For the past 10 years, Creative Classrooms has partnered with schools to develop learner-centered visual arts programs for students in kindergarten through 8th grade. This program is part of the Children's Arts Guild, a New York City nonprofit. The program works with schools to train art educators through monthly professional development workshops. In the spring of 2020, all teachers and students suddenly had to continue their lessons remotely. At the schools with which Creative Classrooms partner, remote learning not only exposed severe inequities in students' home lives and access to resources, but it also rendered many teaching methods implausible. Professional-development workshops were held via Zoom, allowing teachers to share their students' work and discuss their remote-teaching experiences. Observations during these workshops provided unexpected insights. This article presents what the pandemic revealed about student creativity, authenticity, metacognition, and trauma, along with how to center students' experiences in a postpandemic world.