An anonymous threat was emailed to public schools in Acushnet, Massachusetts, over the weekend, prompting a protective sweep of two of the schools. According to.
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Although all students in kindergarten through grade 12 have returned to full in-person learning since May 17, experts say students have lost an immeasurable amount of learning time in the past year-and-a-half due to hybrid and remote learning. While school routines may seem as normal as they can be for now, schools and districts are working hard to make sure students have the option to receive extra instruction during the summer. Summer programming in New Bedford
The New Bedford public school district will be holding summer programming at the elementary, middle and high school levels throughout the month of July. Academic support will be offered in the morning with a health and wellness focus in the afternoon. Remote academic support will be available for extenuating circumstances. Superintendent Thomas Anderson anticipates getting students outside as much as possible for afternoon activities and possibly even academic lessons, moving the classroom to an outdoors setting.
NEW BEDFORD The days of walking into a classroom, seeing a substitute teacher and expecting a movie day are long gone due to COVID-19.
While teachers are highly valued, even considered by some to be superheroes amid the pandemic, they aren t immune to viruses, and replacements must be in place in case they cannot be present in the classroom. That s where substitute teachers have played a key role this year in keeping students on track with their academic lessons.
Pre-pandemic, each school district had a pool of substitute teachers who were paid on an hourly or daily basis and were called into schools if available. Currently, New Bedford, Fairhaven and Acushnet have employed building-based substitutes whoreport to the school each day and fill in for a teacher if need be. This reduces the chance of spreading the virus bouncing between schools through contact tracing. Dartmouth is currently experiencing a substitute shortage and typically has around 100 substitutes that rotate