Getting students who have missed significant amounts of school to return is the only the first step in what will a long and challenging recovery process, dropout expert says.
"When students drop out, they typically look for an out, an opportunity to leave. And this has provided that, unfortunately," Sandy Addis, chairman of the National Dropout Prevention Center, said recently, referring to the pandemic.
Pre-service teachers at the University of North Georgia now use virtual reality avatars to instructional strategies for K-12 students with disabilities.
Enhancing the use of technology as a family engagement tool is one of the top goals leaders in Bloomington Public Schools District 87 have for fall 2021.
The data offered a year-to-year look at failing course grades in math, English, science and social studies for the second quarter. In each category, roughly two-thirds of school systems saw failure rates double, triple or increase even more for middle and high school students.
Bloomington Public Schools educators recognize COVID's impacts but they also don't want deficit-driven language to derail their students' efforts to bounce back
