D31 HS Aaron asks re students getting no live instruction re remote blended learning; parents feel duped, as they were promised. Also some classes still don’t have teachers.
Chancellor: no vested interest in duping parents. I don’t get a bonus for this.
Chancellor: I know some districts started remote learning and in-person w/ cameras in classrooms. This is the most horrible form of pedagogy I can think of. We could have done that and called that synchronous learning but we decided not to.
Chancellor: We finally landed at about 6,000 additional teachers as goal to staff a model we can stand behind. In order to do that, we need to ramp up to that. It will continue to get better every week.
The Mayor has given us additional resources, incl 2 SAMs to hire additional teachers; reached out to over 20K student teachers, over 10K teachers previously applied&students with BAs and MAs eligible to be substitute. CUNY recruiting adjunct professors to be used at HS level.
Chancellor: We know from D75 & preK students that some moving to remote learning creating more space to offer 5 days a week in-person learning.
My goal is that we will do such a good job that in Nov. we will have more families moving to in-person.
.@ItsShidaB: explore option not having family opting into remote learning at any time? readjustments are difficult and more work and chaos for schools to manage constant changes.
Carranza – 1 way to get me killed is to take away choices from families. I’d be kicked into street
Q to @DOEChancellor: Will DOE issue class size reports as required Nov. 15 – disaggregated by in-person, PT & FT remote? & Many parents saying live remote very large class size.
.@DOEChancellor ignores 1st Q & says: It is possible a particularly good teacher will be providing a remote lesson for 100 students. But then students will have another teacher that follows up with them, w/ more feedback. [Really - is this happening parents/teachers?]
Chancellor then compares this model to college lecture classes; with grad student leading smaller sections. It's a staffing challenge to get content level out & then provide more personalized feedback to students. This will become "more robust" as we move later through the year
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