Happy Sunday to everyone!
Happy Sunday to everyone!
As we enter week four of Maarif Online, I wanted to share this article with you from Star Ledger education correspondent, Adam Clark. It serves as a reminder that all of our students across the state and even globally are dealing with the same issues and problems.
As you know, we at Maarif take our amana to educate the next generation very seriously. Because of this, we have been paying close attention to what other schools have been doing to gauge our efforts and to see where we could improve in our delivery of services.
We began planning more than a week before the closure requesting "gmail" addresses, planning teacher workshops on online methods led by Mr. Wright, and talking to our teachers about what virtual instruction would look like. We were fortunate that when we changed curriculum two years ago, we had the foresight to add digital access to all our core textbooks. While many teachers had no need to use them prior to the closure, they have since been a boon to the learning and engagement of our kids.
Since going online three weeks ago, we have checked in with parents and students, had weekly faculty meetings with teachers, as well as conversations with individual teachers, followed up with the few families whose children were not attending online classes and worked to ensure that quality learning was happening.
Through all of this, we have maintained FERPA (Family Education Rights Privacy Act) compliance by only issuing grades through FERPA approved platforms such as Google Classroom and QuickSchools. We early on made the decision to continue teaching new concepts so that our students would be ready to advance to the next grade with the necessary skills.
In the coming week of the vacation, we will continue to post ideas and articles to inform and connect with our community.
You are all in our prayers and in'sha'Allah we will get through this together by the grace and mercy of Allah SWA.
Allah hafiz,
Sr. Ozlem and Sr. Pam
As we enter week four of Maarif Online, I wanted to share this article with you from Star Ledger education correspondent, Adam Clark. It serves as a reminder that all of our students across the state and even globally are dealing with the same issues and problems.
As you know, we at Maarif take our amana to educate the next generation very seriously. Because of this, we have been paying close attention to what other schools have been doing to gauge our efforts and to see where we could improve in our delivery of services.
We began planning more than a week before the closure requesting "gmail" addresses, planning teacher workshops on online methods led by Mr. Wright, and talking to our teachers about what virtual instruction would look like. We were fortunate that when we changed curriculum two years ago, we had the foresight to add digital access to all our core textbooks. While many teachers had no need to use them prior to the closure, they have since been a boon to the learning and engagement of our kids.
Since going online three weeks ago, we have checked in with parents and students, had weekly faculty meetings with teachers, as well as conversations with individual teachers, followed up with the few families whose children were not attending online classes and worked to ensure that quality learning was happening.
Through all of this, we have maintained FERPA (Family Education Rights Privacy Act) compliance by only issuing grades through FERPA approved platforms such as Google Classroom and QuickSchools. We early on made the decision to continue teaching new concepts so that our students would be ready to advance to the next grade with the necessary skills.
In the coming week of the vacation, we will continue to post ideas and articles to inform and connect with our community.
You are all in our prayers and in'sha'Allah we will get through this together by the grace and mercy of Allah SWA.
Allah hafiz,
Sr. Ozlem and Sr. Pam
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