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Maine Voices: This past school year was not lost, it was lived. Beautifully.
Let’s not have this time defined by learning loss, but rather by the compassion and resilience that students, families and teachers have mustered.
By Cindy SouleSpecial to the Telegram
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On April 26, my classroom community shed the structures of hybrid learning and came together in person for the first time in over a year. As students entered the classroom their eyes lit up with joy as they greeted each other. The deep sense of connectedness in the room was palpable.
Nicole Casasa-Blouin listens to Zakariya Aar as he works on an assignment during an outside class at Gerald E. Talbot Community School in Portland last October. “This is not the situation that anyone planned for or anticipated, but schools across Maine have cultivated an unshakable sense of belonging in their learning communities,” writes Cindy Soule, who also teaches fourth grade at the Talbot Community School.