1. a) List ways schools are getting creative about keeping students in the classroom while dealing with coronavirus.
b) How is Hesston, Kansas using the city’s convention center? Be specific.

2. How does Harvard’s Healthy Buildings Program professor view keeping students in the classroom during coronavirus?

3. a) Define “closed mindset” (close-minded) and “think outside the box.”
b) Describe the irony of school districts/officials having a closed mindset when they should be thinking outside the box.

4. What have officials in every district he visited told Kansas Education Commissioner Randy Watson about the models they use to teach during coronavirus?

5. a) What have Topeka, Kansas school officials done to address the problems with virtual learning?
b) What do you think of Superintendent Tiffany Anderson’s view?

6. What did University of Michigan’s assistant professor Samantha Keppler say about schools in big cities?

7. Others say it’s too hard in big cities, it won’t work in cities, etc. But many have warned of the “devastating” effect of keeping students out of schools. What do you think? — Is it too difficult for school districts to come up with a workable plan?
Administrators are surrounded by the most creative and ingenious people: teachers. Should they solicit ideas from teachers for “thinking outside the box?” Are the challenges of dealing with coronavirus too insurmountable? Explain your answers.