Notes

Hey y’all. Times are weird, amirite? I’m getting lots of questions about Distance Learning Plans, so I want to share my current understanding of the situation. Please note that these are my thoughts and you know damn well that I’m not an attorney. I’m the first one to tell you to go talk to a lawyer… 
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Trust can be a big, floofy term- like “ethics” or “justice.” I find myself invoking Trust-with-a-capital-T without always thinking about what I really mean. I was forty-something years old and in graduate school before I really started to think about this word that I’ve used my whole life. Yikes.   I tend to like Brene Brown’s… 
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The U.S. Department of Education funds an entire network of technical assistance centers (TACs) all over the country. It’s not so much “flashing blue screen” or “turn it off and on again” type technical help. The programs and folks at TACs are already paid to provide expertise, support, and resources to educational agencies (usually states… 
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Thinking back to spring 2020: were schools “closed”?  Or did school buildings close and face-to-face education was suspended? Did kids transition from public school to “homeschool”? Does all public school happen in a building? Was it distance learning? Was it homebound learning? Was it unschooling?  Maybe your school district announced schools were closed. Then maybe… 
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❌   I am *not* an attorney. Under no circumstances should my online content, sassypants comments, or nerdy thoughts be taken as legal advice. Yikes. Don’t do that. I am not qualified. If you and I are working together and I think you need an attorney, I will tell you.    ✅  As a not-attorney, let… 
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