Leadership advice for parents
Superintendent Cindy Marten joined other leadership experts to discuss ways to thrive during the Covid-19 pandemic. LEAD San Diego, an affiliate of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, hosted this webinar. (Recorded April 8, 2020) Click here to visit our Parents as Partners site.

Make this time count

Together, students, parents, teachers and staff are facing the biggest education challenge of our generation due to the COVID-19 crisis. Everyone agreed at the beginning of this health crisis that this time cannot turn into wasted time for our students. This academic year will count, and our students will move forward.
 
One day soon, we will emerge from the COVID-19 crisis. We hold the hope our students will be back in their classrooms with their teachers and friends again. We will have a future. And for students, what that future looks like may depend on how they embrace the weeks and months ahead, starting with Distance Learning.
 
To get the most from this time, teachers, counselors and every school community will be supporting our students, as learning moves online. Teachers will continue to assess student progress and make informed decisions about who needs additional support. Work will be graded, so students and parents can identify areas for improvement. However, San Diego Unified has instituted a “grade protection policy,” meaning a student’s final grade in a course cannot be lower than the grade she/he had earned before schools closed in March.
 
Resources: Checklist for parents | Parent survival guide | Things all parents can do

Take care of yourself

Parents play a crucial, irreplaceable role in the education of their children, as do teachers. As we move to online learning together, parents and teachers will work together to develop flexible routines for learning and set realistic expectations for how the learning occurs at home. The move to online learning will be a challenging experience for everyone involved – parents, teachers, school leaders, and especially students. In order to meet that challenge, all moms and dads should take care of themselves, eat healthy, get good rest, exercise, and stay attentive to their mental health needs, as well as those of their students. The less stress, the better. We will get through this together with flexibility, patience, grace for one another, and support.

Resources: Mental health resources | GritX | Mindfulness

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MindYeti at Home
Learn how one family uses Mind Yeti to get more out of study time and family time. Mind Yeti is a research-based digital library designed to help kids and their adults calm their minds. For more helpful videos see the MindYeti YouTube channel.

Ninja parents / Resources for the overachievers

Like their children, many parents are digital natives, who are ready to meet the challenge of creating classrooms in the Cloud. Long before the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close, students were working together collaboratively on computers and educators were honing their skills in teaching a diverse student population with a wide array of learning styles. This experience helped San Diego Unified confidently launch distance learning. If you are ready to go beyond the digital learning basics, these online lesson plans and daily schedules will help. Keep in mind that flexibility is important. Educators and families are work together to support student learning with an understanding that students are not only learning content, they’re also learning how to use new digital tools.
 
Resources: Daily Lesson Plans
​Check your students’ grading reports and progress at PowerSchool.sandi.net

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