‘I m failing my child | School districts struggle to find missing students not logging into virtual class
The COVID-19 pandemic brings new challenges for school districts trying to connect with students who are missing their classes. Author: Laura Geller, Becca Knier (WUSA 9) Published: 9:00 PM EST February 15, 2021 Updated: 9:01 PM EST February 15, 2021
CHARLES COUNTY, Md. For some students in our area, virtual learning means no learning. School districts are seeing a drop in attendance because many kids are not logging into their virtual classrooms. It was very emotional for me,” parent Melissa Swann said. “There were times when I would leave here and break down crying.”
MESA, Ariz., Jan 12, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) Edupoint® Educational Systems, creator of the industry-leading Synergy® Education Platform for student information and learning management, awarded technology grants to six client districts as part of the inaugural Synergy Achievement Awards in November. The recipients were selected based on the impact of their nominated initiatives and announced at the company’s Virtual Week event in November.
The awards program attracted nominations from Edupoint partner districts of all sizes across the country. Districts were invited to submit any number of nominations in three categories: Process Improvement, Student Outcomes, and Communication & Collaboration.
District nominations spanned a wide range of achievements, with several related to pandemic response. One rural district was able to quickly transition to asynchronous distance learning for alternative education students in order to prevent an anticipated 80% loss of enrollment dur
December 23, 2020
Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) is expanding its mobile meal bus service to more locations in Charles County. Beginning Wednesday, Jan. 6, school buses will deliver meal bags to additional locations convenient for all students and their families. Buses will deliver mobile meals to the sites Monday through Friday.
Additional sites will be added as they are finalized. On days when CCPS calls an inclement weather code or delay, mobile meal service is canceled.
Mobile meal bags are free for all children ages 2 to 18 and include heat-and-serve food items, similar to items included in weekend meal bags handed out at CCPS curbside meal distribution sites. Curbside meal sites operate 7 to 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Details about the CCPS curbside meal sites are posted here.
The Neighborhood Creative Arts Center held its first giving fair earlier this month at Christ Church in La Plata, distributing over 1,000 handmade quality craft kits for children to make as gifts during the holidays.
The center created the event to support creative minds during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and encourage children to create gifts for friends, family, teachers and neighbors for the holidays. Volunteers from the local Rotary Interact Club assembled and distributed the kits to families on Dec. 12.
Georgia Bonney, executive director of the Neighborhood Creative Arts Center, said she hopes to make the event annual in an effort to help out families. Bonney said 50 sets each of 20 different crafts were given out to children, destined to be gifts for mothers, grandmothers, fathers and grandfathers.