The Pandemic is a Portal by Odie Douglas https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.” Arundhati Roy (2020) en-us 2021-10-29 10:02:07 UTC 2022-01-31 18:56:35 UTC hello@padlet.com We have choices to make - we can walk through it, ready to imagine another world or drag the prejudice and hatred along avazquez4Edu https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981809632 2022-01-08 17:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981809632 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981809657 Let's stop talking about it and start doing it]]> 2022-01-08 17:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981809657 We need to stay positive and look at the challenges posed by the pandemic as an opportunity mlenoir3 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981809770 2022-01-08 17:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981809770 All means EACH! gowen5 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981809789 2022-01-08 17:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981809789 As a result of COVID teachers are requesting SPED services for students in large numbers. https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810010 2022-01-08 17:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810010 jkoenig14 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810108 How we choose to see the pandemic's lasting impact. Threat or opportunity?

]]> 2022-01-08 17:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810108 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810115 Light luggage and re-imaging the way we do things.  Staying positive.

]]> 2022-01-08 17:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810115 Very frightening how people cling to the dead carcasses as if they were security blankets. https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810209 2022-01-08 17:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810209 "This one is no different" and in fact this pandemic only highlights and exacerbates the cultural and societal issues that have been systemically created. christinaballantyne https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810256 2022-01-08 17:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810256 jeraldy_vega https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810298 This can be an opportunity to make systemic changes.]]> 2022-01-08 17:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810298 ltran5 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810332 Students are having to deal with their own mental problems by themselves more so now...isolation. However, we are trying find new ways to help students.]]> 2022-01-08 17:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810332 'check yosef befo u wreck yosef'....look in the mirror at yo own trauma---FIRST georgearterberry https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810412 2022-01-08 17:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810412 jeffreytaylor3 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810468 Not only have the students been impacted, but the teachers have been as well. The students are having to re-learn how to be students and the teachers are having to learn to be more patient.]]> 2022-01-08 17:46:07 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810468 PANDEMIC IS CHANGE delairedoyle https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810478 When we hear people talking they can’t wait for the pandemic to be over so we can get back to normal, but what is normal? Normal for some is peaches and cream and for others it’s hell and high water. America has been asking for change for decades. So much so, that a president ran his campaign on the word change itself. So the quote is saying that history has always given society a pandemic, which is a gateway for the change that people have been wanting and waiting for. ]]> 2022-01-08 17:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810478 schools as institutions that seek primarily to measure students as worthy or unworthy of "promotion--these schools I see as "carcasses of our prejudice" https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810519 2022-01-08 17:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810519 We should understand that students have experienced Learning Loss and create conditions within the classroom to adjust the gap instead of pushing for SPED support https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810612 2022-01-08 17:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810612 jkoenig14 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810622 Equity NOT as an ad-hoc committee but CENTER to all decisions making. Trauma-informed NOT trying to fix kids but fixing the SYSTEM.]]> 2022-01-08 17:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810622 ltran5 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810636 Empathy - put yourself in other people's shoes and take action.]]> 2022-01-08 17:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810636 erikhernandez https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810641 "Ready to imagine another world" speaks loudest, because although our experiences may have been different in the pandemic, we all went through it together. It give us all a baseline between the "before-time" and the future.]]> 2022-01-08 17:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810641 jojoreyes https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810677 "ready to fight for it"- It's time to act]]> 2022-01-08 17:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810677 "Imagine the world anew" bmendez86 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810701 I think many educators are still waiting or forcing things to go back to before, instead of seeing this as an opportunity to imagine the world anew and the possibilities we have to make new differences to issues that have always been there, they may just be more transparent but these issues have always been there.]]> 2022-01-08 17:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810701 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810873 In some ways it is like we are using the Pandemic to excuse actions we should be taking and using it as a scapegoat for our paralysis.]]> 2022-01-08 17:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981810873 Savior Complex quantrellwillis https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811052 Don't have a SAVIOR COMPLEX...instead be one that EMPOWERS!]]> 2022-01-08 17:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811052 We need to be more compassionate https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811105 2022-01-08 17:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811105 erikhernandez https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811193 We need to recognize WITH the students that the last two years were a struggle, and that the various emotions that they are feeling right now are valid.]]> 2022-01-08 17:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811193 Be ready to embrace, follow and lead a courageous culture where academic, cultural, behavioral, resource inequities are address in the most responsible and responsive way. avazquez4Edu https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811208 2022-01-08 17:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811208 jojoreyes https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811252 Widen your lens for supporting students]]> 2022-01-08 17:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811252 jeffreytaylor3 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811307 If it is not good enough or okay for your children, then it's not good enough or okay for our students.]]> 2022-01-08 17:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811307 Grace https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811320 we need to continuously return to grace as we keep moving forward.

]]> 2022-01-08 17:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811320 "Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew" we have to break past the "we've tried this" or "it didn't work" and be ruthlessly focused on making a change for EACH student. christinaballantyne https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811324 2022-01-08 17:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811324 The recognition that it's systemic work, not targeting the individual with trauma. https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811334 2022-01-08 17:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811334 wsotorvms https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811374 I need to travel light in this this next era of public education. I need foundational weapons of social justice and equity strapped to my back and love in my heart for all people in my heart and mind (head, heart, hands).]]> 2022-01-08 17:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811374 "ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it." ssmith1042 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811816 This part speaks to me the loudest as I feel this has truly been an opportunity for us to do reimagine and fight to do better for EACH.]]> 2022-01-08 17:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811816 Education is the passport to the future... quantrellwillis https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811879 It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next..

Malcolm was right when he said education is the passport to the future...for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. We have to equip our students to be able to move from one world to the next]]> 2022-01-08 17:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981811879 Angelice Ferrell https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812124 ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. in the good words of my staff, "tear it down and rebuild". ]]> 2022-01-08 17:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812124 Dead Rivers and Smoky skies gowen5 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812181 While the virus is the most immediate threat, climate change is the lasting Pandemic that will require our adaptation to new normal and challenge our students to find innovative solutions to bring our rivers back to life and clear the skies for all. Those with privilege can up and move to areas as different places become more habitable. ]]> 2022-01-08 17:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812181 davidsmaduli https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812292 I'm not sure what the term "educational trauma" refers to in this question. If we are talking about symptoms or behaviors that we are observing in educational spaces due to the myriad traumatic events happening around us, one example is challenges with focusing and engaging in the classroom due to fear of catching COVID. If we are talking about trauma *inflicted by the educational system* on adults and students, well one example is the district not providing sufficient safety measures, which directly impacts the first example. When you have teachers calling sick-outs and district is responding with a hard line, this is not just intensification this is escalation towards an untenable situation.]]> 2022-01-08 17:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812292 jeraldy_vega https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812484 Call to action: We need to keep learning and do better. How can we have all staff discussing and learning on the latest/updated research on trauma informed practices? . ]]> 2022-01-08 17:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812484 Call to Action ssmith1042 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812734 Self-care starts with ourselves first. If we are not taking care of ourselves, we cannot model, support or grow together. ]]> 2022-01-08 17:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981812734 Equity thought leaders need to weigh in on how important exactly is in person learning. robertbravo2 https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981814722 It seems like equity thought leaders are avoiding discussions related to exactly how important in-person learning is like it is a third rail. If there can't be consensus on that]]> 2022-01-08 17:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1981814722 After two years of trauma and anxiety inducing world, we need to shift our equity focus with compassion, making mental health, social emotional learning as a foundation, and ensuring that we are looking at the whole child. https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1993557448 2022-01-15 14:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1993557448 Social disparities are highlighted and hard to ignore https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1993558469 2022-01-15 14:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1993558469 Re-imaging education and focusing on what matter most. https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1993558706 2022-01-15 14:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/1993558706 ....ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it...... https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/2014502633 2022-01-26 20:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/2014502633 Instead of being in schools, we have lost kids for a significant amount of time to our streets, specifically to all the vice that goes on. Drug use and violence have been exacerbated. But do we drag that with us forward or do we learn from this and let it be a reminder of how important schools, and to a further extent, our employees are to the lives of our young people. edlarkin https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/2022027769 2022-01-31 18:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/2022027769 Redoubling our efforts, particularly with messaging to our stakeholders. Never has our school systems been more important to our kids. We owe every effort to fixing the shortcomings and celebrating the successes. edlarkin https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/2022030975 2022-01-31 18:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/odouglas1221/fp66kh8kty4da9re/wish/2022030975