One Hundred Leaders’ View on the Back to School Challenge

Published July 2020

The educators we work with are incredibly resilient. As difficult as the 2019–2020 school year was, the educational leaders we spoke to are reframing their challenges into action. They highlight the opportunities remote learning provided, such as teacher technology skills, personalized instruction, and student independence. In this whitepaper, we reflect on a few major themes that support future achievement:

• Multigrade understanding of student needs
• Goals that are both attainable and ambitious
• Plans for balancing prerequisite and grade-level learning
• Instruction that hits high marks for both quality and ease of use