With New Hampshire Schools Closed, Teachers Ramp up for Remote Learning

With New Hampshire schools now closed, teachers are facing an unprecedented challenge: how to teach their students remotely for at least three weeks. Schools are figuring out how to get meals and computers to students in need, and teachers are trying to figure out how to keep students engaged while isolated at home. NHPR’s Sarah Gibson has more.

As Governor Sununu announced public school closures Sunday in response to COVID-19, fourth-grade teachers Martha Dalrymple and Sue Laskowsky were in their classrooms at Deerfield Community School, sorting through piles of books and packets to send home to their students for remote learning this week.

Like many districts, SAU 53 had instructed teachers Friday to prepare for remote learning imminently, even before the emergency order.

“It won’t really be real until we start doing it and see what we have to tweak,” Laskowsky says, sitting amongst a pile of directions for science experiments and social studies lessons.

The N.H. Department of Education says there are a lot of ways remote learning can happen. Some schools will teach mostly online; others will send out paper assignments like the ones from this classroom.

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