School administrators and childhood programmers across Kansas City are steering into a perfect storm as a broken summer for education raises the stakes now and for the critical fall semester ahead. The challenge is urgent, and one they are facing with creativity, collaboration, and determination.
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It almost goes without saying, but Recommendation No. 1 in the state’s recent advice to school districts on how to run summer school is: “Maximum flexibility.” And with the uncertain horizon before them, expect the same come the start of the next school year in August.
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We here at LINC and many of our partners are getting creative in offering educational and recreational activities for our families and their children as the pandemic requires us to stay at home. Keep up to date on our LINC online activities page.
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Even though few were taken by surprise by Missouri’s decision to close schools for the rest of the school year, the questions over what happens next aren’t any clearer on the day after.
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InPlay’s interactive web site that gather’s and sorts options for out-of-school time programming for families was deep into its second year of serving Kansas City when, like everyone else, the pandemic changed everything.
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If we didn’t realize the stakes before, surely we do now. The pandemic of 2020 has peeled back the scars encrusted by generations of inequity. Lessons from a virtual educators’ seminar. “What will you say you did . . .?”
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon recently announced Woodland Early Learning Community School will get a major new state grant to help it develop as an early learning center.
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