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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Mendez Park in Westminster gets online groundbreaking |
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How do you have a groundbreaking during pandemic times and commemorate Orange County’s landmark desegregation case at the same time? Make a video. Post it online.
The Orange County Department of Education and the city of Westminster have joined for a unique online groundbreaking of a new park and trail that will commemorate a local court case that led to the desegregation of California’s schools. A pre-recorded video highlighting the park and memorial honoring the landmark ruling Mendez v. Westminster goes live at 3:30 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 13, and will be available via the two hosting organizations’ Facebook pages.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/10/12/mendez-park-in-westminter-gets-online-groundbreaking/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Parents are paying up to $100 an hour for tutors, driving up demand and worsening inequities |
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Malachi Morris-Jackson was struggling with distance learning, falling behind in reading and algebra, when he met high school senior Cooper Silverman. In weekly sessions figuring out equations and analyzing prose, the volunteer tutor works to uplift Malachi — telling him “you got this” and keeping the 11-year-old engaged by pulling off the occasional card trick. “He’s a stellar kid,” said Silverman, a tutor with El Nido Family Centers who attends the Oakwood School in North Hollywood.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-13/covid-19-tutor-demand-cant-afford-one |
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Students are creating free tutoring services to help during the pandemic |
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Alex Yan and Arvin Ding, seniors at Irvine’s Portola High School, have held free weekly in-person tutoring sessions for elementary and middle school students since they started their organization Math at the Library in 2017. When COVID-19 hit, their team of high schoolers quickly transitioned to online tutoring and later banded together with two other student volunteer organizations — Girls Empowering Girls, founded by Annette Yuan, a junior at Irvine High School, which offers one-on-one English conversation practice with language learners, and Code Champion, a coding class Ding started with his sophomore sister Cindy Ding — to form the nonprofit StudySmart Youth Services.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-13/free-online-tutoring-resources-la-students |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Sacramento teachers unions want schools closed until at least January |
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In a letter to Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools Dave Gordon and their districts’ respective superintendents, the teachers unions said allowing some schools to reopen before others “deepens inequality.”
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article246316155.html |
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NEW YORK TIMES
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How a 2nd-Grade Class Sent a Science Experiment to Space“ |
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Back in 2015, students in Maggie Samudio’s second-grade class at Cumberland Elementary School in West Lafayette, Ind., were contemplating an offbeat science question: If a firefly went to space, would it still be able to light up as it floated in zero gravity? Ms. Samudio said she would ask a friend of hers, Steven Collicott, an aerospace professor at nearby Purdue University, for the answer. A day later, Dr. Collicott replied, and Ms. Samudio was surprised by his answer: Instead of guessing, why not actually build the experiment and send it to space?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/science/blue-origin-school-experiment.html |
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FRESNO BEE
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Clovis school district confirms ‘a small number’ of COVID-19 infections |
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As the Clovis community waits to hear when elementary schools might reopen, district officials on Monday confirmed “a small number” of COVID-19 infections, but didn’t say when those cases occurred. Clovis Unified spokesperson Kelly Avants said she could not provide information on when the cases happened or whether it was students or faculty who tested positive.
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https://www.fresnobee.com/news/coronavirus/article246400930.html |
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EDSOURCE
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California school districts struggled to prepare teachers for distance learning this fall |
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Many California school districts offered a wide variety of training over the summer to prepare teachers for distance learning in the fall, but some struggled to offer enough to meet the needs of all teachers, leaving many to find training on their own. Many districts offered in-house trainers or hired teaching consultants. But in many places, training focused only on teleconferencing tools like Zoom and educational platforms like Google Classroom. In other districts teachers were largely on their own to convert lessons from in-person to virtual, according to a recent EdSource survey.
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https://edsource.org/2020/california-school-districts-struggled-to-prepare-teachers-for-distance-learning-this-fall/641442 |
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MODESTO BEE
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Modesto’s Gregori High School campus closed for 14 days because of COVID-19 outbreak |
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Several staff members at Gregori High School have tested positive for COVID-19, Modesto City Schools announced Monday afternoon. Employees at the northwest Modesto campus have reverted to working from home, and at-risk students who have been working in small-group cohorts there will return to distance learning for a period of 14 days.
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https://www.modbee.com/news/local/education/article246411145.html |
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HuffPost
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Why Some Kids Are Shy In Remote Learning But Not In-Person Classes |
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Experts explain why this behavior is normal for children in online classrooms.
Remote learning often comes with technical difficulties, but it also can bring about challenges with student engagement. Some parents might be surprised to find that their normally talkative child who had no issues participating in class in the past is quite reserved in the virtual classroom.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-kids-shy-remote-learning_l_5f8497b8c5b6e5c320021fda |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Students could have lost as much as 183 days of learning time in reading, 232 days in math during first four months of largely virtual schooling |
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15 points from meeting proficiency standards. But when schools closed last spring, his live instruction from a teacher dropped to 20 minutes every three days. Even though her fifth grader is now getting three hours of class on Zoom each day from his Los Angeles school, she’s worried his scores will dip much further the next time he takes the test, especially in reading comprehension. And she’s concerned her eighth-grade daughter Noemi won’t be ready for high school next year.
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http://laschoolreport.com/students-could-have-lost-as-much-as-183-days-of-learning-time-in-reading-232-days-in-math-during-first-four-months-of-largel |
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Marin’s 3 largest school districts push off in-person instruction |
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The youngest students in Marin’s three largest school districts could be back in the classroom in late October, but high schoolers won’t be returning to in-person learning until January, education leaders said. Superintendents at Novato Unified, San Rafael City Schools and Tamalpais Union said their high schools will stay in distance learning through the end of the fall semester, delaying in-classroom instruction until next year.
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https://www.marinij.com/2020/10/12/marins-3-largest-school-districts-push-off-in-person-instruction/ |
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