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[quote=Anonymous]To answer the original question, here is a rough outline of what the MCPS virtual learning plan could look like:

1) At the start of the year, MCPS provides the Virtual Learning Schedule to students.  It should probably start on a 2-hour delayed schedule.
2) At the start of the year, teachers provide students with a virtual learning day packet of lessons (5 days' perhaps) focused on course-related skills.  This ensures that the lessons could be completed and beneficial at any point in the year (ie. grammar in Language Arts, fractions in math, important figures in history in Social Studies - skills could relate to School Improvement Plans or help to prepare for standardized testing).  Teachers are usually required to have 5 days' of emergency plans on file anyway in case of an unexpected plan where the teacher cannot provide plans).
3) Virtual learning commences on the day following the use of MCPS's last 'inclement weather day'.

Option 1: Students log into synchronous virtual classes using their Chromebooks.  Lessons focus on the packets received earlier in the year.
Option 2: Students without Chromebooks may log into virtual classes using personal devices.  Lessons focus on the packets received earlier in the year.
Option 3: Students without devices, internet, or electricity complete packets at home.

**Due dates for all Virtual Learning lessons are ONE WEEK AFTER RETURN TO IN-PERSON SCHOOL. This insures that students may gain clarification on anything that happened during virtual learning.

This is roughly what Anne Arundel County does. 
As we all know, this is not an ideal learning situation.  However, it is far superior than the learning that takes place in late June, three weeks after seniors have left the building and when the majority of other students are at camp or on vacation.  We only need a solution that is better than the alternative.[/quote]

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