Like so many teachers in Newark, Joicki Floyd has faced challenges teaching remotely this school year, and one of hers was attendance for virtual classes. When it was about 50 percent, Floyd, who teaches English at Weequahic High School, had a word with those who’d gone MIA by making calls and visiting homes.
“Students need to know — more so now than ever before — that people care,” Floyd said in a story by Chalkbeat Newark’s Patrick Wall. “Once I started knocking on their doors, they were like, ‘Wow, you really care.’ ”
In his profile of Floyd, who is also a Newark Teachers Union building representative, Wall includes appreciative words from her students. Read Wall’s story here.