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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]

+1 to direct instruction being key for some students to grasp new math concepts.[/quote]

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