Education at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy during the Pandemic...

Education at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy, during the Pandemic…

“Hybrid Learning” continued at our School, through the end of this past school year. The students were there for in-person classes, two days a week (Monday & Tuesday), with remote learning on the other two days (Thursday & Friday). The amazing DWCA Faculty made it happen, working with individual students and families, to keep them “connected”.

Our RES Tutors met their challenging assignments, during the sixteen-month pandemic, as “virtual tutors.” They completed approximately eight weeks of direct, virtual interaction (Remote Tutoring) with Mrs. Sanzotta’s & Mrs. Valerio’s First Grade students, on Thursdays and Fridays, when the students are at their homes. These “veteran” RES Tutors, including Jim Koon (retired from Xerox), Kathleen Hoffman (Office Coordinator, C&S Companies) and Margaret Ornelas (Scheduling Manager, LaBella Associates) gave generously of their time to support our Cooper Scholars.

As of this writing (August 10th), we are hoping to resume in-person tutoring, at our School, this coming Fall. It will depend on decisions yet to be made by the RCSD Leadership. We will be meeting in early September with Administrators and Faculty, to discuss the possibility of integrating the work of the RES Tutoring Team into a return to “normal” at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy.

Meanwhile, we are beginning to assemble our Tutoring Team, for the 2021-22 school year…

The classroom teachers will, again provide each of our Tutors with a daily plan for each of the students with whom they are working. Tutors could be supporting teacher-conducted classroom lesson activities, working with small groups, or (more likely) working with just one student at a time, on a prescribed learning exercise.

Even just two hours a week of your time can make a big difference in the life of a Dr. Walter Cooper Academy Scholar…

Questions??? Reach out to RES Past President Lee Loomis and the RES Tutoring Team at…Rochester Engineering Society (585) 254-2350, via website: www.roceng.org, or via email: leeloomis46@gmail.com, (585) 738-3079 (mobile & text).