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President’s Message express gratitude to all the teachers for the meaningful work they do every day to ensure the success of each and every child especially during this pandemic. Teachers are meaningful partners in the raising of our community’s children. They collaborate with parents and caregivers to keep families informed and contribute to a school climate that makes our students feel welcomed, safe, and valued. New and exciting things happening at TASPA! Dr. Lolly Guerra and staff will be relocating the TASPA office to a new location reetings TASPA Members! The in the next few weeks. TASPA members roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccines are continuing to receive information and have offered school districts great hope for a full return to the physical updates pertinent to human resources classroom. The fact that these immunizations related to pending and newly enacted legislation through weekly updates, or have an efficacy rate of 95%, based on comprehensive trials, increases our optimism virtual workshops. We are gearing up for for a return to normalcy. The CDC states that the Summer Conference to be held at the the vaccines are highly effective at protecting Kalahari Resort on July 14-16, 2021. We are against symptomatic and severe COVID-19. excited that this will be our first face-to-face conference in over a year! In the fall, we are I suggest that the physical classroom will also planning the Support Staff Conference never resemble what we left behind so on October 4-5, 2021 at the Kalahari Resort. abruptly in March 2020. It will be better Please make sure to plan ahead and register equipped to serve the needs of all students early for these conferences. with technology and fortified by stronger teacher-parent partnerships. By necessity, I would like to encourage everyone working all of us took crash courses in the use of an in Human Resources to obtain or update a array of technology-based platforms and TASPA membership in order to not miss out applications. We have been dunked into the on vital information and opportunities related deep waters of the virtual. Because of this to our HR field. unintended educational experience, teachers Hope to see everyone soon. Stay healthy and will return to their campuses well-equipped to deploy what they learned during this crisis safe! and be better prepared to complement faceto-face instruction with technology.
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During the first week in May we celebrate “Teacher Appreciation Week”. On behalf of Human Resources personnel statewide and the TASPA staff we would like to
Martha Carrasco Martha Carrasco is the 2021 TASPA President. She is the Chief Human Resources Officer in Canutillo ISD.
