How to Help Students Recover From a Broken Year
But what happens when schooling is disrupted, as it was for most students during the pandemic this past year? Students are returning to school now after enduring trauma, stress, and physical separation from classmates and teachers. Many will have to reacclimate to old schooling routines and behavior expectations after more than a year in remote learning. And some will struggle with the prospect of repeating a grade.
How can schools help with the emotional and academic recovery? To find out, 91制片厂视频 Week journalists gathered advice from educators, experts, and researchers on three key questions:
- How can schools address the mental health problems that students will bring with them after a stressful, tumultuous year?
- How should schools deal with the thousands of students whose excessive absences and failing grades make them candidates for retention?
- What lessons might apply from schools for newly arrived immigrant children or the experiences of students whose schooling was disrupted by natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina?
The reporting includes practical tips and useful information resources for district leaders, principals, and teachers as they prepare for the return to full-time, in-person school.
This is part 2 of a 4-part series, Planning for a Pivotal School Year. View the full series.
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Sources: Kathleen Airhart, program director for special education outcomes, Council of Chief State School Officers; Stephanie Andrews, interim executive director of student family support services, Tulsa public schools; Twainna Calhoun, principal, Good Hope Middle School, West Monroe, La.; FutureEd; Rob Coad, school psychologist, Walnut High School, Walnut, Calif.; Audrey Cohan, senior dean for research and scholarship at Molloy College in New York; Felecia Evans, principal, Lander Elementary School, Mayfield, Ohio; Emily Freitag, CEO, Instruction Partners; Mia Halthon, parent, Detroit, Mich.; Douglas Harris, economics professor and Schlieder Foundation Chair in Public 91制片厂视频, and director, 91制片厂视频 Research Alliance for New Orleans, Tulane University; Sharon Hoover, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, co-director, National Center for School Mental Health; Tiffany Newton, parent, Newark, N.J.; Nicole Rucci-Macauda, teacher, Lander Elementary School, Mayfield, Ohio; Nathaniel Schwartz, co-founder, EdResearch for Recovery, Annenberg Institute of School Reform, Brown University; Allison Socol, assistant director of P12 policy, 91制片厂视频 Trust; Shannon Glynn Thomas, program director for college and career readiness standards, Council of Chief State School Officers; Mary Toomey, assistant superintendent, Lawrence, Mass., public schools; Joanne Weiss, consultant; Martin West, professor of education, Harvard Graduate School of 91制片厂视频; Caroline Woodason, director of school support, Dalton public schools, Dalton, Ga.;
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