Vassar Education Collaboration - VEC

We ended the two-week program Getting Ready for High School last Friday. Students explored Poughkeepsie. One said at the end "Poughkeepsie is way cooler than I thought after 12 years of living here. I'm now realizing that." That was our hope.

It has been a very busy two weeks for Exploring College! Yesterday morning our students gave fantastic final presentations on their digital narratives and yesterday afternoon we held a virtual closing ceremony to celebrate their successes! During the program, students received a comprehensive introduction to environmental science and applied this knowledge by writing letters to local policy makers, outlining policy ideas for sustainability within their own communities. We are constantly inspired and impressed by the thoughtful ideas our students bring into the world and we are so honored to work with them. We cannot wait to see where they go next!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/health/school-learning-online-education.html
We're learning the online courses are more effective if the student has a coach. So we are exploring how the VCUEI mentors can do that in the Fall if schools are not fully back in person.

What We’re Learning About Online Learning As virtual classrooms and online learning proliferate, researchers are working to quantify what works and what doesn’t.