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over 300 hotspots to families in need and provided Chromebooks to all students. Because of the pandemic, families’ WiFi at home suddenly became something that was important to the school district. Teachers have been using Google Meet as a way to teach the students who either chose, or were required, to learn from home. In some cases, the use of new technology has made a teacher the student. Educators learning as they go has been important all year long. “Some of us have found some great successes in it,” John Adams teacher Marjory Williams said. “I would say just about every teacher has
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seen a great success, something that happened that made them go. ‘Oh wow, that worked good, that kid got it, that’s wonderful.’” For Mason City, although this year has been a challenging one, there’s many positives to take away from it, according to Versteeg. The district improved its online learning experience so much that it will start a virtual academy next fall. On top of that, the safety measures for future school years will improve. Between teachers working together to figure out the best ways to educate and administration working with public health for safety purposes,
this year was a year of building relationships. “We’ve really grown as a community,” Hanft said. “I’m guessing this is happening across the state and across the country, that those relationships are really being solidified so that moving forward, for us to deal with some of the bigger
health issues of our time.” Mason City returned to a full-time, in-person learning schedule during the week of Feb. 15. While it hasn’t been smooth sailing for the entirety of the school year, the district has done the best it can to provide for its community. Along the way, educators
learned just as much about themselves as they did about new ways to teach. “It’s just that notion that in a crisis, how people come together,” Versteeg said. “While you don’t want to bring these types of things around every once in a while, you are reminded that human beings and people that
get into education are very resilient, very persistent and very capable of solving difficult, if not impossible, problems.”
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