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Current Newsletter August/September 2020
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President’s Message
Who would’ve known that after leaving school for spring break, one hundred and fifty-one days ago, we were saying goodbye to our normal school days? Within very little time, school districts across the United States redefined education and in a matter of weeks transformed in-person education to a modality that no one even imagined possible. For the past 151 days, teachers have been forced to learn new platforms, new technology, new ways to interact online with their students. Most importantly, they have worked hard to continue to build relationships with kids and their families, not just as a source of knowledge, but also as a support system. We are at a stage where having a short term goal seems almost impossible because of the uncertainty of our current COVID-19 pandemic situation.
We hit pause on our busy daily schedules. At first, it was amazing to have some extra time to complete projects I hadn’t had time to get to, and time to rest. However, I was so wrong! Yes, I was able to get some home-related things done, but my office hours just doubled! I will wake up to text messages as early as seven in the morning and will still be responding to texts and emails as late as 10:00 PM! Teachers needed to have lessons ready, and part of my job was to support them; along with them, I was learning new platforms, apps, and different ways to reach out to students to finish the school year. Long hours passed until we felt we knew what we were doing.
I’ve always known that teachers are resilient, but during these past months, I just confirmed it. We didn’t have a choice but to grab the bull by the horns and take charge. What we didn’t know was that we were creating new and different ways to educate our children! We had no choice but to adapt to our new normal and continue learning, teaching, living. We were facing a “probletunity,” an opportunity that arises when a problem has to be solved. The opportunity may give rise to benefits that are unrelated to the problem being solved.
What benefits? you may be thinking:
· Parents understanding the daunting task that teachers face every day.
· Students understanding how much they actually miss school and being able to interact with teachers and peers.
· Teachers attending webinars of all kinds, without complaining about having to attend yet another workshop.
· International conventions that turned into virtual events with large numbers of participants because the physical boundaries were removed.
Probletunity, I love the concept, love the idea...and that’s what I want to think about starting this biennium with all of you. I want to think about this whole pandemic as an opportunity for us to swim these uncharted waters together, look at new ways to approach situations
that could take us farther in our journey of supporting education. I want us to use this opportunity to push ourselves to learn and try new things — without fear of the unknown — and come out of this pandemic with a new superpower, a new perspective of what we are able to accomplish when we get rid of the boundaries and obstacles confronting us. Let’s use this probletunity to become a better version of ourselves and take our chapter to a whole new level.
—Hilda Diaz
We hit pause on our busy daily schedules. At first, it was amazing to have some extra time to complete projects I hadn’t had time to get to, and time to rest. However, I was so wrong! Yes, I was able to get some home-related things done, but my office hours just doubled! I will wake up to text messages as early as seven in the morning and will still be responding to texts and emails as late as 10:00 PM! Teachers needed to have lessons ready, and part of my job was to support them; along with them, I was learning new platforms, apps, and different ways to reach out to students to finish the school year. Long hours passed until we felt we knew what we were doing.
I’ve always known that teachers are resilient, but during these past months, I just confirmed it. We didn’t have a choice but to grab the bull by the horns and take charge. What we didn’t know was that we were creating new and different ways to educate our children! We had no choice but to adapt to our new normal and continue learning, teaching, living. We were facing a “probletunity,” an opportunity that arises when a problem has to be solved. The opportunity may give rise to benefits that are unrelated to the problem being solved.
What benefits? you may be thinking:
· Parents understanding the daunting task that teachers face every day.
· Students understanding how much they actually miss school and being able to interact with teachers and peers.
· Teachers attending webinars of all kinds, without complaining about having to attend yet another workshop.
· International conventions that turned into virtual events with large numbers of participants because the physical boundaries were removed.
Probletunity, I love the concept, love the idea...and that’s what I want to think about starting this biennium with all of you. I want to think about this whole pandemic as an opportunity for us to swim these uncharted waters together, look at new ways to approach situations
that could take us farther in our journey of supporting education. I want us to use this opportunity to push ourselves to learn and try new things — without fear of the unknown — and come out of this pandemic with a new superpower, a new perspective of what we are able to accomplish when we get rid of the boundaries and obstacles confronting us. Let’s use this probletunity to become a better version of ourselves and take our chapter to a whole new level.
—Hilda Diaz
Epsilon Kappa Chapter 130
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