Keeping tabs on student engagement during remote learning isn't easy—especially when kids switch off their cameras. “During a guest lecture on Zoom, several typically engaged students had their cameras turned off,” writes high school teacher Katie Seltzer. One student later quit attending Seltzer’s synchronous class meetings; another stopped turning in assignments. The reason? They didn’t want to be on camera.⁣ ⁣ Rather than force students to be on camera, Seltzer realized, she needed a new way to make sure kids were engaged.⁣ ⁣ Here are the strategies she’s using this year to maintain community and incorporate camera on/off choice for her students: ⁣ ⁣ • Rethink virtual Socratic seminars: Allow the outer circle of your Socratic seminar to turn cameras off, while the inner circle speaks with video and cameras on. Outer-circle students can use the chat feature to “echo powerful comments they heard and ask questions” of their inner-circle classmates. ⁣ ⁣ • Provide choice: Build student a...