Technological Innovation in Education: COVID-19 and Beyond

The relationship between student and teacher has been fundamental to the process of instruction for as long as human beings have been learning from one another. Independent schools have always placed a special emphasis on that bond, implementing small class sizes and personalizing education to help students and teachers grow together.  Education as we know it, then, was completely transformed in February 2020 with the onslaught of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Because of infection risks, limits were placed on in-class instruction to variable degrees and in multiple ways across schools throughout the world, and the relationship between educators and their students was altered profoundly.