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News 12's Elizabeth Hashagen was joined by Vivett Dukes and Kara McCormick-Lyons to talk about education and what challenges our schools are facing in the new school year.

News 12's Elizabeth Hashagen was joined by Vivett Dukes and Kara McCormick-Lyons to talk about education.

Bronx

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Letting you know, you have to bundle up for it. Oh, it's going to be super cold out there but dry though, right? Any sort of rain or snow because I know we had those festive flakes yesterday. But listen, it's going to be layers upon layers. If we're heading out towards the Rockefeller center tree lighting tonight, the winds are also going to be blustery, which is why it's going to feel colder than what the thermometer says. Wind gust forecast pretty much. You're seeing those 15 to 25 mile per hour into the lighter morning and the afternoon hours. So the wind's not going anywhere anytime soon. At least not today. It's gonna make it feel quite a bit colder. So later on this morning again, it feels like temperatures teens to around 20 not much of an improvement this afternoon. So heading out for lunch, maybe pack that lunch though right now before you head out the door. So you don't have to be outside an extra bit longer because take a look at 27 degrees that feels like temperature for Bathgate as well as more Sanny at 26 for Mott Haven 26. For Colum Bay feels like temperature at around noon today into the afternoon and evening. We'll see a little bit of an improvement, but again, twenties more or less. Will we feel like temperatures again? 23 for Park Chester and North Bay Chester at about eight o'clock this evening into the overnight hours. We'll see those temperatures stumble again but not as cold as this morning. This morning is going to be the coldest morning tomorrow, not as cold but still bundle up because it feels like temperatures 23 26 20 three. It's still going to be a cold start. Tomorrow morning, improvements begin into the afternoon as the sunshine comes up, the wind changes direction to more of a southerly wind and that's a milder wind. So the temperatures are going to start off near freezing tomorrow into the afternoon, get up into the middle, maybe even upper 40. So hour by hour, you could see us getting up to about 47 to 48 degrees into the afternoon. The next weather story is actually going to be rain on the way for Friday afternoon. It starts off north and west, but I think by about two or three P ma couple of showers are possible and then likely for the evening commute. There's going to be a little bit of an issue though for Friday evening's commute, maybe make a little bit earlier of a get away there Friday afternoon and then the weekend is looking ok for now, the big, the big thing here is that it will be near 50 degrees. We enjoy that. Ok. So that's the plus side there, back to some normal t rain with that. All right, Alan, thank you one a few minutes.

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Brooklyn

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In terms of the weather for that tree lighting to be cold, feels like temperatures, they're going to be in the twenties. So I know layers is always recommended but add an extra thermal layer or two or three because it's going to be blustery. It's going to be cold. Again, these wind gusts not as high as yesterday, but this is enough to make it feel extra cold out there. Again, about 20 MPH gusts into the afternoon and these will continue into the evening as well. That'll make it feels like temperatures quite a bit colder. So later on this morning, even in the next hour or so again, it feels like temperatures no matter where you are 20 or below if you want to pack your lunch right now before you head out the door. So you don't have to be outside an extra bit. That's a recommendation from me because take a look at lunchtime, this is at 12 noon. Feels like temperatures Bay Ridge, 27 Park Slope, same deal Bushwick as well. 27 Sheepshead Bay and Coney Island 27. So it's going to be a cold afternoon, pretty cold evening. As well. So this is at 8 p.m. right before the tree lighting. And again in Manhattan, pretty much same deal, middle and upper twenties for the fields like temperatures 26 for Flatlands, 27 for Bushwick 27 for winds will slowly subside throughout the overnight hours and the temperatures are not going to be as cold tomorrow morning. I'd still classify it as cold but not bitterly cold. So it feels like temperatures out the door. Tomorrow will not be in the teens. There'll be about 26 for Williamsburg, 26 for Bay Ridge, 24 for Flatland. So not as bad and the improvements really get going into the afternoon. Lots of sunshine just started about 32 and we get up well into the forties. So improvements much milder definitely will make it feel better out and about for the afternoon hours getting up to about 47 degrees for the afternoon. But with this warm weather, we see the clouds on the increase and then here comes some showers into the afternoon for Friday. So it's going to be a wet finish to the work week. And after three o'clock expect some more of the showers could be a little bit heavier at times for the evening commute. So definitely keep that in mind for late Friday as well as Friday evening plans weekend. Not too bad, but a little bit more rain late Sunday. All right, Alan, thank you.

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Connecticut

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All right, let's get a check of the forecast because it is cold outside this morning, John, I need the big coats. You need to layer up the hat even. Certainly dog walkers kids waiting for the bus. It's gonna be a little bit of a deuce of the big time. We got about 22 more days until the official start of winter. So a little bit of a taste of it for today. Numbers tapping out in the mid to upper thirties, it's gonna continue to feel like the twenties with that wind chill and just wanna bring up our wind chill chart, sustained winds about 5 to 10 MPH for right now with, I guess you can say maybe 30 degree temperatures, you're feeling like the lower to mid twenties for us right now. Now, some of these gusts when we talk about wind could reach 20 to 25. So that's why some spots were feeling like the teens as we continue to push through this morning. Now, Futurecast takes us into this afternoon. Lots of sunshine numbers into the lower to mid thirties. But again, a lot of us will feel a little bit chillier. It's cold again for tonight. So make sure you got the window shut and the heat going tomorrow is gonna be another chilly start. Not quite as cold though. So that's the good news and we're continuing to stay dry because unfortunately we do have some rain in the forecast. Here's a look at tomorrow afternoon a little bit better with those temperatures into the forties. 44 for those out toward Bridgeport, 42 for Greenwich Friday morning. Not all too bad. Still working with some sunshine. Numbers are in the forties. A lot better start, but it's not gonna be the best finish. Why we do have rain in the mix. We're looking at showers for the early parts of your afternoon. Bit of a break, late afternoon, then driving into your evening is where we're gonna see those showers. Really start to pick up and you're looking at a little bit more of some steady rain. Rain wraps up just in time for the weekend. Saturday looks pretty dry. Sunday looks like we're looking at a chance for some more showers as we head into early next week as well.

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Hudson Valley

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Rules back to this bitter blast and hopefully not back to it for too much longer. Matt Hammer is here with details on your Wednesday. Yeah. No, through about mid-morning tomorrow and then a much improved weather into the afternoon tomorrow. I mean, today looks great. We have a lot of sunshine this morning giving way to more of a mix of sun and clouds during the afternoon hours today. In fact, at times more clouds and sun by the afternoon, but it's certainly a very cold feel, but you can get out and about and enjoy this as long as you are addressed appropriately and you have to dress for temperatures that are in the middle and upper twenties in terms of what they feel like outside the actual air temperatures on the left hand side of this map in the thirties tomorrow though, middle and upper forties for the air temperature, much better what to wear today. It's all about the winter gear, still, whatever you dressed in yesterday. And if you were comfortable in it, do it again, if you were not as warm feeling as you wanted to feel yesterday, add an extra layer today, middle thirties again, feel like the twenties. It's breezy. It's dry at times more clouds and sun this afternoon and this evening and later on tonight, it's partly cloudy. It's dry. It is just one more really cold night with lows in the low twenties. I can feel like the upper teens to low twenties into tomorrow morning. Tomorrow's highs though much more seasonable. The normal average high this time of the year is right at 47. So it'll be close to that all throughout the Hudson Valley under a lot of sunshine tomorrow. And then Friday, you will need to plan on a wet second half of the day on Friday. No flooding expected no high rain totals here, but there will be some nuisance rain showers after no time on Friday and those will be on and off through about six or seven in the evening on Friday. Once we get past that Saturday, mostly cloudy upper forties, there can be a spotty shower or two but nothing major on Sunday. Better chance for a couple of rain showers Monday of next week. If anything, a stray shower next Tuesday and then back to dry weather, Wednesday through Friday of next week with highs mostly in the forties.

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Long Island

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Something homemade. It's much appreciated, happy holidays, everyone. I'm Janice Lieberman and that's the real deal. All right, thanks to inflation, you will have to pay more for those turtle doves and partridge in a pear tree. The PNC Christmas price index measures the gifts included in the holiday classic, the 12 days of Christmas. Now, the research suggests the cost has now hit a record high because of inflation. They find the pear tree is going to cost 15% more. This Christmas, the price of the partridge did not change. I'm sure the five golden rings didn't have anything to do with it. I was just thinking about, I was going through the list, my golden rings. I wonder what lords are leaving, how much they cost this time of year. And you know, I really realized that we are in the holiday spirit when we saw the flurries yesterday. Yeah, you know, it's that time of year and you know, Thanksgiving was so early this year, next year, it's the 28th. So we're looking at a big change there. We have extra time this year to get into the Holiday Spirit and we had the festive flakes yesterday. A couple of snow shoes, hours flurries and a few squalls yesterday. And now the sunshine, dry, cold weather conditions around the island out there for today. Sunny skies over towards Riverhead as well. Going throughout the day, our friends in Brentwood sunshine this morning, some clouds come in during the afternoon. But notice those hour by hour temperatures only in the upper thirties, you got to have, uh, the gloves, a hat and a scarf, especially if you're going to be working outside all day long. It's been a dry rush for the day. We're going to be looking at some quiet weather through this evening and quiet Nassau County. Seven County, you're looking ok for today. Again, the big story, everyone's talking about the chill, the wind that is just going right through you. So you dress in layers. Now, during our afternoon hours, 345 kids coming home from school running some errands ss are in the mid thirties. Now, one thing I want you to notice you see these arrows, that's our wind direction. Wind is always the direction it's coming from. So this is a west southwest wind and that is indicative of some warmer weather on the way. So overnight, not as cold, we have a dry evening rush hour tomorrow morning, twenties to around 30 degrees and not as bad as a wind coming through. Then going throughout the day on Thursday, mid to upper forties, dry weather. Now, temperatures on Friday, get into the fifties, but a lot more clouds moving on through. Take a look at our weather map. Friday morning. We're in the mid and upper forties here. Then the clouds come in low fifties for highs, showers late in the day. Towards the evening hours. We'll have the wet weather and gone very quickly into your Saturday highs today in the thirties, it is cold for today. Tonight, twenties to around 30 degrees and take a look at the extended forecast. We start our warm up on Thursday, rain Friday afternoon through Friday evening, more rain, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Thanks for.

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New Jersey

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Rizzo is here any flakes in the forecast? No flakes today. But we were talking about that yesterday. A little mood flake that would pass by randomly across the state. A lot of areas saw flakes even for like five minutes or so at times, but others saw it a little bit longer. Right? So here's what you need to know about today. Five things very important, sharp wind chills. It's important to dress in layers, limit your time exposed to the cold outside the sunshine today will actually help you be better by tomorrow with the rebound of those temperatures. I want to teach you a new weather word if you didn't know this word already, it's called Op Preity. Op Preity is the warmth of the winter sun. So I know it's not winter, but you know, when it's like a cold day today, it just feels nasty and then you go outside in the afternoon and it's sunny and you feel that, oh, you know, it's cold but it feels much better. That feeling is called Ric, right? So that's what we're gonna feel a little bit later on this for those who hate the cold. This is something that I look forward to. But hey, if you didn't know you learned something new this. So, so New Jersey, let's take a look at the bitter blast condition. So it feels frigid, it feels sharp today, right? And this disrespectful cold does go away by tomorrow where the weather is going to give us much more respect tomorrow by the afternoon, layers are important because of the wind chill. So the wind will pierce through some clothes. So just make sure you wear the windproof clothing and it will be gusts. West winds 15 to 25 MPH rebounding tomorrow with warmer temperatures and the wind chill as well. It'll be cold again tomorrow morning, but then it feels so much better by the afternoon as high temperatures push close to about 50 degrees across the state. So with Thursday's high, real good, mostly sunny conditions accompany that south westerly winds allow warmer weather to come through. Relatively speaking. Right? And that planner shows that conditions are nice for Thursday with sunshine and calm weather. What happens since Friday? Not much? We do have temperatures back into the forties around 44 in Morristown and the shore down toward 50 to 53. Look Tom's River 53. It's not a bad day, but I want you to be aware, a quick round of showers comes through between four pm and midnight on Friday. And that is very brief. It's a nuisance. It's nothing that's going to be problem. And then Saturday we have a mostly cloudy sky. So just be aware of that, please. Here's that 10 day forecast. I want to highlight Friday for you one more time. As you can see that we end up with some scattered showers across the state of New Jersey from Friday from 4 to 11 p.m. maybe near midnight ending and it's quick. It's just nuisance. It's nothing that is going to be a problem, Mike. Thank you.

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The New Normal: What challenges are our schools facing this year?

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and Karen, I want to start with you because we have this new school safety task force force report that's out really focused on different key areas in building, you know, school environments that are safe. Yes. So our school and we're excited to get back to school need to be warm, welcoming spaces, but that requires some real specific pieces. So we need to address the social, emotional needs of our students. We need to ensure that there are appropriate staffing levels. We need to foster community partnerships so that we make sure our Children are getting what they need and have access to what they need. And we also need to confront the crisis of mass violence in our schools. And those are the four findings of our nice safe schools for all task force and the vet. I know fostering that community partnership is something you've been passionate about as well. I'm really passionate. I'm really passionate about that because it's really important that we have the services close at hand for our students. Our students need to be fed, they need to have their medical needs addressed. They need to have everything accessible to them, so they are available to learn Absolutely. And and we know that we want this partnership of that so that everyone can come together, you know, parents, teachers and administrators and be part of this conversation. Yes, it is imperative that we build the home school connection during the pandemic. We became intimately acquainted acquainted in the homes and in the lives of our students so we cannot return to the way things were it is really crucial that we address our students and their family, social, emotional, mental health needs and create safe spaces where they can learn and not just survive, but thrive our goal as educators and as a community is to ensure that our students achieve what Maslow calls self actualization to reach the highest this point of who they can be in in life, that is our goal, and that's what we strive to do in our schools and Cara. I know one of the things that was in the in these findings, but also that we've talked about here on the show is this increase in classroom disruption, students acting out, you know, possibly being evidence that their their needs are not being met. Yes. Which is exactly why we need to make sure that there is an appropriate ratio of mental health professionals accessible to our students. It's also why we need to make sure that our classrooms and schools are welcoming spaces and it's also why we need to have local conversations about what our practices are going to be to help students regulate themselves and what they need to do to re enter the classroom, because students need to be in the classroom to learn right and now that we're, you know, the vet out of virtual learning for for most students, education leaders found really now that that kids are grasping having a hard time grasping concepts because of those effects of virtual learning. Yes, there were already gaps in many of our students learning, especially those who are coming to us from marginalized communities. What the pandemic did was just blow the roof off of it. We saw it up close and personal. It was they had interrupted learning and as a result we must address that. That really would be addressed with tutoring small group instruction. Um And what are we supplying parents we at home to ensure that they can bolster at home what's happening in school for our students? So there's this continuum of of learning rather the starter steps of learning that our students have been going through for the past two years. Yeah. Cara I think this year seems to be um really an academic recovery in focus because we know that those achievement numbers weren't what we wanted in the spring. Yes. Which is why R. A. F. T. Union is promoting what kids and communities need because it's time to get back to basics because we really need to address the academic needs of our students. We need to address the social emotional needs. We need to move forward. And that requires when we were talking about tutoring and small group instruction, it requires appropriate staffing and it requires us addressing staffing shortages where they exist so that our students do get the small group instruction that they deserve rather than having educators pulled to cover other classes due to shortages. I want to give everyone at home Just a little bit of a clarity on the data points we're talking about? We're going to Compare 2019 numbers to 2022 numbers and student scores in map declining 5-10%ile points, 2-4%ile points in reading. And that's, you know, despite those improvements that they were able to make. And we're talking about 8.3 million students that were tested those nwea numbers, the vet. Yes. Well, I'm not shocked by those numbers at all because students were really learning on their own. Students were doing a lot of making it the best way that they could. But listen long term, it's going to take, it took us years to get to this point. It's going to take us years to get out of it. And while all hope is not lost, specific systems do need to be in place to assure that our students are globally compare competitive, that they will graduate in each tier of their education with the faculties and the supplies they need in order to move forward. That requires having educators in front of them who not only know their content, but have the heart to work with the students to not be punitive in there. Working with them. But instead, to look at the whole child, we cannot return to normal Eliza cara. Our families out there. We all went through a pandemic. Our students to do, we know the students who had death in their family. Do we know the students who are homeless? Do we know the students who are dealing with so many different um uh, difficulties in life. We can't act like school does is not the place to address that in school is only for reading, writing and arithmetic. Those days are long gone. And I know when you take a look at how long it will take to, to, you know, make that comeback. Researchers are, you know, estimating right now that it will take an average elementary school student three years and five years or more for those middle school students. And it's because what you're learning really are building blocks into your next grade cara. So what we need to do is really focus on what is in front of us and not let the the numbers should, er, just to act in a timely fashion, but we shouldn't let it diminish what our students are capable of. So while we're addressing the needs of the whole student, each school needs to look at the students in front of them, assess where they are. Advocate to make sure that they have the interventions they need to move forward. So the numbers are the numbers, but we have to do the work. The work requires funding. So we want to maintain those federal funds. And it also requires local advocacy to ensure that those funds are used appropriately in each school district. I was really proud to sit in our staff meeting yesterday and talk about how we're going to support the needs of the students sitting in front of us and what they're going to do if they need a moment to collect themselves to make sure they're available to learn. But all of these pieces tied together from funding to appropriate interventions to ensuring students have access to what they need and time to take the space they need to be available to learn right? Because I know you were mentioning also tutoring because we know that there can be significant gains made and tutoring doesn't necessarily mean it has to be after school time. Absolutely not. You can have tutoring within the school day schools have a lot of parameters and they also have received a significant amount of funding through the american rescue plan, esser funds to hire staff to supplies tutoring for students and what does that look like? I'll give you an example. I see that I have three students who are entering my classroom reading 2 to 3 levels below grade level. True story. I'm going to now work with the power of professional and the other members of the team to stay. Where can we engage X, Y. Z. Student to have 30 minutes of small group instruction in the classroom, not pulling them out to go somewhere else where they're isolated within that class classroom environment so that the teacher is there to answer any questions they have and they have the benefit of their other, their colleagues. Are the students there to help them as as well. Let's pull them out within each lesson. Let's really attack and approach the lesson to attend to the needs of that student that is considered tutoring and then we can follow up what about the community research sources? Are there resources on Saturdays? On Sundays where parents can now go and take their students for that extra support without having to come out of pocket? Because what's happening is that gap between the haves and the have nots is widening and there are some parents who have always been able to financially afford paying for this extra tutoring that I'm talking about.

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