I hope you had a great first three days of remote learning. Thank you for the incredible amount of work you have all done. This is HARD and you keep rising to the challenge. I have heard stories about the new technology tools you have learned to use, the ways you have modified goals for your courses, and most importantly, how you have reached out to and supported students.
If you haven't seen this visual, I wanted to share it here. This is where our focus needs to be right now!
Thank you to those of you who have reached out about students they have not heard from. I was part of the Chromebook distribution today and saw some of those students. I hope to see them getting back in the groove soon. If students are not joining your classes or responding to your emails please make sure you are also reaching out to their parents/guardians. I will share a survey on Sunday that we will use to track students who are not engaging. We as that at the end of the day each Friday you fill out the survey for each student who has not attended or had any contact during the week. You as teachers should focus on reaching out to parents of the students you did not hear from this coming week.
I am sharing the directions for Google Voice here. This is another tool you can use to call parents without sharing your personal phone number. (*67 is also an option). Please document your efforts to reach out to students and parents
The expectation is that new content is presented every two days and that you can set due dates. This will help students stay on track. But there has never been a time that we need to be more flexible with expectations. I plan to have discussions with the department liaisons and Site Council next week in order to provide more guidance.
Check out Important Information articles on best practices for teaching remotely. I have tried to drop all of the articles shared over the past few weeks in here. We've had an interesting time dealing with ZoomBombing. Talk about a term I never thought I'd know. You are all handling this amazingly well.
The AP schedule came out today. Check out the College Board page for information about how they are moving forward with testing.
If you haven't seen this visual, I wanted to share it here. This is where our focus needs to be right now!
Thank you to those of you who have reached out about students they have not heard from. I was part of the Chromebook distribution today and saw some of those students. I hope to see them getting back in the groove soon. If students are not joining your classes or responding to your emails please make sure you are also reaching out to their parents/guardians. I will share a survey on Sunday that we will use to track students who are not engaging. We as that at the end of the day each Friday you fill out the survey for each student who has not attended or had any contact during the week. You as teachers should focus on reaching out to parents of the students you did not hear from this coming week.
I am sharing the directions for Google Voice here. This is another tool you can use to call parents without sharing your personal phone number. (*67 is also an option). Please document your efforts to reach out to students and parents
The expectation is that new content is presented every two days and that you can set due dates. This will help students stay on track. But there has never been a time that we need to be more flexible with expectations. I plan to have discussions with the department liaisons and Site Council next week in order to provide more guidance.
Check out Important Information articles on best practices for teaching remotely. I have tried to drop all of the articles shared over the past few weeks in here. We've had an interesting time dealing with ZoomBombing. Talk about a term I never thought I'd know. You are all handling this amazingly well.
The AP schedule came out today. Check out the College Board page for information about how they are moving forward with testing.
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