Teaching - Trying to figure it out in a new world.
I've never been as grateful for this image on my morning run as I was after the news was released that Michigan will not be re-opening the schools this academic year. As a parent, it's going to be rough. I have an only child so her whole social world will, and has been me, for the last 3 weeks already. Add in we just moved back to the US so a lot of her friends are still overseas makes this a bit harder. As a teacher, knowing my students are home and not sure how they're doing, except the ones who email me back, that is just as difficult. Not knowing how to provide the right instruction to help them stay as successful as they've been this year is going to be difficult but we'll manage. How do I know we'll manage? We're teachers. We walk into a classroom every day not knowing if our kids have eaten, slept much less gotten any work done. We don't know who is getting abused at home or struggling to get electricity or internet s...