Item
Board Meeting & Thank You Cards
Title (Dublin Core)
Board Meeting & Thank You Cards
Description (Dublin Core)
2 nights. 8 hours. 2 school board meetings. Wow. Nampa School district decided early in August to push their start date back to 8/24/2020 to allow for extra planning time and to start the year entirely online. Included with this decision was the responsibility for the board to reevaluate this every two weeks. Well, this week we hit that mark. There have been many rumblings regarding what was to come in the decision. The biggest community push seems to come from parents who want their students involved in athletics. As of last Friday, 8/28/2020, one of our local hospitals was reporting 17/18 bed occupancy in their ICU unit due to Covid. The situation in Idaho is not stellar. Tongiht, at our board meeting, 2 trustees fought and fought for schools to reopen and athletics to continue. However, our superintendent held strong. She continually cited information from the health experts in our area. She noted the tremendous work our teachers are doing. At one point, early in the meeting she said, "teachers are working twice.....three times as hard as usual. They are working harder than they have ever worked before and we need to acknowledge that." - Dr. Paula Kellerer, Nampa School District. WOW. I am submitting this item to the archive to write Dr. Kellerer's name down in history. She is a champion for teachers, all students, and the well-being of our community. In a time where the teaching profession is under attack and districts are fielding those hateful Facebook comments...Dr. Kellerer stands strong. She advocates. She's thoughtful. She listens. I recognize how tremendously fortunate I am to work in a school district with such tremendous leadership. So, tonight, I wrote thank you cards. I know I could easily email Dr. Kellerer and other trustees but there's something about a thank you card that has extra 'umph'. Dr. Kellerer, we see you - we appreciate you - and we thank you for being an advocate for education for all.
Date (Dublin Core)
September 2, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
Morgan Keena
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Morgan Keena
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Community & Community Organizations
English
Education--K12
English
Conflict
English
Social Distance
English
Sports
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
teacher
student
superintendent
school sports
online learning
ICU
health experts
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
K-12
teacher
superintendent
board meeting
reopening
hybrid
champion
Collection (Dublin Core)
K-12
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
09/02/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
09/08/2020
08/02/2022
09/24/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
09/02/2020
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This item was submitted on September 2, 2020 by Morgan Keena using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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