Navigating the New Instructional Landscape

Jessica O’Donovan, Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in NC, has taught English as a Foreign Language in Japan, English as a New Language in Massachusetts and New York, worked as a staff developer for NYSED, and worked as the director of dual language and ESL programs in the northeast.  With her vast experience in curriculum, instruction, and program design, she shares some of the positive aspects of teaching and learning in the hybrid model. She talks with Suzanne Lasser about being an eternal optimist and ways that the educational landscape will be forever changed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Let’s listen in...