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By Daniel Rose

It’s a typical Monday morning in November with two minutes until my first period Language Arts class. I take a moment to look around my classroom, turning away from the glowing computer screen that has become the precarious one-way bridge to my eighth-grade readers and writers. 

These days the desks are vacant, hallways empty, and sure, it’s easy to feel lonely right now, unappreciated, tired. Sometimes I wish I could hit the “Escape” key and be done with this tidal wave called Pandemic and the mess it has left in its wake. But none of this is about me; my students are all that matter.

It is my job to motivate and mold them, to keep them engaged, to build reading and writing confidence in all who enter my virtual classroom. I will have time, eventually, to process all of this. Until then, no matter how hard, I must carry on.

I stare into the eye of the webcam and take a deep breath. Time to begin.

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Dan Rose lives in Oswego, NY, where he continues to teach and write with the support of his wife and three children. He has published numerous articles for magazines like Eureka Street, Teachers and Writers, and for NCTE's Voices from the Middle. Recently, Dan had his first book published with Dr. Christine Walsh: Talking Through Reading and Writing: Online Reading Conversation Journals in the Middle School.

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Daniel Rose
Daniel Rose
Dan Rose lives in Oswego, NY, where he continues to teach and write with the support of his wife and three children. He has published numerous articles for magazines like Eureka Street, Teachers and Writers, and for NCTE's Voices from the Middle. Recently, Dan had his first book published with Dr. Christine Walsh: Talking Through Reading and Writing: Online Reading Conversation Journals in the Middle School.

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