Who will tell the story of Covid-19?
Who will lay the foundation for what comes next—the analyses, the historical comparisons, the critiques?
We wanted to give Consortium students a chance to have their voices heard and be part of the documentation of the difficult and challenging time we were met with.
What was it like to be a teenager living through a pandemic in 2020? Our students’ words and images will be part of the answer to that question.
This journal traces the amazing journey from mid-March 2020—when NYC schools closed and almost the entire city was on lockdown, when we were astounded that our city could suddenly be so empty and quiet with only the sounds of racing ambulance sirens piercing through the silence—to the beginning of June 2020 and Black Lives Matter protests that filled the streets with chants and anger and also hope that maybe this time, this time, something significant would change.
Editors:
Phyllis Tashlik, Mica Baum-Tuccillo, New York Performance Standards Consortium, February 2021
Please reach out with any questions or feedback to phyllis@performanceassessment.org or mica@performanceassessment.org
Journal design:
Kaung Nan Dar Shein, an Urban Academy (Consortium) alum. https://knds.art
