The National eSmart Week theme this year is Connecting Safely. We want you to celebrate all the tremendous work your school has done in recent times to ensure that your school community has stayed connected both on and offline.
Using the hashtag #eSmartWeek share, or re-share, the amazing things your school has done to connect safely recently. Showcase your wins, share tips with other schools, and give yourselves a huge pat on the back for all the hard work in bringing your community together.
This year, we’re giving each school that registers for National eSmart Week exclusive access to a suite of free activities to use throughout the week of 6-12 September.
You’ll be able to register for a range of professional development activities and download our National eSmart Week ebook, packed with ideas on how to celebrate and resources to help support your school.
One of our lucky registered schools will receive a free online safety workshop for their school community!
Introducing Media Literacy Lab
We're proud to announce the launch of our newest online resource for secondary schools, Media Literacy Lab, and the great news is it's free until January 2021!
Media Literacy Lab is an innovative, gamified resource that supports the teaching of media literacy to secondary schools. Learn more via the Media Literacy Lab website.
INDUSTRY AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
School exemplars
eSmart registered schools often send us excellent, self-designed resources and we are always excited to share these with our extended eSmart community through the newsletter and Resource Library. They are useful as a guide or a template while working through the steps in the eSmart framework. We hope that you find these school exemplars valuable.
- Digital Citizen Policy for Staff
St Columba's College (Vic) showcases their Digital Citizen Policy for staff to educate all technology users about how to use technology appropriately. - Student Acceptable Use Agreement
This Acceptable Use Agreement outlines the Advance College of Education Incorporated’s (Vic) expected behaviours for their students when using digital or online spaces. - Student Wellbeing and Engagement Policy
The objective of Montmorency Secondary College’s (Vic) Student Wellbeing and Engagement Policy is to support their school to create and maintain a safe, supportive and inclusive school environment consistent with their school’s values.
Have your say
Tell us how the eSmart team can assist you, assist others. We are keen to provide the support and content you need for your teacher, student and parent community. Take a minute to compete a two-question survey. Thank you.
eSmart support meetings
Schools are continually doing great work to provide the eSmart community with lots of valuable ideas and activity themes. If you’d like guidance on ideas, how to implement them within your school and support to continue your eSmart journey, please get in touch with us. You can contact your eSmart Advisor directly to arrange a meeting or email our support team.
Weekly resources series
With the success of the eSmart Weekly Series in Term 2, new resources for Term 3 are now available to schools during the lead up to National eSmart Week: Connecting Safely. Especially useful for schools managing remote learning, the new resource pack provides opportunities to share information about online safety, offer parents handy tips and support conversations at home. Resources will be added regularly in Term 3 and can be added to your school newsletter.
Click here to access our free series of teacher, parent and student support information.
Industry resources
At eSmart we are always on the lookout for best-practice industry resources that you can use to enhance your school's systems and processes. We hope you’ll find these excellent offerings beneficial.
- Common Sense Media: Parents’ Ultimate Guide to Parental Controls – Do you need parental controls? What are the options? Do they really work? Here's everything you need to know about the wide array of parental control solutions, from OS settings to monitoring apps to network hardware.
- Kids Helpline: Guide to Stress and Anxiety During COVID – This resource is a self-help book for people who want to understand and manage stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Headspace: Tips to Get Back into Life During COVID-19 – Guides for teens and parents.
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eSmart prides itself on having a dedicated team of skilled researchers who search worldwide and create content designed to provide expert guidance to schools.
Our guide, eSmart virtual learning resources – social connectedness during home learning has been developed to help teachers strengthen students’ social connectedness while learning remotely.
Thank you
The eSmart team would like to extend a warm thank you to the eSmart Schools community for your effort in continuing to work through the framework in trying times. While schools are facing unprecedented challenges, it’s heartening to see such a continual emphasis placed on the social and emotional wellbeing of students.
