Keep your feet planted: How our school is staying grounded during uncertain times

The last week has been a whirlwind of brainstorming, collaborating, and communicating, all in the effort to figure out how to move brick and mortar teachers into an eLearning environment smoothly and to create policies and procedures—that possibly didn’t exist ten days ago—to help support this effort. Some of our teachers have jumped into this world with two feet, excited to try all of the new tech tools they hadn’t had the time to use before, and some of our teachers feel like a duck out of water and eLearning is causing them tons of stress and anxiety at a moment in our world’s history where the excess of either is hardly necessary. When there is a great disruption in our lives and our communities, it is important to have principles that ground us. I have learned recently, there is no amount of policy you can write that will cover all the scenarios a teacher will face. Leadership teams can’t possibly create a perfect schedule or all-encompassing parameters. That doesnâ