We are excited to announce our Targeted Learning Guides. We have bundled the Keep Indiana Learning content in themed packages with some thoughtful questions for you to consider as you interact with the video, blog or podcast content. This is a great way to access high quality content that addresses an instructional need you may have in your classroom or school. If you think of a topic you would like us to bundle, reach out to keepindianalearning@ciesc.org and let us know. We hope you enjoy this new feature from Keep Indiana Learning.
Acronyms for Educators
- Acronyms are everywhere in education! Do you know what they all mean? How do you keep them straight? Use these resources to investigate three areas: General Education, Data/Testing, and SPED/ELL.
Assessment Mini-Bundle
- Checks for understanding, feedback, and other forms of authentic assessments in the virtual, hybrid, or in-person classroom are on deck in these OnDemand resources.
Building Thinking Classroom DIY PD Guide
- Based on the work of Peter Liljedahl, BTC focuses on the 14 practices that research shows optimize conditions for students to think, which increases their engagement and learning.
Caring for Ourselves
- Regulated adults create regulated students. These videos and blogs will help you cultivate a calm environment for you and your students.
Collaborative Interventions
- When home and school collaborate, there are powerful outcomes for students. How do we strengthen these connections?
College & Career Readiness DIY Guide
- College and Career Readiness is more than the school counselor coming in for a one-period conversation. There are ways to weave this into all content areas.
Counselor Self-Care DIY Learning Guide
- Self-care isn’t always spa days. What are realistic ways we can prioritize our well-being to better support our students? These resources will help.
Creating Calm Bundle
- Helping students & educators regulate emotions is no small task. These OnDemand video presentations will give you multiple strategies you can quickly implement.
Digital Responsibility Bundle
- “Digital Citizenship” is a BROAD term. Use these videos and blogs to break it down into more meaningful chunks to digest with your learners.
Early Childhood Bundle
- PreK-1 teachers and learners have very unique needs. These OnDemand videos and blog created by primary educators are excellent resources for those who serve our littlest learners.
End of Year Survival Tips
- How do you survive that long stretch from the “Days of Gray” through the “Springtime Crazies?” Let these Keep Indiana Learning Digital Learning Coaches help!
Engagement in All Environments
- A perfect jigsaw group of engagement resources! Two blogs and two OnDemand videos combine to share a picture of what engagement can look like in-person, hybrid, or virtual!
Engaging Your Students in Mathematics
- Creating classroom environments where our students can thrive as mathematicians is crucial to their learning. Learn more about using real world data to design lessons, engaging children in classroom discourse, and how taking risks as a teacher can encourage your students to do the same!
Family Engagement
- Discover through readings, videos, and resources, new ways in which to increase family engagement.
FAMILY ENGAGEMENT: Book Study
- Needing ideas on how to engage with families? This resource is designed by school counselors for school counselors.
GLOBAL SCHOOL PLAY DAY
- What is Global School Play Day? How do we integrate free, unguided play into our school day? Here’s resources to get you thinking.
Harnessing Social Media to Build a PLN
- Whether your PLC is your across the hall neighbor or someone you “met” through social media, there is power in working together. These 3 blogs and 4 part OnDemand video series will get you going in the right direction.
Help Data Do Its Thing! – Advanced Track
- Take your school counseling data utilization to the next level!
Help Data Do Its Thing! – Beginner Track
- Clips, blogs, & questions to get school counselors started with data utilization through collection, analysis, implementation, & shared results! Ready to dive deeper? Check out the Advanced Track!
Making Learning Fun
- A way to make learning engaging is to take “real world” fun and give it a learning twist! Escape rooms to gamification to reading relays – all ways to capture the fun AND learning! These blogs & videos walk you through the process.
Modern Classrooms Project
- The Modern Classrooms Project empowers educators to build classrooms that respond to every student’s needs. Explore this self-paced, mastery-based instructional model that leverages technology to foster human connection, authentic learning, and social-emotional growth.
MTMDSS for School Counselors
- This overview provides school counselors with essential information about MTMDSS, including a helpful video and supplementary resources.
National School Counseling Week: Advocacy & Celebrations
- Looking for School Counseling Week celebration ideas? Explore these blogs and videos from 2024 for a multitude of adaptable activities you can use year after year in February.
Resources to Help Students Battle Misinformation
- These resources will be a guide to helping students battle misinformation (with special thanks to the News Literacy Project).
Restorative Practices ~ Relationship Building with Circle
- Take a look at some curated resources for an introduction to restorative practices as a means to strengthen connections within your school community!
Support for Instructional Coaching
- Develop impactful instructional coaching with these resources! Learn to connect with teachers, center on students using coaching cycles, make small shifts, and communicate credibly.
The ‘M’ in STEM
- These OnDemand videos will help you help your struggling math students and transform your instruction to give all students access to STEM curriculum.
The Women of STEM
- These 2 blogs and video series will introduce you to Hoosier women working today in STEM fields.
Trauma-Informed Learning Guide
- Explore a variety of blogs and videos to learn more about trauma-informed practices.
Visible Learning for Literacy Accelerated Learning Strategies
- These videos demonstrate two of John Hattie’s high impact strategies and how to incorporate them into your ELA lessons.