No Crystal Ball
June 16 finds me not on or planning a vacation. It doesn't find me resting after the fast and furious weeks of the end of school, with all the activities normally attended. Instead, it finds me almost marking the days off to July 10, when our state will release its school reopening plan. Our district has a committee that will meet in late July to plan and prepare for our anticipated Aug. 10 return (students two days later). I'm anxious - literally - to know what that entails. I'm excited and apprehensive to know what this means for my students and for me. For the first time in my teaching career, I bought a planner. I found during our teach-from-home time that I needed some way to make lists of what I wanted to put out on Google Classroom for my students, what I had already created, and what I needed to do. I went through printer papre quickly. A planner will help me be a bit more organized, I think, in not only teaching virtually but also in a traditional classroom. Eith...