Teachers are returning to school, grade 7 and grade 12 learners are due to return while the debate rages on: Should schools reopen? If not all schools will be ready to open should any school be opened? There are health issues, there are economic issues (parents need to get back to work) and there is the reality that for many children school is the one place in their lives that is safe and where they eat. 

In this episode Grant and Lane talk enter in to this conversation posing the question as to whether an opportunity is being missed, a moment in time to pause, rethink even redesign the way we do schooling. There appears to be the pursuit to return to some form of normality, which really means a return to the curriculum. And yet this is where the significant missing element is found, the social-emotional state of learners and the impact of inter-generational trauma. This is something that is consistently overlooked when it comes to education ignoring the science that has shown the foundational role that the social emotional development of children plays in learning. 
 

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