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Digital and Hybrid Learning Resources from Black Teacher-Authors

By Team TPT January 28, 2022

Education is strongest when diverse perspectives and voices are shared and heard in classroom settings. During Black History Month — and throughout the year — we’re proud to highlight the expertise of the Black educators in the TPT community. With these resources, teachers around the world can incorporate a variety of engaging digital learning materials into their lessons.

Digital and Hybrid Elementary Resources Created by Black Educators

Explore these PreK-5 math and ELA activities that you can use whether you’re teaching remote, in-person, or a little bit of both.

DIGITAL Letter Name and Sound Review Assessment Distance Learning by Toney in First

Grades: PreK – 1st | English Language Arts

Are you looking for an engaging, digital way to assess learners? Look no further — this is the perfect review quiz to measure your scholars’ growth with built-in, self-grading pie charts. It’s compatible with any device that can access Google Sheets and Slides, from a PC to a smartphone!

CVC Build a Word for Google Classroom by Keri Brown

Grades: K – 2nd | English Language Arts

This online resource focuses on building CVC words. Students can move the correct letters under the picture to build the word in Google Slides. This activity works great as a whole group lesson on an interactive whiteboard or as an individual student assignment on a laptop or tablet.

Open-Ended Math Questions – Number Sense by BrowniePoints

Grades: 1st – 2nd | Math

These open-ended math questions allow students to approach problem-solving in their own way. You can also challenge your fast finishers by asking them to come up with several solutions at once. Plus, the way you use these questions is also open-ended! Try it out on Google Slides, PowerPoint, Seesaw, or paper.

Grocery Store Flyer Task Card Activity- Functional Math for SpEd and Life Skills by Noodle Nook

Grades: 2nd – 5th | Special Education, Life Skills

If you’re working with Special Education students, you’ll love this activity because it’s already differentiated. It targets several functional math skills and is a great center-based activity for students to practice computation, budgeting, and more! This activity is both print and digital ready so students can use whichever medium works best for them.

Fraction Unit – Simplifying Fractions Worksheets by Teacher Gameroom

Grades: 3rd – 6th | Math

Reinforce fraction skills by having students use the greatest common factor to reduce fractions to their simplest form. Perfect for morning work or homework, this resource can be used as print worksheets or digitally with Easel by TPT™.

Daily Math Warm Up – Number of the Day for 4th and 5th Grade by Mr Elementary Math

Grades: 4th – 5th | Math

Do your students need extra practice understanding numbers 1,000 through 1,000,000? This math warm-up is just the thing. With this Google Slides resource, you can walk your students through five daily tasks to build their number sense.

OPINION WRITING : INTRO AND CONCLUSION TASK CARDS by Kandi’s Kinesthetics

Grades: 4th – 6th | English Language Arts

If your students often struggle with making distinctions between the characteristics of an introduction paragraph and those of a conclusion paragraph, this resource can help provide a basic review of the purpose and characteristics of each paragraph type. Students can complete this activity on paper or online using Easel by TPT.

Digital Base Ten Blocks Activities with Decimals by Mix and Math

Grade: 5th | Math

These activities were designed to build and challenge students’ understanding of the base-ten number system with decimals, while also encouraging creative thinking. These interactive resources can be used with Google Classroom or downloaded and assigned as PowerPoints.

Digital and Hybrid Middle and High School Resources Created by Black Educators

With these activities, your middle and high school students can build skills in math and science, and prepare for life beyond the classroom.

Rational Number Operations Notes by The Sassy Math Teacher

Grades: 6th – 8th | Math

This bundle is an excellent way to review rational number operations and introduce your students to word problems involving rational numbers, including decimals, integers, and fractions. Print out the guided notes for your students or assign them the PDFs digitally, and your students will be able to easily follow along and take notes as you present the Google Slides.

Digital Drawing Conclusions and Inferences by Humble Bird

Grades: 6th – 8th | English Language Arts

This is a quick and easy way to check for understanding and review inferences with your students. Your students will use the clues from the provided paragraphs to make a guess about what’s behind the door and then justify their answers. You can use this digital resource in platforms like Schoology, Google Classroom, and more.

Easy Chemistry: Food Pairs Stoichiometry by SmartBots Makerspace

Grades: 7th – 12th | Chemistry

Don’t let stoichiometry strike fear in the heart of your students! With this unit, you can simplify this complex concept in an easy-to-understand way. No matter how you teach, it’s also easy to use as print-out worksheets or digital Easel activities.

College & Career Readiness Research for Google Drive™ | Vocational & Technical by College Counselor Studio

Grades: 10th – 12th | Life Skills

These low-prep activities are excellent for providing students and parents an introduction to college and career readiness focusing on vocational and/or technical. While made for Google Apps, these resources can also be easily adapted and used for print.

Digital Teacher Organization Resources Created by Black Educators

If you’re feeling time-strapped, check out these ready-to-use resources to help you cut down on prep time.

EDITABLE DIGITAL MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS | GOOGLE CLASSROOM by Tales of Patty Pepper

For All Grades and Subject Areas

Keep parents and students informed with these editable monthly newsletter templates made for Google Slides. But if you prefer hand-outs, simply print the newsletter from Google Slides after editing the template!

Distance Learning Google Slides™ Editable Daily Agendas Shiplap Porch Lights by The Fancy Counselor

For All Grades and Subject Areas

Use these signs to create and share your daily agendas with students. You can screen share the Google Slides with younger children, or post them to your LMS for older children who are more independent.

Digital Good Morning and Lesson Plan Templates for Google Slides by One Fab Teacher

Grades: PreK – 2nd | For All Subject Areas

This Google Slides resource is a fantastic way to keep yourself organized and make lesson planning more productive each week. While made to be used digitally, you can always print out the select slides you need if you prefer paper.

For more ways to tap into the expertise of Black educators, check out these posts:

• Teacher Voices: On Building Inclusive Classrooms for All Students
• Teacher Voices: Helping High School Students Prepare for College and Life Beyond K-12
• Teacher Voices: On Building for Diversity and Representation in the Classroom

This blog, originally published in 2021, has been updated for 2023.

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Black Teacher Voices: Advice for Taking Action Against Racism and Promoting Equity with Your Students

By Team TPT

Many Black Teacher-Authors within the TPT community have been leading important conversations about race, identity, and social justice. They’ve shared their experiences, asked important questions, and inspired action. And here, we’ve compiled some of their advice for taking action against racism and ensuring every student has an equitable education.

7 Black Teachers’ Advice on Acting Against Racism and Ensuring Classroom Equity

“It’s one thing to recognize racism. It’s another to take action. And as a Black woman, that’s what I’m hoping for. Seeing action from non-Black people.” — Vera from The Tutu Teacher

Vera from The Tutu Teacher has been an educator for fourteen years and currently teaches kindergarten in Brooklyn. She’s also an educational presenter and consultant who shares her expertise on weaving diverse texts and conversations about inclusion into classroom instruction. On Instagram, you can find her sharing many of these texts with her followers.

More from Vera:

Follow Vera’s passion for diverse books on Instagram @diversereads and visit her TPT store, The Tutu Teacher.

BVG SLP
“When you see RACISM speak up and speak out – this is the only way that it will end. We cannot pretend that we don’t see it when it is happening every single day of the week. As SLPs working with Black and Brown students, I know that you have witnessed it. Advocate for your students and this in turn will help teach them to advocate for themselves.” — Belinda from BVG SLP

Belinda has been a speech language pathologist for over 13 years. She has worked with adults as well as elementary and middle school students, and she currently provides speech services to children as a teletherapist. She has a Masters in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from the University of Central Florida and is certified by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA). Within the ASHA, Belinda has been a member of their Special Interest Group 18 for Telepractice, has served on their Telepractice Convention Committee, and presented at their 2019 convention. In addition to speech language pathology, Belinda is also passionate about literacy and is a children’s book author.

More from Belinda:

On her blog, Belinda shares more of her perspective in the post Teletherapy Tip Tuesday: Black Lives Matter – What Can I do to Help?. And, you can visit her TPT store at BVG SLP.

Mr Elementary Math
“Eradicating racism won’t happen overnight because it’s engrained into the many systems and institutions that make up America. It will require ongoing reflection, a genuine willingness to listen and a commitment to learn. But most of all it requires action! Now is the time to do the work. These systems took centuries to build, but we can break them down together, piece by piece in order to build a better world.” — Greg from Mr Elementary Math

Greg is an energetic presenter who creates online math resources and courses for K-5 teachers. He is an award-winning teacher with over 14 years of experience and has also served as a math coach. He has an EdS Degree in Leadership and an endorsement in Elementary Mathematics. Greg enjoys sharing ways to make math clear and fun. His ultimate goal is to help teachers and students learn to love math.

More from Greg:

You can find Greg’s store on TPT at Mr Elementary Math. He was also a keynote speaker at our annual Teacher-Author conference in 2019.

Esther Brunat
“I encourage you to find ways to listen to your brown brothers and sisters, your black and tan educators, and your melanin-rich neighbors. Let their words sink into your heart and eventually spill out of your mouth. When this becomes second nature, when you no longer have to try, when highlighting the Black experience almost feels effortless, your secondary classroom will be better for it. Your relationships will be better. You will be better.” — Esther Brunat

Esther has been teaching high school math for seven years. She currently teaches in Florida and previously taught in Panama. As the daughter of Haitian immigrants, education was always emphasized in her household, and her family and identity are part of what inspired her to become a teacher.

More from Esther:

Learn more about Esther and her experience in Teaching and Creating for a Diverse Classroom and Being Black Is Enough. And, visit her TPT store, Esther Brunat.

Simply Coaching and Teaching
“As a Black instructional coach who coaches white teachers to teach mostly black and brown students, I have been able to observe many white teachers come from a place of saving black and brown students vs empowering black and brown students. Use this time to educate yourself about anti-racism, bias, and take a deep reflection into your practices in the classroom. To other instructional-leaders, it is imperative that we focus on being vocal and holding each other accountable because the work is too critical to ignore. It’s time to take action!” — Nicole from Simply Coaching and Teaching

Nicole has spent the last 15 years in education working as an elementary teacher, a high school special education teacher, a K-12 administrator, and as an instructional coach — her current and favorite role. Within this work, she’s served as a lead teacher, a differentiated accountability coach, an assistant principal, a dean of students, and a school improvement and turnaround specialist. She is also the author of Simply Instructional Coaching and a sponsor of the Simply Coaching Summit, the first virtual conference for instructional coaches and instructional leaders. She’s also a proud mom of three.

More from Nicole:

Check out Nicole’s store on TPT at Simply Coaching and Teaching. And, you can follow Nicole on Instagram @simplycoachingandteaching_.

Tanesha B Forman
“Make no mistake, the effort to provide equitable resources is not rooted in trying to make everyone ‘happy.’ Instead, it’s rooted in an honest effort to ensure all students can achieve success with the materials regardless of their identity. This means that the resources I create should uplift and amplify student experiences, without furthering inequity or mistruths. I found that I must consider who I am highlighting in my product, how students will engage with the resource, and if the resource can be modified for learners with special needs.” — Tanesha B Forman

Tanesha has been an educator for 14 years and currently teaches middle school ELA. She has previously worked as a special education teacher for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities, as a 5th grade general education teacher, and as a director of a teacher preparation program. Tanesha’s experience and background move her to deeply consider inequities in education and how she can expand opportunities for her students.

More from Tanesha:

In this episode of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, Tanesha shares how she’s thinking about celebrating Juneteenth during distance learning. Also, read her perspective on creating equitable resources, and visit her TPT store, Tanesha B Forman.

Tanya G Marshall The Butterfly Teacher
“One pervasive and toxic myth about diversity is that it is a one-time ‘event’ or singular unit that is ‘covered’ at some point during the school year. My biggest piece of advice is to dismantle this myth! Diversity isn’t a ‘unit’ that you teach.” — Tanya G Marshall The Butterfly Teacher

Tanya is a Teacher-Author who brings over 10 years of experience to her work. She currently teaches English language learners online and previously taught in a physical classroom, mostly in 4th grade. Her Christian faith inspires and shapes her teaching, compelling her to put relationships and acceptance at the heart of her work.

More from Tanya:

Learn more about Tanya’s background and how she builds a culturally responsive classroom, and visit her TPT store, Tanya G Marshall The Butterfly Teacher.

Promoting equity is not only important in the classroom, but across the school. Learn more about taking action against racism and the ways school administrators can support Black educators from Patrice R. Jenkins of Tales of Patty Pepper.

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I. ACCESS BY STUDENT USERS 

• How Student Users may Access our Services. You may use our Student Tools with Student Users if (i) you use them in an education setting, (ii) the use is permitted by your school, and (iii) you have verified to us that you are a Teacher authorized to provide consent (via the terms described in more detail in the Easel By TpT User Agreement) for your Student Users to use our Student Tools, and to disclose Student Personal Information to us.  Once we have these assurances, we collect Student Personal Information from your Student Users only after you have invited the Student User to interact with you via the Student Tool. More specifically, we permit a Student User to access our Services only through a Student Tool, and a Student User is permitted to access the Student Tool only after you initiate that access either through an invitation, assignment or class code or link, or other mechanism as provided by the Student Tool. If we find that anyone under the age of 18 has accessed or attempted to access our Services other than as permitted herein, we will remove those individuals and any personal information they may have provided from our system.
   

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II. WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT 

When a Student User interacts with our Service through a Student Tool, we may collect the following information.

• Information you and your Student Users provide to us directly: We collect information that you and your Student Users provide to us directly, including.

  • Authentication information: To ensure secure access to our Services, we may require Student Users to create and use login credentials (that may include, for example, an email address and/or a username and password).

  • Name or Nickname: In order for you to identify and distinguish between different Student Users, we may ask a Student User to enter their nickname, first name, or full name, or you may add student names directly, by inputting them yourself or by importing or creating a class roster.

  • Response information: Using a Student Tool, Student Users are able to provide responses to questions, add content to materials shared by their Teacher, or otherwise enter or provide information to their Teacher (“Responses”). Such Responses may include text, drawings, answers to multiple choice questions, and other materials or uploads, including video, audio, and other content or format as the Student Tool may allow. If Student Users choose to use available recording features to add photos, or voice, video, or other recordings to their Responses, Student Users must affirmatively allow TpT to access the microphone and/or camera on the Student User’s device, and TpT will use the device’s microphone and camera features only when the Student User is actively using the Student Tool to record their Response.

  • Teacher Feedback and Grades. You may reply to, provide feedback on, or grade student Responses. Your feedback and grades will be stored within the Student Tool for review/reference. 

• Information we receive when you choose to use a third-party integration: We have designed our Student Tools (where applicable) to interoperate with certain third-party offerings, such as learning management systems, authentication or identity providers, and other educational service partners with which you and/or your Student Users (as the case may be) may have existing accounts (“Integrated Services”). You or your Student Users may use an Integrated Service with a Student Tool by providing the requisite permission to TpT. This permission will enable the Student Tool to access, receive, and/or export information to and from such Integrated Service at your direction. For clarity, Integrated Services are not Service Providers of TpT (as defined below), but third parties with which you and your Student Users have an independent relationship. As such, each such Integrated Service has its own privacy policies which apply to its collection, use and sharing of your information and TpT is not responsible for the treatment of your or your Student Users’ information by Integrated Services, including information you choose to export to your account with an Integrated Service.

  • Identity Providers: In certain instances, Student Users are able to access Student Tools via an account that the Student User has with a third party, such as Google or Canvas. In those instances, the third party (the “Identity Provider”) authenticates the identity of the Student User for purposes of our Student Tool. Specifically, the Identity Provider will check the Student User’s credentials in its own system to make sure they are correct, and then send back to us a confirmation, which may include an email address, name and other Student User details as determined by the Identity Provider. We will only store and use the information reasonably necessary to complete the authentication and identify the Student User.

  • Education and Learning Management Services: Integrated Services may include learning management tools and other educational services that Teachers use to manage or provide their classes, such as Google Classroom or Canvas (collectively, “Learning Services”). We provide these integrations (as applicable) in order to create more seamless experiences for Teachers and Student Users to assign, access, submit and review teaching materials and Responses using their existing Learning Services. The Teacher decides whether to connect an applicable Learning Service with an available Student Tool. Through the connection, TpT may receive classroom-related and other information, such as course titles and class rosters. You can remove access by TpT to this information through the settings in your account with the applicable Learning Service at any time.

• Information collected automatically: We also collect certain information automatically about a Student User’s device and browser while they use our Services. Where this information includes Student Personal Information, we protect it as such under this Policy.

  • Device and system information: We may collect the IP address associated with that Student User’s use of the Services, and browser and device information (such as device type, browser version, and operating system) for security and performance monitoring purposes. We collect this information to ensure that our Services are working and properly configured for different devices and browser types. We do not use a Student User’s IP address or device information to identify or track their precise location or movements.

  • Authentication Cookies: We store authentication cookies in order to enable our Services to identify and properly authenticate each returning user and ensure that users are only able to access their own information, and for anonymous session tracking so we understand overall usage.

III. HOW WE USE THIS INFORMATION 

We collect and process Student Personal Information only for educational purposes and to serve the needs of Teachers and Student Users, as follows: 

• Fulfill requests and provide the Service. We use Student Personal Information for purposes of (i) permitting Teachers to identify and communicate with specific Student Users, to review and reply to (or grade) their Responses, and to track their progress; (ii) permitting Student Users to receive assignments directed to them, to provide individual (or collective) Responses to these assignments, and to participate in projects via the Student Tools; and (iii) permitting both Teachers and Student Users to interact as identified individuals, using the Student Tools, for educational purposes. 

• Data ownership. All Student Information submitted or uploaded to or collected by our Student Tools remains the property of the school and/or Student User (as the case may be). You grant us a limited license to use Student Information for purposes of providing, maintaining, supporting, and securing our Services. 

• Secure Access. We use authentication information, which may include Student Personal Information, for security purposes to ensure that Teachers and Student Users access only the Student Information and Student Personal Information they are permitted to access.

• Site Security and Operations. We may use Student Personal Information for operations purposes, and for site and user security purposes as set out in Section V below.

IV. USE OF AGGREGATED AND DE-IDENTIFIED INFORMATION

We may use and share de-identified, aggregated, anonymous usage and/or other information that does not constitute Student Personal Information about use of our Student Tools by Teachers and Student Users, in the manner permitted by applicable law including to understand usage, demonstrate effectiveness, make recommendations, and inform future development and improvements.

V. WHO WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH

We do not sell Student Personal Information and we only share Student Personal Information in the following ways: 

• Within the classroom or school. Student Tools enable Teachers to interact with Student Users for sharing, completing, and receiving educational instruction and assignments electronically. Teachers will have access to all Student Information including Student Users’ engagement with the Student Tool, the name or nickname and other profile information about Student Users, and Responses. If Student Users collaborate on a Response, collaborating Student Users will be able to see each other's names and added Response information as well as any Teacher feedback or grades assigned to the Response. We may also disclose Student Information to school administrators through reporting features available to schools or upon request, as provided under FERPA. 

• Third party Integrated Services you choose to use. If you enable a connection between a Student Tool and an Integrated Service, such as a Learning Service, that connection may permit you to send/export information from the Student Tool (if applicable) to the Integrated Service, and this information may include Student Users’ names, Response information, and grades. If you export Student Information from our Student Tools, treatment of the Student Information will be governed by the receiving third party’s privacy policy -- it’s up to you to ensure that the export is appropriate and in compliance with your school’s policies. 

• TpT staff. Certain employees may have access to Student Personal Information from time to time. We limit access to those who need access to this information to do their work and they are obligated not to use or share this information for any other purpose.

• Service Providers. In order to provide our Services, including our Student Tools, we engage the services of third-party service providers who, among other services, may host, store, transmit, and/or otherwise process information for us (“Service Providers”). We choose Service Providers who have agreed to maintain reasonable security and privacy controls, and our Service Providers are contractually obligated to protect the security and confidentiality of Student Personal Information consistent with this Policy..

• Safety, security and law enforcement requirements. We may disclose Student Personal Information, in response to valid requests from law enforcement bodies, such as a court order, subpoena or other official request for information. We may disclose Student Personal Information to Service Providers and as needed to other third parties for purposes of protecting the safety and security of Teachers, Student Users, and others, and for the security of our systems, including the detection and prevention of fraud and violations of law. 

VI. SECURITY 

The security of Student Personal Information is very important to us. We maintain, consistent with accepted industry practice, administrative, technical and physical safeguards reasonably designed to protect against unauthorized use, disclosure of or access to Student Personal Information, such as:

• Password Protection. Access to Student Personal Information requires authentication to our Service with the Student User’s or Teacher’s login credentials. You can help keep your information secure by keeping those login credentials confidential and choosing a strong password.

• Encryption. Data entered into our Student Tools is encrypted in transit using transport layer security (TLS) and encrypted at rest in our databases hosted by AWS which we chose for its high level of security.

• Location. Our Servers are located in the United States.

• Firewalls. We utilize industry standard firewalls to detect and protect against malicious traffic.

• Incident Response. We maintain an incident response plan consistent with industry standards and comply with federal and state law requirements in the event of a data breach which includes as applicable, direct notification of impacted users by email or other means as may be required.

• Periodic Assessment and Vulnerability Monitoring. We engage in continuous monitoring for vulnerabilities, vulnerability testing, and engage independent third parties for periodic penetration testing to ensure the security of our Student Tools.

VII. INFORMATION RETENTION AND CHOICES

• How long we keep Student User information: We retain Student Personal Information only as long as necessary to provide the Services related to the Student Tool. Except for earlier disposal in response to a valid deletion request or because TpT otherwise determines that that data is no longer necessary for the provision of the Services, Student Personal Information will be retained for as long as the Teacher associated with such Student User is an active Member of our Services, and for some time thereafter as needed to fulfill our legal obligations.

• Access, deletion, and correction requests: In accordance with COPPA and to support schools’ FERPA obligations, we facilitate parental requests for access to, correction of, and (as applicable) deletion of Student Information. Parents wishing to make such requests, should contact their child’s teacher or school to begin that request and we’ll work with the school to timely fulfill that request. We allow Teachers to access, correct or delete Student Information as needed.
  

VIII. OTHER 

• Modifications to this Policy. We may make changes to this Student Privacy Policy from time to time. For any material changes, we’ll notify you in advance via email and/or through on site notifications. Your continued use of the Services after email notice of a change signifies your consent and agreement to the updated Policy. In some cases we made provide notice only via on site notifications in which cases we will incorporate a mechanism to capture your express consent to the updated Policy.

• Successors. As part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which a third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part), we may transfer the data we have collected to the third party. In such an event, we’ll notify you in advance of that change so you can make an informed choice. In addition, any purchasing company will have to adhere to the terms of this Policy including notifying you before making material changes.

• How to Contact Us:

  • Email: Privacy@TeachersPayTeachers.com

  • Mail: Attn: Privacy, 111 E. 18th Street, Fl 11, New York, New York 10003

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APPENDIX

Subprocessor list (as of March 2022):

We contract with the following Service Providers to provide our services which may involve the processing of Student Personal Information:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Cloud hosting provider

• Akamai - Web Application Firewall which delivers content to end users and protects against malicious traffic

• Datadog - Server-side and client-side performance monitoring service

• Sendgrid - Email Service Provider (ESP) which manages email delivery (e.g. transactional emails as necessary)