The coronavirus pandemic and the creation of emergency education has put parents, teachers, administrators, and community advocates in panic mode trying to figure out how to ensure the opportunity gap doesn’t exponentially widen for Black scholars.
Join leading education warriors as they discuss strategies for emergency instruction and what they recommend as best practices for education in Fall 2020 on Thursday, June 18 as the Sacramento Black Community & COVID-19 Virtual Townhalls series continues from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. via Zoom/Facebook live.
Community partners who work to close the opportunity gap for low performing scholars have long been aware of the inequities in education and are not shocked to see these failing systems front and center of discourse.
Leataata Floyd is seeing vast gains for Black scholars, beating out the many in the state in math and English; White serves as chair of the Black Parallel School Board and is an education expert who has been a teacher, curriculum specialist, race/human relations trainer, and inner-city elementary, middle and high school administrator.
She stepped up to the plate during school closures and provided emergency education to scholars whose schools failed to do so.
