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About Julie Harding and Jennifer Collins

Julie Harding is a veteran educator in New Jersey's public schools where she has worked as a teacher and content-area supervisor. Having taught students in 5th grade through college freshman, she has a varied experience with students of different learning styles and ability levels. Julie is the mother of two public school boys, and she writes parenting articles and leads parent education classes geared towards parents who want to raise more independent children.

Jennifer Collins has been an educator for eleven years, having taught every level from 5th grade through post-secondary. She holds a BA in English and Fiction writing and a Supervisor certificate along with an English k-12 certificate, and she has been named "Teacher of the Year" in one of New Jersey's public schools.

How to Set Your Child Up for Success With Virtual School

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(This article focuses on helping kids with virtual school. If your child is going to a physical school, please see this article instead)

Main-Image-Virtual-School.jpgWhat a surreal start we are having to school this year, right? The best of Hollywood script writers wouldn’t be able to come up with the situation we find ourselves in!

This pandemic of 2020 has changed the way schools run, perhaps irrevocably. Schools across the country have moved from in-person to remote learning practically overnight. Teachers and parents alike now find ourselves facing new challenges as many of us look toward a virtual school year ahead of us.

With over three decades of traditional teaching between us — Jen Collins and Julie Harding — we have had to muster all of the technology, energy and creativity we could for this virtual school year. With a little flexibility and collegial support, and a lot of hard work, we have been able to make it work.

In our years of experience working with kids, we have learned some neat tricks along the way that we’d love to share with you so you can use them in your own families and help your kids be successful with the new virtual schooling way of life, too. [Read more…]