They’ve gone from teaching in-person lessons to four students in 2nd through 5th grade, to virtual lessons for seven kids, including some a bit older and younger, Marcos says.Īt first, student Michael Lukowicz in Dallas, Texas, was skeptical that the virtual lessons would work, but he reports, “So far we’ve been making progress.” Now kids’ families and instructors can pick days and times that are best for them. “During ‘normal times,’ the transportation factor was usually an obstacle to many ND students’ schedules.”īefore, all of the classes were held in half-hour sessions between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. “These virtual sessions have in a strange way been considerably easier to arrange in our current situation than during a regular semester,” Blacklow said.
The video program Google Meet brings three Notre Dame students - in Texas, Colorado and Alaska - to kids in South Bend and Buchanan. Then piano professor John Blacklow nudged the center’s staff to bring the lessons back, though online, which they did in early June. For two months, the Notre Dame students were derailed by midterms, moving off campus to their homes and finishing their own virtual college, said Celine Marcos, an AmeriCorps member who coordinates the center’s educational programs for tutoring and arts enrichment. A new semester of lessons started in January, then halted in March as the pandemic began.
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