"Things haven't gotten any better"
Originally posted to Facebook Friday, June 8, 2021 This morning our faculty had a meeting and some students were invited to share about what has gone well and what needs improvement after the last semester of distance learning. There was so much they shared that was so helpful. Here's one highlight that really stood out to me: One student commented that the overall situation with COVID "hasn't gotten any better." I realized that often I will be frustrated with students, thinking "Come on, it's been so many months of distance learning and you still haven't got it together!?!?" This comment helped me to recognize that, just as much for the students as it has been for me, everything that was hard at the beginning is still hard, and only harder because it's been going on for so long. The extra effort it takes to engage forced all of us to dip into any reserves we had, and those reserves are long since depleted, and we are all working on a deficit e...