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While innovation, technology, the state school safety, and larger-scale policy reform may feel disconnected, we must reckon with the reality of how we’ve reemerged from the pandemic.
While private schools saw limited interruptions, some stable, public school districts have used the catalyst of the Covid-19 pandemic to progress personalized learning initiatives and implement more experimental curricula. However, increasingly more public schools are struggling with bare necessities—extreme shortages of bus drivers, food service delivery, and substitute teachers. These operational obstacles are now bleeding over to disrupt instruction.
We believe that any successful venture in education must contribute to the ultimate outcome of empowering learners to navigate and respond to the needs of an uncertain future.
Defining the nuanced challenges that parents and caregivers are facing in 2020 is a big undertaking, but it merits our full attention before we can shift into problem-solving mode.
Especially as virtual instruction becomes normalized, it is important to establish systems, routines, and procedures that ensure that the quality of instruction can be maintained even if it must be delivered and executed remotely.
I believe that there is no correct answer or perfect choice. Knowing this, I am guided by a simple phrase: trial and error.
The expertise of educators in the classroom is often overlooked in the development of new classroom tools.
How do you learn whether music lessons can increase social-emotional learning; if inquiry-based learning can increase student engagement; or if an app can increase a student's STEM awareness? The entrepreneurs in our program worked diligently last year in concert with educators at our pilot sites to find out.
Here I was, a young latinx woman in a conservative midwestern market, aiming to solve one of our city’s (and country’s) most notorious and shameful problems—how we’ve failed generations of children.