In-person school plans

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

We haven't heard anything yet from our middle school but this is basically child care and doesn't make a lot of sense.

And, for ES that have child care hubs, what happens to those kids displaced from the hubs on the days they aren't there?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

How have you never met your home room? Our homeroom teacher has a scheduled class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

We haven't heard anything yet from our middle school but this is basically child care and doesn't make a lot of sense.

And, for ES that have child care hubs, what happens to those kids displaced from the hubs on the days they aren't there?

There has to be someway to keep students grouped in order to limit the impact of infections and quarantines.

[Anonymous]

Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

[Anonymous]

So I think the hybrid model (as in teachers have 25 kids and teach half in person and half online and kids come in two days out if a week) has been abandoned.

The in person model on the table are

- virtual support (para babysits kids doing distance learning)

- simultaneous (mix if virtual and in person kids together with a co-teacher to help the on person teacher)

- in person direct learning (likely what every single parent wants when they signed their kid up for in person but very unlikely that they will be providing this because there isn't money to hire extra staff to maintain a 1 to 12 ratio)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner!

It will be better. The parents can’t keep the kids attention on DL at home. Y’all said so yourselves. Being in the building will create a sense of ownership over their learning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner!

It will be better. The parents can’t keep the kids attention on DL at home. Y’all said so yourselves. Being in the building will create a sense of ownership over their learning.

The teacher teaching will have to redirect the in person and manage them, plus the virtual classroom and students. That's not a reasonable thing to ask of someone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

Parents are happy because their kids are no longer in their hair and they project that happiness onto their children. And somehow being in a school building makes kids not want to commit suicide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner!

It will be better. The parents can’t keep the kids attention on DL at home. Y’all said so yourselves. Being in the building will create a sense of ownership over their learning.

The teacher teaching will have to redirect the in person and manage them, plus the virtual classroom and students. That's not a reasonable thing to ask of someone.

Nope, school buildings are magical places. Their majesty will awe students into paying attention without any need for adult supervision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

As opposed to now, when a lot of kids are rebelling or refusing to do virtual learning?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I work for MCPS. It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return. Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult. The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home. The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class. I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.
The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students. In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom. Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom. Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model. 12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal". I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster. I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.

Thank you for posting this and thank you for teaching our kiddos. Most of the discussion is about ES. It would be great to hear about MS/HS. My DS would be very upset if some of his 6th grade teachers switch, as he managed to build rapport with them online and highly respects them (KUDOS to the teachers, I have no clue how they pulled that off honestly). Keeping teachers/cohort is the reason why we chose full DL for the rest of the year. So far our MS only shared that ONLY 6th graders are expected back for time being and 200 student chose hybrid. Nothing else yet.

There is a lovely AMA over in the DCPS forum talking about how much more positive the distance-learning-from-school model is relative to what was expected.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/940596.page

Worth a read.

Thanks. Just noting though that is a CARES classroom with few kids and for some schools, this model really looks different. At my school, students will stay in homerooms and attend various classes via Zoom on a Chromebook.

So, child care. MoCo already has equity hubs for low income families and lots of supports in place for those that need it. I'm assuming you are in DC and just commenting to comment or you'd know that. MoCo was proposing a hybrid program, not full 5 days a week. So, kids who are going to equity hubs in MoCo schools will be displaced to reopen those schools and parents will have to scramble for child care for the 3 days a week that they are not in person.

I’m in MCPS. I am sharing my middle school’s reopening plan. I would have up to half my homeroom on A Days and up to half on B Days. Minus whoever stays in DL. They will learn from their academic teachers via Zoom while under my supervision while I simultaneously teach half of my students (seated in their own homerooms in other classrooms or at home). I’ve never even met my homeroom!

How have you never met your home room? Our homeroom teacher has a scheduled class.

It’s on my schedule, but it’s never held. Not ever. We have something called advisory, but those students are not our homeroom class. My homeroom is just a tab with names on Synergy. I wouldn’t even recognize the names of you showed me the list.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

As opposed to now, when a lot of kids are rebelling or refusing to do virtual learning?

Not much different from pre-Covid when students came to class physically, but did little to nothing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Supervised day care all day sounds miserable for staff and students. A lot kids would rebel or refuse to come to school.

As opposed to now, when a lot of kids are rebelling or refusing to do virtual learning?

If kids are rebelling or refusing to do virtual learning, maybe we should hold the parents accountable and charge them with neglect.