Kids as young as 12 can now get vaccinated. Will NYC public schools help get shots into arms?
“Now that children as young as age 12 are eligible for Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, the next step is getting their families to sign them up for it. While Shake Shack is trying to lure New Yorkers with a free side of French fries, and the Mets and Yankees are offering free ballgame tickets, one group […]
Education advocates discuss teacher shortage
The teacher shortage is here, and Chalkbeat has this article about it: Educators met on Friday to share their budget proposals for next year, but an issue facing schools for years to come took center stage. Over the next decade, the New York State Educational Conference Board said about 180,000 new teachers will be needed. […]
How this NYC special education teacher creates a supportive ‘village of love’ for students and families
Chalkbeat has this great teacher profile: Danielle Guggenheim missed her physical classroom so much, she took on a weekend volunteer shift at her neighborhood farmers market in the Bronx. Every Saturday this past year, weather permitting, Guggenheim has sat outside and read books aloud to any children that wanted to stop and listen while their […]
NYC to pay $500 to nearly 1,000 parents to address mental health needs at their schools
Chalkbeat has this story about a move that looks to support mental health in school communities: The education department is launching a training program next month for parents, paying them $500 to become “wellness ambassadors” addressing mental health needs in their school communities. The initiative will pay the stipend to parent leaders from roughly 950 […]
They were targets of racist remarks. Now, these NYC students want to talk about Asian American history — and hate.
For New York City high school students Amanda Chen and Joyce Jiang, the recent mass shooting in Atlanta that left eight people dead, including six women of Asian descent, was more heartbreaking than surprising. The teens have been painfully aware of the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes over the past year. Across the five boroughs, […]
Pandemic Teacher Shortages Imperil In-Person Schooling
The nation’s schools need thousands of more teachers, full-time and substitute, to keep classrooms open. “As exposure to the coronavirus forced thousands of teachers across the United States to stay home and quarantine this winter, administrators in the Washoe County School District, which serves 62,000 students in western Nevada, pulled out all the stops to […]
COVID SCHOOL SHUTDOWNS: ONE YEAR LATER
“A ‘daunting, dark and difficult’ time: How a Brooklyn school moved forward after losing its leader to COVID: High school student Etienne Musole remembered one of his first interactions with principal Dez-Ann Romain. She asked point blank whether he wanted to graduate. It was a high stakes question at a place like Brooklyn Democracy Academy, […]
New CDC guidance: Vaccinate teachers, but don’t wait to open schools
“Highly anticipated new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says schools don’t need to wait for staff to be vaccinated to reopen. Students should return full-time where spread is low or moderate, and with regular testing, the CDC says schools can open for some in-person instruction even when community spread is high. Masks and […]
