Quetzalcoatl

Yesterday morning I checked my school emails. I had a few in backlog so I was tidying my inbox up and getting everything into the right folders. I love an organised inbox. Anyway, as I was scrolling through, putting some emails into folders and deleting some, I noticed normality of previous life fluttering in. Emails like when they tell us that a car park is being cordoned off for visitors or the notice of a new CPD session or when the reception and office will be open. Emails that happen as a part of normal life at school. They stopped. All these 'normal' emails made me feel a twang of normalcy which we're craving so much since the outbreak of Covid-19. It's changed everything. We are all getting used to this change. We are forming a new normal. Education has been flipped on its head. However, what teachers are good at is adapting to change. We have to. Every year, pupils surprise us, technology advances our classroom practice and we have to learn to adapt or get los...