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Re-Opening Schools Models Green Mountain School

Four Models Under Consideration In-Person Learning Hybrid Learning Mixed Learning Distance Learning • All students in • Students in class 2 • Combination of in- • Students learn at attendance days per week person and home distance or hybrid • Physical distancing • Planned learning • Video lessons and • Example: K-2 on required. Masks activities at home 3 paper packets required. Daily days per week campus and 3-8 • Weekly delivery of health checks. distance learning • “Flipped” model of lessons instruction – videos • Telephone/email sent home each contact with students week. and parents • Physical distancing • Likely some 1:1 required. Masks tutoring and required. Daily intervention on health checks. campus

In In-Person Learning Benefits Challenges • Familiar school model for students and • Physical distancing is a challenge – desks must families be six feet apart • Best instructional model for most students • Possible increased likelihood of outbreaks due to larger cohort sizes • Best for social-emotional learning • Requires two classes (kindergarten and 1 st • Easiest model to find substitute teachers grade) to be moved to other spaces • Eliminates the logistical challenges of videos, • Number of students on campus each day USB drives, and learning packets make logistics more difficult • Removes the burden of teaching from • Occupancy on school buses makes distancing parents, allows some parents to return to impractical work • Possible concerns for staff safety • No childcare concerns for staff • Need to provide distance option for families

Hybrid Learning Model Benefits Challenges • Classroom instruction is familiar to students • Teachers will have a learning curve for the “flipped” model • Maintains some in-person contact between teachers and students • Logistics of learning videos, USB drives, and • Physical distancing is easier with only half of learning packets students present • Creates childcare issues for some staff, may • Possibly reduces the likelihood of outbreaks lead to additional staff absences that are due to smaller cohort sizes difficult to cover • All grades can remain in their classroom • Possible concerns for staff safety • Reduced number of students makes logistics easier • Occupancy on school buses is reduced • Removes some pressure on parents

Mixed Model Challenges Benefits • Classroom instruction is familiar to students • Different expectations of teachers at different grade levels • Maintains some in-person contact between • Logistics of learning videos, USB drives, and teachers and youngest students learning packets for upper grades • Reduced number of students makes logistics • Creates childcare issues for some staff, may easier lead to additional staff absences that are • Occupancy on school buses is reduced difficult to cover • Removes pressure on some parents • Possible concerns for staff safety • Need to provide distance option for families

Distance Learning Model Benefits Challenges • Minimal face-to-face contact minimizes the • Logistics of learning videos, USB drives, and likelihood of outbreaks learning packets for upper grades • Almost no concerns for staff safety • Creates childcare issues for some staff, may lead to additional staff absences that are difficult to cover • Negative impact on student social-emotional growth and mental health • Pressure on parents to become the teacher; family strife and damaged relationships • Probable loss of transportation apportionment • Probable loss of enrollment & apportionment

Parent Preference: Parent Learning Model Preference • Phone survey represents 42 families and 129 students (80%) • Strong preference for some type of in- person learning (87%) • In-person 46% • Hybrid 7% • In-person or Hybrid 34% • Hybrid or Distance 5% • Distance 7% • Mixed 0% In Person Hybrid In Person/Hybrid Hybrid/Distance Distance Mixed

Parent Preference: Parent Learning Model Preference • Phone survey represents 42 families and 129 students (80%) • Strong preference for some type of in- person learning (87%) • In-person 46% • Hybrid 7% • In-person or Hybrid 34% • Hybrid or Distance 5% • Distance 7% • Mixed 0% • Participation (yes or maybe) • In-person 98% • Hybrid 97% • Distance 88% • Homeschool if distance learning? In Person Hybrid In Person/Hybrid Hybrid/Distance Distance Mixed • Yes 10% (11 students) • Maybe 5% (2 students)

FLIPPED LEARNING/BLENDED LEARNING

What is Flipped/Blended Learning? Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in subject matter. Flipped Learning Network (FLN). (2014) The Four Pillars of F-L-I-P

Key advantages of Flipped Learning • Teachers are the facilitators of student learning • Direct instruction and lower level learning tasks are completed prior to engaging with teachers and other students • Students will be able to learn from each other during whole class discourse • Opens more classroom time for students to apply the skills learned during direct instruction and engage with teachers as they encounter challenges, questions and misunderstandings • Formative and summative assessments will be completed in class providing teachers and students with real time feedback • Students are responsible for watching instructional videos and completing teacher guided practice

ADVANTAGES FOR STUDENTS • Students have access to content 24/7 • Students can watch the content at their own pace (during time at home) • Students develop questions and insight prior to classroom discussions • Students receive more individualized support • Students receive personalized instruction and/or content

Health and Safety Considerations

Parent Health Concerns: Parent Health Concerns • The majority of Green Mountain parents (78%) have no health concerns sending their children back to school • 22% have “some” health concerns that would not prevent their students from returning • 2% of parents had definite health concerns that would cause them to keep students home if schools re-open Yes No Some

Local COVID Case Numbers:

Local COVID Case Numbers: • Cases in Clark County are concentrated in the urban portions of the county • North Clark County numbers are very low • 98674 and 98601 each have fewer than 10 confirmed cases of COVID-19

Local COVID Case Numbers: • Cases in Clark County are concentrated in the urban portions of the county • North Clark County numbers are very low • 98674 and 98601 each have fewer than 10 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (actual numbers suppressed for privacy)

Schools and COVID Rates • Washington Dept. of Health published a • In countries that implemented precautions in paper (Guthrie, et al, July 2020) that school re- opening, there was “no significant summarized global school re-opening increase” or “increased transmission among approaches students but not staff .” • They note “there is a lack of scientific • A July 24 article by N. Agba, MD (Silverdale, consensus about he impact of school closures WA) states, “to date, there have been no and re-openings on community transmission documented child-to-child or child-to-adult of SARS-CoV- 2.” transmission of COVID- 19 infection.” • In countries that re-opened schools without • “Studies have confirmed children under the precautions like distancing and masks, there age of 10 have considerably fewer ACE-2 were increases in transmission. receptors in their nasal mucosa, supporting the notion that, scientifically, children are not drivers of community spread.” (ibid.)

Recent Re-Opening Guidance • The American Academy of Pediatrics issued • The CDC issued revised guidance on July 23, guidance on school reopening “strongly 2020 on the “Importance of Reopening advocates that all policy considerations for America’s Schools this Fall.” the coming school year should start with the • “Harms attributed to closed schools on the goal of having students physically present in social, emotional, and behavioral health, school.” (AAP, June 2020) economic well-being, and academic • The AAP notes that the combination of masks achievement of children, in both short- and and physical distance greatly reduces the long-term, are well- known and significant.” likelihood of virus spread. The efficacy of 3- • “children are not the primary drivers of foot physical distancing approaches the COVID-19 spread in schools or in the efficacy of 6-foot physical distancing. community.” • Cohorting of classes to minimize crossover • “evidence provides reason to believe that in - among children and adults within the school person schooling is in the best interest of is recommended. students, particularly in the context of appropriate mitigation.”