learning Rather Than Task Completion:

Competency Based Learning
Early Learning Foundation

Developmentally Appropriate Practice
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

Equity

Distribution of Resources:

Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education Position Statement
NAEYC

How Does Waterford UPSTART Work?
Waterford UPSTART

Demonstrated Competency and Assessment

Essential Standards/Skills:

Essential Early Learning Standards: Ages 3-5

Early Learning Standards: Ages 3-5
Preschool Path Utah Education Network (UEN)

Utah's Portrait of a Graduate

Formative Assessment Strategies to Inform Instruction:

Cognitive Toybox
Preschool Assessment

Social Emotional Learning

Self-care:

Strategies for Personal Self-Care

Understand and Manage Emotions:

Helping Little Ones Stay Safe Through Uncertainty
5B45

Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful
Elemental

Quality Instruction

Purpose and Vision

Communicating Expectations to Families:

Laying the Groundwork for a Community-Wide Vision for Personalized Learning
KnowledgeWorks 

Reimagine Learning: Remote Learning Communications Tips Webinar
Utah Education Network (UEN)

Quality Core Instruction - Adapting to Virtual Learning:

Reimagine Teaching
UEN

Removing Barriers to Effective Distance Learning by Applying the High-Leverage Practices
University of Florida Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center

Virtual Teaching Techniques Registration: A Free AIM Pathways to Practice Webinar Series Based on the Science of Reading and Focused on the Language Comprehension Upper Strands of Dr. Hollis Scarborough's Reading Rope
AIM Institute for Learning and Research

Seeking Feedback from Students and Families:

Australian Capital Territory Public Services (ACTPS) Performance Framework: The Art of Feedback: Giving, Seeking and Receiving Feedback.
ACT Government

Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected
Corwin

Visible Learning: Feedback
Visible Learning (VL)

Customized Supports

Digital Tools to Enhance Learning:

UEN Canvas Tutorials
UEN

Effective Engagement Strategies - Including Virtual:

Five Effective Student Engagement Strategies when Designing Instruction
Six Effective Engagement Strategies for Delivering Instruction
Google Docs

Engaging Students in Academic Discourse:

Classroom Discourse: An Essential Component in Building a Classroom Community
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)

How Rich Is Your Classroom Discourse?
Student-to-Student Discourse in an Online Environment
Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE)

Reimagine Learning: Creating Effective Online Discussions
UEN

Scaffolding Strategies:

Chapter 11 Scaffolding
Granite State University 

Providing Instructional Supports: Facilitating Mastery of New Skills
The IRIS Center, Vanderbilt University

Scaffolding Learning in the Online Classroom
WILEY Education Services

Student Agency

Opportunities for Students to Have Choice and Voice in Designing their Learning:

Cultivating Learner Agency Through Authentic Voice and Choice
Knowledge Works

Leveraging Choice Webinar
UEN Login Required

Relevance and Demonstration of Learning Rather Than Task Completion:

Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Demonstration of Learning
The Glossary of Education Reform

Demonstration of Learning
The New Teacher Project (TNTP), Inc.

Demonstrations of Learning: Competency-based Education Personalizes How Students Show Mastery by Giving Them Choice in How They’re Assessed
Edutopia

Reasons Demonstrations of Learning Make Powerful Assessments for #RemoteLearning
Infused Classroom

Taking Ownership for their Learning:

3 Tools to Engage Ownership in Your Classroom
Competency-Based Education Quality Principle Number 7: Activate Student Agency and Ownership
Strategies for Building Student Ownership of Their Learning
What Do You Mean When You Say “Student Agency”?
Aurora Institute

Problems of Practice: How Do I Develop Student Ownership and Accountability in a Station Rotation Model?
The Learning Accelerator

Equity

Distribution of Resources:

Equitable Resources​ and Access
Learning Policy Institute

Understanding the Impact of Culture on Equity in Education
edWeb

What Is Resource Equity? A Working Paper that Explores the Dimensions of Resource Equity that Support Academic Excellence
Education Resource Strategies (ERS)

Ensuring all Students Have Access:

Home Access: Working Toward Digital Equity
State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)

Making Sure Every Child Has Home Internet Access: 8 Steps to Get There
Education Week

Resources for Students at Home:

Learn@Home: Students
UEN

Supporting Students Through COVID-19 and Beyond with Free Online Tutoring
Hatch Tutors

Demonstrated Competency and Assessment

Essential Standards/Skills:

Building Coherent Grading and Reporting Systems in Competency-Based Education, Part 1
Building Coherent Grading and Reporting Systems in Competency-Based Education, Part 2
Building Coherent High School Grading and Reporting Systems in Competency-Based Education, Part 3
Aurora Institute

Utah's Portrait of a Graduate

What are Essential Standards?
Google Docs

Feedback:

Give Feedback on Assignments
Google Classroom Help

How Do I Leave Feedback Comments for Student Submissions in SpeedGrader?
Instructure Canvas

Formative Assessment Strategies to Inform Instruction:

4 Steps of Student Self-Assessment
7 Ways to Do Formative Assessments in Your Virtual Classroom
Gaining Understanding on What Your Students Know
Edutopia

Social Emotional Learning

Self-advocate:

Caring for Teachers Supports Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Students
Edutopia

Self-care:

7 Self-Care Strategies For Teachers
Prioritizing Self-Care While Working From Home
Edutopia

Understand and Manage Emotions:

How to Show Empathy to Your Students With Compassionate Curiosity
Teacher to Teacher: Use a Daily Warm-Up to Build Empathy
Understood

Top 7 Best Empathy Lesson Plans for Middle School
Applied Educational Systems (AES)

Science

Purpose and Vision

Expectations to Families:

Preparing Students for a Lifetime of Understanding New Science Standards Success
Utah State Board of Education Science Core Standards

 Quality Core Instruction:

A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis
The National Academies Press (NAP)

Enroll in Implementing the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards
Canvas

Learn@Home Teachers - Science
Utah Education Network (UEN)

Utah Science Open Educational Resources (OER) Textbooks

Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Core Guides

Customized Supports

Digital Tools to Enhance Learning:

Interactive Simulations for Science and Math
PhET

Remote Learning: Online Tool Organizer
Google Docs

Effective Engagement Strategies - Including Virtual:

Qualities of a Good Anchor Phenomenon for a Coherent Sequence of Science Lessons
Using Phenomena in NGSS-Designed Lessons and Units
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Remote Learning Resource Leading an Anchoring Phenomenon Routine
OpenSciEd

Engaging Students in Academic Discourse:

Beyond the Written C-E-R: Supporting Classroom Argumentative Talk about Investigations
How Can I Foster Curiosity and Learning in my Classroom? Through Talk!
How Can I Get My Students to Learn Science by Productively Talking with Each Other?
STEM Teaching Tool

Doing and Talking Science: A Teacher’s Guide to Meaning-Making with English Learners
Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER)

Remote Learning Resource Discourse
OpenSciEd

Scaffolding Strategies to Ensure Access to Instruction:

Creating Science Learning Experiences that Support Learners Receiving Special Education Services
Qualities of a Good Anchor Phenomenon for a Coherent Sequence of Science Lessons
STEM Teaching Tool

Remote Learning Resource Leading an Anchoring Phenomenon Routine
OpenSciEd

Student Agency

Opportunities for Students to Have a Choice and a Voice in Designing their Learning:

How to Launch STEM Investigations That Build on Student and Community Interests and Expertise
STEM Teaching Tool

Taking Ownership of their Learning:

Next Generation Science Standards: What’s Different, and do They Matter?
STEM Teaching Tool

Equity

Ensuring all Students Have Access:

Engaging English Learners in the Science and Engineering Practices
How to Design Assessments for Emerging Bilingual Students
STEM Teaching Tool

Equity and Diversity in Science and Engineering Education
The National Academies Press (NAP)

Remote Learning Resource: Discourse
OpenSciEd

Demonstrated Competency and Assessment

Essential Standards/Skills:

Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards

Formative Assessment Strategies to Inform Instruction:

Integrating Science Practices into Assessment Tasks
Prompts for Integrating Crosscutting Concepts into Assessment and Instruction
Steps to Designing a Three Dimensional Assessment
STEM Teaching Tool

Social Emotional Learning 

Understand and Manage Emotions:

Failing Forward: Managing Student Frustration During Engineering Design Projects
STEM Teaching Tool

Social Studies

Purpose and Vision

Quality Core Instruction - Adapting for Virtual Learning:

National History Day
YouTube

Customized Supports

Effective Engagement Strategies - Including Virtual:

Fostering Civil Discourse A Guide for Classroom Conversations
Facing History and Ourselves

Student Agency

A Program Promoting Student Agency in Civics Education:

Generation Citizen 

Demonstrated Competency and Assessment

Essential Standards/Skills:

Utah's Essential Standards Social Studies - Elementary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Essential Standards Social Studies - Secondary (COVID-19 Special Edition)

Utah's Portrait of a Graduate

Social Emotional Learning

Resources:

Social Studies Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Elementary Book List
Google Docs

World Languages

Purpose and Vision

Quality Core Instruction - Adapting for Virtual Learning:

World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

Customized Supports

Digital Tools to Enhance Learning:

Learn and Grow
ACTFL

Effective Engagement Strategies - Including Virtual:

Language Educators’ Learning Portal
ACTFL

Student Agency

Opportunities for Students to Have Choice and Voice in Designing their Learning:

4 Ideas for Building Student Voice and Choice in Language Learning
Edutopia

Equity

Distribution of Resources:

Diversifying Language Educators and Learners
ACTFL

Ensuring all Students Have Access:

The Journey of Social Justice
YouTube

Demonstrated Competency and Assessment

Essential Standards/Skills:

Utah's Portrait of a Graduate

World Language Competency Testing
Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) 

Social Emotional Learning 

Self-care:

Why Social and Emotional Learning Is Essential for Students
Edutopia