Pandemic Year in Review: Teachers are Resilient and Resourceful

One year ago after finishing a normal week of school we head home only to receive the announcement that all schools will be closed for 2 weeks while we flatten the curve.  We prepared for 2 weeks of mitigation to our curriculum but changed to the end of the school year and into the next, but in the end we came out with new amazing skills that we would never have otherwise acquired.

Being in education technology for the past 20 years in Culinary Arts and Hospitality I have seen the landscape of teaching change through the use of technology but nothing like what I have seen in the past year.  Instantly teachers banded together over social networks and with a generous attitude, shared ideas and ways to teach students remotely and make the best of an unprecedented situation and I feel that education as a whole benefited from this shakeup.

For over 2 decades I firmly believe that technology needs to be integrated into our education system and not just used as a patchwork of tools.  This shakeup accelerated everyone into this world that would have taken over 10 years to become the norm.  Now every educator has come out of this with new skills that they would have never acquired and that will change the way you teach forever!  

I learned a lot after speaking to hundreds of you being thrust out of your comfort zones. We adopted new ideas and techniques that in the end will benefit our digital natives who are addicted to video games.  This change will be carried into the classroom to create more engagement through technology.  We now have a new war chest of tools in the classroom and for many I have spoken with, love it.

Looking forward to the future, I’m very optimistic as we head back into our old normal but it will never be that old normal anymore as we incorporate digital assets into our everyday classroom and bring the education system up to where I dream it could be.  

Thank you to everyone who has participated in our teacher conversations, sharing your challenges and solutions.  You are the future and the future is bright.


I also want to spend a moment to thank everyone who has supported me and my business, KP Education Systems.  To say this is a lifelong dream is an understatement and now with more teachers on board in teaching with technology I have many more ideas I want to bring education to the next LEVEL!  We all appreciate your heartfelt notes of thanks as we work on ways to create extreme engagement in our programs.

Keep an eye out for some amazing new announcements coming out of KP in the coming months!  

Sincerely,
Nai Wang
Founder & President
KP Education Systems
Learn Above The Cloud

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