Grade Level
Upper
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Tower Hill School – Virtual Musical Collaboration
Faculty and Upper School students at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware collaborated together over Zoom to record a cover of Queen’s “Somebody to Love”.
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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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Distance Learning Guidelines
This guide serves as a resource for parents and students, outlining the protocols and policies for distance learning. The document is regularly updated as the situation evolves. This was designed in house.
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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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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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Weekly Q&A with School Leadership
Along with our regular touchpoints wherein advisors are checking in with parents and students, we are hosting weekly Q&A sessions with key leadership at the school. Each week, the sessions focus on a different topic; this is the panel we hosted on student wellness. Then, following the release of our grading and assessment protocol, we […]
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Fabricating Face Shields
Iolani School has a Iong history of seeking out ways to help our community-at-large, especially in times of need. The commitment to do all that’s possible remains stronger than ever. Recently, ‘Iolani mobilized faculty and resources from our Sullivan Center for Innovation and Leadership to design and fabricate thousands of face shields as part of […]