Adam’s Update (8.4.20) The District’s hybrid plan is aspirational, vague, unworkable, unrealistic & problematic
Colleagues, As you already know, we have called on the Rochester City School District to postpone any at-school and in-person reopening of schools at least until the end of the first quarter of the 2020-2021 school year. Instead, we should continue remote teaching and...
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PD Seminars for December
There are still six free professional development seminars scheduledfor December in the Rochester Regional Office (starting next week).Please send this email to your members in case any of them areinterested in attending. Here is a link toour...
The Media’s Misrepresentation of RCSD Teacher Absences by Chris Widmaier
Since they used my picture and video from my classroom as an example of the kind of teacher that is exhibiting a high rate of absenteeism (never mind the fact I’ve been absent for the last year and half because I left the Rochester City School District) I feel like I should respond with my own thoughts. I also feel like I should respond because our community needs to just plain stop buying into the lazy RCSD teacher narrative as the reason our school system is the way it is.
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