Grade Level
Middle
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Multisensory Distance Learning: Visual
In addition to regularly using physical and tactile elements to engage students’ senses, teachers at The Siena School use many visual tools: *Color-coding is essential to aid learning. Color-code in a graphic organizer, math/writing assignment or calendar using highlighters or different font colors/styles for emphasis. Collecting highlights under Chrome’s Read & Write helps students transfer […]
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We Miss You!
Spread joy. We are finding lots of resources for parents, educators, and students to help them through this time. And we share these as well. But we also see the importance of spreading joy for the purpose of joy. We have crafted (and will continue to craft) these videos for our community that feature our […]
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Launching a Family Marketing Campaign
Word of mouth has always been AIM Academy’s best marketing tool. Knowing it is also how many of our current families likely heard about our school, we enlisted them in a AIM Family Marketing Campaign to boost our social media presence, highlight Virtual Open Houses and promote new online tutoring and Summer Enrichment opportunities added […]
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Multisensory Distance Learning: Physical & Tactile
As a school dedicated to serving students with language-based learning differences, Siena puts multisensory instruction is at the core of every lesson for our students who learn differently. However, these strategies are effective for all learners. Students listen, talk, move, create, use technology, and engage with each other every day. The more senses activated in […]
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Art at Home
Distance learning continues to push teachers to find new, flexible strategies to keep the learning going. Regardless of the subject, flexibility and resourcefulness are crucial for learning at home. Art instruction helps children with the development of motor and language skills, decision-making, risk-taking, and inventiveness. Siena art teacher J. Coleman has transitioned the classroom experience […]
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THE VIRTUAL MATH CLASSROOM: TECHNOLOGY AND TIPS
Like many K–12 educators, Siena’s high school math teacher Joel Mercado has had to be resourceful and flexible in teaching remotely. In his Algebra II classes, Mr. Mercado has found some useful, tech-friendly ways to replicate what he’d typically write on the board. Samsung Flow-Smart View: When projecting from his phone, he uses the lined […]
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Reimagining Education: Student Support Outside the Classroom
As a small school that champions a personalized approach to learning for all students, we have a number of developmentally-appropriate support systems in place that empower our students to seek out and receive academic and social-emotional help and guidance from faculty, staff, and fellow students. In transitioning to a remote learning environment, it was important […]
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“Creek Capsule” Challenge (Build a quarantine Time Capsule)
As Indian Creek School considered the most valuable, equitable, and achievable approach to assessing learning in the Virtual School environment, we decided to focus on student competencies – rather than traditional grades. Competencies are combinations of knowledge, skills and attitudes that students develop and apply for successful learning, living and working. Each session of Indian […]
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Gratitude from the Trustees
Good afternoon all- Last week, my BOT Exec. Committee asked what they could do (beyond gift cards) to offer some additional thanks to our teachers and staff. We brainstormed a bit, and they took on the project of creating their own Trustee Flipgrid, each creating a personalized message of thanks to the teachers. We sent […]
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Now, Next, and Later: A Framework for Crisis Leadership
One of the most challenging aspects of crisis leadership is knowing how to think. We often know what to do, but real leadership lies in framing a crisis and our response to it, for ourselves and for the teams we lead. Leading by framing allows people to make meaning of what is happening to them, […]
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Community Conversations about Teaching & Learning During the Coronavirus
Baker’s podcast, K-8 Collaborative, has been exploring parenting through the coronavirus, trauma and resilience in children related to the current pandemic and teaching and learning in a virtual world.
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BrowningConnect: Online Learning Platform During Extended School Closure
Both students and faculty learn best when we connect with others. In the event of the prolonged school closure, we created a public facing online learning platform that served as an aid for students, parents and faculty to maintain continuity of teaching and learning, while also putting emphasis on social and emotional connections with others. […]