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DOVER When Mike Romps kindergarten class of Garrison Elementary School students went to fully remote learning last year, he experienced what he considers one of the greatest challenges in his professional teaching career. I ve been teaching for 20 years, and I felt like a first-year teacher all over again, Romps said. In the beginning we were all just trying to kind of MacGyver it . It was a great deal of work to educate through a screen, and we saw that nothing beats that face-to-face in-person learning.
Romps was one of more than 800 educators and school staff members vaccinated on Friday during a mass vaccination clinic at Dover High School, made possible by a collaborative effort between Dover School District, Dover Fire and Rescue Department and the Strafford County Community Health Network.
SARASOTA – With a few taps of her finger on an iPad, St. Martha Catholic School sixth-grader Emily Scarbrough sent a robot on a series of preprogrammed tasks that included knocking down a bench and raising the height of a basketball hoop.
That was all part of a student demonstration on Wednesday as the Diocese of Venice unveiled a new partnership with FIRST, a global robotics community. The alliance is anticipated to enhance the level of Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts and Math education in the 15 Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Venice.
Emily, 12, and other students used block-based code to direct the robots to perform their tasks.
Equity is also an issue. Rates of transmission and deaths are higher in Black, Latino and economically disadvantaged communities, often the same areas where schools have smaller budgets, fewer resources, larger classes and problems like old buildings with poor ventilation. At the same time, though coronavirus cases among children have been rarer and less severe than for adults, evidence is mounting that children are not only susceptible but also can suffer long-term health consequences. Authorization for a vaccine for use on children is probably months away.
Claudia Briggs, spokeswoman for the California Teachers Assn., said forcing quick openings with incentive funding may “penalize” communities where rates of transmission are still high, or where plans have already been put in place for later returns. While the new state funding will help put safety measures in place, she points out that private schools may already be benefiting from wealthier families and neighborhoods where