COVID-19 Resources from One Schoolhouse

Brad Rathgeber

Over the last week, our team at One Schoolhouse has fielded many calls and emails from the community about school continuity plans related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

For us, there are three overarching themes to your response that you should keep in mind:

• Be calm and pause. School is not the most important thing right now; safety is.
• Be straightforward and clear.  People will have heightened anxiety and may not be able to process information (particularly new information) as easily as usual. 
• Create simple solutions. In a crisis situation, simple technology is the best technology. Do not try to teach faculty complex new skills while at the same time dealing with a crisis.

With that in mind, we have created suggestions for schools to implement right now, in the foreseeable future, and longer term.

For many schools these resources will be enough to help. However, we know that it may help you to connect with a community of peers to discuss these suggestions and dive into additional resources. Therefore we have created two new professional development courses that will be offered (for free) in the coming weeks:

• Continuity in Crisis: ​Planning for Administrators
• Continuity in Crisis: ​Planning for Teachers

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