Preparing For a New Kind of Teaching
I have never had such a productive spring/summer. What made this one different? I found myself at home. My job as "Mom's Taxi Service" was closed. We didn't go anywhere. The heaviness of the pandemic and the racism running through our culture weighed on my heart. My answer to that heaviness was to dig in and get something done. I tried to greet the challenges as "opportunities" and look at them with a "what if" mentality. Eternal optimist here chose to think about “what we could learn from this” rather than dwell on what we lost or what we are missing out on. "What if" we can make something better out of this situation? "What if" I can use this to grow something I never would have imagined before? "What if" I can learn something about myself/my students/my community through this? I spent a significant amount of time looking at new tools and looking at features new to me on tools that I was already using. I prep...