The COVID back to school plans in virtually every North American political jurisdiction just don’t compute for me, but in British Columbia, the back to school plan is especially confounding.
It would appear that the BC government’s approach to the return to school revolves around the ability to contact trace anyone who has been infected by Covid19 quickly. Their cohort model (120 students for high school and 60 students at elementary) is the cornerstone of their back to school plan; if we find cases, we …
Well, here we are shuffling through our 6th week back at school since Spring Break ended and a few things have become abundantly clear about our education system. First and foremost we were not prepared for a pandemic. Yah I know, I have a penchant for stating the obvious, but within the BIG obvious lesson, …
When we started the iPad cohort in my High School, we were not sure how things would work out. We knew we had a group of kids who were keen on stepping away from a more “traditional” classroom but outside of that we were treading into unknown territory. I had been teaching most of my classes …