Page 4 - AASBO EDGE Back to School 2020.indd
P. 4
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
BY LIZETTE HUIE
We Are in This Together and Together
We Are Making a Difference!
Lizette Huie
Hello everyone and welcome to the 2020-2021 school Virtual Annual Conference, also known as our Summer
year! I hope this message finds you and your families Conference, to take place on October 28-30. The PD
healthy and safe! track chairs, committee members, vendors, presenters,
AASBO staff and Board members have been hard at
Wow, what a year it has already been! It feels like an work planning for the upcoming conference. A special
eternity ago that we were all together in person. As thank you to everyone who has contributed and been
I write my first column as President of AASBO, it is extremely flexible with all of the changes. Everyone’s
hard to believe that there have been so many changes willingness to step up to the plate and continue this
to not only our lives, our communities, education, but quest is humbling – we will be ready for a wonderful
also our nation since this past spring. Just in education Annual Conference. It will be different from the Starr
itself, our worlds look completely different, starting Pass Resort in Tucson, but we are working diligently
with the way we meet virtually, to serving student to make the virtual conference special and valuable!
meals, and walking into empty classrooms on the first Please be on the lookout for upcoming conference
day of school because our students are online. It is hard information.
to believe that all of these changes and more happened
in a matter of a few months. We all now have a shared experience of living through
a pandemic and now more than ever we need to use
However, as I reflect on how difficult it has been, I also this common experience as an asset, not a liability.
reflect on all of the amazing work that is still taking Regardless of each district’s unique challenges as well
place. We’ve changed the traditional brick and mortar as the pandemic, we’ve all managed to stay on a united
to fully online classrooms, figured out new methods of front. Let us not forget the reason we do this noble and
cleaning and sanitation, and learned additional ways to honorable work. I remind myself daily when I look at
manage our resources to mirror the needs of the changes my two children at home that we do this work for the
needed. This summer has been extremely busy at our future of our children, our communities, and to advance
schools, but also with AASBO as we plan for our 1st the American Dream.
From the wise words of my district’s Superintendent,
Dr. Manuel Valenzuela, “Let us remember that stress
and strain are often tools for growth and creation
of good things. Diamonds are created under the
tremendous strain of temperature and pressure. World
class athletes build strong muscle and speed under the
strain of rigorous and stressful conditions.”
Let’s not be discouraged by these trying times but
instead embrace and celebrate the opportunities to push
ourselves to new heights of excellence for the students
of our state! These times are definitely tough, but I
know that together we will come out of this stronger
than ever before.
|
4 THE EDGE BACK TO SCHOOL 2020
