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