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Summer School Classroom

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Summer School Classroom

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I went back to teaching in person today. I have about 7-14 kids per class, their exits into the hallway were staggered by classroom, they were all spaced safely apart, and meals weren’t offered in the school but were bagged up and sent home. We can do this with 50 kids but trying to imagine what this would mean in the fall when we hope to welcome back nearly 850 students into our building is frightening. I hated teaching with a mask on because the kids couldn’t read my face and it changed the tone of the room. I truly teared up as I pulled into the parking lot this morning and saw kids walking to school - I’ve missed them SO MUCH!!! I don’t know what the answers are in terms of reopening schools. What I do know is that teachers don’t want to be teaching from their living rooms but if it means keeping the students we love so much and the colleagues we adore safe....then we’ll do it. We’ll move mountains to keep up with our kiddos. We didn’t get into this profession for the fame and fortune, we got into this because we truly love what we do.

I wasn't placed in my normal classroom today. Instead I was put in the art room which had chairs for 15 students but no desks. There were many hand sanitizer stations around the schools and are halls are all 'one way only.' The students wear masks while riding the bus but immediately take them off upon arrival and they are washed and given back at the end of the school day. I've used more hand sanitizer in the last 24 hours than I have in a long time. It also has me rethinking class copies of work.
#Covidteaches, Idaho, #LSMS, teachers, students, PPE, school, reopening

Date (Dublin Core)

July 6, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Morgan Keena

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Morgan Keena

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

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Picture

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--K12
English Emotion
English Health & Wellness
English Social Distance

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teacher
student
PPE
summer school
reopening
Idaho

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#Covidteachers
Idaho
#LSMS
teacher
student
PPE
school
reopening

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K-12

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HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

07/07/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/24/2020
09/29/2020
08/02/2022
10/08/2024

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Covid 19
Arizona State University

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A paper heart that is taped to the inside of a front door that says: Wash UR HANDS PLS"I prefer my Corona in a bottle." Link Image

This item was submitted on July 7, 2020 by Morgan Keena using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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