Video Connections
School Administrator, November 2020

From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic’s shutdown of school operations, Jill Baker has produced short video messages to her community to keep them abreast of the latest thinking and planning by leaders in the Long Beach Unified School District in California.

The first, appearing on March 13 when the decision was made to cease in-person teaching, ran two minutes. Others, running longer, feature Long Beach students posing questions to the superintendent about remote schooling and the superintendent interviewing students via videoconferencing on how they have been spending their time at home.

Baker was promoted from deputy superintendent to superintendent about 3½ months into the pandemic.

The videos can be found on Long Beach Unified’s YouTube Channel.