Anyone blames “the State” Someone tries to speak on mute Any first or second year teacher speaks Kevin talks about our Independent Reading Lives -- our own / that of our students (bonus: brags about how many books he reads) Anyone says something awk about diversifying the book room (Bonus: Kevin says something awk about diversifying the book room) Christina / Jenn / Amanda / Danielle rolls their eyes Sunga says anything at all Testing (NJSLAA, AP, SAT, ACT) Kevin talks over someone “Link It” or SGOs Someone’s screen freezes or audio cuts out mid sentence Kevin refers to the whole group as “(the) gang” “Socratic Seminars” (BONUS: “virtual/online socratic seminars”) Surprise visit from an administrator Kevin shares his screen and asks “Can everyone see my screen?” Child interrupts We move on from a topic before it reaches any sort of clear resolution / next steps Kevin talks about drinking “Lollapalooza” Kevin gets flustered (BONUS: Brings up Heritage unnecessarily) Special ed gets left out of something (or it’s revealed that they were left out of something) Kevin suggests something totally impractical or technologically convoluted for remote learning Someone needs to be on mute who isn’t “Grade level meetings/colleagues” Someone makes a ‘general comment’ but is clearly talking about a specific person and their practices/methods Jenn brings up Schoology (Bonus: schoology for the elementary schools comes up even though it has nothing to do with us) Jesse or Dan acts more chill about something than they clearly feel Ann Butler brings up something she’s doing at Monmouth Court Animal visible on screen Celebratory Drink for Jenn's Baby Mary gives a well intentioned but unnecessary suggestion Dan/Jesse and Amanda/Christina/Danielle are at odds on something Conversation about someone’s Zoom background (bonus if it’s a virtual background) Kevin mentions Jenn’s maternity leave, but not Christine’s move “Senior project” Celebratory drink for Jenn’s baby! Trad says something kind of ignorant? (Bonus: Jesse then mocks this in his ‘Trad Voice’) Anyone blames “the State” Someone tries to speak on mute Any first or second year teacher speaks Kevin talks about our Independent Reading Lives -- our own / that of our students (bonus: brags about how many books he reads) Anyone says something awk about diversifying the book room (Bonus: Kevin says something awk about diversifying the book room) Christina / Jenn / Amanda / Danielle rolls their eyes Sunga says anything at all Testing (NJSLAA, AP, SAT, ACT) Kevin talks over someone “Link It” or SGOs Someone’s screen freezes or audio cuts out mid sentence Kevin refers to the whole group as “(the) gang” “Socratic Seminars” (BONUS: “virtual/online socratic seminars”) Surprise visit from an administrator Kevin shares his screen and asks “Can everyone see my screen?” Child interrupts We move on from a topic before it reaches any sort of clear resolution / next steps Kevin talks about drinking “Lollapalooza” Kevin gets flustered (BONUS: Brings up Heritage unnecessarily) Special ed gets left out of something (or it’s revealed that they were left out of something) Kevin suggests something totally impractical or technologically convoluted for remote learning Someone needs to be on mute who isn’t “Grade level meetings/colleagues” Someone makes a ‘general comment’ but is clearly talking about a specific person and their practices/methods Jenn brings up Schoology (Bonus: schoology for the elementary schools comes up even though it has nothing to do with us) Jesse or Dan acts more chill about something than they clearly feel Ann Butler brings up something she’s doing at Monmouth Court Animal visible on screen Celebratory Drink for Jenn's Baby Mary gives a well intentioned but unnecessary suggestion Dan/Jesse and Amanda/Christina/Danielle are at odds on something Conversation about someone’s Zoom background (bonus if it’s a virtual background) Kevin mentions Jenn’s maternity leave, but not Christine’s move “Senior project” Celebratory drink for Jenn’s baby! Trad says something kind of ignorant? (Bonus: Jesse then mocks this in his ‘Trad Voice’)
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
O-Anyone blames “the State”
G-Someone tries to speak on mute
I-Any first or second year teacher speaks
N-Kevin talks about our Independent Reading Lives -- our own / that of our students (bonus: brags about how many books he reads)
O-Anyone says something awk about diversifying the book room (Bonus: Kevin says something awk about diversifying the book room)
N-Christina / Jenn / Amanda / Danielle rolls their eyes
G-Sunga says anything at all
I-Testing (NJSLAA, AP, SAT, ACT)
I-Kevin talks over someone
N-“Link It” or SGOs
I-Someone’s screen freezes or audio cuts out mid sentence
B-Kevin refers to the whole group as “(the) gang”
B-“Socratic Seminars” (BONUS: “virtual/online socratic seminars”)
G-Surprise visit from an administrator
B-Kevin shares his screen and asks “Can everyone see my screen?”
I-Child interrupts
G-We move on from a topic before it reaches any sort of clear resolution / next steps
O-Kevin talks about drinking
O-“Lollapalooza”
G-Kevin gets flustered (BONUS: Brings up Heritage unnecessarily)
B-Special ed gets left out of something (or it’s revealed that they were left out of something)
I-Kevin suggests something totally impractical or technologically convoluted for remote learning
N-Someone needs to be on mute who isn’t
G-“Grade level meetings/colleagues”
B-Someone makes a ‘general comment’ but is clearly talking about a specific person and their practices/methods
O-Jenn brings up Schoology (Bonus: schoology for the elementary schools comes up even though it has nothing to do with us)
N-Jesse or Dan acts more chill about something than they clearly feel
N-Ann Butler brings up something she’s doing at Monmouth Court
B-Animal visible on screen
B-Celebratory Drink for Jenn's Baby
O-Mary gives a well intentioned but unnecessary suggestion
I-Dan/Jesse and Amanda/Christina/Danielle are at odds on something
B-Conversation about someone’s Zoom background (bonus if it’s a virtual background)
I-Kevin mentions Jenn’s maternity leave, but not Christine’s move
N-“Senior project”
G-Celebratory drink for Jenn’s baby!
O-Trad says something kind of ignorant? (Bonus: Jesse then mocks this in his ‘Trad Voice’)