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Any questions teachers have about reopening safely should be directed to school leaders for official guidance. If you can't get answers about a particular practice, then don't plan to teach that way until you get those answers. Protect yourself & your students.

Every individual teacher cannot make up their own health/safety precautions, particularly since some teachers will take none at all. This is not a time for teacher ingenuity and crowdsourcing and just making it work somehow. The wrong decisions can have devastating consequences.

Having kids stay seated and avoid working together is obviously NOT best practice in normal situations. But this is a liability issue. If you don’t have written guidelines for how to do those things safely, it’s not worth the risk, in my opinion.

I know teachers used to just "figuring it out." But if there's no health/safety protocol for class libraries, manipulatives, lab equipment, cooperative learning, etc., I'd say...don't plan that stuff for the first 2 weeks of school. Wait until you get official answers in writing.

This may be an unpopular opinion about safety procedures for reopening schools. I am willing to be told I’m wrong about this. However, people’s lives are on the line and your job might be, too, so I’m going to share my thoughts.

Working together, "mask up", and we'll get through this. And the "next" normal.

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Join @suptdrmccormick as she discusses the IN-CLASS health and safety considerations for Indiana schools. The @EducateIN webinar will be held Tuesday, beginning at 10 a.m. (EDT). The webinar will be available here: doe.in.gov/covid-19/idoe%…

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Symptoms of depression are suddenly much more common than usual. All need to be taken seriously. I wrote about how mental-health professionals are navigating that in a system that can't even address all the need in normal times. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

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