Covid 19: When Virtual School Is Your Only Option

When Shanghai, China educators Dennis Grice and Daniel Mendes suddenly found themselves stranded amidst the Covid 19 outbreak and far far from the Concordia International School they faced the duel fears of an unknown virus and how they would continue the education of their students.

Millions of teachers across the globe are in their shoes right now. Luckily for most of us, we are at least at home with access to our school-issued technology. Dennis was on a beach in the Philipines with not much more than a gym bag of shorts and t-shirts and an iPad. We all still face the unknown.

Thankfully, these two gentlemen were recently in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the MACUL Conference to share their journey and provide the rest of us with tremendous insight for moving forward with virtual learning. They were also joined virtually by a true sage in the educational community, Rushton Hurley. Rushton has been working with schools in Asia to help their teachers make the same adjustments.

Honestly, this was one of the best conference sessions I have ever attended and the trio was gracious enough to record their session for all of us. I cannot recommend its viewing enough. First, it lays out a set of realistic expectations and secondly it is reassuring that we will are all capable of figuring out how to do something nobody learned in some undergrad methods class.

Check out as well their very helpful file of resources. 

We can do this everybody. We just need to be huge for our kids and incredibly empathetic. Thanks again Dennis, Daniel, and Rushton.