title:
Rob Watson
creator:
Rob Watson; Leif Fredrickson
description:
Rob Watson discusses his role as superintendent of Missoula County Public Schools during the COVID pandemic. Watson details the emerging and changing knowledge of the pandemic and how he, other administrators, and the school board developed methods for making decisions about the pandemic. He discusses school closures and the development of online and hybrid teaching methods and how these changes affected students, parents, teachers and the community. He also discusses the emergence of controversies over masking, vaccines and school system governance in general.
publisher:
Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
contributor:
Leif Fredrickson
created:
2022-06-14
date Submitted:
2022-12-05
type:
Sound; Text
identifier:
2023_034
language:
English
rights:
6/29/2022We grant and assign to Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana (Archives) as Project repository, non-exclusive rights of every kind pertaining to this interview, including, but not limited to, reproduction, distribution, preparation of derivative works, public performance, and display, whether or not such rights are now known, recognized or contemplated. This gift does not preclude any use that we ourselves may wish to make of the information in the recording and/or subsequent transcripts of such. Future uses may include, but are not limited to, the following: printed memoirs, written publications, radio and film and podcast productions, educational tools, and public performances. Many of these futures uses may be accessible through print, visual, electronic, or other available media, and the Internet, including Project and Archives online platforms.