Local

Here’s some tips and tricks on how to make virtual learning work for your family

Last Spring, a lot of parents were caught off guard and suddenly teaching their children from home for the first time.

Now, many parents are right back in the same place five months later.

Parents are hoping for a more organized, successful return to virtual learning this month and experts say: planning and organization are the key.

“For so many parents, this was sprung on them and I don’t think they were prepared at all,” Amanda Wares with the North Carolinians for Home Education said. "

If you’re vowing to do a better job the second time around with your kids, watch the video above as Eyewitness News anchor Scott Wickersham breaks down the advice he received from local experts.