Case Study Interviews by Elena Sullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl en-us 2021-02-24 02:23:39 UTC 2025-12-01 19:39:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Importance of childcare epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234450237
  • Training colleagues, teaching preschool, nursing a baby 
  • Two working parents with a baby they can't take to childcare, parents had to take turns working & taking care of baby
    • ]]>     2021-02-24 02:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234450237     Transition to virtual epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234450482
  • Fast, exhausting
  • Adapting lab classes to online simulations
  • 18 hour days
  • 50 page plan for how to move preschool-high school online, published free for everyone
    • ~10,000 schools using some variations 
  • Background in digital learning and multimedia instruction helped make transitions fairly seamless 
  • Everything felt like a crisis

    • ]]>     2021-02-24 02:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234450482     Learnings epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234452476
  • No matter how much you think you know, you learn something new every day
  • Do the best you can - it’s not going to be perfect
    • Computer glitches
    • Get used to things not being okay, not being able to save the world
    • Not everything can be that big of a crisis
  • Post-Covid: working from home 1-2 times per week to prepare for in-person work could be more productive

    • ]]>     2021-02-24 02:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234452476     Affect on students epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234453288
  • Education is about human connection, learning is a human endeavor
    • Connect the kids to the material and make it mean something for the kids
  • Kids can no longer do the things they used to do
  • No capacity to do the “fun” class activities anymore (dance parties) 
  • Learning pods for students whose parents are essential workers, supervised classes for students with IEPs
  • Physical separation on campus (in classes, in shared outdoor spaces)
  • Some teachers not doing what's best for students (live phonics sessions)
  • Some principals not overseeing teachers and being "too lax" about responding to problems with virtual school
    • ]]>     2021-02-24 02:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234453288     Can't do it online epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234454324
  • Lab skills are hands-on, face-to-face, simulations not the same
  • Less productive with teamwork
  • Zoom lunches. Better to distance outside
  • Engineering would require every worker to have workshop with tools necessary for building devices, would be very expensive

    • ]]>     2021-02-24 02:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234454324     Preparedness...sort of epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234466419
  • Doctorate in Instruction w/ focus on digital media
  • Training in digital learning and multimedia instruction, remote teaching, computer simulations
  • Groundwork for what this would look like when every kid has a device...different when a teacher and student are not in the same room

    • ]]>     2021-02-24 02:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1234466419     Affect on families epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1305763971 - include childcare (blue)
    - needing to support students with behavioral needs at home (research)]]>     2021-03-13 18:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1305763971     Things that worked well / keep in place when returning in person epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1305770065 -  (compassion learning & treat each other nicely & students' lives at home - benefit of the doubt/awareness of their home lives)
    - any positive affects from families/students/teachers]]>     2021-03-13 18:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1305770065     Negative takeaways/affects from virtual school epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1305771122 - affect on families
    - affect on students (include teacher's learnings about why students prefer learning at home -- DHH, easier to focus) (quote the article on why Black families do not want to return [safety])
    - affect on teachers]]>     2021-03-13 18:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1305771122     Things that worked well / keep in mind for going virtual again epsullivan https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1305785865 - things that worked well, keep in mind for if we have to go virtual again (grace & compassion learning)
    - any positive affects from families/students/teachers]]>     2021-03-13 18:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/epsullivan/kjbwh626zv29ctfl/wish/1305785865