“If we had been spending time knowing our children and our staff and designing schools for them, we might not be feeling the pain in the way we are. “As a leader, in the years before the pandemic hit, I realized the balance of our work as practitioners was off,” Cheatham said. The pandemic heightened existing gaps and disparities and exposed a need to rethink how systems leaders design schools, instruction, and who they put at the center of that design. Joining Long were Associate Professor Karen Brennan, Senior Lecturer Jennifer Cheatham, Assistant Professor Anthony Jack, and Professors Adriana Umaña-Taylor and Martin West, as they looked forward to what the future could hold for schools, educators, and communities: … After the pandemic subsides “We have a long history of empowering our students and partners to be innovators in a constantly changing world. “The story of HGSE is the story of pivotal decisions, meeting challenges, and tremendous growth,” Long said. The Future of Education panel, moderated by Dean Bridget Long and hosted by HGSE’s Askwith Forums, focused on hopes for education going forward, as well as HGSE’s role. To mark the end of its centennial year, HGSE convened a faculty-led discussion to explore those questions. When the dust settles from this year, what will education look like - and what should it aspire to? After a year that involved a global pandemic, school closures, nationwide remote instruction, protests for racial justice, and an election, the role of education has never been more critical or more uncertain.
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