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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to know which school is telling teachers to prepare for any pivot to virtual because mine and nobody else’s I know (I know a lot of teachers in nova) are being told that. It is quite literally full speed ahead on normal plans. [/quote]

My school isn’t saying that but I’ve had many colleagues say “WHEN” we go virtual while we were prepping this week. Also heard our health aid say we aren’t going to be in past November. Way to be negative and start off on the wrong foot![/quote]

Perhaps school specific? That’s not the conversation at our school at all. [/quote]

Same. I haven’t heard anything like that.[/quote]

Well, that makes me feel marginally better.  Still, isn’t the mandate to maintain assignments and asynchronous work for students on-line a district wide one?  [/quote]

That would be the case if there was no such thing as a pandemic. It’s why we have schoology now and used Google classroom before or vision or whatever LMS we had at any given time. Materials stay there so kids can always access and complete. If they are out for quarantine now that’s what they’ll do as well just like before. That isn’t new because of covid, we have always done that. [/quote]

Yes, as a organizational guide and calendar.  However, I know need to make sure all texts we read are or worksheets and projects we do are readable or do-able online.  I am housing more course content in digital mode.[/quote]

You have this in Schoology now? I don't think anyone on my team has anything in Schoology yet. I haven't had time to give it much attention yet and I'm not sure what I'd put in there anyhow at this point.

ES Teacher[/quote]

Oh God no.  All my stuff is on Google Classroom.  I am incredibly pissed off about Schoology… Zoom, too, but only a little bit less so.  I teach high school English.  I ended up only teaching texts that I could find pdfs for so as not to deprive the virtual kids..  Also, class debates and socratic seminars went out the window with concurrent.  I am just wondering how much I can plan in person projects and assessments if there always needs to be a virtul corollary for kids who might be in quarantine.[/quote]

Hmmmm. I’m just thinking about our elementary school day and there really isn’t much I could just upload to Schoology. A lot of the first few weeks will be setting expectations and procedures such as modeling how to move on and out of Morning Meeting, how to greet during MM, setting up math workshop, etc. Even later in the year I’m not sure how small group lessons, centers, number sense routines and the like will be conveyed through Schoology.[/quote]

It is easier to use digital coursework with high school materials.  I, too, am focusing on community building exercises and familiarizing students with procedures and expectations the first two weeks.  However, after that, there will be parental and administrative pressure to [b]regularly record grades on SIS[/b].  If we expect kids to be in and out of quarantine, assignments and assessments that cannot be completed remotely will be considered “inequitable.”[/quote]

That’s another interesting point. Quarterly aren’t an average so would recording grades always give an accurate picture of progress? So much of grade determination is based on notes that are anecdotal from observing discourse and performance in small groups.[/quote]

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