Thread by @tmprowell

🧵 I did 10 parent teacher conferences yesterday where my kids have an A in the class & I had nothing to discuss. I used the time to tell #TeacherTwitter a few things:
👉I know you risked your own health & life, & your family’s, to come to work in a #pandemic. #ThankYou

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👉I know you spent 1.5 yrs teaching our kids virtually, navigating unfamiliar technology, staring at a little dot on your monitor instead of a class full of kids, not knowing if the kids with cameras off were there, wondering about the ones who never connect. #ThankYou

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👉I know you are now trying to teach students this year’s content, but also content that was learned & forgotten during the #pandemic…or never learned at all. And that, as you do this, your schools, & in turn you, will be held accountable for how your students are performing. /3

And that someone will be up upset with you, because instead of comparing how your students are performing WITH you to how they would be performing WITHOUT you, they are comparing how they perform now to how they performed before a #pandemic. #ThankYou #TeacherTwitter

Finally, I told each teacher 3 things that my kids & I have appreciated about them. I told them that for every student & kid who thanks them, there are countless more who are #Thankful for them. And to please keep showing up because they’re everything. /End

#HappyThanksgiving