Discover how the crisis of a global pandemic allowed educators to improve learning across the pre-Kadult pipeline. While acknowledging the scale of loss and difficulty the COVID pandemic engendered within the field of education, this book focuses on how sudden and forced changes to teaching and learning created Pandemic Positives, which can be captured and brought to scale. In particular: Part I addresses how Pandemic Positives came into being, with special attention to the presence of educator hope and creativity. Part II explores the Pandemic Positives that arose in three settings: when schools were closed, when learning turned online, and when schools re-opened. Part III provides strategies for replicating the Pandemic Positives so they become positive educational game changers. This book is grounded on trauma and mental wellness theory and includes the in-the-trenches experiences and voices of educators. The text features art created by the coauthors and shares both their professional and personal experiences, humanizing and enriching the book. Mending Education completes a trilogy composed of Breakaway Learners and Trauma Doesnt Stop at the School Door by Karen Gross.
Book Features:
- Focuses on what has been ignored in education in any organized and cohesive fashion how the pandemic actually improved education if we have the courage and will to see those positives and implement them.
- Filled with the voices of educatorstheir spoken words that are often ignored or not understood, appreciated, or implemented.
- Includes an epilogue that is an actual conversation between the authors based on a set of questions, allowing them to share their thoughts and feelings about the book and its positive messages.
- Designed to be used in classrooms and in policy discussionsall in an effort to improve education for every student.
- Shares the professional and personal experiences of the authors, including their own individual experiences with traumaa personal and revelatory read.
Recenzijos
This is a resource that provides realistic solutions that not only address immediate needs but create a roadmap for long-term change in education. Very highly recommended.
Readers' Favorite Whether youre a policymaker, an educator, or simply curious about how the pandemic reshaped learning, this book provides a meaningful lens through which to view the challenges and opportunities that now define modern education.
Literary Titan
Karen Gross, author, educator, and artist, serves as an instructor of
continuing education at Rutgers School of Social Work and visiting professor
at various colleges in the United States and Canada. A former college
president, she also served as a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department
of Education. Edward K. S. Wang is an assistant professor of psychology in
the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of
policy and planning for the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global
Psychiatry, at Massachusetts General Hospital. Previously, he was the
director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Massachusetts Department of
Mental Health, and the National Advisory Council, Substance Abuse Mental
Health Services Administration.
Karen Gross, author, educator, and artist, serves as an instructor of continuing education at Rutgers School of Social Work and visiting professor at various colleges in the United States and Canada. A former college president, she also served as a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education.
Edward K.S. Wang is an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of policy and planning for the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry, at Massachusetts General Hospital. Previously, he was the director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and the National Advisory Council, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration.
