She Let Them Pick Paper Topics-Half Chose COVID-19.

GLO:NYO/13apr20:36n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl THE FIRST week she taught online, Samantha Elkaim planned a lesson on misinformation: Her students collected coronavirus material from social media and analyzed its trustworthiness and accuracy. Elkaim's mother taught kindergarten and first grade for years; Elkaim spent five years as a middle-school teacher before moving to high school last fall. Elkaim felt lucky that her school permitted teachers to do their training from home, and she and her colleagues reassured one another that they just needed to make it through two and a half more weeks of classes-then they'd have spring break to do real lesson planning and get ahead. At Elkaim's school, 84 percent of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. [Extracted from the article]