Grade Level
Upper
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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. […]
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Remote Classroom Management Tips for Teachers
This document gathers tips for classroom management in remote synchronous classes. These tips and suggestions are based on responses from teachers at Kentucky Country Day School about what they’ve learned about how to manage, structure, and run remote, synchronous classes.
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New Orleans educator creates tool to improve online learning, gets world-wide attention
Google tool to improve online learning.
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Planning a Strategic Response to COVID-19 Fallout
Bill Creeden – Thirty-seven-year career in NAIS schools – 29 years as head of school. Around the country, he has led schools through recessions, natural disasters, and other national, regional, and local crises. Bill has presented in the past at NAIS and CASE annual conferences.
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Saints Innovate
As the consultant, John Littleford often reminds us, in every crisis, there is an opportunity. Saints Innovate represents the collective efforts of St. Andrew’s faculty, students, trustees, alumni, donors, and local entrepreneurs to plan for the future and propose ways in which St. Andrew’s can grow. An outgrowth of our i2: Inspire and Innovate movement […]
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Baylor School Lab Testing COVID-19 Samples
Baylor School faculty members Dr. Elizabeth Forrester and Dr. Dawn Richards, who are also Ph.D. research scientists, have developed a testing protocol for COVID-19 that reduces the turnaround time for the results and began testing samples from local hospitals in their lab at Baylor on Friday, March 27. In a partnership that was facilitated by […]
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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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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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Prioritizing connection in Concord Academy’s distance-learning schedule
Concord Academy recognizes that a primary objective of distance learning in this unprecedented moment is connection—to each other and to our community as a whole. Our academic schedule balances asynchronous work with weekly synchronous meetings but also includes other opportunities for community touchpoints. We have maintained in our schedule a daily meeting—a community meeting or […]
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Why we went pass/no credit at Concord Academy
Concord Academy crafted our distance-learning plan thinking we would stay with letter grades and that our plan created enough flexibility to accommodate students and their needs. However, as we approached the first day of online learning and heard from a variety of constituencies, we decided to move to pass/no credit. Concord’s mission centers equity of […]
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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 […]