SUPPORT PROVIDED DURING QUARANTINE
The list below highlights how DTS staff has been engaged with students and families over the last two weeks to ensure they are getting the support they need:
- Provided remote IT services, including teaching kids how to use Zoom, how to use a hot spot, and troubleshooting technical difficulties
- Procured and delivered laptop computers and other essential school supplies
- Supplied WiFi for families that cannot wait for free services to start
- Provided students with novels needed for school and pleasure reading
- Provided extensive tutoring in all subjects
- Provided one-on-one emotional support and mental health services for both students and their parents
- Provided information and resources to help manage stress, support the immune system, and take physical care of oneself at home
- Helped high school seniors apply for college scholarships and decipher their financial aid award letters from the colleges they were accepted to
- Provided weekly check-ins to help students develop effective study habits as they transition to online school platforms, including creating study schedules and setting up a work space
- Explained the pandemic and best practices for keeping families safe
- Helped students communicate with siblings and parents about when they need alone time for classes and studying
- Helped college students communicate with professors about creating class schedules that accommodate different time zones
- Flew college students home
- Purchased groceries for families with no sources of income and who will not benefit from the stimulus package
- Added a wellness edition of the DTS student/family weekly blast
- Connected students to one another in a weekly council session
- Connected families to one another in a weekly group stillness session
- Created an online peer tutoring network
- LISTENED to our students and families and let them know that we are here for them
