Resources for Connecting, Learning, and Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this uncertain time, we hope all of you are taking care of yourselves and those in your lives. As we continue an unprecedented period of social distancing and begin an unexpected shift to remote learning, we are all grappling with questions about how to make these life adjustments in healthy and productive ways.

Below is a sampling of what the Tang team has explored in recent days:

Meditation, Mindfulness, and Well-Being

• Ten Percent Happier [The Coronavirus Sanity Guide is particularly helpful.]
• Mindful Schools [currently offering a free mindfulness class for kids]
• Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley: Greater Good's Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus
• Yale: “The Science of Well-Being” [a popular course, currently being offered at no charge]

Remote Learning and Teaching

• Global Online Academy: Six Key Design Elements of Successful Online Learning
• IDDblog: Videoconferencing Alternatives: How Low-Bandwidth Teaching Will Save Us All
• edX: Becoming a More Equitable Educator: Mindsets and Practices
• edX blog: Tips for Successful Online Learning
• Transcend: Building Beyond the Limits of School Design: School Closure Resource Hub

Parent Resources

• Transcend: Building Beyond the Limits of School Design: Now That Everyone Is a School Designer
• The World Health Organization: Parenting in the Time of Covid-19

Students: Civic and Community Engagement

• Virtual School Activities
• TED Connects: Community and Hope is a free, live, daily conversation series featuring experts whose ideas can help us reflect and work through this uncertain time with a sense of responsibility, compassion, and wisdom.
• Brave New Films: Youth in Action
• National Archives: Citizen Archivist Dashboard
• Call to Care [pairs people who check in on one another]
• Be My Eyes [connects blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers; note the age restrictions]

Community and Connection

• Building Community While in Isolation (resources gathered from National Network of Schools in Partnership convening on March 20)
• And key ideas and questions shared by various schools