Grades are in, with only one missing paper that hopefully they’ll get to me before their Incomplete turns into an F. Everyone else managed to get their work in and do a decent job with it, but many of my students are clearly still struggling. It’s a good thing I only have two small classes, […]
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and it’s too late to order one to arrive in time, and you only have an hour, but you whip up something that looks moderately okay from a distance.
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We have HMO BCBS, and we went to our regular Walgreens first, and they told us oh no, they don’t offer the COVID booster for HMOs, the HMOs contract with CVS, and they sent us away. Then Kevin got on the website / phone with BCBS (note that he HATES talking on the phone to
I ran into a colleague a while back, who hadn’t seen me in person in a few years due to pandemic, so we caught up for a while, and one thing she said was that I seemed just the same. I keep thinking about that, because people, I am NOT just the same, post-pandemic. I
Well. I sent my students an e-mail this morning letting them know we were pivoting to online today, because I don’t have the PCR results back, and I don’t want to risk this cold actually being COVID and my bringing it into our (fairly small and close quarters) classroom. That is all well and good.
I’m thinking a lot about social interactions these days. When we switched to shelter-in-place, they mostly went away. As we got used to using Zoom, we added some socializing back in, and that was a lifeline during the pandemic. But there are two big issues that I, personally, have with Zoom and other online interactions:
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The U of I system just sent out a note that they’re requiring everyone on campus be vaccinated and boosted; decisions about masking will be made by each campus individually, and we don’t have word on that yet. We’ll be discussing appropriate mitigations for OPRF at the next D200 high school board meeting in a
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My head is not doing well with this stupid cold (coughing, sneezing, stuffy head, the works); I could take DayQuil and power through, or try to teach on Zoom to be less communicable, at least, but I have not actually cancelled a class yet this semester, and I’m going to set a good example of
Board meeting done, 6 – 9:30. Oof. It would be easier to have these be shorter if there wasn’t so much important material to go through….ah well. Two important items from today’s meeting — and I am speaking just for myself here, not for the board: 1) We are currently staying the course on COVID
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PSA: If you’re a student, or the parent of the student, or a mentor to a student, maybe check in on how they’re doing keeping up with their work. Both Kevin and I are seeing more missing work from students this semester than we’ve ever seen before (in 30 and 25 years of teaching, respectively).
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