Teaching
"Before we go back to business as usual, let’s consider, look for and learn from any positives our kids may have brought back with them."


Thomas Courtney

"The unanimous conclusion in educational literature has been that 2020 and 2021 will be a generational burden on kids. And it’s true. This pandemic has hit us all hard: educators, parents, and most powerfully, kids. We need to talk about ways to address it, correct it, and be mindful of how our tax dollars can address it.

"Yet, there’s something quite special happening in my classroom right now. It’s something that has been revealing itself in larger and larger ways, and I am not alone in noticing it. It doesn’t show up in test data, and it isn’t discussed in any periodical or book that I’ve seen, either. But it’s there nevertheless — a type of silver lining under the voluminous gray cloud of quarantines and distance learning." - Thomas Courtney

Article: What if Covid’s Silver Lining Could Be What We Learn from the Kids?