Monthly Archives: December 2020
The pandemic causes us to consider the value, cost and worth of an education. The answer to each is different and and all three are informative to what we are willing to do to teach and learn. Continue reading
What Have We Learned: Lesson #3 – School Is More Than SchoolThe word school implies place yet is all-encompassing of the programs, services, and valued connections that children, parents, adults and community derive from school. When the schoolhouse closes, we appreciate the real meaning of school. Continue reading
So, What Have We Learned? Lesson #2 – Adapt Or …Adaptation in an old skill set now made a requirement in the pandemic. Teaching and learning are being pounded on the daily forge of change. Education depends upon our individual and collective capacity to adapt. Continue reading
What Have We Learned? Lesson #1 – The World Does Not Stop For A CrisisAt the midpoint of the 2020-21 school, what have we learned in the first half to improve the second half? What should our children expect in their second semester? Continue reading
Normal Never WasEducators are normalizers. The deep-rooted diseases of the era, not just COVID, raise perceptions of normal that may not be real. What is an educator to do? Continue reading