E-Days are days where students will receive their instruction and work online rather than direct instruction in the classroom.
E-days provide students with the opportunity to learn skills in managing electronic learning, developing academic self-sufficiency and independence, and provide our school staff with opportunities to collaborate to improve classroom teaching.
Some students in grades 7-12 have already received a class period or two of E-Day when their classroom teacher had to be gone, and comments from students and staff have been positive so far.
The first K-12 E-Day will be Tuesday November 22. This is a scheduled teacher workday that was originally the day our school was to host the Conference One Act Play Contest. The play date was moved last month, but we are keeping it scheduled as our first E-Day.
How it will work-
Grades 7-12 students will have an assigned series of activities (or playlist) for each of their classes. The teachers will be at school and available to students via e-mail or messaging if the students have questions. We will be working with our teachers to have purposeful and rigorous activities for the students that would be equal to instruction they would receive if they were in the classroom.
Parents of grades K-6 students can choose to send students to the after-school program, which will be operating from 8:00- 6:00 that day, or keep them at home. The after-school program will provide opportunities for students to complete their assignments and then take a group field trip, location still to be determined.
K-6 students will have between 1-2 hours of assigned activities to be completed on their I-Pads.
Grades K-2 will need to take their I-Pads home on November 21 for use on the 22nd and bring them back to school November 23.
We will have some visitors to the building the 22nd to observe our first E Day. We have two other E Days on the schedule later in the year, and will also have E Days on snow days (but no after-school program on snow days).
