The My name is Abby O'Neill and I am a teacher in the Anchorage School District.

This is, I believe, my seventh or eighth year teaching and I currently teach out in Eagle River.

I teach kindergarten, but I've taught pretty much all the other grades in elementary school, too.

I think as a teacher, we're all taking it one day at a time with whatever the district puts forth and that's obviously kind of how everybody's dealing with it since it's such a new

information, information has come out for the moment.

So we've been contacting families

and assessing what they have and don't have as far as technology and

if they have access to computers or tablets or internet and if not how are we going to provide that or how are we going to make

opportunities for equitable learning across the board so is that going to be

paper and pencil packets is that going to be digital resources online?

And if that's not accessible for all families,

we have to find ways to create them.

So it takes time.

And thankfully, the governor did. So it takes time.

And thankfully, the governor did close schools at first

until March 30th.

So that allowed for some time for us

to gather as a staff and kind of assess where we were as a school

individually and then as a district as a whole. So we took that and the

district said with that mandate we could not provide

assignments that needed to be graded or assigned to families until after the March

30 timeline. So I think the hardest part has been for teachers not to dive right in and just create everything

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