2020-21 Distance Education Plan Parent Informational Night August - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

2020-21 Distance Education Plan

Parent Informational Night

August 13, 2020

Thank you for your patience

• This has been challenging for all
• Less than optimal conditions
• We appreciate your patience and

understanding

A New Vision

...district of choice

All Students

COLLEGE, CAREER, LIFE ...quality educational opportunities

Success

Approach to Distance Education

• Adhering to District Mission and Vision
• Common Course Structure
• Effective Elements of Distance Education

Adhering to District Mission & Vision

• NJUHSD Mission & Vision
• Focus on Professional Learning Communities (PLC’s)

○ Essential Learning Outcomes ○ Clear learning targets, assessment, intervention and enrichment

Input by Committee

• Fall Planning Advisory Committee
• County Task Force
• District Guiding Coalition
• Management Team
• Staff Development/Tech Sub Committee
• Parent, Student, Staff surveys
• Bargaining Unit Negotiations

District Guiding Coalition

Vision - To unify and empower staff with tools to collaboratively design and deliver a guaranteed and viable curriculum in an environment that values voice and choice in mastery of essential standards. Mission - To model and support the implementation of the professional learning community process with all NJUHSD staff.

Common Course Structure

Goals ➔ Clarity, transparency, structure, consistency. ➔ Schoology LMS ➔ Common Syllabus ➔ Weekly assignments

Effective Distance Education

Effective Distance Education is good teaching... done from a distance.

• Presence, Access, Clear Communication
• Universal Design for Learning

○ Engagement ○ Representation of content ○ Action & Expression

Expectations

➔ All curriculum will be delivered through the Schoology LMS. ➔ All teachers will use the class gradebook in Schoology, and will update grades on a biweekly basis. ➔ Teachers will organize curriculum in folders with a delineated naming convention (by week, by unit, or by topic). ➔ All teachers will utilize the district syllabus template for all courses. ➔ Teachers will respond to email correspondence within 2 school days. ➔ A weekly overview of assignments will be posted in Schoology under “Updates”. ➔ Instruction will be delivered asynchronously and synchronously. The District will make every effort to provide accommodations for students with barriers to internet access. ➔ Teachers will provide one hour of Office Hours per week for students and parents to access teachers. ➔ If delivering instruction when students are attending class, lessons will be made available to “full distance” students.

Other Strategies

• Student attendance
• Letter grades
• Addressing barriers

○ Access - individualize approach (hot spots, remote hubs, thumb drives, paper packets)

• Mental Health Task Force
• Food Services, weekly pick ups
• On-campus opportunities
• Staff Development

Staff Development 8/13-8/21

• Boulders, Rocks and Butterflies…
• Delivered via Schoology LMS
• 6 Learning Modules for Teachers
• Online Platform Training

○ Zoom Pro, Google Voice, EdPuzzle, Padlet, Flipgrid, Peardeck, Desmos, Google Slides, Screencastify, Geogebra, … and more.

Student Orientation 8/17-8/21

• Boulders, Rocks and Butterflies…
• Delivered via Schoology LMS

Site Specific...

• Admin Welcomes
• Counselor Zooms
• Intervention & Supports
• Leadership Breakouts
• Textbook distribution
• Access Legwork

Bell Schedule

Class Period Time Minutes

Monday/Thursday

7:15 - 8:15 am 60 Break 8:15 - 8:30 am 15 1 8:30 - 9:30 am 60 Break 9:30 - 10:00 am 30 2 10:00 - 11:00 am 60 Break 11:00 - 11:30 pm 30 3 11:30 - 12:30 pm 60 Break 12:30 - 1:00 pm 30 7 1:00 - 2:00 pm 60 Distance Education Work 2:00 - 3:00 pm 60

Wednesdays

Teachers Students

• Staff Meeting
• Department Collaboration
• Office Hours
• Distance Education content

development & coordination

• Distance Education coursework

○ 240 min on Wed

• Access to Office Hours

Teachers are getting creative...

• Art teachers are distributing supplies to students
• Photography students will capture the times
• Ag teachers will be doing home visits, with home projects
• Shops are moving toward small group open shops
• Culinary is handing out food for the home
• Cameras are going home to capture dance routines
• New music software has been deployed to record and load for feedback
• Voice technique, solo pieces, and ensemble music is being collected, with time

allocated to theory, composition, and history.

Opening School

• Goal of opening school

following Fall Break.

• Tracking cases - staff, students,

community.

• Watching and learning from
• ur neighbors.
• The watchlist.

Questions

• Zoom attendance - how will that work?

○ When will schedules be out? ○ Zoom the whole period? ○ Call in? ○ Lessons, or…. ○ Completion of assignments? ○ Will a chromebook suffice? ○ What are attendance requirements?

Questions

• Internet Access

○ Will hot spots be available? ○ Can we check out textbooks? ○ Will library resources be available? ○ Can we access internet in the parking lots? ○ Will Zoom classes be recorded for future viewing?

Questions

• Social-Emotional Support

○ Will support services be provided? ○ What about the impact of hours of screen time? ○ How will my student make friends and connect with current friends?

Questions

• Academic Support and Student Engagement

○ What will be the impact on college entrance? ○ Will there be flexibility with when assignments are due? ○ How will teachers engage students?

Questions

• Labs and hands on classes?

○ How will science labs work? ○ Other shop classes?

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