Category: Distance Learning - PEBC

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Four Critical Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Practices: Supporting Ourselves and Others in Unusual Times

By Andra Brill / January 8, 2021

We are living in remarkable times. In July of 2020, in the middle of the Covid pandemic, CASEL released what […]

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What can you do when you can’t peek over their shoulders?

By Michelle Morris Jones / October 28, 2020

One of the biggest challenges with remote teaching is our inability to walk around the classroom and hear student thinking!  […]

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Virtual Discourse

By Sathya Wandzek / October 22, 2020

Yes, things are different. Everything is harder, and there are more loops than ever to go through to do the […]

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What do my students really understand? Building a Bridge from Virtual to In-Person Learning

By Annie Patterson / October 19, 2020

In an in-person classroom, teachers can walk around and take a look at student work, listen in to learners’ conversations, […]

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Five Ways to Get Students to Turn on their Video During Classes

By Wendy Ward Hoffer / September 3, 2020

There they are – the boxes on the video-conference screen, empty but names or images uploaded. We are hearing from […]

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What is Virtual Coaching?

By Michelle Morris Jones / August 18, 2020

How can instructional coaches be of service during remote & hybrid learning? We all want to get better. The role […]

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Same Beliefs – New Format

By Jennifer Brauner / July 22, 2020

We had two weeks from the time school closed to the re-opening fully online. Over those two weeks, several questions […]

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Effective Remote Teaching

By Wendy Ward Hoffer / May 27, 2020

What a spring! We have worked alongside so many teachers responding and adjusting and revising our remote teaching in an […]

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Work done at the beginning of the year is paying off now

By PEBC / April 23, 2020

As the education community in Colorado has responded and adapted to the rapid changes necessitated by physical distancing in COVID-19 […]

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Virtual Mini-Lessons Foster Community

By Laurie Wretling / April 20, 2020

“Hi Writers! I am so excited to get to write with you today. I wish I could see you in […]

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“How in the world are we gonna do this?” Rural districts adapt to distance learning

By PEBC / April 15, 2020

As the education community in Colorado has responded and adapted to the rapid changes necessitated by physical distancing in COVID-19 […]

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Listening, Responding, Listening, and Beginning to Understand

By PEBC / April 8, 2020

Recently, we were asked “How do you know whether (or not) your students are understanding?” This was, of course, an […]

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