We in Southeastern PA are getting pretty excited about the snow that is forecasted to fall between 5 p.m. tonight and 8 a.m. tomorrow morning. Yes, I know the the time frame, the average projected inches (six), and the potential that the storm will move quickly through the corridor between Philadelphia and New York (likely), dropping less snow than it has already dumped on our neighbors to the south. At least, I know what AccuWeather Online, Weather.com and several other sites are forecasting. Ten years into a career in education, I also know when to trust a feeling about snow days and late-arrivals. I just seem to know about snow. As I promised my FB network this morning, "Trust me. I'm a teacher."
However, today was a little different from any other pre-snow-day I can recall in the buildings around our district, because today I heard several conversations about how LEARNING will take place if school is cancelled tomorrow.
One teacher described the groan from her students when she said the assessment will take place on her Moodle site tomorrow, rain or shine ("Rain, sleet, hail, snow man").
Another teacher made plans to send an Edmodo update to her students in the morning, complete with instructions for completing a reading assignment.
"You can take 20 minutes away from hot chocolate and Facebook to learn something," said another teacher.
The teachers who are using the Internet are not worried about losing an instructional day tomorrow.
Are you?
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