If It Looks Like a Duck...

 If It Looks Like a Duck...


We know the old saying: If it looks like a duck, and it sounds like a duck, and it walks like a duck, it's a duck.  It is time for us to start applying that saying to education.  Despite our desperate attempts to keep our vestiges of normalcy, clearly, we are not living in normal times.  Across the world education is returning to "normal" after months of "quarantine teaching". Students and teachers are returning to schools in socially distant settings, virtual settings, hybrid settings, and everything in between.  


All of us can look back at what we knew twelve months ago as education and school.  While we can disagree about the quality, value, and design of education in the past, we all recognized what education looked like when we saw it.  We knew education when we heard it and when we were doing it.  It looked like a duck, it quacked like a duck, it was a duck.

Since the onset of the pandemic we have desperately tried to find that duck again.  Despite the fact that now it no longer looks like a duck, it certainly doesn't quack, nor walk like a duck.  Education is changing. Could it end up being closer to the normal we remember? Certainly. But, in the mean time, we need to stop chasing ducks.

Education has the ability to undergo a metamorphosis despite this trauma. We have the opportunity to re-imagine how it all works.  In a world where we aren't going back "regular" school, a world where the lines between home and school have been blurred more than any before, we have an obligation to look at education differently.  How many of you are working to reimagine education from a different perspective? What are you doing differently? Learning how to find and implement different ideas and concepts into how we grown and learn isn't just an education thing, it needs to become a human thing. We must find our new paths if we are going to succeed.


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