OUR RESPONSE TO THE
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
A HYBRID APPROACH TO TEACHING The 2020-21 academic year was unlike anything the Norfolk Collegiate community had experienced. In March 2020, then-Gov. Ralph Northam closed schools in response to a stay-at-home COVID-19 mandate. In the months that followed, Collegiate was able to provide asynchronous and synchronous instruction to complete the 2019-20 school year. However, that summer brought a plethora of questions about what the 2020-21 academic year would look like. Would we be in school or virtual? Would students and faculty be safe? What would lunch look like? Would we have athletics?
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