List of 8 items.

• Essential Questions

  • One of the overarching instructional goals of our plan is to move toward an interdisciplinary model that uses essential questions to connect the learning across all subject areas.
    
    
  • An essential question will be designed for every three-week interval and all faculty members will use the essential question to guide the learning in their specific subject area. 
    
    
  • An example of an essential question for the first trimester would be: Who am I? Students would explore their identity and their inherent value and worth as individuals during the three-week interval. Who am I as a reader, writer, scientist, artist, mathematician, musician, innovator, researcher, athlete, community member, learner, etc.?

• E-Learning

  The school year will begin in the e-learning model until at least September 11, 2020. LJCDS has applied for an elementary school waiver with San Diego County to get approval to begin in-person learning. 

  
  

  Click here for a sample learning plan. These learning plans will be used for both e-learning and on-campus learning models and will be posted each week on classroom-specific Google Classroom sites (Grades 3-4) and Seesaw journals (kindergarten–Grade 2). The learning plans will outline the content, skills and activities that will be covered in each subject area for that week and will include all links to Zoom sessions and required resources.

  
  

  Click here for a sample fourth grade e-learning schedule and sample kindergarten e-learning schedule. These sample e-learning schedules provide a general idea of the format for daily learning activities if we are in a full e-learning model for all students. Each classroom will have a specific schedule that will allow for a combination of asynchronous and synchronous learning that will occur in whole groups, small groups, and one-on-one Zoom sessions.

• Hybrid Model

  The LJCDS hybrid model combines face-to-face learning and synchronous learning for students. In a few cases, some students will connect synchronously with their teachers and classmates from home. More details to follow as we learn how many students will need to learn from home.

• Communication/Technology

  • Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 will utilize Seesaw as a learning platform, digital portfolio and communication resource.
    
    
  • Grades 3 and 4 will use Google Classroom as a learning platform, digital portfolio and communication resource.
    
    
  • Kindergarten through Grade 4 will have Digital Learning Plans that will be posted weekly on Seesaw and Google Classroom.
    
    
  • Zoom will be used if needed when students are not on campus or when a teacher needs to stream to another classroom on campus.
    
    
  • We will also be piloting the use of Swivl, a robotic mount that tracks and records a moving person in a few Lower School classrooms.

• Early Care/Extended Day

  We know several of our families rely on our Extended Care options. As our first priority is the health and safety of our community, this service will be modified. Morning drop-off for Extended Care will start at 7:30 a.m. We are still finalizing plans for Extended Day that honor our cohort model. Please fill out this survey to help inform our plans for Extended Day.

• Learning Resource Center

  LRC support services will continue and Learning Specialists will push into assigned indoor and outdoor spaces to work with students 1:1 or within cohorts.

• Physical Education

  Lower School students will participate in daily physical education outdoors and in the gym with other members of their cohorts. 

• Arrival Process

  The arrival process to school will be different this year to ensure the health and safety of our community. Click here to learn more about the arrival process.