Roles and Responsibilities
Newsletter
In this newsletter we explore our roles and responsibilities when teaching and leading in these new times.
We might be rethinking our role since moving online with our instruction. Are we teachers and leaders? Or thought-partners and tech support? A little grace is helpful.
Larry Ferlazzo offers seven strategies for teaching remotely in this short video for Education Week.
Keeping instruction simple is wise online, but it doesn’t mean reducing the complexity or authenticity. For example, consider teaching poetry using Regie Routman’s series from Scholastic and this post by Aeriale N. Johnson (h/t Mary).
Last month I read The New School Rules by Anthony Kim and Alexis Gonzalez-Black (education), Scythe by Neal Shusterman (YA), and A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (fiction). This month I started Walden by Henry David Thoreau (the annotated version for us common folk) and I plan to finish the Jackaby series by William Ritter.
How do we facilitate assessment from a distance? I offer some challenges and possibilities in this article.
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