coronavirus education Archives

Springboard & Cadence Learning team up to offer national K-8 summer learning

The problem Systemic barriers exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic have led to unprecedented learning loss among K-8 students across the U.S. The long-term consequences of this are most dire for children from low-income households and marginalized communities....

4 pain points, 1 FELA solution

As schools across the country wrestle with the challenging logistics of safely returning to classroom instruction, they are also working overtime to mitigate the pandemic’s impact on student learning for their most vulnerable subgroups. We’re learning that our school...

Digital resources we love

As of this writing, 90% of children worldwide are out of school, making at-home learning the new normal. To meet this challenge head-on, an amazing number of education organizations and advocates have stepped up, sharing robust resources in support of families and...

Distance learning: A superintendent’s perspective

Pivoting to a virtual classroom Our mission at Springboard Collaborative is to close the literacy gap and, in some ways, this gap has never felt as wide as it does now. In the face of these unexpected challenges, we wanted to know how schools are responding. So, we...

The digital divide during COVID-19

In my first year of teaching, my class of 32 students had 8 rusty desktop computers. I remember feeling relieved that at least my students could rotate in four even groups to the computers. Two years later, at a school in a more affluent zip code, each of my students...