Remote education is causing teachers to examine teaching born out of emergency and find new instructional practices for the future. Continue reading
Occupandi temporis dociles!
Mommy, Daddy. What Did You Do During the Pandemic of 2020?
Without implying humor, the event of a pandemic cannot be wasted. In a summer of no structured activity for school children, encourage them to write their personal history. It will be a gift to their children and grandchildren. Continue reading
Summering After Remoting: Now to Next
The effects of our loss of in-school instruction must be known through data rather than conjecture. We will not know how the COVID-slide affected the summer slide until next fall. Planning for post-school closure should be based upon student learning data. Continue reading
Remote Education: How To Improve From What We Learned
Schools were simply unprepared for remote education. No fault or blame is intended. Because the need for remote education will persist, we need to make improvements from what we learned about teaching and learning from home. Continue reading
Synchronicity and Asynchronicity of Remote Education
Schools used remote education as an emergency procedure in the spring of 2020. We were as unprepared for remote education as medicine was for COVID. We can do better in the future with an appropriate design for teaching and learning. Continue reading
Reopening School: The Need for Day Care
The critical attribute of public school in the time of COVID is day care. Economic recovery requires schools to reopen, resume daily care of children, so that parents are available for work. School is day care. Continue reading
Getting Covrosion Off the Learning Needle
The needle that measures learning performances moves freely with current data. Remote education has been assessment-free and schools lack necessary data to reset academic goals next September. Covrosion describes the current rusted state of the learning needle during remote education. Continue reading
In the Time of COVID, Choose Wisely
To speculate in giving others what they want in the face of unforeseen consequences and the facts suggest otherwise is to choose unwisely. Continue reading
Nimbility in the Time of COVID
Crisis does not pause to allow leadership to find its way. Nimbility is the capacity to respond to and not be overcome by the stuff that keeps happening when crisis surrounds. Continue reading
Teaching and Learning in Education’s Lifeboats in the Time of COVID
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