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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

The Hechinger Report

We have classroom tutors now. The school has lost a bunch of teachers, but three of my son’s core subject teachers — English, social studies and science — have all left since Christmas. Our district has realized some of our challenges. They have put extra support in place to support us. Every day there are more adults.

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Teaching about the climate crisis: Jubilant protests, restorative justice and role play

The Hechinger Report

I had a summer job between tutoring and teaching, installing solar panels. The other thing I try to do is a lot of role plays for social studies and history. Emis teacher was a nice and good teacher by being willing to let Emi kind of change her project to bring in her mom and some oral histories.

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