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Adapt, Advance, Achieve: Connecticut’s Plan to Learn and Grow Together
Guidance
• Be prepared to provide remote blended learning opportunities immediately upon
cancellation of in-school classes. Blended learning is defined as learning that
combines online digital media with classroom methods, with some element of student
control over time, place, path, or pace. Blended learning can take place on site, on
campus, in a single classroom, or in remote settings.
• Define remote learning for the community. Remote learning, where students are
not physically present in a traditional classroom environment, may happen through
various platforms, such as a learning management system.
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LEAs should consider their ability to switch from onsite to remote learning
based on need. This requires preparedness.
Remote learning provides an opportunity for students and teachers to remain
connected and engaged with the content while working from alternate
locations. The transition to remote learning can keep students on track so
that when they return to physical, onsite school environments, they will not be
required to complete an excessive amount of make-up work.
Many of the requirements for onsite learning can remain in place while
teaching and learning in remote locations.
• Consult resources for teaching in a blended learning environment that is both
synchronous and asynchronous which can be found in the Plan to Reimagine CT
Classrooms for Continuous Learning.
• Consult the COVID-19 Resources for Educators provided by the CSDE as a tool to
support student learning during school closures. Topics found here include:
Reopening Plan
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Content specific resources to support student learning organized by both
discipline and grade band;
Resources around student data privacy, grading practices, assessment, and
professional learning; and
Instruction for three-tiered model of SRBI (Scientific Research-Based
Intervention), SRBI resources, and MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Support)
behavioral resources.
If class cancellations were initiated and a determination must be made about the approach to
reopening, consult the most up-to-date decision tree related to schools from the CDC. As of the
date of this guidance, the decision tree is available on page 27.
Also review the forthcoming DPH guidance.