CPS and individual schools must keep talking with families through the summer. Community visits and school-based meetings could reduce fears.
Tag: Teaching During COVID-19
With Today’s Sick-Out, Parents Demand CPS Show Some ‘TLC’ to Students
The CPS reopening plan offers families two poor choices: two in-person days with hybrid, or stay remote with less live teacher time. It’s time to address the learning needs of students.
Keys to Reopening: Consistency, Creativity and Compassion
For CPS elementary schools, the shift into partial hybrid and partial remote creates major disruptions. Here’s how LaSalle Language Academy is working to make the best of it.
Parents Call for More Attention to Remote Learning and Reducing Digital Inequity
Raise Your Hand parents have developed a plan called Trust Learning Care (TLC), with concrete demands like $12.5 million more for students to access devices and Internet, a full commitment to meeting every student in special education’s IEP or 504 plan, at-home learning kits for young remote learners and outdoor options as the weather warms up.
Why Lock Out Remote Teachers Teaching Only Remote Students?
The teacher who remained home was prevented from doing her job, and no substitute was provided.
We Should Not Reopen Schools Now, But If We Can’t Stop Reopening, Here’s How to Lessen the Damage
Editor’s Note: Parent Jennifer Husbands graciously shared with Chicago Unheard her letter to her daughter’s Local School Council regarding reopening. I write today to express my deep concern over the reopening plan the district is enforcing. In some ways it appears the train has left the station – school buildings will be opening despite real and significant concerns from parents…
As Parents, We’ve Sized up the Risks, and the Time to Send Kids to School Is Now
Seldom, if ever, has there been a time in American history when the kids were eager to return to school, while the teachers dreaded returning and even threatened to boycott. However, this upside-down reality is exactly the case in Chicago today. This morning, members of the Chicago City Council’s education committee are holding a hearing to hear Chicago Public Schools…
E-Learning Is a Nightmare, But We’re Still in a Public Health Crisis
The value of human life should far outweigh any inconveniences we are all suffering at this moment.