Janet and Kayla
We have begun! And, full steam ahead! So much sound “stuff”, staff. We are charting our path forward, and we will need to monitor our path and adjust our focus and our directions. All of us know that. We must give our time and space to learn how best to teach our students virtually. ISBE recommends that districts strive to provide students with at least 2.5 hours of “synchronous” learning with real time instruction and interaction between students and teachers. We need to break down the meaning of the word “synchronous”. I am taking a broad definition of their recommendation - that is, we need to put on our teacher hats and know that much of what you will be doing with your students - e.g. mini lesson on key concepts along with student interaction around the concept and students applying the main concept independently - all examples of synchronous learning. Let’s not get stressed out and hung up on spending 2.5 hours of our day directly delivering live instruction. Let me bre