Partnerships for Learning, Achievement, and Classroom Engagement
April 2020
Dear Project PLACE Friends:
Our team thanks you for all that you are doing to continue to educate and support students during this unprecedented crisis. We have been amazed by the ways in which teachers have creatively provided continuity of instruction and care for the students who we know deeply miss being in classrooms. We appreciate that we all are doing our best amidst very challenging circumstances, and we hope that you remember to offer yourself as much kindness and grace as you are offering your students during this extraordinary time.
For current Project PLACE participants: We will continue to do what we can to offer support to teachers who are participating in the current year’s grant activities. Project PLACE coaches are eager to help in any way that they can, so please do not hesitate to reach out. Current participants should look for an email in the next week or so that details how we will move forward with Project PLACE this year.
- Dr. Susan Cantrell
Teaching Through a Pandemic: A Mindset for This Moment
This Edutopia article describes hundreds of teachers weighing in on the mental approach you need to stay grounded in this difficult time
Resources for connecting with students and families
Here is a video with some great tips on how to use the different features of Zoom Click the picture below!
Zoom hack - Document camera
Colorin' Colorado has a great list of coronavirus resources for teachers AND for multilingual families Click the picture below!
The TESOL organization has put out a list of coronavirus resources for teachers working with English learners Click the picture below!
Teacher participant, Candice Schneider, shared this resource.
Our special education department chair shared this resource from CKEC. It's a list of digital tools broken down by subject, content, or need. WOW.
Check this out!
How Project PLACE teachers are connecting with their students
Candice Schneider
Here's a video I made and was able to send to my students via Remind, Google Voice text, and other platforms. My ELL students can watch it via youtube and turn on their translation/subtitles. I've never been more grateful for our personalized learning platform (Summit Learning) than during this season. There have also been so many companies stepping up to provide free internet access, etc, that almost ALL of my students are able to log on daily. And the rest are able to access through cell phones. Our students have been so resilient.
Stephanie Chenault
I am excited to get these postcards sent out to my students today! As many of us do, I miss my students and hope to share some smiles with them!
Raychel Harrison with a great idea of posting a read aloud video! Click the image below to view.
Bilingual story time with Dilcia Toro Wahnsiedler and her son Benjamin! Click the image below to view.
Swahili, Kinyarwanda, or Spanish
translator and interpreter
We have two community liaisons to assist you in communicating with multilingual families. Please contact them directly. Swahili or Kinyarwanda: Mr. Alex Remezo - alexremezo@gmail.com or
859-285-1088 Spanish: Ms. Hilda Campos - hcampos0880@gmail.com or 219-200-6397
This resource is forcurrentandpast Project PLACE teacher participants!
