Nora Flanagan
Education speaker | Rethinking schools in the post-COVID era
About
Nora Flanagan is a professional speaker affiliated with Duke University who focuses on the critical lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on American education. She examines how the unprecedented disruption exposed fundamental challenges within the US school system and advocates for meaningful reform in response to these revelations.
Flanagan has presented at TEDxWrigleyville, where she shared her insights on both the vulnerabilities COVID-19 revealed in schools and practical strategies for reimagining educational approaches. Her work centers on identifying specific ways to transform education systems to be more resilient and effective in serving students.
What Nora Talks About
What COVID-19 revealed about weaknesses in the US education system
Four strategic approaches to rethinking modern education
How schools should respond to pandemic-era challenges
Reforming educational systems for post-COVID resilience
Lessons learned from education disruption during the pandemic
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What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education
The abrupt shift to online learning due to COVID-19 rocked the US education system, unearthing many of the inequities at its foundation. Educator Nora Flanagan says we can reframe this moment as an opportunity to fix what's long been broken for teachers, students and families -- and shares four ways schools can reinvent themselves for a post-pandemic world.
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