BALTIMORE, MD - NOVEMBER 16, 2020: Principal Brandon Pinkney guides his students, (L-R), James Jennifer, Evan Gillard and Tayvon? on the new safety procedures to have in-person classes for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic at Walter P Carter Elementary/Middle school.
BALTIMORE, MD - NOVEMBER 16, 2020: Zia Hellman, 26, is a kindergarten teacher at Walter P Carter Elementary/Middle school in Baltimore City, Maryland. She teaches her first in-person class since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
BALTIMORE, MD - NOVEMBER 16, 2020: Zia Hellman is a kindergarten teacher at Walter P Carter Elementary/Middle school in Baltimore City, Maryland. Her classroom is ready for the first day of in-person learning since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
BALTIMORE, MD - NOVEMBER 20, 2020: Zia Hellman, 26, is a kindergarten teacher at Walter P Carter Elementary/Middle school in Baltimore City, Maryland. She begins her first week of balancing in-person and virtual class since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Her students are asked to work on their ipads as she gives assessments to her virtual students.
BALTIMORE, MD - NOVEMBER 16, 2020: Averie Colvin, 5, attends her first in-person kindergarten class since the start of the coronavirus pandemic at Walter P Carter Elementary/Middle school in Baltimore City, Maryland.
Plastic Dividers and Masks All Day: What Teaching in a Pandemic Looks Like

Commissioned by The New York Times
Featured on The New York Times 2020 Year in Pictures
Text by Erica Green

Zia Hellman prepared to welcome her kindergarten students back to Walter P. Carter Elementary/Middle School. Ms. Hellman was among about two dozen teachers and staff members required to return to work on Nov. 16 for the first in-person instruction in Baltimore City Public Schools since March. The city was the first large school district in Maryland and the latest among urban districts in the country to tiptoe into one of the highest-stakes experiments in the history of the nation’s public education system: teaching face-to-face in a pandemic.

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Rosem Morton is a documentary photographer and nurse based in Baltimore. Her visual storytelling explores the intersection of trauma, health and resilience.
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