The Increasing Call for Hybrid and My Planned Response

The president says that by July 4th, it still won’t be safe to gather in large groups, yet here in Los Angeles, and elsewhere, education leaders keep insisting that within weeks it will be safe for high school teachers to place themselves in front of 150 students five days a week?

In my opinion, the only way to reconcile these two seemingly irreconcilables is with some adoption of the “hybrid approach” (an approach that calls for a portion of a teacher’s students to attend class while physically in the room and the remaining portion of the class to attend via the internet and while at home.)

At my school, since March 2020, we’re been 100% online but if we soon go the hybrid route (and/or go that route next fall), I plan to teach the kids in the room, along with the kids at home, at the same time, in the same way . . . as if both are online.

This because I believe that online teaching, when done right, can work extremely well and that any other approach to the call for hybrid, though it comes with good intentions, doesn’t work.