for some time to read through this thread thoroughly and respond
accordingly, bu that time doesn't seem to be presenting itself. (This
weekend!)
I will say this: we're looking at a fairly diminished population next year,
and, as the current administration seems fond of saying, never waste a good
crisis. I believe it's a wonderful opportunity for us to really push forward
on a curriculum which will be a hybrid between some core in-class courses
and online opportunities.
Given that we're entering the Wild West era of K-12 education, it's of
course necessary to have some sort of quality control, but also a sense of
what is appropriate for the kid in front of me - the kid with the math
disability, or who is not particularly motivated, or with an EF difficulty.
In that sense, the important connection will be between schools with similar
populations.
In peace,
*Norman Maynard*
Interim Head of School
*Thornton Friends School* <http://www.thorntonfriends.org/>
Silver Spring, MD 20904
301.384.6672 **
Google Talk: daoist56
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Steve Taffee
<Steve_Taffee@castilleja.org>wrote:
> I was surprised that there was not more comment on this post, and I
> apologize for taking my own time to respond to it.
>
> One of my dreams is to have a "cooperative" of independent schools that can
> work with one another to offer outstanding online courses to supplement and
> extend our curricula in new and exciting ways. As the authors of Disrupting
> Class make so clear,
> online courses are coming, and are coming in a big way.
>
> As all of use struggle to help students with special needs, be they
> advanced topic courses for those who work beyond the reach of our
> curriculum, highly targeted courses in areas we can't offer, remediation for
> learners with certain challenges - whatever
> the need, online courses offer us another way to meet our kids where they
> are. The current financial conditions, and environmental sustainability,
> require that we seriously consider online learning.
>
> s
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> >From: Fred Bartels <fred_bartels@rcds.rye.ny.us>
> >Subject: Independent School Online Courses
> >
> >I wonder if perhaps there might be a number of independent schools with
> faculty who are already offering, or are planning to offer, online courses?
> If there are, I think it might be helpful to have a web site to help
> students find available courses and
> >to facilitate collaboration between independent school faculty
> offering/developing online courses. Ideally such a site could help students
> and faculty build personal learning networks and online learning communities
> in subjects of interest to them. I'm
> >curious what others think?
>
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