Accelerate Or Remediate? Key Factors For Educators To Consider.

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Accelerate or remediate? Key factors for educators to consider.

By Tanji Reed Marshall

Categories: Learning communities, Learning designs, Standards for Professional Learning, System leadership

Last month, the U.S. government lifted the emergency designation put in place three years ago to address the COVID-19 pandemic. But the impacts of the pandemic live on, especially in schools, where there is a dire need to address the interrupted learning students experienced and continue to wrestle with now that they are back in classrooms. The critical question is: How do we do this? What are the promising practices leaders and classroom-level educators should consider as they work to support all students? And how should the billions of dollars in education stabilization funding be allocated to best meet students’ needs, especially students who are struggling and those who have been historically marginalized and frequently left behind? After the murder of George Floyd, the country

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Tanji Reed Marshall

Director of P-12 Practice at The Education Trust | + posts

Tanji Reed Marshall (treedmarshall@edtrust.org) is director of p-12 practice at The Education Trust and a guest editor for this issue of The Learning Professional.