Electronic Teaching Journal

Its really been a challenge teaching electronically. I work as an artist in residence at several schools. At least at Malcolm X ES, in Berkeley, we had met several times in person for our poetry workshops before that dread Friday the 13th when the world as we know it irrevocably changed forever, and it took BUSD a couple of weeks to iron the kinks out with Zoom and Google Meets. By then, some kids had dropped off the radar, and it’s been an effort to get them to join, or come back —even sporadically. But I was also able to go much deeper with the students who needed more help and encouragement. So it’s not all bad.