School Reopening Community: Learning Beyond COVID-19

It is emotionally exhausting, professionally isolating and systemically infuriating. In the spring we taught remotely out of an abundance of precaution and then this summer administration changed a virtual consultation model to an in person teaching model. 3 teachers had the entire state. Now I am teaching in person, but we need to be prepared to teach virtually at any moment. My biggest frustration is the expectation that I have to be professionally flexible and understanding, but administrative expectations remain rigid and unfeeling.

It is very different doing this in this setting because the internet is all locked down with the exception of the learning program that the students use. The remote teachers had their computer and images projected on a wall and the students watched the teacher that way and not on their computer screens. It has been a trying time in this setting with even more stress than is normal here.

We are using the blended format. It seems that the parents have not really bought into this remote/in school, rotating days program. Here it is mid November and there are still students who are not participating in school or remote. How is that beneficial to the student learning process?

This same technology works great for distance learning. I would appreciate your thoughts, questions and comments.<br><br>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/respect-every-math-student-supporting-pe… a great year!

My school is grades 6-8. We are currently in a yellow zone so our students can not come to school. The teachers and other staff must go to school and teach virtually. I am in my 31at year of teaching. I have NEVER felt so hausted at the end of the day like I do now. Ugh. I just hope our students are learning and not having a horrible experience.

I would love to see Virtual Simulations and hands-on home-based science experiments that children can do and how to assess students' written responses.