5 MAY 2022 · Gemma Porter (PhD) is a High School Humanities teacher (Indigenous Studies, History, English Language Arts) in Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan. Gemma's article in Our Schools/Our Selves, "Inclusion interrupted? The impact of COVID restrictions on inclusion and belonging in classroom communities" shines a bright light on the ways in which online learning has hindered educators and school support staff from maintaining the quality of relationships so necessary to our vision for inclusive education.

5 MAY 2022 · Kara Babcock has been an adult and continuing education teacher in Northwestern Ontario for eight years. She is on Twitter at @tachyondecay. Kara's article in Our Schools/Our Selves, "The more things change, the more they stay the same: Adult education during the pandemic" provides insight into the world of adult education and draws attention to the ways that adult students completing high school diplomas have been impacted by policies that don't meet their needs.

5 MAY 2022 · Shannon D.M. Moore is an assistant professor of social studies education in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, at The University of Manitoba. Her research interests include media and digital literacies in the social studies classroom, the impacts of online learning on teachers and teaching, and the impacts of neoliberalism on public education. In this conversation, we explore Shannon's research that uncovered the way that online teaching has negatively impacted the way that teachers have come to see themselves during the pandemic. Her article in Our Schools/Our Selves, "Self Checkout Education: The deprofessionalizing, dehumanizing and demoralizing impacts of online education" was co-written by Bruno de Oliveira Jayme, a Brazilian art educator and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba.

5 MAY 2022 · Before becoming a secondary teacher, Shannon Salisbury (she/them) worked in public education, community development, and social work. Her teaching practice is deeply informed by her experience of being a parent. Shannon's article in Our Schools/Our Selves raises concerns around the idea of "returning to normal". We need to attend to the students who were already being marginalized, if not harmed, by the way things were being done before the pandemic. They can be found on Twitter at @just_shannon_s.