Appreciating Teachers, Asking for Your Help

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Editorial| May 01 2022 Appreciating Teachers, Asking for Your Help: A Commentary from a Public Health Practitioner Anne Schuchat Anne Schuchat ANNE SCHUCHAT (schuchata@gmail.com) is former principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (2022) 84 (5): 263–264. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2022.84.5.263 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Anne Schuchat; Appreciating Teachers, Asking for Your Help: A Commentary from a Public Health Practitioner. The American Biology Teacher 1 May 2022; 84 (5): 263–264. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2022.84.5.263 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search For biology teachers, perhaps more than most other educators, these may be the best and worst of times. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption, death, and despair of a magnitude the nation has not experienced since last century’s world wars or the 1918 influenza pandemic. Teachers themselves have endured personal illness and hospitalization while attempting to teach with various strains of virtual and hybrid instruction all while adapting to frequent shifts in protocols for in-person classrooms. Teachers have weathered these professional demands while coping with their own families’ economic, physical, and emotional hardships. But the content of biology itself has never been so relevant and will very likely prove to be crucial to strengthening our nation’s preparedness for future public health emergencies. Biology teachers and students are living and breathing the subject of this pandemic. The metrics of contagion and epidemiologic patterns are now household words. Mutations and the emergence... You do not currently have access to this content.