As colleges scramble to prepare for a safe school year in the midst of the pandemic, are they prepared to enforce safe social distancing among their students?
Montana's health department is concerned that the decline in the number of calls to the child abuse hotline since schools closed due to the coronavirus might be masking the danger that children are in.
We are all figuring out new ways to get stuff done with social distancing and quarantine guidelines. That includes Yellowstone National Park which has been doing educational sessions on Facebook.
As we make this leap together, we need to remind ourselves and our students that this shift will be different, messy, time-consuming, and challenging, and that above all we need to afford each other grace.
This week, I had a conversation with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to discuss national responses to the COVID-19 outbreak and how the U.S. Department of Education can assist Montana schools.