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Only In Print: St. Thomas Aquinas Academy Offers ‘Different Type of Learning’

Michael Martinez’s mother Michelle decorated a corner of their Sheepshead Bay house to resemble a classroom to make him more comfortable with online learning. (Photo: Courtesy of Michelle Martinez)

Online Classes Continue to Thrive After COVID Pandemic

PROSPECT HEIGHTS  — Teacher Jennifer Centeno was leading the first graders in her social studies class in a discussion of how to be a good global citizen. The students were enthusiastically talking about all the ways they would demonstrate how much they cared for the planet.

But this was a class with a twist: It was totally online, not in a classroom…


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