During online learning over the past few months, our staff has found lots of creative shortcuts to improve motivation, consistency and maintain hope to move forward in all of our students’ academics as well as keeping focused on future goals.
Specifically, one of our high school classrooms, featuring Mr. Luskin and Ms. Wright, have come up with some incentives for students including weekly prizes for students such as $10-15 giftcards for students who completed the most amount of assignments on Edgenuity by Friday. In fact, Mr. Luskin and Ms. Wright worked with one of our paraprofessionals, Mr. Townsend, on creating a newsletter to publish the names of the students who completed the most assignments for the week.
Additionally, students have been offered alternative assignments to complete safely in their homes such as starting a garden and documenting plant progress as science credit, an ice cream creation experiment with homemade materials for our middle school students created by Ms. Horowitz and Mr. Bolek, as well as a COVID time capsule project, presented by one of our clinicians, Mollie Swillum, to find a creative outlet to document this time in history.
