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Dear 菠菜网lol正规平台 Community,

I am writing to thank you and encourage you into the days ahead. For many of you, the start of this school year has felt like one challenge after another. While no one wanted this school year to begin the way that it did, we are so thankful to all who are working so hard to make sure our teachers and students are connected and beginning the process of teaching and learning. 

I have had the pleasure of visiting schools since the opening of the school year, and here’s what I’ve seen in classrooms and on Zoom sessions:

• Classroom warm-ups that engage students and teachers in authentic sharing of life experience and bringing those experiences into the classroom space.
• Exchanges of smiles and laughter between teachers and students, releasing some of the tension of interacting at a distance.
• Creative use of Canvas, classroom homepages that illustrate acceptance and inclusion, streams of information that focus on accessibility for all students, and positive interaction with families through the communication tools. 

Now that we are a month into the school year, even with these early successes, we recognize that our teachers and students need some additional support. Teachers at each school in the Long Beach Unified School District will participate in two days of professional development during the month of October that will allow us to improve our online instruction on behalf of students. During those days, students will not experience direct instruction using Zoom in a large group setting but will continue with asynchronous (non-teacher directed) learning activities. Your child’s school principal will be sending you separate communication with the specific dates in the next few days.

Thank you again for your incredible efforts to ensure that all of our 菠菜网lol正规平台 students are learning, even at a distance.

With appreciation,

Jill

Jill Baker, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools