Health and Wellness Community

Our students are on campus. We are always asking them to spread their arms and cover their noses!

Students are struggling to maintain focus when teachers are required to attend to both virtual students and in-person student at the same time.

Teachers are teaching in person and remote learners at the same time in synchronous and asynchronous classes.

Teachers and students are doing the best they can right now and we can all use a little more compassion with ourselves and each other.

Teachers are working harder than ever to meet the demands of educating students face to face and online, please be kind

Balancing the learning needs of all students is a Hurculean feat with remote/digital/virtual learning.

Just because we are teaching from home does not mean we are on vacation. I'm working harder than ever, and feel like I'm on call all day, every day!

It has truly been a struggle for every single teacher, and it has been hard to watch students struggle as well.

I wish parents and all non-school related employees knew how much more work is required when teaching during a global pandemic. There are not enough hours in the day to prep for in-person students, online learners, read and answer emails, etc. (especially when you no longer have an official prep during the school day). I know every school employee- from bus drivers, custodians, secretaries, teachers, educational assistants, and every school employee in between- are all working harder (and many of us longer hours) this year.

That we are trying to problem solve on top of the regular, day-to-day problem solving. Just because routines look “normal” doesn’t mean they are.

We have been remote since the beginning of the year and there are students who I don’t even know what they look or sound like because of asynchronous classes. How can I assess their learning when I barely interact with them? All our usual assessment tools are useless for some of these students

Please remember to give students and teachers grace.

Remember to give grace to students and teachers. All are learning as they go.

That things will get better. Time is needed and things may never be the same. There will be a new normal.

This year is hard. Teaching synchronously online is harder than teaching in person, and teaching synchronously online WHILE teaching in person is even harder.

This pandemic has shifted the way students socialize. As some of our students return, it is evident that their social interaction skills have been impacted and that there is a need to reteach soft skills of appropriate communication and interaction. It was very "odd" to witness in their return.

I wish people knew how hard it was to teach in any kind of hybrid model. How hard it was to maintain classroom control both in person and online in a chat.

How much work educators are putting into their lessons and their students while juggling caring for their own children, parents and families.

Trying to balance teacher life with personal life and ensure all are safe at both school and home is draining. Teachers are EXHAUSTED and need grace.

Administrators are helping facilitate classes taught by teachers at home which leaves less time to help students individually.

I wish people knew that we care so much about our students...and that we can't sacrifice our own families and lives to teach. We're doing everything we can for our students while also trying to take care of ourselves and our families.

Teachers, parents, and students are all struggling to adjust this pandemic has created.

Students and their families are doing their best to continue learning and I am working almost around the clock to be flexible and modify teaching and learning to meet their needs/.

Sometimes students have emotional difficulties that make it hard to connect with virtually. For example, when a student has anxiety, they will often turn off their camera. Then, it makes it tough to know how they are doing from an emotional standpoint. You can't tell if something has triggered their anxiety. You can't tell if they've disconnected from the lesson. It is really hard to engage them again.

We are doing our best to be calm and collected each time we are online, but outside of those Zoom hours we feel a crushing amount of stress and worry.

Teachers teaching from home do NOT have it easy. Typically we are working double the hours we used to, and when working from home the days truly seem endless.

We didn't choose this. We wouldn't want your children to be remote. We want all students in school. We know your child is struggling. We are feeling frustrated too. We have no control over this. We are on the same team!

That I am actually WORKING - not just hanging out!! LOL

Well, less healthy - sitting too much, carpal tunnel from overuse on my computer, eating more..

How exhausting Remote Learning is!!!!!

The amount of work, extra work, fatigue, and dealing with the issues such as masks, washing hands, germs, and keeping distance while trying to learn and teach kindness

How much children's mental health is suffering right now and helping everyone learn things that then can do to stay on top of it.

I wish people knew how much we are working outside of the classroom whether in person or remotely. I literally spent my whole weekend grading and most of it is late work. We are supposed to be flexible, but they won't turn things in on time. (High school age students.)

There is so much expected, but the barriers are double. There is constant change that makes finding a rhythm difficult and we are constantly stressed about our well-being, our students well-being, and our own family's well-being.

I wish people understood the amount of time and effort it takes to put a good virtual lesson together.From learning a new technology tool, to seeing how it looks and works from a student's perspective to then creating and sharing the lesson. Teachers are exhausted. Luckily I work with small groups of math students so I don't have to deal with a large classroom of virtual students and all its problems. However, even though I only have small groups of students, I still plan 2 to 3 of these extended lessons a day. I can't even imagine what elementary teachers are going through with having the same students all day and creating lessons for all subject areas. Sometimes parents and community members think those of us that are working from home, are just sitting around doing nothing. That is so far from the truth.

We are all trying our best. This is new for everyone.

I wish people knew all the time being put into our jobs that are being taken from our families, and how working remotely does not mean we are not working.

I wish others knew how much we care for our students well-being! Not just their academic growth but their character and mental wellness too! It is so hard balancing everything. We are giving up a lot of ourselves.

The day to day, hour to hour uncertainty and a feeling that something is looming over you, out of your control.

We are working hard to learn new ways to be engaging and capture our kids hearts.

I wish people fully understood that we are building the plane as we fly it. We haven't done this before. They also need to learn that comparing what they do at their jobs in respect to working with adults is not the same as working with large groups of children.

The expectations, stress, and work load is higher than ever!

Trying to keep things as normal as I can for students.

Exercising for 30 mins/day. No excuses.

This is not a paid vacation for educators. We are worried sick about our kids and struggling ourselves.

Be patient with us. We often cannot answer your emails immediately (quarantining students! and parents) because we are also teaching our classes and using passing time to disinfect tables!

We are still trying to teach as if we are in person. We forget that students are having as many problems as us.

I'm teaching with both mask and shield; and it's been a struggle.

I wish people knew that teaching students through a screen takes away so much of the information gleened from being in the presence of one another.