Our guest for our first show of the 2020/2021 school year is Douglas Fisher.  Douglas is a professor at San Diego State University and co-founder of Health Sciences High & Middle College, and the author of numerous books, including "The Distance Learning Playbook".    Our host, Erica Mason, has a heartfelt conversation with Douglas around the ideas and concepts of “The Distance Learning Playbook” and how it applies to our teachers during this pandemic.

You can also watch this Vidcast on our DCSD youtube channel.   https://youtu.be/ynYeAdx80fc

QUESTIONS:

Q. How did you and your team come up with the idea for the “Distance Learning Playbook?

Q: What did you see as you observed classroom teachers progress into distance learning Teachers?

Q: What are some of the biggest challenges of Distance Learning, and what can our teachers learn from your research?

Q: Please talk to us about Compassion Fatigue and Self Care taken from your research from “The Distance Learning Playbook”?

Q: I have a philosophy that this is fundamentally changing education and we’re going to see more distance learning, regardless of the Pandemic.   As educators how do we successfully move into the next phase of Distance Learning?

Q:  What is one thing you could tell our teachers that they need to do, to really engage students to impact their learning?