Virtual Snow Days!

Teachers and students along the I-25 corridor in Colorado celebrated this week for snow days!! Many schools start spring break next week (March 18th), and districts declared snow days based on high levels of snow being predicted. Mid-Thursday many of those districts called a second day, thereby creating an 2-day early spring break. Much rejoicing!!

Oh wait... I work at an online school... no early time off for me and my colleagues.

I'm not one for taking pictures of the snow, but here's a shot out my office window:

This is probably the only thing I can think of that makes me sad about working for a virtual school - no snow days. I work from home 90% of the time anyway, so it doesn't feel different, but my husband has been substitute teaching. The past week and a half he's been at the same school subbing for the same teacher, therefore doing a bit of planning every day. Wednesday night when he arrived home he said that the principal let them know Thursday would probably be a snow day. He was a bit disappointed because this is his first time actually planning and getting ready to teach students (as opposed to just following the teacher's given plan), but he also was excited to be able to sleep in!!

Thursday night, watching TV he would have just continued to watch late into the night, but I said, "I still have to work tomorrow!"

There is an upside though, the Teams chats were blowing up all day. Most everyone is used to being at the site, busy with students, but being at home it's much more quiet, so they needed to get their interactions online. Staff were sharing pictures of their backyards and their own kids playing in the snow at lunch break. It was very lively and fun to see what everyone was up to!