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Cedar Rapids Power Standards During COVID-19

Cedar Rapids created priority standards in the 2020-2021 school year in response to marked limitations on learning time due to the pandemic and a derecho. The power standards created clarity for teachers and school leaders on how to prioritize teaching and learning given the suboptimal conditions.

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Middle School Cohort Model for In-Person Learning During COVID-19

Cedar Rapids recognizes that instruction would likely be stronger if content teachers rotated classrooms, but district leaders had to accept the tradeoffs of synchronous online learning to reduce teachers’ interactions with multiple cohorts of students throughout the day. To mitigate this somewhat, Cedar Rapids is allowing teachers to rotate advisory classrooms on three-week intervals, allowing students to have in-person connections with each core subject teacher for three weeks during a twelve-week timespan.

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