Freshmen can benefit from so many pieces of information during their first month of high school. Getting a handle on lunch, the location of rooms, the nuances of schedules that are sometimes altered, the homework load, Homecoming, joining clubs, and digesting the details of high school. The list is a mountain of small details that will be mastered by most in the coming weeks.

We did a training yesterday for our Peer Tutors working in our online classrooms. This a pilot program for our Apex platform. Many students who fail classes and are moved to the Apex learning platform are in need of constant attention.

In two ways proximity is king. The first is just being present, around, near, or available. When teachers are near, students usually do better. The second is that solutions are found near the problem. In fact good solutions are only one step in the right direction from the problem.