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What E-Learning During COVID Should Have Taught Us

Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! I remember the first time I became dependent on e-learning for instructional purposes. It was the winter of 2014. The snow started falling right before we were supposed to return from our Winter Break. Nearly every school in our region called […]

Posted inFrom the Front Lines

Teach to the Rest: Three More Ways We Can Use the Pandemic to Transform Schools For the Better- Part 2

By Thomas Courtney Last year, I wrote about the opportunity we had to change the very way in which our schools operated. Twenty years ago, teaching to the test transformed our educational system. To many, the pandemic was simply the last piece of the puzzle that revealed the picture of what our schools had become. […]

Posted inHow to Fix Education

Abusing Teachers is Normal: Normal is the Problem

“When we get back to normal” is the attitude helping people see through the difficulty that has been the COVID-19 pandemic.  [bctt tweet=”Abusing teachers is normal.  Normal is not a destination worth seeking.” username=””] “Mental health” and “work-life balance” are the in-vogue phrases that are used to tell teachers to take care of themselves.  Meanwhile, […]

Posted inCurrent Events in Education

Now That Betsy Devos is on Her Way Out, Here Are 7 Picks for Her Replacement

There’s a lot to celebrate with Joe Biden’s election. The glass ceiling shattered when Madame Vice President Kamala Harris stepped onto the acceptance stage in suffragette white. Black women turned out in record numbers, truly changing the trajectory of the election (thanks, Stacey Abrams!) The fear that many of us lived with under Trump is […]