Leadership Actions to Mitigate a COVID Learning Loss Webinar June - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Leadership Actions to Mitigate a COVID Learning Loss Webinar June 11, 2020 Slides

Melissa Lambert, M.Ed. Joseph Sassone, M.Ed. Introductions

Upcoming Offerings The Return Chronicles 10-minute check-ins with school and district leaders

3 Ways to Get the Most From Our Presentation • Take notes on the actions you want to implement quickly . • THINK of ONE QUESTION you would like us to answer while we’re together. • Decide on just one ACTION you plan to complete in the next 24 hours.

3 Leadership Actions to Mitigate a COVID Learning Loss 1. Accelerate learning don’t remediate 2. Leverage synchronous and asynchronous delivery types for distance and in-person learning. 3. Support your team with a Decision Matrix as you develop a learning loss strategy

Social/ Attend to Emotional Basic Health and Needs Supports Grade Level Physical Content is The Return Environment to an Academic Prevent COVID Priority Outbreak Powerful Equitable Partnerships Supports for with ALL Learners Families

REMOTE LEARNING HYBRID OPENING IN-PERSON OPENING CONTINUES Support teaching and Support teaching and Support teaching and learning within the school learning remotely and learning remotely for the building with the chance within the school building majority of students. of rolling closures. for the majority of students.

LEARNING LOSS Unfinished Unfinished Learning COVID-19 Loss Learning Refers to any prerequisite A learning loss of 30 percent in knowledge or skills that students reading and 50 percent in math need for future units that they don’t have yet COVID Summer Summer Loss Loss Equal to about one month of grade-level learning that took place during the school year

Accelerate Learning Don’t Remediate

Accelerated learning requires that students consistently receive grade-level materials, tasks and assignments along with appropriate scaffolds that make the work accessible.

Leadership Actions to Mitigate a COVID Learning Loss 1. Make a commitment and anchor your strategy to ensure grade level instruction is an academic priority despite your RETURN scenario. 2. Don’t rush to use diagnostic assessments to determine what students have lost during remote instruction in order to remediate their learning. 3. Use formative assessment practices to determine next steps in instruction on knowledge, skills and language acquisition. 4. Provide an additional layer of support to Multilingual Learners and students receiving special education

What can you do now ? 1. Adapt your scope and sequence/pacing guide now! 2. Prioritize the most critical prerequisite skills and knowledge for each subject area and grade level 3. Plan your approach to diagnosing students’ unfinished learning through formative assessment practices 4. Give teachers permission to the adjust pacing calendar to add in additional lessons for critical prerequisite skills

Train your School Leaders and Teachers • Study the priority standards for upcoming instruction Understand • Identify critical prerequisite skills and understand students need access grade level content • Determine student understanding of prerequisites based on Diagnose diagnostic or formative data • Determine If gaps exist for the whole class or a small group • Whole class needs: plan to build needed scaffolds into Act upcoming lessons. If needed, adjust pacing calendar to add in additional lessons • Small group needs: plan differentiated instruction or coordinate to address gaps within targeted intervention periods or extra instructional time Achieve the Core. Christina Allison 12/17

Factors Emphasis Benefits

Applying a Balance of A/Synchronous Sessions to Remote Learning for MLLs

Social/ Attend to Emotional Basic Health and Needs The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Supports Model the Inspire a Grade Level Way Shared Vision Physical Content is The Return Environment to an Academic Prevent COVID Priority Outbreak Enable Others Encourage to Action the Heart Powerful Equitable Partnerships Supports for with ALL Learners Families Challenge the Process

Decide on just one ACTION you plan to complete in the next 24 hours.