Charting a New Course: Supporting Student Engagement within the ELA DLEs
Charting a New Course: Supporting Student Engagement within the ELA DLEs By Victoria Les, St. Clair County RESA; Liz Lietz, Macomb ISD and Mary-Lu Strimbel, Wayne RESA Educators have spent the last school year painstakingly navigating through the storm of pandemic learning. Just as a storm at sea is brought on by the dynamic relationship of the ocean surface, wind, and atmospheric pressure, the 2020-2021 school year created conditions which upset the balance between school safety and educating our students. Teachers and administrators have been in survival mode doing their best to build virtual relationships with students, find access to high-quality texts, and create opportunities for collaboration. As ISD/RESA professionals who support educators, we have been riding this wave of uncertainty and doing our best to be a life-boat during these stormy seas. We fished through our resources to provide professional learning opportunities teachers would find timely, and help teachers chart th