School Reopening Draft Plan #OneMechanicville
We will create a positive culture by empowering staff to focus on learning in a collaborative environment to achieve agreed upon results while celebrating student and staff success. I n designing our reopening plan, we kept our mission in our front view. It is our obligation to support each member of our Community of Learners as we attempt to tackle the unknown in an uncertain environment. We will always care for each and every member of our school community, and we are proud to present a plan that prioritizes that.
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Academics ● Grades K-6 in person every day ● Special Education/Special Class/In-District K-12 in person every day ● Grades 7-12 Hybrid program schedule ○ In person every other day on an A day B day schedule ○ When at home student will participate in live lesson, virtually through Google Meet
Academics ● Grades K-3 in ES; each class will be split into 2 adjacent classrooms. Teachers will partner with a TA, or an AIS or Special Area teacher to create a collaborative co-teach team for each class ● Grades 4-5 Jr/Sr HS in oversized rooms ● Grade 6 in Jr/Sr HS split each class into 2 rooms. Teachers will partner with a TA, or an AIS or Specials teacher and be a collaborative team ● Grades 7-8 will have cohorts of students in assigned classrooms with teachers traveling to them ● Grades 9-12 will transition after each period
Academics ● Grades K-3 ○ The focus will be SEL, ELA and Math with SS and Science infused ○ Every classroom will have a scheduled intervention block ○ Standards based instruction and assessment ○ Lunch in the classroom (30 minutes) ○ No scheduled specials ○ PE is incorporated daily throughout the day as movement/brain breaks ○ Music activities are incorporated twice per week (pre-recorded lesson) ○ Art activities are incorporated twice per week (pre-recorded lesson) ○ Planning time for teachers will be at the end of everyday after dismissal
Academics ● Grades 4-6 ○ An additional 4th and 5th grade section will be created to reduce the numbers in these classrooms ○ The focus will be SEL, ELA and Math with SS and Science infused (4th and 5th) ○ Teachers will rotate between rooms for different subjects (5th and 6th) ○ Every classroom will have a scheduled intervention block ○ Standards based instruction and assessment ○ Google Classroom will be utilized daily to decrease the amount of hand to hand transference of materials ○ Lunch in the classroom (30 minutes) except for 6th grade in cafe @11:30 ○ No scheduled specials ○ PE is incorporated daily throughout the day as movement/brain breaks ○ Music activities are incorporated twice per week (pre-recorded lesson) - 4th/5th ○ Art activities are incorporated twice per week (pre-recorded lesson) - 4th/5th ○ Planning time for teachers will be at the end of everyday after dismissal
Academics ● Grades 7-12 ○ There will be (6) 40 minute instructional periods ○ Grades 7-8 will be organized by cohort and remain in the same classroom for each subject, teachers will rotate to them ○ Grades 7-8 will have lunch in the classroom (30 minutes) ○ Grades 9-12 will transition from class to class (5 minutes) ○ Grades 9-12 will have lunch at staggered times (30 minutes): 9-10@12:15 and 11-12 @12:55 ○ Standards based instruction and assessment ○ Planning time for teachers will be in the morning everyday before arrival
Social Emotional Well Being ● P2 (K-12) ○ The Positivity Project is a school based program dedicated to helping America’s youth build strong relationships by recognizing the character strengths in themselves and others. The vision is to create citizens and leaders who will enhance our communities and country by internalizing the belief in #PositivityInAction. Positive psychology’s scientifically validated 24 character strengths serve as our foundation. Positive psychology teaches that people have all 24 strengths within them — and that character is not just skills or behaviors, but rather an intrinsic part of each of us.
Social Emotional Well Being ● Welcome to Middle School Class (all 6th graders) This course will inspire students to build positive relationships and ○ become their best selves, by using an age appropriate and engaging curriculum designed by the Positivity Project. This curriculum will be embedded with social/emotional learning targets, as well as cross-curricular/core-subject assignments and projects. The focus is to guide students to become impactful community members through service learning, PBL (project based learning), while strengthening and supporting literacy and STEAM.
Social Emotional Well Being ● Positive Psychology (Upperclassmen) ○ MHS is 1 of 5 schools in the country partnering with the University of Pittsburgh to pilot this course for HS students. ○ This course, created by Dr. Osai, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, will educate students to understand the science of well-being and how to practically apply it to their own individual lives in various contexts living their best life. This class will enhance student’s personal well-being and help foster spaces that support goodness through the principles of the “Positivity in Action” mindset. Students will learn about Positive Psychology and how it is the scientific study of what makes life worth living and that it goes beyond a simple idea how to be happy. Students will learn the Foundations of Positive Psychology and why is it an important science to bring to bear in our personal lives and in the society.
Social Emotional Well Being ● Restorative Interventions that are Preventative, including community building circles, student and staff self reflection on the ways that the pandemic has impacted them emotionally, and embedded classroom culture building. ● Restorative Interventions that are Responsive, including trauma informed care training for ALL staff (particularly hall monitors, bus drivers, bathroom aides) that includes affective statements and questioning. ● Restorative Interventions that are Responsive, including harm circles, mediation, and building of “take care of me lists.” ● Continued TCI training (Responsive RP), created by our PPS team, to yield CTLE hours for all those interested in learning deescalation techniques.
Social Emotional Well Being A Multi-Tiered Support System (MTSS) is a tiered intervention system for academics and social/emotional learning (SEL) support within the school system. ● MTSS helps educators provide support for students with various needs ● MTSS will continue for ALL students whether students participate at school or via a remote location
Social Emotional Well-Being The Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) team monitors and case manages students academic and social emotional learning. Our PPS Team consists of: (2) School Psychologists School Social Worker (2) Guidance Counselors (2) Behavior Specialists
Social Emotional Well-Being Each PPS Team member will: ● case manage a grade level ● will frequently monitor student progress and make collaborative decisions with regard to interventions and/or goal ● report regularly to the teacher and/or family, and/or administrator ● meet weekly to discuss all students in Tier II and Tier III interventions
Social Emotional Well-Being Our SEL interventions will be flexible and powerful and will support students in school and at home. Examples: Individual/group counseling, Mindfulness breaks, providing parent support, student check-ins, Google Meetings, etc.
Social Emotional Well-Being MCSD will continue to establish an intentional focus on social and emotional skill building, mental and behavioral health, personal safety and the need for social interaction. SEL learning standards will be embedded within every classroom ( at school or remote).
Physical Safety ● 3 Bus Runs - K-3 (8am-1pm); 4-6 (9am-2pm); 7-12 (10am-3pm) ○ All students will wear face coverings on bus. Load bus back to front, one student per seat ○ Drivers will have disposable masks to give students who forget face coverings ○ Busses will be cleaned with approved misters between bus runs
Physical Safety ● 2 entrances at each building ○ We ask that parents take student temperatures prior to leaving the house ○ Thermal temperature scan at each entrance which will record student temperature ○ Students with a temperature at or above 100.0 will be relocated to an isolation room; nurse will conduct oral temperature check to confirm. If still presenting with temperature above 100.0, parent will be contacted to pick up their student. ● Desks will be located 6ft apart ○ When teachers move around the room assisting students, their face covering as well as the student they are near will have their covering on
Physical Safety ● Student transitions will be limited ● Transitioning in hallways will be directional ● Day cleaners will be frequently cleaning all common areas such as bathrooms and high touch surfaces ● Classrooms will be cleaned with approved misters every evening ● There will be highly visible signage educating and reminding all school community members of appropriate safety measures and hygiene protocols
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