It’s that time of the year again: Dust off backpacks, fill up pencil cases and lace up those shiny new shoes, because local students are heading back to school, starting this week.
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Jason Hodgson, director of professional development at the Panama-Buena Vista Unified School District in Bakersfield, Calif.Nick Agro for Education Week
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When the coronavirus pandemic forced schools across the country to close last spring, many district leaders were gripped with anxiety because their teachers weren’t ready to pivot to remote learning.
But not Panama-Buena Vista Union, a K-8 district of about 18,000 students in Bakersfield, Calif., in the Central Valley, about 155 miles north of Los Angeles.
And not Jason Hodgson, the school system’s director of professional development, who had spent the last two years laying the groundwork for that moment even though he didn’t know it at the time.
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Nigel Pickup from Prescot, the youngest victim of the Ibrox disaster in 1971, with his dad Joey (Image: Derek Pickup)
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