This week saw the culmination of a series of videoconference dialogs between students at Parkway North and Normandy High Schools when the two groups met face to face. Twenty-five Parkway North students in Scott Moeller’s government class took a bus to Normandy High School to meet the students they had been talking to for the past semester over videoconference. They took a tour of Normandy High School and sat down to a lunch prepared by Normandy’s culinary students. The students talked to wrap up the semester-long project that focused on the student transfer program from unaccredited districts and what effect it had on them.

Distance Learning Brings Students Together

The program was conceived, initiated and implemented by EducationPlus. After going through the student transfer program last August, Martha Bogart of EducationPlus and Ed Wright, a retired social studies teacher, discussed talking to the students about the process and what impact…