March 17, 2020

I am writing this letter to express my and THOA’s support during this time of crisis. As a group of Health Science educators, our biggest strength is our diverse background of knowledge–our many hands make small work of the huge home-based instruction undertaking.

I appreciate all of the resource sharing you guys have been conducting, and I ask that you keep up the collaboration.  Also, if you send your resources to thoaresources@gmail.com, we can keep our database up to date with all of your excellent recommendations.  Please know that we are adding anyone who asks to join the resource drive as quickly as possible.  

Please be smart out there and keep yourselves and your families distanced so that we can support our emergency response teams in flattening the curve.  In the long term, we cannot predict what this situation will have on returning to our classrooms or even our Summer Conference, but we will keep you posted with any changes as they arise.  

I would like to thank you again for your tireless hours in the classroom and out to support each other.  Please don’t hesitate to reach out to a THOA Board Member with any questions.

With gratitude,

Traci Ricketson

THOA President