It's A Snow Day!

Head of School, Matt Glendinning, in more formal mode.

Yup, Juno went through the Northeast a few days ago. Some places got lucky (yes, Maryland!), but others felt the full brunt of the storm. If you happen to live north of NYC, the snow accumulated and kept accumulating. Cities and States shut down, along with airports. Skis and sleds were the preferred form of transportation.

Of course, there was the usual educational answer to a huge snowstorm - no school today. With everything else shut down, school couldn't open. Remember back in the day when you might listen to the radio or watch a particular tv station waiting for that all-important announcement for school to be closed? I remember missing the announcement and taking the walk to the bus stop before my mother or a neighborhood mother would send word that the announcement for school closing was finally made.



These days, that same announcement can be communicated in several ways - robocalls; television announcements streaming at the bottom of the screen; text messaging; online look-ups. But there have also been some rather unique ways of making this important notification.

Enter Matt Glendinning, Head of MOSES BROWN SCHOOL in Providence, RI. Adam Olenn, the school's director of communications, who was the man with the plan, talked about how the idea for a video announcement came about, "I've seen a couple of funny principal snow day closings and I thought we could really crush that....Of course, with two little girls, I've heard 'Let It Go' from 'Frozen' more than a couple times."

The song was recorded first, with the voice provided by school choral director, Justin Peters, in a sound studio in Massachusetts. And then came the action, including the section that worked in classroom fractals. Ryan Vemmer, the school's video media editor, filmed and edited the action. All it took was the addition of the monster storm, Juno, and the video was out there.

You know, it's nice when a team of people with a commitment to kids can get together and have some fun filming what would otherwise be a mundane announcement. I bet the kids who attend Moses Brown are realizing that they've got some pretty special teachers and administrators who care about them.

Thanks to this article from WBUR: http://artery.wbur.org/2015/01/26/moses-brown-snow-day.

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