Time to Reflect

As the end of September approaches, I usually take the time to reflect on the past few weeks and the opening of school. This year it seems as though everything was new and the challenges were almost insurmountable. In hindsight, I realize the challenges we faced were collective. In other words, we all faced the same challenges and sought to answer the question of, “How do we reach students?” Interesting thing is, that question is always our challenge. Reaching and engaging students in the content will always be an educators greatest challenge. As I have said countless times, I do not believe there are ‘boring subjects’. I simply think there are boring presentations of the lesson content. Verteran teachers know that they cannot present a lesson the same way they presented it 15 years ago. Things are different now. My goodness, can you think of life without the iphone? Yes, that was 15 years ago and that lesson doesn’t work with the students of today. That is the silver lining of teaching through the pandemic. Out of necessity, lessons have been rewritten, redesigned, and updated. It is said the necessity is the mother of invention. We certainly see it in the lessons being delivered today. Have a supercharged last weekend in September and join me in welcoming the last quarter of 2020…Go PUPS! (cue Sara Bareilles - Brave).