Late 2020, North Royalton was transitioning to a hybrid schedule from remote learning.  Hybrid was handled almost as poorly as was possible.   Students from the first half of the alphabet came in on Tuesday and Thursday.  The other half of the alphabet came in Wednesday and Friday.  It was never clear what was supposed to happen on Mondays.  It wasn’t remote learning, so I’d post instructional videos or other work for them to handle.

The trick was that any student could choose to remain fully remote, and they remained part of the class.

Each class was actually an in-person class and a remote class, simultaneously.   If it isn’t obvious, how one teaches a remote class is significantly different than how one teaches an in-person class.

This was my classroom cockpit.  A Chromebook logged into Zoom, to monitor remote questions.  A laptop to run the Zoom class and another laptop run the in-person class. 

Administration took the line that a remote class could be run with one Chromebook pointed at the chalkboard.  They should be ashamed of themselves.