With the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn School District remaining closed through April 30th due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the administration is focusing on offering learning opportunities to kids at home.

Superintendent Greg Dufoe says the teachers and staff rolled out voluntary learning opportunities on their website when the hiatus began, and he feels they’ve been well-used by students and families over the last couple weeks. He points out, though, that the curriculum offered was meant to be a bridge to when classes resume, so when the closure was extended they developed a more structured curriculum.

Dufoe adds, in the event the Iowa Department of Education instructs districts to shift to required online learning, they’ve already begun working on how that would look. “As a district, we have the ability to adjust. You know, we anticipate that we will follow the voluntary educational opportunity tract through April 30th. But we’re continuing to study our capability of moving to a required environment – and that would most likely be at the high school if we did choose that route – what barriers still exist, and what’s the need to do so. So we’re going to study, and we are continuing to do that, and if we make that move we could do it if we’re extended past May 1st.”

To learn more about this and other ways ADM is dealing with coronavirus, listen to today’s Perry Fareway Let’s Talk Dallas County program on air and at RaccoonValleyRadio.com.