NYS CTE Virtual Collaboration: Challenges & Innovations

NYS CTE Virtual Collaboration: Challenges and Innovations

June 22, 2021

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:

Digital Re-Program: Reflection, Re-Start, Reboot
Patrick Darfler-Sweeney
38 years in PK-12 Education
18 years Social Studies HS Teacher; 19 years XC, Track Coach
20 years Administrator: Superintendent, Asst. Superintendent, Director of Special Education, Director of Athletics, Principal, Dean of Students
USNYRRF/NYSED Project Director- P20 Partnership Principal Preparation
Author: Superintendent’s Rulebook: A Guide to District Level Leadership (2018)
Digital Educator Presenter: 2011 BLC; 2019 BLC; 2020 NYSCATE; 2020 Merrimack College MINTS Program

A Crisis is the Mother of Reform

Pandemic News: “Remote learning presents unique challenges for special needs students and their parents”; “East St. Louis students lacking internet for remote learning”; “Do schools turn in parents whose children do not participate in remote learning?”; “Teachers Consider Quitting Due to Overwhelming Hours, Online Issues, Class Sizes”
This snapshot of headlines during the Pandemic is representative of several issues that came to the forefront in the last year. But not all were negative…” Nationally, nearly a third of parents say they are likely to choose virtual instruction indefinitely for their children, according to a February NPR/Ipsos poll.” “...Also, even though less than a third of students (30%) said they felt like they were part of a school community in the spring, that rose to nearly half (49%) by the fall. Pre-COVID it was just 43%.”

Something is going on and we need to find out what “it” is and make it part of our newer enhanced learning experience.

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