Erin Rooney, who teaches kindergarten at Saint Margaret School in Narberth, created more than 260 lessons for her students during the quarantine, writes Lisa Dukart for the Main Line Today.

When Rooney got the news on March 12 that Pennsylvania schools would be closing due to the pandemic, the whole experience seemed surreal. So she sprang into action with a teaching aide to formulate as many distance-learning lessons as they could before she put packets in every backpack before students left for the day.

A week later, she brought her students’ belongings home so their parents could pick them up. Determined to help students transition to virtual classrooms as effortlessly as possible, she began filming lessons.

“I’d made a promise to [parents] on back-to-school night that I was going to be teaching their children for the year,” she said. “No matter what was happening, I wasn’t changing that.”

At the end of the year, she drove to students’ homes to deliver their diplomas along with the scrapbooks she had assembled.

“It was hard not getting to hug,” she said. “But it was very good to see them.”

Read more about Erin Rooney at the Main Line Today by clicking here.

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