Basketball and other sports are one way administrators in Florida's School District of Indian River County hope to entice students to attend summer learning programs.
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's learning center serves around 45 students, who attend on different days depending on grade level. The space, which used to house the tribe's now relocated child care center, was already equipped for kids.
COVID learning loss will further tax teachers, particularly in under-resourced districts, who faced challenges in supporting all learners adequately pre-pandemic.
At the outset of COVID, District Administrator Mark Weddig and his team decided online learning had to resemble live, in-person instruction as closely as possible.
