A bi-weekly support group for teachers to discuss their emotional wellbeing, concerns and other stressors while navigating the new norm. Facilitated by Dr.Rebecca Steingiesser, Clinical Psychologist.
5:00 to 6:00PM. Monday, Sep 6th. 

Useful information, updates and ideas for teachers, students and parents focused on sustainable living in the UAE.

Health & Safety webinar for Dubai school leaders by Dubai Health Authority and Dubai Municipality in collaboration with KHDA.

A temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

In this free and very popular online course you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Professor Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incorporate a specific wellness activity into your life.

Apple Teacher is a free professional learning programme designed to support and celebrate educators who use Apple products for teaching and learning. The self-paced learning journey helps educators build skills on iPad and Mac devisces and earn recognition for the new things they learn

K-5 Math content available online or paper-based materials that can be used without a device. Access over 400 hours of digital lessons, offered for free that has been created to support educators and parents/caregivers with distance learning. Webinars, video tutorials, and step-by-step guides are offered to help you quickly navigate and use their Distance Learning Center

No membership needed to access more than 60 free online exercise classes, including boot camp, yoga, weightlifting, boxing, Tai Chi and more.

Anomaly Group has opened up its portal to all of those at home. Their content focuses on the physical and mental health of children. Find informative content around health, wellbeing and positive societal values with interactive games to make sure that children are learning whilst staying active.

A character education video free subscription series for K-2 students that highlight positive character traits, exemplified by prominent figures. Free home access to the Character Tree videos and supplemental/printable activities, through to June 30, 2020. The subscription includes 32 character education videos, 32 sets of printable activities, and teacher’s guides.

With many schools around the world endeavouring to educate their students remotely, access a series of free Remote Learning Resources to help boost your students’ wellbeing.

Sumdog provides engaging learning and practice in numeracy for children aged 5-14, and literacy for children aged 5-11. It adapts to each individual, using engaging game-based learning to motivate and build confidence. Meanwhile, its learning engine reports progress to teachers and parents.

Authentic news content turned into learning materials that are classroom-ready for primary school teachers of all subjects and grades. Newsela has made their entire product suite freely available to teachers, and has published free distance learning resources.

It’s time for us all to tend to our mental health. This track will put you on course to manage the anxiety and worry you may feel at the moment and help you find moments of joy, gratitude, and love among the hardship.

Dr Lea Waters provides a sample of wellbeing activities that staff can use with students online in an e-learning classroom, as well as some activities educators can send home to parents to help them support the wellbeing of their families.

Easy to use video conferencing and messaging platform to support with online meetings.

Voices of Future Generations competition: Young people are invited to write an adventure story to be shared with others about how their hero can make a positive difference. With a focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the Rights of the Child, let’s give our children a voice that so that their words can be shared and celebrated globally.

Key messages for school leaders, teachers, students and communities to keep schools safe, covering pre-primary through to upper secondary education for COVID-19 prevention and control in schools. Contains practical checklists that can be used to help develop and enact action plans.

Self-paced online courses for young children to learn coding while at home, learning through specially designed curriculum. With 40+ award-winning block & text-based courses and over 3,700 learning modules, there's a learning path for every kid no matter their age or level.

Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice

Get free access to a library of TIME magazines developed specifically for primary grade levels.

This Facebook group brings together theatre educators transitioning to distance learning.

Texthelp provides automated marking of student writing, assessing spelling, grammar and punctuation to provide an accuracy score, with teachers able to give individualised feedback.

Squigl uses Artificial Intelligence to associate animated images from its library with key words that it selects from your text. Those images are human drawn or render in accordance with neuroscientific guidelines for maximum attention and retention. Squigl automatically synchronizes voiceover with the video timeline to generate highly effective content to keep students engaged with learning at home.

Solfeg.io is an app that helps music teachers deliver the curriculum in a simple but engaging way - in class and online. Solfeg has made 30 songs freely available in different genres suitable for teaching music theory, rhythm, singing, guitar, piano and ukulele.

Blog on Governing during Corona.

Potential has put together an online future skills bundle to support schools and universities in empowering their students. Given that schools would be challenged to provide all their regular curriculum through remote learning, and in order to keep students engaged and learning new skills, these resources attempt to help bridge that gap.

Specifically designed for K-3 students, this website has informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy support for students of all abilities to boost engagement and foster independent learning in core subject areas.

Free CPD for educators in English and Arabic, designed to support educators with distance learning, through a series of webinars.

Mystery Science develops many popular science lessons used by primary teachers in the USA. All resources are made for teachers by teachers and many have made freely available.

Take your pick from the range of activities for students and parents, case scenarios and much more to keep you and your children engaged and continue their moral development.

A one-hour training course on key aspects of infection and immunity to empower you on how to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 in your community. The course covers the chain of infection, how infectious diseases are transmitted and how to break the chain of infection through concrete preventive actions. Certificate provided.

With Microsoft Teams, your school or institution can create collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, communicate with school staff, coordinate research across institutions and more easily facilitate student learning all in one platform.

An engaging learning platform for primary and secondary level Math using an active game-based pedagogical approach. The AI-algorithm considers students' performance on teacher assignments, and combines it with data collected across thousands of schools to provide age-appropriate recommendations to each student. Teachers required to register their students.

Khan Academy Kids is a free, fun, educational app with thousands of activities and books for young children aged 2-7.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises and instructional videos, that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. They tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.

Free online courses in online tutoring, conducted in Arabic or English. Certificate included.

Practices, resources, and articles for individuals, parents, and educators facing COVID-19.

A safer, healthier and kinder social media for kids. Helping to provide a safe social collaboration and communication space to enhance school lessons and provide under 13-year old’s with a way to stay in touch with friends during school closures. GoBubble gives you complete peace-of-mind as they do all the moderation for you.

Firefly is an online platform that enables schools to share teaching resources, manage their students’ learning and keep parents up to date with their child’s activities and progress.

This Facebook page brings educators together from all over the world to support one another with planning distance or online learning. With over 100k members, join to seek help or share ideas.

Bring Expo to your classroom with curated class material available in both English and Arabic across different age groups and subjects.

Etisalat Postpaid and Prepaid customers can now access school websites and education platforms without data charges. Access to online school supportive platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom are now available at no cost.

EPIC is offering free worldwide remote student access to over 40,000 books online until June 30, 2020. Teachers can register for their students’ access and remain connected to them by assigning books and tracking reading activity and progress.

This Facebook page brings together music educators to support one another in implementing meaningful e-learning in music education.

A suite of resources, that are all free, to help you with online learning and collaboration. Access a list of webinars and skill development opportunities.

This resource page was created to help higher education institutions plan for possible campus disruption by COVID-19 in the United States.

Edraak K-12 platform offers unique, high-quality, open educational resources (OERs) catering for the 21st century needs of students, teachers and parents from the Middle East and North Africa region.

EDpuzzle is a free, innovative site that lets you take just about any video, edit it down to the portions you want, add audio notes and questions for students, and create virtual classrooms where you can monitor individual student work.

UAE government authorities have created a series of short information videos, which are essential watching for every student in the UAE. Videos highlight key information around COVID 19; such as staying home, cyber security, washing hands and social distancing. Videos are in English and Arabic.

Du Postpaid and Prepaid customers can now access school websites and education platforms without data charges. Access to online school supportive platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom are now available at no cost.

A donation program that connects compassionate UAE residents and organizations with students who need a desktop/laptop to support them with online learning during school closures.

COBIS shares best-practice resources and trusted information around managing the impact of school closures.

Cisco Webex are offering to keep your classrooms connected, so learning can continue, at no cost.

Apple education offers a variety of creativity and productivity tools for educators and students as well as an online self-paced teacher professional learning platform called Apple Teacher.

Alef Education is prepared to make sure that learning does not stop. During the distance learning period, they’ll be offering free access to all their learning platforms – Alef, Curio and Abjadiyat. You’re invited to view their resources online. Includes Arabic resources.