Ann Arbor Reasonable Return
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We are a non-partisan advocacy group committed to accountability, transparency, and community input in Ann Arbor Public Schools leadership.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Joined October 2020
#a2schoolboard meets this Wednesday at Skyline High School to consider resignation for the Superintendent, Jeanice Swift. To submit public commentary, please sign up by 3 pm on Wednesday, Aug. 23 at this form:
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If you live in Ann Arbor and have not seen this video from the most recent BOE meeting, please take a few minutes this weekend to check it out. Ann Arbor students and their families deserve better.
For those who follow schools, this is how the superintendent of Michigan's 6th largest school district describes learning loss as not being a thing and that Covid's impact on kids was like a flat tire on the way to an outing at the zoo. #a2schoolboard
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RT @LenaKauffman: Public commentary for the Wed. #a2schoolboard meeting is back up. To sign up, submit name and comments to .
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RT @LiliaCortina: 1/ @a2schools has released Fall test scores (NWEA), and they don't paint a pretty picture. Black students have fallen fur….
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“In Ohio, researchers found that districts that stayed fully remote during the 2020-21 school year experienced declines up to three times greater than those of districts that mostly taught students in person.”.
nytimes.com
The role remote education played.
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Thank you to the state and local leaders who spoke up. We noticed🌺.
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Dr. Karthikeyan:. “Our reopening plans need to be guided by hope and creativity, but above all, science. Not fear and misinformation. And, of course, we pediatricians always stand ready to assist in any manner possible.”.
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Dr. Karthikeyan:. Watched his own child’s love of learning drain away during remote instruction. Situation is more pronounced for families with fewer resources. Has spent many visits comforting families, trying to preserve hope for children waiting to rejoin their friends.
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Dr. Karthikeyan:. -Basic strategies used by schools in the fall — masking and social distancing — worked. -School closures are taking a toll on kids. In clinic, pediatricians are seeing increased symptoms of anxiety, depression, child abuse, obesity, educational struggle.
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At a Feb press conference, Ann Arbor pediatrician Omkar Karthikeyan noted it was clear by summer 2020 that children are less susceptible to catching and spreading Covid, and to contracting serious illness.
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@DrKhaldun spoke next: . Remote learning can affect academic achievement + mental & physical health. We have Covid-fighting tools, masks, ventilation, and soon, vaccines.
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Whitmer:. “I strongly encourage school districts to provide as much face-to-face time as possible.” . “Many students and families have struggled with remote learning and need opportunities for face-to-face interactions with educators”.
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Whitmer: . “The value of in-person learning for our kids is immeasurable and we must do everything we can to help our kids get the great education they need.”.
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Moving into the weekend, a reminder of how much state leaders and physicians wanted districts like Ann Arbor to open. Jan 2021, @GovWhitmer urged still-shuttered districts to offer an in-person option no later than March 1, earlier if possible. 1/9🧵.
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Please see our Nov newsletter. The highlights:. -School board election.-AAPS is relying on EdTech to address learning loss.-Evidence links school closures to declining test scores in reading and math. School closures = “a policy that failed.".
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Dr. Kimberly Monroe, interim chief clinical officer at @MottChildren and @A2Return board member, recently spoke w/@freep about treating children with RSV. We are grateful to Ann Arbor's pediatricians for their ongoing support of kids.
freep.com
Respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, is very contagious and putting Michigan babies and young children at risk for severe illness.
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. a grade. Better to help accelerate student learning. "We really want to get it right in elementary school.". For evidence-based approaches to supporting kids academically during the pandemic recovery, see this piece in @Nature.
nature.com
Nature - The pandemic is the largest disruption to education in history. But research has identified ways to help children make up lost ground. Will they work in classrooms around the world?
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Soledad O'Brien: 5,600 Michigan third graders are eligible to to repeat 3rd grade. "That seems pretty shocking to me.". Prof Strunk: "I think it's alarming." 6% of Michigan 3rd graders scored at least a year behind grade level. Strunk: Data don't support kids' repeating. 1/2.
Hear from @KatharineStrunk, professor of education policy at @MSUCollegeofEd.and director of @EPICedpolicy, about new data that shows a sharp decline in standardized test scores across the nation during the pandemic.
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More evidence of the harms of protracted school closures.
A thread from @TheLancet @CovidCommission on school closures:. --> 195 countries closed schools during the pandemic, affecting more than 1·5 billion children and young people and posing enormous long-term and unrecoverable costs to them, their parents, and the economy. 🧵1/n
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“If we can do that. we can emerge with a better school system than we had before. It’s just going to take a lot of work.”. During the pandemic, AAPS closed schools, slashed child care & reduced bussing. Now AAPS should use pandemic recovery funds to support students. /4.
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