This week's Spotlight on Success is brought to us by Macdonough School's MSELI Leadership Team! We spoke with Macdonough Principal Damian Reardon, who expressed that he is very proud of the work the his staff and MSELI Leadership Team is doing to meet the needs of the students and community. Do you have any words of wisdom or tips for your colleagues on how to be successful in this hybrid environment and/or integrating technology with your students? At Macdonough, we have found that supporting the SE Health of families during hybrid learning is challenging. Often we are making decisions on what we feel families need and want. Rather than do that, our MSELI team in coordination with the school governance council worked to engage our families and find out what our families need. Through a survey disseminated by the Governance Council, we learned that parents had questions about technology and supporting their student's social emotional health at home. From this information, Macdonough organized a virtual "Choose Your Own Adventure" night. On December 15, Macdonough held this event and offered 5 different workshops that parents could choose to attend: Support with Google Classroom, Support with SeeSaw, Creating and Supporting Digital Citizens, Creating Routines at Home and Managing Screen Time, and Supporting the Social Emotional Health of Students. Each session was led by a staff person and supported by volunteer parents. Further, we realized that surveys that are sent out are not as widely completed as we would like. Thus, we embarked on a campaign to personally contact every family at Macdonough. The goal was: to listen, to hear how things are going, to hear concerns, to hear successes, to allow families a voice. A mix of staff and community volunteers were assigned families, given a list of probing questions, and a Google Form to use to compile the answers. From the data collected in the google form, key word searches were done for (food, clothing, rent, utilities, childcare, etc...). This allowed us to sort families by need and follow up with further calls or direct support (food boxes and bags of clothing).
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