School Reopening Community: Learning Beyond COVID-19

My school is in-person but I am high risk so I am at home. I am teaching my in-person students with a substitute teaching in the classroom. At the same time I am teaching my distance learners. We are a very small district so there is only one class of TK students. Over most of the school about 1/3 of the students are distance learning but in my class only one stayed on distance learning.

Does anyone in this community also work in a correctional system? How are you doing during with the Virtual transition? What are your challenges?

As a school librarian, I do not have all the work and responsibility of the classroom teachers, especially teaching the students all day in a virtual setting where there can be so many distractions for all of the babies. I think both the classroom teachers are doing an excellent job given the circumstances. <br><br>We are using Schoology as our learning management system and will continue to use it once we are back face-to-face. Because I work in two elementary schools. IT administrators are still working out how to give me and all the other school librarians in the district, permissions for both my schools. Schoology is where we are putting all our resources for each of the grades and where classroom teachers are putting all their resources for their classes, including links to their virtual classroom meeting sessions. All communication to students and parents is supposed to go through Schoology, but because not all parents are using it, many staff in the district are still using ClassDojo to communicate.<br><br>For the most part, I go into each class's virtual classroom for "library" visits doing read alouds, digital literacy skills, and helping students in grades 2-5 to access e-books from a variety of different resources. I am also working with classroom teachers to help students do research for projects they are working on.

We are all doing what needs to get done with smiles on our faces. But we all are missing the kids in the classrooms.

Kudos Education People!

Anyone have some smashing ideas??

We have a small percentage of students that have chosen virtual, but I am teaching in-person all week. The challenge is when we lose students to health and safety measures due to COVID, so we have to be ready for virtual teaching when a pod is out to quarantine.

It is scary and also a lot more work but it's nice to have kids in the rooms again. We started with our Special Education students first and then opened it up to regular education students. We are just waiting for the first Covid-19 outbreak to hit our campus. Our high school already have one confirmed case of an athlete. I am communicating with my students using Teams and that in itself is a challenge. Students need to turn on their cameras and speak on their microphones and that is so difficult.