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Thursday, September 30, 2021

A Safe Return To School in 2021

As September comes to a close educators should make time and look back at the start of the 2021-22 school year. How are students doing? Are lesson plans going smoothly? What adjustments should be made before the winter holidays begin to break-up the educational flow of the year? It has been a unique start to a school year and hopefully educators are doing their best to ensure an excellent education experience after the challenges of the past year.

Best Practices: Clean & Protect

Sanitation has been the mantra since the onset of the pandemic. From hand sanitizer being made available, upgrades to aging HVAC systems, personal protective equipment like face masks, gloves, and shields, schools and districts have made it their priority to implement best practices to provide a safe learning environment.

Breakthrough: Vaccines

It is imperative that the development of COVID vaccines be acknowledged as the pivot point in the pandemic. Development continues now, and will continue in the future, as it is in the nature of the virus to mutate into different variants, and the scientific community must maintain pace in order to prevent further deadly outbreaks.

Be in the Know: Testing

This is one test we can all get behind. It is the only way to know with great certainty if an individual is infected with COVID. Results from testing help to alert those who may have been exposed to be observant for possible symptom development. Schools should be leaders in testing for COVID for the safety and security of all. Here's to hoping that every test may be a negative one.

Winter Surge: Be Sure

As people take steps to protect themselves from COVID, overconfidence and complacency could become norm. This would be a dangerous setback to all the work that has been achieved specially as winter arrives and people begin to socialize during the holidays and try to make up for time lost to last year's lockdowns. Cold, Flu, COVID, which is it? Symptoms are very similar for all three so it is best to be sure which it is.

Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Reflecting on 2018

"Reflecting on 2018 - A guide on how to reflect and look back at the year that has passed".

As 2018 comes to an end educators and students should take the time to review and assess what has been achieved this year. There is much that has taken place over the past 12 months and all has had an impact in our day to day education. Every year begins with hope and a vision of a brighter future. Every year ends with longing and nostalgia, in some cases even a bit of regret, over the decisions made and events that shaped the year that was.

As it is true of education, doing an overall assessment can be quite an overwhelming task to take on even when it is a self-assessment. It is always good to have a partner to help through this process: a colleague, a friend or classmate, parents and relatives can be of great help and provide assistance and feedback.

Begin by making a list of all the events that you remember and/or were a part of, for example:

1) Students in the classroom.
2) Teams and Clubs.
3) After-School Activities.
4) Sporting Events.
5) Art, Movies, Music, Television shows.
6) Society, Politics, and Government.
7) An "In Memoriam" to those who passed on.
8) Challenges not met.
9) Accomplishments Achieved.

then proceed to give each a rating or value of your choice:

- Stars and check marks.
- Impact in our life.
- Significance of the event.

and finally, reflect on how you have grown over the year.

Doing this, not only to end the year but on a regular basis, can help with grow and development in addition to helping with emotional understanding on how each of us was shaped and molded by the year that was 2018.

Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

September 2017

School is back in session again following the Labor Day holiday.

The first full month of education brings with it Back to School Night, Hispanic Heritage Month, CAASPP Results, and a pause to honor, remember, and give our respects on September 11.

By now: Classrooms should be arranged, Teachers should have established their daily rituals, and Students should be settling into their day to day routine. In addition, there is much learning that has been going on too in these first few days we have been together.

It is also a good time for teachers and students alike to make sure that everyone is still riding that Back to School wave of positive energy before its momentum fades away as waves tend to do.

There is much work to do, and though school has just started, if we do not establish good practices early on, before we know it it will be fall break, followed by winter break, and then 2018 and then another year will be over.

Let's all together set course towards the same heading and support each other so that we may reach our educational goals and grow a bit along the way.