Edtech By Marketscale

Back-to-school season this year is unlike any other. With the pandemic forcing schools across the country to rethink the way they educate students, the spotlight is on differentiation and how educators will reach students at an individual level through online or socially distanced class learning. Megan Axtman, Reading Specialist at Taft Elementary, Boise, ID, shared some of the best practices her school’s developed to meet students’ needs in this unprecedented time in education. “For the first three weeks of school, our school district will be entirely online,” Axtman said. And the school district will evaluate the situation and make in-class recommendations based on the coronavirus status after that point. The online program was not something the school district had in place before the pandemic, and it worked over the summer to develop a full-time online curriculum. “From the teacher’s side, we now have a little experience under our belts in how to handle online learning and a little more time to prepare,” A