2021 | LESSONS LEARNED
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2021, 4:00 PM ET
Online witnesses on education during the pandemic with Damian Bacich, professor of Ibero-American Literatures, San José State University, Peter Fields, Ph.D. candidate in physics, University of Chicago, Rev. Edwin Leahy, O.S.B., high school headmaster, and Michelle Ratti, teacher, moderated by Patrick Tomassi, high school teacher
Education has been probably the single area where the pandemic was felt the most by the great majority of people. Basically, nobody escaped the impact of Covid -19: students, parents (and their employers), teachers, administrators, politicians. But the new challenges also made everybody rethink the goals and methods of schooling, and the relevance of the family in education. What were the lessons learned in 2020? What changes will be worth preserving after the pandemic? A parent and teacher, a university student, a high school administrator, and a college professor will share their experiences and address these questions.
CONTINUING THE ENCOUNTER
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
5:00 PM ET
→ ORGANIZED BY FRIENDS OF NEW YORK ENCOUNTER FROM DC
→ COSPONSORED BY AVALON SCHOOLS AND TRINITY SCHOOLS
Education Put to the Test: What Is Really at Stake?
Education is Communicating One's Self: Growing and Helping Others Grow During the Pandemic
During the pandemic, we have experienced frustration, loneliness, and apathy. How are we growing? How are we helping others grow? And what are we learning? These questions will be addressed in a panel discussion with Richard McPherson, founder of the Avalon School in Gaithersburg, MD and headmaster of the Brookewood School in Kingston, MD, Tom Tobin, teacher at the Avalon School, and Dr. Kay Yohe, head of the Trinity School at Meadow View, VA.
