Dear families,

 

I’m wondering if you can relate to the experience of leading a meeting in Zoom, but struggling to get a response from your co-workers? Or alternately, attending a meeting in Zoom, but not quite able to get into the conversation? The effects of the Zoom wall significantly affect our abilities to communicate and work in this work-from-home world.

 

And this is true for school-at-home as well. But our amazing teachers are using some fantastic tools that help them break through the Zoom wall and cultivate meaningful conversations and learning environments for our students.

 

Our teachers use Jamboard for silent conversations that make space for each student to add their thinking via post-it notes and annotation.

 

 

 

And they use Jamboard to help students collaborate on problems and share their thinking with one another.

 

 

 

Through these tools, and many others, our LREI teachers are reaching through the Zoom screen and finding ways to re-create the learning communities that are intrinsic aspects of our in-person work.