People keep asking me how things are going. My honest answer? The things that are good are really fabulous and the things that are bad are really terrible. I have been trying to take a step back and embrace the good, but the bad brings a true sense of loss and mourning. The way our schedule at MCS is set up in order to minimize "unnecessary" contact. One "specials" teacher will spend two weeks with one grade; this week is my second week with first grade, then I will go to second grade next week. (The PE teacher, who is currently with kindergarten, will start his two-week rotation with first grade next week) So, going through the rotation K-6 means that I will next see my first graders at the end of December. I'll let that sink in for a moment. I strongly believe that the best way to improve as an educator |
I had originally thought I needed to let it go.* But now I recognize that I don't have to let it go, but need to embrace the change à la David Bowie. Hopefully this "sabbatical" will provide me with other ways to reach my other students, both those whom I see in person, and those in families who have chosen the remote option. Maybe then I will have a sense of how to provide for my home-school students. | |
I'm back on my filming game, producing videos that can serve all students, regardless of their proximity to 22 Church St. (And some of them will feature, for sure, Dizzy Izzy!)
If you are frustrated, I hope you can find a change in perspective that allows you to find the silver linings. They might need to be polished, and they might not be big, but I really think they're there!
If you are frustrated, I hope you can find a change in perspective that allows you to find the silver linings. They might need to be polished, and they might not be big, but I really think they're there!
And I leave you with this final thought.
(I still haven't watched Frozen, but Kristen Bell has some hysterical videos, and her husband Dax Shepard produces one of my favorite podcasts. There's your wormhole for the day!)
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Allison Litten, the 2019 VFLA TOY, teaches French at the Marion Cross School, a public PreK-6 school in Norwich, Vermont. This is her twenty-third year teaching, and twentieth at Marion Cross.
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