What's on Mrs. Morgan's Mind?

                                                      Once a school district has decided to implement a learning continuity plan for their distance education program, there are many things to consider.  I looked closely at three things: developing teachers, assessing learners, and choosing a course management system.   Developing teachers According to Martin (n.d.), training and development are essential for teachers providing online instruction. Teachers need to have access to training, resources, and learning materials. One Alabama school district realized that in order to teach virtual students the teachers needed virtual professional development. So the Instructional Technology Department was tasked with creating a self-paced learning platform for their teachers on Google Classroom. They created one for elementary teachers and one for ...

                                                                                      March 18, 2020, the state of Alabama closed all schools in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. The seriousness of the situation could be felt all around the world and here in Alabama. Principals, university and college deans, and teachers were scrambling to figure out what to do about instruction. Parents were scrambling to figure out what to do about childcare and work responsibilities. They predicted that the schools would reopen on April 6, 2020. As we all know, that didn’t happen. Instead, spring break became the end of the 2019- 2020 school year. As we reflect, we realized that there were lessons learned, knowledge gained, and families devastated. There were recognizable elements in ...

     A school's Continuous Improvement plan is essential to help the school move forward and meet the needs of the students and teachers.  Developing a successful ACIP(Alabama Continuous improvement Plan) relies on many factors. The process can't begin until the school leaders examine how the students are performing academically.  This school year made it more difficult due to the pandemic. Leaders had to consider that the students had an extended school break that began in March and ended when school resumed again in August . The pandemic became a high priority consideration for school leaders as they began formulating a vision for the ACIP.  According to Sheninger (2019), "Leaders must articulate a clear vision that, if we are to change, we must be willing to shed some strong embedded ideals, opinions, and behaviors that have shaped schools for over a century" (p. 33). Our ACIP Development  My principal began by examining the previous year's ACIP to ...