Submitted by: Tom

In our last meeting of the year we started with the quick checking. What did and didn’t work during lockdown. Aside from some tech issues and the difficulty keeping students focused in online environments most of us felt that the term had gone better than anticipated. Student showed up and with a few exceptions did the work. The rest of meeting focused on the challenges for next year. The middle school was concerned about the impact of having no trips would have on their curriculum. How can they do experiential learning online? How much will have to change? The middle school was also asked to review the syllabus and to write down every unit they plan to teach. They weren’t sure if they were meant to be reevaluating each unit or just recording what they taught. That lead to a larger conversation on how to deliver Progressive education online. What were the resources we could use? Where their existing models? We talked about putting together a list of useful sources. We also discussed the challenge of onboarding classes that we had not met face-to-face. All of this was connected to the discussion of whether we would be in the building or out and What kind of schedule we would be teaching.