MIDDLETON–To get ready for her classes each morning, MHS English teacher Kris Cody-Johnson settles into the workspace she’s set up in her basement, pulls up a greenscreen curtain as a backdrop, onto which she will cast a photo of her classroom, and starts a Zoom meeting. This is how she opens the door to her classroom before the bell for class rings this year.
But before she does this, Cody-Johnson spends her morning responding to emails from students and colleagues, grading, and doing prep and planning.
Glacier Creek sixth grade math teacher Amy Imoehl goes to school to start her day in her classroom. “I get my computer on and check my email, which to be honest I usually check at home in the morning before I even get here as well. Depending on what kids were working on in the evening, I sometimes can head something off before they’re waiting too long for me to get into school,” she said.