Schools Vs. COVID

Schools vs. COVID

A series on education during the pandemic

Featuring TC faculty and staff experts, students and alumni who serve as superintendents, principals, teachers and school support staff on a range of issues, including re-opening, remote teaching and learning, educational equity, assessment and emerging research.

Framing the Issues

Leadership in Crisis

Four Teachers College experts weigh the challenges of the coming school year

Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring: COVID’s Psychological Fallout in Schools

For many students and educators, the pandemic’s uncertainty is exacting a greater toll than the virus itself

“The Ultimate Adaptive Challenge”

To reopen or not reopen? And how? Four TC community members who are school leaders discuss making life-or-death choices with no right answers

So How Do You Do Pre-K Online?

At TC’s Hollingworth Preschool, with imagination, patience and realistic expectations

Dispatches from the Field

Teaching Music Online When Kids Lack Instruments and Internet Access

As Music Manager for Washington D.C.’s schools, classically trained alumna Katy Ho Weatherly has learned to improvise during the pandemic

First Things First

In Malverne, New York, new Superintendent Lorna Lewis is focused on health and wellbeing

Leading Essential Workers in “An Impossible Situation”

Elizabeth Bonesteel, Superintendent of Vermont’s Montpelier-Roxbury schools believes too much is being asked of educators

Prompting School Psychology to Look Within: Prerna Arora challenges her field to confront its own biases in serving immigrant youth

Supporting Students ‘In Vivo’: TC’s School-Based Mental Health Collaboration

The Other Stressor: Violence Against People of Color

Why pandemic times have been harder for Black students and those from other minority groups

How to Stop Students from Cheating Online? Be Interesting

A new study co-authored by TC staff member Megan Krou argues for ‘the power of motivation’

Dialogue, Knowledge, Flexibility

Those are Bronx Collaborative High School Principal Brett Schneider’s watchwords for reopening this fall

TC’s Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellowships: A $2.5 million bequest is seeding a new approach to mental health and wellbeing

Helping Students Deal with Lack of Structure

TC school psychology graduates on the ground

Nearly a Year In, Taking Stock of Students’ Mental Health

A TC roundtable weighs the fallout of remote schooling – and some upsides

Preserving the Human Interaction

As Chicago’s schools operate online, Principal Joshua Long is providing his special-needs students with one-on-one attention

Making School a Lifeline

Principal Crystal Jones has concentrated on making her Atlanta public school “the one place that’s consistent” for children and families

Practical Tools for Educators in Uncertain Times: A new webinar series from Teachers College

“In the Worst of Times, the Best of People”

As Syosset, New York’s schools grapple with uncertainty and other challenges, Superintendent Tom Rogers is heartened by his community’s spirit

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Schools Vs. COVID

Schools vs. COVID

A series on education during the pandemic

Framing the Issues

Four Teachers College experts weigh the challenges of the coming school year

For many students and educators, the pandemic’s uncertainty is exacting a greater toll than the virus itself

To reopen or not reopen? And how? Four TC community members who are school leaders discuss making life-or-death choices with no right answers

At TC’s Hollingworth Preschool, with imagination, patience and realistic expectations

Dispatches from the Field

As Music Manager for Washington D.C.’s schools, classically trained alumna Katy Ho Weatherly has learned to improvise during the pandemic

In Malverne, New York, new Superintendent Lorna Lewis is focused on health and wellbeing

Elizabeth Bonesteel, Superintendent of Vermont’s Montpelier-Roxbury schools believes too much is being asked of educators

Why pandemic times have been harder for Black students and those from other minority groups

A new study co-authored by TC staff member Megan Krou argues for ‘the power of motivation’

Those are Bronx Collaborative High School Principal Brett Schneider’s watchwords for reopening this fall

TC school psychology graduates on the ground

A TC roundtable weighs the fallout of remote schooling – and some upsides

As Chicago’s schools operate online, Principal Joshua Long is providing his special-needs students with one-on-one attention

Principal Crystal Jones has concentrated on making her Atlanta public school “the one place that’s consistent” for children and families

As Syosset, New York’s schools grapple with uncertainty and other challenges, Superintendent Tom Rogers is heartened by his community’s spirit

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Why and how we must educate very young children about privacy, permanence and kindness

It starts with rewriting biased histories, Christopher Emdin tells NBC

They anchor young people and create safe spaces in times of crisis

TC’s Sonya Douglass Horsford adds her voice to a New York Times roundtable

At TC’s Reimagining Institute, Jamila Lyiscott calls for a focus on “toxic ideologies” that deny the genius of black and brown children

The Tisch Food Center's Julia McCarthy also flags the disproportionate impact of food insecurity on Black families

“Little kids first,” argues TC’s Sarah Cohodes on theatlantic.com website

Escalating costs and dwindling budgets will hurt Black and Brown students the most, writes TC’s Michael Rebell in the New York Daily News.

Using the arts to re-imagine education as distinct from schooling

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