Digital Promise Signature Workspace
Ebony's Strategies to Support Remote Learning
As Dean of Instruction, Ebony Jones created this workspace to support teachers in the shift to remote instruction and learning.
As a result of COVID-19, teaching and student learning changed tremendously with no warning. As a Dean of Instruction, I have had to quickly adjust and find ways to support my teachers in delivering content to students remotely. After teachers' first round of remote instruction, I reviewed teachers videos and used the Learner Variability Navigator to find strategies that would support teachers in delivering high quality instruction remotely. This workspace includes the strategies that I selected to improve the quality of my teachers' remote instruction. Click the pencil and paper icon on each strategy card to read the annotations on each strategy card to learn more about how Ebony's team leveraged that strategy to support learners and each other.
Ebony Jones has 17 years of experience in education. She started as an elementary teacher in rural Mississippi. After earning her Masters in Education from Delta State University, she relocated to Memphis and worked as an elementary teacher in Shelby County and Memphis City School Districts. Ebony then went on to work has a National Literacy Consultant for Success For All Foundation, literary coach, and consultant for a digital platform with McGraw Hill. Currently, she is Dean of Instruction for a neighborhood charter school in Memphis.
MY Strategies for teaching with video
Literacy 7-12
When annotating, students engage deeply with a text and make their thinking visible while reading.
Literacy 4-6
By talking through their thinking at each step of a process, teachers can model what learning looks like.
Literacy 4-6
Content that is provided in clear, short chunks can support students' Working Memory.
Literacy 4-6
Family engagement happens when educators and schools collaborate with families to collectively support their child's learning in meaningful ways, both at school and at home.
Literacy 4-6
Visualizing how ideas fit together helps students construct meaning and strengthens their recall.
Literacy 4-6
Reading aloud regularly exposes students to new and familiar Vocabulary and texts.
Literacy 4-6
When students explain their thinking process aloud, they recognize the strategies they use and solidify their understanding.
Literacy 4-6
Providing visuals to introduce, support, or review instruction activates more cognitive processes to support learning.
Literacy PK-3
Advance graphic organizers link prior knowledge to upcoming learning to help students anticipate and understand the structure of new information.
Math PK-2
CRA is a sequential instructional approach during which students move from working with concrete materials to creating representational drawings to using abstract symbols.
