J-D Plan for Re-Opening Fall 2020
Guiding principles : ● The health, safety, and well-being of the children and adults is paramount. ● Educational equity will be at the forefront of decision-making. ● Maintain continuity of instruction for all students ● Communicate with stakeholders, such as staff, families, students, and the community ● Ensure flexibility to meet the needs of all students regardless of changing circumstances
Committee membership includes: Superintendent, Assistant Superintendents, Business Administrator, Principals, Assistant Principals, Directors (PPS, Health, Athletics, and PE, Food Service, Transportation, Facilities, Technology), Assistant Directors, Medical Director Sub Committees as needed
Committee purpose : The purpose of this committee is to plan for the opening of school in fall 2020. The health and safety of our students, staff, and families have always been our number one priority. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the district to consider the unique needs of students following an extended school closure. The district must plan for multiple scenarios, each of which must consider well-being, education, and facilities. Planning begins with a focus on our most vulnerable students and families.
Vision Throughout the 2020-21 school year, our community is healthy and all students receive high quality instruction that meets their needs
What are your thoughts and concerns as the district develops a reopening plan? Four areas emerged as most important: 1. Participants provided a mix of responses about the possibility of returning to school in the fall. 2. Participants were most concerned about the health and safety of students and staff. 3. Participants expressed many concerns with remote learning. 4. Participants were concerned with issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and social and emotional learning.
Well-Being, Education, Facilities Protecting our most vulnerable students and staff
Plan for re-opening: work to date Tighten remote learning expectations ● Create professional learning opportunities for staff ● ○ Curriculum Technology ○ ● Plan to address the well-being of students and staff Plan to identify and address learning gaps ●
Guidance documents Recovering, Rebuilding, and Renewing: The Spirit of New York's Schools - Reopening Guidance School Reopening FAQs – July 22, 2020 INTERIM GUIDANCE FOR IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION AT PRE-K TO GRADE 12 SCHOOLS DURING THE COVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY Preparing K-12 School Administrators for a Safe Return to School in Fall 2020
Parent Survey
Health and safety: Comprehensive systematic strategy Social Distancing Face coverings Screening Hand hygiene Cleaning Ventilation
Health and safety: Three models IN-PERSON: full-time, no social distancing requirement HYBRID: blend of in-person and remote learning, social distancing required REMOTE: all students learning remotely, maximum social distancing
Health and safety: Social Distancing Required Social Distancing using the Hybrid Model where students learn in-person and remotely
Health and safety: Social Distancing Social Distancing using the Hybrid Model In-person for our most vulnerable students ● All students have in-person instruction, no students are entirely remote ● ● Evaluate the capacity of classrooms Evaluate the capacity of buildings ● Creative use of space, Shoppingtown ●
Health and safety: Social Distancing Social Distancing using the Hybrid Model Maintain social distancing in classrooms and throughout the building ● Reduce occupancy to approximately 50% of capacity ● ● Face coverings required for everyone All staff in school ●
Health and safety: Social Distancing Social Distancing using the Hybrid Model (2-1-2) Phase One ● Kindergarten and Grade 1 students return in-person, full-time with social ○ distancing Grades 2-12 attend Monday/Tuesday OR Thursday/Friday ○ All students are remote on Wednesdays ○ Most vulnerable students come to school Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and ○ Friday English language learners ■ Students with disabilities ■
Health and safety: Social Distancing Social Distancing using the Hybrid Model (2-1-2) Phase Two ● Kindergarten and Grade 1 students continue full-time ○ ○ Grades 2-12 attend Monday/Tuesday OR Thursday/Friday Add Wednesday as in-person ○ Most vulnerable students come to school everyday ○ ELL ■ ■ Students with disabilities
Instruction in the hybrid model ½ class in-person, ½ class remote Maintain continuity of learning Ensure daily interaction between students and teachers
Health and safety: Comprehensive systemic strategy Social Distancing Face coverings Screening Hand hygiene Cleaning Ventilation
Health and safety: Screening Daily screening for staff ● ● Daily temperature screening for students ● Written protocol to instruct staff to observe for signs of illness Isolation area designated in each building ● Protocol to screen health of guests, contractors, vendors entering the school ● ● Teach parents to keep students at home when showing symptoms
Health and safety: Hand Hygiene Hand sanitizers in classrooms and common areas ● Expectation to have students and staff wash hands ● Upon entering and exiting the classroom ○ After using shared objects ○ Before and after food ○ Before and after playground equipment ○
Health and safety: Social Distancing Teach students to follow COVID-19 protocols ● ● 6 ft distance throughout the building whenever possible 12 ft for singing, playing a wind instrument, and aerobic activity ○ Grouping of students to minimize intergroup contact ● ● Mask breaks ● Staggered arrival and dismissal times ● Rethink physical environment in each classroom to support social distancing Maintain individual supplies, no lockers ●
Health and safety: Ventilation Plan to meet or exceed ventilation requirements in all occupied spaces
Health and safety: Nurse’s offjce Adequate supply of PPE ● Protocol to respond to a confirmed case of COVID-19 ● ● Isolation room locations Protocol to return to school after illness. Managed by school nurses in ● conjunction with local health department using protocol that complies with DOH and CDC guidance.
Health and safety: Cleaning Protocol for cleaning and disinfecting schools, including high touch surfaces ● Protocol for cleaning and disinfection of health offices ● ● Plan to change drinking fountains to bottle refill stations
Health and safety: Emergency drills Plan for conducting school safety drills with modifications to ensure social ● distancing
Child Nutrition Staff self-assessment before reporting to work ● All students will have access to school meals each school day whether they are ● in-person or learning remotely. All applicable health and safety guidelines addressed ● Implement measures to protect students with food allergies ● Protocols and procedures for how students will perform hand hygiene before and ● after eating Protocols and procedures that require cleaning and disinfection prior to the next ● group of students arriving for meals.
Transportation Staff self-assessment before reporting to work ● Plan to clean buses each day ● ● Plan to clean high touch surfaces after each run Training for all transportation staff ● Necessary PPE for staff ● Hand sanitizer in work locations ●
Technology Plan to get computers in the hands of staff and students ● Plan to get connectivity to families that need it ●
Special Education Free appropriate public education (FAPE) for students with disabilities ● ● Document the programs and services offered and provided to students with disabilities as well as communications with parents ● Meaningful parent engagement in the parent’s preferred language or mode of communication regarding the provision of services to his/her child ● Collaboration between the committees on preschool special education (CPSE) and committees on special education (CSE) and program providers representing the variety of settings where students are served to ensure there is an understanding of the provision of services consistent with the recommendations on/individualized education programs/(IEPs) ● Access to the necessary accommodations, modifications, supplementary aids and services, and technology to meet the unique disability related needs of students.
English language learners ELL identification process completed within 30 school days of the start of the school year ● ● Provide required instructional Units of Study to all ELLs based on their most recently measured English language proficiency level ● Maintain regular communication with parents/guardians of ELLs to ensure that they are engaged in their children’s education during the reopening process
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