Relaunching the CSD Innovation Blog

Science does not know its debt to imagination. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we continue to squeak out of the grips of the Covid-19 pandemic, a sort of rebirth defines the landscapes that we engage with both personally and professionally. In the Office of Education, the Department of Innovation is making changes to the lines of communication in an effort to streamline content, add greater diversity, and increase targeted and usable content in the classroom. One step in this change process is the relaunching of our blog with the option to subscribe and receive weekly messages in your email. Please follow us by entering your email on the right. The blog will also be linked on our website. (Apologies for the advertisements … we’ll have them removed soon.)

We have returned to in-person learning with fervor, and the challenges faced and the challenges we are faced with now linger in the domain of unfinished learning for our students. While the curation of data can provide some insight into where we should begin (again), the methods, manner and messaging of instruction to our students remains flexible to maintain personalization in the context of content, emotional well being, safety and security.

Now, more than ever, we need to rely on our passion as educators to provide captivating lessons to insight curiosity for learning among our scholars. Curriculum and textbooks serve as guides for the sequence and strategy that fill our classrooms with content, but imagination and understanding connect the content to the students of Cheltenham. The inimitable debate between teaching as science versus teaching as art should not undermine the value of the imagination of the teacher. Collectively we all work to help develop all of our scholars into successful contributors to society. We all have our own unique skill sets and innate gifts to transform content into learning experiences that will lead our scholars to a state of curiosity for more learning.

Take hold of your imagination, apply your training in the science of teaching, and present the passion and art of learning to your students as we continue to grow as the Cheltenham School District.