Webinar Materials:
Partner Websites:
- Detroit Public Schools
- Virginia Department of Education
- Chesapeake County Public Schools
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
OVERVIEW
The start of the pandemic in March 2020 caused a shift in k-12 schooling. Administrators, teachers, and students have navigated unprecedented times as they had to pivot almost instantly to an online learning environment. For global-majority youth, many challenges have intensified due to COVID-19 including technology gaps, disparities related to effective teaching, and proper social and academic supports. As school administrators and educators meet this moment with courage and prime themselves to teach in a variety of settings (in-person, virtual, or a hybrid model), how we are engaging students becomes critical.
In this 75-minute webinar, facilitated by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), participants learned how Michigan and Virginia are committing to providing high-quality curricula and instruction to all students during the global pandemic. It also focused specifically on the following four indicators of educational equity outlined in the National Academies reports Monitoring Educational Equity and Building Educational Equity Indicator Systems:
- Disparities in access to effective teaching
- Disparities in access to rigorous coursework
- Disparities in curricular breadth
- Disparities in access to high-quality academic supports
Representatives from Chesapeake County Public Schools (VA) and Detroit County Public Schools (MI):
- Discussed their priorities for educational equity
- Shared their efforts to provide equitable access to effective teaching, rigorous coursework, curricular breadth, and access to high-quality academic supports during the global pandemic
- Described whether and how they are measuring their progress on those indicators.