Is it any surprise that a recent survey revealed that teachers’ stress exceeded all other professions in the last year?
Teachers and students have had to adjust, as the entire globe was suddenly thrusted into a pandemic. Pivot became the new buzz word, as unprepared, both parties shifted from the classroom to the world of online learning and back again. “We are building the plane as we fly it”, read the sign in my daughter’s assistant principal’s office. That much was clear.
Teaching and learning under “normal” circumstances is a challenge. Throw a highly politicized pandemic in the mix and the impossible becomes undoable – but YOU are showing up AND doing it.