Alva Review-Courier -

After a rocky transition to distance learning last spring, Georgia teacher Aimee Rodriguez Webb is determined to do better this fall. She bought a dry-erase board and a special camera to display worksheets, and she set up her dining room to broadcast school lessons.

"I'm getting myself geared up for what I feel will prepare me and allow me to teach remotely with more fidelity now that I know what I want it to look like," Rodriguez Webb said.

She and other teachers from suburban Atlanta's Cobb County School District recently started three weeks of training as they prepare to launch the school y...