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schoolmarie@gmail.com
I work in St Maarten in the Caribbean

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MARGA HS ONLINE make us work 12 or more hours a day

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Challenge: Dealing with uncertainty of when schools will start, feeling stuck with my current company and having bad communication, and dealing with Unemployment. Success: Still working on it...but glad that summer school with special needs students have started and I was working part time throughout the pandemic 

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Challenge: Dealing with uncertainty of when schools will start, feeling stuck with my current company and having bad communication, and dealing with Unemployment. Success: Still working on it...but glad that summer school with special needs students have started and I was working part time throughout the pandemic 

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Support my students online and give them hope and love during this pandemic.Hope !!My students leaves innNYC

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Challenge, creating equity in access for our students.
Success, unity within our staff and school community to the amazing extent we did!

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Having to cancel a Design Thinking Summit that was going to bring 49 teams of cross-function stakeholders to breakthrough around increasing and retaining teachers of color in MN.
Pivoted to "Strengthening the teaching profession" to listen to the community/educators. Got to experience self-care in a deep way.

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Challenge: not seeing my student's faces.
Success: increased Daimoku helped me manifest wisdom to respond to my student's needs in creative ways.

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Challenge and success was to connect with students via technology. Gave and found support in community of teachers. Negotiated respectful dialogue about racism.

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Challenge: my eyes are sore from too much Zoom class.
Success: Gained confedence in navigating a variety of Apps for teaching.

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Success: I become more organized and was able to read 6 novels in 68 days, take several webinars to offer support to my staff of teachers. Having Zoom meetings with other SGI districts in the Caribbean region. We created tighter bonds as a result.
Challenge: Getting to connect with students who needed help

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Challenge: To having meaningful virtual conversations on a Social-Emotional connection with my Preschoolers.
Success: The look on their faces when I made home visitations for their graduation. We definitely connected virtually!

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One challenge - so many moves! In location, jobs, countries! Not sure where to begin sometimes.
One Success - my necessary job search allowed me to look outside the box and find a new position

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Challenge: Keeping students engaged in the content without being able to be physically in their space.

Success: Continued positive relationship with scholars and their families.

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One challenge: not being able to see my students in person, and wondering/worrying about all that I couldn't see about how they were really doing day to day.

One success: Still seeing my students grow and have fun in our Zoom classes & one-on-one sessions!

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Remote learning was a big challenge for me as well as for my students. Several got sick or had family members who became ill.
I measured success by how consistently I was able to reach out to students in their times of distress and ease their worries, and at the same time lead them to overcome their challenges, personal and academic.

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Challenge: I've been going to school and doing everything to support my teachers. However, I've been neglecting the challenges of supporting my own children with distance learning at home.

Success: Getting my district  (with many older members) connected with Zoom! :)

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Challenge: Practically, student work submission is uneven and parent technical literacy is all over the place.  It's been shocking to see the discrepancy between where I think we thought we all were with technology compared to where we actually found ourselves societally.

Success: The ability to see my students remotely via Zoom and translate our in-person classroom culture to the remote setting.  Supporting social skills with cues and prompts, verbal sentence stems, and other means of facilitating peer to peer engagement.

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Challenge-Not getting all of the students to connect to the virtual lessons.
Success-Being part of a fabulous school district that developed social emotional and educational opportunities for students and their families.

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Challenge: getting technology to all our families, and making sure they know how to connect to ZOOM for online learning.
Success:  Ability to facilitate intervention groups and continue online learning/teaching for our students at risk.

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Challenge - I was techno-phobic during the pandemic
Success - I learned Google extentsion Pear Deck and now I LOVE technology!!

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challenge; lost confidence in my skills b/c no longer face to face
success; realized it was wisdom, years of experience and not the exact program,  and bottom line connecting w my
students heart to heart

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Challenge - I am doing my best to connect with as many students as possible.
Success - I was able to visit one of our 4th grade students and help encourage him to attend virtual summer school.

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One challenge: Not to get discouraged or overwhelmed!

One success: I was able to get every student/family connected to Google Classroom & our Zoom calls!

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One challenge: social isolation
One success: I was able to get 90% of my students computers and internet access

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Q: "During this pandemic school closing, describe one challenge and one success?"