The Anchorage School District is attempting to support student evacuees from Western Alaska villages by providing classroom space and mental health resources.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Anchorage School District is attempting to support student evacuees from Western Alaska villages by providing classroom space and mental health resources.Starting this week, some students are entering the classroom, while others are still enrolling.
A teacher from Kipnuk, a Western village hit hard by Halong, said on social media that she hopes to see her students again. “Some of shared their fears about their new schools or teachers. Saying goodbye to our friends and fellow school employees was...I have no words,” the teacher wrote.“We need to approach our families with care to make sure that we’re cohorting these students as much as possible so they have friendly familiar faces in a small number of schools.” There is a chance that students and teachers from Western Alaska will remain together, explained Corey Aist, President of the Anchorage Teachers’ Union. “Whether classes can stay intact with their current educator from a particular village site will really depend on if the educator is going to stay. It’s going to depend on where all those students end up,” Aist said. While teachers and students may be reunited, school counselors from the Lower Kuskokwim School District will be on the ground in Anchorage, helping families. “Well, the academic counselors have a lot of perspectives to share with families in terms of where the credits lie for students, and with the Anchorage School District. What their class schedules have looked like, what might be the seamless integration into existing school offerings in Anchorage,” Andrew Anderson, Superintendent of the Lower Kuskokwim School District, says. “The students and families need to have people from our district that are familiar with them and their academic experience in order to help support them in the transition into new schools.” Looking forward, the Anchorage School District hopes to be a long-term solution for families that need support. “We’re about to transition into that longer-term situation of providing a fantastic education to the students impacted by this tragic situation,” Bryantt said.Anderson says that all of the Lower Kuskokwin School District is thinking of the evacuee families. “Your experiences are very different from what they were just a week or two ago, and we are continuously developing ways to be in close communication and to assist you in whatever needs you have as you move forward.”LATEST: Kipnuk, Kwigillingok evacuations complete one week after ex-Typhoon Halong strikes Alaska, state says ‘We started drifting away and going in circles’: Descriptions of homes being lifted and carried away with people inside
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