Students at Laurel Springs School can see their teacher’s office hours each time they log into their courses. They can click directly on the link to enter the room and interact with their teacher. Office hour information is also available for students in LSS Live (a virtual help room). If a teacher is not available in the live room, students can see options for when to come back and ask for help.
Students at VLACS must complete one full credit in advisory per year by demonstrating competency in specific topics. The artifact above is an example of competencies and projects that middle school students may complete to earn their one credit.
This resource from Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools and the Donovan Group provides template and guidance to promote honest, transparent, equitable, freely accessible and public health-informed communication. The hope is that this resource helps foster strong communication with families and students, including those with more intensive and specialized needs for whom this pandemic has been especially difficult.
In-person learning with social distancing has many educators wondering how to adjust their teaching strategies. This toolkit offers ideas to incorporate one-on-one, small-group, and collaborative learning while staying six feet apart.
This practitioner toolkit from the Parabola Project offers strategies for school leaders to understand family concerns and needs, define clear messages, and use effective communication tools and tactics to engage parents and caregivers.
This resource from Boston College’s Center for Teaching Excellence provides an overview of several strategies to facilitate student participation including how to facilitate hand raising.
This video shows how to manage the raised hands feature in Zoom to facilitate participation.
This video from Flipped Classroom Tutorials provides step-by-step directions on how teachers can set up breakout rooms.
This article provides ideas for how teachers can use breakout rooms including breaking students up into targeted small groups and putting students into groups to work on projects.
This video from the Unversity of Queensland shows how instructors can use the reactions feature to engage students during a lesson.
