Supporting Students During Uncertain Times

The joy of being back together this school year has been tempered by pandemic mandates, differing opinions about compliance, and school systems marching on as if everything were business as usual. These realities are leaving students and teachers to deal with revolving quarantines, varying degrees of masking and distancing, and the looming concern of a sudden pivot to virtual instruction.

When deciding how to best support ourselves and our students, we can look to the advice of Edutopia’s chief content officer, Stephen Merrill: “The need to rebuild the frayed social fabric of our learning communities… should be the paramount concern.” With that in mind, we can support both ourselves and our students by centering healing and connection in our classrooms with the guiding principles discussed here……