Location Change For Gloucester Township School Board Meeting

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — The location for Monday night’s Gloucester Township K-8 Public School District’s Board of Education meeting has been changed, the district announced on Monday.

The meeting, originally scheduled to take place at Glen Landing Middle School, will now take place at the Gloucester Township Administration Building, 17 Erial Road in the Blackwood section of the township. The March 16 meeting will still begin at 7 p.m.

The location change was announced one day after the district announced that the schools will have an early dismissal on Friday. During the early dismissal and the in-service day scheduled for Monday, teachers will finalize plans, develop material and organize resources in the event schools must close, Superintendent of Schools John Bilodeau said in a letter to parents.

It is part of the district’s coronavirus preparations. The staff has prepared a home instruction plan for all the students enrolled in the district in the event schools must close.

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“Our home instruction plan will provide for print and web-based instruction to all students from Grades 3-8,” Bilodeau said. “Students in Grades 3-8 currently use a web-based curriculum in several of their core subjects.”

The normal practice is for all students are issued Chromebooks in September. Middle school students are able to bring their computers home with them, while students in Grades 3-5 must leave them at school each day.

Now, students in Grades 3-5 will be permitted to bring their Chromebooks home, although the district has not yet decided when that will begin. Parents and guardians will be notified when it does, Bilodeau said.

Students in pre-K through Second Grade will receive instructional materials to bring home, and teachers will be in regular contact with expected activities, according to Bilodeau.

Anyone with questions about home instruction, including about a lack of internet access in the home, should contact their individual school, Bilodeau said.