In “It’s Time to Write A New Story”, I submitted we individually and collectively have an historic opportunity to proactively reset, reimagine, and redesign teaching and learning to meet the needs of each learner. “Why?” Simply put, we can design a system of education for “all” or better put, “each” learner irrespective of where they live, their ethnicity, national origin, race, gender, age, language, disability, or family configuration. The inconvenient truth is not all students have equitable access, opportunity or resources to learn as do their non-disadvantaged peers. This is a product of the design of our present education system. No excuse or explanation will suffice as we have known for decades that the system in place has not, can not meet the needs of each learner. It wasn’t designed to do so. Where do we begin? How do we begin a redesign? I posited that to authentically address the shortcoming...
It was a long weekend – a lot of debate, discourse, and discussion underpinned by opinion, optimism, and of course, partisanship. Rhetorically, when did the health, well-being, and safety of self and others become partisan? Suffice it to say, as far as we have come as a nation, we have “miles to go before we sleep and promises to keep” before we unite and behave as “E Plurbius Unum”. As daily we witness the hardships of COVID-19 it is very difficult to see past the day to day struggles, challenges and tragedy confronting so many Americans and citizens of the world. Emerging however, is the beginning of disregard and denial of these realities. Please don’t become callous, deaf or blind. “The good of the one has never outweighed the good of the many.” We must simply not dismiss these tragedies because it hasn’t personally affected us individually. As we have and will continue to see, Americans answer to the call to serve ...