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    ALL COURSES – UPDATE APRIL 27

    Weekly check-in (“attendance”) – reminder to reply via email by Thursday, attendance will be entered into MyEd at the end of each week.

    All courses – your next due dates for what is listed below is May 4 (soft deadline)/May 8 (hard deadline); this set up regarding deadlines is meant to provide you with flexibility […]

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    From Twitter:

    “I don’t want to be anywhere near you!” @oscarthegrouch is discovering the perks of social distancing. “This social distancing thing is kind of a grouch's dream.” #CNNSesameStreet https://t.co/XTrBRtkCGu pic.twitter.com/3Z9iMhNQQi

    — CNN (@CNN) April 25, 2020

    ALL COURSES/UPDATE APRIL 20

    All Courses:

    Reminder to check your emails regularly (please make sure that the school has your correct email in the MyEd system) and to reply to teachers’ regular check-ins as soon as you can (reasonably this should be within a day or so of receiving the teacher communication) as this will be considered a way […]

    ALL COURSES

    To clarify instructions on how to submit – when you check-in on TEAMS, all you need to do is post the link to your Digital Portfolio in the specific assignment that is dated; when I click onto your portfolio I should see your ongoing observations. Please do your best to have things up-to-date; your first […]

    UPDATE APRIL 14

    All Students – please remember that your assignment for me right now is an ongoing record of your observations; so take note of things or questions that arise on a weekly basis.

    Also, all your teachers will be checking in (think “attendance”) with you also on a weekly basis so it is important for you […]

    ALL COURSES

    All Courses: here is a sample set of records/observations from my own personal running around today – it is simply recorded in point form and stream-of-consciousness type format but you may choose to be more elaborate if you wish ( some of you have already uploaded/submitted some great stuff already!):

     

    APRIL 11 Entry

    Allergies […]

    UPDATE – ALL COURSES APRIL 9

    Students will also be receiving communications though Microsoft TEAMS “classes” that have been set up for GEO12, PEPS12, SS10M, LEAD10, & SS8M as per VSB & school admin directives; remember that MOODLE has been set up with specific course resources that will assist students in their respective courses.

    Upcoming course schedule date(s):

    April 20 – […]

    UPDATE: IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO STUDENTS/PARENTS

    APRIL 8 – MESSAGE to STUDENTS/PARENTS

    ALL COURSES: Please read …

    All students: Please read the following piece by writer/teacher George Saunders and his letter to his students that was published in The New Yorker today about the importance of your observations as part of this generation’s record of the times … (you may include an optional response to this in your digital portfolio if you […]

    UPDATE

    I hope this finds everyone as well as can be under these unprecedented circumstances.

    There is no doubt that we are all witnessing historic events unfold before us, so the number one priority is the health and well-being of you and those around you.

    With that in mind, this is also an opportune time to […]