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

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

After 10 weeks of strategies, resources and PD opportunities designed to help your classroom become a supportive and purposeful community as early in the year as possible, we hope you feel that you and your students are starting to hit your stride! In this final issue of Early Impact we’ll be jumping ahead in time several months to an event that takes place at Gateway in the early spring. 

At Gateway, school is back in session, with all the excitement and frenetic activity those first few weeks entail! Whether this is your first year with students or your 30th, we hope you’re feeling energized by the boundless opportunity of a new year!

August is officially here and for most of us, that means the first day of school or our program year is right around the corner! But don’t panic -- Early Impact is back with more resources and tools to set you and your students up for success.