Anonymous wrote:We are at MV8 and just started distance learning today. Last week was considered our spring break. They moved it from mid April to last week.
With such short notice and no blueprint whatsoever for this, I’m so happy the school and staff have stepped up to the task.

We have a daily schedule for the kids (read aloud, writing, math, literary, etc..) and love the recorded teaching for all these topics. The kids were also sent home with a big packet of worksheets, and a bunch of books at their reading level which complements the live teaching that they can do after the lecture. The kids also have virtual meetings with their teachers weekly to touch base. The school also gave us access to some apps to further supplement should we like.

Knowing DS, this daily structure/schedule and live learning from his teachers is best for him.

I’m glad some others out there at charters are getting structure and live teaching also. Kudos to the school and teachers at all these charters who are doing their best for all the kids in these challenging times.

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We are at MV8 and just started distance learning today. Last week was considered our spring break. They moved it from mid April to last week.
With such short notice and no blueprint whatsoever for this, I’m so happy the school and staff have stepped up to the task.

We have a daily schedule for the kids (read aloud, writing, math, literary, etc..) and love the recorded teaching for all these topics. The kids were also sent home with a big packet of worksheets, and a bunch of books at their reading level which complements the live teaching that they can do after the lecture. The kids also have virtual meetings with their teachers weekly to touch base. The school also gave us access to some apps to further supplement should we like.

Knowing DS, this daily structure/schedule and live learning from his teachers is best for him.

I’m glad some others out there at charters are getting structure and live teaching also. Kudos to the school and teachers at all these charters who are doing their best for all the kids in these challenging times.

Also totally impressed with DCI's distance learning preparations and activation for the past week and a half. No, I don't want to home school either. But my HS student is engaged and it's actually keeping his spirits up to connect with teachers and classmates in 3 or 4 live sessions every day, plus book club and meetings on Friday. People liked to criticize what they perceived as an over reliance on technology at DCI before, but they have managed to create so much community and connection through this difficult time in addition to continuing to actively teach and learn.
Grateful to the administration for their planning and teachers for their commitment. Yes, many of them have kids at home, and I appreciate that is hard, but that's most of us now, right? I think we all need to recognize, if we're in this category, that we're lucky to be able to work from home and take care of kids at home at the same time, lucky to have jobs that allow us to get paid even if we're not producing as much as if we were in the office.
But mostly I want to say thank you DCI!!!

Glad your school is doing so well. Our DCPS is...well maybe the school as a whole is fine. They are sending home packets, sending home links, some teachers are blowing up instagram to stay connected with their class, etc. Our teacher, on the other hand, is less proactive. I reached out to her to ask about the take home packets, and was told basically to go away until office hours. (Fair, but isn't it easy enough to just wait to respond until office hours? It's not like I was calling her at home lol!) But it's just PK so I'm off the belief that as long as the kids are getting to play and interact it's fine. But just thought I'd point out the differing types of remote "learning."

Anonymous wrote:^^ Lee was my guess based on what I'm hearing from friends. That's great! How often are they meeting individually with students, and for how long?

I also have friends there and it seems like they're connecting with their families well. I'm surprised to hear how well a Montessori school is doing with virtual school.

^^ Lee was my guess based on what I'm hearing from friends. That's great! How often are they meeting individually with students, and for how long?

OP here! LEE MONTESSORI!

Another impressed YY parent here. It’s been very organized, but also flexible. One or two 30 min live check-ins each day (optional, also posted as a video) but many assignments are explained by video by the teachers so they can be accessed by families at any time (and also recorded at any time by the teachers- giving them the opportunity to be a parent/etc as well).
Using primarily Zoom for live check-ins and SeeSaw to post videos and allow submission of assignments.

Anonymous wrote:DCPS returns from Spring Break on Tuesday, so give us some specifics on what is working really well for your family! We need all the suggestions we can get. I wear a school leadership hat and parent one, as well.

Our teachers use Zoom to have individual sessions and "morning meetings" with the kids. The kids love these connections and it is so heartwarming to see how thrilled the kids are to see each other. The morning meetings are very informal and all kids are encouraged to share what they've been doing, and I think this goes a long way in what is otherwise a very socially isolating time. They are also assigning the kids reading through an app called Epic. Hope this helps! Also, we upload their completed work into Seesaw. For the older one, knowing his teacher is going to see and comments is a motivating factor. Hope this helps!

Anonymous wrote:Previous poster is ridiculous. YY teacher-parents are like the rest of us trying to simultaneously telework and homeschool. It is not easy and YY teachers are not super-humans nor are they indentured servants. Let’s keep it real and have some perspective and compassion for all working parents.

This is the poster about Yu Ying teachers. The post was meant to acknowledge how extraordinary their efforts have been and how much my kids and I appreciate them. I'm sure translating what is a personal, interactive educational experience into distance learning with little notice and apps that may or not be familiar is a tremendous undertaking, particularly if you are also juggling parenting and lack of childcare. Saying how impressed I am with what they have been able to accomplish under the circumstances is not meant to minimize in any way how hard I'm sure it has been for them.

Anonymous wrote:Our school is doing really well with classes, using websites and emails with assignments, teachers are responsive. They specifically said they were not going to do live classes because a lot of families share a computer or tablet as well as parents working. So, they were trying to keep things as flexible and accessible as possible. I imagine if they find
out in the fire mostt families have the ability to do live classes they might add that into the program. We have gotten videos from our teachers which we can't watch whenever which is nice.
I guess it depends on the setup of your school and who has access to what. I am sure my kid would like the live groups but I am really thankful for the flexibility.

Washington Latin?

Anonymous wrote:That's great! The only thing that made us leave your charter school, OP, the "gun in backpack" incident, is also out of the way, so congrats! (Not being sarcastic here at all.)

This is ridiculous. If you are talking about DCI, this isn’t true and you shouldn’t spread misinformation.

Our school is doing really well with classes, using websites and emails with assignments, teachers are responsive. They specifically said they were not going to do live classes because a lot of families share a computer or tablet as well as parents working. So, they were trying to keep things as flexible and accessible as possible. I imagine if they find
out in the fire mostt families have the ability to do live classes they might add that into the program. We have gotten videos from our teachers which we can't watch whenever which is nice.
I guess it depends on the setup of your school and who has access to what. I am sure my kid would like the live groups but I am really thankful for the flexibility.

Anonymous wrote:Previous poster is ridiculous. YY teacher-parents are like the rest of us trying to simultaneously telework and homeschool. It is not easy and YY teachers are not super-humans nor are they indentured servants. Let’s keep it real and have some perspective and compassion for all working parents.

i assume that the previous poster was trying to inject some humor into a stressed situation.

Previous poster is ridiculous. YY teacher-parents are like the rest of us trying to simultaneously telework and homeschool. It is not easy and YY teachers are not super-humans nor are they indentured servants. Let’s keep it real and have some perspective and compassion for all working parents.