My colleague Patricia Burch and I worked with @Ed4Excellence on a new survey of 500 LA teachers, out today. Full results are here, but here's a short thread with some of the high/lowlights. https://e4e.org/news/survey-americas-educators/voices-virtual-classroom-los-angeles

Teachers reported pretty low overall student engagement. Just 23% of teachers said all their students attended class online regularly, and 48% said all their students completed assignments. These results were worse in elementary schools and schools serving more low-income kids.

Teachers reported inadequate guidance and support in a number of areas, but the worst results were for guidance around how to teach students with disabilities in distance learning. Just 28% of teachers rated guidance in this areas as "very useful;" 10% received no guidance at all

Only about a third of teachers reported receiving any guidance from school or district leadership about how/what to teach about racial injustice in the list of this summer's reckoning. About half of teachers said they taught about this topic anyway.

By far teachers' biggest need to get back in the classroom is a mask mandate, followed by adequate spacing. Interestingly, a widely available vaccine was much lower-rated as a need, with just 36% of teachers saying it was critical.

There are other important findings in the report, all straight from teachers' mouths. Some of the findings that didn't make it into cool graphics but that I think are worth emphasizing:

Teachers in general report being less stressed than I would have guessed. BUT, older and more experienced teachers are much more stressed than younger ones.

Lack of access to high-speed internet remains a huge issue, but especially in schools serving more low-income students.

Teachers *really* do not think their schools are often meeting the needs of several disadvantaged student groups, especially students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students, and homeless students.

Relative to other options, teachers support tutoring and extended school days the most, year-round schooling and summer school the least, as approaches to addressing COVID's negative educational effects.

Last, teachers are close-to-unanimous that, in the event layoffs are needed, those layoffs should not be based strictly on seniority.

There's more in the report--check it out here: https://e4e.org/news/survey-americas-educators/voices-virtual-classroom-los-angeles. Thanks to @Ed4Excellence for including us in the work! @USCRossier