Join Our Conversation on Learning and #PostCovEd

Apr 17, 2020 12:00:00 AM

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While privileged parents and pundits have the luxury of debating whether to prioritize academic or social-emotional learning, those on the front lines of exposure to the virus and job loss have little mental energy left to ponder how to keep education on the radar for their children at all.

Nonetheless, some leaders are showing the way forward, whether by borrowing established best practices from the homeschool community, bringing personalized attention to each student into remote learning or helping parents support young learners with disabilities at home. Education visionaries, brightbeam and 4.0 Schools, are teaming up to open a conversation on these practices and shine a light on students and families who might otherwise be left behind.  

Join us on Thursday, April 23, at 5 p.m. Central Time, for our inaugural Zoom webchat:

#PostCovEd: How the Pandemic Is Changing Schooling Now and for the Future.

Our panelists include:

To register, click here. Space is limited.

We invite you to start the conversation in advance, here on the blog.

  • What are you doing to prepare your students, kids, family members, or your community for an extended period of remote learning?
  • What should happen when students return to school?

Or, jumpstart the discussion on social media.

  • Use the hashtag #PostCovEd on Twitter to share your thoughts on what systems, teachers and parents can learn from adapting to extended school closures.

Meet Our Sponsors

Brightbeam is a nonprofit network of education activists demanding a better education and a brighter future for every child. Brightbeam serves as the umbrella organization for Education PostCitizen EducationProject Forever FreeChicago Unheard and more than 20 local digital platforms that spotlight education issues around the country. Learn more at brightbeamnetwork.org

4.0 is the largest and earliest first check investor in the next generation of education innovators. Through two fellowships, 4.0 invests coaching, community, curriculum, and cash in promising leaders to test tomorrow’s learning models with students and families in their local communities.  Today, our 1,000+ alumni have impacted the lives of over a million students nationwide. Learn more at 4pt0.org

This post originally appeared on Chicago Unheard as "Join Our Conversation on Learning and #PostCovEd."

Maureen Kelleher

Maureen Kelleher is Editorial Director at Future Ed. She was formerly Editorial Partner at Ed Post and is a veteran education reporter, a former high school English teacher, and also the proud mom of an elementary student in Chicago Public Schools. Her work has been published across the education world, from Education Week to the Center for American Progress. Between 1998 and 2006 she was an associate editor at Catalyst Chicago, the go-to magazine covering Chicago’s public schools. There, her reporting won awards from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the International Reading Association and the Society for Professional Journalists.

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