COVID-19 Crisis Response in Pajaro Valley Started with Listening to Families

COVID-19 has disrupted California's education system in fundamental ways. Districts across the state are quickly creating strategies to serve all students, and many are designing their response around the needs of their most vulnerable students. This brief highlights Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD)'s crisis response, which prioritizes the needs of their Spanish-, Mixteco bajo-, and English-speaking community. PVUSD began their distance learning transition by providing access to digital devices, phone-based and in-person tech support, and increased multilingual family outreach. District staff are collaborating with a wide network of community organizations to meet students' instructional and noninstructional needs. The model that PVUSD is building addresses multiple levels of equity and will benefit their students and families even after school resumes.