How to Best Participate: Mute your microphone when ● you are not speaking Use the chat box (at bottom ● center of screen) to type in comments Use the Raise Hand function to ● participate in the discussion (click on participant...click on your name...click on Raise Hand) BPS School Reopening Listening Session Brenda Cassellius, Superintendent
Our Goal: To create a space where students are joyfully learning - both academically and social-emotionally
4 Boston Public Schools Core Values Guiding Our Planning Reopening BPS Schools ● Promotes Equity ● Protects Public Health ● Promotes Community ● Increases the Quality of Student Learning ● Supports Parents as Workers ● Accounts for Staff Abilities DRAFT: For Policy Discussion, Illustrative Purposes Only
Science-informed Decisions What the Data is Telling Us: BPHC Recommended Practices to be Implemented: Massachusetts is not seeing rising cases like ● All students are 6 feet apart and wear masks ▫ many other states are All teachers & staff are 6 feet apart from ▫ BPHC is monitoring closely: ● students and wear masks Number of new cases ○ Increased sanitation protocols compliant with ▫ Availability of testing ○ public health guidelines (disinfecting “foggers”; Systems’ capacity to safely care for ○ constant cleaning of high touch areas) the public 10 -12 people in classroom depending on size of BPS will pivot based on science & public ▫ ● health guidance room Breakfast/lunch served in classrooms ▫ Rate (per 100,000) of New Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the Past 7 Days by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Region
School Committee Superintendent Brenda Cassellius BPS COVID Core Team BPS Project Senior Advisor, Tammy Pust Management Dir. Strategic Projects, Maggie Riddell Team Community Special Assistant, Dana Engle Engagement Academics Student Health Food Services Transportation Facilities Human Capital Engagement Comms Technology Partnerships & (Andrea Zayas) (Corey Harris) (Sam Depina) (Sam DePina) (Sam Depina) (Al Taylor) (Monica Roberts) (Jonathan Palumbo) (Mark Racine) Athletics Kristen Daley Kelly Hung Laura Benavidez Del Stanislaus Teresa Neff-Webster Steven Chen Myriam Ortiz Xavier Andrews Solimar Cruzado Community Engagement (Monica Roberts) Suzanne Salter-Bennett Angela Zhang PJ Preskenis Jeremiah Hasson Devon McCarley Margaret Farmer Brian Marques Bob Harrington Margaret Farmer Avery Esdaile Andria Amador Brian McLaughlin Jamie Racanelli Equity (Charles Grandson) Becky Shuster Lanes of Work Finance (Nate Kuder) David Bloom School Committee | Chair Loconto | Vice Chair Oliver-Davila | ELL Task Force | OAG Task Force + School Leaders + Union Partners | Custodians | BTU | Bus Drivers/Monitors | Guild | Cafeteria Workers | Lunch Monitors | Planning/Engineering | Plant Admin | School Police | Storekeepers | BASAS + Boston Compact + BPHC + BPS Families + BSAC + State and Federal Guidance | CDC | DESE | USDOE | OSHA + SpedPac + CPC + DELAC + Elected Officials + City of Boston + Equity Roundtables + Partners Advisory Groups DRAFT: For Policy Discussion, Illustrative Purposes Only
Data We’re Looking at: Snapshot of Family Survey Data BPS Family Reopening Survey Results Number of Responses: 9,751 40% 23% 28% 9% *numbers will continue to change as we receive more responses (as of 7/13) DRAFT: For Policy Discussion, Illustrative Purposes Only
Boston Public Schools 8 Steps of the Equity Planning Tool Kit BPS is committed to equity. We seek to clearly understand how decisions impact students and families and to make choices that do not marginalize our most-marginalized students. 23 Community Engagement 1. Identify desired results and outcomes Meetings to 2. Gather the data date >2,000 3. Stakeholder engagement Stakeholders 4. Strategies for racial equity Engaged 5. Implementation plan 14,000+ Family Surveys 6. Accountability and communication Completed
BPS Fall Reopening Planning Updates Academics: working on hybrid and remote learning improvements PPE: working on procurement, several orders underway Finance : have a specific COVID request tracking system; aiming to get budget requests approved ASAP for the procurement timeline [space?] Human Capital/LR: preparing for bargaining with union partners Transportation: deadline for yellow bus routes is fast approaching DRAFT: For Policy Discussion, Illustrative Purposes Only
BPS Fall Reopening Planning Updates Facilities : School level analysis of classroom size + walkthroughs completed ● Cleaning protocols updated ● Sanitation supplies identified, costed and in queue for ordering ● Signage on walls; directional signage on floors - all planned and being ● operationalized 3 Feet 6 Feet DRAFT: For Policy Discussion, Illustrative Purposes Only
11 Boston Public Schools Before leaving for school Checklist for Safety Families as ❏ Complete the Health Screen Checklist Partners: ❏ Eat breakfast ❏ Wash your hands ❏ Bring your mask ❏ Bring your learning materials ❏ Make & bring lunch (optional)
At School: Safety & Operations New routines and protocols for behavior, transitions, grouping ❏ Reminders for social distancing ❏ Guides for hallway traffic ❏ Lockers socially distanced & sanitized ❏ Plexiglass dividers to help w/distancing ❏ Meals served in classrooms ❏
Emerging Themes From What We’ve Heard Transportation Health & Safety Operations Cleaning and maintenance of Access to PPE/cleaning supplies Different planning for high schools ➔ ➔ ➔ and elementary and K-8 schools school buses Balance high academic ➔ expectations while recognizing Considerations - building ventilation, ➔ Social distance on school buses ➔ family/community trauma, meal distribution, outdoor space & public transportation Expectations for students ➔ wearing masks all day Opportunity to partner with ➔ Partnership with the MBTA & ➔ community organizations / Time/space for students to be ➔ safety measures for students businesses for creative satellite outdoors/active learning spaces Access to school nurses & ➔ counselors, mental health resources DRAFT: For Policy Discussion, Illustrative Purposes Only
Emerging Themes From What We’ve Heard Academics, Special English Language Engagement Learning & Tech Education Learners ➔ Keep families together so Can we prioritize in person Access in home language is Importance of relationship ➔ ➔ ➔ younger and older siblings can sessions for students with important building with students & attend the same days so IEPs? families We really need help parent/guardian can work. ➔ navigating bilingual Consistent, clear & Many students require ➔ ➔ High quality remote technology ➔ accessible expectations & close proximity to adults to learning/hybrid learning. communications access education. How will Worried about students, ➔ the district address these especially newcomers, who District transparency & ➔ Families might not want to go ➔ needs with social were already struggling with forth with having their kids move accountability distancing considerations? school engagement and are to the next grade due to the now even more falling time/learning loss from Covid-19. through cracks Consider vulnerable student ➔ populations first, plan will work for the rest of the population. DRAFT: For Policy Discussion, Illustrative Purposes Only
Emerging Themes From What We’ve Heard Concerns Recommendations PPE, protocols for safe distancing, Improve remote learning infrastructure ● ● punishment for lack of compliance with access to home language for students Learning loss, staying in same grade and parents (training) ● SPED specialized services can not take Keep younger and older siblings on same ● ● place remotely schedule Parents need to work Improve district communications, ● ● Parents who were struggling with transparency and accountability ● engagement and distrust for the district Increase hiring of nurses (floaters) and ● Social-Emotional health for students, additional support to redirect students ● staff and families Expand opportunities for outdoor classes, ● Safety inside buses explore options for satellite sites via ● partners. DRAFT: For Policy Discussion, Illustrative Purposes Only
DESE Requires 3 Plans for Reopening Fully Remote Hybrid All In-Person continuation of remote a hybrid of in-person and in-person learning with new learning for all students remote learning safety requirements
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