Message from the AEFAA president, Tammy Parry

What a year and a half! I think these past 18 months have been an experience beyond any of our expectations and has tested many of us. In-person learning, online learning, students in schools, no students in schools, disinfectant, PPE, AHS, quarantine, isolation – I, for one, sure hope that COVID-19 is not a subject I ever need to study again. It’s been almost two years since we were last able to get together. It seems fitting that our last meeting was in the Majestic Rocky Mountains and we will meet once again in those mountains in October. This executive has had to plan and cancel all of our workshops and conferences since it was elected in May 2019. We are excited and hopeful that the fall conference in Lake Louise in October 2021 will happen. The executive has been working hard to try to keep us all connected. We have held several Zoom meetings over the past several months and even had a SAIT PD day in the spring. We have been working hard on a new, more up-to-date, interactive website that will launch in September. We have a full fall conference set for Lake Louise in October with another spring conference already in the finalization stages for May of 2022. And we are looking ahead to a fall workshop in October of 2022. While my time as president has been a longer term than usual, it certainly has sped by as if it was just a year. We have all learned to juggle way more than we should at times. And for most of us, we have come out the other side stronger and more resilient. I would like to thank all executive members for their efforts this year, especially considering what we all had to deal with in our current school board positions. To those members who lost loved ones, we send our deepest condolences. The challenges we have all been faced with are unique to each of us. Find a little comfort in knowing we are all here to provide a helping hand. Be kind to yourselves and be kind to each other. n

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