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I also work for a large district.  I am in NoVa.  I see the first poster's point.  I think you're making this harder for yourself than it needs to be.  At this point the schools in the DMV are 1:1.  Use that to your advantage.  Use Kami or Nearpod for delivery of materials that you've either printed in the past years or that you used last year.  Stop digging such a deep hole.  No one in our school system (no coach, no principal and no one from "central office") is telling people to start from scratch or to avoid using materials from prior years.  That would be dumb.[/quote]

My students need direct instruction in math in order to be able to complete the work that is being assigned to the rest of the class.  Certainly I can dredge up some past worksheets for busy work; that's not the issue.  But students who miss 2 full weeks of math instruction on 4th grade aren't going to be able to just do the worksheets that have been assigned for that week, unless they have instruction in the concepts.  And since students will be absent on a rolling basis, it isn't as simple as just assigning a 2 week "review" unit.

I do not have any prerecorded videos of these math lessons because we didn't record videos last year. And I don't think my students will just watch a Khan academy video either.  They need direct instruction.[/quote]

You are insisting on missing the point.  Why aren't you pulling up your Nearpods or Kami documents from last year and using them this year?  You don't need them recorded.  But you can easily use those and make modifications based on your experiences last year with what worked and what did not work.

To my knowledge no public school system in the DMV has the expectation that teachers will be distributing, collecting and grading paper documents.  You need to use the electronic documents that you used last year.

At this point I believe that you are either being deliberately obstructive to making this year work or deliberately obtuse in how to make this year work.  Either way I am done with your nonsense.  Good luck to your students because it sounds like they're going to need every bit of luck they can get with you as their teacher.[/quote]

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