Blending the Rules Corinne Yeager and Kyra Sandstrom
We are all experiencing untold changes to our everyday lives from the COVID-19 pandemic. How classrooms look and many of the tools we use to teach have shifted significantly to incorporate distance learning. When we closed our classrooms last spring, many of us thought this phase of teaching would last two, maybe three weeks. We prepared for the short term and transitioned to online learning. As the weeks went on, the short-term plan turned into a long-term plan. Both teachers
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and students showed resilience as we navigated the challenges of spring right through until the end of the year. Everyone willingly jumped in to do their part, because that is what was best for the students. We never would have thought the pandemic would change our ways of thinking about teaching and learning. But here we are, nine months later, rethinking our teaching with blended learning, hybrid learning, distance learning, in-class learning, and how students learn overall.
