Colleagues, Thank you to the more than 1600 RTA members who joined today’s Telephone Town Hall. As promised during my update, I want to offer some clarification about questions and concerns raised by the emails from the District concerning expectations from teachers in the Continuity of Instruction effort.  The entire content and tone of the emails to you from Superintendent Dade and Deputy Superintendent Lynda Quick, per our discussions with them, was predicated on our shared trust for teachers and confidence in teachers’ professional judgement. That’s what agreed to with the Superintendent prior to these communications being sent. Some principals and chiefs, however, are apparently interpreting the content and tone of these communications differently. They are micromanaging teachers, distrusting teachers, asking for evidence, making excessive demands and taxing teachers’ time and energy with unreasonable and unnecessary “requests.”  Some are even implying that they can evaluate you...