Educators and administrators should consider all factors impacting students learning from home, working to identify and break down barriers to student and family engagement, especially for students receiving support services.
"Normal" education wasn't working very well for all students before the pandemic. This is an opportunity to create a more equitable, resilient approach to teaching and learning.
Districts are obligated to comply with federal laws related to engaging with families, even with pandemic protocols keeping parents from being in school buildings. Here's how parents of children in Los Angeles schools are being reached.
Dead zones in Lockhart ISD's rural communities made handing out hotspots an ineffectual online learning strategy, so the district and its partner built cell towers.
An analysis of school district response plans to COVID reveals strong, replicable practices from reopening and recovery plans that other systems can model, even where schools have already opened.
"Leading for equity and access" is the first of eight key actions K-12 education leaders can take to make their school systems more culturally responsive.
