In March of 2020, upon returning from Texas with teachers and writers, the PD session created with Greenwich High School had to be canceled. Like everyone in schools around the world, a plan of action had to be sidelined as suddenly teachers and students were scrambling for online, at-home learning. Obviously, there was not an issue for me and CWP. We adapt and ride the waves of schools. We listen.
Now, a year and a half later, history teacher Elisabeth Muller of Fairfield Warde-High School, get to visit Greenwich High School's history department to share best practices in teaching writing in history classrooms, and showcase a project she created for her own students - one that one the Fairfield University Library Prize for outstanding graduate research.
She's teaching all morning, and I'm teaching all night, but we found a compromise in the afternoon. Prayers up to The Great Whatever that traffic is on our side. Lord knows that getting to and from Greenwich can be a Connecticut nightmare (I'm recalling the 2.5 hours it took kids from Ubuntu Academy and I to get to the school one morning several years ago - and we planned for heavy traffic). We're hoping for an easy flow on the way there, knowing it will be a nightmare on the way home. How can it not be? As long as I can make my 7:15 class, I'll be okay.
I'm just excited to be with adults in their learning environment to showcase what others have been able to accomplish. I'm so used to deejaying professional communities with online tools, so it will be great to experience in-school PD once again. Gosh, might I be a little nervous?
Ah, but then, I'm full force, NCTE-Louisville ahead! But, it will be online. Needless to say, "We got this!"
And we're off!
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