Pillars in the Pandemic: In the new way of teaching, some 'grace' goes a long way | Education
WATERTOWN â A pandemic low point for public school teacher Amanda M. Jackson was when she slipped into her North Elementary classroom at the end of the 2019-20 school year. The classroom, once full of life with young minds eager to learn, was noticeably silent on the 2020 spring day, more so than her previous end-of-year visits. Like classrooms across the land, instruction in her room had suddenly ended in March of 2020 when a state emergency declaration shut down all schools along with in-person learning. âI remember coming back in at the end of the year and going through their des...