The Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE’s) Teachers Advisory Council (TAC) provided feedback to Education Commissioner Jason E. Glass on a potential return to in-person instruction in January during its Dec. 10 virtual meeting.
The meeting wraps up a week full of meetings where Glass also solicited feedback from the department’s Student Advisory Council, Principals Advisory Council and Parents Advisory Council.
Glass told the council that Gov. Andy Beshear has asked the department to provide a recommendation on whether schools should return on Jan. 4, the date Beshear’s executive order will expire, or continue virtual learning until a later date.
Kentucky’s Commissioner of Education Jason E. Glass met virtually with the Kentucky Department of Education’s (KDE) Principals Advisory Council (PrAC) on Dec. 8 to seek the council’s opinion on when schools throughout the Commonwealth should return to in-person instruction amid COVID-19.
The executive order signed by Gov. Andy Beshear, which suspended in-person instruction effective Nov. 23, allows elementary schools (grades K-5) to reopen for in-person instruction on Dec. 7. However, schools still must follow all the safety expectations found in the Healthy at School guidance document and cannot be in a county that is a red zone for community transmission.
Opinions are mixed among members of the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) Commissioner’s Student Advisory Council (SAC) on whether Kentucky schools should be allowed to resume in-person classes in January, and on who should make that decision.
Commissioner of Education Jason E. Glass asked SAC members their opinions during a Dec. 8 regular meeting.
I started teaching right out of college and was only 22 years old. Reflecting on my 22-year-old first-year-teacher self always makes me cringe slightly, but that version of me is where this story begins.
I worked one or two days a week at a consignment shop for my first three years teaching, until I became pregnant with my first son and I decided one job was exhausting enough. While working at the consignment shop, I was spending almost every Sunday grading papers and making lessons for at least 3-4 hours, but sometimes the whole day. One of my biggest regrets is the memory of someone giving Bengals tickets to my husband and me having to tell him that I could not attend because I had so many papers to grade.
