Pedagogical Challenges During COVID
Educators could not have predicted the degree of disruption that COVID-19 could cause until schools closed and forced teachers to move to online teaching. This chapter describes the use of a research-based model, Innovating Instruction, to support teachers in their transition to remote learning. Grounded in a concern for greater equity and social justice for all students, the model prepares teachers to design inquiry-based, culturally relevant projects. The development of the model is based on a critique that technology has largely failed to impact pedagogical change because of a limited sense of the scope of the change needed. Instructional Innovation brings together key aspects of a systems change effort, thus contributing to an emerging educational theory for the catalytic use of technology to promote pedagogical practices that are culturally responsive, rigorous, and engaging.