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WEBINAR: What Worked: Remote Instruction During COVID-19

  • July 8, 2020
  • Tressa Pankovits

When America’s schools abruptly closed in March, few had strategies for keeping students engaged. Watch RAS Associate Director Tressa Pankovits, as she moderated a 90-minute interactive discussion with CRPE and Public Impact analysts who co-presented comprehensive new data on how school systems performed, and top educators shared how their teams excelled under pressure.

Panelists include:

Bree Dusseault, Practitioner-in-residence at the Center on Reinventing Public Education

Lyria Boast, Vice president for data analytics and a senior consulting manager at Public Impact

Joyanna Smith, DC Regional Director at Rocketship Public Schools

Amy D’Angelo, Regional Superintendent, Achievement First Charter Schools

Brian Riddick, Principal at Butler College Prep, of Noble Network of Charter Schools

Moderator: Tressa Pankovits, Associate Director, Reinventing America’s Schools Project

Our educator panelists described their fast pivot from the classroom to the cloud, and they shared their strategies for ensuring distance learning was effective, including setting high expectations and relentless student engagement. They dissected lessons learned, and examined pitfalls to avoid in the coming school year.

Watch here.

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