Once you assemble your planning team – consisting of school district stakeholders including teachers, principals, technology leaders, other school staff, administrators, and parent representatives – asking and answering the following questions will help guide your planning work:
How will you communicate during individual or prolonged absences or during school‐wide dismissals?
What equipment and other resources are required to enable your district learning continuity plan?
What training is required to prepare teachers and others to respond appropriately when needed?
Taken from the US Department of Education's recommendations for continuity of learning. The full document provides additional planning guidance: continuity-rec.pdf
Topic of the archived webinar E-Learning's Role When Swine Flu Strikes -- Concerns about school closings or significant absences caused by the H1N1 flu virus are pushing schools to use technology more heavily in their day-to-day activities and explore creative ways of ensuring continuity of learning. Some schools with e-learning tools or programs already in place are expanding or expediting their use. Such tactics are also being considered for use during closings prompted by illness, snow, or other situations.
Guiding Questions
Once you assemble your planning team – consisting of school district stakeholders including teachers, principals, technology leaders, other school staff, administrators, and parent representatives – asking and answering the following questions will help guide your planning work:
Taken from the US Department of Education's recommendations for continuity of learning. The full document provides additional planning guidance: continuity-rec.pdf
Use the following documents and web resources in your planning process:
Additional Planning Questions.pdf - more specific planning questions
School Planning - specifically for N1H1
iNACOL's Continuity of Learning
Topic of the archived webinar E-Learning's Role When Swine Flu Strikes -- Concerns about school closings or significant absences caused by the H1N1 flu virus are pushing schools to use technology more heavily in their day-to-day activities and explore creative ways of ensuring continuity of learning. Some schools with e-learning tools or programs already in place are expanding or expediting their use. Such tactics are also being considered for use during closings prompted by illness, snow, or other situations.