FCPS Principal Visits Students’ Homes to Reconnect In the course of Virtual Discovering

Exhilaration is escalating in advance of Fairfax County Community College (FCPS) students returning to five times a 7 days of in-person mastering this fall. Before faculty allow out in June, West Springfield Elementary Faculty principal Dr. Kelly Sheers frequented the houses of dozens of households who have been in virtual learning because the pandemic started. Pupils ended up excited to see their principal for the initial time in extra than 15 months. They shared what they’ve learned in the earlier 12 months and what they are most energized for this summer time.

Kenneth Hays, father of 3rd-grader Finnian and 2nd-grader Alexandra, noted one particular payoff of digital discovering was viewing his children’s technologies techniques explode. “That is a enormous distinction truly, searching at how far they’ve come,” Hays claimed. “I’m absolutely superior at typing,” Finnian added. “It’s been unique. But I simply cannot wait around to go back again.”

Kenneth Hays also took a minute to thank Dr. Sheers for her hard operate in the course of this time. “No problem is best. I can only envision every little thing heading on guiding the scenes,” Hays mentioned. “Whenever nearly anything was much less than best, we’d often consider about every little thing you fellas have been juggling.”

At yet another visit, Aaron McDonald, father of fourth-grader Ava and second-grader Gabe, thanked Dr. Sheers for stopping by and acknowledged the get the job done of teachers about the past calendar year. “The lecturers have been good, and we have done the greatest we can to guidance them,” McDonald explained. “Like they say, we are all in this jointly.” 

Dr. Sheers needed to drive that information residence throughout each individual stop by. She says regardless of the length the pandemic has compelled on everybody, FCPS will generally be ‘Stronger Alongside one another.’

“I want to build that feeling of neighborhood,” Dr. Sheers claimed. “I have not viewed some of our digital households for around a year and a 50 percent. So, this is just my way to display my appreciation to the people for supporting their youngsters at dwelling, and reconnect with them, and in fact meet some of our new family members for the very first time.”

For some new FCPS households, this slide will be their initial time within university properties. Through Dr. Sheers’ visits, she confident those people pupils they will get accessibility to West Springfield Elementary before their initial working day, so they can get oriented and obtain their new classroom.

Dr. Sheers frequented loved ones houses around the span of a couple months, hoping to garner enjoyment for the fall and support college students experience welcome. During just about every stop by, Dr. Sheers let pupils select out their favorite color sun shades and gave them a card that study “You Glow So Shiny!”. This was a much necessary observe of encouragement, as we seem toward brighter times in advance. 

Read through much more about the outreach endeavours of Dr. Sheers in The Washington Write-up and watch our video clip on YouTube.