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We have compiled our favorite, high-quality resources to assist you with planning for long-term or intermittent distance learning for all students. In the Dig In tab, you will find websites with the most comprehensive collections of resources related to distance learning. In the Dig Deep and Dig Deeper tabs, you will find carefully selected webinars, written guides, and articles focusing on distance learning. We hope that these will assist you in providing the best instruction possible for all of your students during the 2020-21 school year.

Special Education

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CEC — Resources for Teaching Remotely
CEC provides a comprehensive selection of webinars and documents for distance learning for students with disabilities.
OSEP IDEAs That Work—Continuity of Learning During COVID-19
OSEP provides easy access to a wide array of resources (webinars, information briefs), links, and other important information surrounding educating students with disabilities during distance learning.

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CEC—Best Practices for Educating Online
This written guide walks through best practices, teaching strategies, and tips and tricks for delivering high quality distance learning for students with disabilities.
CEC—Webinar: Teaching Special Education Online During COVID-19
This webinar (1 hour) presents a set of simple, impactful tips as well as resources and tools for providing differentiated special education to students during distance learning.
National Center on Accessible Materials—Coming to Terms: The Meaning of Accessible
This webinar (1 hour) clarifies what "accessible" means in the context of access for students with disabilities.

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CEC Quick Takes: Online Instruction During COVID-19—Co-Teaching with Remote Learning
This webinar (19 minutes) provides suggestions on how to co-teach during distance learning.
CEC Quick Takes—Online Instruction During COVID-19:What You Need to Know About Accessibility
This webinar (20 minutes) discusses accessibility considerations when using distance learning including captioning and digital alternatives to paper packets.
CEC Quick Takes—Online Instruction During COVID-19: Leadership Support for Co-Teaching with Remote Learning
This webinar (21 minutes) presents ways administrators can support virtual co-teaching.
TIES Center—Promoting Engagement for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities on Group Learning Platforms
This article provides suggestions for keeping students with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities engaged in inclusive distance learning.
TIES Center—Distance Learning and Communications Systems
This article provides ways to support AAC users during distance learning.
TIES Center—Effective Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) Within the Distance Learning Environment: What in the World Does That Look Like?
This article presents considerations for providing SDI during distance learning for students with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities.
OSEP—Highlighting Strategies and Practices in Providing Related Services to Enhance Continuity of Learning to During COVID-19 for Students with Disabilities
This webinar (1 hour) focuses on the provision of related services through distance learning to address the critical, ongoing needs of students with disabilities.

For Families and Caregivers

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CEEDAR—Family Guide to At-Home Learning
This guide has practical strategies for helping children of all ages who may be struggling with an at-home learning task. Links to other resources are also included.

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IRIS Center—Parent: Supporting Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This comprehensive module offers practical tools and easy-to-implement tips to help children learn at home including getting children to ready to learn, supporting reading and math instruction, promoting children’s social and emotional wellbeing, and helping struggling learners and children with disabilities.
Center on PBIS—Supporting Families with PBIS at Home
This practice brief provides recommendations for caregivers on how to use PBIS to continue to support their students’ social and emotional growth and minimize behavior disruptions in the home.
Center on PBIS—Supporting Students with Disabilities at School and Home
This written guide provides five key practices for teachers and families to support all students at school and home.

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Advocates for Children of New York and Promise at Columbia University Medical Center—Behavioral Management Strategies During Remote Learning
This webinar (1 hour, 21 minutes) provides best practices and tips for managing behavior during distance learning, including helping your child with attention difficulties, school-avoidant behaviors, frustration tolerance, and tips on how to communicate with your school and district.
PBIS Apps—4 Tips for Your Families Trying PBIS at Home
This article provides four focus areas for families educating their children at home.
Understood—Child Won’t Follow a Routine or Schedule? Try These 5 Tips
This article provides tips for families with children who resist following a routine.

English Language Learners

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¡Colorín Colorado!—Coronavirus: ELL and Multilingual Resources for Schools
¡Colorín Colorado! provides written guides, webinars, links to help schools and communities partner more effectively with ELL families during distance learning.

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Saddleback Educational Publishing—Webinar Series: Teaching ELs from a Distance
This webinar (1.5 hours) discusses tools and strategies for distance learning including technology tips and reading and conversation practice tips for ELL students.
American Federation of Teachers—Distance Learning & ELLs: What Have We Learned So Far?
This webinar (35 minutes) describes the special challenges faced by ELL students during distance learning and provides some suggested best practices for instructing students with access to appropriate technology and students without.

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¡Colorín Colorado!—Guide: Distance Learning for ELLs
This series of articles offers planning tools, strategies and recommended resources for educating ELL students during distance learning.
SupportEd—Practical Strategies & Resources for EL Distance Learning
This webinar (58 minutes) shares technology suggestions and practical strategies for supporting ELL students in distance learning.
Corwin Webinar Series—Collaborative Planning for Remote Learning with ELs
This webinar (21 minutes) presents five specific design factors for providing instruction for ELL students and discusses how they might be applied during distance learning.

Behavior/Social-Emotional Learning

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Michigan's MTSS Technical Assistance Center
This website includes helpful trainings and resources for implementing PBIS and Social and Emotional Learning during distance learning.
Florida PBIS Project—Supporting Educators to Adapt Classwide PBIS for Virtual Learning Environments
This live binder includes videos and resources for integrating PBIS throughout distance learning.

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Center on PBIS—Creating a PBIS Behavior Teaching Matrix for Remote Instruction
This practice brief shares tips for defining classroom expectations for distance learning.
Florida PBIS Project—Supporting Educators to Adapt Classwide PBIS for Virtual Learning Environments
This webinar (43 minutes) provides strategies and examples for implementing PBIS during distance learning.
PBIS Apps—A 4-Step Plan for Handling Problem Behaviors Remotely
This brief article provides steps for addressing challenging behaviors during distance learning

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Center on PBIS—Guidance on Adapting Check-In Check-Out for Distance Learning
This guide provides specific tips on how to take one of the most common positive behavioral interventions and adapt it for distance learning.
Florida PBIS Project—Student Engagement in a Virtual Environment
This webinar (22 minutes) provides strategies and resources to promote active engagement during distance learning.

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