Katy Dalgleish

Dear Thomas Jefferson,  Are you getting more comfortable with Zoom meetings?  When I went to my first Zoom, I did not want to turn on the video.  My thinking:  I certainly do not want to invite people into my office to look at me.  Now I Zoom all of the time.  I have gotten very…

Have you ever watched monkeys on Monkey Island at the zoo?  They chase each other.  They bump into each other.  Physical contact rules the day. What you see on Monkey Island is what it is like watching a group of Kindergartners on a play structure or running around on a school playground.  There is enormous…

I am always drawn to information about education.  I love clipping newspaper articles, printing things from the internet, and pulling articles out of magazines.  Sometimes all of that paper that is filled with words about education gets abandoned in a box for a while.  Sometimes it gets filed immediately. As I go about my day,…

As I write this, we are in the middle of a global pandemic.  Debate is raging about whether or not children will return to school in the Fall.  It is probably too hopeful to think that people with power will recognize the value of education in democracy.  Every teacher in America will tell you that…

When the world closed down and schools moved to remote learning, there was heroic activity happening in the homes of teachers and principals across America.  They were handed a new challenge, and they picked up this newest baton, and they ran with it. It wasn’t only teachers who were needing to recalibrate and accomplish work…

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 pandemic. Covid19. Fear. Deadly toll. Education crisis. Schools close. Online learning. Zoom classes. Limited school reopening. Hybrid School. Close again. Options. Distance learning. Parents juggle working at home with kids at home. Remote learning. Confusion. Questions. Asynchronous learning. Synchronous learning. Trauma. Teachers and principals start devoting endless amounts of time trying to figure out…