Teaching is like running in a relay race.  A teacher only holds the baton for a short period of time in any child’s life.  If a teacher is holding a baton for twenty kids or thirty kids in an elementary school classroom or if they hold it for hundreds of kids when they teach in a junior high or high school, the impact is the same.  It is always supremely difficult to manage all of the batons and keep them all in the air without dropping any of them.

The work of a circus juggler who is keeping ten or twelve batons swinging and spinning in the air looks easy when compared with all of the batons a teacher is juggling.  The teacher’s batons are all humans who are developing into the best version of themselves.

When all of that humanity changed, when school became a computer screen, teaching and learning got harder. No one quite knew what was a baton and what was a jump rope.

Teachers rolled up their sleeves and got to work.

Education in a pandemic is a story in motion.  The end has not arrived.  We may not even be in the middle.  We can’t see all the turns and bumps in the road, but we can look at where we are.