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COVID in Classrooms

Listen as an Indigenous leader shares his experiences early in the pandemic as a middle school teacher. He describes what it looked like to shut schools down from the teacher’s perspective. He explains that it felt like the last day of school in the sense that the students celebrated but it was a little ominous for teachers because they didn’t know what to expect.

I had another teacher…who came in and sat in my class, and we When it got serious for me was when the buses left and I walked out with a bunch of books and a laptop.