School Reopening Community: Learning Beyond COVID-19

It is emotionally exhausting, professionally isolating and systemically infuriating. In the spring we taught remotely out of an abundance of precaution and then this summer administration changed a virtual consultation model to an in person teaching model. 3 teachers had the entire state. Now I am teaching in person, but we need to be prepared to teach virtually at any moment. My biggest frustration is the expectation that I have to be professionally flexible and understanding, but administrative expectations remain rigid and unfeeling.

It is very different doing this in this setting because the internet is all locked down with the exception of the learning program that the students use. The remote teachers had their computer and images projected on a wall and the students watched the teacher that way and not on their computer screens. It has been a trying time in this setting with even more stress than is normal here.

We're taking a pause from our normal professional development webinars to focus on our mental and physical health. Over the course of the next several weeks we are bringing fitness instructors, social-emotional and mental health leaders, and nutritionists together so we can collectively “workout” and de-stress our bodies and our minds. <br><br>By signing up for a free wellness session and this health and wellness community, you can enter for a chance to win an Apple Watch 6!<br><br>Enter for a chance to win an apple watch 6 here: https://sharemylesson.com/wellness-2020<br><br>Join the Health and Wellness Community here: https://sharemylesson.com/community/groups/health-and-wellness-communit… you'll come workout with us! :)<br>- Kelly Booz, Director of AFT's Share My Lesson

This same technology works great for distance learning. I would appreciate your thoughts, questions and comments.<br><br>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/respect-every-math-student-supporting-pe… a great year!

My school is grades 6-8. We are currently in a yellow zone so our students can not come to school. The teachers and other staff must go to school and teach virtually. I am in my 31at year of teaching. I have NEVER felt so hausted at the end of the day like I do now. Ugh. I just hope our students are learning and not having a horrible experience.

During this time of DL I have found it disgraceful the way teachers are being portrayed.