Administration
Leaders motivate others as they lead with their readiness in being prepared, organized, collaborative and resolute in the successful outcomes of the vision for all stakeholders.
Reopening safe and secure schools during COVID-19 requires super leadership at the school level. The start of the fall 2020 - 2021 semester - possibly the entire school year - presents a myriad of challenges. Still, it is necessary to find the safest and most cautious way to reopen school gates across the Nation in oder to afford college/university students, parents and children the opportunity to selecting the model for learning best suited for them.
Models for teaching and learning for consideration to reopening schools are as follows:
1. Sibrid Home-School-Online/Virtual Learning only - This model fails
many more students, especially children and young adults from large
urban inner-city schools. It is also most stressful and challenging for
working parents with attending primary and middle school age children.
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2. Sibrid Education - Rotating simultaneous Online/Virtual and In-Person/
On-Campus drives for continuity in daily instruction and routined teaching
and learning. This model limits the number of students crammed into one
classroom to a safe minimum, while maintaining strict continuity of
instruction in realtime. And to maintaining health and safety, adding and
deleting students in any in-person classroom is easily achieved via a
simple verbal or written notice.
3. other Hybrid - Blending - Staggered, etc. - Depending on the actual
design of any of one the above proposed model programs, families
must be made aware on their coordination relating to work and childcare.
Ultimately, all three provide school work on a part-time basis. Many
more children and young adults will continue to fall further behind in their
socio-psychological development and academic learning expectations.
The urgency for reopening schools examines the need to locate and reengage children and young adults that have fallen off the education grid since March 2020. The extensiveness of their emotional, psychological and social fractures may lead to complete academic regression. In as much such withdrawal may require years of counseling and academic remediation to bringing some of these children and young adults back, if at all possible, to a measurable and acceptable place in their emotional, socio-psychological and academic lives.
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With the interest and input of families, teachers and administrators, the Sibrid Education Model encourages further positive development, right before our eyes, on this website. Feel free to forward innovative ideas for inclusion, concerns or general comments.
