The world is experiencing first-hand the critical role schools have in shaping and contributing to society. The unfolding, often unpredictable, developments of COVID-19 is testing society in a number of ways. COVID-19 is pushing educational systems to re-think and drastically change how schooling is provided (Sun, Tang and Zuo, 2020). With such a large and important focus on lockdowns it is easy to neglect the educational implications of these rapid changes (Brooks et al., 2020). For example, over a billion children and youth across the world have recently been affected by school closures in some way. School closures have shown that many children and youth access school not only for academic purposes but also relief from difficult home situations, access to mental health and wellbeing supports, and meals (Grove and Laletas, 2020; Bale, Grove and Costello, 2020; Lee, 2020). The world-wide crisis is also highlighting what schools contribute to our communities and society at large. It
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