Student Learning During COVID: What Was Lost and What Was Found

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session is designed to complicate and trouble ideas about “learning loss” from a variety of perspectives. The panel will address the challenges inherent to quantifying the impact of the pandemic, examine the distinct experiences of BIPOC students and immigrant youth, consider the unique challenges facing special education, and reflect on the ways in which educators have adapted in response to tremendous obstacles.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics

Chair

• Jack Schneider, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Speakers

• Aydin Bal, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Christina Collins, United Federation of Teachers

• Sonya Douglass, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Ruth María López, University of Arizona

• Andrew McEachin, NWEA

Discussant

• Jack Schneider, University of Massachusetts - Amherst