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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


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