Barak brought me to TEARS today

I don't know if it's the loneliness I'm feeling from staying home so much because of our stay at home orders due to Corona Virus, or maybe because I feel like I want to do more in the Black Lives Matter movement or is it because I miss being with really smart people, but listening to Barak Obama speak today at John Lewis' funeral brought tears to my eyes and they fell down my cheeks. 

I trust him. I trust his words. I trust his ideas. I think he still has so much to give us as a country. MAybe it's the first time he has really spoken with politics since he left the White House. I miss him. I miss the idea of our leader speaking to us to inspire us and to help us be reflective of ourselves.

I'm working on my studio classroom and Scott and I are going to move rooms around so that I can have the bigger room to teach from.  Lots of emotions today.

Teach and Create during the Pandemic... thinking

Yesterday President Trump and Secretary of Education DeVos got on the "schools must open" kick. Now the news runs with the ideas of how to open schools. The good thing is that maybe someone not in education can solve our impossible problem. Need social distancing, some kids need home instruction via internet, some teachers can't be in classrooms, some content doesn't work well online, small children NEED socialization, teenagers is all about social world.

I think we need to utilize parks, stadiums, parking lots with circus like tents (cirque de sole) so we can do social emotional teaching in social outdoor settings and then do more academic work online or virtually. Tap the companies that have done virtual work and find out what works and what doesn't. Jeff has worked with people in Lithuania for years and only been together IRL a few times maybe 14 days total. How do they get that to work? How are they productive together? We need to look outside of the education world to solve this problem.

Where are the think tanks? I need to be on one of them. Look here from 2015 an article to work apart.