Episode 10: Distinctive Schools on Communities of Care and Thoughtful Instructional Strategies

On this episode of What Will We Take With Us?, a series featuring our conversations with education leaders across the United States on how they grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in K-12 education, we speak with two leaders at Distinctive Schools in Chicago: Mike McCarthy, Executive Director of Student Services, and Stephanie Cardella, Executive Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. They share with us how Distinctive developed a community of care, nimble practices, and targeted instructional strategies to support students in balancing their learning and well-being through a year of uncertainty as schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Topics:
Targeted and Relevant, Community & Culture, Student Support Programming

Sub-topics:
Individual and small-group instruction, Differentiated pathways and materials, Student Culture, Social-Emotional Learning