For more than a year now, we educators have been tested and tested again. We've been stretched, we've been pulled, we've been put through the wringer. But now it's time to rebound.
It's time to bounce back, come back better, and benefit from the many lessons learned to reignite engagement, accelerate learning, and move forward with fresh optimism and better systems for schooling. Enter Distance Learning Playbooks, which have supported more than a half million educators across pandemic teaching and who are here now to advise you on this next, absolutely critical leg of our ongoing journey. Complete with tools and strategies, prompts and exercises, this book will help you: address the collective traumas we have experienced during the pandemic and rebuild our sense of agency and self, so that we can attribute student success to both teachers' and students' efforts; evaluate what we have learned about remote teaching and learning to determine what to carry forward and what to leave behind; shift the narrative from learning loss to learning leaps
and implement instructional and assessment practices that ensure our students reclaim lost knowledge, build skills, develop agency, and accelerate gains; and redefine classrooms, learning experiences, the ways schools operate, and the very idea of schooling itself.