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Why I'm LOVING portfolios in my fully remote classroom

 I meant to blog in August but, you know, school started and all of that! We are starting fully remote.  I could not have been prepared for how different, awkward, and exhausting online learning would be. The energy during class is extremely different than when you're in a classroom, which makes my portfolios that much more needed.  Some background: 1:1 with chromebooks this year 6 periods this semester Periods 1-3 M/W from 9-12 Periods 4-6 T/Th from 9-12 The afternoons are for asynchronous work time, teacher office hours, small group intervention, and extra AP blocks.  Fridays we have advisory, an all school meeting, and will have time for clubs to meet. Daily Plan: Each morning I post a "Daily Links" google doc (thanks to my twitter friends for this idea!). The students open it before class. This helps us bypass the "no live links in the chat on chromebooks" issue 🙄 We start the class with a warm up problem that I screen share. The students respond in the ch