There's nothing normal about learning from home: How coronavirus school closures could cause 'historic academic regression'
At 8:40 a.m., a mindfulness coach at a private preschool in Miami used Zoom to greet toddlers lounging on carpets, beds and couches at home. Their faces lit up when she sang and said she loved them.
Even though nearly all American children have been home from school for almost a month, their experiences continue to be wildly divergent. Some districts pivoted immediately to online learning in mid-March. Others waited until this week to launch formal virtual learning plans. Some schools require work to be graded; others are telling teachers to give all students A's.
It took teachers a couple of days to learn 80% of what they needed to know to carry on with school in an online capacity, said Saklan's head of school, David O'Connell.At Centner Academy, the private school in Miami, the mindfulness coach who leads the morning Zoom class for preschoolers also hosts family counseling sessions and meditation for staff and parents.
Still, thousands of students will inevitably backslide. Not just in Miami, but everywhere. It's Carvalho's most pressing worry. Some key differences: In Nicolet, the district is made up of only the high school, so leaders only had to worry about older students, most of whom already had district-issued laptops. Whitefish Bay students did not all have laptops, and the district had to figure out how to also serve younger learners. Whitefish Bay also chose not to have teachers gather in mid-March to work out the learning plans in person.
"The quick-rollout schools may have had to do more adjusting than the slow-rollout schools," she said. So far, districts that have found a way to offer a full schedule of"live" classes are rare, Malick and Hurwitz said. Across California, only 59% of public-school parents surveyed in late March thought their district's learning plan was successful, according to a statewide poll. For those concerned their child would be unable to participate, 41% said not having enough computers or internet devices was the top barrier, according to poll results from The Education Trust-West, a group that advocates for educational justice.
And after the first week of remote learning, online participation dropped off to around 50% to 70%, he added. Maybe it's OK to learn a little less right nowDespite the call from DeVos for students to learn new material, some education experts believe it's OK to reduce demands temporarily. Schools could pay less attention now to curriculum and grades and more attention to students' social and emotional needs.
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