Dallas ISD takes steps to free up teachers’ time, but trustees, teacher group question the changes
The alterations range from waiving requirements for bi-weekly exams to canceling staff-focused campus climate surveys.
Pre-K 4 teacher Annie Pardee cheers on student Adam Renteria as he and his classmates work on an activity behind sneeze guards installed on their desks at N.W. Harllee Early Childhood Center in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. Dallas ISD s Pre-K numbers are down by the thousands to start the school year. (Lynda M. González/The Dallas Morning News)(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
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Why does the ‘COVID slide’ look worse in math? Texas schools struggle to get students back on track
Math can be especially tough to learn virtually.
Rosa Mendoza with her two children, David Sanroman, 7, and Miah Rivera-Mendoza, 10, at Frank Guzick Elementary School in Dallas on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Mendoza has tried to help her kids make progress in math, and says they ve thrived since returning to in-person school after months of learning virtually.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
Rosa Mendoza tried her best to make sure her children kept up with their math lessons during the prolonged school closures.
She hung a white board in the kitchen of their East Dallas apartment so she could work out problems alongside her 10-year-old daughter. To help her son, a first-grader when class suddenly went all-virtual in the spring, she grabbed rice out of the pantry, using the grains to convey addition and subtraction problems.