None of us are experts in navigating these unprecedented waters. We're a community of learners facing the unknown together.
In early March my university administration informed me that I had a week to transition my University of Virginia course Books Behind Bars online. This is a class I've been teaching for the past decade, where UVA students meet regularly with incarcerated youth at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center in Richmond, Virginia to explore questions of meaning, value, and social justice through conversations about of Russian literature.
But if I had dwelled on what was gone, I would have lost my ability to harness what was still present. Whether you're a tenth-grade biology teacher or a parent homeschooling your four-year-old, the content of your teaching matters far less in this moment than the attitudes and values you're modeling and life skills you're helping the students develop for themselves.
Whether this crisis becomes an opportunity for personal growth—"educative," to use Dewey's word—or simply a tragic memory years from now will depend on the meaning we make out of it and the lessons we take from it.
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