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It’s been almost a year since Massachusetts public schools closed their doors to prevent community spread of COVID-19. Recently, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley announced plans to “take remote and hybrid learning models off the table” by April. It’s about time.
For months, we have known that the risks of harm to students from school closures far outweigh the risks from COVID-19. It was clear last summer not only that students are at low risk from COVID-19, but that transmission from students to staff is rare, particularly when risk mitigation protocols are in place. And yet, today, more than 20% of Massachusetts school districts serving approximately 400,000 students, remain fully remote. Many others receive more than half of their instruction online.
Springfield Looks to Identify and Provide Skills Students Need to Thrive
But maybe an adjective is in order to get the complete picture, pun intended.
Indeed, what the Springfield Public Schools are focused on now is creating a portrait of a successful high-school graduate, through an initiative designed to gain feedback from a host of constituencies regarding the skills as in all the skills that young people will need to not only earn a high-school diploma, but thrive in an ever-changing, technology-driven economy.
And this portrait will become a valuable blueprint of sorts as school administrators go about creating a new strategic plan for the city’s public schools, said Superintendent Dan Warwick, who stressed repeatedly that Portrait of a Graduate is very much a community-driven process that will define success for Springfield students, including the values, knowledge, skills, and work habits they will need to thrive as learners, workers, and leaders.