Tips for Teaching Kids Online K-12

Arielle teaches kindergarten at St. Ailbe School in Chicago, a move she made after graduating Yale and completing Teach For America's two-year service term. Currently, as a quarantine educator, Arielle films YouTube video lessons for her students targeting the skills she would have taught in the third trimester of school. She shares videos and lesson materials from her school’s curriculum on the See Saw app. She also uses Zoom to host weekly class gatherings. As a Teach For America corps member, Arielle taught in two underperforming, high-poverty schools in Cleveland. From these experiences, she learned firsthand about many of the inefficiencies of the public school system in Cleveland and throughout America. She is a candidate for the Master of Science in Early Childhood Education degree from Johns Hopkins School of Education.

Emily is the Instructional Support Strategist at Catapult Learning in Philadelphia. Emily provides K-8 instructional support in local Title I schools, K-5 literacy training for domestic and overseas DoDEA faculty, and a K-12 workshop facilitator. She visits schools, programs, libraries, museums, and makerspaces to witness how, what, and why others teach and/or what else folks do to grow student involvement with their learning and the world around them.

Andrew is an eighth grade Social Studies teacher at Bigelow Middle School in Newton, Massachusetts, where he has worked for 16 years. He is a member of the iCivics Educator Network and the Civics101 Advisory Board, and a co-director of The SSChat Network which leads weekly Twitter conversations at #sschat. Andrew has presented at the annual conferences for NCSS, the Flipped Learning Network, and NELMS; co-presented a 2-day workshop at EDCO in Burlington MA; and co-chaired the roundtable discussion "Podcasts As Pedagogy" at the 2020 American Historical Association conference. In October 2019, Andrew's classroom was featured in a Boston Globe Magazine article by Linda K Wertheimer. He is also Admin of the Yale Alumni Educators Facebook group.