About a week ago, I wrote about wanting (and needing) to focus on my reading life because for some reason I haven’t been able to read for extended periods of time, much less finish anything that I start. I committed to reading for a total of one hour every day. Although I haven’t timed myself,… Read more

For the last post in this three-part series about online teaching, I want to deviate from sharing another list of takeaways and instead take a moment to write about some big picture moments. What do I mean by big picture moments? Well, big picture moments are those moments when I felt almost normal. When it… Read more

In this blog post I list four more takeaways of teaching online. See yesterday for part #1. (1) Continue to use Padlet for well, just about anything you can think of! In addition to using Google Docs, Slides, Forms and other Google products, I’ve created Padlets for a variety of tasks and purposes. The most… Read more

This is the first of three posts. As this school year winds down, I’ve started thinking about what I’ve learned from teaching online that I can transfer back into an in person space. Some of you may be thinking it’s too early to be doing that. After all it’s only the end of March. But… Read more

Spring Break has started! I’m overjoyed! I will sleep in. I’ll spend time with my husband and son. I’ll FaceTime my daughters and granddaughters during the day. I’ll catch up on housework. I’ll read and, hopefully, finish a few books. I’ll have more time to write. I will take some time to think about the… Read more

(Overheard in every online class everywhere.) “You were glitching, Sra. Waingort. What did you say?” “Turn on your cameras, please.” “You’re muted, Sra. Waingort.” “I got kicked out of the Meet. What are we doing?” “Sorry, I’m late. I was looking at the wrong day on the schedule.” “My camera doesn’t work.” “I can’t get… Read more

Today was one of those rare days when I heard the voices of two students in our Google Meet without having to call on them to speak. This is such an infrequent occurrence that I was disconcerted at first. “Where did that voice come from?” I asked myself. I scanned the frames on the Google… Read more

Today was a hard teaching day. Because teaching can be hard on so many days. But when I feel like I’ve done everything I can think of, and more, to address the needs of my students and then I hit a wall with caregivers, it is even harder. So, today was a hard day. Did… Read more

I thought spring had arrived. But on the day after the official start of spring, it is snowing A lot. All of the snow that had melted over the last few days is now back. Pristine. White. Cold. The warmer temperatures had been a tease. Nothing more. It happens every year. And every year I… Read more

On any given Sunday afternoon, you will find me lamenting the start of a new week. On any given Sunday afternoon, you will find me wondering what happened to all of the things I wanted to get done. On any given Sunday afternoon, my most dreaded time of the week, you will find me wishing… Read more