VIDBE-Q Volume 66 Issue 3
Bryan Moles,
University of Illinois Chicago,
bmoles2@uic.edu
Over the last academic year, teachers were forced to innovate and reach new
heights of professional creativity to meet the unique challenges brought on by the
pandemic. Novel systems were implemented to ensure access and maintain
appropriate service provision during these unprecedented times. Virtual mobility
trips and Zoom braille lessons speak to some of the restructured digital experiences
developed, piloted, and made to work by dedicated teachers. As we look towards a
new school year with more in-person contact, more time sharing a single physical
space with many of our students and colleagues, it is essential that we do not forget
the perspectives on students that we learned during the course of the pandemic.
During these times we learned more than just how to master our Zoom or Google
Meets classrooms and engage students in digital lessons, we saw, heard, and
experienced so much with our students. We inevitably worked with our students to
process so much of what they were experiencing, developing tools and new
Learning from the Pandemic: Continuing a
Focus on Social Emotional Informed Practice
