Colleagues, I hope you had a good holiday break and wish you a healthy and happy new year. During the recess, we have reached out to the Superintendent to inquire about the District's plan for resuming instruction and to urge her to communicate to teachers about the details. This morning, we reiterated to the District our recommendation that we pivot to remote instruction for at least the first week of January. Instead of bothering to respond, the Superintendent sent a communication to staff this afternoon to announce that we will be returning in-person - an email that is woefully lacking any specifics and ignores the perilous environment we’re in.  While the virus is raging as never before, the highly transmissible Omicron variant could turn ill-prepared schools into centers for infection. And, once again, the Rochester City School District has no real or credible plan. Our recommendation to temporarily postpone the resumption of in-person instruction would have given...