Grade Level
Upper
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Week 2 – Waterford School Remote Learning
Waterford School has been compiling video and social posts from community members to intentionally share the ways that we are in this together. We have been using the hashtag #OneWaterford. We have seen hard work and joy in our second week of remote learning (despite new styles of learning and an earthquake!), and together, students, […]
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Virtual Choir Performance
Our Director of Choral Music Scott Sexton incorporated an app that allows choir members’ performances to be strung together. The particular app he chose was Acapella, but there are other methods (such as recording a Zoom meeting) that performers may use during this time for practice and for fun.
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Life Lessons
Head of School Sue Porter shares with the community a humorous look at some things she’s learned while sheltering in place at home.
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Sit the Heck Up
Head of School Sue Porter’s humorous and helpful tutorial for students about how to sit properly on their beds for Zoom class
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New Free Online Course “Continuity in Crisis – Phase II: Prepare for the Remainder of the Academic Year to Be Online for Teachers”
New free online course for faculty… The goal of this course is to help teachers manage teaching and learning online for the last quarter of school. By the end of this course, teachers will consider the value of a live meetings with students (class meetings and one-on-one); identify tools they can use to get students […]
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Cheshire Academy Remote Learning Plan
This is the Remote Learning Plan that we developed over our spring break, before bringing the faculty back for a four-day training week and the students back for a one-day online orientation. The remote learning plan outlines an approach to maintaining instruction, learning, assessment, and feedback using digital and online resources in the event of […]
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Cheshire Academy’s Remote Learning Weekly Academic Schedule
This is the schedule by which we are operating remote learning at Cheshire Academy, with synchronous classes during a four-hour period each day and the remainder of the day turned over to asycnronous/independent work.
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Designing Asynchronous Work
This resource was written for our faculty to wrap their heads around designing asynchronous work for students.
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Mindful Mondays
One of our faculty members every Monday gives about a five-minute mediation and breathing exercise for the students in assembly. We will be continuing this during our distance learning quarter. Mindful Monday is helpful for our students that might be feeling stressed and worried about their world
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Friday Chapel
We have chapel every Friday, and our Chapel Director gave an online chapel that hits the mark on about our community, and our place in the world. We will continue to provide Friday chapels and are opening it up to students and other faculty to give the chapel talks. The weekly message is a helpful […]
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A Philosophy of Reorganization
In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, Gunston’s leadership team developed and shared a “response philosophy” outlining the core principles that will guide the school during this time. The school also revised the school’s leadership structure in light of the crisis. Derived from McKinsey’s philosophy of “agile teams”, the reorganization reflects the challenges of our […]
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Student Support Services
Counseling sessions held online via videoconferencing can be as supportive and effective as an in-person meeting. As school counselors adhere to legal and ethical issues unique to their role, several issues must also be considered in order to best support students and to meet professional obligations when counseling students online. Link to several topics that […]