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Remote Learning Highlights
At McGehee and Little Gate, an ideal learning environment features brick and mortar classrooms, collaboration between students and faculty, as well as encouragement and guidance from teachers and support staff. We have been given the opportunity to consider what a virtual education can look like, and we now know what that looks like for our […]
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Why ‘School’ When So Much Else is Happening?
Answering a Grade 5 parent: All of us are dealing with a lot of anxiety right now. Things feel unstable, uncertain; it’s hard to plan. And all of this is happening on top of the normal ebb and flow of daily life. It’s a lot. In some ways reaching grade-level benchmarks might not seem very […]
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Semi-weekly Updates from the Head of School
Many of our parents immediately turned to our school as a source of information at the start of this crisis, as we, like many schools, especially in the international arena, were ahead of the national government and news outlets in sharing details about coronavirus. In order to get ahead of the demand of information from […]
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How one school brought 400 cardboard cutouts to their Chapel
HUDSON, OH, April 3, 2020 — Like nearly every school, Western Reserve Academy has switched to online learning for the remainder of its school year. But old traditions die hard. For most of the school’s nearly 200 years, students at the day and boarding school have come together in the campus Chapel on Mondays and […]
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WIS Joins the Fight Against COVID-19
After we were contacted by an alumna from the Class of 2006, events moved rapidly to allow our currently-unused Primary School parking lot to serve as a COVID-19 drive-through testing area. The tests are by appointment only, scheduled for those who have already gone through a pre-screening process. Testing began on April 6 and will […]
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Virtual Spirit Day
Lakehill faculty and staff shared their positive messages with students to celebrate the end of a successful first week of distance learning.
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Country Day Connected update from the Head of School
Country Day is using a video message from the Head of School at the start of each week to cover key points in the ongoing quest to improve the student and family experience and to stay connected to the community. This video welcomes families back to school after spring break and kicks-off the first week […]
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#CDSConnections After School Activities
We were concerned our community was losing the “fun” aspect of being a part of the Patriot Nation. In an effort to maintain our community, we’ve developed a virtual “after school” program. Just one activity per day that anyone can be a part of. These are led by our upper school students (in return they […]
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Branding Our Remote Learning and Connecting Our Community at Cincinnati Country Day School
During the pandemic crisis, Cincinnati Country Day School made the early decision to separate the roll-out of our remote learning program from the crisis itself. We simply wanted to connect our students to their learning while connecting our people to each other – students, teachers, staff, parents, alumni, and others alike. In doing so, we […]
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Virtual Office Hours with Lead Administrators and Principals
At the International School of the Peninsula, we introduced virtual Office Hours to keep lines of communication open with parents during the inevitable challenges of transitioning to distance learning. We began with weekly office hours with both our Assistant Head and Head of School, held via Zoom meeting and open to all parents. Parents responded […]
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Creating Remote Learning Plans for PreK-8th Grade at Charles River School
As a PreK-8 school, our first move was to set some parameters for our teachers to focus their early work. We decided to make use of Zoom, Screencastify, Seesaw, and Google Classroom – and basically tried to ignore the barrage of information coming at us from every direction. We also set some daily time expectations, […]
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Literacy Lessons: Quick Reading & Writing Videos for K-12 Students
FREE Video lessons to send to your students! Teaching and learning can be hard under normal circumstances. Add to that the dynamics of COVID-19 and delivering high-quality instruction can seem overwhelming. That’s why the team of experts at Smekens Education created Literacy Lessons. This library of ready-to-share reading and writing lessons is being built to […]