Elasticity

 The world is generally moving away from a rigid fixture of job title and job skills. The norm is becoming where a person's skills are valued, but their experience in different fields may yield even more than if that one person stayed in their "lane." Daniel Pink refers to the "elasticity" of skills and how they must include being able to convince others to join your vision Pink 2012, 36). This idea of elasticity was thrust upon the world in the last year. People who have been working at their jobs for 30 years suddenly had to revamp everything while they worked from home, many of whom are still working from home and will be for the foreseeable future. They will have to undergo a second bout of discomfort when they go back to working in the office. This idea that going back to what was previously done will make a second upheaval in people’s lives seems to have escaped many in the education world, be they teachers, administrators, parents or students. 

Now is the time to embrace change and take advantage of the learnings that we have (or should have had) over the last year regarding what is important, what we should keep and what we should get rid of. 

Pink, Daniel. To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others. Riverhead Books, 

2012.