1. Housebound Ska Collective - "High Hopes (P!ATD cover)
2. The Carpenters - "We've Only Just Begun"
NOTES
Today's broadcast continues to focus on the narratives of workers in the field of Education in the Rio Grande Valley. It will be our second of three episodes on the subject, and features two conversations instead of our usual 3 or 4.
The first is with a music teacher from Harlingen who also plays in a ska band, and our second is with an administrator from a local school district.
The lower number of conversations in today's episode is due to several factors:
1. the 2019 - 2020 school year is about to come to a close, and most of the conversations that have been featured in this series so far took place over a month ago when the transition to online learning had just begun. Now that the academic year is over, I think it's important to have updated reflections on how these changes have been weathered by educators, students and their respective school districts.
2. to remedy this, I thought it would be helpful to include the perspective of an administrator - someone who would have a more broad perspective on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their district not just within the realm of the classroom, but from an operational standpoint as well. As luck would have it, I was able to get in touch with an administrator on extremely short notice and speak at-length with him about his experience navigating the pandemic with his district. The administrator in question: my father. My dad has worked for the Weslaco Independent School District for 30 years, and it's safe to say that in that time he's learned a thing or two about keeping the district afloat through a myriad of challenging circumstances. It's a point of pride for me to have him on the program as part of this project, and I think our conversation is both informative and insightful. Fun fact about his song choice for the show: it's my parent's wedding song.
Thanks again for listening. See you next week.
AS
Today's broadcast continues to focus on the narratives of workers in the field of Education in the Rio Grande Valley. It will be our second of three episodes on the subject, and features two conversations instead of our usual 3 or 4.
The first is with a music teacher from Harlingen who also plays in a ska band, and our second is with an administrator from a local school district.
The lower number of conversations in today's episode is due to several factors:
1. the 2019 - 2020 school year is about to come to a close, and most of the conversations that have been featured in this series so far took place over a month ago when the transition to online learning had just begun. Now that the academic year is over, I think it's important to have updated reflections on how these changes have been weathered by educators, students and their respective school districts.
2. to remedy this, I thought it would be helpful to include the perspective of an administrator - someone who would have a more broad perspective on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their district not just within the realm of the classroom, but from an operational standpoint as well. As luck would have it, I was able to get in touch with an administrator on extremely short notice and speak at-length with him about his experience navigating the pandemic with his district. The administrator in question: my father. My dad has worked for the Weslaco Independent School District for 30 years, and it's safe to say that in that time he's learned a thing or two about keeping the district afloat through a myriad of challenging circumstances. It's a point of pride for me to have him on the program as part of this project, and I think our conversation is both informative and insightful. Fun fact about his song choice for the show: it's my parent's wedding song.
Thanks again for listening. See you next week.
AS
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