Imagining and Planning in the Year of COVID-19
If you were impressed by our school’s ability to shift from a day school model to remote learning classrooms, you are going to be stunned by the transformation that is about to occur. Over the last few days, I have had the privilege of watching as the board and leadership began to grasp the task before us and outline a plan. Between now and August we are going to transform our campus and our classrooms to prepare for our second wave of COVID-19. While some of the changes are going to be awkward as we protect ourselves from a novel virus, most of the changes are merely accelerations of improvements and goals that are part of our long-term strategy…
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Three Objectives in Three Scenarios in the Year of Covid-19
between now and August, we are going to transform our campus and our classrooms to prepare for a predicted second wave of COVID-19. I want to say with clarity, I expect to be in school in August. Based on conversations with health professionals, other schools, and individuals with government contacts, we are preparing to spend the year in a posture that, for the children, will soon feel very normal…
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The Cary Christian School Block Schedule
In a typical six-period schedule, students take the same six classes every day. For CCS, each class is fifty-five minutes long, except on Fridays. On Fridays, we offer forty-five-minute class periods for House Schedule. This pace allows for a class to meet five times per week or forty times per quarter (around 1,880 minutes of class). Taking six classes with six different topics that will each need to be studied and practiced at home creates a long day. Then, add in music, drama, electives, and sports, and you extend that day even further. In the fall, Cary Christian School will shift to an alternate day A/B Block Schedule for the Rhetoric School. Students will have two different schedules: an A-Week Schedule and a B-Week Schedule. Each class is eighty minutes long. This pace allows each class to meet five times every two weeks or twenty times per quarter (around 1,600 minutes of class)…
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