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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]STFU.  The teachers I know have been in several zoom meetings every day trying to help create new ways to teach.  They’ve been communicating with their students and parents.  They have been researching and preparing appropriate optional online learning activities.  They didn’t choose this, remember?

[/quote] Thank you! This is exactly what I have been doing. Essentially the first two weeks was like Spring Break while the district figured out what to do. Mind you we literally had one morning to put together a 2 week packet of work to send home to our students. Once the district figured out how we would proceed with distance learning we have been on Zoom calls (2 hour long trainings each day, team meetings, and our staff meeting was 2.5 hours long!) We have been figuring out how to use all of this new technology which I bet many of the critics haven't even heard of and lesson planning to make the content engaging when we are there to entertain Susie and Johnny in person. I have personally been working way outside of my contracted hours setting up Google Classroom, making Flipgrids and Google Slides, creating tutorials on Screencastify and more. I am now in addition to all of my other assigned duties a helpdesk for my tech illiterate parents (we serve a Title I population where English is not the home language) and have been walking parents through how to get logged on and set up for digital learning. Shall I continue because there is more. So to answer your question we are per usual going above and beyond our pay grade and doing more than "just 0-30 minutes of teacher every day." Drops mic and walks off stage.

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