Meeting the Challenges of Change
Meeting the Challenges of Change At the beginning of March, few of us even knew what Zoom was. Since then, we've been Zooming and have experienced Zoom Bombing and Zoom fatigue. This rapid change reminds me loosely of my third year of teaching when we made the shift from a 7-period schedule to a block schedule. As early adopters of the block and absent any professional development, we were overwhelmed and quickly discovered that simply combining 2 days of lesson plans into one did not work. Even though I felt I was better prepared than many, I remember feeling exhausted, confused and even inadequate after the first week of block scheduling. We all did. Lunch time conversations went something like this, Remind me again why we made this change? I told you this block scheduling thing was stupid. This is horrible. I feel so bad for the students having to sit through this experiment. Yeah, this is the...