Who better to showcase their culture and heroes than the students themselves? Sharing our student-created Affinity Month Playbook. 

In This Issue...

• Reflections from Gateway High School Leaders
• RESOURCE: Stymie Summer Slide with a Fun Summer Learning Program
• RESOURCE: 4 Questions to Help You Address Learning Loss
• LINK: Teaching About Race, Racism and Police Violence
• LINK: 3 Ways to Support Students' Emotional Well-Being
• LINK (With Quizzes!): Greater Good's Keys to Well-Being
• Summer Hiatus: We'll Be Back Soon!

In This Issue...

• Reflections from Gateway High School's College Counseling Team
• INSPIRATION: A Virtual Send-Off for the Class of 2020
• VIDEO: How to Teach Remotely Using Padlet
• LINK: Helping Students Discover Their Purpose
• LINK: How Do You Close the School Year During Distance Learning?
• LINK: Give Yourself a Break

In This Issue...

• Reflections from Gabrielle Sharaga, Student Partnerships Coordinator and School Counseling Intern 
• RESOURCE: Online Advisory Groups Can Rebuild Connections
• VIDEO: Let’s Make a Podcast!
• RESOURCE: Communication Guide for Students while Distance Learning
• INSPIRATION: Ted Tilles' Cooking Club @ Home
• LINK: Stress Management for Educators

In This Issue...

• Reflections from Elizabeth Colen, Eighth Grade Humanities Teacher
• RESOURCE: Distance Learning from a Student Perspective
• VIDEO: How to Use Google Classroom for Parents
• LINK: Educator AND Family Resources from Common Sense Education
• INSPIRATION: Alix Spivack’s "ES9 Corner"
• IDEA: Harry Potter Audio Book Club with Your Students
• LINK: Prioritizing Self-Care While Teaching from Home

It has been 34 school days since I’ve stood in front of my students. We had just finished a 3 week-long unit on The Reconstruction, trying to answer the question “Was the Era of Reconstruction steps towards democracy and freedom or continued oppression and punishment?” We had read 20+ primary sources, watched documentary clips, and read analyses of the period by historians Eric Foner and WEB Du Bois. And Friday, March 13, we were finally going to lay it all out there and debate the answer to the question. 

In This Issue...

• Reflections from Suzanne Herko, Student Agency Coordinator
• RESOURCE: Distance Learning "Week at a Glance" Schedules
• LINK: Everything You Can Do with the Smithsonian Learning Lab
• VIDEO: How to Use Newsela for Remote Teaching
• LINK:  Please Do a Bad Job Putting Your Course Online
• VIDEO: Mindfulness Classes for Kids and Families

In This Issue...

• Reflections from Mary Plant-Thomas, AP Bio Teacher
• Avoiding the Dreaded Zoom Trolls
• LINK: Resources from the Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities
• VIDEO: How to Teach Remotely with a Google Slides HyperDocs Part II
• Resource: Distance Learning Check-In Guide

In This Issue...

• Reflections from Therese Arsenault, Math/Science Instructional Leader
• Everything You Need to Get Your Distance Classroom Up and Running
• Physical Education: Going the Distance While Social Distancing
• VIDEO: How to Teach Remotely with a Google Slides HyperDocs
• IFSEL’s Social Emotional Learning Tips for Distance Learning
• You Deserve A Night at the Opera

Wherever you thought the 2019-20 school year would take you, it probably wasn’t huddled over a webcam in your living room teaching students scattered across your city. But here we are, doing what educators always do even as news about the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter in place (for California) plans change daily: doing more with less, learning on the job, and honing our craft a little more every day. You are more than qualified to meet the challenge of the current moment, and our hope is our HomeRoom newsletter will be a forum to help us get there together.