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In this Pearl, Nicholas says, “it’s clear we need to ask those deep questions about whether the learning communities and learning environments our students need today are the same ones school offered them in the pre-pandemic era.” He asks us to sense the opportunity at hand rather than getting back to our normal and cautions us not to move back to a normal that might not have served our students in the first place.
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Nicholas Kolentse is the secondary vice principal at the Canadian International School, Singapore.
