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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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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Tiger Live
We created a distance learning web page that serves as an entry point into the school learning area for students, an information hub that is updated daily, and a resource center.
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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 […]
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Wellness Connection for Faculty and Staff
Staying connected as a faculty/staff and encouraging self-care practices such as exercise, mindfulness, going outside, yoga, etc. See google doc for email sent to faculty and staff to sign-up for the Wellness Connection as we work safe from home.
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Quick Tips to engage with your community
Laura Day, from Hockaday School, shares 4 quick tips on how your students can remain engaged with their community while in isolation
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“Shine On, Dragons!”
Thank you/we miss you video to our school families at the end of the first week of Remote Learning. It has received an incredible response on social media.
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“Possible”
A second grade pupil and his mother sent our Head of School this Origami Swan they made for her entitled “Possible”.
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Tutorial 5: Communicating with Your Community – For Administrators – Video
Distance learning on specific curriculums and Counseling and Student Support.
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Lower School Back to Virtual School Message for Parents
Outreach to lower school parent community about the why’s and how’s of virtual programming, and a pep talk encouraging parents to stay strong during this crisis.
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Building Community
At Sea Crest School we have created the following ways to build community and make sure we all feel connected. – Friday Happy Hour with faculty/staff – Weekly T (Tea/Talk) with Tekakwitha (Head of School) for parents – Birthday cards sent home to each pupil from Head of School – Friday Assemblies (video showcasing monthly […]
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Extension of school year
One of the ideas that we are considering is extending the school year by two or three weeks if the circumstances allows. If parents are able to head back to work sometime in late May or June, we thought it would be good to bring our students back to campus to assist our parents with […]
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Distance Learning Spirit Week
We took each class of the Upper School and challenged them to submit videos based on their “day.” Seniors started us off on Tuesday with Tik Tok inspired snippets; Juniors followed up with their special talents; Sophomores shared their best “dad jokes;” and Freshmen shared their favorite quaran-teen snacks. We posted them to our Instagram […]