“It’s just great to see such a carefully done study,” says Anita Cicero, an expert in pandemic response policy at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Because lower-income students have less access to the ed-tech they need for online learning, they also have less live contact with their teachers, a new study has found.
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.
The COVID experience and the shift to online learning has shown Superintendent Jill Underly that students in her rural school district are pretty resilient.
Students have attended class in-person throughout 2020-21 in Wisconsin's Turtle Lake School District, a one-building, pre-K through 12 system with an enrollment of 170.
Keeping classrooms open during a worsening COVID pandemic and designing a hybrid learning model presented Loren Glasbrenner with a pair of unprecedented challenges.
COVID's impact has so far been more emotional than academic for students in southern Wisconsin's rural Parkview School District, Superintendent Steve Lutzke says.
The transition out of COVID can be as transformative for schools and educators as was the spring 2020 shutdown and shift to online learning, a new report finds.
