(re)create.

School for my children started just a few short weeks ago.  Unlike many in the district, we chose to enroll our kids (Grades 2 and 5) in the district’s fully remote learning option.  Up until mid-August, my wife and I were anticipating having to send them to the school building up to three days each week, and supporting them at home on the other days.  This terrified us.  I read through the district’s reopening plan, looking for specific details of how they were going to set up the hallways, stairwells, library, cafeteria, and most importantly, the classrooms.  I could go into detail in terms of what I found, but that really isn’t the focus of today’s post.  You’re probably wondering, then, why I chose to begin with this story… As I was reading the district’s plan, I began to consider how the learning was going to need to change in order to support students in a hybrid model of instruction.  Three days in the school building, two days remote, week after week.  And how would the student