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<b>News 12</b>'s Elizabeth Hashagen was joined by teachers Greg Perles and Kara McCormick-Lyons to talk about education. 

News 12's Elizabeth Hashagen was joined by teachers Greg Perles and Kara McCormick-Lyons to talk about education.

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Just Alex Kama. Fun fact, like you said, it's 10 degrees warmer today. Look at that. Yeah, it's so much nicer out there. We deserve this guys after two days of really feeling like January, we're back to feeling like November on the last day of the month. It's definitely not as cold this afternoon, but you do need the jacket this morning. I'll show you the temperatures in a bit. Showers arrive for Friday evening. So most of the day Friday dry, but it will be cloudy. The weekend looks really mild, temperature wise, but it is overcast the whole day. So waking up, you're in the thirties, it feels like twenties. But by 910 in the morning, we're all in the forties and then we move into the upper forties with lots of sunshine. The sunset is at 429. So we are going to absorb every moment of sun today, especially since we have a long stretch of cloud cover coming our direct starting tomorrow. So again, highs could hit 50 in a few spots. Most of us are just shy of it tonight. We drop into the upper thirties and low forties. So that's an improvement. You see Mott Haven at 38 for your Friday morning low and then you are 49 in frogs neck on Friday. So again, it looks like a mild day. But the difference on Friday is that it is mostly cloudy and we do have a few dry sprinkles. So here's the picture. You see most of Friday dry, but then four o'clock, a couple of these showers start to creep in by six o'clock. They push over our area. So it's kind of just sprinkling. It's not a huge impact, but you might need the umbrella Saturday dry, especially to start, but the clouds will be pretty thick. Temperatures are gonna be in the fifties just about all day and we're going to watch for that quick little stray shower chance Saturday evening. So here's how the weekend is shaping up. Definitely Saturday is the better chance for dry weather. Sunday looks more overcast with a better chance of rain in the evening, but both days will have their dry time and we're in the fifties. So it's hard to complain, especially for a first weekend in December, which is historically one of our coolest months out of the year. But this is not a bad forecast. All of these temperatures much milder than what we dealt with yesterday.

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Beautiful. That's so nice. Yeah, I did a great job and you got something nice, didn't you? From your weather? Kids from yesterday? Or Hills Elementary? He sent a nice thank you dear Mr Cubit. We are glad that you came to. We hope you like the car. Did they make you a car? They did. It made a nicer in edition of Thunderbolt 12. Coming up there. They are right there. You are. They knew a lot about the seasons. They said summer, winter were their favorites. They told us about a little different kind of precipitation that happens year round. Oh, they were really jumping in with the answer. There are thunderbolt. Oh, we love it. And there's the note and there's the note they made for you say it was a good visit, John. It was a good visit. They reminded us to wear our coats because it's cold outside. I'm with you. I'm not a fan of the cold eye. We see those temperatures rebound as we push forward, getting into the later part of this afternoon. But as we roll into your December for tomorrow, we are opening up this month on a little bit of a wet not, but again, numbers closer to average 49 for this time of year, we'll see 47. So listen, two degrees here there. We're looking pretty fine. Lots of sunshine. We continue to stay dry. High pressure is in control. 46 for Newtown. That's your two hour 46 for us here across Newark, 44 for Bridgeport. And then as we head into here tonight, not all too bad, still, not quite as cold, do need the jacket but thirties we'll take, we'll see forties on the wake up for your tomorrow morning. Lots of sunshine, clouds fill in late morning. Then that sets the stage for rain which we have on tap for the early parts of your afternoon for some spots. A little bit of some light scattered shower activity, a little bit of a break, mid-afternoon. Then that commute home on a Friday evening. Yeah, it could be a little bit of a doozy certainly with adding some rain to the forecast. So if you could sneak out the offense a little bit early, you should be pretty fine. But for those that do have to trek along I 95. And the merit again, we're watching for a few showers. Then by your Friday night, we're looking good. By around 7789 o'clock, we're drying out nicely. Still working with decent numbers into the forties. Not quite too cold as if you're gonna be out and about for your Friday night, you're looking good and then pushing into your Saturday, we're looking dry first half of the weekend looks pretty good. It's really gonna be Sunday, late part of the day. We're gonna see showers back into the picture. And again, we're looking a little unsettled as we're opening about the month of December.

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Talk about the day ahead and how it's going to feel outside. Yeah. So it will feel a lot better than the past couple of days after a cold start early this morning. I mean, at least we got to pair the cold start with a gorgeous sunrise earlier this morning along the Hudson River and really everywhere. But expect a lot of sunshine even into the afternoon. Today, temperatures will rise into the forties and they'll be around the low forties before noon time today, afternoon, middle and upper forties. That's right on par with our normal average high this time of the year, which is around 4647 degrees. So, yes, you still want a jacket or a heavy sweatshirt into the afternoon, but it's not as brutally cold as it felt the past two days. So really nice today, then just partly cloudy skies move in for this evening and overnight temperatures will drop back down into the thirties. Then tomorrow afternoon, highs will reach the upper forties to near 50 again. So no problems with the temperatures tomorrow, but there will be mostly cloudy skies moving in during the morning and during the afternoon we can't rule out a few rounds of some light rain showers around. This will be off and on spotty, light rain. Nothing that's really even going to slow you down too much. But I would suggest you have the umbrella or rain jacket tomorrow afternoon as there will be some showers around and the shower activity out of here by around five or six in the evening hours tomorrow. Then some drier weather will push in later on tomorrow night ahead of an ok, Saturday. So highs today well into the forties, smile worthy weather have the sunglasses. It's a nice bright day. Just have a jacket too. A slight chill but not nearly as cold as the past two days. Low forties into this evening, eventually bottoming out in the thirties for most tonight, a few upper twenties in western orange and up into Dutchess and Ulster counties into early tomorrow morning. So it will be a little bit of a chilly start again tomorrow afternoon, upper forties to near 50 with just a few spotty rain showers during the afternoon, mostly cloudy on Saturday, 5350 with a few showers on Sunday. Most of next week at this point looks ok with more clouds and Sun Monday and Tuesday, temperatures do get a little bit colder, but

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All right, let's get a check of the forecast with Rich Hoffman. It is going to be a bit warmer out there today. I am happy about that after the cold conditions this morning with twenties and thirties. How about temperatures in the mid upper forties? With that sunshine? We're looking much nicer around the island for today. We're getting back to average and actually a little bit above average towards the weekend, but we do have some changes coming our way. Some clouds, some wet weather will be on the horizon today, temperatures are in the mid and upper forties. You can see through Brentwood this afternoon. There's your sunshine, mostly sunny skies. A few clouds coming in towards this evening and for the evening rush hour dry weather conditions with temperatures in the mid forties, wind chills this morning have been in the twenties and thirties. Yes, it has been cold this morning. We're improving our weather during our afternoon hours. Take a look around the tri state region. Sunshine from the east end to the west end, Nassau County, seven County heading into the five boroughs of Queens down along the Jersey shoreline heading north today mostly sunny skies. Take a look at our temperatures here for today. 48 degrees, mostly sunny tonight. Partly cloudy skies. A little chilly to cold at 38 but not as cold. The last couple of morning we've had temperatures in the twenties with wind chills in the teens and twenties. The cold weather is with us. Now, going through the afternoon hours, temperatures, mid and upper forties, you can see here at around 330 going towards tonight. A few passing clouds, your evening rush hour will be dry with temperatures in the lower forties. For your Friday morning temperatures around 35 to 40 before eight o'clock. We're right around 930. Now, mid forties, even some fifties popping up more sunshine on Friday and then towards Friday evening, a few spotty showers start to develop some nuisance showers coming our way and an overnight Friday just kind of cloudy skies. But drier weather conditions into Saturday and a few more raindrops coming in Saturday night into your Sunday. So recapping your Thursday forecast today, forties to around 50 degrees, mostly sunny and nice afternoon. Then for tonight, lows are in the thirties, partly cloudy skies and then going into tomorrow, we can see here fifties after morning sunshine showers Friday evening, mostly cloudy Saturday showers coming in Sunday, Monday, but temperatures in the fifties

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We do have warmer temperatures today. Yes, that's right. Mild temperatures, not as active winds thankfully. And we'll notice the winds out of the southwest will add on to that mild condition and high temperature for today reaching 50 degrees. Some of us, even 52 New York, you'll notice also our weather icons plenty of sunshine this afternoon. We'll notice some passing clouds, but that's it as far as you know, what can linger across our skies tomorrow though. You'll notice those rain showers into the afternoon in New Brunswick, 51 degrees. You'll expect the same across Edison and Newark 52 as well. In some locations though. We'll notice the rain arriving a little bit on the earlier side. So around 12 and to two, but that's for northern portions of the state across the state though. So central northern as well as southern portions, especially across the shore four and into seven o'clock into the afternoon, evening time frame could be expected to see that wet weather. How much, not much we're noticing trace to upwards, you know, 1/10 to 10th of an inch. So that's not significant rainfall. We're not noticing too much of major impacts with that today. It's sunny and chilly but feeling seasonable all in all we're supposed to be right where we're going to 50 degrees as a high temperature, 52 for some spots as well. Tomorrow we wake up into the thirties, we notice some clouds filtering in right around nine o'clock into lunch time. That's when we'll notice a lot of the system just, you know, breaking apart into two pieces first across Sussex and Warren County as well, North Bergen Counties as well. Then four o'clock, it's central southern portions and northern corridor, not as substantial as in the first round of rain, but nicely exiting right around seven and eight o'clock, calm conditions heading into the overnight. We start off on the dry side, too, more sunshine for Saturday, but it doesn't last for too long. The clouds will be back into play as well as those late showers arriving filtering in across for Sunday and Sunday. Then it becomes a Monday thing as well. So we're heading into the fifties, feeling so much better, even our overnight lows staying stuck into the forties.

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The New Normal: What do we need to do to help students overcome setbacks caused by the pandemic?

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So you know, it's easy. I think sometimes the monday morning quarterback it, but we take a look at some of the data, right? There's new information out all the time looking at how well remote learning work during the pandemic and the assessment cara is not very good. No, which is evidence that this was a once in a lifetime pandemic. And you know, when we went remote, we were losing 8000 people a day in New York. So I just don't want to lose sight of that. But remote learning is not an answer or a substitute for in person. Learning by any means. We know that our Children learn best when we are in person and together learning. So now that we know that remote learning was not ideal, we now have the ramifications and you know, we need to figure out how to make up that learning loss Greg. So the learning loss validates what we do. You know, kids learn best when they are in a room with teachers and when they're not in a room with teachers, they don't learn well. Our unions, teachers, parents, families, everyone has been saying that. So what do we do? We support our schools? We fund our schools, we fund wraparound services, communities across the state of a big choice to make Tuesday the 17 to support their budgets to get social and emotional learning counselors, academic support, psychologists, social workers, curriculum remediation, all of these things. You know, kids need these things and we owe it to them. Let's do it. And when we look at, you know, the the actual divide and you see some of these numbers, you know, especially when it comes to map that the number being floated with something like 20% worth of the typical school year, just completely lost. So how do we get in there? You know, and and make some strides in moving us forward in this keira? I think we stop worrying about high stakes assessments and we meet our Children where they are, we are constantly and continually assessing our students. So teachers need the flexibility to differentiate for the Children that are in front of us. We need the funding to be used appropriately so that we can provide supports for students who need that extra support, So make sure that it's in your school budget and then get out and supported on May 17 and then, you know, and it's interesting because obviously there was that option, you know, for in a lot of districts between 2020 and 2021 to say if you need to stay completely remote for the year and a lot of, you know, kids decided to take advantage of that, whether they had their own health concerns or a family member or whatever the case may be. But now you're looking at this disparity when it comes to what happened during that year, because you know the new numbers in these coming from Harvard, a Harvard study showing that about 50% of the kids who were learning at home, lost an entire year of of math, Greg. they lost a lot of an entire year of math, they lost reading, they lost literacy and when we say they we've got to be careful about who they are, Some of our poor and some of our black and brown students were the hardest hit. This is an equity issue as much as an education issue. We owe it to these kids, all of these kids, every kid in the state to bring them up and help them recover from a pandemic. They didn't ask for the pandemic, but we have to help them get past it. And it's true what you just said. One of the most alarming findings in this was with the school closures is that it widened economic and racial inequity in in learning kara 100%. And so we have to be really mindful again that those funds that we were given this year, we have full funding. We have to make sure that those funds are allocated and used appropriately at the local level to ensure that our Children are getting exactly what they need and what they deserve. And so that's a real local based, locally based decision. So I encourage folks to look at their school budgets and to ask questions and then to support the budgets. So I mean if we take a look at the american rescue money that's going out there. Greg. Have you seen the district a difference rather in your district? I think that what happened in the pandemic with the rescue money is that already well funded districts fared better than underfunded districts and affluent kids fared better than kids that were struggling because the money tends to confirm pre existing inequities. This is why the governor hopefuls budget that was just passed was so groundbreaking, transformative and forward looking. We finally are moving toward gotten there yet, but we're moving towards fully funding foundation aid so that every kid in every school everywhere in the state has the money that they need to learn and it's just a basic public obligation of of the public schools. And one of the things that was interesting there was this makins Lee study that came out that was looking at the rates of absenteeism and you know, kids that are missing more than 15 days a year and we're seeing those numbers really rise cara so I think something that happened was being home normalized being home for a lot of students and so that stamina to get up and come to school every day was lost. That's another piece of it, right? The the ability to get up and go. So I think that's something we really need to continue to focus on and to ensure that our social workers and guidance counselors are reaching out and making sure that our Children are in school and working with families to support where they can and what about the mental, you know, the mental health aspect of all of this and the and the toll that this has taken on these students Greg, it's interesting, there was an education week study that just came out. They pulled talk with executives from all of the biggest companies in America amazon and Southwest Airlines and Allstate M and T Bank and they all said the same thing. What they want in kids is problem solving, teamwork, comfort with ambiguity, resiliency, communication skills, social skills, emotional intelligence, you know, the learning loss that you talked about before and we can measure math and we can measure literacy, but there's this whole other part of what we do and that's the stuff that's easiest to lose when kids are home when they're not being acculturated socially to teachers and their peers, so we've got to get them back in school and then we have to tend to not just not only the academic fundamentals, but also these things that make kids whole people Yeah, because you hear about this social emotional learning, but then you also hear about, you know, kids acting out in ways that maybe aren't age appropriate. Cara well, I think that there was a gap in learning um in terms of maturity, right? So at sir, I look at my, my daughter who's in fourth grade and I think about some of the issues that I hear about about, you know, working it out with friends, I think they didn't have those opportunities in the classroom to learn how to work some of this stuff out, but when I look at my own students, I was the other day, I was in front of the class and I just took a moment to congratulate them about how far we've come because we are able to joke with each other in a loving and respectful way we participate. We are eager to participate and that is such a shift from the, the shyness that that I noticed in the classroom at the beginning of the year. So I'm happy to say that I think that students will continue to move forward with that they just need the opportunity to be together. You know, it's interesting. I know in, in my district we just had all the spring concerts and that was one of the, the themes that really resonated throughout is that you know, we're back and you know, we're able to perform, we're able to do this again and you just see that bolstering their confidence Greg, you know, schools are people labs, you know, I'm a history teacher and I love teaching history and when my kids say why do we have to learn facts and dates like glare at them with love. But there are also people labs, This is where they learn empathy and kindness and problem solving and and how to get along with each other and how do you like disagree with each other. So getting kids back in schools, it's a brick and mortar business. It's not a remote business. It's not a recorded business, it's not a screen business. It's a people in a room. It's like a communal public place where we learn to be a society. You know, I think one of the bright spots uh Cara that we were talking about is this poll that came out about about parents and what and what they're thinking right now. So it appears that lots of parents feel as if the learning gaps are not as existent for their students. I I can't cite the numbers at the moment, but I believe, but they also that they felt that their teachers did the best that they could and that they are satisfied with their public schools currently. And that's exciting because this is a relationship business with parents and our students. Yeah, it's interesting because it was across, you know, so many different things. It was math, reading, social skills, Mental health and well being and fewer parents felt their Children were behind. It was 47% that agreed with the statement, the pandemic has not disrupted my child's education. When I saw that I was I was surprised cara yes, thank you for sharing this statistic by the way. But yes, it's really exciting and it shows that we are moving forward, right? This is not a place where we want to be stuck, we are moving through and out of the pandemic. And so now we have an opportunity with a focus on education and funding to really ensure that we give students what they need to succeed, which now we know is critical thinking and interpersonal skills as well.

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