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Midwest
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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Mission Driven Plan to Return to Campus
Preliminary information for a three-scenario plan for students to return to campus in the fall. The Fall Opening of School Task Force is a team of administrators charged with examining different opening scenarios and developing actionable plans for each of them. The Task Force has expanded to include six collaborative, working subgroups. The subgroups are […]
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Milwaukee Montessori School: Getting Back to Work
Milwaukee Montessori School uses a “Layered-Defense Approach” to lower the risks of transmitting COVID-19 on School Grounds.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
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Using Weekly Videos to Strengthen The Orchard School’s Community
Remote learning and social distancing aren’t concepts that feel synonymous with Progressive education at The Orchard School. For nearly a century, Orchard has thrived as a premier private school where hands-on experiential learning opportunities are boundless. And our teachers enjoy learning and leading alongside their students. So, yes, our model looks different during these times, […]
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Remote Learning at WCDS
On Friday, March 13, 2020, our school was abruptly closed, as were all other schools in the states of West Virginia and Ohio. Thankfully, we had just returned from Spring Break, and before that the NAISAC in Philadelphia, so we had been discussing the ramifications of COVID-19 for weeks leading up to the closure. Upon […]
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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