![]() ![]() We want them to achieve for so many reasons. Many teachers are juggling being full-time teachers and full-time parents while working from home. ![]() We want to give ourselves grace, but we still have observations, evaluations, standardized testing, not to mention a home life. We say, “Give yourselves some grace.” Allow yourself the time to learn the curriculum, to learn your students, to learn a new way of teaching however, the messaging is sometimes lost in the delivery. When it gets to the teachers, at times they feel overwhelmed and inadequate. You know the benefits and the results that will come from it, but you’re afraid of falling or, in our case, failing. It is rewarding to be a part of the planning process however, it can sometimes be like learning to ride a bike. ![]() This has been both rewarding and challenging. We have the same curriculum, the same students, the same issues, but we have now added online learning as the cherry on top.Īs a Literacy Coach, I work for the Central Office and coach teachers. Many educators and students are becoming burned out with the expectations that we must do everything virtually the way we do in a classroom. Grace is a powerful concept, if you really take the time to imagine it. It can be interchanged with giving someone: a chance, time, the ability to make mistakes without punishment, and forgiveness. To me, grace is both a noun and a verb-a feeling and an action. As we journey on, I want to define what giving ourselves and our students grace really means. The statements “Give yourself some grace.”, “We’re in this together.”, and “These unprecedented times.” became the mantras of this season. Leaning on our administrators, curriculum producers, leaders, and coworkers to help us on our way. When we first began, we were as babes learning to walk, unsure of our steps, yet moving forward. The “new normal” is no longer so new, and it has been almost a year since most of us embarked on this journey of online learning. With every year, a feeling of newness comes that causes us to be both reflective of our past and hopeful for our future. Adjusting to the Not So "New Normal" with Grace in 2021 ![]()
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