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Day 5: Packing Up to Work From Home #WFH

This is my stack of materials I am bringing home from my classroom. I am cautiously optimistic that I will be able to engage with the following while I am at home facilitating remote teaching and learning.

The stack includes:

 Climate Change and Questions of Justice curriculum published by the Choices Program at Brown University. This is at the top of the list because I am team teaching a Global Environmental Science class with a science colleague and this curriculum is the structure for our class.

NEASC Self Reflection Guide for Accreditation - our school just started this process last month and I am the chairperson of our steering committee. For those who don't know what NEASC is, it is the New England Association of Schools and Colleges - aka - the school accreditation organization.

Back copies of Social Education published by the National Council for Social Studies. There are excellent lesson plan ideas that I want to read and think about. In the midst of all of our national and global chaos, the United States is supposed to begin the 2020 Census April 1st. I am considering including this as part of my American Studies course at some point. 

1619 published by the New York Times back in August. This has been on my desk since August and I want to finish reading it as it directly pertains to my American Studies class.

There are a number of other things in the stack too. I am really good at 'stacking up' a big read/to do pile. This happens every summer break, every school vacation and I rarely make a dent in it.  However, this isn't summer break or school vacation so we'll see what happens. I am optimistic and look forward to learning so much through this new structure of school.

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