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RemotEDx, Ohio’s suite of remote learning supports, is announcing plans to offer a new funding opportunity aimed at building and strengthening nonprofit and community-based partnerships to enrich remote education opportunities, especially for underserved students.
Read MoreThe RemotEDx Exchange, a fundamental component of Ohio’s RemotEDx initiative, is now live. Through the Exchange, powered by INFOhio, parents and educators of students in grades K-12 have easy access to all the supports, services and resources available through RemotEDx.
Read MorePhilanthropy Ohio and the Ohio Department of Education are pleased to announce grants awarded to 28 projects, totaling just over $3.1 million and benefitting approximately 788,331 students across Ohio, through the Collaborative Fund for Educating Remotely and Transforming Schools (the Collaborative Fund). This public-private partnership aims to help schools and districts improve remote education practices and outcomes and to use remote education as a catalyst for re-imagining and re-engineering the delivery of high-quality caring, teaching and learning opportunities for Ohio’s underserved students.
Read MoreOhio’s schools have received additional support to help students who are learning from home connect to the internet. Ohio’s Connectivity Champions will collaborate closely with Information Technology Centers to help support students and their families with household internet connectivity to enable remote learning. Students or parents who are struggling with their home internet connection can get help from the Connectivity Champions.
Read MorePhilanthropy Ohio and the Ohio Department of Education are pleased to launch the Collaborative Fund for Educating Remotely and Transforming Schools (the Collaborative Fund). The Collaborative Fund prioritizes supports that address inequitable circumstances related to delivering quality remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grant awards will be made on a competitive and regional basis to public schools, districts, community schools, networks, school consortia and Educational Service Centers. The deadline for submitting proposals is midnight on Sept. 4, 2020.
Read MoreOn Aug. 6 from 1-2:30 p.m., superintendents, chief academic officers and education leaders, especially those who are drafting remote learning plans, are invited to join Johns Hopkins University and the Department for a live, virtual learning session called Using Evidence Based Strategies to Improve Student Outcomes: Learnings from the Cross-State High School Redesign Collaborative to Inform Remote Learning Plans.
Read MoreThe Ohio Department of Education continues to add information and resources to the Reset and Restart webpage. The latest additions include information about recording attendance for schools using remote learning plans and new updates about how educator evaluations should proceed in the 2020-2021 school year.
Read MoreSchools now have the option to consider remote learning plans as they prepare for the 2020-2021 school year. The Department has posted information about the difference between blended learning declarations and remote learning plans, and extended the submission deadlines for both.
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic has sent education into a remote learning environment, and educators have had to adapt, ready or not. In response to this change, the Ohio Department of Education and the Science Education Council of Ohio (SECO) have developed a multi-part series for teachers entitled “A Tale of Two Teachers: Lessons Learned.”
Read MorePrepare for remote learning with resources, lessons and more available to all Ohio preK-12 schools from INFOhio.
Read MorePrepare for remote learning with resources, lessons and training all Ohio preK-12 schools can use. INFOhio’s Educator Tools include more than 70,000 teacher-approved lesson plans, best practices, articles, websites and other instructional materials to support personalized learning, project-based learning and the inquiry process. Many learning activities can be completed remotely and online.
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