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To: Boulder Valley School District Board of Education and School Administrators
BVSD: Mandate a Single Learning Management System for Student Success
Students in the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) are currently forced to navigate multiple learning management systems (LMS) due to a lack of standardization across schools and classrooms. This chaotic system wastes valuable learning time, creates unnecessary stress and confusion, and disproportionately impacts the success of neurodivergent students with ADHD and executive functioning challenges. We demand that the BVSD mandate a single LMS district-wide to streamline the learning process, reduce student anxiety, and promote academic success for all.
Please sign this petition to insist that BVSD mandate a single Learning Management System (LMS) at the school level. I've witnessed my son and other students waste countless hours trying to navigate eight classes spread across three or more LMS platforms. This inconsistency leads to confusion and missed assignments, causing unnecessary anxiety for our already overwhelmed students.
A unified LMS would streamline the learning process, improve organization, and reduce stress, ultimately promoting academic success for all. Your signature can make a difference!
Please sign this petition to insist that BVSD mandate a single Learning Management System (LMS) at the school level. I've witnessed my son and other students waste countless hours trying to navigate eight classes spread across three or more LMS platforms. This inconsistency leads to confusion and missed assignments, causing unnecessary anxiety for our already overwhelmed students.
A unified LMS would streamline the learning process, improve organization, and reduce stress, ultimately promoting academic success for all. Your signature can make a difference!
Why is this important?
Since COVID, our community has increasingly relied on online learning platforms, particularly in our middle and high schools. While online learning offers valuable flexibility, the current lack of organization within our district is creating chaos and hindering student success, especially for neurodivergent students and those with ADHD.
Like many students in the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD), my son struggles with ADHD and executive functioning. Despite being a good student with a strong desire to succeed, he feels let down by the system as he constantly grapples with finding, tracking, and submitting his assignments. The use of multiple online LMS platforms like Schoology, Google Classroom, and others, across various subjects, simply adds to the chaos and confusion. There is no consistency at a school level that mandates a single system for this purpose. We believe doing so will increase student success and build their desire to learn and actively participate.
Our children deserve an education system that is streamlined, standardized, and conducive to learning for all types of learners. Currently, the BVSD lacks a unified online system, leading to unnecessary complexity and stress for students, especially those with learning differences.
Consider this: In a school environment where each teacher uses a different online platform for the syllabus, resources, and assignment tracking/submission, students with ADHD or those who struggle with executive functioning bear the brunt of this lack of uniformity. It ultimately hampers their academic performance and emotional well-being.
To solve this problem, we propose that the BVSD mandate all schools within the district to adopt a single online platform, per school, that teachers are required to use as a hub for the class syllabus, resources, assignment tracking, and submission. This will enable students to manage their schoolwork more effectively and alleviate the pressures they currently face, thereby promoting their academic success and overall mental health.
Let's push for this needed change in our local education system. Your signature will make a difference in the lives of our students. Please, sign this petition.
Sincerely,
Sarah Colomina
mother to 2 BVSD students
How it will be delivered
Once a significant amount of signatures are collected, this will be presented at a BVSD school board meeting.