“don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.”
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As the first semester of the year wraps up, chatter continues around student learning loss. Everybody seems to have an opinion and a willingness to voice it. Nearly every opinion is formed by looking backward, with few eyes cast forward.
Here’s a newsflash, when the calendar changes in two weeks, it’ll read January 2021, not January 2020. Change is coming like it or not, comfortable or not.
The new year will lead to students returning to school buildings and in-person instruction. The expectation seems to be that there will be a seamless return to the days of yore. That best practices of the past will once again assume their place as current best practices. I’d caution against that assumption, and if the goal is truly to do what’s best for students, we need to begin having much more robust conversations.
Let’s not try to predict what’ll happen throughout the rest of the school year. What’s going to transpire is going to transpire. It is what it is. Let’s instead begin considering a return to school for the 2021/2020 school year. I’m talking August, a month that feels far in the future but in reality, is but a blink away.
My presumption is, that by that time, the vaccine will have been delivered and the virus been CONTINUE READING: A FEAR OF LOOKING FORWARD – Dad Gone Wild