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   Cindy Breen on April 9, 2020 at 2:09 pm

   I caught part of your conversation with Christine Caine this morning while I was waiting for my students to get on Zoom. Then just listened to your good day/bad day and both have left me feeling so much better about myself and my struggle with REMOTE LEARNING!!! I teach 3rd grade, in a Title 1 school (over 70% are on free/reduced lunch) and I am the oldest teacher on my team of 4. Two of the teachers are younger than my daughters and are very tech savvy, which I am not. So I struggle to get lessons ready and learn all the ins and outs and no one here to help. I hit the wall on Tuesday and cried over not being able to get a reading passage uploaded and feeling like “I should retire, but I can’t because I need the money” melt down. I did find out today it was with the program, and not me. Whew. I’m sure there will be more melt downs to come, but it was reassuring to hear you say that it’s ok.
   On Monday, for our Zoom staff meeting, our principal had Hamish Brewer, a motivational speaker/principal of an inner city school join us as he’s written a book “Relentless”, and that’s been our school theme this year. He said something that really stuck with me “keep it simple and authentic” so on the top of my daily to do list I write “keep it simple.” I can’t do all the fancy remote learning that the young teachers put out there, but I can do what I can and get my students what they need for the days learning.
   Thank you for being authentic.
   Cindy