Thursday, March 26, 2020

My Day

Read 90 minutes this morning in The Knowledge Gap.

Reviewed latest something-to-do-while-stuck-at-home-ebooks that Cindy placed on SORA after yesterday's SLS meeting. She did a great job; drawing, crafting, fashion, sewing, LEGOs, duct-taping projects!

Participated in principal's 1:30 Skype meeting. Thought that the 3rd Quarter grading proposal aligned pretty well with what some colleges are proposing: continuing to establish course benchmarks, whether establishing grades or not.

Listened and contributed during the 2:00 SLS Zoom meeting. Some concerns over the security safeguards with FlipGrid which we discussed yesterday. Introduced to "Translation of Practice for School Librarians;" a rubric prepared by the NYC School Library System that offers side-by-side In School Practices and Remote Practices for librarians. It is a very timely document; nice to see we are hitting many of the practices already. Also we updated about an SLS Google Classroom (more good exposure for me) where we can locate and share resources during this interval. I was also interested in one possible initiative by a colleague to offer a STEM or Maker challenge to students...might be something there.

Preparing an update on SORA access and other news to email to students, probably over the weekend
as they crest their full week of challenges.

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