Seeking a Right Way: Preparing for Schooling at Home

In this essay, Jonas reflects on what we can learn from the coronavirus shutdown. How should schools plan for the future? How can our communities prepare for the new normal, if that normal includes extended times of learning from home? How can schools support parents who find schooling at home extraordinarily difficult? Rather than a collection of ideas for coping, Jonas outlines what he believes could be an altered model for private schools.

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CONTRIBUTOR: Jonas Sauder

SERIES: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Response Plans

All items in the series:

• Best Practices for Distance Teaching During COVID-19 (Webinar)
• Flattening the Grading Curve: End-of-Year Video
• The Good Things of This Time: Guiding Lower-Elementary Learning at Home
• Faithful to the End: A Web Meeting for Administrators and High School Students
• How Will You Talk about COVID? Framing the Conversation for Your Students

• A Prayer During COVID-19: The Speed of Grace
• An Announcement to Parents Regarding Coronavirus
• Covid 19 Response Parent Letter (EMCS)
• COVID-19 Announcement to Parents with School-from-Home Plan
• COVID-19 Lesson Checklist (Sporting Hill)
• COVID-19 Plan (Antrim)
• COVID-19 Response (Sporting Hill)
• Daily Goal Sheet (EMCS)
• Daily Learning at Home Checklist (Third Grade)
• Daily Lesson Checklist for Home Study
• FBCS Letter to Parents Regarding Coronavirus
• High School Assignments during COVID-19 Break (Antrim)
• Homeschool Plan (EMCS)
• Homeschool Plan: Parent Letter (MCS)
• More Reading on a Reasonable Response
• Operation Raven: A Shutdown Letter to Patrons
• Plan for Home Schooling during COVID-19 Break (Countryside)
• Poll: How is your school responding to the coronavirus?
• Sample Student At-Home Assignment Instructions
• Seeking a Right Way: Preparing for Schooling at Home
• Weekly Goal Sheet (EMCS)

SERIES: Preparing for Schooling from Home

All items in the series:

• Biographies to Consider
• Comprehensive Study Guide for Amos Fortune: Free Man
• Developing Oral Skills
• Developing Writing Assignments Based on Reading
• Good Reads Handout
• Grading Difficult Subjects
• Preparing for Schooling at Home
• Seeking a Right Way: Preparing for Schooling at Home
• The Role of Play in Growth
• Types of Reading
• Writing Assignments Connected to the Curriculum
• Writing Biography
• Educating in Changing Times