Teacher Town Hall #6 Back to School Stories and Recording of #5: Building a Support Community

Hello Teachers, how is everyone doing?

Sorry for the lack of updates. After our last town hall I got exceedingly busy and didn’t have the bandwidth to send an update and set up the next meeting.  I felt that pushing it back 1 week would be good to have a little break and to allow more teachers to get into school so you can share your first week stories.  Plus we have a Hurricane to deal with.
 

Town Hall #6: Sharing Opening Stories & Learn

Some teachers have been in class for 2 weeks with students in class or online while others are starting next week.  This meeting will focus on lessons learned in the first days back and what we can do to alleviate day 1 stress by learning from each other.

 

Wednesday September 2nd

3PM Pacific, 4 Mountain, 5 Central, 6 Eastern
Ask for a certificate of participation.

Two Ways to Sign Up 

Google Form
https://forms.gle/wGC4jyE3ctqe4Rg7A
Eventbrite Ticket
 

Sharing Best Practices in one Living Document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e6LHGAxy5Jxw_bHCJQgAURG3ooIvExueayK5KflVcgo/edit?usp=sharing
This document contains dozens of tidbits of helpful ideas shared by you.  If you have an idea, please contribute your success stories!
 

Town Hall #5 Recording

Our fifth meeting was again inspirational as we discussed more opening concerns and what & how we would like to start a cause/movement.  Here is a link to that meeting for you to be inspired by.

https://youtu.be/VT0JqByShCM
During this hour and half meeting we talk about building community and starting a new cause, cooking for front line workers, first responders and working with community kitchens to conquer food insecurity. 

Watch the previous meetings!
Meeting 1: You are not an island
https://youtu.be/_-zFhO3WE3Y
 
Meeting 2: Building your plans
https://youtu.be/cXLoxfc-1Vs
 
Meeting 3: Mimicking The Magic with social emotional development
https://youtu.be/BeTRLwAPRFM

Teacher Round Table #4: Going Back to School Planning
https://youtu.be/B6pL7OqnluE

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