This book is not simply a pitch for distance learning. It asserts that part of the reason distance learning has been so challenging is that we're replicating long-standing practices that promote dependent learning in our students. Why not use this unique moment of time to reconnect with the true purpose of teaching: to help our students become liberated learners and free thinkers? The next logical step in teachers' months-long distance learning journey
, this book describes how to center humanity and equity in our process of reimagining learning. Even while teaching and learning miles apart through screens, you'll discover how to build independence within your students so they're better equipped to tackle challenges with persistence and learn how to learn; make collaboration and human connection essential components of your pedagogy, offering students the chance to socialize and learn from one another; center and unpack students' identities, helping them develop a conscious knowledge of themselves, all the while using their self-identified strengths to overcome any obstacles; plan, prepare, and implement humanized instruction while teaching for student liberationboth digitally and in person; and investigate technology integration, including the Digital Divide, as well as ways to minimize EdTech integration so that our collective sense of humanity can continue to be front and center.