Learning from Lockdown: key lessons from virtual education across the country
The Education Lab partnered with newsrooms across America to explore what works for remote classrooms and why.
Learning from Lockdown: key lessons from virtual education across the country.(Brian Stauffer / The Dallas Morning News))
The sudden closing of schools across the United States was a disaster for many students, families and teachers. But in some places, educators and students are making things work and even finding ideas that could outlast the pandemic and transform American schooling for the better.
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Mayor G.T. Bynum
Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum celebrated receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Tulsa County Fairgrounds Friday morning by quoting a notable historical figure in a statement. If you wanna keep an eye on me don’t look behind you, don’t look to the sides, look straight up, because I’m right on top of ya - Oh yeeeeeaaah! -Randy Macho Man Savage, OR my immune system to COVID-19 after getting vaccinated this morning! Bynum wrote on Facebook.
In a video released by City Hall after the mayor s vaccination, Bynum said he was notified by the state health department s vaccination portal on Sunday that he now qualified for the vaccine, and signed up for the first available slot he found.
<p>Board member Pastor Jennettie Marshall expressed enthusiasm about the new lesson plans: "Over these 100 years, for African Americans and I can only speak for African Americans we have lived in this city, and we have walked around feeling that our pain and our history and, as individuals, we were invisible."</p>
Oklahoma State Department of Health
With COVID-19 vaccine eligibility now expanded to the vast majority of Oklahoma adults, the state health department is urging everyone who qualifies including community and government leaders to seek out their shots as soon as possible. We do want to encourage people to step up and get the vaccine, said Oklahoma State Department of Health Deputy Commissioner Keith Reed during a Monday press briefing. We get numerous reports from people that are saying, I want to get vaccinated but I want to make sure that I don t take the place of somebody else who may need it more than me. And that is so appreciated, that attitude of taking care of your neighbors and stepping aside for others, but we re reaching a point now where we need to get a lot of people vaccinated.
Tulsa Public Schools officials this week announced a bevy of expanded initiatives meant to support students as the district looks ahead at a post-pandemic