I hope this lesson planning for remote teaching into the night stops soon, and that I can get into some groove. I usually will work straight through at school to finish, but we get kicked out at 3:10 nowadays, so I'm thrown off my prep & plan game (alongside everything else).

Also, planning math for a bridge class (4th/5th) remotely is so much work, even after teaching 4th/5th for the past 5 years. I'm working with a remote teacher who doesn't know the math curriculum like I do so I have to make the materials even more prepped than usual.

Trying to make useful virtual/visual scaffolds, especially with place value, is a lot as well. It's going to be a lot of small group & one-on-one teaching of students this year in math. (Today I spent an hour and a half helping students figure out submitting assignments.)

But yeah, remote teaching and putting all the materials online in a presentable way and spending much of your first days just troubleshooting special education compliance and devices and Internet, it's so much. (on top of working w/ bad school WiFi and fire alarms at school...)

It's impossible to do all this remote live instruction and troubleshooting & parent contact & remote planning work without working days and nights. I took a break this afternoon, but these teaching days are definitely, with the commute, 11-hour days.

And I'm a lazy teacher?

I have an IEP meeting this week! Thursday! We've been teaching academics for TWO DAYS and hardly know these kids! I have EIGHT IEPs due by end of October! And all these program adaptations documents and parent calls to go

ON TOP OF FIGHTING FOR SAFE SCHOOLS

And I'm still planning for tomorrow. I expect these late nights for a while, trying to hold it together cuz me freaking out in-person at school will make my classroom even more unsafe if kids come in-person next week (esp w/o school staffing, supplies, ventilation, funding )

Oh and it's so hard to plan at school because the WiFi and outdated school technology are terrible, we're scared of getting/spreading #COVID19 in-person, I feel like I'm shouting across my mask, and I'd be so much more productive with my better computer and better WiFi at home

AND THIS TODAY (which was on @wnbcdesk and @nypost today!) https://twitter.com/AnnieTangent/status/1308399356811390979?s=19