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
Remote Education: How To Improve From What We Learned
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
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