The education system is generally not known for agile and dynamic changes in structure. During the 2021 premiere episode of CBC's "Dragon's Den", Manjit Minhas noted that "...they have budgets, they have long timelines... they are very rigid to try something new." Yet COVID forced a dynamic change across all sectors of the economy, and school was no exception.

Prior to COVID, most schools in Canada followed an educational format that included:

• Lecture-style classes were grouped by age and first developed for the industrial revolution.

• Teachers produce lessons for a group of 20-30 students who consume lesson content

• Students apply and are assessed for what they learned in standard projects or tests.

• Any differentiation is the responsibility of the teacher

• Behaviourism is typically employed to manage a class

When the COVID crisis emerged, it created a massive disruption in the education sector. Shifting to an emergency remote learning context created challenges that heavily impacted students learning. According to Jane Mann, the Director of Education Reform at Cambridge University, these challenges include the following elements:

• "Students face disruption to their learning environment, their contact with classmates and teachers becomes highly fragmentary (if it is happening at all) and their access to learning materials is at best transformed and at worst removed.

• They face breakages in their progression through curricula, with gaps created that can disrupt learning and achievement for the rest of their educational careers.

• Assessments are inaccessible or delegitimised, undermining long-term security and expectations about outcomes.

• Perhaps most troublingly, students and teachers face uncertainty and stress that can destabilise the emotional consistency and safety that schooling can offer."