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Monterey County Office of Education
Leadership, Support and Service to Prepare All Students for Success
Dr. Deneen Guss, County Superintendent of Schools
Desmos for Teachers
Grade-level: K-12. For teachers, there are supports for distance learning using Desmos. Multiple online training opportunities.
Math Equity
The Math Access and Equity Resources During Distance Learning website shares resources for educators and families specific to mathematics support with a focus on equity and access.
San Francisco Unified Mathematics Department
Grade-level: K-5. The math department has created and shared a number of open educational resources including their core curriculum. SFUnified Math Lessons
YouCubed
Grade Level: K-12. The YouCubed website houses resources that inspire math success for all students through growth mindsets and innovative teaching. Their main goal is to inspire, educate and empower teachers of mathematics, transforming the latest research on math learning into accessible and practical forms.
Inside Mathematics
Grade Level: 2-12. A professional resource for teachers, coaches, and administrators passionate about improving students’ mathematics learning and performance. Resources include videos, lessons, problems of the month, and tasks.
Illustrative Mathematics
Grade Level: K-12. Illustrative Mathematics provides free access to a library of tasks and resources, and the latest articles, case studies, and wisdom from our respected curriculum authors.
Achieve the Core
Grade Level: K-12. Math classroom resources include lessons, tasks, assessments, and coherence maps.
Open Middle
Grade Level: K-12. Open middle provides engaging worksheets by grade level that have students investigate a math idea. Students play with numbers, operations, and other math ideas.
NCTM Illuminations
Grade Level: K-12. A project designed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) that offers tasks K-12 that are searchable by Common Core Standard, by name, or by topic. The tasks usually include the description, objectives and standards, materials, assessments and extensions, questions and reflections, and related resources.
A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction
Grade Level: 6-8. Resources and guidance to support Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students to thrive in grades 6-8.
National Science Teaching Association (NSTA)
To support all educators during this difficult time, NSTA is offering a free 30-day membership, providing you with access to more than 12,000 digital professional learning resources and tools. Simply create an account here and start developing your own personalized digital learning experience.
Common Sense Education
48 Different Resource/ Labs for Science
Science Buddies
Teacher Resources - Science Buddies has over 1,200 Project Ideas in all areas of science.
NASA STEM
Resources Includes downloadable storybooks and has companion Educator Guides
Teach Engineering
NGSS hands-on activities featured by grade, focus on the engineering design component of the Next Gen standards, Making sense of phenomena and solving problems while deepening student engagement.
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Education Resources
The NOAA Education Portal is your one-stop shop to connect with learning and teaching resources about the ocean and atmosphere. Discover curricula, lesson plans, and real-time data to bring NOAA science into your classroom.
PBS Learning Media K-12 Interactive
Explore natural phenomena and scientific practices with videos, lesson plans, and interactive tools.
Phet Simulations
Interactive Simulations for Science and Math
Exploratorium - Science Snacks
Exciting science activities based on amazing phenomena. Science Snacks are hands-on, teacher-tested, and use cheap, available materials.
Mystery Science
Starter set of science lessons; mini-lessons and full-lessons organized by grade level.
Zoom
Online communication/collaboration/teaching platform
Google Meet
Online communication, collaboration, & teaching platform
Google Classroom
Virtual Classroom Platform
Nearpod
Teaching Platform
FlipGrid
Empowering Voice through Videos
Epic
Content Library with thousands of online books
EdPuzzle
Build online lessons using existing videos
Thrively
Career Exploration
California State Parks PORTS
California State Parks PORTS Home Learning Programs from across California to access our precious natural resources virtually.
Virtual National Parks
Ready to explore Yellowstone? You don't have to wait for your trip out here. You can start exploring now by virtually touring some of the main attractions around the park.
Great Lakes Now
Great Lakes Now brings along students on a virtual field trip to learn more about the importance of coastal wetlands, the danger of algal blooms and a deep dive into lake sturgeon.
iNaturalist
Contribute to Science. Observe Nature. Every observation can contribute to biodiversity science, from the rarest butterfly to the most common backyard weed
eBird
Every birdwatcher has unique knowledge and experience. eBird gathers this information in the form of checklists of birds, archives it, and freely shares it to power new data-driven approaches to science, conservation and education.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Monterey Bay Aquarium inspires conservation of the ocean. The webcams display life from the ocean.
San Diego Zoo
Bringing Wildlife into your home. We’re Here Together allows you to connect with the animals from the San Diego Zoo.
Farm 360
Virtual Tours of Canadian Farms and Dairies.
Planetarium
For every amateur astronomer, you can use it to prepare your next observing session, or simply look back on your observing achievements, and share them with your friends.
Nature Conservancy
Experience nature with the conservancy. Watch the Elkhorn Slough Otter Cams.
Dream Big... Read!
MCOE's Bright Futures, Goal 3 language and literacy workgroup contains family resources, community partnerships, county libraries information, and quarterly newsletters to support foundational literacy.
Math Equity
The Math Access and Equity Resources During Distance Learning website shares resources for educators and families specific to mathematics support with a focus on equity and access.
Language & Literacy Website
The Language and Literacy website contains resources and updates for Monterey County.
Monterey County History-Social Science and Civic Education
The Monterey County History-Social Science and Civic Education website shares resources for educators, youth, and community partners to expand equitable content, literacy, inquiry, and civic empowerment in Monterey County and Region 5.
Boston Children’s Museum
Virtual tour and archive of growing and learning activities available from home.
Smithsonian Natural History
The Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
Bring the wonder of Air and Space to life through videos, hands on activities, games, and more. We have something for every learner, Our learning resources bring the National Air and Space Museum’s one-of-a-kind collections and world class research to you, anywhere and anytime.
Birthplaces of Music
Birthplaces of Music: A Virtual Field Trip is a fully interactive, virtual field trip through the world of music history. During this trip, you will visit the birthplaces of four of the most popular genres of music in the world today: classical, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, and country.
The Louvre
Visit the museum's exhibition rooms and galleries, contemplate the façades of the Louvre.
The Great Wall of China
Commonly considered a wonder of the world, the Great Wall boasts a history of over 2,000 years and stretches more than 3,000 miles across several provinces of northern China, making it one of the most impressive ancient structures on the planet.
Access Mars
Access Mars lets you explore a 3D replica of the Martian surface, exactly as it was recorded by the Curiosity Rover.
360 Cities
Explored curated sets of photographs from cities around the world.
Ellis Island
A virtual field trip to Ellis island.
VAPA Distance Learning Resources
Google sheet of all visual and performing arts recommended.
Sight Reading Factory
Makes the important skill of sight reading practical and effective.
Kennedy Center
A robust collection of digital learning resources associated with the arts.
Music Theory
Online music theory lessons.
Deep Space Sparkle
Deep Space Sparkle offers art lesson plans and teaching resources that will help you teach art to kids, even if you aren't a great artist.
The Getty
Enhance students' understanding of artists, art history, materials, and techniques with interactive Web pages, online games, activities, and videos.
PBS Learning Media
KQED and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for California teachers like you.
Khan Academy
Online resource for studying 21st-century art as a burgeoning field of practice, research, and publication, making it an incredibly dynamic field of study.
Shakespeare Globe
Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames.
Google Arts and Culture
Google Arts & Culture is an online platform through which the public can view high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world.
Wide Open School
Grade-level: TK-12. A free collection of the best online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense.
Story Online
Grade-level: TK-4. Featuring books on video! Celebrated actors read children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Each book includes activities to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills.
Reading Rockets: Reading Adventure Packs!
Grade-level: TK-3. Packets of hands-on learning centered around fiction and nonfiction books (available at libraries and online sites, i.e.-YouTube). Engagement activities include: art projects, imagination activities,and real world connections. Reading Adventure Packs are also provided Spanish.
Lalio
Grade-level: K-2. Phonics and Reading Comprehension - students work on adaptive exercises in phonics, word recognition, and comprehension.
PBS Learning Media
Grade Level: TK-6. FREE and curated standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for teachers.
PBS-SoCal: Kids Lab
Grade Level: TK-6. Using games, apps, videos, and simple at-home activities, kids can take a journey that builds math and reading skills. This collection is organized around PBS media resources that support children’s development of numeracy and literacy skills. Resources are also provided in Spanish.
Scholastic
Grade Level: TK-8. “Grab-and-go” lessons and unit plans, discussion guides, extension activities, and other ideas to support learning at home. Choose from any subject area, and enjoy learning through discovery and engagement.
Newsela
Grade Level: 6-12. Content on an array of subjects current events, history, science, literature and more and at multiple Lexile reading levels. Requires registration.
Project Gutenberg
Grade Level: 6-12. Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online.
ReadWriteThink
Grade Level: K-12. High quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
New York Times Writing Prompts
Grade Level: 6-12. This website has over 1,000 writing prompts to choose from. Most of the prompts are personal opinion writing but can be adapted for persuasive or argument writing. These prompts may be revised for younger writers.
CommonLit to MCOE Language Arts Resources
CommonLit is a nonprofit education technology organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, especially students in Title I schools, graduate with the reading, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to be successful in college and beyond.
BrainPOP ELL
Animated video lessons and content are designed to promote English language learning.
Literacy Instruction for ELLs
Colorín Colorado provides free research-based information and activities for teachers and families.
Unite for Literacy
A colorful collection of books that can be read aloud in both English and Spanish. Practice fluency by reading with the text, talk about what is seen on the pages, or discuss learning.
What’s Going On In This Picture
Engage in a weekly What’s Going On In This Picture interactive discussions, which bring a global audience together to “notice and wonder” about images and ideas. Can be used for writing.
Flipgrid
A social learning platform that allows learners to reflect upon, discuss and showcase what they are learning, making, reading, solving, experiencing, and playing.
Lily Wong Fillmore
An Open Letter from Lily Wong Fillmore on School Closures Related to COVID-19.
BrainPOP ELL
Animated video lessons and content are designed to promote English language learning.
U.S. Census Bureau
Grade-level: PK-12. New activities designed specifically for the 2019-2020 school year spotlight the 2020 Census and the importance of making sure everyone is counted, especially children. The decennial count impacts the federal funds that communities receive for special education, classroom technology, teacher training, after-school programs, school lunch assistance, and more. Use activities for pre-K through 12th grade today to help your students, school, and community.
The Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship Project
Grade-level: K-12. Professional learning and resources to help educators and school administrators successfully implement California’s History-Social Science Framework.
California History-Social Science Project
Grade-level: K-12. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality history instruction, with a special focus on meeting the needs of English learners, native speakers with low literacy, and students from economically disadvantaged communities. Each week during the crisis, we'll announce a new resource, strategy, or good idea, using #CHSSPLive on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We'll also post schedule updates and access information here on the #CHSSPLive page.
Teaching Tolerance
Grade-level: K-12. These robust, ready-to-use lessons offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social emotional learning skills.
Teaching California
Grade-level: K-12. Inquiry sets include curated collections of primary sources, teacher and student notes, activities, and other tools that will help guide you through a research-based approach to improving student reading, writing, and critical thinking.
California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI)
Grade-level: K-12. The environment can provide depth to the study of history-social science, including the influence of geography on human settlements, the availability and conservation of natural resources, and the location of trade routes. The EEI Curriculum contains 45 history-social science units that teach select standards to mastery while increasing environmental literacy. Password: TeachEEI
iCivics
Grade-level: 5-12. iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship.
CrashCourse
Grade-level: 9-12. From courses like U.S. and world history, Crash Course has you covered with an awesome variety of AP high school curriculum topics.
Khan Academy
Grade-level: 9-12. You can learn anything. Expert-created content and resources for every course and level. Always free.
Zinn Education Project
Grade-level: PK-12+. The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country.
Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)
Grade-level: 5-12. SHEG seeks to improve education by conducting research, working with school districts, and reaching directly into classrooms with free materials for teachers and students. SHEG’s Reading Like a Historian curriculum and Beyond the Bubble assessments have been downloaded more than 9 million times. SHEG's current work focuses on how young people evaluate online content. SHEG has created a Civic Online Reasoning curriculum to help students develop the skills needed to navigate our current digital landscape.
National Geographic
The National Geographic Society uses the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world.
10 Health Education Resources to support educators in planning instruction within the health content areas.
State Health Framework
The California Health Framework website contains the framework, professional learning opportunities, and resources for educators and administrators.
The California Healthy Kids Resources Center
The California Healthy Kids Resources Center provides access to educational resources that can be borrowed at no cost. You can find free resources on their site.
LAUSD Wellness Programs
Los Angeles Unified School District provides their Blueprint for Wellness Policy on their Wellness Programs website.
Alliance for a Healthier Generation (Take Action Page)
Information on creating healthy school environments and implementing your Local School Wellness Policy (LSWP).
Lesson Building Template
This is a Google Doc template for teachers to plan instruction.
A Guide to Messaging About Role of Student Health in Supporting Academic Achievement
PDF of slides detailing impact of healthy eating and physical activity on academic achievement from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL). CASEL supports educators and policy leaders and enhances the experiences and outcomes for all PreK-12 students.
TREVOR Project (Lifeguard Workshop and Resources)
Founded in 1998, the Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25. The Lifeguard Workshop video is a learning tool specifically designed for you to help young people: Identify the challenges faces by LGBTQ people, recognize the warning signs of suicide, and respond to someone whom may be in crisis.
The MCOE prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
Accessibility Statement | Non-discrimination Policy | Sexual Harassment Policy | Uniform Complaint Procedures | Title IX NotificationCopyright © 2014 Monterey County Office of Education | WebMaster | Contact MCOE: 831.755.0300 | 901 Blanco Circle, Salinas, CA 93901
Welcome to the Monterey County Office of Education’s Website
We want everyone who visits our MCOE website to feel welcome and to easily find the information they need. Our website will be maintained in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We will ensure each webpage conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Level AA standards. These guidelines were established by the World Wide Web Consortium, an international community with a shared vision to make all websites accessible to individuals with visual, hearing or cognitive disabilities.
How to Report Issues
If you have difficulty accessing information on our website due to a disability, please contact us at webmaster@montereycoe.org. and provide the URL (web address) of the material you tried to access, the problem you experienced, and your contact information (name, email address and phone number) so that we may contact you to provide the information in another format.
Title IX - Sex-Based Discrimination is Prohibited
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (“Title IX”) is a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in all educational programs and activities, including athletic programs. No person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity operated by the Monterey County Office of Education. Title IX protects all participants in the County’s educational programs and activities, including students, parents, employees, and job applicants. The Monterey County Office of Education does not discriminate on the basis of sex. Discrimination on the basis of sex can include sexual harassment and sexual violence.
In addition to Title IX, the California Education Code prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools. (California Education Code §§ 220-221.1.) Other state and federal laws also prohibit discrimination and ensure equality in education. Please refer to Board Policies 5145.3 and Administrative Regulations 5145.3 for more information on the Monterey County Office of Education’s anti-discrimination policies.
You have the following rights under Title IX, to the extent applicable at the Monterey County Office of Education:
The Monterey County Office of Education has a responsibility to respond promptly and effectively to sex-based discrimination, including sexual harassment and sexual violence. If the Monterey County Office of Education knows or reasonably should know about sex discrimination, it must take action to eliminate the sex discrimination, prevent its recurrence, and address its effects. The Monterey County Office of Education must resolve complaints of sex discrimination promptly and equitably. Information on filing a complaint alleging sex-based discrimination is below, including contact information for the County’s Title IX Coordinator.
For more information specific to anti-discrimination in Monterey County Office of Education employment, please contact the Title IX Coordinator.
Learn more about your rights under Title IX:
Review related Monterey County Office of Education policies and regulations
The Monterey County Office of Education has a Title IX Coordinator who oversees the County’s compliance with Title IX requirements and promotes sex equity in the County’s programs. Contact the County’s Title IX Coordinator:
Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, Title IX Coordinator
831.784.4195
lbutler@montereycoe.org
Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, Title IX Coordinator
831.755.1405
evela@montereycoe.org
The Uniform Complaint Procedure is available on the Human Resources Forms page.
If you need assistance putting your complaint in writing, please contact the Human Resources Department for Personnel related complaints and the Student Services Department for Student related complaints. You may file a complaint anonymously, but the County Office of Education’s ability to investigate and respond may be limited by a lack of information.
You may also file a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. For more information, visit the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights website. The electronic complaint form for the Office for Civil Rights is available on the Office for Civil Rights' Website. Contact the Office for Civil Rights at:
San Francisco Office Office for Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Education
50 United Nations Plaza
San Francisco, CA 94102
Telephone: 415.486.5555
Fax: 415.486.5570
TDD: 800.877.8339
Email: ocr.sanfrancisco@ed.gov
For information about how to file other types of complaints and the procedures for those complaints, please contact the Human Resources Department at Monterey County Office of Education at 831.784.4195.
A complaint alleging unlawful discrimination or retaliation must be filed no later than six months from the date the discrimination or retaliation occurred, or six months from when the complainant first learned of the unlawful discrimination. The Superintendent or designee may extend this timeline by up to ninety days for good cause, upon written request by the complainant setting forth the reasons for the extension.
Complaints filed under the County’s Uniform Complaint Procedure will be investigated and a decision made within sixty calendar days of the County’s receipt, unless the complainant agrees to an extension. The County’s compliance officer or designee may interview alleged victims, alleged offenders, and relevant witnesses. The compliance officer may review available records, statements, or notes related to the complaint, including evidence or information received from the parties during the investigation. The compliance officer may visit reasonably accessible locations where discrimination is alleged to have occurred. As appropriate, the County’s compliance officer periodically will inform the parties of the status of the investigation. The complainant will be notified when a decision is made.
Complaints that are not filed under the County’s Uniform Complaint Procedure will be investigated and decided pursuant to the applicable procedure.
For complaints filed under the Uniform Complaint Procedure, the compliance officer will prepare and send a final written decision to the complainant and respondent, if any, within 60 calendar days of the County’s receipt of the complaint (unless this deadline is extended by mutual agreement).
The complainant or respondent may appeal the County’s decision within fifteen calendar days to the California Department of Education. The appeal must specify the reason for the appeal and whether the County’s facts are incorrect and/or the law is misapplied. The appeal must include a copy of the original complaint to the Monterey County Office of Education and a copy of the County’s decision. For more information, visit the California Department of Education’s webpage on Uniform Complaint Procedures.
For complaints alleging unlawful discrimination based on state law, the complainant may pursue available civil law remedies, including seeking assistance from mediation centers or public/private interest attorneys, sixty calendar days after filing an appeal with the California Department of Education. (California Education Code § 262.3.) Note that this sixty day moratorium does not apply to complaints seeking injunctive relief in state courts or to discrimination complaints based on federal law. (California Education Code § 262.3.)
Complaints may also be filed with the United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, within 180 days of the alleged discrimination. For contact information, see the section above on “How do I file a complaint of sex discrimination?” and/or visit U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights website.
If the compliance officer finds that a complaint has merit, the Monterey County Office of Education will take appropriate corrective action.
For more information regarding Title IX and sex equity in education or in Monterey County Office of Education employment, please contact the County’s Title IX Coordinator.
Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, Title IX Coordinator
831.784.4195
lbutler@montereycoe.org
Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, Title IX Coordinator
831.755.1405
evela@montereycoe.org