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What we’re learning about remote learning

Brett Peiser
4.1.2020
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Days after we shut down all twenty-four of our New York City schools, we opened back up as a remote learning organization serving nearly 10,000 students in their homes.

Operating from the laboratories of innovation of our own living rooms, our educators scrambled to survey thousands of families about their internet capability, became couriers to quickly get equipment and materials to families that needed them, made wellness calls to students and each other, and most importantly, figured out a way to ensure that our students can continue to learn at home for the foreseeable future.

Click here to read the rest of this article in the New York Daily News.

Brett Peiser is CEO of Uncommon Schools.

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