Limited Space in Select Grades for 2024-2025
Westside currently has seats available in select grades, including preschool, for the 2024-2025 school year. Please email Ted Holmes at tedh@westsideschool.org for more information.
Westside has tremendous autonomy and responsibility to decide what we teach our students. Last spring, Westside teachers adapted their courses in powerful ways. Our teachers quickly assessed what parts of the planned curriculum they could deliver as originally designed, what they needed to teach with substantial modification, and what course material they needed to change and replace with new material. Our spring transition to emergency remote learning provided valuable insight about how we can most effectively honor our mission and innovate to expand our approach to teaching and learning.
This summer, we have reviewed research and Westside stakeholder feedback in order to overhaul distant learning days as well as to create an effective hybrid daily schedule. Furthermore, this summer and during In-Service Days in August, Westside teachers continue to hone their skills in remote learning to ensure our fall courses will be rich, engaging, and effective when delivered online. Our teachers have and will continue to receive training in remote learning best practices, as well as connecting in school learning with the remote learning for our hybrid scenarios.
Westside’s re-imagined remote learning program is guided by several tenets:
We know that excellent instruction and high student achievement require an interdependent collaboration among teachers, students, families, and administrators to achieve our common goals. Our academic program priorities for 2020-2021 (for both on campus and virtual learning) are to:
In order to support our newly formed cohorts and ensure high quality instruction both on campus and at home, our teachers have been building their professional skills. In August, all our teachers participated in a workshop with BookBag Learning, to advance their skills in the following areas:
Our community is ready to provide the Westside learning experience that you all know and love with expanded innovation and creativity to capture joyful learning for all Westside Wolves.
Westside currently has seats available in select grades, including preschool, for the 2024-2025 school year. Please email Ted Holmes at tedh@westsideschool.org for more information.