March 2023 This past year was a time of change in society as we moved from seeing COVID-19 as pandemic to its endemic state. We also saw a change in our students who, during the many months of online education and other disruptions to learning, sometimes forgot the expectations of school but are now reacting with increasing maturity to each of the “new normals” that are regularly presented to us.
Through it all, biology teachers have played a vital role, both as student supporters generally, but also specifically as life science experts in communicating and explaining the recommendations about disease transmission and the action and importance of vaccines, and most importantly, in engaging students in how science works. I can only imagine how much more dire the consequence of the pandemic might have been had biology teachers and other science education professionals not been leading the way in dispensing accurate...