Not that anyone asked me (on here), but my advice to teachers re tomorrow: don't overthink your lesson plan; just make sure your lesson plan is about this moment & makes space for your students' questions & concerns.

By "overthink" I mean tomorrow is probably not the day to plan a text/video/activity-heavy lesson to try to make sense of this moment; but you should think about the Qs your students might have, how you'll create space for them to ask & discuss them, & how you'll respond.

If it were me, I would plan a very simple opening writing task: What do you know about what happened yesterday? What questions do you have? Following that, we'd discuss & process & keep a running list of questions for further inquiry. Nothing fancy here.

Hayley sent out a nice example of making space in a way — in my experience of teaching kids in the midst of chaotically unfolding events — that makes a lot of good sense. https://twitter.com/HayleyVatch/status/1346921555842879490?s=20

Just want to lift up Tricia's second question here. When I ask Ss to write what they know, it sometimes inevitably morphs into "what I thought I knew," & it is super important to have a shame-free plan/approach for addressing misinformation. https://twitter.com/triciaebarvia/status/1346969002426380294?s=20

Sorry for quote tweeting myself, but I want this to be in the main thread b/c it's important — and my original comments were not clear enough on educators' duty to think, learn, & teach the truth. https://twitter.com/LadyOfSardines/status/1346967668964814855?s=20