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title: Schuler:  Redefining Ready — Will COVID-19 Inspire Educators to Better Prepare Students for an Uncertain Future?
description: AASA’s Redefining Ready! initiative helps determine whether a student is college- or career-ready, while raising critical questions about life readiness.
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# Schuler:  Redefining Ready — Will COVID-19 Inspire Educators to Better Prepare Students for an Uncertain Future?

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*By: David Schuler, Supt of Township High School on August 4, 2020*

Educators have always known that skills like creativity, flexibility and resilience are foundational to student success. But the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced how important it is to equip our pre-K-12 students with those skills.

Early educators focused on the social and emotional development of the whole child, in particular, have been swimming upstream against a rising tide of accountability. As a result of this focus among policymakers (and sometimes parents) on high-stakes assessment, educators have deprioritized teaching human skills, such as critical thinking, collaboration and adaptability...

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