{"id":5675,"date":"2020-08-23T20:07:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T01:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2020-08-23T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T02:42:15","slug":"stick-to-our-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=5675","title":{"rendered":"Stick to Our Knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you ask educators to name one educational theorist from their preservice education, they\u2019re likely to remember Abraham Maslow. Admittedly, I never thought much of Maslow but do understand his popularity. His hierarchy of needs is really low-hanging fruit \u2013 perfectly digestible in a 2-hour babysitter training class. It is as elemental as remembering what plants need to survive. Mr. Maslow has been cited often in the context of schools making the abrupt shift to the COVID-10 pandemic lockdown.<br><br>Of course we teach children and not subjects. Of course, we must protect and defend the health and safety of children. That is the minimum required of us as humans and as neighbors.\u00a0There have been truly lovely and heartwarming tales of school personnel engaging in drive-by birthday parades, meal delivery, and WiFi installation in school buses. I applaud these efforts. Being kind is always a good thing.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>However, I feel queasy about self-congratulatory pronouncements about how school officials have reordered their priorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Crisis response is unlikely to offer a prudent blueprint for education after the quarantine. I fear that the wrong lessons are being learned by those who are supposed to be experts in the lesson business.\u00a0<br><br>Sure. During \u201cthe pause,\u201d some administrators may have temporarily exorcised their schools of the miseducative practices we have always known were wrong &#8211; standardized testing, ticky tack skill instruction, cells and bells, ranking and sorting, chapter tests, and even grading. While luxuriating in the momentary euphoria of doing the right thing by children, school leaders have made pronouncements like, \u201cTeaching and learning are now much lower priorities.\u201d They are proud of what they mistakenly consider a revelation since they have risen to the challenge of picking up the slack for a society that expects schools to supervise and feed children in a nation where few childcare options exist and tens of millions of children experience food insecurity. Again, I say to educators, \u201cThank you for your service and for stepping into the breach.\u201d<br><br><strong>However, concluding that \u201cteaching and learning\u201d are not the priority of schools, is flat out wrong.<\/strong> If not us, who? If not \u201cteaching and learning,\u201d what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The chaotic life in schools today is our inheritance from a century of this continual tinkering with public schools and public dissatisfaction with the result. Add something this year, add something next year, keep programs in place because of &#8220;tradition,&#8221; and you have, I will argue, the overburdened school, the school that tries to do too much \u2013 and ironically ends up not getting many of the results we care most about.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Kralovec, E. (2004).&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/32y2qwj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Schools that do too much: Wasting time and money in schools and what we can all do about it<\/a><\/em>. Beacon Press.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>No other adults in society are qualified to educate everybody\u2019s children. That is our role, our value \u2013 our secret sauce. When educators happily assume the role of cops, bus drivers, coaches, priests, or fast-food workers we relieve the village of its responsibility to raise its children.&nbsp;As a culture, we cede too much power and responsibility to schools and must assert our teaching and learning expertise. It takes a village to raise a child. In that village there are thoughtful, creative, competent, learned, and sensitive adults trusted with developing the intellect of children \u2013 educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Such is our value proposition. We look to be facing unprecedented fiscal cuts to public education and massive teacher layoffs. A large number of private schools will never reopen. Identifying and clearly articulating your value as an educator and educational institution is now a matter of survival. Demonstrate your value. Prepare your own proposal for cutting 10, 20, 30, or even 50% of the school budget. Preparation will make such inevitability less catastrophic. Determine alone, and with colleagues, what matters most. How can school add the most value to a child\u2019s life?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3gjqZlb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/5106eiBQleL._SX325_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"176\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of my friend Etta Kralovek\u2019s book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/32y2qwj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Schools that Do Too Much<\/a>.\u201d Her book brings into sharp focus the massive time-wasting, misplaced spending, and under-utilized potential squandered in schools. Educators not only face potential economic calamity, but a few months of hastily slapped together \u201chomeschooling under school surveillance\u201d has revealed to parents what school is like. For many, this revelation is not pretty. Some parents have a developed newfound empathy for their children who \u201chate school.\u201d Others will conclude that the education their students experience is not worth the money, either via taxes or tuition.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a parent says, \u201cI\u2019m not smart enough to help with my second grader\u2019s homework,\u201d we should not interpret that statement literally. They may be saying, \u201cI cannot believe how tedious, boring, and irrelevant this schoolwork is. Thank god I don\u2019t have to do it.\u201d Maslow is insufficient. Kids deserve better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We better do something.&nbsp;<em>Our<\/em>&nbsp;future is at stake. We\u2019ve each been given a MacBook Pro and magic carpet. We should not exchange them for a ditto machine and box of chalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reckless reopening and quicker closing of schools reveals how little our society cares about kids or their teachers. Don\u2019t believe me? In Australia during the lockdown, teachers are being required to teach online and in many cases also report to the schools deemed unsafe for everyone else so they can simultaneously \u201cmind\u201d the children of \u201cessential\u201d workers. Well, that confirms it. Society views teachers as disposable. After all, proper martyrs don\u2019t whine about being forced to potentially contract a lethal virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be nice if schools cleansed of toxic pedagogical practices during the lockdown had the willpower necessary to not reintroduce them once the bell rings this Fall. However, I am less than optimistic. Far too many of the \u201dwhen we return\u201d discussions I have observed start with assessment and design backwards from there. Why can\u2019t we learn from our own experiences, even when we know that a return to the status quo is bad for children? Why wouldn&#8217;t we reduce teacher and studio stress by &#8220;looping classes for the coming school year?&#8221; Why should everyone get to know new classes and teachers just because of the calendar? Why is commonsense so uncommon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expensive private schools are reopening with none of the trappings that justify their value, but reopening in some places nonetheless. In some, parents have the right to risk the health and safety of their family be sending their kids back to physical school, while others may choose to continue remote learning \u2013 as long as their tuition is paid up. So, naturally such a school would assign a teacher or two to teach the students who are \u201clearning\u201d remotely, right? Creating a cohort of those students make collaboration possible, fosters community, and allows teachers to address the specific needs of students being taught online. Such an approach makes perfect sense and seems like a win-win proposition. So, of course schools aren\u2019t doing&nbsp;<em>that<\/em>. We\u2019ll just stick an iPad in the back of the room and stream rows of their classmate\u2019s heads with a tiny teacher at the front of the room.<br><br>Guess what? Teaching during an uncontrolled pandemic is a giant mess. Why let a crisis go to waste without trying some new things? For a moment, it looked like all of the things teachers despise were set aside \u2013 standardized testing, grades, bell schedules, AP tests, SAT\/ACT requirement, homework\u2026 If this tragic pandemic had a silver lining, it created the conditions for experimentation, alternative model building, and teacher leadership. Many teachers were literally asked, \u201cIf we got rid of all the external pressures and administrative demands that keep you from creating the most productive contexts for learning, what would teaching and learning look like? Your community needs you and trusts you to do the right thing!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Admittedly, I began writing this article four months ago (May, 2020). I was a lot more optimistic before the President and governors demanded that kids return to school at any human cost in the name of \u201cnormalcy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normalcy isn\u2019t always better. It may just feel more comfortable. The past week featured news articles about&nbsp;<a href=\"article:%20https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/school-discipline-remote-learning_n_5f329829c5b64cc99fde4d64?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006\">how to<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"article:%20https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/school-discipline-remote-learning_n_5f329829c5b64cc99fde4d64?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006\">punish students online<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/08\/us\/pajamas-school-springfield-dress-code.html\">enforcement of online dress codes<\/a>. If a student can wear pajama pants to Zoom school, who knows if they\u2019ll ever sit still in a $7 plastic chair for seven hours a day? One might easily conclude that the normal function of schooling is control, surveillance, and punishment of a captive audience. In that case, a school to prison pipeline is unnecessary. We are already there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many workplaces and cities will be irrevocably transformed by the lessons learned during this pandemic. Remote work will increase and business travel will decrease. Populations will shift. By the look of things, classrooms will remain unchanged forever and that\u2019s a real shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And still I rise\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those of us who know better, need to do better. If we don\u2019t stand between children and the madness, who will? There may still be time to show the world what\u2019s possible. Let\u2019s assert ourselves as indispensable leaders, worthy of respect, with talent, ingenuity, and a fearless willingness to stand on the side of what is right for children.&nbsp;We sure could use less Maslow and more Malaguzzi! (use the google)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask educators to name one educational theorist from their preservice education, they\u2019re likely to remember Abraham Maslow. 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