This Teacher's Guide provides compelling questions to frame a unit of study and inquiry projects on the Reconstruction Era, includes NEH sponsored multimedia resources, activity ideas that include use of newspapers from the time and interdisciplinary approaches to bring social studies, ELA, and music education together, and resources for a DBQ and seminar.

This lesson is about Reform Movements in US History, what led to them, and the outcome of their fight for reform. It includes Women's Suffrage, The Progressive Movement, The Rise of the Temperance Movement, and the 1800s-1920s.This lesson will be presented in a primarily synchronous, face-to-face manner. It could possibly span a week in length.

This workshop reviews the basics of providing accessible online instruction for students with disabilities and more inclusive experiences for all students in your classroom. Join us to learn why accessibility is important, simple things you can do, and how accessibility benefits all students.

Additional resources are available here: https://emedia.uen.org/courses/reimagine-teaching-accessibility-foundations-for-k-12/view

In partnership with teachers, the Louisiana Department of Education arranged OpenSciEd (grade 6-8 science) content in a manner that stays true to the vision of the materials and provides clear guidance on how to use them in a fully remote environment. The modified materials assume that teachers will have synchronous virtual meetings with students in addition to home learning.
The site also provides a variety of resources with options for students who do not have internet access.

This article shares examples and exploration of how coaches can help their educators to engage in the growth that coaching can facilitate through coaching heavy and how to move from light (surface) coaching to more in-depth work to build capacity for best practices.

With the help of academic researchers, we created this book to give you a few ideas about how to conduct research in your classroom, school, or even district. They’re basic, easy-to-conduct studies that you can use as is or adapt to your own needs. We hope that by investing time to conduct one or more of these studies, you’ll get a better understanding of how iPad is impacting your students and school and what your next steps might be.

As a Google Admin, learn how to restore user data in Google Drive.

This webpage has links to resources that support the UCET 2024 session Revealing the Complexities of Coaching Mathematics. Make a copy of the Note Catcher for a one-stop place to access handouts and take guided notes. Access the PDF of the presentation slides. See coaching
and other mathematics planning forms.

UEN Homeroom is joined by Rick Gaisford, Educational Technology Specialist for the Utah State Board of Education. Rick discusses the changes he's seen in classroom technology over his 30+ years in education and the crew shares their thoughts about the Digital Teaching and Learning Grant, the impact technology has made for schools, and more.

This week UEN's Rob Bentley joins Jared and Dani in the Homeroom to discuss how students can learn from games. We discuss the difference between game-based learning and gamification, how games help students engage with content, and how to get started building your own educational games.

Jared and Dani are talking coaching the week with Robert Proffit, Professional Learning Coordinator from Washington County School District. As we look into coaching we discuss the following topics: What are the biggest impacts for teachers who participate in a coaching program? How do you encourage teachers who are reluctant to coaching to try a new approach? What is the research surrounding coaching and its effects?

This PDF from Reading Rockets shares a routine for teachers to use in order to help students learn to read and spell high-frequency words, particularly those that are irregular.

This week UEN Homeroom is pleased to rebroadcast our interview with Rushton Hurley, the founder and executive director of Next Vista for Learning, to the podcast. In our conversation we focus on how teachers can effectively develop opportunities for students to create videos in class. Topics included in the discussion are: How teachers can use student video projects to engage kids in learning. How film festivals promote student work. How much technical know-how teachers need to help with student video projects and the basic essentials teachers need to get started. How video projects are particularly effective during blended or online learning and more...

This week UEN Homeroom is pleased to welcome Rushton Hurley, the founder and executive director of Next Vista for Learning, to the podcast. In our conversation we focus on how teachers can effectively develop opportunities for students to create videos in class. Topics included in the discussion are: How teachers can use student video projects to engage kids in learning. How film festivals promote student work. How much technical know-how teachers need to help with student video projects and the basic essentials teachers need to get started. How video projects are particularly effective during blended or online learning and more...

SENG is your portal to quality information about the affective domain. They offer SENGinars|and lots of free online reading to help you understand exactly what is making that kiddo tick

In this episode of UEN Homeroom, Matt and Dani are joined by Shannon Rupert from the Mars Society and Jen Carver Hunter. They share great ways teachers can take advantage of learning opportunities involving the Mars Desert Research Station, right here in Utah!

UEN's Homeroom welcomes Sam Mitchell, an school technology specialist from the Granite School District to discuss the impact that podcasts are having on learning. We share our favorite podcasts, provide tips for finding great podcasts, and explore ideas for learning with podcasts.

Jared and Dani are back with another UEN Homeroom. This time we're joined by Sarah Young, Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Utah State Board of Education. The conversation touches upon fun topics like what your Zoom background looks like to when is the appropriate time each day to get dressed. Sarah provides information about how USBE is helping districts deal with addressing student technology needs, how the Digital Teaching and Learning program has helped Utah prepare for distance learning, and what schools may look like next year.

Schools and districts wishing to have professional learning they offer considered for approval to satisfy Areas 2, 3, and 4 of the Teacher Mentor Endorsement should complete this application.