almost back to normal for Ann Hoeffer and her family in rural Lake County.
“The younger ones are doing great. It’s the older ones,” said Hoeffer, who’s helping raise her six grandchildren. “They’re only going to school two days a week, and it’s not enough.”
The youngest three children Esmerelda, 4, Gabriel, 5, and Jesse, 6 have been going to in-person school five days a week for several months. Gabriel and Jesse, who both have autism, have made significant leaps forward thanks to their teachers and therapists, and the stable routine. Jesse can write his name, Gabriel can get himself dressed, and their social skills have improved.
Teachers reflect on a year of Covid: students struggling, others thriving
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Link copied.New law would help students who fell behind academically during pandemic
California may make it easier for parents to request that their children be held back a grade level next school year or have letter grades earned this school year changed to a “pass” or “don’t pass” score, which some colleges will be required to accept if Assembly Bill 104 becomes law.
The bill was introduced today by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, as a way to ensure that students aren’t punished for falling behind academically during the pandemic.
“The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated educational inequities in California’s school system at an unprecedented scale,” said Gonzalez in her author’s statement. “Mounting evidence indicates that our most vulnerable students lack the necessary academic, social emotional, and technological supports needed to be successful in distance learning, leaving them to fall behind and underperform.”
Assessing student progress during pandemic; new CSU chancellor on reopening campuses in fall
February 12, 2021
How to grade students struggling to cope academically and how to measure the progress of English learners are two challenges teachers and schools face during the pandemic.
This week we talk with EdSource reporter Sydney Johnson on different strategies to grade students, including giving students more time to finish their work and switching from letter grades to providing feedback to students in the form of more descriptive narratives about their work.
And reporter Zaidee Stavely details the difficulties of assessing language proficiency among students who speak a language other than English at home through a lengthy test not originally designed to be given online at home.
December 30, 2020
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is pandemic, with malarkey a distant runner-up. What else could it be? Like a strangler fig, Covid-19 enveloped all aspects of life and education in California. It uprooted families, turned bedrooms into classrooms, put friendships on ice. The comforting, daily rhythms of school interrupted are now measured in learning loss and screen time. There was other big news, too monumental protests, election defeats, new college leaders. But most of 2020, we concentrated on and tried to make sense of a virus that disrupted and transformed California schools and colleges. Here are the highlights of what we wrote.
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