Region
New England
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
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The Well School Re-entry Plan Update
Thank you for your patience as we awaited the State Guidance from the STRRT Committee and the governor. We also worked with all recommendations put forth by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), NH Department of Education, and NH Department of Health and Human Services. We are fortunate to have been able to work with […]
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Preparing for a Hybrid Learning Program
These are the slides we used during professional development to help our faculty and staff prepare for a hybrid learning program.
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King School’s Approach to Remote Community in the Upper School
We have engaged our Upper School students in a number of ways to provide support while also creating opt-in opportunities for each individual. We hold a mandatory synchronous fifteen-minute advisory each weekday for advisors to check in with their students, give announcements, and participate in any bonding activities (online puzzles, recipe shares, etc.). We launched […]
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Standardized test scores don’t determine success
We’ve adopted a test-optional admission policy
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St. Luke’s Puts Community Needs at the Center
A group of students devoted to community service throughout the SLS community (Student Service Board) met in late March and realized that in the midst of our physical distancing a unifying effort would be important. Within minutes, the idea of a Virtual 5K took hold and the group ran with it. It was natural to […]
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Climate Is Health: Sessions 1-3
Putney Pre-College and Harvard C-CHANGE Educational Resources on Climate, Health, and COVID-19: This (free) five-part series explores the connections between climate change and public health. Meaningful and action-oriented, the content is designed to help teachers and students engage with these issues, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The series is aimed at high […]
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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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#MyAdventLion Challenge
The Advent School is a Reggio Emilia-inspired school where natural and recycled materials are a big part of provocations and projects. To foster community virtually, we invited the community to create the Advent lion logo out of materials found at home. Participants posted their creations to social media with the hashtag #MyAdventLion and #AtHomeWithAdvent. We […]
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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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Creating Remote Learning Plans for PreK-8th Grade at Charles River School
As a PreK-8 school, our first move was to set some parameters for our teachers to focus their early work. We decided to make use of Zoom, Screencastify, Seesaw, and Google Classroom – and basically tried to ignore the barrage of information coming at us from every direction. We also set some daily time expectations, […]
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Why Distance Learning Is Awesome
Check out the link to the essay!