The year is nearly half over, but in some respects it seems like it has just barely begun. Educators across the state are frustrated as we try to help our students navigate this virtual reality with results that seem to always fall below our own lofty expectations. Time is a resource that comes at a great cost to all educators who are doing everything they can to help their students. That cost leaks into our personal lives and into our very level of job satisfaction. Keeping our students engaged in the classroom has always been a challenge. There are so

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I am writing this on my first day back to school, so “happy back to school everyone!” By the time you read this, most of you will have been back for some time now. What the word “back” means is probably different based on what district you are working in. As I write this, Cuyahoga County is still in the “red” and many of the schools there are operating remotely. My district is in Lake County, which was most recently downgraded to “yellow.” We are starting the year in our classroom, but 2,400 of our students have chosen to go

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Greetings to everyone in NEOEA; I hope this newsletter finds you healthy and well. COVID-19 has impacted many of us in so many ways. I have had opportunities to see many of you in virtual meetings, but I do miss going to events where I get to see many of you in person and share stories and a good laugh or two. Lock downs” across the country have deemed most of us as non-essential workers. Well, I don’t believe our parents or our students would agree! I think when this is all over more people than ever will be convinced

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