A once in a lifetime pandemic. A once in a lifetime opportunity. Teaching in the year 2020 reminds me of a quote from “Inherit the Wind:” “Perhaps it is you who has moved away by standing still.” All at once our world was completely halted by a global pandemic the worst in 100 years and yet in a moment of crisis an opportunity to create appeared. Are we going to move away from progress by standing still?
In March, Baltimore City Public Schools, and my sixth grade class, shifted to online learning. In the blink of an eye teachers became tech support, problem solvers and the other many intricate titles we claim even when there isn’t a public health crisis.
