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ERIC Number: ED608324
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Oct
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
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Doing Something Together: Lessons from Green Dot Public Schools' COVID-19 Response Spring 2020
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Like schools across the country, Green Dot Public Schools California closed its campuses in mid-March and kept them closed for the rest of the school year. Early in the crisis, the network focused on distributing food, Chromebooks, and hotspots to its roughly 11,000 students. It conducted wellness checks by phone with all of its families. Over the next six weeks, Green Dot officials said they distributed over 500,000 meals, 8,000 computers, and 1,300 hotspots. By mid-April, Green Dot launched a remote learning program to provide students access to instruction. The program, according to Green Dot's CEO, was designed to stand up virtual schools "where the adults had a common understanding of what kids need, how they were going to start each class, how they were going to structure the lesson." As school systems elsewhere carry out remote learning this fall, Green Dot's experience structuring remote learning last spring highlights three important lessons for building a coherent remote learning experience for teachers and students. [For the full report, "Lessons from Remote Learning in Six School Systems," see ED608269.]
Center on Reinventing Public Education. University of Washington Bothell Box 358200, Seattle, WA 98195. Tel: 206-685-2214; Fax: 206-221-7402; e-mail: crpe@u.washington.edu; Web site: http://www.crpe.org
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)
Identifiers - Location: California
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