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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

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J-D Plan for Re-Opening

Fall 2020

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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

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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

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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.

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Vision

Throughout the 2020-21 school year, our community is healthy and all students receive high quality instruction that meets their needs

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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.

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Well-Being, Education, Facilities Protecting our most vulnerable students and staff

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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
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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

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Parent Survey

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Health and safety: Comprehensive systematic strategy

Social Distancing Face coverings Screening Hand hygiene Cleaning Ventilation

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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

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Health and safety: Social Distancing Required

Social Distancing using the Hybrid Model where students learn in-person and remotely

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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
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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
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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

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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

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Instruction in the hybrid model

½ class in-person, ½ class remote Maintain continuity of learning Ensure daily interaction between students and teachers

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Health and safety: Comprehensive systemic strategy

Social Distancing Face coverings Screening Hand hygiene Cleaning Ventilation

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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
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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

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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
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Health and safety: Ventilation

Plan to meet or exceed ventilation requirements in all occupied spaces

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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.

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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
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Health and safety: Emergency drills

  • Plan for conducting school safety drills with modifications to ensure social

distancing

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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.

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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
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Technology

  • Plan to get computers in the hands of staff and students
  • Plan to get connectivity to families that need it
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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

  • n/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.

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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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Potential Budget Impact

Screening

  • Need for additional personnel and resources to screen students
  • Additional personnel costs associated with supervision of students
  • Cost to transport students home in the event they are ill

Instruction

  • Additional staff needed in order to maintain social distancing in classrooms
  • Professional learning
  • Additional costs associated with cleaning buildings
  • Additional substitutes
  • Additional costs to assist parents to support remote learning
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Potential Budget Impact

Building operations

  • Additional sanitizing supplies
  • Bottle Filling stations
  • Signage throughout the building
  • Dividers for classroom and other spaces
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Potential Budget Impact

Transportation

  • Additional bus runs may be needed to accommodate social distancing
  • Additional hours necessary for bus drivers to clean buses
  • Additional sanitizing equipment necessary to deep clean buses
  • Additional substitute bus drivers
  • PPE for transportation department
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Potential Budget Impact

Technology

  • Additional chromebooks
  • Additional hotspots
  • Additional technology support for staff
  • Additional technology support for students and families

Food Service

  • Installing Plexiglass dividers between cashiers and students
  • Distribution of food in each school
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Next Steps

Plan to State Education Department by July 31 Post the plan to the District website Continued communication with families Survey parents about returning to school and bussing Develop procedures to implement the plan Carefully plan the start of school Governor’s announcement in the first week of August