The Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning

What a year! Twelve months and counting since COVID expanded, stretched, and blurred the boundaries of teaching and learning, at least one thing has remained our commitment as educators to move learning forward. It’s just the context that keeps changing―why Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Almarode, and Aleigha Henderson-Rosser have created a follow-up to  The Distance Learning Playbook,  their all-new  Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning. First, to be simultaneous learning must not be an additive, meaning we combine two entirely different approaches and double our workload. That’s unsustainable! Instead, we must extract, integrate, and implement what works best from both distance learning and face-to-face learning environments. Then and only then―Doug, Nancy, John, and Aleigha insist―can we maximize the learning opportunities for  all  of our students. To that end,  The Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning   describes how "None of us chose to be in a situation where some learners are physically in our classrooms, while others attend virtually and remotely,"  write Doug, Nancy, John, and Aleigha.  "However, what we hope to convey is that we’ve got this! While the context is different, the principles behind clarity, planning, high-yield strategies and interventions, student learning, and assessment hold steady."  This is where  The Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning  will prove indispensable on this next leg of our journey.