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Week 8 – May 11 to May 15:<\/em>
School Closure Planning<\/a>
Week 1<\/a>
Week 2<\/a>
Week 3<\/a>
Week 4<\/a>
Week 5<\/a>
Week 6<\/a>
Week 7<\/a>
Week 8
Week 9<\/a>
Week 10<\/a>
Week 11<\/a>
Week 12<\/a>
Week 13<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s pretty sad, having our elementary school playground closed. Going nine weeks (week eight + spring break) without kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recap of Week 7:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Last week went pretty well. Here are some highlights: Our district has paid for any teacher who wanted to virtually Zoom attend a series of EdTech PD called Shifting Schools from Reimagine WA Ed<\/a> and I participated in the first two sessions last week. What I’m appreciating about the workshop is that those experts are confirming everything we’ve done to prepare for this new way of emergency online\/distance teaching that we are doing here at Chimacum Schools. It’s nice to see that what they are recommending schools do to support their students’ continuing education lines up very well with what we’ve been doing<\/a> all these weeks. So last Wednesday we had a Zoom training session to support teachers’ top two needs from a survey, more Google Classroom support, and Screencasting\/Video Editing support. We started off all together where we shared a few things. I showed Quizziz<\/a> by having everyone play a game together because after hearing so many good things about it I tried it and it’s good. Quizziz<\/a> is a great compliment to Kahoot<\/a> and Gimkit<\/a>. Then we broke off into two Breakout Rooms with two to three lead facilitators in each room to help answer questions and share more tips, tricks, and howtos. After about 45 minutes in each room, teachers switched so everyone got time with both Google Classroom and Screencasting\/Video Editing. The 6th grade Math Teacher and I are both using Screencast-O-Matic<\/a>, we both upgraded to the deluxe version because it’s reasonably priced and offers so much, and one of the 5th-grade Teachers and a 3rd-grade Teacher have been enjoying Loom<\/a> so we focused on those. I have found that after years of editing my own videos and using a few different video editing programs from free ones to ones I’ve bought, the video editing capabilities of Screencast-O-Matic<\/a>‘s deluxe version is outstanding and does everything I need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As all of us are experiencing, there are plenty of Zoom Meetings to attend each week. Aside from the two Shifting Schools sessions and the staff PD session, I had two eSports meetings, my Science meeting, a grade-level team meeting, a staff PD planning meeting, I attended the 6th grade Language Arts\/Social Studies Zoom Meeting, I moderated one of the WEA <\/a>trainings that are helping teachers complete a Professional Growth Plan (PGP)<\/a>, and I had my evaluation meeting. I also went to our creek and collected our yearly water quality data. Painfully so because of the fact that because I did it alone meant that this year’s 6th graders didn’t get the experience. I tried to capture the experience in video<\/a> but it pales in comparison to them doing it all themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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