# @edutopia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CNdM4ElF9Ax
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20303868-edutopia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-04-09T19:04:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Edutopia (@edutopia) — https://gondola.cc/edutopia

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For teachers around the world, it’s been a yearlong crash course in remote teaching. Yet in spite of a difficult and exhausting experience, there have been valuable takeaways, including new digital tools that delivered flexibility in unexpected ways, says middle and high school teacher Samantha Pack.⁣
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Here are the practices Pack says she plans to keep in her brick-and-mortar classroom moving forward:⁣
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🧠  Rethink the daily agenda: Instead of writing a static daily agenda, Pack found a digital agenda with “each day’s lesson outline, relevant hyperlinks, the rationale for each activity, and homework,” encouraged self-paced learning. Teach kids how to access and use the agenda daily to help build their executive function and time management skills, she writes. ⁣
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💬  Recreate the chat: “We have learned how to use the Zoom chat to engage and hear from quieter students, assess understanding, solicit quick feedback, and check in one-on-one,” Pack shares. She recommends trying tools like Mentimeter or Google Docs to make it routine for kids to engage nonverbally with the material and their classmates.⁣
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⛅  Plan mindful breaks: “Remote learning has made breaks nonnegotiable,” according to Pack, who suggests offering both preplanned and flexible breaks for students. Set some norms and “assign accountability tasks to complete before and after a break,” to create structure during the free time, she says.⁣
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🎤  Solicit feedback: Pack says she’ll continue gathering feedback from students on their workload, pacing, and overall wellbeing—a common practice she and others adopted during online learning. “What better way to send the message that we value students’ agency in our classrooms than by asking them how it’s going regardless of the learning context,” she writes. ⁣
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