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How schools can handle the skyrocketing rates of students’ mental health emergencies that have occurred since the pandemic started.
School districts lack comprehensive plans to address students’ learning loss this fall.
Remote learning makes it harder to fight chronic absenteeism.
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African American girls face racial and gender bias in schools.
Oregon is building a universal preschool program.
Physical education teachers work to keep students moving during the pandemic.
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
Students lost ground during last spring’s school closures.
San Francisco keeps schools closed, even thought its infection rates are down.
Social-emotional learning helps students in Dallas succeed.
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In Salem, Mass., coping with COVID-19 and building greater racial equity is a community effort that relies in part on City Connects.
So far this fall, Salem Public Schools’ classes have all been remote, with some higher-needs children doing their remote learning in school buildings where they’re supervised by adults. But as Salem’s new Superintendent, Stephen Zrike, recently announced, the city plans to switch to a hybrid model later this month.
“I think the fact that all of our pre-K-to-eight schools have City Connects as their system of student support was really a boon for us during COVID,” Ellen Wingard, Salem’s City Connects Program Manager, says.
The priority for Wingard and the City Connects Coordinators she supervises has been meeting basic needs, connecting families to food and to help with housing. Wingard’s school and city colleagues have put together one-page resource sheets for coordinators and families so they can see what services are available.
In addition, as part of a new family intervention strategy, Salem Public Schools staff members, including teachers and paraprofessionals, have been gathering information on students’ needs by reaching out every week to ten families and asking five questions: Continue reading
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
Since March, an estimated 3 million children have gone without education.
More children have the option of attending in-person schools.
Children who miss an in-person year of kindergarten because of the pandemic may lose ground.
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
Civil rights data from the U.S. Department of Education shows increases in sexual assault and in the use of seclusion and restraint to discipline students who have disabilities.
Boston Public Schools suspends in-person learning.
During the pandemic, overeating and inactivity could lead to increased rates of childhood obesity.
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Here are some of the things we’ve been reading about this week:
Suspensions cause some students to lose more than a year of learning.
USDA extends free meals for all students for the entire school year.
One cause of the digital divide among students learning at home is a shortage of laptops.
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Whether their schools are open for in-person learning or open for virtual learning, City Connects Coordinators are working to get the right services to the right child at the right time.
In their hands, the core City Connects model remains the same, but it is being delivered in increasingly creative and flexible ways.
One example is Zuleika Andrade, who started working as a coordinator in January.
“Then,” she says, “Covid happened.”
So Andrade and her school — Mission Grammar School, a Catholic school in Boston’s Roxbury community – pivoted from in-person to online education. Andrade worked with students virtually running lunch-bunch and snack groups, providing individualized support to students, and helping families navigate access to resources.
“I was calling families and checking in to see what parents needed now that school was closed, because school provides so much, not just education, but meals, child care, social-emotional connections.”
Last month, the school reopened for in-person instruction with a new, safety-conscious look: in addition to new classrooms, a new lab, and a new ventilation system, there are signs with reminders of where to stand to be socially distant. Continue reading
