By Ashley A. Smith, EdSource, June 12, 2020
For Richmond’s Stege Elementary, the end of this school year was about showing progress as it begins a complete overhaul to a safe and enjoyable school where children want to come to learn.
But like many schools across the country, the pandemic forced the teachers and students to adapt on the fly.
Special education teacher Hannah Geitner found herself helping her students learn to read in less-than-ideal situations over Zoom. In one of her sixth-grade classes, a student could be easily distracted by his siblings joking around off-camera. Another student, rising fourth-grader La’Maiyah Courtney, attended her personalized classes from the back seat of her mom’s car. For that student, regardless of whether she lost her internet connection or was distracted by background noises, she pronounced the syllables and words from sentences Geitner gave her to read.
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