The Silent Shift: How the Pandemic Changed Our Brains and What Schools Can Do About It - Rebuilding From the Inside Out
How many times over the past two years has the thought crossed your mind—why do these kids act so differently now? Why has teaching become so overwhelming ? And why does student participation in extracurricular events seem waning while stress and frustration continue to increase everywhere? Welcome to the world of education post-COVID-19. It seems like yesterday and a million years ago at the same time that we found ourselves in uncharted waters, grappling with a global pandemic that turned our classrooms into chat rooms, our students into thumbnails on a screen, and our hallways eerily quiet. This transition was a startling reality check on our resilience and adaptability, and educators and students took each day as it came- as we started to slowly, imperceptibly change. I worked in a neurobiology lab in college, and from my first days as an educator, I've been fascinated by how we think, how we learn, and how we adapt. So, when we found ourselves in this new educational climate
