When COVID-19 took the world by storm in early March, teachers everywhere were forced to quickly alter their curriculum to fit the new online mold that classes would take place in for the unforeseeable future. With confirmation from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) that schools in Illinois will remain online for the remainder of the year, former Redbird track & field athletes Rachael Brewer and Rob Breit have found creative ways to adjust to the new normal of being a teacher in an online setting.
Brewer, who is a physical education teacher at University Laboratory High School in Urbana-Champaign, had some notice before the school would be converting to virtual learning allowing her to talk with other teachers and the athletic director to come up with the best plan possible for the conversion to at-home PE classes.