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Kelly Blake: Protecting Children and Their Education

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Kelly Blake: Protecting Children and Their Education

Waverly Superintendent Kelly Blake has kept her school district healthy and functioning with zero outbreaks from intra-school contact. This episode she shares some insight as to how she’s done it.

School districts aren’t always the easiest things to manage, pandemics aside, but when you need to keep kids safe while ensuring their education the job gets even trickier. Fortunately for Waverly Community Schools, their superintendent is a seasoned educator and administrator.

This week we sat down with Superintendent Kelly Blake who’s in her 34th year of educating with 33 of those years being spent in Waverly. She talks about making game time decisions, getting students at-home internet access, and the impact COVID-19 has had on education at large.