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Collected Item: “13,000 School Districts, 13,000 Approaches to Teaching During Covid”

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13,000 School Districts, 13,000 Approaches to Teaching During Covid

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Article

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As a teacher, I miss our old normal. I miss my students. I miss the connections. The numbers where I live are pretty high and we have not been inside a classroom since March of last year. The kids are not doing well. No amount of scaffolding would be enough right now. My English Language learners are struggling and most have just stopped coming. Parents are frustrated (understandably), and it is evident in their desperate e-mails to me. I am failing them all but I keep pushing and adapting for them.
I am so homesick for these kids. Seeing how other schools are dealing with Covid-19 definitely makes me sad. Apart of me wants to go back so badly that I would risk getting sick. The other part of me knows that I have children of my own and asthma. I need to be here for my own family.

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#ASU, #HST580, Education, Schools, Pandemic, Public Schools, Remote Learning,

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/schools-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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New York Times: Kate Taylor

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2021-01-21
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