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All the energy that teachers are having to spend to fight with admin...cd be spent on improving the inevitable online. Instead school dists are intent on reliving March, in Oct. "Prep for teaching in person! It's gotta happen! If you just go along it'll be great!" https://twitter.com/lexlanham/status/1296255316733173762
The thing is, it's actually hard to be a teacher. It's hard to be a professor! And being a k12 teacher is a million times harder -- it's all day every day, instead of like 1 to 3 classes 3x/week plus papers or tests or whatever.
My mind was breaking trying to figure out how faculty could effectively deliver class content in a hybrid model or a phased model or in simultaneously in-person / online. If you're going to be successful you have to COMMIT and go all-in.
It is 100% true that younger kids & kids with certain disabilities or needs cannot have needs met with online education.
It is also 100% true that putting us in a situation like March where teachers are not able to prepare means that *EVERYBODY* gets screwed in October. Whatever that is, it's not equity.
Equity might be something like -- accept we're going to have to be online b/c public health, then break out of the box in terms of how we meet the needs of the kids & families who didn't thrive last spring.
That planning & creative engineering -- like all universal design -- is likely to be beneficial for *all* people!
And way more equitable than putting our most vulnerable & challenged kids/families into schools that are less safe than they were in March, with teachers who have still not been given support to redesign education.
