Like most early care and education providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Annette Fernandez, PhD, and her staff at Meadowbrook Child Garden in Marlborough found themselves in uncharted territory as they struggled to serve children and families in a safe and sustainable manner despite the fear and uncertainty they dealt with daily.
“It was curveballs left and right,” said Fernandez, who owns and runs the program.
Merely gathering for staff meetings was a logistical nightmare, she said, noting that the meetings basically devolved into “emergency problem solving conversations, wherein all the problems were brought to the table and I was the keeper of all the answers — and Heaven help us, because I don’t have all the answers!”
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