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Kline s Korner: The Changing Landscape of Education
By Dr. Tod Kline
WASD Superintendent
Over the past 11 months, we have witnessed schools becoming more agile, more prepared to pivot, and becoming more fluid. These new buzzwords developing today are each very accurate organizational adjectives and verbs. They are also helping to paint a new picture of schools today.
Due to the pandemic, schools have had to depend on more remote learning. Most schools in PA have increased capacity for online or virtual learning.
At one point, about 40% of PA schools were doing some sort of in-person schooling. Whether it was fully in-person every day, or some sort of combination of so many days per week, the lesser majority of PA schools were providing in-person education for students. Some districts are beginning to return to class. Unfortunately, about 40% of students doing online education through their school district were failing at least one class. It was certainly a tough transition for m
A Gift for the Season
By Dr. Tod Kline
WASD Superintendent
With all the tragedy, election drama, and stress 2020 has brought to our lives as individuals, communities and a nation, there have been some gifts presented. Education has seen a few, too.
Many of our schools have proven to have little virus spread. The health department would have to agree that a significant percentage of positive cases were due to people bringing the virus in to the schools. Schools have turned out not to be big spreaders as expected.
Parents were able to go to work while their children went to school every day. Each parent had choices for the mode for which their child would learn. If families were concerned to send their child to school, they could opt for virtual learning. At Waynesboro (WASD), we saw an increase in students from virtual to in-person learning as the year progressed.