Savannah-Chatham schools to offer summer enrichment classes for 6,000 students
Savannah-Chatham County public schools are seeming to employ the “If you build it, they will come,” mentality. The district hopes its summer school offerings will encourage students to enroll especially those who need to catch up.
While the underlying goal is to help the students recapture what they may have missed due to the pandemic, the district is offering enrichment opportunities to help students accelerate their learning and maybe spark a career interest.
Guidelines for “a new kind of summer school” were outlined by the U.S. Department of Education in its COVID-19 Handbook, Vol. 2: “Summer learning programs should also be designed to meet the social and emotional needs of students and provide them with engaging and enriching experiences. Camps can also play a role in summer learning, depending on the design and quality of the experience. Local leaders should reduce barriers (e.g., tr
Library Staff Essential for Tech Support at Savannah-Chatham
At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, Georgia, media specialists have handled tech support for the transition to virtual learning, Chromebooks, a new learning management system and other educational technologies. by Barbara Augsdorfer, Savannah Morning News, Ga. / April 16, 2021 Shutterstock
(TNS) Before school started all virtual last August, the new learning management system was rolled out. School staff had to learn six months of training in five weeks. No kidding. First it was the media specialists and media clerks, then the academic coaches, along with high-level training for the teachers, said Tammy Kemp, the district s lead program manager for instructional technology and media services. We used the train the trainer model and each school site was given staff training based on the support their teachers needed.
With the FDA recommending a pause in the use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine because of a rare side effect, Savannah area providers are falling back on the two-dose Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. We scheduled these clinics because people were clamoring for it, Coastal Health District spokeswoman Sally Silbermann said of the J&J vaccine clinics scheduled for Tuesday. But we re not gonna do it now. We re going to honor the appointments, but it s not going to be that. It s gonna be Pfizer in Chatham County and Moderna in Liberty County.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday they are reviewing data involving six reported cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot occurring 6-13 days after the J&J vaccination. In these cases, a type of blood clot called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis was seen in combination with low levels of blood platelets. All six cases occurred among women between the ages
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SCCPSS board to review first week of hybrid learning
SCCPSS board to review first week of hybrid learning By Sean Evans | March 3, 2021 at 6:24 AM EST - Updated March 3 at 6:52 AM
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Savannah-Chatham County Public School board will meet Wednesday and hear a report on how the bi-weekly in-person hybrid learning model is going in the second semester of learning.
The school district adopted the hybrid learning model at the last board of education meeting last month.
WTOC spoke with Associate Superintendent Bernadette Ball-Oliver about the feedback they’ve been getting from families and teachers, and she tells us it’s largely good.