Resources for 2e Families & Teachers During Pandemic

2e News April 1, 2020 Home & Family, Resources, Teaching & Learning

2e News recently reached out to our community members, seeking their favorite resources aimed to help twice-exceptional students continue on their educational trajectory during the pandemic. The following are resources that were shared with us, plus more we have sourced.

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Bridges Academy is offering live online courses for twice-exceptional students, starting Monday, April 6. The offerings include:

•Fiction Boot Camp: Knowing what to write about is one thing, knowing how to write about it is another. This eight day intensive course will help students structure the plot, develop the tone, and determine the voice of their fiction.

•Poetry & Lyrics Slam: This course will furnish a productive and nurturing pace for students to read and develop their poetry and their song lyrics. For each of our eight daily sessions, the class will be given an optional prompt to react to for the following class. Alternatively, students are encouraged to read their work in progress.

•Encyclopedia X: Students in this course will channel concern into action as they create their own informational site (think Wikipedia) that addresses a pressing social, political, environmental, or social justice issue. Students will decide on their own topic and explore its origins, history, important events, important people, complications, and critical needs, as well as related political and economic factors.

•Digital Design Boot Camp: In this online course, students will work in Photoshop to generate their own digital content, be it illustrations, graphic design, products, or even high-quality memes. Students will master a set of tools and learn how to use them to bring their creative visions to life.

Click here for more information or to register.

Khan Academy provides free video lessons to students, who can maintain a personalized dashboard. The nonprofit has developed a special schedule of offerings for use during the current school closures. Khan also partnered with Disney to offer a course on theme park design and engineering. Learn more here.

TEDEd has launched TEDEd@Home, which provides daily lesson plans for students from elementary school through college. The site also allows teachers to develop customized lesson plansusing TEDEd and YouTube video content.

Scholastic offers lessons, articles, videos, and activities for learners from pre-K through Grade 9. Scholastic also provides guides for teachers and families on how to maintain learning in a remote format.

Smithsonian Learning Lab provides free access to millions of resources contained within Smithsonian facilities. This includes audio, video, photos, texts, lesson plans, instructional strategies, and more. See the Getting Started guide.

Kids Like Us offers monthly support groups for parents of twice-exceptional children. See the schedule here.

•With Understanding Comes Calm is offering parents and teachers free membership to its Let’s Talk 2e Community.

National Emergency Library serves as a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed. See their FAQ here.

Inclusive Arts, which advocates for neurodiversity in the arts, has developed improv-based activities for students and families to try at home.

LG and Discovery Education are hosting a Discover Your Happy portal, which includes activities, lessons, and videos to help teachers and parents guide their students/children to manage anxiety and take concrete steps toward greater happiness.

Local libraries — including Los Angeles and New York — may offer vast online catalogs for library card holders.

Many other online educational sites exist that have materials or resource lists useful to twice-exceptional students. These include but are not limited to: