It’s been a hard year for everyone, and teachers and young students have faced some of the toughest battles of all. One teacher in Seattle hoping to boost morale and engagement in her second-grade remote-learning class hit upon a winning solution: a class pet. A class dog, to be precise, who would join the children regularly in their digital classroom.
Enter Frenzy, a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy just three months old when she and owner Stacy Slade joined teacher Christine Lackie’s classroom.
Helping Teachers and Children Find the Positive in the Pandemic
It might not be anybody’s idea of a good time, but Lackie recognized that the pandemic presented an opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade, and boost her class’s social-emotional learning in the process.