MURRAY Will schools ever get back to normal? Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the first school district in Utah taking kids out of the classrooms over COVID-19 concerns, and officials from that district are still uncertain of what the future holds.
All it took for the Murray School District to go into a soft closure was one student who may have been near someone infected with COVID-19. They didn t actually have any sick children.
District spokesman Doug Perry says, We, at the time, didn t know a whole lot about COVID-19. There were still a lot of people who didn t know anything about that.
Five things COVID-19 has changed about education in Utah
The pandemic has “really, truly acted as the catalyst” to transform education, one educator says.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Self-portraits of students wearing masks hang on a wall at Crescent Elementary in Sandy on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. As Utah school districts struggled to make the most of the pandemic school year, they’ve come away some innovations that are expected to stay long after the coronavirus has subsided. | Updated: 5:23 p.m.
But the pain hasn’t entirely been for naught. As Utah school districts struggled to make the most of the past school year, they’ve come away with knowledge and innovations. Projects that had been bandied around for years, or even decades, suddenly coalesced. New ideas took root.
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Profile Theatre presents Miriam Schwartz, Jennifer Lanier and Blake Stone in The Mineola Twins
Paula Vogel’s “
The Mineola Twins”
Profile Theatre will present the first in a series of five planned livestream performances for 2021. This production was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paula Vogel and directed by Josh Hecht. The comedic play centers on a pair of twins who use mistaken identity to explore culture wars from the 1950s to the 1990s. Themes include women’s sexual freedom, and the fight for reproductive rights. One twin is “good” the other “evil.” One actor plays both parts and sometimes switches between them in the same scene. This is Profile Theatre’s first stab at producing a play featuring real-time performances during the pandemic.
February 17, 2021
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra Spotlight Series will put a percussion section.
“Spotlight: Drumroll, Please – Music for Percussion” was filmed at Hartford Stage and will be available on-demand Feb. 19-March 14.
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The percussion section of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra will be the subject of Spotlight: Drumroll, Please – Music for Percussion’ starting Feb. 19.
Each month, the HSO will premiere a 60-minute performance by HSO ensembles and guests recorded at venues in and around Hartford, and available on-demand for a limited time.
“Spotlight: Drumroll, Please – Music for Percussion” will feature Paul Lansky’s “Threads,” Evan Chapman’s “Cassiopeia,” Alan Hovhaness’”October Mountain,” Joe Tompkins’ “Blue Burn” and Glenn Kotche’s “Stones Flow.”