Evolve Distance Learning
Strategies, samples, and tips for delivering and assessing education in a virtual/online independent school setting.
Strategies, samples, and tips for delivering and assessing education in a virtual/online independent school setting.
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Art at Home
Distance learning continues to push teachers to find new, flexible strategies to keep the learning going. Regardless of the subject, flexibility and resourcefulness are crucial for learning at home. Art instruction helps children with the development of motor and language skills, decision-making, risk-taking, and inventiveness. Siena art teacher J. Coleman has transitioned the classroom experience […]
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THE VIRTUAL MATH CLASSROOM: TECHNOLOGY AND TIPS
Like many K–12 educators, Siena’s high school math teacher Joel Mercado has had to be resourceful and flexible in teaching remotely. In his Algebra II classes, Mr. Mercado has found some useful, tech-friendly ways to replicate what he’d typically write on the board. Samsung Flow-Smart View: When projecting from his phone, he uses the lined […]
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Distance Learning Guidelines
This guide serves as a resource for parents and students, outlining the protocols and policies for distance learning. The document is regularly updated as the situation evolves. This was designed in house.
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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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Weekly Q&A with School Leadership
Along with our regular touchpoints wherein advisors are checking in with parents and students, we are hosting weekly Q&A sessions with key leadership at the school. Each week, the sessions focus on a different topic; this is the panel we hosted on student wellness. Then, following the release of our grading and assessment protocol, we […]
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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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New Orleans educator creates tool to improve online learning, gets world-wide attention
Google tool to improve online learning.
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Remote Learning Highlights
At McGehee and Little Gate, an ideal learning environment features brick and mortar classrooms, collaboration between students and faculty, as well as encouragement and guidance from teachers and support staff. We have been given the opportunity to consider what a virtual education can look like, and we now know what that looks like for our […]
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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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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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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, […]