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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Greensboro Day School Pop Up Learning for the Greater Community
We are leveraging the expertise of our students, parents, alumni, and grandparents for the greater good of the community by hosting “live” zoom sessions. Zoom sessions include healthcare leaders, teachers leading yoga, grandparents providing wellness tips, and national experts. These are free and open to the GDS community and the greater community.
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Well-Being Newsletter
At Turning Point, we emphasize the importance of general well-being; we know there are fundamental intellectual, social, physical, ethical, and emotional elements that drive growth and set the stage for successful learning. When we feel healthy and strong from a holistic standpoint, we are better able to perform efficiently, persist longer on challenges, and navigate […]
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Buckley At Home
In order to stay connected to families during Spring Break, which came two weeks after we closed campus and began remote learning, we created a webpage on our site with resources, activities, and contests. Families are encouraged to stay engaged with the school via submissions to the site, and by utilizing the resources we post […]
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The Secret Senior Crew – Caring for the Class of 2020
To show our seniors how much we care and miss them, at the end of our first week of distance learning, a small team created and delivered personalized yard signs to each students’ yard. We were delighted that a few of them caught us in the act and shared their gratitude, with appropriate social distancing. […]
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Greensboro Day School Community Resilience Challenge
The Physical Education department designed a resilience challenge for our community to build immunity, sustain wellness, and stay fit.
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COVID-19 Return to School Plan
As the School Nurse at Albuquerque Academy, I have developed a draft of “COVID-19 Return to School Guidelines” to use not only in our Health Office but also as a collaborative approach within our institution when our campus re-opens. This is important because the climate of health care and health care delivery will continue to […]
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Distance Learning works with daily Connection
Episcopal School of Nashville continues to see positive results in our Distance Learning Program through daily online exchanges. Teachers have Morning Meetings, Zoom calls, Google Hangouts, and other means of communication daily. We have seen that through these changing times these forms of connection continue to keep our students, faculty, and staff engaged and supported.
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Catering Service to Produce Provider
We currently rely on our catering partner to provide meal service for our students and staff. With school campuses closed and grocery store lines long, they were able to change course and are providing a weekly fresh fruit and vegetable pick up service to our families and employees. For anyone that does not want to […]
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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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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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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