From surviving to thriving: Learning in the time of COVID-19

The author asks us to look back from the year 2029, to March 2020, and consider how, post-COVID-19, we might have managed to take impending disaster in school education and use this as an impetus for positive change. He exposes ‘seemingly immovable but brittle structures’ in the pre-COVID system, and discusses alternatives to returning to an online ‘business-as-usual’ model, or the light-touch model of providing little structured support, which some schools might have been forced into by the speed of the shutdown. He concludes we need collectively to lose sight of the known shore and head towards the horizon of what is desirable and possible.