Word of Lakers Online is starting to spread. Any interested residents of Oakland County should be sure to get their application in by Aug. 3.

We hope you'll join us tonight at 7pm via Zoom for a Lakers Online Q&A Session. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions to learn more about our 100% online instruction option for the 2020-21 school year. Visit wbsd.org/lakersoline for meeting info.

This story illustrates so much of what must be reimagined in our schools. We must stop incarcerating Black youth—and we must stop making children bear the consequences of systemic failures to support their learning and well-being. propublica.org/article/a-teen…

8 Ideas Designed to Engage Students In Active Learning Online catlintucker.com/2020/07/8-idea… via Dr. Catlin Tucker

School Admin across the US are having to make incredibly difficult and complicated decisions. Decisions that will inevitably make at least 50% of their staff/students/families upset. The emotional toll of being an administrator is unbelievable, show some love to an admin today.

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First Day of school for so many. Please, Please, Be Relentlessly Kind to Teachers and Administrators This Week. EDUCATORS: WE SEE YOU. WE CAN DO HARD THINGS!!!!

Tried out Gimkit as a fun reentry to class after break. We started with trivia just to test out the features & students had a blast! Can’t wait to use it as fun way to practice vocab with some friendly competition. Thanks Ajay Bedi for telling me about it! #C2CinWB #LOMS2020

Zoom breakout rooms are a great way to run book club meetings in class. Groups take discussion notes on their own slide in a shared class slide deck so I can follow the highlights of their conversations from the main room and pop in as needed. #C2CinWB #LOMS2020

Student voice & choice: Every few weeks in English I offer a “Choose Your Own Adventure” day where students choose a reading or writing activity that they want to do for their asynch time. They share what they chose to do & reflect on what they accomplished. #LOMS2020 #C2CinWB

Today Ss met w/their new book clubs & collaborated on creating a reading schedule. Before we went off to breakout rooms Ss reflected on what makes successful breakout room collaboration & set a personal goal. When we came back, they reflected on how it went. #LOMS2020 #c2cinwb

Here are my two favorite co-workers. That other one is pretty useless. Always sleeping on the job! #c2cinwb #LOMS2020

Wow. Rest well, Miss Cleary.

Remember when Ramona threw out her dad's cigarettes and replaced them with rolled-up messages about the dangers of smoking? Surely I'm not the only reader who thought that was brilliant and tried the same thing back in the 1970s? (My dad, like Ramona's, was not amused.)

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Banned Books Week doesn’t mean you’re supposed to ban books. I have always sought to understand the world by reading books that offer different perspectives from my own. Our students deserve that same opportunity. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…

Our house is a very very very fine house.

Love my twins 💕

Quotes heard in room N128 today as we launched our poetry unit. Students sifted through different groupings of poems and noted their observations in an attempt to answer the question, “What is poetry?”

8th grade ELA students reading RAP books Erin Wynn #senseofself #RAPreading wbloomfieldschl⚓️ @WBMSAPGraff It's a great day to read a book!