I'll admit that my blogging has been lacking lately. Covid hit in the Spring and my email and now office has become a revolving door. I went from meeting with teams during PLC time and helping them create digital lessons to attending EVERY virtual PLC in the spring from 8AM to 4:40PM and creating content for students after that. I spent a lot of hours away from my family trying to make virtual learning equitable and engaging for students, as I know many of you did as well. This has not been easy on teachers, digital learning coaches, librarians, admin, and countless others!
Some of the largest hurdles we've faced since Covid hit is really how to make collaboration happen in a virtual environment. When kids aren't engaged, they have their cameras and microphones off and don't participate. How can we change that to ensure our virtual learners are getting the same quality education as our F2F learners? (We've been F2F, or at least had it as an option, since August here in Texas). With my teachers, we've taken the blended learning, station rotation model, and converted it to work in a zoom world in breakout rooms, we've taken review material and created even more digital escape rooms, and we've made voice and choice a priority for every lesson. We've also really dug into personalized learning for each individual student and incorporated more digital badging. I've also made it a priority to not push new technology or programs with my teachers, which goes against a lot of what I've done in the past. My goal this year was to simply build capacity with the tools we're currently using: MasteryConnect, Canvas, Nearpod, Kami, and Genially. Take a look at some of the activities below. Reach out if you would like a copy of anything! Virtual Station Rotation ExamplesDigital Escape RoomsChoice Boards
This one is still a work in progress but I wanted to share what we had so far!
Personalized Learning with Digital Badging
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