As reported by Nancy on Norwalk, Norwalk Public Schools will replace spring break this year with a continuation of distance learning. Since families need to delay vacations until the life returns to normal, everyone is having to make difficult adjustments.

For the first time in 50 years, Carver had to cancel its annual Spring Break College Tour. In its place a Carver volunteer created this database of colleges and universities across the country that offer 360 virtual tours of their campuses and programs.

For the first time in its history, Census 2020 can be completed online. Or by phone. Or by mail.

While we are all confined to our homes, now is the perfect time to participate in one of the defining events of 2020, something that will impact Connecticut for the next decade.

It is critical that every individual physically living in Connecticut be counted in the census regardless of age, citizenship status, homeowner status, or language spoken at home. But far too many families are not counted, especially those that directly benefit from access to afterschool and summer learning programs.

The U.S. Census Bureau is bound by law to protect your answers and keep them strictly confidential. In fact, every employee takes an oath to protect your personal information for life.

As Norwalk enters what we believe could be the peak phase of the COVID-19 coronavirus spread, Norwalk Public Schools is modifying its food distribution model. School bus meal delivery to bus stops, as well as door-to-door meal deliveries for special education students, will be postponed until further notice. To make sure that students and families still have meal options, this alternate plan is now in place.

Starting Monday, March 30 until further notice, meals will now be available at 10 food distribution sites across the city from 12 noon to 2 pm, Monday through Friday, including at the Carver Community Center.

Throughout America, Canada, the UK, and across the world, families are placing rainbow drawings, paintings, and rainbow crafts in their windows as social distancing becomes the new norm. Millions of children in Italy were the first to create these unique and colorful morale boosters during the country’s coronavirus lockdown.

We have been posting here about extra learning tools and places of support for our students and families. Today, we showcase a trusted service for extraordinary enrichment learning opportunities that may be helpful before and after the new virtual school day: Norwalk’s own Factory Underground.

Shaivi Shah has rallied her fellow honor society students into helping her give away more than 250 low-cost “sanitation kits” to homeless shelters.

With the vast majority of America’s public schools now shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic, more than 54 million children have been told that they won’t be attending class for the next several weeks. In many cases, students may be left learning from home through the end of the academic year.

The Nextdoor app, which connects people with others in their neighborhoods, is full of people offering to help higher-risk individuals with whatever they need as they self isolate. Whether it's picking up food, groceries, or medicine, there's a lot of kindness to be found on the app. What Americans Are Doing Now Is Beautiful. The public’s response to the coronavirus will stand as a remarkable moment of national mobilization.

How These Disabled Activists Are Taking Matters Into Their Own (Sanitized) Hands If you’re interested in donating to a food bank, Feeding America has a national database of centers you can support, and it has established the COVID-19 Response Fund to provide additional aid to their member food banks. If you’re interested in giving money to a food pantry in your community, check out FoodPantries.org for donation and contact information.

Now, more than at any time in our history, we will be judged by our capacity for compassion. When this is over, and it will eventually be over, we want to remember the many acts of kindness done by us and for us. We want to remember how we first thought of the needs of others and acted with decency. In the face of this generation-defining moment we want to stand together while heeding the social-distancing rules. This collective crisis helps us see how our fates are linked. It helps us to reconsider who we are as a community and what we value, and, in the long run, we may rediscover a better version of ourselves.