They Are Rising to the Challenge.
Gilliard’s teachers are required to touch base with each student’s parents once a week, and Lucy herself is popping into online classes and posting comments to encourage students, much as she does when students are physically present in school. When students do return to the school building, she is planning to loop the entire school, meaning that students will be assigned the same teacher as they had last year, a move that will require teachers to learn the next grade’s standards and curriculum.
“Though this is a trying time for us,” she says, “this opens up a lot of learning opportunities.”
In this episode of ExtraOrdinary Districts in Extraordinary Times, hear how Lucy, who has helped lead great improvement at Gilliard, thinks about how she will move the school forward—and how she hopes that this crisis will jumpstart a move into new teaching practices and more learning for her students, most of whom are African American children from low-income homes. “Believe it or not, they are rising to the challenge,” she says.
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