April 22, 2020
Learning from afar
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COMMUNITY VOICES By Terhea Jones. Pg. 3 Information on COVID-19. Pg.3-5
School Normandy music education program receives BCME national recognition. Pg. 6
Special Section Support Local Restaurants. Pg. 8-10
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Photo courtesy Normandy Schools Collaborative Carmen Berry of Operation Food Search (center) works with a member of the Normandy Food Service team in the Viking Grill at Normandy High School. In addition to remote learning, Normandy is working with community partners like OFS to provide meals to children in the Normandy footprint.
With schools closed for the rest of the year, school districts provide technology, tools and training to students and teachers to assist in remote education By Charlotte Beard In March 2020 teachers, students and parents had to embrace the reality of remote schooling due to COVID-19 and the need to social-distance. Though there were hopes that schools would be reopened this month, on April 9, Governor Mike Parson announced that all Missouri public and charter school buildings will remain closed through the remainder of the academic year. The initial closings in March posed an unexpected interruption to the spring break for Normandy Schools Collaborative (NSC) staff. The district’s break was already set for the week of March 16 when other schools where still in session and making
the transition. Tina Clark-Scott, Assistant Superintendent of Academics and Support Services for NSC stated, “The central office and most of our administrators did not really have a spring break. We (used) our spring break (to prepare) for what we thought was going to happen. We started setting up our online learning. We developed a process. We developed roles and responsibilities for everyone in the district and then we developed a process for teachers and for families. Once it was announced that we would not be returning to school, we started a process for families to start getting work (completed). For the first couple of days
we first had professional development for our staff. That professional development was (to help) teachers who had not already set up or utilized Google Classroom (which would) allow them to get in contact with their students. (The professional development) also (provided) some training on all our online platforms. Once (training was completed) the expectation was that the teachers would start contacting their families, letting them know what was available for them.” Within the first two weeks of beginning remote schooling, the district addressed See ‘LEARNING’ page 2
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