OCDE NEWSROOM
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State superintendent touts Garden Grove’s Eisenhower Elementary as a model school for reopening safely |
Greeted by a crowed of energized students, school leaders and district officials, California’s top education official paid a visit to Eisenhower Elementary School in the Garden Grove Unified School District on Thursday, praising the campus as a model for safely resuming in-person instruction in a community hit hard by the pandemic. Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, learned firsthand how Eisenhower’s staff worked together to bring all 550 students back for full-time instruction following the winter’s COVID-19 surge with phone calls, school tours and home visits.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/state-superintendent-touts-eisenhower-elementary-as-a-model-school-for-reopening-safely/ |
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Three Orange County Classified School Employees of the Year receive state honors |
A few short weeks ago, they were named Orange County Classified School Employees of the Year. Now, three of the county’s top workers have received one of the state’s top honors. Patricia Mendez, activity monitor at Manuel Esqueda Elementary School in the Santa Ana Unified School District, Adrian Prieto, HVAC technician in the Anaheim Union High School District, and Chris Martinez, systems network technician in the Magnolia School District, were recognized as 2021 California Classified School Employees of the Year.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/three-orange-county-classified-school-employees-of-the-year-receive-state-honors/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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State schools superintendent visits Garden Grove students back in the classroom |
With all of Eisenhower Elementary School’s 550 students back on campus full-time, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond decided to pay the school a visit on Thursday, May 27. Eisenhower is the first campus in the Garden Grove Unified School District to transition 100% of its student body back into classrooms five days a week. The district has been phasing its 67 campuses back to in-person learning since Orange County got out of the purple tier and has announced all campuses will be full-time in person next school year.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2021/05/27/state-schools-superintendent-visits-garden-grove-students-back-in-the-classroom/ |
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EDSOURCE
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25,000 students sign up for San Diego Unified summer school |
Summer school classes at San Diego Unified are in high demand. About 25,000 students have signed up for summer school — about 12 times the number of a typical year, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. The district has received $450 million in federal relief funds, as well as state Covid relief dollars. It plans to expand its summer programs to all students this year using $31 million from state funds designated for learning loss.
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#25-000-students-sign-up-for-san-diego-unified-summer-school |
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Distance learning led to poor academic outcomes for many students |
Students who spent most of the 2020-21 school year in distance learning were more likely to fall behind academically and to be absent than students who spent most of the year on campus, according to a recently published Rand report. A survey of teachers and principals found that schools that were primarily in distance learning last school year covered less curriculum, had more absenteeism and lower achievement in mathematics and English language arts.
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#distance-learning-led-to-poor-academic-outcomes-for-many-students |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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A better equation: New pandemic data supports acceleration rather than remediation to make up for COVID learning loss |
As educators plan how they will address lost student learning during the next school year, they should forgo the traditional remedy of remediation in favor of a strategy known as acceleration, a new report recommends. The analysis was performed by TNTP, formerly known as The New Teacher Project, and the nonprofit Zearn, whose online math platform is used by one in four elementary students nationwide.
If they are coached on missing skills required, students complete 27 percent more grade-level work than if teachers try to back up and fit in unfinished material from prior years, the researchers found.
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http://laschoolreport.com/a-better-equation-new-pandemic-data-supports-acceleration-rather-than-remediation-to-make-up-for-covid-learning-loss/ |
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