- The first weeks of school should be devoted to community building and digital competency.
- Communication with parents needs to be more thorough, streamlined, and predictable.
- Community and connection need to be a priority for teachers, too.
- Teacher collaboration is even more important.
- “Face-to-face” time should be used for active learning.
- Content needs to be simplified and slowed down.
- Instructions should be easy to find, explicit, and multimodal.
- Traditional grading practices should take a backseat to feedback.
- Summative assessment should focus on creation.
Jennifer, I really enjoyed your interview with Melanie Kitchen. As both a parent and an educator, I think that that making the lines of communication between home and school is really important. One of the things that I found challenging was what information to pass back to the teacher in regards to my daughter.