I hope no one thinks for a second that teachers teaching remotely aren't giving their all just like those teaching in person. Teachers give their all for their students, not their surroundings!
A good example by @davidgraeber on the levels of causality.
This particular example is telling—it shows how ‘achievement’ is reduced to a simplification that assumes the difficulty level is same for everyone. Goes beyond education to most ‘meritocratic’ areas.
Reading fiction is not a just form of entertainment. It builds empathy by exposing you to the inner life of someone else, and to experiences outside of your own. It drills into you - page by page - that other people are every bit as human as you are.
1/3 I have most of my training in experimental research, but I now believe that psychology would benefit from more large-scale observational studies.
That could help ensure that we have a robust real-world phenomenon to explain, before we start dissecting it in our experiments.
Whether this is your first year teaching or your thirty first year teaching - we are about to embark on the most important school reopening in history. Never has empathy, patience and resilience been more important. We must work together. Together we are better.