As schools gradually reopened during the coronavirus pandemic, teachers this year encountered a perfect storm of remote instruction, learning loss and rapid change as community positivity rates alternately climbed and fell.
With the pandemic ushering in a new era of social distancing and virtual education, The Tribune asked this yearâs recently named Teachers of the Year about their biggest challenges and how they worked to meet studentsâ needs in a school year like no other.
Kathy Shreiner, a fifth-grade teacher at Penn-Harris-Madisonâs Elm Road Elementary, shifted roles last semester to become a full-time virtual learning teacher.
Kathy Shreiner, a fifth grade virtual teacher at Elm Road Elementary.