With skyrocketing COVID-19 cases causing disruptions to in-person learning around the country, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced plans to offer weary parents some real relief. In a press release, Ducey gave details about the new Open for Learning Recovery Benefit Program: The Governor is creating the Open for Learning Recovery Benefit program to provide relief…
I used to leave my phone at the front of the classroom in case of emergencies at home. Of course, I didn’t advertise its place there, but also of course, the students found it and would snag it during community time. They couldn’t access the contents—a teacher knows to keep everything locked down—but they could access the…
Education in America came to a virtual standstill after schools were ordered closed in a nationwide effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. School officials were left scrambling and most parents were in a state of disbelief. Admirably, the message most families heard was while buildings would be closed, education would continue, somehow. And…
I have spent the week having flashbacks to a Friday in 2001 when I sobbed in my classroom. It was the middle of March and I was leaving my teaching job to accompany my future husband on his Navy orders to San Diego. There is plenty to debate about my personal decision to leave mid-year,…
I wish my kids loved to read. But they don’t. They don’t even like it very much. And this may present a challenge as we move forward into a pandemic that will likely have our kids out of school for the foreseeable future. Changing the very nature of our children is a tall order but…