Both/and strategies in some districts
The Iowa City Community School District has been looking at different strategies to recover learning loss including holding summer school and hiring more classroom teachers for the 2021-22 school year to reduce class sizes.
The district is also planning to hire about 34 academic support teachers, essentially interventionists, to work with elementary, middle and high school students, said Diane Schumacher, Iowa City schools executive director of teaching and learning. The total cost is estimated to be about $3 million. The district plans to use federal funds to cover the cost for the next two years.
In elementary classes, the academic support teachers would be able to do intervention in the classroom, Schumacher said.
IOWA CITY - As part of an equity initiative, the Iowa City Community School District is implementing a health and puberty curriculum that s inclusive of LGBTQ and nonbinary students.