Educators are deciding how best to re-establish routines such as everyday attendance, rebuild the relationships for resilient school communities, and center teaching and learning to consciously prioritize protecting the health and overall well-being of students and staff. They acknowledge that the necessity of learning recovery is both accelerated and equitable. And they agree that returning to the pre-pandemic status quo is not an option.
The Campaign for Grade Level Reading applauds the embrace of the 鈥渂uild back better鈥� imperative. Just as the pandemic 鈥渓aid bare鈥� longstanding inequities, adapting to the pandemic unveiled different ways of teaching and learning that could contribute to the better 鈥渘ew normal.鈥� This conversation will seek to illuminate how some of the decisions educators make could translate these bright spots, silver linings and potential keepers into pathways toward transformative change.
