Excellent perspective and suggested solutions around how to proceed with student learning. The phrase "learning loss" is problematic for various reasons and also impacts the kinds of solutions that are generated.
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How we define problems shapes the solutions we develop to solve them. Casting the academic impacts of COVID as "learning loss" is no different. As Steve Holmes, superintendent at Sunnyside Unified School District, a high-poverty, urban district in Tucson, AZ, warned at a conference last month, "No one loses learning, but it becomes part of the narrative and rhetoric. It drives ideas, and more importantly it drives solutions."
"In other words, beliefs work kind of like bones. If you break a bone, its healing can go two ways:
-If it's not set properly, it'll grow back as a rather permanent deformity.
-But if it is set properly, it'll grow back good as new and in some ways stronger than it was before."
This article has some good suggestions for leaders to support teacher beliefs about what is currently happening in education right now.