Elizabeth "Betsy" Jones of Moultrie, Georgia is a middle school instructional coach. She talked about her nontraditional path to teaching, becoming an instructional coach, and moving back into a teaching position during the COVID-19 pandemic. Betsy shares how Georgia responded to the pandemic and how schools implemented procedures to get students meals and resources such as a school drive-thru to pick up packets and books. She described the role of writing poetry during the early days of the pandemic as a time that began with personal reflection, led to writing poetry with teachers and students, and ended with a sense of grief for what has been lost. She also described her current thoughts on the future of education.

This interview was conducted as part of the COVID-19 Teacher-Poets Writing to Bridge the Distance oral history project at the OSU Library. For more information on this interview or to view the transcript, visit https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/teacherpoets/id/50/rec/3. To learn more about the collection or the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, visit http://library.okstate.edu/history/ © Oklahoma State University

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