PHOTOS: With joy, local teachers and their students cheer each other – from a distance
Teacher Cortney Clendening from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
With the school year likely to finish up with students at home, teachers from two Salem-Keizer School District schools formed parades on Friday, April 3, to go greet students.
With the novel coronavirus sweeping Oregon, school officials are switching to long-distance learning, a shortened school day done online starting in mid-April. Schools in the area have been closed since March 16 under orders from Gov. Kate Brown to slow the spread of the virus, which means about 41,000 students in the Salem-Keizer system won’t be back in school houses soon.
Teachers at Clear Lake and Chapman Hill conducted the parades. Salem Reporter tagged along with the one in Keizer.
Camden, 6, was ready for when Clear Lake teachers cruised his Keizer neighborhood on Friday, April 3. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Alexis Sorenson greets teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning. The teachers went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
Teachers from Clear Lake Elementary School, destined now to do distance learning, went on parade Friday, April 3, in Keizer to say hello to students. (Diane Beals/Salem Reporter)
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