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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. It was all hands on deck. Like, we had no idea.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. At home in front of her Chromebook, she struggled to get motivated for her online courses. “It

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

The Hechinger Report

When schools shifted to remote learning in 2020, Superintendent Stephanie Downey Toledo watched another crisis unfolding. So, in late 2020, when Shawn Rubin of the Highlander Institute, a professional development nonprofit, approached her to about applying for a grant to set up pods in the district, she thought, “We gotta at least try.”.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. Related: Hidden expulsions?

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

Here are some ideas that seem newly relevant given the constraints of 2020 and beyond. “I’m in touch with my students two, three times a week,” by text, phone, Google classroom and Zoom meetings, Concepcion says. ” Copyright 2020 NPR. Support families to help teach children. To see more, visit [link].

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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

The Hechinger Report

These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. She and her colleagues hope to reach every senior by email, phone or social media.

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