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DP.  You should be using, either in whole or in part, what you used last year during DL or hybrid/concurrent.  You should not be starting from scratch each time.  Just sayin'.  If I were your evaluator and you told me you were planning on starting from scratch every time this year then I would be doing a serious reevaluation of whether you were in the right assignment.[/quote]

Different poster.  We can't just do that.  If you work for a large school district, you need to follow their plans. I can't tell you the number of times last year the plans changed on us.  We can't just use "in whole or in part" what we used last year during Distance learning. That was distance learning.   We were told which portions of the day had to be asynchronous learning and what those assignments were to be, and how they matched up with the curriculum, and how much time they should take students to do.  And how much should be synchronous learning (Zoom and/or in class instruction) with assignments completed on Google Classroom, etc.

This year, so far, we are not doing distance learning.  We aren't doing Zoom and Room lessons and posting work online.  So far as we have been told, we are back to our usual, in school only classroom instruction (including a lot of small group instruction). Having students out for 1 to 2 days per illness is usually and normal and we deal with that all the time.  Usually they complete a few worksheets we did in class, or a journal assignment, or make up a quiz. Or the work is simply excused.

But having multiple students out, not for illness, but for quarantine, for 10-14 days, on and off all Sept-November, missing 2- 3 weeks of instruction, is not the same thing.  We aren't going to be turning on our cameras and doing hybrid instruction again, because that would allow all the parents who wanted to request virtual instruction with the classroom teacher, and the school district isn't allowing it.  (If you wanted virtual you had to select it already and it isn't through your child's own school.).  [/quote]

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]

Many schools are 1:1, but 
1) the equipment differs greatly —sometimes even within systems. DD was issued a crappy old school Chromebook to take back and forth. DS was issued a top of the line touch screen one. They are both rising 10th. 
2) devices matter less than the school or district purchased software 
3) students are at varying levels of comfort with the technology (hardware or software). Add the stress of being positive to Covid and unexpectedly out of school and it’s not going to plug and play for 100% of kids. [/quote]

Sigh.   All devices have the same software and, frankly, it doesn't really matter if it is an old Chromebook or a new one.  Students who have a low comfort level with technology in the 10th grade have bigger problems than their equipment if they have reached 10th grade and cannot use the basic school software.

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The ease of using the touch screen matters for many kids. Also, my district keeps changing the software we use. What was used in 8th and 9th grade might not be used in 10th. There’s a [b]new software for HS math[/b] this year. [/quote]

What new software for math?  Do you mean Desmos?  That's been around for a few years.  It is NOT new.[/quote]

Not Desmos. Edmentum and it is new to us.[/quote]

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