The 2020-2021 academic year will long be known as the year of Zoom school. In the months after COVID-19 first hit, teachers, students, coaches and athletes across the country settled in for months of online teaching, learning and training. We traded classrooms for computers; conversations in the hallway for awkward silence in breakout rooms.
How did this grand experiment in virtual education go? There were plenty of problems. Technology glitches. Zoom fatigue. Isolation and boredom. Concerns about cheating. Ever try to teach an acting class or draw up football plays over a computer? Not easy.
But, believe it or not, there were successes. Teaching strategies that worked. Class policies that made things smoother. Technology and tactics that helped athletes stay connected to coaches and trainers. In this special report, Baltimore Watchdog reporters took a solutions journalism approach and asked the question:
What worked well over the past year in online education and in athletics?
