NEW: As schools face a staffing crunch, @NYCSchools will no longer require that blended learning students be given synchronous (aka live) instruction every day they're remote. Live teaching time will vary by school. Fully remote will still get live teaching daily. More soon.
Schools will no longer be required to offer ANY live instruction on blended students' remote days if they don't have the staff available to do so.
This is a major change in guidance, and in what students will experience, and comes, oh, 12 hours before they're logging on tomorrow.
Shout out to my pal @danrivoli for getting this news on the air for me, because I am currently not camera ready (aka I am in my pajamas because I am on the morning show early tomorrow)
If you're a parent with a child in blended learning, this may mean -- depending on your school -- your child may be in person once or twice a week, and then working remotely without any kind of live connection to their teacher on the other days.
Fully remote students will get live instruction every day. The number of parents choosing remote has been increasing... wonder what next week's numbers update will show us.
My story will be up shortly but one thing I want to note is that if a school DOES have the staff to provide live instruction on blended remote days, they can, and DOE says they're working toward increasing the amount of it every school provides.
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