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The teacher crowned as a hero at the beginning of the pandemic and the teacher criticized for standing in the way of childrenâs education is the same person.
The teacher credited with the Herculean task of shifting an entire curriculum online and the teacher vilified today for being too lazy to return to work? Same person.
Hailed as heroes early in the pandemic, teachers are facing a turning point in public opinion a year later. The criticism sounds more like a street fight than a dialogue to solve the problem of reopening schools.
by Stacey Leasca.
If there s one group of people who constantly deserves all our praise, it s teachers.
Throughout 2020, teachers had to shift their plans from in-person to online curriculums, and figure out all-new ways to engage with their students from a distance. That includes science teachers, who had to totally reimagine how to experiment with students without being there to guide them. Though they are all most certainly doing their best, Olay wants to help make their virtual teaching jobs just a bit easier. As a first step to sustain science in the classroom, Olay scientists developed a science-lesson-in-a-box for virtual education, the company explained in a statement. The lesson is designed for classrooms ranging from second through seventh grade, in order to peak engagement during the middle school cliff, the time period researchers see girls engagement with science material fall behind that of their male peers. The boxes include letters and videos from female