"5 kindness activities for kids to help you build emotional intelligence, encourage kindness, and to help build connections. They are a mixture of online activities and good old-fashioned printables that can be sent home if required.

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Family Kindness Ideas Poster
Kindness Coloring Pages
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Building meaningful relationships with our students is essential whether you teach in a face to face environment or in an online environment. These relationships help to encourage students to feel valued and to keep motivated to learn. One of the best parts of being a teacher, is having the chance to get to know our students! A team of teachers from the Distance Learning Centre will share some of the successful ways they have built relationships with their students online.The topics will include:

-Tips for hosting online tutorials
-Creative ways to showcase student projects/learning
-Book Clubs for multiple age groups
-Using the Circle of Courage with students
-Read Alouds from teachers and guest readers
-Tips from a student support perspective
- Newsletters

This site offers advise on how to make the most of the time you spend with your students online, and how to get them to show up in the first place!

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Teaching our students how to use a variety of reading strategies is essential whether you teach in a face to face environment or remotely.  This webinar will showcase the top reading strategies and supporting resources. In addition to sharing resources that can be used with your students, we will also share how these strategies can be used as reading interventions for students who are struggling (behind grade levels & EAL)  during distance learning.  

This is a professional development plan to support face to face teachers with moving to an online environment.  The intent of this framework is to provide a tiered approach to support teachers with their needs to support students and families. There are 4 parts to consider when planning for engaging online instruction.