Kellam High School- Carrie Gantt
Kellam High School- Carrie Gantt
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Carrie is interested in creating a scheduling app for Peer Tutoring. She believes an app where students can independently schedule tutoring sessions will increase autonomy both for students in her Peer Tutoring classes and for students requesting tutoring and can create a feedback mechanism that can be helpful for improving the quality of tutoring. She has very clear ideas for how she wants the app to function, but does not know where to begin in the design process. We discussed several possibilities, including exploring how existing scheduling apps could be adapted (perhaps as add-on features to app suites the division already subscribes to), creating an app in-house (through DOT or a class at the ATC), or requesting donation-based assistance from a community app developer. This idea has been put on "pause" with the closure of schools on March 13, 2020.
In the meantime, Carrie is interested in continuing Peer Tutoring in the digital environment in an effort to assist VBCPS students with remote learning and to be of academic assistance with VBCPS Summer School. A team including Carrie, Dr. Admon Alexander, Director of VBCPS Family & Community Engagement, Dr. Sharon Shewbridge, Director of VBCPS Instructional Technology, Mr.Matt Colohan, VBCPS Instructional Technology Coordinator, Mr. Bobby Jamison, VBCPS Office of Student Support Services Coordinator, and Ms. Jennifer Pisapia, a math teacher from Princess Anne High, has been meeting bi-weekly via video-conferencing to design, implement, and facilitate a division-wide Virtual Tutoring program for the students of our school division. The Virtual Peer Tutoring Program launched on June 23rd with the start of VBCPS Summer School. High School students from Bayside, Cox, Kempsville, Kellam, and Princess Anne have volunteered to provide virtual tutoring services to all VBCPS students enrolled in Summer School classes. Carrie hopes to continue the Virtual Tutoring program into the 2020-2021 school year with all VBCPS high schools providing tutoring services. She is especially interested in expanding the program to feeder elementary schools, connecting high school peer tutors with elementary school students and their families to assist with remote learning from home.
Kellam High School- Robin Hoffman
Kellam High School- Robin Hoffman
Robin is working with a team of Kellam teachers to develop a system of micro-credentialing as the latest installment of a multi-year high school redesign project. The team has mapped out a series of cornerstone standards that link to the graduate profile and senior project that can be guaranteed for all students regardless of their pathway within the school. They are interested in maintaining the principles of a comprehensive high school with a variety of options while also ensuring all students have the opportunity to participate. The team will discuss ways to incentivize the credentials and link them to a portfolio that has value for the students.
Robin is working with a team of Kellam teachers to develop a system of micro-credentialing as the latest installment of a multi-year high school redesign project. The team has mapped out a series of cornerstone standards that link to the graduate profile and senior project that can be guaranteed for all students regardless of their pathway within the school. They are interested in maintaining the principles of a comprehensive high school with a variety of options while also ensuring all students have the opportunity to participate. The team will discuss ways to incentivize the credentials and link them to a portfolio that has value for the students.
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