COVID Family Resources

• Building Positive Conditions for Learning at Home: Strategies and Resources for Families and Caregivers
• US Dept of Labor – COVID-19 and the Family and Medical Leave Act Questions and Answers
• American Academy of Pediatrics - Guidance for Parents Experiencing Stress over COVID-19
• Back to Basics: The Recipe for Reducing Stress and Boosting Health
• Child Mind Institue - Coronavirus Parenting: Managing Anger and Frustration
• EduCare – Virtual Workshops for Educators and Parents (SEL/Heartset)
• The Big EQ – Parent & Child Emotional Survival Toolkit
• Greater Good Science Center – How to Reduce the Stress of Homeschooling on Everyone
• Lower Your Expectations, And Other Parenting Advice For The Era Of COVID-19
• Medium – Parents Are Not Ok​
• Turnaround For Children - Coronavirus: Keeping Our Children And Ourselves Safe, With Pamela Cantor, M.D.​ (podcast)

• Sesame Street - Caring for Each Other 
• Child Trends - Ways to Promote Children’s Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network – Parent/Caregiver Guide to Helping Families Cope With the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) 
• Child Mind Institute – Talking to Kids About the Coronavirus (English and Spanish)
• Resources for Supporting Children’s Emotional Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• NPR – Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus
• PBS – How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus
• When the News Is Scary: 4 Ways to Support Children During the Coronavirus Outbreak

• CDE - Distance Learning: Instructional Strategies and English Learners Webinar Recording
• ArbolABC.com – 3-10 anos 
• Colorín Colorado – A bilingual site for educators and families of English Language Learners
• Twig Education – NGSS Aligned Resources for K-5 in English and Spanish 
• Early Edge California - Distance Learning Resources for Dual Language Learners
• National Alliance for Hispanic Health - Bilingual Support for Families on COVID-19 (Spanish Version)
• Sesame Street and the Spanish-language version, Sésamo

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. Take a moment to center your mind, body, and soul today with the help of these resources:

• Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully – Resources
• Mindful.org - Getting Started with Mindfulness
• Mindful Schools - Free Online: Mindfulness Class for Kids! (K-5)
• Mind Yeti (includes Spanish versions)
• Green Child - Free Guided Meditation and Relaxation Scripts for Kids 
• Bits of Positivity - YouTube Guided Meditation for Elementary School Children
• Mindfulness for Teens - Guided Meditation 
• Free Mindfulness Apps Worthy of Your Attention 

General Resources

• MIT Full STEAM Ahead - Free resources for K-12 and adult learners
• The Discovery Source – Free Science Activities for Parents and Children 3-8 (PreK-2nd grade)
• STEMFuture — Basic tech literacy and computer science skills (K-12)
• Girls Who Code at Home

​”Unplugged Activities”

Resources for STEAM activities that can be done without technology:

• CS Unplugged – Free Computer Science Activities Without a Computer
• iRobot Offline Activities
• RAFT - STEAM Learning Activity Sheets​
• We Are Teachers - 50 Easy Science Experiments Kids Can Do At Home With Stuff You Already Have​

• Skillastics – Keep Moving (a resource to keep kids and families moving when they are stuck at home)
• Playworks Play-Based Activities
• #PlayAtHome with Playworks – Free Virtual Recess live 3x per day Monday-Friday
• Cosmic Kids Yoga