Parents have done their best to fill in as teachers, trying to guide children through remote learning.
But who was guiding the teachers? And what will work best as they leave their Zoom room for a classroom? We knew we had to try to do something different for when the fall came, when we knew we would be teaching remotely, said Michelle Touceda, a South Gate High School English teacher.
Touceda and Mia Young, two LAUSD English teachers who had never met before attending an online high school training seminar, came up with a solution. They decided they would create a Facebook group called Distance Learning Educators. They knew the seminar would end, but wanted the collaboration of teachers to continue.