Harwood Union Staff Blog 2022-23 : Harwood Middle School Staff Blog

Message to Teachers:

Thank you for everything you are doing to connect with and support your students and their families during this unprecedented time. As we enter the final weeks of school and look toward the next school year, your continued feedback is important to help inform the progress of our Continuity of Learning Plan (CLP).

To collect your feedback, below is a link to a CLP Teacher Survey. The HUUSD Administrative Team is hoping everyone will complete this survey by Friday, May 15.

Also below is a link to a summary of the feedback collected from the first survey that was sent to teachers, parents and students back in March during our maintenance of learning phase. The results of the March surveys were used to inform our current Continuity of Learning Plan.

Thank you,

CLP Teacher Survey

March Survey Summary

Informaton regarding family challenges, and concerns
https://dcf.vermont.gov/sites/dcf/files/CVD19/COVID19-VT-Guidance-For-Teachers.pdf

Important HUMS links:

Information	Link
Middle School REMOTE TA SlideShow Link -	HUME REMOTE slide show
Middle School Weekly Virtual Meetings/Support times	HUMS Virtual Support Times/Support
HUUSD - middle school Daily Remote Teaching Log Make a copy!!	Daily Remote Teaching Log
HUMS Meeting Notes HUB HUMS Core Team Leader, HUMS Applied Academics, HUMS Core team	HUMS Meeting HUB
Attendance Information Attendance Daily Data sheet	Attendance Information Attendance Daily Data Sheet

Better Ways of Starting Online Conversations - if you need some help!

In this Quartz article, Elizabeth Weingarten says that in the early days of the pandemic, she would ask friends and colleagues, “How are you doing right now?” It was an assumption-free way of showing she cared, but people began to respond in predictable ways: I’m hanging in there… I’ve got it better than those heroic first responders…“When we keep asking the same question,” says Weingarten, “or no question at all, we lose out on a chance for deeper connections with our conversation partners, who also happen to be the people we care most about. We are tricked into believing we know how they’re feeling or what they’re thinking, when we haven’t even scratched the surface.” Here’s a selection of her suggested alternatives:

- How are you taking care of yourself today?

- What’s the best thing that happened to you today?

- What’s the most generous act you’ve seen recently?

- What’s giving you hope right now?

- What’s a story – from a book, movie, article, conversation – that you’ve been gripped by recently? Why did it capture you?

- What habit have you started, or broken, during the quarantine?

- Which specific place in your neighborhood are you most looking forward to visiting when this is all over?

- What are some things you’ve realized you don’t really need?

- What’s something you miss that surprises you? What’s something you don’t miss that surprises you?

- What’s the latest thing you experienced that made you laugh, or cry?

- How do you want this experience to change you? How do you think it will?

- What do you hope we all learn or take away from this experience?

“20 Questions to Ask Instead of ‘How Are You Doing Right Now?’” by Elizabeth Weingarten in Quartz, April 10, 2020, https://bit.ly/2YzXpmu

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