A high school teacher is using a creative approach to address student questions anonymously during virtual learning, offering a way for teens to seek answers without fear of judgment. By maintaining an "anonymous question box" system, she ensures students can ask sensitive or personal inquiries while preserving their privacy. The method highlights the challenges of remote education and the innovative strategies educators are adopting to support student engagement. For those interested in how technology and teaching intersect, this story explores one teacher’s effort to bridge the gap between students and their concerns.
Krystalyn Musselman holds a worn cardboard box up to the screen on our Zoom call. It’s the anonymous question box she relies on to field queries from high schoolers at Tecumseh Public Schools in ...