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Updated 3\/15\/20 at 3:15 pm PDT<\/em>
School Closure Planning
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My school district was being proactive. Seeing how the spread of COVID-19 was causing many schools around us to shut down, we started to meet to discuss what we would do in the case of a shutdown for our district. We planned to start training teachers and getting them ready in case they had to go from teaching their kids face-to-face to teaching their kids 100% online. We were going to start Tuesday, March 17, to make sure teachers were all familiar with using Google Classroom because we’re a Google district, Microsoft too but most of our teachers and kids are already using Google, and we already have teachers using Google Classroom. Then Friday the 13th we got the proclamation from our state governor that all Washington state schools are shutting down from March 17 to April 24. There goes starting slowly! On a separate note, our state superintendent of public schools also announced that ALL STATE TESTING for the 2019-2020 school year is hereby CANCELED!! That is awesome news but now I really want kids back in the classroom so we can spend the end of the year doing all the cool things we do WITHOUT testing getting in the way!!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking into consideration the number of teachers who are not experienced tech integrators, Google Classroom seemed a great place to start. One tool I use daily with kids and share at Gamification workshops is Classcraft<\/a>, a gamification Learning Management System (LMS), and yet I have chosen not to share Classcraft<\/a> at this time. And I’m a Level 2 Classcraft Ambassador but I don’t think starting out using Classcraft<\/a> for the first time in an unfamiliar online environment is a good idea. So as much as I’d LOVE to share it as an LMS that works with Google Classroom, I will not at this time. When I do share Classcraft<\/a> it is to teachers who are interested in and looking for ways to gamify their classes so if I did I would start with teachers who were looking for something like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Must-Read Resources for Closure Planning:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A couple of very helpful blog posts that I just read and a great resource I found are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n