MARY ANN WOLF: More than ever, educators need parents, community and government support
Monday, Aug. 3, 2020 -- In order for our educators -- and, by extension our students -- to be successful, there are several challenges we must address in order to lift up and support our educators at a time when they need us perhaps more than ever before. ... During a time of great instability, our educators need stable funding so that they can continue to work toward delivering a sound basic education to all of our children this year, something we do not want to fall even further behind on achieving during this pandemic. North Carolina must act to strengthen our public schools.
Posted — UpdatedI don’t know anyone who goes into teaching who doesn’t start out wanting to make a difference for kids. While serving as a teacher always involves many different contexts, age groups, and subjects, this year most educators are feeling like they are first year teachers all over again.
As states and districts are in the middle of making decisions about whether to offer in-person learning, all remote learning or some hybrid of the two this fall, our teachers are focused on what they must do to meet the needs of their students. In March, teachers pivoted to remote learning overnight and without warning, and many have expressed that they are eager to use the skills they quickly developed and adapted back then so that they can support their students academically, socially, and emotionally, during this new year.
But in order for our educators — and, by extension our students — to be successful, there are several challenges we must address in order to lift up and support our educators at a time when they need us perhaps more than ever before.
During a time of great instability, our educators need stable funding so that they can continue to work toward delivering a sound basic education to all of our children this year, something we do not want to fall even further behind on achieving during this pandemic. North Carolina must act to strengthen our public schools.
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