The Unwritten Curriculum of Remote Learning
There have been many articles and blogs written about the sudden transition that K-12 schools had to make to remote or distance or e-learning. Most of them articulate some of the amazing feats of determination by some districts to overcome a myriad of barriers. Others deal with the fact that parents became home-school teachers overnight. School and district administrators and teachers have had to supply instruction, experiences, and learning activities to meet the needs of a wide-range of students. The teaching and learning that has continued even though schools are closed has been largely unknown at this point. Learning regressions are being widely predicted for students all across the board, but there are have been students that have navigated remote learning successfully. Unsurprisingly, many of the factors that contribute to success in the “brick-and-mortar” classroom are the ones that are contributing to remote success. Affluence, access, and resources are certainly factors that contribute to student success, but our role in public education is to reduce these barriers for our students so that ALL can excel.
Maybe, before we jump to mastery of content, we should also analyze how the structures of…
