March 28, 2024
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Coronavirus

Minooka Community High School provides meals and laptops

Just a month after starting a one-to-one Chromebook pilot program to a select group of freshmen and sophomore classes, Minooka Community High School has now found itself immersed in a schoolwide e-learning platform opportunity due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Poised with the latest technology, teachers and students are finding the transition to e-learning-based instruction and engagement to be relatively smooth.

“We have been preparing our teachers for e-learning opportunities over the last few months and have complete confidence in their ability to lead, instruct and engage during this time,” Bryan Zwemke, building principal at MCHS, said in a news release.

“I have heard a great amount of positive feedback from teachers and administration regarding the last few days of e-learning and how involved our students are. I am so proud of our school community and the professionalism that has revealed itself during the COVID-19 outbreak.”

During this time, students are encouraged to receive instruction and activities from their teachers through a pilot of the MCHS e-learning model.

Although these next few days are nonattendance days and activities provided by teachers will not be graded, MCHS will follow guidance from the Illinois State Board of Education and offer learning opportunities for students.

During this past Wednesday and Thursday, MCHS arranged a two-day pickup schedule for meals and laptops for all MCHS students while supplies lasted.

MCHS Technology Department assigned 77 laptops that were checked out by families for student use, and Quest Food Management Services Inc. provided over 300 meals for students over the two-day period.

The remaining meals were donated to a Grace Bible Church of Shorewood, who, in turn, will help their immediate congregation and surrounding community to feed children in need.

“Witnessing the way our school staff stepped outside their normal scope of work to ensure our students and families were taken care of during this time was nothing short of amazing,” Brent Edwards, director of community relations at MCHS, said in a news relese. “I was in awe of how quickly this was organized and arranged.”

MCHS will continue to closely monitor recommendations and guidance from the CDC, Illinois Department of Public Health, Grundy County Department of Health and the Illinois State Board of Education, regarding the coronavirus.

Visit the MCHS coronavirus resource page at MCHS.net.