CCHS adopts hybrid learning model
TROY, N.Y. » Catholic Central High School’s Board of Trustees, in consultation with school administration, has approved a hybrid education model for the 2020-2021 academic year.
This model is subject to state regulations. Distance learning will remain an available option for families for the coming school year under every circumstance.
The goal of adopting this model is to help relieve some of the stress that CCHS families are experiencing with the uncertainty around schools reopening in New York State this fall. Contingent on the state regulations, the hybrid model will provide opportunities for both in-person direct instruction from the school’s North Troy campus and virtual learning from the safety of a family home.
The CCHS facility will simultaneously teach in person from their classrooms and virtually from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
School officials welcome, recommend, and prefer the return of all students to campus, if possible, but understand that for some families in-person instruction still poses a significant challenge due to underlying health and safety concerns.
The school also acknowledges that in the coming months, it might be prudent for some students to mix in-person and virtual learning as family dynamics change with the evolving “new normal.” Students do not need to commit to one version of instruction or the other, this is truly a hybrid model for all.
“Catholic Central High School’s ability to provide both in-person classroom instruction and virtual instruction online allows our students to have consistent instruction without compromise,” Principal Christopher Si
gnor said in a news release. “In rolling out this hybrid model, the board, administration, and facility pledge to maintain the same high level of accountability for virtual instruction as it does for classroom instruction.”
Current students have been virtually learning since March 16 when the school’s campus was closed as part of the New York on Pause mandate. Faculty was quick to adjust instruction to an online platform through Google Classroom which the school instituted in the 2018-2019 academic year. Only one day of instruction was lost in the transition from in-person to virtual methodology.
CCHS students have remained vigilant about participating virtually knowing that the school expects the same academic output as if they were in the classroom.
“Virtual learning is not an excuse to reduce the academic rigor of the Catholic High program,” Board of Trustee’s Chair Ridge Harris said. “The partnership we have with our administration, facility, students, and parents in ensuring that virtual instruction is treated like classroom instruction is paramount in the success of the hybrid model.”
The uncertainty about schools returning to “normal” will remain for some time. Catholic Central High School is proud to offer solutions that provide Crusader Families with options to keep education moving forward in these challenging times.
CCHS believes the hybrid model provides the flexibility families need to navigate these very trying times while providing each student with a strong academic program, in-person or online, that prepares them for the future.
The CCHS family has the “courage to dare and do” as identified in the school alma mater.
Contact Principal Christopher Signor at 518-2357100 to learn more about CCHS’ hybrid learning model and becoming part of the Crusader Family. Private, socially distanced, campus tours are available by appointment.