I hope this lesson planning for remote teaching into the night stops soon, and that I can get into some groove. I usually will work straight through at school to finish, but we get kicked out at 3:10 nowadays, so I& #39;m thrown off my prep & plan game (alongside everything else).

Also, planning math for a bridge class (4th/5th) remotely is so much work, even after teaching 4th/5th for the past 5 years. I& #39;m working with a remote teacher who doesn& #39;t know the math curriculum like I do so I have to make the materials even more prepped than usual.

Trying to make useful virtual/visual scaffolds, especially with place value, is a lot as well. It& #39;s going to be a lot of small group & one-on-one teaching of students this year in math. (Today I spent an hour and a half helping students figure out submitting assignments.)

But yeah, remote teaching and putting all the materials online in a presentable way and spending much of your first days just troubleshooting special education compliance and devices and Internet, it& #39;s so much. (on top of working w/ bad school WiFi and fire alarms at school...)

It& #39;s impossible to do all this remote live instruction and troubleshooting & parent contact & remote planning work without working days and nights. I took a break this afternoon, but these teaching days are definitely, with the commute, 11-hour days.

And I& #39;m a lazy teacher?

I have an IEP meeting this week! Thursday! We& #39;ve been teaching academics for TWO DAYS and hardly know these kids! I have EIGHT IEPs due by end of October! And all these program adaptations documents and parent calls to go

ON TOP OF FIGHTING FOR SAFE SCHOOLS

And I& #39;m still planning for tomorrow. I expect these late nights for a while, trying to hold it together cuz me freaking out in-person at school will make my classroom even more unsafe if kids come in-person next week (esp w/o school staffing, supplies, ventilation, funding https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😡" title="Schmollendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Schmollendes Gesicht">)

Oh and it& #39;s so hard to plan at school because the WiFi and outdated school technology are terrible, we& #39;re scared of getting/spreading #COVID19 in-person, I feel like I& #39;m shouting across my mask, and I& #39;d be so much more productive with my better computer and better WiFi at home https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😡" title="Schmollendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Schmollendes Gesicht">

AND THIS TODAY (which was on @wnbcdesk and @nypost today!) https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤦🏻" title="Person facepalming (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Person facepalming (heller Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤦🏻" title="Person facepalming (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Person facepalming (heller Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤦🏻" title="Person facepalming (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Person facepalming (heller Hautton)"> https://twitter.com/AnnieTangent/status/1308399356811390979?s=19">https://twitter.com/AnnieTang...