Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau

Olympic National Park

Sedona, Arizona

Mount Rainier Nat'l. Park

I am thrilled to be able to return to in-person teaching! 
 
A few points to consider when signing up for my in-person “Hands-On Geography” and “Mission Possible: Global Issues, Leadership Choices” classes:

• All students will be asked to use hand sanitizer when arriving for class, but students will be sharing materials for various in-class activities (e.g., coins, stamps, game tokens) and possibly food items.

 

• I cannot teach in a mask, but I have been fully COVID-vaccinated and boosted.

 

• At present, all students are required to wear masks for their own protection and for everyone else’s with two exceptions: (1) if a parent provides me with proof of the student’s vaccination and a written request that the student be exempt from the mask-wearing requirement or (2) if a parent provides me with evidence of a same-day negative COVID test each day the student wants to be exempt from the mask-wearing requirement.  Given the accessibility of both vaccines and rapid COVID tests, this is a simple enough standard to meet for those who do not want to wear masks while also normalizing mask wearing for those families and students who are more comfortable masking indoors.
  

 

• Although I am keeping classes smaller than usual for the time being, social distancing is impossible.  Students in “Hands-On Geography” will be sitting on the floor with me gathered around oversized maps.  Students in “Mission Possible” are frequently in close meetings with each other in the course of in-class negotiations.

 
I want students to have as normal and successful an experience as possible in my classes.  But I also want parents to understand what I think this will look like when completing their registrations.  Learning is most effective when it is fun and comfortable.

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