ACSD educators iron out the kinks in distance learning

MIDDLEBURY — Salisbury Community School teacher Amy Clapp offered an interesting analogy when speaking of the Addison Central School District’s new distance learning plan, which is seeing K-12 students attend classes remotely from their own homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s like we’re building an airplane while we’re flying it,” she said in a recent phone interview. And by most accounts, the ACSD’s scores of teachers and hundreds of students are earning their wings. The district’s so-called “Continu … (read more)

Mount Abe aims to keep remote learning ‘manageable’

BRISTOL — After focusing for a couple of weeks on “maintenance of skills,” the Mount Abraham Unified School District transitioned to a new phase of remote learning just before this week’s spring break. The new phase is the “continuation of learning,” and … (read more)

A brief overview of ACSD’s remote learning plan

Addison Central School District students are learning in different environment now that school buildings are closed but education is continuing. Here’s a brief overview of the distance learning program, as described on acsdvt.org: •  At the elementary lev … (read more)

For educators, staying connected is as important as academics

ADDISON COUNTY — After a couple days of planning late last week, Addison County’s unified school districts went into distance-learning mode on Monday — with an emphasis, at least through the end of next week, on what school officials called maintenance of … (read more)

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