From the brief: "The COVID-19 pandemic led schools across the country to close their buildings, requiring millions of students to continue learning from home and leading to sudden shifts in how educators provide instruction, leadership, and support. In this brief, we present survey responses that highlight how districts approached remote instruction during spring 2020. Because districts face a variety of challenges, we report results separately across a range of community contexts and districts’ pre-existing technology infrastructure. Survey responses indicate that districts varied in their approaches to distance learning, with important differences in how high-poverty districts and districts without a learning management system approached distance learning. Our hope is that these results inform future practices of educators, policymakers, and researchers"