Remote Learning Amid COVID 19 

Beginning in March 2020, DPS enacted a comprehensive Remote Learning Plan to ensure the district continues to meet the educational needs of each and every student during the prolonged school closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To assess the district’s efforts, Jonnathan Smith and Ana León (Research & Evaluation) have led the progress monitoring and evaluation activities during remote learning. 

As part of the Remote Learning Evaluation (RLE) and Remote Learning Progress Monitoring (RLPM) team members from the Research & Evaluation Team,  Innovation & Improvement, AR&D, DoTS, & Portfolio Management have collaborated to collect data and create the following resources to share insights from these efforts. 

Planning Documents

• Remote Learning Progress Monitoring Plan:
• Remote Learning Evaluation Plan: Evaluation Plan for Phase I and notes for Evaluation Phase II (Sponsoring Division: Academics and Equity)

Literature Scans (Sponsoring Division: Academics & Equity)

• Summary Brief: Summary of 10 Key Takeaways from Literature Scan
• Summary Deck: Detailing Literature Scan

Interview, Focus Group, and Observation Data

• Regional Meetings: School Leaders Reflections on Return to School Scenarios: Summary of key themes from School Leader Regional Meetings on remote learning scenarios (last week of May, 2020)
• Digital Coach & Regional Tech Specialist Focus Group: Draft of 2-page key findings from May 4 Digital Coach/Regional Tech Specialist Focus Group (Sponsoring Division: Academics & Equity)
• In Depth Teacher Interview Results
• Gates School Leader Interviews

Survey Data

• Bi-weekly Teacher Dashboard Data
• Family & Student Survey: Initial Results
• Family & Student Survey May 2020: Detailed Report 
• Impact Survey Results Spring 2020
• Family Survey Qualitative Analysis
• Central Office Staff Survey

Other Data

• Remote Learning Progress Monitoring Data: Attendance, Device Distribution, and Student Engagement Data
• Hack Cycle Results

Summaries of Data from Multiple Sources

• District Learning Capture: Lessons Learned: March & April 2020: Initial COVID response themes across departments COVID response. 
• Remote Learning Evaluation Summary 1 -05/12/2020: First summary of data collected as part of Phase I of the Remote Learning Evaluation (Sponsoring Division: Academics and Equity).
• Remote Learning Evaluation Summary 2 (6/5/2020): Second summary of data collected as part of Phase I of the Remote Learning Evaluation (Sponsoring Division: Academics and Equity).
• Remote Learning Insights:  Running summaries of Remote Learning Progress Monitoring and Teacher Touchpoint Data. (Sponsoring Division: Academics)
• May 6 Report
• May 12 Report
• May 19 Report
• May 27 Report
• June 2 Report (Final Report)