Teaching in Times of Covid

Meet Sueling Chen, principal at Arborland Montessori private school in Orange County. She is an educator, business woman and the driving force behind a Montessori school, educating the very young to young teens.

Hear the family story that inspired her to look for the right private school for her own children.

Meet Debra Ward. She is an educator, teaching preschool teachers how to teach, Director of the Cerritos College Child Development Center and a member of Governor Newsome's Early Education Advisory Board sub-committee, doing research for future early childhood education policies. She is dedicated to the children, parents and community she serves. Hear her tribute to her parents who instilled a love of education for their family.

Meet Sam and Alison. Both of these educators are elementary teachers who work for the same school district, but at different locations and in different elementary grades. They will tell us how the pandemic school closure affected them as teachers, parents and as a family. This is truly a household where teaching and learning is always a fact of life. Busy doesn't begin to explain all that gets done in a week.

Meet Christie, the Head District Nurse for a school district in Madera County. She has had to be part nurse, part social worker, and serve as a representative for the Department of Health and the CDC, to the district and to parents.  Listen to a story about a personal move that impacted her family.

Meet Kevin, a teacher of Painting Arts at a city college in Fresno. Listen as Kevin tells us about his long career in various arts professions. His experiences helped him to pivot to teaching Painting Arts on line during the Covid-19 pandemic. How do you teach painting on line? Take notice of Kevin's painting of his empty school studio.

View the video of a students mural project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQCFys_SB84&t=0s

Meet Dustin Sober. Dustin teaches world history at a local high school in Orange County. In addition, he coaches football, track and other sports at his high school.  Learn how Dustin manages the many challenges balancing the virtual classroom, the athletes he trains, home life and more, during a school lock down. As always, Dustin has his student's concerns and welfare foremost in mind.

Meet Janine Jacobs. Janine is the Director of Children's Services at a local library in Orange County. She will tell us about her journey to become a librarian and her many interactions with the community at large, and in particular, with the schools in her district. During the Covid shutdown, there were many challenges to keeping children engaged and reading. Janine will share the creative ways that she and her staff created the "new tech" children's library in her town.

A retired Theater Arts teacher returns to an on-line classroom during the Pandemic.