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When Lindsey Decker began studying early-childhood education in the fall of 2016, she expected to encounter challenges in the classroom: recognizing when a student didn’t grasp a concept, intervening in arguments between classmates, or redirecting children whose minds wander off-task.
She didn’t anticipate managing any of this in a virtual classroom.
But as she began her semester-long student-teaching assignment last fall, Decker greeted 15 1st-grade students at Boston’s Baldwin Early Learning Pilot Academy via computer screen, where they remained from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. every school day, save for stretching and lunch breaks.