Remote education is mandatory home schooling. This is not and cannot be made into regular schooling. We need to adjust our current understanding and expectations of remote education to our real circumstances. Continue reading
Teaching and Learning in Education’s Lifeboats in the Time of COVID
Essential: The New Occam Razor in the Time of COVID
Post-COVID schools may need to be different than pre-COVID schools. Continuing mitigation will be part of re-opening. We also will integrate what we learned about about remote teaching and learning into new schooling designs. Continue reading
In The Time of COVID, Moms Do Not Have To Be Teachers
In the time of COVID, parents are not responsible for teaching children their remote lessons. School house closure just means that teachers teach remotely – they still are responsible for all teaching. Continue reading
Remote Education in the Lifeboats
School, teaching and learning constitute a culture for youth, educators and a community. A school house, not necessary for essential education, is more than a place. Closing a school house is a significant decision assuaged by the promise of a safe re-opening in the future. Continue reading
Making Instruction Whole Post-COVID 19
The most significant challenge for schools and COVID 19 is not remote education while schools are closed, but how we will make each child academically whole so there is not a COVID-based educational deficit. Continue reading
Teaching and Learning in the Time of COVID
Remote education, a new experience for most in public education, is a reality and a game changer that will modify teaching and learning for years after COVID 19. Continue reading
The Butterflies Are Loose; Help the Unexpected to Find Flight
A little chaos can be a wonderful opportunity to find an unexpected and unpredicted consideration of what education can be when it cannot be normal or usual. Be open to creativity as you stay well. Continue reading
A School Year Is Long Enough To …
A school year is the length of time to teach an annual curriculum. Instructional time is our most valuable commodity in causing all children to achieve learning competence. Discussion of school year length must be based upon educational rationales and not politics, economics or personal preferences. Learning takes time. Continue reading
Meddling, Muddling, Modeling Not Middling
Everything changes. The question is – what do we understand about change and how can we be players in the changes as they occur. Continue reading
Good Teaching and Good Schooling Grow a Whole Child
If you talk about improving student academic performance today, invariably someone will say “We need to be more concerned with the whole child than just test scores”. The comment is meant to dissolve the discussion of objective curricular performance by … Continue reading