One Teacher's Quest to Track Down Her Students Amid Coronavirus School Closure

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-06/coronavirus-schools-missing-students
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Sonali Kohli
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LA Times
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Community Engagement Education
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Thousands of Los Angeles Unified high school students have not been showing up to online classes ever since schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One teacher, Keara Williams, was determined to reach out to her advanced placement English students when only eight out of twenty four submitted their assignments online.

  Keywords: communication, connection, COVID-19, school, social emotional learning, support, teaching
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