Care for Community
Strategies, samples, and ideas to sustain a sense of community among all independent school constituents—students, families, faculty and staff, and leaders—and to ensure their health and well-being.
Strategies, samples, and ideas to sustain a sense of community among all independent school constituents—students, families, faculty and staff, and leaders—and to ensure their health and well-being.
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PES Middle School Girls’ Sewing Service Project for Frontline Medical Workers
PES Middle School Girls completed a service project for frontline medical workers using new life skills learned during their devotion classes this year. They sewed buttons on 30+ headbands donated by Total Stockroom (Huntersville, NC) for medical workers to attach to their masks to avoid ear abrasions. Another PES student (and her mother) also made […]
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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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Caring for Our Whole Selves
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, anxiety management & self-care continue to be important. There are many organizations and resources that are leading us right now in how to care for our emotional health. A fantastic source of information is The Child Mind Institute. In addition to numerous articles, they’re offering the following clinical and […]
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Live Oak SlowDown Challenge
As part of Live Oak’s Spirit Week from Home, we shared this video to culminate the week. Using the viral challenge as inspiration, faculty and staff shared positive messages and words of encouragement. The video was shared with students during the virtual assembly during the last day of Spirit Week.
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Some Good News – TMI Episcopal Edition
At TMI Episcopal, we were inspired by John Krasinski’s “Some Good News” (SGN) – a show he produced from his home office simply to bring good news to the world. So our Head of School, Fr. Scott Brown, did some investigative reporting of his own to share all the good news happening in the TMI […]
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Sixth Day Challenges
Once we knew we were committed to remote learning for the long haul, we had concerns about community connectedness and burnout. We knew we had to get creative with our approach to learning. Our solution was the Sixth Day Challenge. On every sixth day of school we take a break from regular classes and set […]
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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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#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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“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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Gratitude from the Trustees
Good afternoon all- Last week, my BOT Exec. Committee asked what they could do (beyond gift cards) to offer some additional thanks to our teachers and staff. We brainstormed a bit, and they took on the project of creating their own Trustee Flipgrid, each creating a personalized message of thanks to the teachers. We sent […]
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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 […]