This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 146 of the Cult of Pedagogy

Podcast. In this episode we're going to look at some of the ideas that are

being proposed and tried for reopening schools after the pandemic.

I don't need to give you much background here. As you all know, schools have

been closed worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And in the same way

that cities are at various stages of reopening businesses, schools are doing

the same thing, or at least thinking about how it might work. We all know that

unless someone develops a vaccine soon, schools just can't be run the same way as

they were before. There's reinfection to consider second and third waves of

cases that could cause new shutdowns and on a more distant horizon, the stark

possibility that new viruses could take us down just like this one did.

I figure right now educators everywhere are trying to decide the best course of action,

or at least wondering what their district leadership is considering.

Since I have access to a lot of educators all over the place, I believe the best way I can

help with that process is to ask you all what you're doing and then curate those ideas so that

they can reach more people. So about a week ago, I tweeted out a request for ideas.

I got some from there, some from my own searching, some from other Twitter feeds,

and some from the legwork that Larry for Lausseau already did on this topic.

And I've got a link to some of his articles in the post.

I've got to say that reading through all of the different proposals and ideas was overwhelming,

especially when I clicked through to look at the densely packed documents that detailed

all the different distancing and disinfecting protocols that had to be considered.

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