Feature Story: The Conversation: After coronavirus closures, reopening schools demands collaboration

Abstract

Across Canada, many parents, educational policy experts and educators are now looking at possibly late August or early September as they consider how schools can safely reopen amid the unknowns of the coronavirus pandemic.

I've had the good fortune to spend close to 30 years in the education sector including working as a teacher, principal and director of education. I'm now a professor of educational leadership and dean of the faculty of education at the University of Regina, which is on Treaty 4 territory and the traditional homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation. My career has spanned the geographical, social and political contexts of the prairie provinces.