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"content": "\u003cp>There's an experiment \u003ca href=\"http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/sonia-livingstone\">Sonia Livingstone\u003c/a> had always dreamed of doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's a social psychologist at the London School of Economics who researches children and media. And her dream experiment was this: \"Let's turn off the outside world and see how it is if you've only got the technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, it kind of happened. Lockdowns started all over the world and families were stuck inside with their digital devices standing in for work, school, family, friends. 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It's based on several years of research with a diverse group of families in the UK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are their takeaways about finding confidence and calm in this world of digital parenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation was edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In the book, you sort parents into three buckets: those that resist technology, those that try to find a balance and those that embrace technology. Can you talk more about that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonia Livingstone: \u003c/strong>We thought about them as three modes of practice, or three ways in which parents engage with the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are those that resist technology. For some parents, this is a response to some kind of trouble. Yet we were surprised to find that resistance is often value-driven — reflecting a desire to prioritize non-digital activities and visions of the future, sometimes as a way of resisting social pressures and commercialization more generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We heard from lots of parents that they're looking for balance. That's kind of the dominant advice that parents are given — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/736214974/at-your-wits-end-with-a-screen-obsessed-kid-read-this\">to balance\u003c/a> indoor and outdoor, online and offline, different kinds of activities. And we could see lots of them doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were especially intrigued by the parents who did what we called 'embrace technology.' They were the parents who resolved the question 'Should you let your kids have lots of screen time? Or should you try to restrict it? 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Parents are not digital immigrants. They know something about technology. They use it. They have their own kind of expertise. Parents can be confident in drawing on what they have learned and following their values in making judgments and explaining those to children. Because very often, if children get the explanation they'll want to argue a bit, but they'll see the point. But if they're just told without a reason, they'll push back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> How does the values-based approach work with parents who are facing something like \"should I give my kid a phone,\" for example? How do you see parents handling that skillfully?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingstone\u003c/strong>: So the key question given to parents is 'What's the right age for my child to have a phone?' And what we would say from the research, is parents take very diverse approaches. There's no one right answer. 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Yet we were surprised to find that resistance is often value-driven — reflecting a desire to prioritize non-digital activities and visions of the future, sometimes as a way of resisting social pressures and commercialization more generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We heard from lots of parents that they're looking for balance. That's kind of the dominant advice that parents are given — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/736214974/at-your-wits-end-with-a-screen-obsessed-kid-read-this\">to balance\u003c/a> indoor and outdoor, online and offline, different kinds of activities. And we could see lots of them doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were especially intrigued by the parents who did what we called 'embrace technology.' They were the parents who resolved the question 'Should you let your kids have lots of screen time? Or should you try to restrict it? Is it the future or is it a problem?'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By embracing technology, they seemed to be saying, 'Look, it's the future, we need to get on with it. We need to find our way.' They were often the most enthusiastic about their approach. And the parents and children could figure out what was exciting about technology together. They often had the most shared practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does it mean to really be a 'happy tech parent' as you call it in your book? What are some examples of the 'happy geek parent'? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alicia Blum Ross\u003c/strong>: One thing I personally learned from the parents who embraced technology was how to live out family values through technology. For example, if a family was artistic, yes, they would do paper mâché and coloring, but they also found \u003ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/monument-valley/id728293409\">Monument Valley\u003c/a> — this beautiful app — and would play it with their kids. And they would watch movies that felt consistent with how the parents wanted to live and what they wanted to talk to their kids about. And obviously the kids had their own preferences too, but the parents were very active in shaping that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And certainly, as the parent of 7-year-old twins living through a pandemic and working a full time job, I would say I find a lot to be inspired by in these parents, because actually I need to rely on technology. From talking with a lot of parents who seemed more confident and calm in their embrace of technology, I learned that I can play an active role in figuring out what it is that I want my kids to spend time with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I love that you're using the word 'calm' because I feel like parents really need to hear that right now. And we're all using technology in the way that you're describing, especially now, to get time for ourselves. But it comes with this burden of guilt and anxiety. And what you're describing is just a much more thoughtful and positive process — thinking about what \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>kind\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> of screen time would feel good.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blum Ross\u003c/strong>: One thing that we learned from the research is that parents have a variety of tools in their toolkit. A lot of the advice for parents has focused on the restrictive forms of mediation — set these rules, keep the timer and watch the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are there other tools in my toolkit that I can use right now? One of those tools is doing some curation — doing some upfront research on what it is you want your kids to be spending time doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another is talking with them about what they're doing and watching. For example, my 7-year-old son really loves the show \u003cem>Ninjago\u003c/em>. It isn't the most beautifully curated show, but I can talk to him about it at the end — I can draw him out and then we can jump off the couch cushions like the \u003cem>Ninjago\u003c/em> characters. I can start that off, and then his twin sister can reluctantly engage, and I can walk away and go cook dinner or do my work. It's about using that media as a jumping off point for other ways of spending time together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingstone\u003c/strong>: It wasn't just that we felt parents were on their own and looking for advice, but also that they were on the receiving end of a barrage of advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research shows that parents are trying to live in a more democratic family in which parents and children have more trust between each other and can turn to each other when something goes wrong rather than feel they're going to be punished or criticized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We saw in the research that parents often use the media as part of that negotiation — to find something they could enjoy together or find something that would be a pretext for them to have a difficult conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So the idea of being a technology purist, which is kind of what the media tells us to do, is conflicting with what many families have as a pretty legitimate value, which is having a household where everyone gets a little bit of a say?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingstone\u003c/strong>: Absolutely. Parents are not digital immigrants. They know something about technology. They use it. They have their own kind of expertise. Parents can be confident in drawing on what they have learned and following their values in making judgments and explaining those to children. Because very often, if children get the explanation they'll want to argue a bit, but they'll see the point. But if they're just told without a reason, they'll push back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> How does the values-based approach work with parents who are facing something like \"should I give my kid a phone,\" for example? How do you see parents handling that skillfully?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingstone\u003c/strong>: So the key question given to parents is 'What's the right age for my child to have a phone?' And what we would say from the research, is parents take very diverse approaches. There's no one right answer. The idea of the democratic family recognizes the values parents are trying to encourage and also the values children might contribute in relation to the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if an important value for everyone is staying safe. Then the question is, is the phone the key way of staying safe or would there be other ways of managing and ensuring a child's safety? If it's about communicating with family who aren't in the same house? Obviously, they need access to a phone, but maybe they don't need their own phone. If it's about playing games and entertaining themselves when they're on their own, maybe for young children the solution is a phone without a sim card. It's not like there is a single right age, but more-so, what are the parents trying to make work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about our children's \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/27/754362629/the-scientific-debate-over-teens-screens-and-mental-health\">\u003cstrong>social and emotional development as mediated through screens?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> With so much of our children's socializing happening online, what are the kind of risks that you see? What are the tradeoffs? And how can parents navigate those?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blum Ross\u003c/strong>: I think what the pandemic has taught us, actually, is that it's not that we don't value those in-person connections. It's actually that everyone's desperate to get back to them and that we are using digital media as a way to supplement and augment the ways that we can be together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital media really doesn't replace those other ways of being together, it just provides a kind of lifeline and a throughline and continuity for families who even pre-pandemic may have lived far from loved ones. We're all missing seeing people outside of our immediate family. But it really highlights to me how much in-person connection will reemerge when this is all over at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We'd love to hear from you. Leave us a voicemail with a greeting, your name, phone number and a random life tip at \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>202.216.9823\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem>. It might appear in an upcoming episode. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/parents-are-panicking-giving-up-their-careers-and-spending-thousands-of-dollars-on-piecemeal-solutions-for-the-school-year/\">\u003cem> child care\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AUSTIN, Texas — When Emma Mancha-Sumners saw her school district’s proposed schedule for remote learning this fall, she knew it wouldn’t work for her or her kids. The sample schedule called for students to switch back and forth between independent work and real-time teaching streamed on their devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I can’t do that. I’m usually 10 minutes late to Zoom meetings on my own. No way I can guarantee I can have both my kids on a different schedule of Zoom meetings on time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Austin Independent School District plans to offer classes in person as well, but like many parents, Mancha-Sumners is afraid to send her three children to a school building with the virus still out of control in her state. Her youngest, who is 5, is immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancha-Sumners looked into forming a “pod” of families that could at least provide some socialization for her children, who haven’t seen their friends since schools closed in March. She co-created a Facebook group for local families seeking to set up pods, and quickly discovered that many parents were looking for learning pods, which would be run by teachers or tutors and allow families to navigate distance learning. Many families estimated they would each pay $700 or more per month for teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancha-Sumners knew that her family couldn’t afford that. She is taking time off work to sort out schooling for her 5-year-old and her 10-year-old, who can’t work as independently as her high schooler. With a doctorate in applied demography, she feels that she should be able home-school. This summer, she is trying it out to see if she is up to the task for an entire year or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56331\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/mader-covid-parents-3-e1595398231691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1476\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Mancha-Sumners is hoping to find a socialization and enrichment pod with a few other families to give her children opportunities to see friends while staying home from school this year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emma Mancha-Sumners)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, fearful that the reopening of schools could lead to more coronavirus outbreaks and presented with less than ideal distance-learning plans, parents are being forced to make difficult choices. Some are leaving their jobs and closing down their businesses. Others are spending thousands of dollars to make sure their children are safe and learning each day. And many more have no idea how they’ll cope with an impossible decision: work or care for their children. The situation is especially dire for single parents, low-income families and those without flexible jobs, who rely on in-person school so they can go to work each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is pushing states to reopen their economies and schools, but without more funding for safety measures, many school leaders say reopening is impossible. As a result, more districts are releasing plans to continue instruction online through the fall. School districts that are reopening are often only doing so partially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, parents say they’ve yet to see any real solutions to the child care crisis that touches millions of American households. They feel that local, state and national leaders are ignoring their plight. While affluent families may be able to afford solutions like starting their own mini-classrooms and hiring teachers, most middle- and low-income families have few to no options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the lack of federal, state and district-led solutions for parents means families are on their own, and that will only exacerbate education gaps that already exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. “But now, when kids are at home, privileged parents are going to be able to hire tutors and teachers. They tend to have more flexible schedules, and they will be able to provide a better education for their children than less-privileged parents. Kids who are poor, and Black or Latino kids are disproportionately poor, are more at risk of not learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the largest school districts in the country, including the Los Angeles Unified School District and the San Diego Unified School District, will start the year only offering distance learning. Children in New York City public schools will only attend classes in person one to three days each week, meaning most families in New York will have to figure out where their children can go, and how they will continue learning, when they’re not in a classroom. All three districts serve high concentrations of children in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Austin, \u003ca href=\"https://schools.texastribune.org/districts/austin-isd/\">53 percent\u003c/a> of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged. The Austin Facebook group that Mancha-Sumners co-created is full of parents for whom the cost of a learning pod is out of reach. Some are single parents who have been out of work for months and have to choose between staying at home with their children or looking for jobs. Some don’t want to home-school, but feel their children are too young for remote learning, so are considering spending tens of thousands of dollars on private schools that are planning to open this fall. And some are essential workers who are faced with spending hundreds of dollars for child care so they can go to work at grocery stores and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each day, distressed parents write posts saying they just don’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The presumption is that we can just shut everything down that we’ve been doing and focus on our kiddos,” said Diana Haggerty, a mom of four in Austin, Texas, who recently launched a local initiative called \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/strongertogetheratx/?fbclid=IwAR2vNKofSO83eWN0i0Evo46q1aI-CKmP2l9_USNrE8_kXvYf9lnuPWkKBdQ\">Stronger Together ATX\u003c/a>. The group aims to connect low-income families with local learning pods and help families understand and navigate the legal considerations of forming their own pods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be thinking about the people who are going to have to leave their 5-year-old at home to go to work. And that’s a scary proposition. People who have school-aged kids, they are not budgeting for child care,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/mader-covid-parents-1-scaled-e1595398167308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1501\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Haggerty shut down her business after 14 years to oversee distance learning for two of her four children this fall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diana Haggerty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, glaring inequalities between families have only become more evident. This spring, as schools shuttered across the country, the switch to distance learning highlighted persistent gaps in access to technology and the internet, and experts say it likely \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2020/4/9/21200159/coronavirus-school-digital-low-income-students-covid-new-york\">widened academic achievement gaps\u003c/a>. Before the pandemic, low-income students \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading/nation/achievement/?grade=4\">scored lower on national exams\u003c/a> and failed to graduate at rates comparable to their higher-income peers. Similar achievement gaps existed between racial groups: In 2019, 82 percent of Black students and 77 percent of Latino students failed to reach a “proficient” score on fourth grade reading-level exams, compared to 56 percent of white students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/30/865413079/what-do-coronavirus-racial-disparities-look-like-state-by-state\">disproportionately impacted Black and Latino communities\u003c/a>. And distance learning only adds to the stress and challenges many families are facing. In \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/homework-in-a-mcdonalds-parking-lot-inside-one-mothers-fight-to-help-her-kids-get-an-education-during-coronavirus/\">low-income and rural areas\u003c/a>, children struggled to find devices and internet access to log on to virtual classrooms or Zoom meetings. In families with parents who can’t work at home, children had to go it alone. Children with disabilities \u003ca href=\"https://www.minnpost.com/education/2020/06/for-some-students-with-learning-disabilities-distance-learning-has-been-a-disappointment/\">missed out on critical, in-person support.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few districts have acknowledged the situation many parents are in; and those that have, can’t help everyone who needs it. In mid-July, New York City officials said they would provide child care for 100,000 children during the upcoming year. But that’s only a fraction of the more than 1.1 million students enrolled in the city’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if parents are left to piece together solutions, the disparities will only grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents and entrepreneurs are responding to the crisis by creating a patchwork of mini-classrooms and micro-schools. But such solutions are largely only available to those who can pay. In the Austin Facebook group, one parent posted that she was starting a “Montessori-style micro school,” for 12 kids, complete with “organic/paleo” lunch options and a meditation teacher. Parents could pay tuition at a rate comparable to local Montessori schools. Similarly out of reach for many families are some companies that typically provide after school activities, like karate studios, have pivoted to provide a school setting during the day. And several small businesses have cropped up to do the work of connecting parents and pods to teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Austin mom Alyssa Villalon, who along with her husband runs a kids’ sports organization in Austin, launched a business called \u003ca href=\"https://www.teachers2u.org/\">Teachers 2 U\u003c/a> this summer specifically aimed at providing a school experience for kids in the fall. Parents can pay a monthly tuition for a spot in a pod with a qualified teacher provided by the company, who will teach the district’s curriculum at a family’s home. All locations will be added to the company’s liability policy. Because Villalon is wary of doing anything to harm the district, the organization’s teachers will use the district’s curriculum and help children complete their school-provided distance learning work — that way, the children will still be counted for the sake of school funding. “What we don’t want to do is take money away from the district,” Villalon said. “It’s an underfunded system already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Austin, many higher-income parents say learning pods are the only viable option to give kids both a better academic experience than they had in the spring and safer opportunities to socialize, while also allowing parents to go to work. Rachel Dorman, mom of two, enrolled her son, a rising kindergartner, into a pod of 10 children after deciding she couldn’t risk sending him to school. Doing so would mean socially distancing from her in-laws, who provide child care help several times a week for her 1-year-old while she and her husband work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was sort of choosing family over public school,” Dorman said. “Which was obviously very difficult, but at the same time easy when there’s another option for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son’s pod, which was formed from families who all attended the same Montessori school last year, decided to forgo the district’s digital learning offering and instead follow a Montessori curriculum with a Montessori teacher. Dorman said she feels lucky to have that option, as she knows not all families do. But it’s hard to swallow the fact that they will be spending thousands of dollars this year for what they thought would be a free year of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although many parents will continue to face tough choices, women of all incomes will bear the brunt of the crisis. Research shows that women have taken on more of the \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3234/covid-19-pandemic-has-hit-women-hard-especially-working-mothers/\">child care responsibility during the pandemic\u003c/a>, even if they have full-time jobs of their own. One report found that, pre-pandemic, among couples that both worked full time, women typically provided nearly \u003ca href=\"https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~mdo738/research/Alon_Doepke_Olmstead-Rumsey_Tertilt_COVID_2020.pdf\">70 percent of the child care during working hours\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When schools shut down due to the threat of coronavirus in March, Austin teacher Emily Shirey moved her fifth-grade classroom online while also taking over most of the child care work for her then-20-month-old daughter, whose child care center had closed. Although Shirey’s husband started to work from home, his workload increased dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s here, but he’s not here,” Shirey said. She worked relentlessly to balance work and mothering, spending her daughter’s nap times teaching and catching up on work in the evenings. “Last spring was very, very difficult,” Shirey said. “It stretched me thin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the new school year approached, Shirey, who has been teaching for eight years, sat down to fill out a survey from her district about in-person teaching. Shirey responded that she would be willing to return to the classroom, but she needed child care help. The child care facility where she took her daughter every day is affiliated with the school district and is still closed. District officials responded that she could take sick leave, personal days and several weeks of partially paid leave under the new federal Family First Coronavirus Response Act. If she needed to extend her leave, she could, but there would be no guarantee that she would be paid or would get her job back when she returned. Shirey asked her principal if she could work a flexible schedule, and offered to pre-record her lessons, teach small groups or do anything else needed by the school, but was told that her principal doesn’t have the authority to allow that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to have to leave [my job], even if it’s temporary” Shirey said. But with her active toddler, she doesn’t see how she’ll be able to keep working. “It’s absolutely impossible to do what students need with my daughter [home] right now,” Shirey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Austin mom Haggerty, who created the “Stronger Together ATX” initiative this summer, took to Mancha-Sumner’s Facebook pod group in July and implored fellow members to leave one space open in each pod for a child who would otherwise not be able to afford one. Formerly a single mom, she says the equity issue has weighed heavily on her since schools shut down. “I think this is an important precedent to set,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full-time women's wellness coach with four kids, ranging in age from 20-months to 16, Haggerty can’t afford to pay to join a pod, even though both she and her husband work. “Absolutely under no circumstances could we pay right now for anybody to take care of our kids.” And Haggerty said she knows they’re not alone. “That swath of the population has grown exponentially since this crisis started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 14 years of owning her own business, Haggerty shut it down to oversee her children while they’re home this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I either needed to do my work in my spare time or I needed to parent in my spare time,” she said. She still considers herself lucky. “We can barely survive on my husband’s income,” Haggerty said. “But we can do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haggerty intends to join forces with several other families and share the load of overseeing the distance-learning experience, for free. “It is neighbors helping neighbors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of federal, state and school-based help for parents, Haggerty says, it’s going to fall on families — and mostly mothers — to come up with solutions, conventional or not, to get through the next school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now,” she said, “we are an unregulated band of rogue mamas trying to figure all this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting contributed by Meredith Kolodner.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>This story about\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/parents-are-panicking-giving-up-their-careers-and-spending-thousands-of-dollars-on-piecemeal-solutions-for-the-school-year/\">\u003cem> child care\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/parents-are-panicking-giving-up-their-careers-and-spending-thousands-of-dollars-on-piecemeal-solutions-for-the-school-year/\">\u003cem> child care\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AUSTIN, Texas — When Emma Mancha-Sumners saw her school district’s proposed schedule for remote learning this fall, she knew it wouldn’t work for her or her kids. The sample schedule called for students to switch back and forth between independent work and real-time teaching streamed on their devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I can’t do that. I’m usually 10 minutes late to Zoom meetings on my own. No way I can guarantee I can have both my kids on a different schedule of Zoom meetings on time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Austin Independent School District plans to offer classes in person as well, but like many parents, Mancha-Sumners is afraid to send her three children to a school building with the virus still out of control in her state. Her youngest, who is 5, is immunocompromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancha-Sumners looked into forming a “pod” of families that could at least provide some socialization for her children, who haven’t seen their friends since schools closed in March. She co-created a Facebook group for local families seeking to set up pods, and quickly discovered that many parents were looking for learning pods, which would be run by teachers or tutors and allow families to navigate distance learning. Many families estimated they would each pay $700 or more per month for teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mancha-Sumners knew that her family couldn’t afford that. She is taking time off work to sort out schooling for her 5-year-old and her 10-year-old, who can’t work as independently as her high schooler. With a doctorate in applied demography, she feels that she should be able home-school. This summer, she is trying it out to see if she is up to the task for an entire year or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56331\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/mader-covid-parents-3-e1595398231691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1476\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Mancha-Sumners is hoping to find a socialization and enrichment pod with a few other families to give her children opportunities to see friends while staying home from school this year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Emma Mancha-Sumners)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, fearful that the reopening of schools could lead to more coronavirus outbreaks and presented with less than ideal distance-learning plans, parents are being forced to make difficult choices. Some are leaving their jobs and closing down their businesses. Others are spending thousands of dollars to make sure their children are safe and learning each day. And many more have no idea how they’ll cope with an impossible decision: work or care for their children. The situation is especially dire for single parents, low-income families and those without flexible jobs, who rely on in-person school so they can go to work each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is pushing states to reopen their economies and schools, but without more funding for safety measures, many school leaders say reopening is impossible. As a result, more districts are releasing plans to continue instruction online through the fall. School districts that are reopening are often only doing so partially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, parents say they’ve yet to see any real solutions to the child care crisis that touches millions of American households. They feel that local, state and national leaders are ignoring their plight. While affluent families may be able to afford solutions like starting their own mini-classrooms and hiring teachers, most middle- and low-income families have few to no options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the lack of federal, state and district-led solutions for parents means families are on their own, and that will only exacerbate education gaps that already exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. “But now, when kids are at home, privileged parents are going to be able to hire tutors and teachers. They tend to have more flexible schedules, and they will be able to provide a better education for their children than less-privileged parents. Kids who are poor, and Black or Latino kids are disproportionately poor, are more at risk of not learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the largest school districts in the country, including the Los Angeles Unified School District and the San Diego Unified School District, will start the year only offering distance learning. Children in New York City public schools will only attend classes in person one to three days each week, meaning most families in New York will have to figure out where their children can go, and how they will continue learning, when they’re not in a classroom. All three districts serve high concentrations of children in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Austin, \u003ca href=\"https://schools.texastribune.org/districts/austin-isd/\">53 percent\u003c/a> of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged. The Austin Facebook group that Mancha-Sumners co-created is full of parents for whom the cost of a learning pod is out of reach. Some are single parents who have been out of work for months and have to choose between staying at home with their children or looking for jobs. Some don’t want to home-school, but feel their children are too young for remote learning, so are considering spending tens of thousands of dollars on private schools that are planning to open this fall. And some are essential workers who are faced with spending hundreds of dollars for child care so they can go to work at grocery stores and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each day, distressed parents write posts saying they just don’t know what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The presumption is that we can just shut everything down that we’ve been doing and focus on our kiddos,” said Diana Haggerty, a mom of four in Austin, Texas, who recently launched a local initiative called \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/view/strongertogetheratx/?fbclid=IwAR2vNKofSO83eWN0i0Evo46q1aI-CKmP2l9_USNrE8_kXvYf9lnuPWkKBdQ\">Stronger Together ATX\u003c/a>. The group aims to connect low-income families with local learning pods and help families understand and navigate the legal considerations of forming their own pods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be thinking about the people who are going to have to leave their 5-year-old at home to go to work. And that’s a scary proposition. People who have school-aged kids, they are not budgeting for child care,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56332\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56332\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/mader-covid-parents-1-scaled-e1595398167308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1501\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Haggerty shut down her business after 14 years to oversee distance learning for two of her four children this fall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Diana Haggerty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, glaring inequalities between families have only become more evident. This spring, as schools shuttered across the country, the switch to distance learning highlighted persistent gaps in access to technology and the internet, and experts say it likely \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2020/4/9/21200159/coronavirus-school-digital-low-income-students-covid-new-york\">widened academic achievement gaps\u003c/a>. Before the pandemic, low-income students \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading/nation/achievement/?grade=4\">scored lower on national exams\u003c/a> and failed to graduate at rates comparable to their higher-income peers. Similar achievement gaps existed between racial groups: In 2019, 82 percent of Black students and 77 percent of Latino students failed to reach a “proficient” score on fourth grade reading-level exams, compared to 56 percent of white students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/30/865413079/what-do-coronavirus-racial-disparities-look-like-state-by-state\">disproportionately impacted Black and Latino communities\u003c/a>. And distance learning only adds to the stress and challenges many families are facing. In \u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/homework-in-a-mcdonalds-parking-lot-inside-one-mothers-fight-to-help-her-kids-get-an-education-during-coronavirus/\">low-income and rural areas\u003c/a>, children struggled to find devices and internet access to log on to virtual classrooms or Zoom meetings. In families with parents who can’t work at home, children had to go it alone. Children with disabilities \u003ca href=\"https://www.minnpost.com/education/2020/06/for-some-students-with-learning-disabilities-distance-learning-has-been-a-disappointment/\">missed out on critical, in-person support.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few districts have acknowledged the situation many parents are in; and those that have, can’t help everyone who needs it. In mid-July, New York City officials said they would provide child care for 100,000 children during the upcoming year. But that’s only a fraction of the more than 1.1 million students enrolled in the city’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if parents are left to piece together solutions, the disparities will only grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some parents and entrepreneurs are responding to the crisis by creating a patchwork of mini-classrooms and micro-schools. But such solutions are largely only available to those who can pay. In the Austin Facebook group, one parent posted that she was starting a “Montessori-style micro school,” for 12 kids, complete with “organic/paleo” lunch options and a meditation teacher. Parents could pay tuition at a rate comparable to local Montessori schools. Similarly out of reach for many families are some companies that typically provide after school activities, like karate studios, have pivoted to provide a school setting during the day. And several small businesses have cropped up to do the work of connecting parents and pods to teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Austin mom Alyssa Villalon, who along with her husband runs a kids’ sports organization in Austin, launched a business called \u003ca href=\"https://www.teachers2u.org/\">Teachers 2 U\u003c/a> this summer specifically aimed at providing a school experience for kids in the fall. Parents can pay a monthly tuition for a spot in a pod with a qualified teacher provided by the company, who will teach the district’s curriculum at a family’s home. All locations will be added to the company’s liability policy. Because Villalon is wary of doing anything to harm the district, the organization’s teachers will use the district’s curriculum and help children complete their school-provided distance learning work — that way, the children will still be counted for the sake of school funding. “What we don’t want to do is take money away from the district,” Villalon said. “It’s an underfunded system already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Austin, many higher-income parents say learning pods are the only viable option to give kids both a better academic experience than they had in the spring and safer opportunities to socialize, while also allowing parents to go to work. Rachel Dorman, mom of two, enrolled her son, a rising kindergartner, into a pod of 10 children after deciding she couldn’t risk sending him to school. Doing so would mean socially distancing from her in-laws, who provide child care help several times a week for her 1-year-old while she and her husband work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was sort of choosing family over public school,” Dorman said. “Which was obviously very difficult, but at the same time easy when there’s another option for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son’s pod, which was formed from families who all attended the same Montessori school last year, decided to forgo the district’s digital learning offering and instead follow a Montessori curriculum with a Montessori teacher. Dorman said she feels lucky to have that option, as she knows not all families do. But it’s hard to swallow the fact that they will be spending thousands of dollars this year for what they thought would be a free year of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although many parents will continue to face tough choices, women of all incomes will bear the brunt of the crisis. Research shows that women have taken on more of the \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3234/covid-19-pandemic-has-hit-women-hard-especially-working-mothers/\">child care responsibility during the pandemic\u003c/a>, even if they have full-time jobs of their own. One report found that, pre-pandemic, among couples that both worked full time, women typically provided nearly \u003ca href=\"https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~mdo738/research/Alon_Doepke_Olmstead-Rumsey_Tertilt_COVID_2020.pdf\">70 percent of the child care during working hours\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When schools shut down due to the threat of coronavirus in March, Austin teacher Emily Shirey moved her fifth-grade classroom online while also taking over most of the child care work for her then-20-month-old daughter, whose child care center had closed. Although Shirey’s husband started to work from home, his workload increased dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s here, but he’s not here,” Shirey said. She worked relentlessly to balance work and mothering, spending her daughter’s nap times teaching and catching up on work in the evenings. “Last spring was very, very difficult,” Shirey said. “It stretched me thin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the new school year approached, Shirey, who has been teaching for eight years, sat down to fill out a survey from her district about in-person teaching. Shirey responded that she would be willing to return to the classroom, but she needed child care help. The child care facility where she took her daughter every day is affiliated with the school district and is still closed. District officials responded that she could take sick leave, personal days and several weeks of partially paid leave under the new federal Family First Coronavirus Response Act. If she needed to extend her leave, she could, but there would be no guarantee that she would be paid or would get her job back when she returned. Shirey asked her principal if she could work a flexible schedule, and offered to pre-record her lessons, teach small groups or do anything else needed by the school, but was told that her principal doesn’t have the authority to allow that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to have to leave [my job], even if it’s temporary” Shirey said. But with her active toddler, she doesn’t see how she’ll be able to keep working. “It’s absolutely impossible to do what students need with my daughter [home] right now,” Shirey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Austin mom Haggerty, who created the “Stronger Together ATX” initiative this summer, took to Mancha-Sumner’s Facebook pod group in July and implored fellow members to leave one space open in each pod for a child who would otherwise not be able to afford one. Formerly a single mom, she says the equity issue has weighed heavily on her since schools shut down. “I think this is an important precedent to set,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full-time women's wellness coach with four kids, ranging in age from 20-months to 16, Haggerty can’t afford to pay to join a pod, even though both she and her husband work. “Absolutely under no circumstances could we pay right now for anybody to take care of our kids.” And Haggerty said she knows they’re not alone. “That swath of the population has grown exponentially since this crisis started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 14 years of owning her own business, Haggerty shut it down to oversee her children while they’re home this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I either needed to do my work in my spare time or I needed to parent in my spare time,” she said. She still considers herself lucky. “We can barely survive on my husband’s income,” Haggerty said. “But we can do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haggerty intends to join forces with several other families and share the load of overseeing the distance-learning experience, for free. “It is neighbors helping neighbors,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of federal, state and school-based help for parents, Haggerty says, it’s going to fall on families — and mostly mothers — to come up with solutions, conventional or not, to get through the next school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now,” she said, “we are an unregulated band of rogue mamas trying to figure all this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting contributed by Meredith Kolodner.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new school year is around the corner, but many families and educators remain in the dark about what back-to-school will look like. Leaders have no playbook to contend with a developing pandemic that is as unprecedented as it is \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56259/as-school-year-approaches-parents-and-educators-struggle-with-uncertainty\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">unpredictable\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Matters are further complicated by federal pressure to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56233/top-pediatrician-says-states-shouldnt-force-schools-to-reopen-if-virus-is-surging\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resume face-to-face classes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and officials at all levels sending \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5866524/world-health-organization-mixed-messages-coronavirus/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">conflicting messages\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Satisfactory solutions remain elusive on these shifting grounds, but a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edarxiv.org/gqa2w\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">new report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> authored by Harvard and MIT researchers may offer a way forward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Titled \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://edarxiv.org/gqa2w\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Imagining September: Principles and Design Elements for Ambitious Schools During COVID-19\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the report outlines a participatory design framework to help communities equitably negotiate the challenges of schooling in the foreseeable future. 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Adults know all kinds of things about how schools operate, but there's only one generation of American kids who have gone to school during a pandemic.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The approach is grounded in a handful of core concepts, including the premise that complexity and uncertainty are best tackled with modular and adaptable systems. To achieve this, schools can make room for trial and error experimentation and foster a culture of design and innovation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You don’t know exactly what is going to work,” according to the report. “Nor is it clear that what works in one context will work in another. 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They formulated a hybrid charrette framework to digest the views of diverse stakeholders through a format that is both accessible and easily implemented.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, they hosted three charrettes in the spring where participants with a variety of roles and backgrounds were invited to collaboratively generate ideas for the new school year. In one preliminary task, they were asked to write short diary entries from the point of view of a student or a teacher one month into the next school year. These first person accounts leveraged storytelling as a means to explore and concretize possibility spaces. Some proposals that emerged included \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56278/how-teacher-looping-can-ease-the-learning-disruptions-caused-by-coronavirus\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">teacher looping\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/17/878205853/5-radical-schooling-ideas-for-an-uncertain-fall-and-beyond\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">microschooling\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, trading student contact time for teacher collaboration time, and increasing attention to vulnerable students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A fourth charrette was modified to accomodate a group of fifteen Grade 8 students from Neema Avashia’s civics class at the John W. McCormack School in Boston.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AvashiaNeema/status/1262808324237598720\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The voices of young people have not really been acknowledged in the policy conversation, and so we decided to run the design charrette with kids, and it was awesome,” said Avashia. “They were able to speak from their experience and not get bogged down by questions of budget or politics or logistics, but just express what's worked for then, what's been hard for them, and what could be done differently in September.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The session was documented by a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54655/why-teachers-are-so-excited-about-the-power-of-sketchnoting\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sketchnote artist\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, while Avashia’s students reflected on their needs and what schools might do without in September. However the new year looks, schools will operate with significant constraints, so it is vital to reduce clutter and identify what is essential, a process the researchers playfully refer to as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/marie-kondo-curriculum\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”Marie Kondo-ing” priorities and curriculum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reich emphasizes that curricular efficiency does not mean concentrating on core standards but, as expressed by student voice, nourishing values like relationships and engagement through opportunities for art, recreation and social connections. For example, some students proposed eSports recreation leagues with blended teacher and student teams; others imagined hosting classes on Minecraft and Fortnite; some students proposed designating home as the place for curriculum, and school as the place for relationships.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are all these great ideas to consider, but if people can only do one thing, it would be to run their own charrette,” said Mehta.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Values Eat Logistics For Breakfast\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A pillar of the charrette protocol is to prioritize values over logistics. Early on, participants are asked to identify core values such as relationships, flexibility and an emphasis on social justice. Values are the broth of school culture and should define how schools are structured, rather than the reverse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There is a lot of discussion about how to space the students, which days students will go to school, how to transport students to school, and so forth,” states the report. “These are important discussions and we do not want to minimize the importance of keeping students safe. But if they are not grounded in values or principles about what we want for students and what produces good educational experiences, then they are not likely to work or achieve their best results.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Building around core values puts the student at the centre of the experience, which can be particularly beneficial for kids who are underserved or struggling.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If you aren't leading with your values, you're leading with politics and you're leading with things that don't acknowledge what kids just went through,” said Avashia. “A lot of my kids have already experienced different kinds of trauma and now we have this collective trauma. We need them to have a strong relationship with an adult who can really help them re-engage with learning and with school. If we started with values, that's where it would lead us, but because we're starting with logistics we're going to end up creating learning environments where kids can't learn because they don’t feel safe.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>From Ownership to Equity\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The charrette design protocols generate ideas from those who stand to be most impacted by decisions in regard to pandemic schooling, but their inclusive design also engenders a sense of ownership and buy-in from students and stakeholders. Otherwise, as the report warns, “people will resent what they perceive as constraints imposed from above, whereas they tend to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/life.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">own what they create\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's more likely that if young people feel like they have voice and ownership and are part of the process of reopening and recreating schools, that they will be more likely to be excited to participate in them,” said Reich.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, the sense of ownership produced through participatory design can help engage underserved students. The report underscores that involving diverse learners in design and decision-making is fundamental for establishing genuine equity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We tend not to think about disadvantaged students as if they had agency and thoughts of their own,” said Mehta. “So the more that you design with such students, the more likely the solutions that you're going to devise are going to be the kinds of solutions that are going to work for them.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the major themes that percolated from the spring sessions is the need for a liberatory approach to equity, which not only encourages academic success for students of color and underserved youth but, as the report recommends, it also involves a need to unpack “existing systems, structures, processes, pedagogies, and culture to see how they can be made more equitable.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We should be thinking how to create strong mechanisms to engage all kids in learning and really prioritize our most vulnerable kids and our most disengaged kids as the people who we need to listen to the most if we really want learning to work for everybody,” said Avashia. “Then my job – our job – is to figure out how to take those needs that kids are identifying and make them real.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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For example, some students proposed eSports recreation leagues with blended teacher and student teams; others imagined hosting classes on Minecraft and Fortnite; some students proposed designating home as the place for curriculum, and school as the place for relationships.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are all these great ideas to consider, but if people can only do one thing, it would be to run their own charrette,” said Mehta.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Values Eat Logistics For Breakfast\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A pillar of the charrette protocol is to prioritize values over logistics. Early on, participants are asked to identify core values such as relationships, flexibility and an emphasis on social justice. Values are the broth of school culture and should define how schools are structured, rather than the reverse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There is a lot of discussion about how to space the students, which days students will go to school, how to transport students to school, and so forth,” states the report. “These are important discussions and we do not want to minimize the importance of keeping students safe. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://kinderbender.com/about/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aeriale Johnson\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> felt a thrill as she pressed “send” on the Remind message. For about a week in late June, the second-grade teacher had been waiting for her principal’s green light to make an exciting announcement to her students and their families. “I had that feeling you get when you pop up from behind furniture as the loved one you’ve been planning a surprise party for finally enters the room,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The big reveal? This fall, Johnson will be \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/arcticisleteach/status/1275597008460341254\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moving up to third grade\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with her students, about half of whom she also taught in kindergarten. “The way last school year ended was harrowing for us all,” she said. “We were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/resilience\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resilient\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, tapped into our radical imagination, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56102/how-elementary-teachers-are-marking-the-end-of-school-amid-grief-for-lost-time-with-students\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found a way to thrive\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but it was most certainly not the way I wanted to culminate two school years together. ... I was happy to let them know we would have another chance to say hello and goodbye.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 733px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-56280 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/Aeriale-Johnson-Remind-message-e1594621647198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/Aeriale-Johnson-Remind-message-e1594621647198.jpg 733w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/Aeriale-Johnson-Remind-message-e1594621647198-160x185.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After notifying her students that she would be their teacher again next year, Aeriale Johnson received many excited replies, including this one from Jonathan Anaya Valencia. 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A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775717306635\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2018 analysis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of North Carolina elementary school data found that students who were taught by the same teacher for a second year saw greater achievement gains than other students. The effects were strongest for students taught by less effective teachers and for students of color. Johnson, who currently teaches in San Jose, California, first experienced “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=14482\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">looping\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” when she taught at a small school in rural Alaska, where classes included students from two grades. She said having students for a second year enables teachers to understand children better and improve their practice as educators. After the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/coronavirus\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">upheaval caused by coronavirus\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this spring, and as school reopening plans remain \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56259/as-school-year-approaches-parents-and-educators-struggle-with-uncertainty\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">uncertain\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/07/08/covid-trump-reopen-schools-florida-teachers/5392450002/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">contested\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the prospect of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CAWXoiig2cP/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">returning\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to familiar faces may be more appealing than ever.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/arcticisleteach/status/1275597008460341254\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Creating Coherence\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometime in the late aughts, principal \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smuhsd.org/Page/1445\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeff Gilbert\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> attended a meeting at Stanford Graduate School of Education with his administrative team from Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California. 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Linda Darling-Hammond, a prominent \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/ldh\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">education policy researcher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who now serves as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">president\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the California State Board of Education, made a remark that stuck with Gilbert: “She said the flaw in American high schools is their lack of coherence.” In most public high schools, students must adjust to a new learning environment every 45 to 90 minutes, understand the expectations and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52679/why-its-crucial-and-really-hard-to-talk-about-more-equitable-grading\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">grading systems\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of about eight different teachers and navigate dozens of social settings throughout each day and year. “So how do you simplify? How do you make it \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/46456/why-a-schools-master-schedule-is-a-powerful-enabler-of-change\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more elegant\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">? How do you decrease the number of connects and systems that students are trying to decode?” Gilbert asked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56281\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-1020x680.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillsdale students are looped, which means they have the same teachers for their four core subjects for two years. From May 2018: Teachers Danielle Robledo and Mike McCall have their weekly house meeting to discuss what's going on in the lives of their students in order to identify areas of need. \u003ccite>(KQED/Samantha Shanahan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Hillsdale, looping became one of the answers. In their first two years, students have the same teachers for four subject areas — English, science, social studies and math. As juniors, they switch to new teachers, who, in most cases, stay with them until graduation. (Gilbert noted that there’s more variability in upper grades because of advanced placement classes.) This two-year looping process is part of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smuhsd.org/Page/2433\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">small learning communities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> model that the school implemented 20 years ago. It creates coherence that enables teachers and students to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/39427/steps-to-creating-the-conditions-for-deep-rigorous-applied-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dive deeper\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into both academic and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/social-emotional-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">social-emotional learning\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “It just really strikes you ... at the beginning of the second year where you see classes working just immediately,” Gilbert said. “This teacher knows every student. They know every family. Students are in groups. Students know each other. … It's really powerful.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s a particular advantage during the COVID-19 outbreak. Gilbert said he felt good about existing \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53091/why-schools-should-be-organized-to-prioritize-relationships\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bonds\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> among students and with teachers for incoming sophomores and seniors: “Even if it’s distance learning they’ll be able to get into a space where they are very comfortable with each other and they can talk.” Johnson, too, felt positive her class could start strong despite the pandemic. She already knows, for instance, several students in class have mastered parts of the third-grade \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/math\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math curriculum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, so she won’t have to spend weeks assessing those skills.* She also knows various instructional and behavioral strategies that have succeeded and failed with each student so she won't have to build from scratch. “We can get started on the very first day of school.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Building Community and Listening Deeply\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The benefits of looping may derive in part from increased \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00842265/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">familiarity with peers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as well as with teachers. According to Gilbert, educators must play \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55144/relationships-are-important-how-do-we-build-them-effectively-with-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a proactive role\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in all of those relationships. Anybody can be a “purveyor of content,” he said. “You have to buy into the fact that you are also a liaison to the family, that you are an emotional support for the student, that you’re creating a community that lasts over time, and then you start to see those benefits of the students seeing themselves as a community that they can rely on.” At Hillsdale, community-building happens in class and in weekly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/43362/how-schools-build-a-positive-culture-through-advisory\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">advisory\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> periods, during which students might explore career paths, share food and stories or play a game outside. This fall, with Hillsdale likely opening to smaller groups of students, Gilbert said the school will prioritize getting freshmen and juniors on campus since the sophomores and seniors already have a foundation of trust within their cohorts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While some educators see community-building activities as an “extra,” Gilbert said that the bonds that form within cohorts have “a significant impact on their ability to learn and their sense of emotional safety.” For example, his staff does not see the same conflicts with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/40082/how-to-create-the-learning-community-project-based-learning-demands\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">group projects\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that are typical in most high schools. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/mindshift/tag/trust\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">trust\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that forms among looping classes can also create space to tackle tough topics. In the wake of this summer’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">protests against racial injustice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Gilbert said he’s confident that his staff will be able to facilitate \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56187/6-things-anti-racist-educators-want-grown-ups-to-know-about-teaching-and-raising-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">meaningful conversations on race\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Johnson, too, said she’s excited to build on the foundations of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54999/how-ibram-x-kendis-definition-of-antiracism-applies-to-schools\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">anti-racism\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that she already laid with her third-graders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, looping is not a magic wand. Reaping its rewards requires \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/46021/how-listening-and-sharing-help-shape-collaborative-learning-experiences\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">listening\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> deeply to kids and their caregivers — “not to hear what I want them to say, but what they are actually communicating,” said Johnson. When teachers do that, the learning is not unidirectional. One of the things Johnson has learned from her students, for instance, is “to confront my previously unconscious gender bias to be a more effective \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54878/how-strengthening-relationships-with-boys-can-help-them-learn\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">teacher of boys\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, specifically Black, Indigenous, boys of color.” Johnson also said teachers must be conscious not to relax into \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/growth-mindset\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">static views\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of themselves or their students. In the entryway to her classroom, more than a hundred photos cover the wall. When the building is actually open, her students marvel at the snapshots of their former selves, proclaiming “We were so little!” or pointing out big events, such as the first time they touched the inside of a pumpkin. If it sounds like being inside someone’s living room, that’s intentional. While many educators are wondering \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56195/how-students-benefit-from-a-school-reopening-plan-designed-for-those-at-the-margins\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">what school will look like\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a few months, Johnson’s vision is clear: “continuing to grow together as a family.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly identified how many students mastered the math curriculum. We regret this error. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of a MindShift series that explores solutions for returning to school during the COVID19 pandemic, supported in part by the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schusterman.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Charles\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s3\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s4\">\u003ci>and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. MindShift retains sole editorial control over all content. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://kinderbender.com/about/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aeriale Johnson\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> felt a thrill as she pressed “send” on the Remind message. For about a week in late June, the second-grade teacher had been waiting for her principal’s green light to make an exciting announcement to her students and their families. “I had that feeling you get when you pop up from behind furniture as the loved one you’ve been planning a surprise party for finally enters the room,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The big reveal? This fall, Johnson will be \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/arcticisleteach/status/1275597008460341254\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moving up to third grade\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with her students, about half of whom she also taught in kindergarten. “The way last school year ended was harrowing for us all,” she said. “We were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/resilience\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resilient\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, tapped into our radical imagination, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56102/how-elementary-teachers-are-marking-the-end-of-school-amid-grief-for-lost-time-with-students\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">found a way to thrive\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but it was most certainly not the way I wanted to culminate two school years together. ... I was happy to let them know we would have another chance to say hello and goodbye.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 733px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-56280 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/Aeriale-Johnson-Remind-message-e1594621647198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/Aeriale-Johnson-Remind-message-e1594621647198.jpg 733w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/Aeriale-Johnson-Remind-message-e1594621647198-160x185.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After notifying her students that she would be their teacher again next year, Aeriale Johnson received many excited replies, including this one from Jonathan Anaya Valencia. (Courtesy of Aeriale Johnson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research has shown the importance of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55595/staying-in-touch-why-kids-need-teachers-during-coronavirus-school-closings\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">relationships\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to learning in a variety of ways, including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20161495\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">student-teacher familiarity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775717306635\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2018 analysis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of North Carolina elementary school data found that students who were taught by the same teacher for a second year saw greater achievement gains than other students. The effects were strongest for students taught by less effective teachers and for students of color. Johnson, who currently teaches in San Jose, California, first experienced “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=14482\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">looping\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” when she taught at a small school in rural Alaska, where classes included students from two grades. She said having students for a second year enables teachers to understand children better and improve their practice as educators. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Creating Coherence\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometime in the late aughts, principal \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smuhsd.org/Page/1445\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jeff Gilbert\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> attended a meeting at Stanford Graduate School of Education with his administrative team from Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California. They were seeking input on how to redesign the school’s upper grades. Linda Darling-Hammond, a prominent \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/ldh\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">education policy researcher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who now serves as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">president\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the California State Board of Education, made a remark that stuck with Gilbert: “She said the flaw in American high schools is their lack of coherence.” In most public high schools, students must adjust to a new learning environment every 45 to 90 minutes, understand the expectations and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52679/why-its-crucial-and-really-hard-to-talk-about-more-equitable-grading\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">grading systems\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of about eight different teachers and navigate dozens of social settings throughout each day and year. “So how do you simplify? How do you make it \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/46456/why-a-schools-master-schedule-is-a-powerful-enabler-of-change\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more elegant\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">? How do you decrease the number of connects and systems that students are trying to decode?” Gilbert asked.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56281\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-1020x680.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-768x512.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/HillsdaleHigh-26-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillsdale students are looped, which means they have the same teachers for their four core subjects for two years. From May 2018: Teachers Danielle Robledo and Mike McCall have their weekly house meeting to discuss what's going on in the lives of their students in order to identify areas of need. \u003ccite>(KQED/Samantha Shanahan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Hillsdale, looping became one of the answers. In their first two years, students have the same teachers for four subject areas — English, science, social studies and math. As juniors, they switch to new teachers, who, in most cases, stay with them until graduation. (Gilbert noted that there’s more variability in upper grades because of advanced placement classes.) This two-year looping process is part of a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smuhsd.org/Page/2433\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">small learning communities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> model that the school implemented 20 years ago. It creates coherence that enables teachers and students to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/39427/steps-to-creating-the-conditions-for-deep-rigorous-applied-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">dive deeper\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into both academic and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/social-emotional-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">social-emotional learning\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “It just really strikes you ... at the beginning of the second year where you see classes working just immediately,” Gilbert said. “This teacher knows every student. They know every family. Students are in groups. Students know each other. … It's really powerful.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s a particular advantage during the COVID-19 outbreak. Gilbert said he felt good about existing \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53091/why-schools-should-be-organized-to-prioritize-relationships\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bonds\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> among students and with teachers for incoming sophomores and seniors: “Even if it’s distance learning they’ll be able to get into a space where they are very comfortable with each other and they can talk.” Johnson, too, felt positive her class could start strong despite the pandemic. She already knows, for instance, several students in class have mastered parts of the third-grade \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/math\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">math curriculum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, so she won’t have to spend weeks assessing those skills.* She also knows various instructional and behavioral strategies that have succeeded and failed with each student so she won't have to build from scratch. “We can get started on the very first day of school.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Building Community and Listening Deeply\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The benefits of looping may derive in part from increased \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00842265/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">familiarity with peers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as well as with teachers. According to Gilbert, educators must play \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55144/relationships-are-important-how-do-we-build-them-effectively-with-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a proactive role\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in all of those relationships. Anybody can be a “purveyor of content,” he said. “You have to buy into the fact that you are also a liaison to the family, that you are an emotional support for the student, that you’re creating a community that lasts over time, and then you start to see those benefits of the students seeing themselves as a community that they can rely on.” At Hillsdale, community-building happens in class and in weekly \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/43362/how-schools-build-a-positive-culture-through-advisory\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">advisory\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> periods, during which students might explore career paths, share food and stories or play a game outside. This fall, with Hillsdale likely opening to smaller groups of students, Gilbert said the school will prioritize getting freshmen and juniors on campus since the sophomores and seniors already have a foundation of trust within their cohorts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While some educators see community-building activities as an “extra,” Gilbert said that the bonds that form within cohorts have “a significant impact on their ability to learn and their sense of emotional safety.” For example, his staff does not see the same conflicts with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/40082/how-to-create-the-learning-community-project-based-learning-demands\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">group projects\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that are typical in most high schools. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/mindshift/tag/trust\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">trust\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that forms among looping classes can also create space to tackle tough topics. In the wake of this summer’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">protests against racial injustice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Gilbert said he’s confident that his staff will be able to facilitate \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56187/6-things-anti-racist-educators-want-grown-ups-to-know-about-teaching-and-raising-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">meaningful conversations on race\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Johnson, too, said she’s excited to build on the foundations of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54999/how-ibram-x-kendis-definition-of-antiracism-applies-to-schools\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">anti-racism\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that she already laid with her third-graders.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, looping is not a magic wand. Reaping its rewards requires \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/46021/how-listening-and-sharing-help-shape-collaborative-learning-experiences\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">listening\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> deeply to kids and their caregivers — “not to hear what I want them to say, but what they are actually communicating,” said Johnson. When teachers do that, the learning is not unidirectional. One of the things Johnson has learned from her students, for instance, is “to confront my previously unconscious gender bias to be a more effective \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54878/how-strengthening-relationships-with-boys-can-help-them-learn\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">teacher of boys\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, specifically Black, Indigenous, boys of color.” Johnson also said teachers must be conscious not to relax into \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/growth-mindset\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">static views\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of themselves or their students. In the entryway to her classroom, more than a hundred photos cover the wall. When the building is actually open, her students marvel at the snapshots of their former selves, proclaiming “We were so little!” or pointing out big events, such as the first time they touched the inside of a pumpkin. If it sounds like being inside someone’s living room, that’s intentional. While many educators are wondering \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56195/how-students-benefit-from-a-school-reopening-plan-designed-for-those-at-the-margins\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">what school will look like\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a few months, Johnson’s vision is clear: “continuing to grow together as a family.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly identified how many students mastered the math curriculum. We regret this error. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jeanne Norris is a teacher, the wife of a teacher and the mother of an 8-year-old in St. Louis. She'd love to send her son back to school in August. But, she says, \"I feel like my government and my fellow citizens have put me in a position where it's not really in the best interests of our family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norris has a long list of reasons why. She says she has taught in buildings where ventilation systems are outdated and malfunctioning, and even soap for hand-washing is in short supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Missouri \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcur.org/government/2020-06-02/missouri-governor-cuts-209-million-in-planned-spending-addresses-protests\">cut K-12 education funding\u003c/a> by more than $100 million amid the pandemic-induced recession. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities anticipates state budget shortfalls of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/states-grappling-with-hit-to-tax-collections\">25% this fiscal year\u003c/a> as a result of that recession. Education leaders have said schools may need \u003ca href=\"https://ccsso.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/HELPLetterFinal.pdf\">more than $200 billion\u003c/a> in new federal education funding to stop these gaps and meet the new need. The House \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/15/856095507/house-passes-3-trillion-coronavirus-relief-bill-that-has-dim-future\">passed a bill\u003c/a> in May with $58 billion for school districts, and the Republican-controlled Senate has not yet acted on it, though the president has recently weighed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888898194/trump-blasts-expensive-cdc-guidelines-for-reopening-schools\">heavily in favor\u003c/a> of reopening schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norris says she's disappointed by her state's response to the virus, and she's worried about the risk to her son's teachers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, a third of teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.childtrends.org/nearly-one-third-of-u-s-teachers-are-at-higher-risk-of-severe-illness-from-covid-19-due-to-age\">over the age of 50\u003c/a>, I believe. ... You want to talk about social-emotional impacts? Thinking about my child experiencing somebody die because of coronavirus? Sounds like a pretty heavy burden to bear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of teachers, parents and district leaders around the country told NPR that the back-to-school season — that beloved annual ritual — has fogged over with confusion. States, districts and the federal government are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/888157257/white-house-pushes-to-reopen-schools-despite-a-surge-in-coronavirus-cases\">pushing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/nyregion/nyc-schools-reopening-plan.html\">pulling\u003c/a> in different directions. Scientists are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/888853601/school-reopenings-should-keep-public-health-in-mind-pediatric-group-says?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=nprblogscoronavirusliveupdates\">updating their advice\u003c/a> to reflect emerging research and the changing course of the pandemic. And parents and educators are finding it hard to make decisions in the murk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's at stake: An unknown number of lives, the futures of tens of millions of children, the livelihoods of their caregivers, the working conditions of millions of educators and people's trust in a fundamental American institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Jefferson, the scribe of the Declaration of Independence, was among the first Americans to propose a system of universal, publicly funded education in 1779. Since then, besides providing an education, public schools became by far the \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/ind_01.asp\">physically safest places\u003c/a> for the nation's more than 50 million schoolchildren. They fed about 30 million children meals they might have missed otherwise, and offered crucial assistance with housing, health care and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until this past spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools closed abruptly amid the coronavirus pandemic, in the U.S. and almost everywhere. At one point, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/04/02/824964864/nine-out-of-10-of-the-world-s-children-are-out-of-school-what-now\">90% of the world's schoolchildren\u003c/a> were out of class. Now, across Europe and Asia, dozens of school systems have already reopened, with precautions in place, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/18/french-minister-tells-of-risks-of-missing-school-as-more-pupils-return-covid-19\">few virus spikes have been seen as a result\u003c/a>. But in the U.S., where the pandemic continues to rage, that version of normal is not being contemplated in most places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One notable exception, Florida, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/07/888320203/florida-orders-schools-to-reopen-in-the-fall-for-in-person-instruction\">just ordered\u003c/a> schools to start back with full-time in-person instruction at least five days a week. This, in a state with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/02/886595119/another-day-another-coronavirus-record-in-florida\">one of the worst outbreaks\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To be perfectly honest, it's terrifying,\" says Kirk Hansen, a middle school social studies teacher in Lakeland, Fla. \"We've worked with very little before. The story of public education is inadequate funding. And we are supposed to come back to an environment where we don't know what's happening and we're supposed to do it on limited funds. And I think it's just — it's going to be a fiasco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Back to school, not back to normal \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents and teachers echoed Hansen's anxiety. Across the United States, each district is making its own decisions based on guidance — not directives — from the federal government, states, experts, educators, parents and local health authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/FAQ-schools-child-care.pdf\">Guidance\u003c/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls for social distancing, and grouping kids into small pods, to limit the spread of a potential infection. That means a drastic reduction in class sizes everywhere. In the absence of funds for more space and more staff, that's driving schools to cut back on in-person class time. The state of California, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/documents/strongertogether.pdf\">recommends\u003c/a> splitting up students into smaller cohorts that attend two days a week, every other week, or mornings and afternoons, while offering remote instruction the rest of the time. We're hearing versions of this limited-time plan everywhere \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/nyregion/nyc-schools-reopening-plan.html\">from New York City\u003c/a> — the nation's largest school district — to \u003ca href=\"https://ktiv.com/2020/06/30/nebraskas-largest-school-district-reveals-fall-reopen-plan/\">Omaha\u003c/a>, Neb., \u003ca href=\"https://www.seattleschools.org/district/calendars/news/what_s_new/coronavirus_update\">Seattle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/talent-education/two-days-school-three-home-thats-plan-one-michigan-district\">West Bloomfield\u003c/a>, Mich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, districts are surveying parents and teachers to find out if they are willing to go back at all. One \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/june_2020_member_poll_slides_07072020.pdf\">national survey\u003c/a> by the American Federation of Teachers found about 1 in 4 educators were not willing to come back even with precautions, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/the-anxiety-is-so-high-back-to-school-wont-be-the-same-in-2020.html\">survey of parents\u003c/a> found two-thirds were nervous about the prospect. That means many districts are offering remote learning at the same time, which is essentially a whole other job for schools and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the pandemic is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/16/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s\">spiking\u003c/a> in some parts of the country, while other places like New York are vigilant based on past experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts are taking time to sort through all the information. The delays in communication, in turn, make it harder for families to make plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This convoluted, decentralized process around reopening schools is also pitting stakeholders against each other. In San Mateo, in the Bay Area, some teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/sides-differ-over-reopening-plans-for-san-mateo-union-high-school-district/article_33b8d9c6-af87-11ea-917e-4b336f294162.html\">want to start the year remote-only\u003c/a>, while parents and administrators are pushing for more face time. Jinna Hwang, who teaches math at San Mateo High School, says she can't create a warm, accepting classroom culture when everyone is wearing masks and she must enforce physical distancing. Face masks will also be an obstacle for English language learners, Hwang says. She's not sure how she'll find time to teach her in-person lessons — multiple times over, to different cohorts of students — while also planning and executing remote teaching at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, she says, if schools stick with remote-only, \"What do you do with kids who have difficulty learning online? What do you do about kids who are entering depression and need their wellness counselor?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions like these abound. After New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy released that state's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.nj.gov/education/reopening/NJDOETheRoadBack.pdf\">Restart and Recovery Plan for Education\u003c/a>,\" educators crowdsourced a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6XUconG3-gJZPfQe4O1hi_kHUk7NxyJqQWHsZWesp4/edit\">list of nearly 400 unanswered questions\u003c/a> and concerns. Among them: How can we safely toilet train students with autism? How can students in band play a trumpet with a mask on? Will substitute teachers get paid more since their job is now high risk, and who pays for their health insurance if they get sick on the job?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The devil's in the details,\" sums up Hwang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reopening followed by re-closing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As difficult as reopening plans are, they are just the beginning. As Dr. Anthony Fauci emphasized in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/30/884658409/watch-live-senate-hearing-on-reopening-schools-workplaces-amid-coronavirus\">recent Senate testimony\u003c/a>, local coronavirus infection rates are a key factor driving schools' ability to not just open up, but to stay open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Looney, the superintendent of Fulton County Schools, a large district in the Atlanta area, has been grappling with the uncertainty around reopening. His schools are set to open Aug. 17, and he says he's been letting parents know: The rest is in their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been doing my very best to communicate to our families that they really are in control of whether or not the school district opens up as planned — because the school district has to respond to the community spread.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looney's district is unusual in having already released not just a reopening plan but a detailed \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ga/fcss/Board.nsf/files/BQQHC5479633/%24file/Closure%20Matrix%20v4.pdf\">re-closing decision matrix\u003c/a>. It gives 12 options for how long to close a school if someone at the school tests positive for the coronavirus. For example, explains Looney, if there is low community spread and one person at a school tests positive, that school will close for up to 24 hours for cleaning and contact tracing. But if there are more or rising cases throughout the community, the closure for that single case will last for 72 hours. Conversely, even with few cases in the broader community, if there are five or more positive tests in a single school, that closure could last at least two weeks to give people time to isolate and recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math around contact tracing and risk reduction can be head-spinning. And that's exactly why Michelle Hoffmann in High Bridge, N.J., is planning to home-school her 6-year-old son this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffmann has been working as a contact tracer, following up with people who test positive for the coronavirus so that their close contacts can be notified to try to stop the spread of the virus. She anticipates schools closing down quickly and repeatedly after they open. And she doesn't see the utility of rotating cohorts of students as long as they share the same teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a teacher came in and said, 'Hey, I just found out my sister tested positive for COVID and we saw her over the weekend,' both groups of students are going to have to stay home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might work better if each tiny group of students had a different teacher, she says. \"But again, who has the resources for that? There is no unlimited supply of substitute teachers. That's just not a thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffmann feels prepared to take on home-schooling. For one thing, her wife is an educator who may be laid off — New Jersey, too, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nj.com/education/2020/05/nj-slashes-335m-from-its-school-funding-proposal-heres-what-it-means-for-your-district.html\">cutting hundreds of millions of dollars\u003c/a> from education this year. Hoffmann's mother has been teaching her son Korean. And she has friends who work in technical fields who are willing to pitch in, guiding her son with science projects over Skype. All of which seems preferable to the disruptions of repeated openings and re-closings, she says. \"I don't want to scramble. I'm very much a planner, so I want to have a plan in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many families don't have the resources to make a plan like this. And online-only learning, the fallback option, isn't making many folks happy either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're all horrible teachers,\" Ashley Ruiz, a mother of two in south Florida, says of her and her friends' experiences with remote learning. Her 7-year-old son is on the autism spectrum, and relies on her school for speech and social skills therapy, and help with reading, none of which are really replicable online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We now all recognize that teachers need to be paid a million dollars in cash, tax-free, because of what they do,\" Ruiz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicol Turner Lee, an expert on educational technology and digital divides at the Brookings Institution, is in frequent consultation with districts around the country. She calls this past spring's attempt at emergency remote learning \"an abject failure for our children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821921575/the-biggest-distance-learning-experiment-in-history-week-one\">Research shows students\u003c/a> who struggle tend to do even worse with distance learning. Some districts are investing in training teachers to raise the quality of remote teaching, and working to get \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/27/862705225/survey-shows-big-remote-learning-gaps-for-low-income-and-special-needs-children\">special education students\u003c/a> and English language learners the support they need. Yet simple access is still a big problem. Turner Lee says an estimated 12 to 15 million students still do not have broadband Internet at home. And an estimated one-third of low-income students have to share devices with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can schools do better this coming year? \"I think we have run out of time,\" says Turner Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some localities, such as \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/6/25/21303344/chicago-public-schools-cps-students-internet-access-remote-learning\">Chicago\u003c/a>, Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://wtop.com/dc/2020/03/1m-fund-to-help-close-dcs-digital-divide-as-distance-learning-begins/\">D.C.\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmdt.com/2020/06/governor-hogan-announces-more-than-45-million-in-education-funding-to-help-students-affected-by-covid-19/\">Maryland\u003c/a>, are working, sometimes with private donors, to get equipment and connectivity to students at a larger scale. And public libraries are boosting their Wi-Fi signals to allow students to gather and do their homework in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/technology/parking-lots-wifi-coronavirus.html\">parking lot\u003c/a>. But, she says, these are ultimately stopgaps, and they won't go far without massive federal aid. She says overall, efforts to meet the challenges facing public schools are \"a day late and a dollar short.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=When+It+Comes+To+Reopening+Schools%2C+%27The+Devil%27s+In+The+Details%2C%27+Educators+Say+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jeanne Norris is a teacher, the wife of a teacher and the mother of an 8-year-old in St. Louis. She'd love to send her son back to school in August. But, she says, \"I feel like my government and my fellow citizens have put me in a position where it's not really in the best interests of our family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norris has a long list of reasons why. She says she has taught in buildings where ventilation systems are outdated and malfunctioning, and even soap for hand-washing is in short supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Missouri \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcur.org/government/2020-06-02/missouri-governor-cuts-209-million-in-planned-spending-addresses-protests\">cut K-12 education funding\u003c/a> by more than $100 million amid the pandemic-induced recession. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities anticipates state budget shortfalls of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/states-grappling-with-hit-to-tax-collections\">25% this fiscal year\u003c/a> as a result of that recession. Education leaders have said schools may need \u003ca href=\"https://ccsso.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/HELPLetterFinal.pdf\">more than $200 billion\u003c/a> in new federal education funding to stop these gaps and meet the new need. The House \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/15/856095507/house-passes-3-trillion-coronavirus-relief-bill-that-has-dim-future\">passed a bill\u003c/a> in May with $58 billion for school districts, and the Republican-controlled Senate has not yet acted on it, though the president has recently weighed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888898194/trump-blasts-expensive-cdc-guidelines-for-reopening-schools\">heavily in favor\u003c/a> of reopening schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norris says she's disappointed by her state's response to the virus, and she's worried about the risk to her son's teachers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, a third of teachers are \u003ca href=\"https://www.childtrends.org/nearly-one-third-of-u-s-teachers-are-at-higher-risk-of-severe-illness-from-covid-19-due-to-age\">over the age of 50\u003c/a>, I believe. ... You want to talk about social-emotional impacts? Thinking about my child experiencing somebody die because of coronavirus? Sounds like a pretty heavy burden to bear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of teachers, parents and district leaders around the country told NPR that the back-to-school season — that beloved annual ritual — has fogged over with confusion. States, districts and the federal government are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/888157257/white-house-pushes-to-reopen-schools-despite-a-surge-in-coronavirus-cases\">pushing\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/nyregion/nyc-schools-reopening-plan.html\">pulling\u003c/a> in different directions. Scientists are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/888853601/school-reopenings-should-keep-public-health-in-mind-pediatric-group-says?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=nprblogscoronavirusliveupdates\">updating their advice\u003c/a> to reflect emerging research and the changing course of the pandemic. And parents and educators are finding it hard to make decisions in the murk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's at stake: An unknown number of lives, the futures of tens of millions of children, the livelihoods of their caregivers, the working conditions of millions of educators and people's trust in a fundamental American institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Jefferson, the scribe of the Declaration of Independence, was among the first Americans to propose a system of universal, publicly funded education in 1779. Since then, besides providing an education, public schools became by far the \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/ind_01.asp\">physically safest places\u003c/a> for the nation's more than 50 million schoolchildren. They fed about 30 million children meals they might have missed otherwise, and offered crucial assistance with housing, health care and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until this past spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools closed abruptly amid the coronavirus pandemic, in the U.S. and almost everywhere. At one point, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/04/02/824964864/nine-out-of-10-of-the-world-s-children-are-out-of-school-what-now\">90% of the world's schoolchildren\u003c/a> were out of class. Now, across Europe and Asia, dozens of school systems have already reopened, with precautions in place, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/18/french-minister-tells-of-risks-of-missing-school-as-more-pupils-return-covid-19\">few virus spikes have been seen as a result\u003c/a>. But in the U.S., where the pandemic continues to rage, that version of normal is not being contemplated in most places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One notable exception, Florida, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/07/888320203/florida-orders-schools-to-reopen-in-the-fall-for-in-person-instruction\">just ordered\u003c/a> schools to start back with full-time in-person instruction at least five days a week. This, in a state with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/02/886595119/another-day-another-coronavirus-record-in-florida\">one of the worst outbreaks\u003c/a> in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To be perfectly honest, it's terrifying,\" says Kirk Hansen, a middle school social studies teacher in Lakeland, Fla. \"We've worked with very little before. The story of public education is inadequate funding. And we are supposed to come back to an environment where we don't know what's happening and we're supposed to do it on limited funds. And I think it's just — it's going to be a fiasco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Back to school, not back to normal \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many parents and teachers echoed Hansen's anxiety. Across the United States, each district is making its own decisions based on guidance — not directives — from the federal government, states, experts, educators, parents and local health authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/FAQ-schools-child-care.pdf\">Guidance\u003c/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls for social distancing, and grouping kids into small pods, to limit the spread of a potential infection. That means a drastic reduction in class sizes everywhere. In the absence of funds for more space and more staff, that's driving schools to cut back on in-person class time. The state of California, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/documents/strongertogether.pdf\">recommends\u003c/a> splitting up students into smaller cohorts that attend two days a week, every other week, or mornings and afternoons, while offering remote instruction the rest of the time. We're hearing versions of this limited-time plan everywhere \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/nyregion/nyc-schools-reopening-plan.html\">from New York City\u003c/a> — the nation's largest school district — to \u003ca href=\"https://ktiv.com/2020/06/30/nebraskas-largest-school-district-reveals-fall-reopen-plan/\">Omaha\u003c/a>, Neb., \u003ca href=\"https://www.seattleschools.org/district/calendars/news/what_s_new/coronavirus_update\">Seattle\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgemi.com/talent-education/two-days-school-three-home-thats-plan-one-michigan-district\">West Bloomfield\u003c/a>, Mich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, districts are surveying parents and teachers to find out if they are willing to go back at all. One \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/june_2020_member_poll_slides_07072020.pdf\">national survey\u003c/a> by the American Federation of Teachers found about 1 in 4 educators were not willing to come back even with precautions, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/the-anxiety-is-so-high-back-to-school-wont-be-the-same-in-2020.html\">survey of parents\u003c/a> found two-thirds were nervous about the prospect. That means many districts are offering remote learning at the same time, which is essentially a whole other job for schools and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the pandemic is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/16/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s\">spiking\u003c/a> in some parts of the country, while other places like New York are vigilant based on past experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts are taking time to sort through all the information. The delays in communication, in turn, make it harder for families to make plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This convoluted, decentralized process around reopening schools is also pitting stakeholders against each other. In San Mateo, in the Bay Area, some teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/sides-differ-over-reopening-plans-for-san-mateo-union-high-school-district/article_33b8d9c6-af87-11ea-917e-4b336f294162.html\">want to start the year remote-only\u003c/a>, while parents and administrators are pushing for more face time. Jinna Hwang, who teaches math at San Mateo High School, says she can't create a warm, accepting classroom culture when everyone is wearing masks and she must enforce physical distancing. Face masks will also be an obstacle for English language learners, Hwang says. She's not sure how she'll find time to teach her in-person lessons — multiple times over, to different cohorts of students — while also planning and executing remote teaching at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, she says, if schools stick with remote-only, \"What do you do with kids who have difficulty learning online? What do you do about kids who are entering depression and need their wellness counselor?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions like these abound. After New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy released that state's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.nj.gov/education/reopening/NJDOETheRoadBack.pdf\">Restart and Recovery Plan for Education\u003c/a>,\" educators crowdsourced a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6XUconG3-gJZPfQe4O1hi_kHUk7NxyJqQWHsZWesp4/edit\">list of nearly 400 unanswered questions\u003c/a> and concerns. Among them: How can we safely toilet train students with autism? How can students in band play a trumpet with a mask on? Will substitute teachers get paid more since their job is now high risk, and who pays for their health insurance if they get sick on the job?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The devil's in the details,\" sums up Hwang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reopening followed by re-closing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As difficult as reopening plans are, they are just the beginning. As Dr. Anthony Fauci emphasized in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/30/884658409/watch-live-senate-hearing-on-reopening-schools-workplaces-amid-coronavirus\">recent Senate testimony\u003c/a>, local coronavirus infection rates are a key factor driving schools' ability to not just open up, but to stay open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Looney, the superintendent of Fulton County Schools, a large district in the Atlanta area, has been grappling with the uncertainty around reopening. His schools are set to open Aug. 17, and he says he's been letting parents know: The rest is in their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been doing my very best to communicate to our families that they really are in control of whether or not the school district opens up as planned — because the school district has to respond to the community spread.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looney's district is unusual in having already released not just a reopening plan but a detailed \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ga/fcss/Board.nsf/files/BQQHC5479633/%24file/Closure%20Matrix%20v4.pdf\">re-closing decision matrix\u003c/a>. It gives 12 options for how long to close a school if someone at the school tests positive for the coronavirus. For example, explains Looney, if there is low community spread and one person at a school tests positive, that school will close for up to 24 hours for cleaning and contact tracing. But if there are more or rising cases throughout the community, the closure for that single case will last for 72 hours. Conversely, even with few cases in the broader community, if there are five or more positive tests in a single school, that closure could last at least two weeks to give people time to isolate and recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The math around contact tracing and risk reduction can be head-spinning. And that's exactly why Michelle Hoffmann in High Bridge, N.J., is planning to home-school her 6-year-old son this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffmann has been working as a contact tracer, following up with people who test positive for the coronavirus so that their close contacts can be notified to try to stop the spread of the virus. She anticipates schools closing down quickly and repeatedly after they open. And she doesn't see the utility of rotating cohorts of students as long as they share the same teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a teacher came in and said, 'Hey, I just found out my sister tested positive for COVID and we saw her over the weekend,' both groups of students are going to have to stay home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might work better if each tiny group of students had a different teacher, she says. \"But again, who has the resources for that? There is no unlimited supply of substitute teachers. That's just not a thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffmann feels prepared to take on home-schooling. For one thing, her wife is an educator who may be laid off — New Jersey, too, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nj.com/education/2020/05/nj-slashes-335m-from-its-school-funding-proposal-heres-what-it-means-for-your-district.html\">cutting hundreds of millions of dollars\u003c/a> from education this year. Hoffmann's mother has been teaching her son Korean. And she has friends who work in technical fields who are willing to pitch in, guiding her son with science projects over Skype. All of which seems preferable to the disruptions of repeated openings and re-closings, she says. \"I don't want to scramble. I'm very much a planner, so I want to have a plan in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many families don't have the resources to make a plan like this. And online-only learning, the fallback option, isn't making many folks happy either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're all horrible teachers,\" Ashley Ruiz, a mother of two in south Florida, says of her and her friends' experiences with remote learning. Her 7-year-old son is on the autism spectrum, and relies on her school for speech and social skills therapy, and help with reading, none of which are really replicable online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We now all recognize that teachers need to be paid a million dollars in cash, tax-free, because of what they do,\" Ruiz says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicol Turner Lee, an expert on educational technology and digital divides at the Brookings Institution, is in frequent consultation with districts around the country. She calls this past spring's attempt at emergency remote learning \"an abject failure for our children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821921575/the-biggest-distance-learning-experiment-in-history-week-one\">Research shows students\u003c/a> who struggle tend to do even worse with distance learning. Some districts are investing in training teachers to raise the quality of remote teaching, and working to get \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/27/862705225/survey-shows-big-remote-learning-gaps-for-low-income-and-special-needs-children\">special education students\u003c/a> and English language learners the support they need. Yet simple access is still a big problem. Turner Lee says an estimated 12 to 15 million students still do not have broadband Internet at home. And an estimated one-third of low-income students have to share devices with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can schools do better this coming year? \"I think we have run out of time,\" says Turner Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Trump issued a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/888898194/trump-blasts-expensive-cdc-guidelines-for-reopening-schools?live=1\"> forceful call\u003c/a> this week for America's K-12 schools to reopen full time for all children in the fall, suggesting that Democrats want to keep schools closed ahead of the November election and even threatening to cut off federal funding to schools if they don't fully reopen (something he cannot do). In this push, the administration has a powerful ally: the American Academy of Pediatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the AAP issued a forceful policy \u003ca href=\"https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/clinical-guidance/covid-19-planning-considerations-return-to-in-person-education-in-schools/\">statement\u003c/a>, echoing the administration's sense of urgency to get children back into brick-and-mortar buildings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The AAP strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school. The importance of in-person learning is well-documented, and there is already evidence of the negative impacts on children because of school closures in the spring of 2020. Lengthy time away from school and associated interruption of supportive services often results in social isolation, making it difficult for schools to identify and address important learning deficits as well as child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation. This, in turn, places children and adolescents at considerable risk of morbidity and, in some cases, mortality. Beyond the educational impact and social impact of school closures, there has been substantial impact on food security and physical activity for children and families.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the president of the AAP, Dr. Sally Goza, attended a White House roundtable where Trump and other administration officials reiterated their desire for schools to reopen quickly and repeatedly praised the AAP's guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Goza spoke with \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> host David Greene about that guidance and whether she's concerned that schools may be pressured into reopening too quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is that interview, edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[In Florida] the virus is spiking: The number of new cases daily has been alarming, as is the case in some other states. Schools are being ordered to open in-person five days a week as early as next month in \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/07/06/florida-schools-mandated-reopen-august/5387823002/\">\u003cstrong>Florida\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, so just talk me through what the argument is for a decision like that right now? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So our guidelines reflect what we know right now about COVID-19 and its effects on children, as well as our own expertise and understanding of the benefits of in-person education for children's mental, emotional and physical health. And we reevaluate these guidelines regularly, since the pandemic changes so rapidly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But our latest guidelines articulate that our main goal is for students to be physically present at school this fall. But we also recognize that COVID-19 remains a very real, active threat to community health. And we really believe that decisions on when and how to reopen need to consider a variety of factors, but a big one is the level of virus in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Well, let me just ask about that — the level of virus in the state of Florida — we saw 7,000 new cases in a single day this week. I mean, would you encourage schools to open today if that decision had to be made based on the numbers you're seeing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the numbers are looking in Florida right now are concerning. The level of the virus is really high. And so a statewide mandate to reopen [schools] without consideration of community spread really goes against our recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So you think that this was not a good idea for officials in Florida to come out [Tuesday] and say, \"You all have to reopen this fall?\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know that COVID is still a dangerous virus, and it's circulating throughout the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design processes typically start with an average population in mind. As a result, “a lot of people who are at margins get left out, or we worry about them ‘catching up’ to the design,” says MIT professor of civic design \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ceasar-mcdowell\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ceasar McDowell\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7O9etlevyw&feature=youtu.be\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2014 video\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the Interaction Institute for Social Change. McDowell likens that approach to staking a large tent with poles at the center. When a strong wind comes, it will collapse. If, instead, the tent is staked from the outside, it is more likely to withstand the weather. That’s what McDowell calls “design for the margins.” He gives another example, this time involving humans: sidewalk curb cuts. Originally created to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/smashing-barriers-access-disability-activism-and-curb-cuts\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">help disabled World War II veterans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> navigate urban areas with wheelchairs, curb cuts \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_curb_cut_effect\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">became a legal requirement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> under the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Now \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_curb_cut_effect\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who benefits from that\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">?” McDowell asks. “Take your average day walking down the street, and you’ll see a little kid riding his tricycle right across down the curb cut and across the street. Someone pulling their grocery cart. Someone pushing their baby. You’ll even see runners making that run nice and smooth, they don’t even have to jump off the curb to do it. But where did it start? It started by taking care of and paying attention to someone — some group of people who were at the margin of society to make sure they were taken care of, and in turn we were all taken care of.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea that creating equitable and flexible design can benefit all members of society undergirds \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.udinstitute.org/what-is-ud\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">universal design\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a concept developed by architect \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/13/us/ronald-l-mace-58-designer-of-buildings-accessible-to-all.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ronald Mace\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Rooted in the disability rights movement, universal design is typically applied to products and the built environment, but the principles offer a valuable way to reimagine educational spaces, particularly during the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/coronavirus\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">coronavirus crisis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. With the rapid switch to distance learning this spring, schools struggled to serve students who are at the margins for a variety of reasons, from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/05/22/coronavirus-parents-distance-learning-woes-kids-disabilities/5227887002/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">disabilities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55783/homeless-families-face-high-hurdles-home-schooling-their-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">homelessness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55976/survey-shows-big-remote-learning-gaps-for-low-income-and-special-needs-children\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">poverty\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Recently, as schools planned for reopening, educators attending a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjta0KC3NCs&feature=youtu.be&t=105\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">design challenge\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hosted by University of California Berkeley’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://gse.berkeley.edu/professional-development/uc-berkeley-professional-development-providers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professional Development Providers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> used universal design principles to think creatively about how schools might function in the fall. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the event, Shane Carter, one of the challenge coordinators, asked participants to consider two real students whose full and equal participation in school was limited by the mismatch between their circumstances and traditional structures and processes. During the event, attendees heard about school \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/06/11/how-schools-in-other-countries-have-reopened.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reopening experiences\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from teachers in multiple countries. Then, in virtual breakout groups, teachers brainstormed what \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/06/11/what-needs-to-change-inside-school-buildings.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resources\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/06/11/6-ways-to-bring-students-and-staff.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strategies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> they would need to implement new health-protective measures such as masks, ventilation, health screenings, sanitation, cohort learning and social distancing. They were encouraged to keep in mind the two students they had identified to ensure that they designed classroom and school practices that were “capacious enough and flexible enough” for all students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56197\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NnMOHS_I7P86pUtsyeKNNE4hzXWNwrNV8Th_A_O_b_Q/edit#slide=id.p\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-56197 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imagining Classrooms in Fall 2020 Design Challenge \u003ccite>(UC Berkeley Professional Development Providers )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In one breakout room for elementary educators, participants discussed the merits and drawbacks of masks and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/health/coronavirus-face-shields.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">face shields\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and how young kids might respond to each. When a teacher said that one of her students was hard of hearing and needed to read lips, someone else said she had seen \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://unric.org/en/covid-19-transparent-masks-made-for-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-in-belgium/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">transparent masks\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> designed for that purpose. Another teacher said that such masks could be helpful for all young kids as they’re learning nonverbal communication. They could also help teachers better understand students while wearing masks. From there, the group’s ideas started rolling. What if older kids in the district made transparent masks as part of an art or technology course? That could be a boost if time in those subjects is reduced due to rotational schedules, one teacher noted. Another pointed out that it would ensure all students had masks, regardless of family income.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other rooms, teachers discussed laundering masks at school, providing individual science kits, installing microphones for teachers and dozens of other ideas to accommodate new health and safety measures while centering the needs of marginalized students. The breakout sessions lasted about 35 minutes — just enough for participants to scratch the surface of creative solutions. After the stress of emergency distance learning and as they face ongoing uncertainty, this summer may be \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-06-04/schools-plan-to-reopen-as-watchdog-finds-major-facility-problems\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">an anxious time for educators\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but participants in the challenge said they felt empowered by the information shared and the opportunity to think collaboratively about the fall. With most of the nearly 200 attendees coming from California, some asked the organizers to share email lists so that colleagues could bring the model back to their districts. “In an ideal world, a community would spend five solid days on this,” said Carter, who hopes that the process will be used and improved upon by other educators. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjta0KC3NCs\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">panel recording\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i-OTEMbt2N3AtYe5Gatx-XNmtcd-4Pjdy0rXPCJciEg/edit\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">activity materials\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the challenge are available online.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56196\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NnMOHS_I7P86pUtsyeKNNE4hzXWNwrNV8Th_A_O_b_Q/edit#slide=id.p\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-56196 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020-1.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020-1-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020-1-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/07/DC-Slidedeck-2-Imagining-Schools-in-Fall-2020-1-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imagining Classrooms in Fall 2020 Design Challenge. \u003ccite>(UC Berkeley Professional Development Providers )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A former high school teacher of 18 years, Carter said that teachers are accustomed to “constantly planning for a series of contingencies,” but they need time to do so. Although guidance from state departments of education and public health agencies may change in the coming months, by looking at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/01/867158531/u-k-schools-begin-reopening-despite-coronavirus-concerns\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">responses in other countries\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it’s possible to see the range of likelihoods, she said. As \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55838/seven-distance-learning-priorities-to-consider-before-reopening-schools\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">education leaders plan for multiple options\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at a district level, they could be tapping into \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56068/how-teachers-want-emergency-distance-learning-improved\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">teachers’ knowledge and experiences\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to generate ideas that “lead to actual positive outcomes for education rather than simply \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/10/874049532/senate-panel-asks-when-can-k-12-schools-safely-reopen\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">mitigating harm\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the directions for the design challenge, organizers also noted that educators shouldn’t assume they know what groups at the margins might want when it comes to reopening schools. Students and families should be involved in the conversations, too. It would be easy for educators to view the needs of marginalized students as an added challenge on top of the stress of the pandemic, but the UC Berkeley event showed that the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/reopening-schools/the-socially-distanced-school-day.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">changes demanded by COVID-19\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> offer a chance to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50675/five-ways-to-sustain-school-change-through-pushback-struggle-and-fatigue\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">think differently about schools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Annie Johnston, another coordinator for the design challenge, said that “inclusion” in education has traditionally referred to bringing special education students into mainstream classes. “But really the idea that you can’t make substantive changes to a culture and (structure) without including all of the stakeholders and bringing the people from the margins into the center — it’s a real shift in a conception,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjta0KC3NCs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>This story is part of a MindShift series that explores solutions for returning to school during the COVID19 pandemic, supported in part by the \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.schusterman.org/\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Charles\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s3\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s4\">\u003ci>and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. MindShift retains sole editorial control over all content. \u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design processes typically start with an average population in mind. As a result, “a lot of people who are at margins get left out, or we worry about them ‘catching up’ to the design,” says MIT professor of civic design \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ceasar-mcdowell\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ceasar McDowell\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7O9etlevyw&feature=youtu.be\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2014 video\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by the Interaction Institute for Social Change. McDowell likens that approach to staking a large tent with poles at the center. When a strong wind comes, it will collapse. If, instead, the tent is staked from the outside, it is more likely to withstand the weather. That’s what McDowell calls “design for the margins.” He gives another example, this time involving humans: sidewalk curb cuts. Originally created to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/smashing-barriers-access-disability-activism-and-curb-cuts\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">help disabled World War II veterans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> navigate urban areas with wheelchairs, curb cuts \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_curb_cut_effect\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">became a legal requirement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> under the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Now \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_curb_cut_effect\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who benefits from that\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">?” McDowell asks. “Take your average day walking down the street, and you’ll see a little kid riding his tricycle right across down the curb cut and across the street. Someone pulling their grocery cart. Someone pushing their baby. You’ll even see runners making that run nice and smooth, they don’t even have to jump off the curb to do it. But where did it start? It started by taking care of and paying attention to someone — some group of people who were at the margin of society to make sure they were taken care of, and in turn we were all taken care of.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea that creating equitable and flexible design can benefit all members of society undergirds \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.udinstitute.org/what-is-ud\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">universal design\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a concept developed by architect \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/13/us/ronald-l-mace-58-designer-of-buildings-accessible-to-all.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ronald Mace\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Rooted in the disability rights movement, universal design is typically applied to products and the built environment, but the principles offer a valuable way to reimagine educational spaces, particularly during the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/coronavirus\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">coronavirus crisis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. With the rapid switch to distance learning this spring, schools struggled to serve students who are at the margins for a variety of reasons, from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/05/22/coronavirus-parents-distance-learning-woes-kids-disabilities/5227887002/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">disabilities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55783/homeless-families-face-high-hurdles-home-schooling-their-kids\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">homelessness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55976/survey-shows-big-remote-learning-gaps-for-low-income-and-special-needs-children\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">poverty\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Recently, as schools planned for reopening, educators attending a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjta0KC3NCs&feature=youtu.be&t=105\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">design challenge\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hosted by University of California Berkeley’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://gse.berkeley.edu/professional-development/uc-berkeley-professional-development-providers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professional Development Providers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> used universal design principles to think creatively about how schools might function in the fall. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the event, Shane Carter, one of the challenge coordinators, asked participants to consider two real students whose full and equal participation in school was limited by the mismatch between their circumstances and traditional structures and processes. During the event, attendees heard about school \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/06/11/how-schools-in-other-countries-have-reopened.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reopening experiences\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from teachers in multiple countries. Then, in virtual breakout groups, teachers brainstormed what \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/06/11/what-needs-to-change-inside-school-buildings.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resources\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/06/11/6-ways-to-bring-students-and-staff.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strategies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> they would need to implement new health-protective measures such as masks, ventilation, health screenings, sanitation, cohort learning and social distancing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other rooms, teachers discussed laundering masks at school, providing individual science kits, installing microphones for teachers and dozens of other ideas to accommodate new health and safety measures while centering the needs of marginalized students. The breakout sessions lasted about 35 minutes — just enough for participants to scratch the surface of creative solutions. After the stress of emergency distance learning and as they face ongoing uncertainty, this summer may be \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-06-04/schools-plan-to-reopen-as-watchdog-finds-major-facility-problems\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">an anxious time for educators\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but participants in the challenge said they felt empowered by the information shared and the opportunity to think collaboratively about the fall. With most of the nearly 200 attendees coming from California, some asked the organizers to share email lists so that colleagues could bring the model back to their districts. “In an ideal world, a community would spend five solid days on this,” said Carter, who hopes that the process will be used and improved upon by other educators. 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Ranging in age from fourteen to nineteen, students accepted into the prestigious program participated in four weeks of intense training, with days of acting, singing and dancing often running from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m., and ending with a big performance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AcademyActingCo/status/1275243369032269834\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This summer, drama program director Kelly Maxner and the faculty decided to innovate quickly, offering a scaled-back online program with fewer students, more teachers, and slashing the attendance cost in half. With a curriculum based on what they learned teaching performance online during the spring semester to UNCSA undergrads, the online classes in singing, dancing and acting for high schoolers will be less focused on a final performance and more on boosting specific skills, like acting for the camera. 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We decided what was essential and important—not just for the arts training but for the whole experience of the intensive.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccm.uc.edu/summer/high-school-arts-immersion.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">High School Summer Immersion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, in Cincinnati, Ohio, is running through all of June and a part of July, and includes a high school musical theater workshop, a ballet camp for elementary kids, and private music lessons. Enrollment in the summer program has remained high, even after the summer’s classes moved online. The High School Immersion Musical Theatre Workshop, for example, filled up in just a few days—a testament to how much kids want to keep performing even though the environment won’t be the same, said Anne Cushing-Reid, Director of Preparatory and Community Engagement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Conservatory’s focus has been on making students feel as if they were present on campus “These aren’t your typical online classes,” Cushing-Reid wrote in an email. “They’re designed to get students out of their seats and onto their at-home ‘dance floors’ or ‘music studios’—whether that is their living room, driveway or bedroom.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students in the musical theater workshop will also get a chance to work with more guest faculty through Zoom than had they met in person. Successful alumnus from Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theater are able to join online meetings more easily, “expanding students’ networks and imparting expert knowledge from the performing arts industry,” Cushing-Reid said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Different challenges, new benefits\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even smaller, regional programs are finding creative ways to engage young performers. The nonprofit \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mudlarktheater.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mudlark Theatre\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Evanston, Illinois, is hoping to be able to open for summer camps, according to state guidelines, by late June or early July. In the meantime, Mudlark has been providing experiences for students online, including parodies of the news and a character-based role-playing game like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/dungeons-dragons\">Dungeons & Dragons\u003c/a>, to keep students performing even if it’s not exactly theater.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 828px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774.jpg 828w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774-800x930.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774-160x186.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774-768x893.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation All-City Summer Musical production of Les Misérables. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of EVSC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The All-City Summer Musical in Evansville, Indiana, a showcase of the best high school talent in the city, has been a big summer box-office draw in an area that boasts a strong performing tradition for more than thirty years, including when I attended this program as a high schooler many years ago. When performances of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sweeney Todd\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, set for mid-July, were cancelled, all but two of the students decided to stay on for an online experience—even when director Robert Hunt and producer Tiffany Schriber Ball weren’t exactly sure what that would look like. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based loosely on what they’d seen Broadway performers put together online, Schriber Ball and Hunt quickly decided that the performers would work on musical theatre scenes and song selections, and the orchestra would work on the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sweeney Todd Suite\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, all on Zoom. They enlisted the help of a local university technical director to teach the backstage crew—the students who usually build the sets, and run lights and sound—how to design a set. Using both set-design software and old-fashioned popsicle sticks and glue to create models, students are gaining a new skill they wouldn’t have a chance to learn during a “normal” summer production. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early rehearsals have shown the social aspect of doing theater together—one of its biggest draws—is still lively, even online. Students are hanging around in “meetings,” even during the scheduled breaks, to joke around and talk. “One of the cast traditions is playing frisbee during breaks,” Hunt said. “And I was so thrilled to see they were playing ‘virtual’ frisbee with each other, saying ‘here, it’s coming for you!’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Uncertain what the future brings, the show goes on \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even one of the country’s largest high school theater gatherings and competitions, the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://itf.pathable.co/performances\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">International Thespian Festival\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, held for the past 25 summers at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, is going virtual this year. The Educational Theatre Association, with chapters in 45 states and serving more than 130,000 theatre educators and students, is hosting the virtual event. It will include both pre-recorded performances of school productions that happened before schools closed, as well as an online showcase and some live-streaming events. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy_Eq59EYlo&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The professional group is providing guidance for schools and programs as summer programs move online and re-invent a theatrical experience for students, even as the future for performances is uncertain. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jim Palmarini, the Educational Theatre Association’s educational policy director, said their “\u003ca href=\"https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/SCHOOLTHEATRE/7f9e7fa8-ea41-4033-b6a3-1ce9da6a7b6f/UploadedFiles/HPVMgpNDTw2FWro1JLiL_EdTA_ReOpen_Guide_2020_FINAL.pdf\">Recommendations for Reopening Theatre Programs\u003c/a>” guide was issued in June, acknowledging that ultimately each state’s and district’s requirements will be different. “The guide is seeking to address the middle ground of how each theatre program can safely reopen in the fall,” he said. “While performance remains central to school theatre programs, we know that producing live shows will be a challenge for many schools this upcoming school year. Because of that, we’re putting a lot of emphasis on the creative ways that schools can move their performances to an online format. Things are changing so fast that it is hard to say which school will be to do live performances, and which will not.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The loss of public performances is bigger than dashed dreams of stardom. After spring shows were cancelled, and summer programs moved online, many programs lost a season’s worth of box office revenue to help mount the next show. A recent\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"blank\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CDC study showing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that aerosol droplets transmitted by singing could pose a serious risk not just to singers standing close together, but to the audience as well, may mean performances are postponed for much longer. And providing summer online experiences also reveal \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/should-schools-teach-anyone-who-can-get-online-or-no-one-at-all/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">big gaps in student equity\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, since not everybody has a computer at home, or a decent internet connection. Schools and programs want to know: when will it be safe to perform in person again? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School theaters are also worried about looming\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"blank\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">state budget cuts\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, due to lost tax revenue affected by the pandemic, for which the arts are usually first on the chopping block. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But for some programs, lost revenue and public performances have to be set aside: for students, the show must go on. For the past ninety-two summers, some of the country’s most accomplished high school actors, singers, dancers and musicians arrive at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.interlochen.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interlochen Center for the Arts\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the woods of northern Michigan for a remote, focused six-week summer arts program to hone their skills. This summer’s online program, which will feature acting and musical theater classes and some kind of recorded end-of-season performance, won’t look the same. But the distance, said theater arts summer program director Bill Church, will make hearts grow fonder—not just for theater kids, but the educators who teach them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When we get to invite people back, it’s going to be ridiculous,” Church said. “The celebration and the joy—I don’t think anyone will ever take theater or rehearsal for granted ever again.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled Jack Tatara's name. We regret this error. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This summer, drama program director Kelly Maxner and the faculty decided to innovate quickly, offering a scaled-back online program with fewer students, more teachers, and slashing the attendance cost in half. With a curriculum based on what they learned teaching performance online during the spring semester to UNCSA undergrads, the online classes in singing, dancing and acting for high schoolers will be less focused on a final performance and more on boosting specific skills, like acting for the camera. They’ve also added a master class in art for social change—how artists behave as citizens, taking a specific look at current events and how artists adapt and express themselves. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We recognize strongly that we can’t do what we did before,” Maxner said. “But what we’ve done is distilled the curriculum, the essentials of the training. We decided what was essential and important—not just for the arts training but for the whole experience of the intensive.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccm.uc.edu/summer/high-school-arts-immersion.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">High School Summer Immersion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, in Cincinnati, Ohio, is running through all of June and a part of July, and includes a high school musical theater workshop, a ballet camp for elementary kids, and private music lessons. Enrollment in the summer program has remained high, even after the summer’s classes moved online. The High School Immersion Musical Theatre Workshop, for example, filled up in just a few days—a testament to how much kids want to keep performing even though the environment won’t be the same, said Anne Cushing-Reid, Director of Preparatory and Community Engagement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Conservatory’s focus has been on making students feel as if they were present on campus “These aren’t your typical online classes,” Cushing-Reid wrote in an email. “They’re designed to get students out of their seats and onto their at-home ‘dance floors’ or ‘music studios’—whether that is their living room, driveway or bedroom.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students in the musical theater workshop will also get a chance to work with more guest faculty through Zoom than had they met in person. Successful alumnus from Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theater are able to join online meetings more easily, “expanding students’ networks and imparting expert knowledge from the performing arts industry,” Cushing-Reid said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Different challenges, new benefits\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even smaller, regional programs are finding creative ways to engage young performers. The nonprofit \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mudlarktheater.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mudlark Theatre\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Evanston, Illinois, is hoping to be able to open for summer camps, according to state guidelines, by late June or early July. In the meantime, Mudlark has been providing experiences for students online, including parodies of the news and a character-based role-playing game like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/dungeons-dragons\">Dungeons & Dragons\u003c/a>, to keep students performing even if it’s not exactly theater.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 828px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774.jpg 828w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774-800x930.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774-160x186.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/IMG_0774-768x893.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation All-City Summer Musical production of Les Misérables. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of EVSC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The All-City Summer Musical in Evansville, Indiana, a showcase of the best high school talent in the city, has been a big summer box-office draw in an area that boasts a strong performing tradition for more than thirty years, including when I attended this program as a high schooler many years ago. When performances of \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sweeney Todd\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, set for mid-July, were cancelled, all but two of the students decided to stay on for an online experience—even when director Robert Hunt and producer Tiffany Schriber Ball weren’t exactly sure what that would look like. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based loosely on what they’d seen Broadway performers put together online, Schriber Ball and Hunt quickly decided that the performers would work on musical theatre scenes and song selections, and the orchestra would work on the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sweeney Todd Suite\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, all on Zoom. They enlisted the help of a local university technical director to teach the backstage crew—the students who usually build the sets, and run lights and sound—how to design a set. Using both set-design software and old-fashioned popsicle sticks and glue to create models, students are gaining a new skill they wouldn’t have a chance to learn during a “normal” summer production. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early rehearsals have shown the social aspect of doing theater together—one of its biggest draws—is still lively, even online. Students are hanging around in “meetings,” even during the scheduled breaks, to joke around and talk. “One of the cast traditions is playing frisbee during breaks,” Hunt said. “And I was so thrilled to see they were playing ‘virtual’ frisbee with each other, saying ‘here, it’s coming for you!’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Uncertain what the future brings, the show goes on \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even one of the country’s largest high school theater gatherings and competitions, the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://itf.pathable.co/performances\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">International Thespian Festival\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, held for the past 25 summers at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, is going virtual this year. The Educational Theatre Association, with chapters in 45 states and serving more than 130,000 theatre educators and students, is hosting the virtual event. It will include both pre-recorded performances of school productions that happened before schools closed, as well as an online showcase and some live-streaming events. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fy_Eq59EYlo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fy_Eq59EYlo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The professional group is providing guidance for schools and programs as summer programs move online and re-invent a theatrical experience for students, even as the future for performances is uncertain. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jim Palmarini, the Educational Theatre Association’s educational policy director, said their “\u003ca href=\"https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/SCHOOLTHEATRE/7f9e7fa8-ea41-4033-b6a3-1ce9da6a7b6f/UploadedFiles/HPVMgpNDTw2FWro1JLiL_EdTA_ReOpen_Guide_2020_FINAL.pdf\">Recommendations for Reopening Theatre Programs\u003c/a>” guide was issued in June, acknowledging that ultimately each state’s and district’s requirements will be different. “The guide is seeking to address the middle ground of how each theatre program can safely reopen in the fall,” he said. “While performance remains central to school theatre programs, we know that producing live shows will be a challenge for many schools this upcoming school year. Because of that, we’re putting a lot of emphasis on the creative ways that schools can move their performances to an online format. Things are changing so fast that it is hard to say which school will be to do live performances, and which will not.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The loss of public performances is bigger than dashed dreams of stardom. After spring shows were cancelled, and summer programs moved online, many programs lost a season’s worth of box office revenue to help mount the next show. A recent\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"blank\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CDC study showing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that aerosol droplets transmitted by singing could pose a serious risk not just to singers standing close together, but to the audience as well, may mean performances are postponed for much longer. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Arizona schools shut down in mid-March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, Tatiana Laimit, a nurse in Phoenix, knew she needed a backup plan. Laimit is a single mother of a 6-year-old girl and had recently relocated to the area. She didn't have any friends or family nearby to ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was past 8 on a Friday night when she shot off an email to her local YMCA to ask if they were providing emergency care for the children of front-line workers. \"And immediately [someone] responded and let me know, 'Yes.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, many child care centers have stayed open for the children of front-line workers — everyone from doctors to grocery store clerks. YMCA of the USA and New York City's Department of Education have been caring for, collectively, tens of thousands of children since March, and both tell NPR they have no reports of coronavirus clusters or outbreaks. As school districts sweat over reopening plans, and with just over half of parents \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/312674/parents-slightly-favor-full-time-person-school-fall.aspx\">telling pollsters\u003c/a> they're comfortable with in-person school this fall, public health and policy experts say education leaders should be discussing and drawing on these real-world child care experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Y says that during the lockdowns it cared for up to 40,000 children between the ages of 1 and 14 at 1,100 separate sites, often in partnership with local and state governments. And in New York City, the pandemic's national epicenter in March and April, the city's Department of Education reports that it cared for more than 10,000 children at 170 sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working in early days, and on very short notice, these two organizations followed safety guidance that closely resembles what's now been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/14/856483424/cdc-issues-decision-tools-to-guide-reopening-of-schools-businesses-transit\">officially put out\u003c/a> by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Y says a few staff members and parents at sites around the country did test positive, but there are no records of having more than one case at a site. This, among a population of essential workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L45r63t8hpYfGLpT6gWKjYMscu8Wut6jtlxO-1FAW9c/edit#gid=204576280\">separate, unscientific survey\u003c/a> of child care centers, Brown University economist Emily Oster found that, as of Tuesday afternoon, among 916 centers serving more than 20,000 children, just over 1% of staff and 0.16% of children were confirmed infected with the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Y emphasized to NPR that its data is not comprehensive, and the availability of testing has varied across the country. But experts say it's worth taking these low numbers into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56163\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-temp1_custom-f2738490111b426ff8741a02bb9d3570d9bce251.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-temp1_custom-f2738490111b426ff8741a02bb9d3570d9bce251.jpe 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-temp1_custom-f2738490111b426ff8741a02bb9d3570d9bce251-160x103.jpe 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Valley of the Sun YMCA staff member takes the temperature of a child before she enters child care. \u003ccite>(Valley of the Sun YMCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There are almost no recorded cases of child-to-adult transmission of COVID-19,\" says Elliot Haspel, an education policy expert and child care advocate who wrote \u003ca href=\"http://earlylearningnation.com/2020/06/opinion-child-cares-look-safe-its-time-to-act-like-it/\">an op-ed\u003c/a> arguing for reopening full-time child care and schools as soon as possible. \"It's not zero risk, [but] we're acting with a March 2020 understanding of COVID-19 and kids, and not with a June 2020 understanding of COVID-19 and kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pods and \"airplane arms\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the CDC had yet to issue its official guidance about how to safely operate schools or group child care. And yet, the protocols that the Y and New York City came up with were strikingly similar to the CDC's May recommendations, as well as guidelines now being considered by states and districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to slow the spread of illness, local YMCAs and New York City grouped \"pods\" of no more than nine children with each adult. Heidi Brasher of the YMCA of the USA says this often meant using spaces such as basketball courts or even boardrooms, taking advantage of buildings that were otherwise closed. \"They were very creative in the way they utilized space,\" Brasher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pods didn't mix, but social distancing and use of masks weren't necessarily observed within each pod, especially with very young children — the Y cares for children as young as 1 year old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brasher says her organization consulted with the CDC to create a \"quick start\" guide for each location around the country to get up and running with emergency child care, going over everything from morning check-in procedures to food prep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They did temperature checks and symptom screenings on each child coming in each day, with staff members wearing masks, gloves and gowns where available. Children with symptoms were urged to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff came up with creative ways to reinforce frequent and thorough hand-washing. Libby Corral is chief operating officer of the Valley of the Sun YMCA, which operated nine emergency child care sites across Arizona (this month they expanded to regular camp programming). She says that at the beginning of each 30-minute activity, such as sports or craft time, children get a stamp or marker doodle on their hands, which they have to wash off before moving on to the next activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were teaching them not just 'rinse your hands,' but 'scrub them.' And instead of having to dread washing their hands, they were able to get excited and laugh and have fun while they were doing that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also reinforce social distancing by having the kids make \"airplane arms\" when they're standing in line or moving from place to place. And children get their own materials, such as art supplies, to use from day to day, rather than sharing. Having individual materials worked so well, says Corral, that they plan to make it a policy in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1221px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"1221\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d.jpe 1221w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d-800x600.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d-160x120.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d-768x576.jpe 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1221px) 100vw, 1221px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Valley of the Sun YMCA staff member poses with children after a craft project that involved making face masks. \u003ccite>(Valley of the Sun YMCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, running things this way is expensive. Even after emergency state aid, her YMCA locations ran at a deficit, Corral says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York, which is still operating its city-run child care centers, the rules are similar, and in some ways stricter. Face coverings are mandatory for all, whereas children at YMCA sites aren't required to wear them. Social distancing is maintained as much as possible by everyone inside the building, reinforced with 6-foot-long posters of animals like sea turtles. And daily temperature checks of everyone coming in the building are done by school nurses, according to New York City Department of Education spokeswoman Katie O'Hanlon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with both organizations say they don't know of any clusters of cases associated with a site. Corral, in Arizona, says she knows of one case in which a staff member, who didn't work directly with children, tested positive, and another case in which a parent called in and volunteered to self-quarantine after an exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laimit, the nurse in Phoenix, credits the Valley of the Sun YMCA with \"really great communication,\" both about health practices and her daughter's social and emotional needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It takes a weight off of me as a parent, because when I'm at work, especially providing care for others — and it's absolutely chaotic right now, Arizona is on the rise with their COVID cases — not having to worry about my daughter and her safety ... it's a savior for me. It's a weight off of my shoulders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"There are ways to substantially reduce the risks\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should parents across the country stop worrying about sending their kids off to camp and school, as long as a version of these guidelines is followed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Joshua Sharfstein at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health says we can learn from the YMCA and New York City examples, but we shouldn't overgeneralize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These experiences illustrate that it's possible to bring kids together without a guarantee of an outbreak or a serious situation developing,\" he explains. On the other hand, they don't guarantee the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharfstein agrees it's OK to extrapolate — not only from essential worker child care in the U.S., but from the experiences of countries around the world where schools have already opened up. \"There are ways to substantially reduce the risks when kids get together,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also agrees with Haspel, the child care advocate, in saying that \"there is converging evidence that the coronavirus doesn't transmit among children like the flu — that it's a lower risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two related reasons for this, Sharfstein explains: One is that children \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/20/880983822/coronavirus-mystery-are-kids-less-likely-to-catch-it-than-adults-are\">seem to be less likely to get infected\u003c/a>, and the second is that when they \u003cem>are \u003c/em>infected they are much more likely to be mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic. If they're not coughing or sneezing, it's harder for them to spread the virus to others. \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/how-iceland-beat-the-coronavirus\">reported\u003c/a> that Iceland, which did extensive contact tracing, found only two examples of child-to-parent transmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A question of priorities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharfstein says there are still some really important things we don't know — and that we'd like to know — as group child care and schools start to open up. He cites a \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/2020/filling-in-the-blanks-national-research-needs-to-guide-decisions-about-reopening-schools-in-the-united-states\">May report\u003c/a> from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. It calls for a national research agenda to quickly address the outstanding questions about children and the coronavirus. Among them, says the report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"How vulnerable to severe illness are students who have underlying health conditions, such as asthma, diabetes, or severe obesity? How safe is it for adults who themselves have serious underlying health conditions? ... How safe is it for teachers, administrators, and other school staff? ... Are certain school communities at greater risk than others relative to exposure, and should each school community be evaluated independently to determine level of risk?\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And then there's the question of priorities. Among all the steps organizations are taking — hand-washing, masks, temperature checks, pods, social distancing, and guidelines about staying home if sick — which are the most important?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And crucially, how important is group size? The recommendation to keep groups of children small and separate imposes a particular burden on school districts. In most places, reducing class sizes means reducing in-person class time, staggering schedules and continuing remote learning in parallel with in-class instruction. That requires resources that not all students and schools have access to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Sharfstein says, we just don't know how important it is to limit group size. \"I think it's a failure that we haven't prioritized opening schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prioritizing schools, he adds, means doing lots of research on children and the coronavirus as soon as possible to inform the right policies to put in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+Parents+Can+Learn+From+Child+Care+Centers+That+Stayed+Open+During+Lockdowns&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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But experts say it's worth taking these low numbers into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56163\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-temp1_custom-f2738490111b426ff8741a02bb9d3570d9bce251.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-temp1_custom-f2738490111b426ff8741a02bb9d3570d9bce251.jpe 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-temp1_custom-f2738490111b426ff8741a02bb9d3570d9bce251-160x103.jpe 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Valley of the Sun YMCA staff member takes the temperature of a child before she enters child care. \u003ccite>(Valley of the Sun YMCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There are almost no recorded cases of child-to-adult transmission of COVID-19,\" says Elliot Haspel, an education policy expert and child care advocate who wrote \u003ca href=\"http://earlylearningnation.com/2020/06/opinion-child-cares-look-safe-its-time-to-act-like-it/\">an op-ed\u003c/a> arguing for reopening full-time child care and schools as soon as possible. \"It's not zero risk, [but] we're acting with a March 2020 understanding of COVID-19 and kids, and not with a June 2020 understanding of COVID-19 and kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pods and \"airplane arms\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the CDC had yet to issue its official guidance about how to safely operate schools or group child care. And yet, the protocols that the Y and New York City came up with were strikingly similar to the CDC's May recommendations, as well as guidelines now being considered by states and districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to slow the spread of illness, local YMCAs and New York City grouped \"pods\" of no more than nine children with each adult. Heidi Brasher of the YMCA of the USA says this often meant using spaces such as basketball courts or even boardrooms, taking advantage of buildings that were otherwise closed. \"They were very creative in the way they utilized space,\" Brasher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pods didn't mix, but social distancing and use of masks weren't necessarily observed within each pod, especially with very young children — the Y cares for children as young as 1 year old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brasher says her organization consulted with the CDC to create a \"quick start\" guide for each location around the country to get up and running with emergency child care, going over everything from morning check-in procedures to food prep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They did temperature checks and symptom screenings on each child coming in each day, with staff members wearing masks, gloves and gowns where available. Children with symptoms were urged to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff came up with creative ways to reinforce frequent and thorough hand-washing. Libby Corral is chief operating officer of the Valley of the Sun YMCA, which operated nine emergency child care sites across Arizona (this month they expanded to regular camp programming). She says that at the beginning of each 30-minute activity, such as sports or craft time, children get a stamp or marker doodle on their hands, which they have to wash off before moving on to the next activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were teaching them not just 'rinse your hands,' but 'scrub them.' And instead of having to dread washing their hands, they were able to get excited and laugh and have fun while they were doing that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also reinforce social distancing by having the kids make \"airplane arms\" when they're standing in line or moving from place to place. And children get their own materials, such as art supplies, to use from day to day, rather than sharing. Having individual materials worked so well, says Corral, that they plan to make it a policy in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1221px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-56164\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"1221\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d.jpe 1221w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d-800x600.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d-1020x765.jpe 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d-160x120.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/ymca-masks1-ed9261aa398f162e6b06bb2a41aa2a5117acc57d-768x576.jpe 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1221px) 100vw, 1221px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Valley of the Sun YMCA staff member poses with children after a craft project that involved making face masks. \u003ccite>(Valley of the Sun YMCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, running things this way is expensive. Even after emergency state aid, her YMCA locations ran at a deficit, Corral says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York, which is still operating its city-run child care centers, the rules are similar, and in some ways stricter. Face coverings are mandatory for all, whereas children at YMCA sites aren't required to wear them. Social distancing is maintained as much as possible by everyone inside the building, reinforced with 6-foot-long posters of animals like sea turtles. And daily temperature checks of everyone coming in the building are done by school nurses, according to New York City Department of Education spokeswoman Katie O'Hanlon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with both organizations say they don't know of any clusters of cases associated with a site. Corral, in Arizona, says she knows of one case in which a staff member, who didn't work directly with children, tested positive, and another case in which a parent called in and volunteered to self-quarantine after an exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laimit, the nurse in Phoenix, credits the Valley of the Sun YMCA with \"really great communication,\" both about health practices and her daughter's social and emotional needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It takes a weight off of me as a parent, because when I'm at work, especially providing care for others — and it's absolutely chaotic right now, Arizona is on the rise with their COVID cases — not having to worry about my daughter and her safety ... it's a savior for me. It's a weight off of my shoulders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"There are ways to substantially reduce the risks\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should parents across the country stop worrying about sending their kids off to camp and school, as long as a version of these guidelines is followed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Joshua Sharfstein at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health says we can learn from the YMCA and New York City examples, but we shouldn't overgeneralize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These experiences illustrate that it's possible to bring kids together without a guarantee of an outbreak or a serious situation developing,\" he explains. 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If they're not coughing or sneezing, it's harder for them to spread the virus to others. \u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/how-iceland-beat-the-coronavirus\">reported\u003c/a> that Iceland, which did extensive contact tracing, found only two examples of child-to-parent transmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A question of priorities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharfstein says there are still some really important things we don't know — and that we'd like to know — as group child care and schools start to open up. He cites a \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/2020/filling-in-the-blanks-national-research-needs-to-guide-decisions-about-reopening-schools-in-the-united-states\">May report\u003c/a> from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. It calls for a national research agenda to quickly address the outstanding questions about children and the coronavirus. 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