“Jordan is a great addition to our defensive staff as our linebacker coach,” said Head Coach Greg Gattuso. “Jordan worked with us two years ago and did an outstanding job for our staff, which made this an easy choice for our defensive coaches and myself.”

“I coached rowing at UConn and got my master’s in sport management,” says Strodel. “That allowed me to dabble in coaching. From there, I did go into the real world.”

“It has the potential to be awesome, but not this way,” said Michael Young, a University of Connecticut professor who specializes in education technology.

As COVID-19 continues to alter social and economic landscapes around the world, some are more immediately impacted than others.

Former Major League Baseball player Doug Glanville now teaches a class in the Neag School of Education.

“Thanks to the coronavirus, my third-grade twins are home all day for the foreseeable future,” says Jennie Weiner. “I’m not going to recreate school for them.”

“The younger the children are, the less you can even expect them to self-regulate and it’s up to the parents to kind of structure the time,” said Michael F. Young, a professor a UConn’s Neag School of Education who researches the effects of instructional technology.

“I recognized that my experience as a student, and my race and my gender, all came together in how I experienced my academics and my campus climate,” says Clewiston Challenger, now an assistant professor of counselor education at the Neag School. 

“While I genuinely appreciate and value that edTPA is a way of making certain that teacher candidates demonstrate the knowledge and skills required to help all students learn in real classrooms, I am deeply concerned at the impact I see it having on aspiring educators,” says Patel-Lye.

Jason Gilmore, a Guilford resident and art teacher at McDonough Middle School in Hartford, was named the recipient of the 2020 Rogers Educational Innovation Fund, a $5,000 annual award for an innovative project for elementary- or middle-school level classrooms.