There are so many great nuggets in this article, I don't have much more to add than what I've previously stated.
1- numerators matter - we don't know the number of students with Covid-19 bc we aren't systematically testing students in most districts.
2- denominators matter
3- generalizability matters if your going to make generizable statements.
4- context matters- what policies and mitigation strategies are schools able to implement?
5- disparities matter- Black and Brown people carry a larger burden of Covid and should be represented in the data
6. local health departments matter- work with them on data collection, analysis and interpretation. They can help ensure we're putting our data in proper context.
I find it important to state I've helped schools reopen, and assisted schools in staying remote. There's no right answer to all schools. Data are changing daily. We need to continue to learn and make decisions based on the best data we have. Rigorous methods will get us there.
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28 Oct
Six major themes came out of this work, asking 1 simple question to Black families, "What do you like about virtual school?" Themes in no particular order.
1. Kids experienced less microagressions, explored more in the NYT article below.
2. Kids get to learn in a living environment. "My child is free! Free to sit down, lie down, hang up-side down. Free to do his work in the way that works for him."
3. Disrupts the school-to-prison pipeline.
"There's no SROs (school resources officers) at home."

"My ADHD child paces, it helps him stay focused. He's increased two math levels since he's been home where he can pace in peace."
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24 Oct
Pre-covid, my work was on maternal mortality, and 1 way to decrease MM rates is to listen to women. What I notice in #returntoschool debates are that we are not listening to families we claim are most negatively impacted by #virtualSchool.
This article is one of the first to detail and predict that when given the choice, Black parents won't overwhelmingly send our children to school in the middle of a pandemic
hechingerreport.org/why-black-fami…
Municipality after municipality showed similar data.
chalkbeat.org/2020/9/11/2143…
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16 Oct
I'm loving this. I'm screaming many points I'd love for them to consider.

I am of the group of epis that took issue with the Atlantic piece bc of the causal statements drawn from descriptive data.

I'd love to continue the conversation about elimination and acceptable rates.
*elimination versus control at acceptable levels
Some points I wish were discussed-
1- Was the right denominator used? Part of the discussion was the need for denominator data, but I posit that the wrong denominator was used. Using all kids in school as the denominator when we know that all kids aren't tested, and comparing
Read 9 tweets
8 Sep
I remind #AllLivesMattter people that "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." You might not care to fight with us, but our fight will also benefit you, so you might as well join us.
Golda Barton dialed 911 on Friday, she hoped emergency responders could help...
hospitalize her 13-year-old son, who has Asperger syndrome and was having a mental crisis. Instead, a police officer repeatedly shot Linden after he ran away, leaving the boy in serious condition with injuries to his intestines, bladder, shoulder and ankles...
Barton says he was unarmed, and police said they didn’t find a weapon at the scene. washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09…
Read 4 tweets
27 Jul
A thread on U.S. #camps and #schools that experienced #COVID19 outbreaks since opening.
I'll continually add to this thread as more are reported.
macon.com/news/coronavir…
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22 Jul
Thread on how to LOWER (not eliminate) risk of Covid-19 transmission among your pandemic learning pod.
Everyone involved should take a Covid-19 test before starting. Quarantine until results come back. Start pod immediately after recieving results knowing everyone is negative.
Create pods matched on #Covid_19 risk and exposure levels (i.e. a pod of low risk children of essential workers, etc).
Agree to social distance while outside of the pod, & discuss what that looks like. This graphic, while imperfect, can help lead that discussion.
Implement daily syndromic surveillance (fill out a health inventory), and if anyone is symptomatic or had known contact with someone recently diagnosed, that person is to refrain from attending the pod and is retested before rejoining the pod.
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