Ensuring Equity Online
The school year that is now nearly halfway complete has been exceptionally challenging for New York students and educators.
The ongoing effects of the pandemic, ever-evolving adjustments to teaching and learning, and the continued national reckoning with systemic racism are all taking their toll on educators and their students.
Yet across New York State, students and educators continue to persevere through one of the most challenging times facing schools in our lifetime.
Here are their stories.
How New York Educators are Working to Ensure Equity Online
Experimenting in the classroom keeps students engaged during remote learning
Principle 1: Daily live instruction engages students and promotes the achievement of grade-level standards. A package arrives at students’ front doors with a few seemingly mismatched items: milk,...
Shifting to a remote planning process
Principle 8: Innovative professional learning invigorates and inspires teachers to try new things. Principle 10: Student experiences — in and out of the remote classroom — build school community and...
Rallying community resources and school spirit
Principle 9. Community stakeholders and community-based organizations provide programming for students during or outside of the school day. Principle 10. Student experiences — in and out of the...
Reimagining—and reaffirming—our educational partnerships
Principle 8: Innovative professional learning invigorates and inspires teachers to try new things. “This just isn’t working for me. I need something different.” While many people would...
This high school teacher used a time capsule to help her students critically reflect on the ongoing racial justice movement
Principle 1: Daily live instruction engages students and promotes the achievement of grade-level standards Principle 6: Students have social-emotional support and access to a culturally responsive,...
More than ever, schools need to be a “welcoming and affirming” space — especially for students of color
Principle 6: Students have social-emotional support and access to a culturally responsive, antiracist, restorative learning environment. Gail Joyner-White, principal of Cross Hill Academy in...
Ensuring Equity Online: How New York educators are meeting the challenges of remote learning
The school year that is now nearly halfway complete has been exceptionally challenging for New York students and educators. The ongoing effects of the pandemic, ever-evolving adjustments to...