When you think of essential workers in career and technical education, what comes to mind? If your first thought was coaches, you are ahead of the game. Our teachers need coaches now more than ever. In this episode, Will Morris, the founder of social enterprise EdConnective, shares how coaching can help teachers embrace distance learning and help students thrive during this challenging time.
There isn’t a teacher in America who was teaching during the last pandemic that caused schools to close en masse. That happened in 1918. With COVID-19 forcing teachers to deliver distance learning practically overnight, schools and districts are facing the monumental task of “wholesale retraining” their workforce.
Superintendents of massive urban school districts are calling this is, “an adaptive challenge on a scale not seen in a generation.” The closest example from the past 85 years is probably the wartime effort of World War II that saw factories retool to produce supplies for the war effort, and bring women to the workforce on a scale not previously seen.
Too dramatic a comparison? Perhaps. But that’s the magnitude of what we’re asking educators to do. Read more here: https://www.therenewalproject.com/you-may-not-think-teachers-need-coaches-but-theyre-essential-now-more-than-ever/
Will Morris is the Founder and CEO of EdConnective. Will received his Masters of Education from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. There he researched instructional coaching as a promising lever of teacher quality. Before UPenn, Will spent a year working with a cohort of 30 African American freshmen as an Urban Prep Fellow in a Chicago Charter School. During his year in Chicago, Will became a Starting Bloc Social Innovation Fellowand participated in a social entrepreneurship institute that sparked his desire to create systemic impact through social innovation.
Connect with Will Morris and learn more about his work:
Twitter: @edconnective
