Corona has changed a lot and brought with it very special burdens, especially for school life.
The district of Heinsberg took this as an opportunity to invite pupils, teachers, school administrators, school psychologists and social workers from the district’s schools to a joint dialogue at eye level in Erkelenz on 14 March. In addition to all the impositions that this difficult time has demanded of many, the aim of this event was above all to recognise needs and potentials for shaping schools in the future: Were there also valuable experiences, experiences from the Corona time? What did we learn about ourselves and others? And what possibilities and opportunities can we make fruitful for future school development – with and without Corona – and how? I had the pleasure of co-designing this all-day interactive dialogue event with the group “Back to life” (an initiative of committed school psychologists and school social workers from the Heinsberg district). In the run-up to the planning, we had hoped to be able to hold the event in happier times. However, having already been postponed once, the sad events of the Ukraine war and the continuing high Corona numbers make it clear how urgent and important it is to draw our lessons from times of crisis in order to shape a more liveable, crisis-proof future.

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