As the pandemic lessens slightly and schools begin to reopen, many voices urge schools to go down three faulty paths to recovery and improvement: using testing to address "learning loss," an unintegrated focus on social-emotional learning, or a push for continued ed tech and online learning. The authors suggest alternative paths that…

In "The Fifth Season," the Afro-futurist and speculative fiction writer N.K. Jemisin (2015) describes a world upended by massive climactic events that end typical seasonal cycles--introducing a fifth season of climatic emergency--and require a reorganization of society. As our planet Earth rapidly accelerates climatic change, educators…