In a time when we declare that something “matters”, it is equally important to declare what makes something worthy of mattering. Continue reading
Why Is My Teacher Memorable?
At-Home Learning Rethunk
We must use what we have learned about remote education to adjust what we do next in remote education. Continue reading
The School That Will Be Cannot Be The School That Was
Children know the pandemic school they return to is not the school they left last March. Some will not return unless we shape the school that will be by what we are learning in the pandemic. Continue reading
What Did We Learn? Lesson #7: At-Home Learning Workshops
As we suspend so many realities during pandemic teaching, we also need to reconceptualize. A child’s at-home school work area is her learning workshop. Most classroom tropes do not apply. Continue reading
What Did We Learn? Lesson #6: Teachers And Classrooms Have Come A Long Way, Baby!
Remote education has moved teaching and learning from the historic classroom to the contemporary instructional studio. Concurrent teaching to in-school and at-home learners is a game changer. Continue reading
What Did We Learn? Lesson #5 – Teaching Today Requires A Rethought Teacher Prep
Changes in how we prepare teachers were growing pre-pandemic and have become more demanding within the pandemic. We can do this. Continue reading
What Did We Learn? Lesson #4 – The Value, Cost and Worth of an Education
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 School
The 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 Crisis
At 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