Article Preserving the Triangle of Learning: Increasing Engagement and Learning Throughout Remote and Hybrid Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michael Buhl
The pandemic has affected all students in the US and around the world. The impact on some has been greater than others. Here’s what we at Opportunity Academy in Holyoke, MA are trying to do about it.
Geoffrey Schmidt
Recently, during the fall literary showcase at our school, Holyoke Public Schools’ Opportunity Academy (OA), an expert panelist, Unman Hameedi, spoke about the power of our instructional pillars—feedback and revision, learning beside experts, and giving students permission to go deep on their work. These strategies, rather than scrambling from assignment to assignment, are instructional priorities at OA. Hameedi, a nationally recognized SLAM poet, who had workshopped several of our students’ poems with them numerous times, said, “Revision and feedback and workshopping with experts...isn’t just about, ‘Do this again’ until it’s perfect. It is about the student taking ownership
WINTER 2020 | VOLUME 66 | NUMBER 4 | PAGE 36
