Islip Meets Student Needs With Extended Program At Wing

West Islip NY

24 August, 2020

9:36 PM

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Press release from Islip School District: August 24, 2020 During July and August, the Islip School District ran a six-week Reach ExtendedSchool Year program at Wing Elementary School, using a hybrid instructional model thatenabled both in-person and virtual learning opportunities to meet students' needs. For thein-person morning classroom sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, socialdistancing and physical setting cleanliness followed Department of Health guidelines forstaff and students. Virtual instruction included synchronous real-time interaction with alive teacher via scheduled videoconferencing, as well as asynchronous instruction in whichself-pacing students learned from videos, readings and other media. "Losing connection with students over the last few months of the school year wasextremely difficult for district faculty and staff," said Wing Principal Michael Giacchetto."This ESY program brought our children back to school and put smiles on the faces ofeveryone involved. School may have looked a little different with our new safetyparameters, but one thing that did not change was the joy of working with our children.The energy and enthusiasm of teaching and learning returned to the classrooms at Wingonce again." This press release was produced by Islip School District. The views expressed here are the author's own.