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Adapt, Advance, Achieve: Connecticut’s Plan to Learn and Grow Together
10. Academics
CT Learning Hub
The CSDE recognizes that in order to create future ready learning environments, teachers,
students, and families require access to high quality, high impact resources and curricular
materials. Beginning June 30, 2020, the CSDE will launch the CT Learning Hub. A place for
universal access to curated high quality, high impact online learning content for math, English
language arts, science, social studies, the arts, physical education and more anytime, anywhere.
The CT Learning Hub is a free and interactive webpage of digital resources to support online
and offline learning.
When a teacher, student, or parent clicks into the CT Learning Hub, they will be able to click on
a menu of resources for core content (math, literacy, science, social studies, SEL), professional
resources like lesson planning and blended learning templates, parent resources on how to
support learning at home, and other digital and non-digital resources (online and offline).
Plan to Reimagine CT Classrooms for Continuous Learning
Continuity of learning, academic growth, and student connectedness are critical components
of student well-being. Routines and connections with educators provide required stability,
security, and structure that can keep our students happy, active, engaged, and healthy. The
term “continuous learning” means establishing and maintaining connections with students and
families to provide learning materials and supports using a variety of communication channels
and modalities (e.g., email, phone, printed learning materials, and available online platforms).
The CSDE Plan to Reimagine CT Classrooms for Continuous Learning provides school systems
with design principles as recommendations for how to assess capacity, analyze available
instructional and technology resources, develop an approach to providing extended remote
learning opportunities, and implement an extended remote learning plan. Each district must
make local decisions in line with their needs and available resources, while aligning with the
CSDE Plan to Reimagine CT Classrooms for Continuous Learning.
Guidance
• The CSDE strongly encourages all districts to develop and implement the Plan to
Reimagine CT Classrooms for Continuous Learning in partnership with teachers,
families, and local education boards.
The Plan to Reimagine CT Classrooms for Continuous Learning provides detailed strategies
and resources for implementation. Resources include:
• Design principles for blended learning
• Role of families, students, educators and administrators
• Scheduling the school day and instructional time examples
• Recommendations for the design of the school day
• Guidance for supporting special populations (special education and ELs)