Monterey Peninsula partnered with local nonprofits and city groups to offer on-site learning support and enrichment opportunities for students experiencing homelessness to access during remote learning.
Short description of this strategy that appears on summary pages (e.g., search results). Ector County Independent School District leaders began weekly coordinate and response meetings. These meetings resulted in coordination, problem solving, and consistent messaging.
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District creatively leveraged personnel, particularly staff whose capacities were freed up, to address various student and family needs, such as attendance and engagement when shifting to distanced learning.
This “mini-PD” training was developed by Monterey Peninsula Unified School District leaders to help teachers understand design processes and the reasoning behind pursuing co-design with students.
Ector County Independent School District held a weekly press conference with every local media outlet to update the public on the status of schools during the pandemic and to share updates on teaching and learning practices. Every other week, they broadcast live on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
Monterey Peninsula took a design-thinking approach to identify challenges, listen to students, and co-design solutions.
This form was created by a teaching team at Monterey Peninsula Unified School District for a virtual Family STEAM night. In this session, participating families got to rotate through different STEAM breakout rooms in Zoom. As they completed different stations, they filled in this form to get a digital “passport” stamp they could turn in later to receive an award.
Ector County Independent School DistrictSuperintendent Scott Muri shares how the communication channels established during the pandemic are going to continue in order to share messages around topics like teaching and learning and initiatives happening in the district.
This presentation was created by a teaching team at Monterey Peninsula Unified School District for a virtual Family STEAM night. In this session, teachers introduced all participants to key concepts in a design thinking process and then divided into upper- and lower-level elementary sessions to tackle different challenges.
Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri shares how he began meeting weekly with other community leaders at the beginning of the pandemic to strategize how to get their messaging across effectively to keep their community healthy and safe.
