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Overstreet presented the final edited video to the educators on Sunday so that they could get it posted before the school year kicked off on Monday, Aug. 17.

Bruce said that the pair developed this original video concept together and \"changed the lyrics to encourage our students to get excited about the school year and virtual learning.\"

The dynamic duo have teamed up for other end-of-school year videos shot on iPhones over the last three years.

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Williams said she first came up with the idea to make an end of the year rap after her first year of teaching four years ago.

\"I wanted to kind of keep the rap going to keep the morale of the school up, so I asked Ms. Evans if she could join me in the next year school's rap and she was down and from that, it was history,\" Williams said.

The state of Georgia has been hard hit by the ongoing outbreak and spread of COVID-19 in recent months and despite more than 200,00 reported cases, with nearly 5,000 deaths, many schools across the state have returned for in-person instruction.

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\"Becayse Albany was impacted dramatically because of COVID-19, we wanted to basically just motivate, not only our students, our teachers but our community,\" Evans told \"Good Morning America.\" \"We have a lot of people that lost their lives and I'm sure the students were discouraged to even come to school in those circumstances, so we wanted to just show them how important it is to overcome adversity, to push through no matter what and no matter where you're from you can always be motivated and take it to the top.\"

Williams added that they both needed the encouragement, \"just as much as the students.\"

\"We were number three in cases in the world back in March to April,\" Bruce explained. \"So a lot of their students were impacted by family members being terribly ill and even transitioning in death.\"

With their school district starting at 100% online, Bruce said \"a lot of students and teachers are nervous about what that would mean.\"

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\"This video was created to calm the fears and nerves of all involved and encourage them to strive for excellence this school term regardless of the online instructional model that we are in,\" she said.

Both teachers were back in the classroom executing their virtual learning plans for online instruction at the time of publication and were unable to respond to ABC News' request for comment.

The Dougherty County School District's Responsible Restart Plan initially gave parents the choice of on-campus or online learning for their children, but Bruce explained \"the plan is conditions-based so in the event that we had another spike of COVID-19 cases we would shift to fully online instruction to keep employees and students safe.\"

Their district decided to begin school in the online instructional model with rolling start dates and has a 1:1 technology ratio that provides its students in need with a device.

\"Any family that does not have internet service in their home to support online instruction can get a WiFi hotspot device to support their needs. Each school is distributing devices in a drive-thru manner and following all of our safety protocols,\" Bruce added.

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