Round 3: roll a die, place the number in a square. Goal is to get as close to 2000 as possible though multiplication without going over. Wrinkle: two throwaway boxes, so you can opt out of two rolls. 6 rolls total.

The activity:

Round 1: roll a die, place the number in a square. Add the numbers. Goal is to get as close to 800 without going over. 6 rolls total.

Round 2: roll a die, place the number in a square. Subtract the numbers. Goal is to get as close to 200 without going under. 6 rolls total.

I agree and feel like it’s by design too. This came as news to us about a month ago, and it sounded like surprising news to our admin too. Too much fine print, not enough transparency.

Ss can opt out of their e-learning requirement, but we found out that schools aren’t funded for the courses they opt out of. Schools are then allocated a number of e-learning classes the Ts at that site must pick up, leading to fewer classes offered at their schools and higher class sizes 😢

2/2 here’s a link to some publicly available handouts I made if you’re interested in trying some out yourself: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I appreciate your advocacy and am only partway through your book — looking forward to more positive change as the year goes on!

Working through the negative experiences and trying to create as many positive ones as possible is a great way to describe the complex work you speak of. Love that it fuels you to do right by them.

I gave students the autobiography as well as a questionnaire (see below) at the end of the first week, after they experienced a few non-curricular tasks and got a sense of what the classroom structure was.

Build community, dig deeper about who is in your community, then start to grow together.