As a member of Montgomery County Education Association’s negotiating team, Dominique Parker worked with Montgomery County Public School officials to get summer school teachers a $200 a week bonus if they completed the semester.
This was important, the Wootton High School English teacher said, because so many teachers are physically and emotionally burned out after teaching through the pandemic that they didn’t think they could keep teaching through the summer. Because of the pandemic, teachers had to step to beyond their normal responsibilities as classroom responsibilities to learn how best to teach via Zoom, how to engage students virtually and even how to recognize whether a student was actually being engaged...
