First attempt at #DisruptTexts for the Hero's Journey! Ss used EQs to study THEIR choice of texts & created podcasts. Check out the podcasts (Emerging Ideas in English 9) on @Apple Podcasts, @Spotify, @Google Podcasts, among others! Listen! #GVFeeling#GVBlended
Fun start for our new computer science course! Students are using the engineering design process to build a structure out of newspaper and masking tape. We had a competition to see which structure could support the most books!
Remote learning during a health crisis is NOT new. Check out this interesting article about radio instruction during the polio epidemic:
https://t.co/ugKw8PphTn
Robin Cooper, president of @502Casa, the #phled principals’ union, says the district is trying to divide principals and teachers. “We will not stand for it,” Cooper said. Principals stand with teachers, she said.
Public school educators shouldn't have to advocate for safe working conditions, or vaccines. This shouldn't be our reality. It angers me to my core. In solidarity with my former @PFTLocal3 colleagues, #OnlyWhenItsSafe#plannotfan
Gather more evidence of learning than you need. Don’t grade it all. Save some for backups, as needed.
We make missing assignments a bigger deal than they should be.
They indicate a barrier, either behavioral or circumstances.
They don’t indicate any level of learning.
@kmishmael @sabiaprescott @NewAmericaEd Agree! Just started this conversation @ district level -- what has changed in Teaching and Learning...and what of those changes will stay...we can't possibly return to "old ways" when we already know what lies around the corner. Doing so would be irresponsible.