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new school design | school leadership | virtual learning
to support the planning of opening a virtual school, leaders can be overwhelmed with the volume of questions to consider — logistics, strategy, and purpose to name a few. to guide the planning process, we offer the following table with phases of implementation with related questions. while the guide is set up sequentially, each phase may trigger a deeper articulation of previous phases to refine or reimagine the virtual school.
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district leadership | school leadership | virtual learning
school schedules and use of time are one of the few remaining relics of the industrialized learning model. even when most schools moved to virtual learning in march 2020, many organizations replicated the existing bell schedule and instructed teachers to move their onsite instruction online. the school leaders believed it would hold teachers and students more accountable and create more predictability to help families plan their own schedules. but pre-pandemic, some schools began to look across the systems that were set up and consider more flexible and agile options that were more in tune with designing learning that is more compelling, personalized, and appropriately challenging for their students.
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crisis management | district leadership | school leadership | virtual learning
from north carolina to california to alaska, public schools around the united states are planning to preserve a virtual school option for students after the pandemic is over. the constant drumbeat of getting all students back to school as quickly as possible does not tell the whole story of learning in the pandemic. singing the praises of virtual learning was not something many students, educators, and families would see themselves humming along to twelve months ago. but from the early and draining days, there has been a rhythm and stability that has flourished in expected and unexpected ways.
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