Our district leaders met this past summer to plan what the start of school was going to look like. We surveyed families and based on the results our re-opening team decided that since our county was at low risk with regards to COVID cases we could offer families at least their overall 2nd choice – …
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Dec 24
Fully Remote Again
Friday, December 18, our last school day before winter break concluded our third week of having school 100% online for everyone. Well, almost everyone. Special Education programs were able to support kids coming back to school Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8:45 am to 12 pm. There were enough Educational Aides (EA’s) available to …
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Aug 19
Blended Learning EdWeek Post
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Jul 25
Planning for a COVID Fall 2020
Added on July 28, 2020 – From the Washington Post, One teacher’s experience teaching a summer camp with kids who are required to be socially distant and wearing masks. This teacher confirms what I feared as I wrote my thoughts below, any kind of teamwork or small group work is most likely just not going …
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Jul 15
COVID-19 School Learning Models Glossary
I started a short glossary of terms that will help our district and school re-opening planning teams communicate more easily. What am I missing? What would you add? Please leave a comment if you see something that needs to be added. (Updated on July 24, 2020.) Face-to-Face Learning What we consider the traditional teaching model …
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Jun 15
13th and Final Week for Chimacum
Week 13 (Last Week) – June 15 to June 19:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Recap of Week 12 My top five 6th grade Science students, who completed the most assignments while at home, completed an average of 16 assignments of the 21 I had …
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Jun 15
10 Things To Do for 20-21
1. Make Connections The BIG #1 thing to do with any face time we get is to hit the ground running on making relationships and strong connections! One way is to have regular, weekly or even twice weekly class meetings. We used to do that when we were a middle school and had a strong …
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Jun 12
Blended and Flipped the New Norm?
I’m trying to think through some ideas from blog posts I’ve read and online courses I’ve been taking and conversations with people. I’ve got questions because I need to talk with others before I can fully figure things out. I’m a social learner after all. Not sure if this can work for grades 7-12, because …
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Jun 08
12th Week of School Closure
Week 12 – June 8 to June 12:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Recap of Week 11: With two weeks left to go in our school year and having THREE FULL MONTHS of this year be forced at-home distance learning, I’m just trying to make …
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May 29
11th Week of School Closure
Week 11 – June 1 to June 5:School Closure PlanningWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Recap of Week 10 Am I getting used to so many kids not engaging? Nope, I’m not. Just this past Friday, as has been the case on Fridays, only seven students checked …
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