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Oklahoma School Reopening Requires Teachers to Be Creative with Their Precautions

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Oklahoma School Reopening Requires Teachers to Be Creative with Their Precautions

Description (Dublin Core)

With the reopening of Oklahoma schools, teachers are doing their best to create preventive measures in their classrooms. Dibble, Oklahoma third grade teacher Ms. McDaniel was inspired by online plans for creating class dividers out of PVC pipe and transparent shower curtains. The dividers allow the students to interact with one another, see the classroom board, and see the teacher without being able to breathe directing on other students. Oklahoma schools have not instituted a regulation for masks or other protective measures and only have offered recommendations. This has left individual school districts to provide their own rules. In this particular school some students wear mask, some do not, and others have opted for virtual learning. These desk dividers become a way for teachers to have structural PPE where individual PPE may not exist. Ms. McDaniel made five large cross section dividers that can protect up to twenty children. Ms. McDaniel researched, purchased, and fabricated all of these on her own. Her ingenuity is an example of how rural schools and rural teachers have had to be more creative with their methods of precaution.

Submitted for the #ruralvoices collection. Contributed by Clinton P. Roberts, curatorial intern for Arizona State University, HST 580.
* #ruralvoices, Oklahoma, school, reopening, PPE, dividers, mask, elementary, education, #covidteaches

Date (Dublin Core)

August 9, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Clinton P. Roberts
Kelly McDaniel

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Clinton P. Roberts

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text Story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Rural
English Education--K12
English Government State
English Art & Design
English Social Distance

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teacher

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Oklahoma
school
reopening
PPE
#K12
#ruralvoices
dividers
elementary
education
mask

Collection (Dublin Core)

Rural Voices
K-12

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/16/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/16/2020
10/21/2020
08/02/2022
09/24/2024

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Covid 19
Arizona State University

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This item was submitted on August 16, 2020 by Clinton P. Roberts 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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