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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, they get paid and don't have to do any work.  We were told not to contact teachers.[/quote]
curious who told you not to contact teachers?  School System? Individual Principal? Someone else?

I'm an MCPS Math teacher, have dutifully posted links to what MCPS tossed out.

Then in addition, I've been adding links to Khan Academy, throwing up "quizizz" links for practice, and so forth.

For long term, I'm looking into how to videocast  (looks like one can set up a Khan Academy style video lecture system for surprisingly little money or effort, so that is next goal)
Granted I have zero training in doing doing this as organized as I would like - but I figure spending a few hours a day learning more about digital platforms and a few hours a monitoring/posting to the google classroom is the least I can do, not only because it's my job but also .... well .... beats being utterly bored sitting in my apartment!

One difficulty is the multiple digital platforms MCPS halfheartedly supports.  Should I use Instructure/Canvas/myMCPS Classroom, which my students seem to loath, or go with Google Classroom? I've gone the google classroom route, but that does not integrate with gradebook.

Am I going to get fired for linking sites like quizziz, deltamath, khan academy to my Google Classroom and giving them access to my student rosters so the various activities can be coordinated? What can I do about those students who haven't joined?
So I have a billion questions, and MCPS refuses to answer any of them. None of my fellow teachers seem to know, admin simply refuses to even acknowledge I've asked the questions, not even a "we'll get back to you" - but that is what I expected from MCPS Admin. (I'm a career changer, pushing 60 years old. MCPS admin is leaps and bounds the most incompetent and toxic group of people I've ever worked for. Planning to end that relationship as soon I land new employment, not that this is a great time, right).

So I guess I'll just continue to try what I can, and hope the 20 (out of about 90) students that have been doing the assignments get something out of this. And wonder how to get the other 70 students involved. And how much I should just say "screw MCPS" and teach what and how I think I can online to my students.[/quote]

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