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5 insights into students’ mental states during COVID

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Older students and those in the Black, Latinx and LGBTQ communities are suffering higher rates of depression and anxiety during COVID and online learning,has found.

Just more than half of high school students reported feeling emotionally impacted by COVID, compared to 39% of elementary school students.

High school students were also less likely than younger children to say they learned something almost every day.

These types of feelings among students have convinced leaders atRegional School Unit 57 in Maine to that’s focused on social-emotional learning as much as academics, saysErica Mazzeo, the director of curriculum, instruction and assessment.


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“The great equalizer that is the threshold of the school building is removed and there’s no way to recreate that in thousands of individual homes,” said in a webinar Tuesday. “We are going to be addressing the known gaps but not assessing them because we know what gaps are.”

Here are five key insights into students’ post-COVID mindsets from the Youth Truth survey’

Matt Zalaznick
Matt Zalaznick
Matt Zalaznick is the managing editor of District 91心頭istration and a life-long journalist. Prior to writing for District 91心頭istration he worked in daily news all over the country, from the NYC suburbs to the Rocky Mountains, Silicon Valley and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He's also in a band.

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