Op-Ed: Holding Onto Pandemic’s Best Lessons

It’s already begun. The joy I felt as an educator as pandemic-related restrictions were lifted, allowing us to return students to classrooms full-time, host athletic contests, organize proms and offer in-person graduations, is fading. What we gave our students and achieved as united communities is Read More …

Op-Ed: Not All Students Will Welcome Return to School

While my own district hasn’t made the leap to return all secondary students to the classroom, many of our neighboring districts are marking their lines in the sand with the February break.  My niece, for example, will be resuming 8th grade full-time, in-person before the Read More …

Op-Ed: Vision 2020 Looks to the Future

I was a teen at Walt Whitman High School in the 1980s.  We watched movies like “War Games” where far-fetched sci-fi A.I. devices disguised as blinking-cursor computer games threatened to launch global thermonuclear war.  Families were starting to own home computers and universities were recognizing Read More …