The COVID pandemic disrupted teaching and learning along with most of daily life. In response, teachers made many adaptations to teaching strategies to accommodate imposed limits to in-person teaching. Retrospectively, we also learned of the negative impacts to many students and faculty – higher rates of anxiety, depression, and impacts on academics. Winter 2025, I was sick for much of the first part of the semester. I was able to continue teaching by using strategies I developed during the COVID shutdown. However, I was left wondering if my students were impacted in ways that I could not easily identify.
