School Challenges

Schools face a number of challenges when they open in the fall. I thought it would be helpful to provide a list of I've been thinking about lately:

1. How much learning can be accomplished in a hybrid environment?
2. What lessons must be taught on-campus?
3. What is the relative time required for students to learn the same concept via an on-campus and off-campus learning environment?
4. How will existing pedagogies be modified or replaced to better support distance learning?
5. What existing pedagogies should be banned for off-campus learners? Spoiler alert: whiteboards over Zoom is the first one to go.
6. Will online learning become primarily projects, , flipped instruction and discussions?
7. How will you foster relationships with students that are primarily off-campus?
8. How will the role of teachers change from the primary instructional resource to more of a relationship manager, mentor and coach?
9. How will the curriculum and pedagogies be melded between on-campus and off-campus learning environment?
10. How will we gather continual feedback from teachers, student, and parents? 
11. How will progress reporting to students and parents change to ease anxiety?
12. How will teacher PD be ramped up to ensure that new EdTech tools are used in transformative ways to create engaging online learning experiences?
13. How will students and teachers manage a very diverse set of assignments that will likely result in truly personalized learning?
14. What personalized learning management system will have the power and flexibility to support a diverse group of on-campus and off-campus students?
15. How will more personalized learning provide students with more agency and curricular choice, and the ability to propose their own activities and projects?
16. What third-party digital curriculum will be used so that teachers are to not the primary content creators?
17. Creation of checkpoints activities and projects to assess skills that are being built using a variety of tools and resources. This will also demonstrate progress to parents
18. Who will create non-digital activities and projects for off-campus students?
19. How will a necessarily less dense curriculum provide the same level of rogor for students?
20. Is there a way to use a camera in class that doesn't relagate at-home students to second class citizens?