Cross-pollination

The Local: cross-pollination of outdoor teaching in Italy

6/2020
With schools around the world trying to figure out how to bring children back during COVID-19, The Local, an English-language digital news publisher in Europe, reported on a successful strategy in Denmark (https://www.thelocal.dk/20200528/how-denmark-got-its-children-back-to-school) — keeping children outdoors much of the day. (This story was a part of a series entitled "Confronting Coronavirus.") After reading that piece, teachers in Piedmont, Italy, the region with the second-highest number of coronavirus cases in that nation, tried out many of the same measures. The Local reported on this development in “Can Outdoor Teaching Enable Italy to Safely Reopen Schools?” Piedmont’s results were good, and additional schools in Italy reopened after seeing the results.