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Major Negotiations

Cut-and-pasted from a local mom group: “This week the US House and Senate will be in major negotiations about the next phase of COVID relief, and stuff on the table includes funding for school COVID safety expenses, continuing the unemployment insurance expansion (currently due to expire 7/31), increasing food assistance, and expanding some tax credits […]

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Going Remote

I just wanted to note for Americans that even if your school / university is currently telling you that it plans to be somewhat in-person in the fall, I think it EXTREMELY LIKELY that they will go to full remote either before school starts, or partway through the semester, once a classroom outbreak occurs. I’ve

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Thoughts from an Instructional Designer

So grateful my instructional designer friend Amanda Chablani took the time to write this guidance up for those of us looking at fall semester — parents, teachers, students: ****** “I’m an Instructional Designer in my professional life and a parent to two kids in D97 (one rising K, one rising 4th). I was asked by Carollina Song

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On Reopening Schools

Parents are in ongoing discussions here about whether our schools should re-open in the fall. (Current estimated cost for reopening D97 is $11.5 million. If schools don’t try to re-open, and we redirect even some of that money towards supplemental childcare through the Park District, addressing tech inequities for kids in need, and hiring additional

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Let Me Be, Brain

I slept really badly last night, because apparently my brain had decided that I needed to plan out the first week of classes, so I kept waking from half-dreams where I was sketching out mini-lectures to cover classroom logistics, thinking about whether to do them both as video and transcripts (yes, probably). Also wondering whether

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