Blended Learning

To provide full-time access to students learning from home, students learning in person, and students who may be quarantined or ill, I created a virtual library where students have everything they need. It is constantly updated and new content is added regularly. Items are added based on student request, teacher request, based on the focus for that time, or as new resources become available. Each item can be clicked on to take them to that resource or get them to the page they need to navigate to.

As a way to continue to grow the love of reading for our students, I created a digital version of our book tastings that we would normally do with classes. Each slide focuses on a different title for our Project Lit Book Club. All of our book club students and our two Advanced Reading Classes accessed this and used the resources available to choose which titles they'd like to use first. This was a safe way to have a "hands on" book tasting and our eLearners did not miss out.

After finishing Collection 1 in their textbooks. 8th grade ELA students took what they've been learning about cultures and did a research project. They choose a fiction book with a character that has a different cultural background than themselves, told us about the book, researched the culture using our Gale Databases, and then taught the class about their culture using Google Slides. Students in person and learning from home used the same resources while building unique projects of their choice.