Started The Crucible unit. One of my students asked: "How do you think the Devil dances? Like does he break dance, or does he ballroom dance?" Honestly, I was blown away.
And suddenly "Throughout all of history" and "Since the beginning of humankind" are appearing in essays again. I didn't realize that I took for granted the months in which this was not the case.
Say what? Total disregard for the complexities of a pandemic education. MA is better than this. “Districts will get at least two weeks notice before students will be required to return to in-person learning full-time,” Riley said.
The annoying thing about being the teacher who allows late work, shows grace, is always polite, etc. is that students prioritize their other classes over yours b/c you're flexible😔
We are also concerned that students not be rushed back to in-person classes in order to expedite high-stakes testing and enforcing standards of accountability that would be based on learning acquired during a severely disrupted school year.
I took off my mask to take a sip of water. A girl in the back of the classroom gasped. I asked her if she was okay.
She said: "Yeah, I just didn't know that that's what you look like." I did not ask a follow up question.
“The difficulty for me in writing...is to write language that can work quietly on a page for a reader who doesn’t hear anything" - Toni Morrison.
This quote has knocked me out. I will be processing this for weeks to come.