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Park Hill purchasing virtual learning resource

Valerie Verkamp by Valerie Verkamp
August 21, 2020
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With 27% of elementary students enrolled in Park Hill Online, the district’s entirely virtual learning option, Park Hill School District is utilizing a virtual teaching resource to bolster the district’s teaching curriculum.

Dr. Jeannette Cowherd said the Heinemann Virtual Teaching Resource will be accessible to all K-5 students, including students in the hybrid (combination of in-person and virtual) learning mode.

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“By sharing the Virtual Teaching Resources, we can create more asynchronous opportunities for elementary students, allowing teachers more time to meet with students individually or in small groups to confer about lessons and independent reading and writing,” said district officials.

Virtual teaching videos and additional features to online resources are a few of the additional support items offered with the virtual teaching resource.

Last spring, Park Hill received criticism over a lack of virtual learning resources available to teachers and parents. Many of the websites students utilized during the shutdown were littered with popup ads and often were not age- appropriate.

The district paid $41,650 for the online resource.

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Valerie Verkamp

Valerie Verkamp

Valerie decided she wanted to be a newspaper reporter when she was 28 years old and she successfully convinced the editor of the Platte County Landmark to give it 30 days. It was a unique period of her life when she exuded confidence while fearing she missed her calling after stints as a waitress, bank teller, hotelier, and educator.

Over nearly a decade she has written countless stories on local government, education, lawsuits, community news, crime, and the prison system.

Valerie hails from Park University with a BA in Elementary Education and a post-baccalaureate degree in paralegal studies from Penn Valley Community College. She has received honorable mention for Best Government News Story and joined her Landmark colleagues as recipient of the General Excellence Award in the Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Missouri Press Association.

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