Inaugural CSEL Cohort Members Reflect on The Experience
Lindsay Eanet2022-09-19T10:31:05-05:00Teaching remotely during a global pandemic is a challenge for any educator, but teaching the youngest learners is a particularly big adjustment. But Cecilia Villegas, a bilingual kindergarten teacher in Barrington School District 220, noticed her students were catching on to the technology, from the use of tablets to maneuvering Zoom breakouts, very quickly. “To see their fear but also their accomplishments, it was like, ‘Wait a minute, there’s something more powerful,’” Villegas says. “There needs to be more focus in the computer science area than just the basic tools. I wanted to know, what else can they do with an [...]
