Return of the Five Year Olds, Part I.

Months of planning and preparation culminated in the arrival of our Kindergarten students who were willing and able to participate in in-person learning. On their first day, the Governor was also scheduled to make an announcement about new health orders. Rising COVID-19 rates across the state had people believing that she would shut schools back down. For the Kindergartners and the teachers, that would mean closing down just as they were starting back up. The teachers who had built the instructional plan for in-person learning were also going through waves of excitement and the anxiety that accompanies a public health threat.

This episode introduces you to two of our Kindergarten teachers as well as our Elementary Principal and takes you into the moments leading up to and through that first day back.

Brought to you by Protect the Pack Productions at Turquoise Trail Charter School, Santa Fe, New Mexico.