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Piedmont Unified Reopening Schools Advisory Taskforce School Board Meeting June 10, 2020 1

School Board Meeting - May 19,2020 Superintendent Booker presented “Reopening Schools in 20-21: Planning Assumptions & Considerations” to the Board of Education for review, public comment, and discussion. The Board of Education and district leadership team, along with teachers and classified staff, will work together to address the considerations and develop a blueprint for Piedmont Unified’s 2020-2021 learning landscape. Goal: Blueprint provided at the Board of Education Meeting on June 24, 2020 2

Reopening Schools 11 students Advisory Taskforce 20 parents 13 classified 46 certificated 13 administrators 2 board members = 105 strong!!!

Roles & Responsibilities ROLE: Advisory group to the Superintendent and School Board RESPONSIBILITIES: ❖ Develop a “blueprint for the Learning Landscape for 2020-21” considering the complexity of multiple topics ❖ Reach consensus on hybrid schedule(s) to recommend to the Board that provide some in-person instruction at each level ❖ Develop a plan to provide full distance learning

Timeline May 19 March 16 June 4, 8, 10, 12 June 24 PUSD closed schools PUSD introduces Superintendent Reopening Schools due to the COVID-19 “Thought Exchange” to proposes 2020-21 Advisory Taskforce Pandemic solicit input on Learning Landscape to Meetings COVID-19 Planning the School Board Mar May June August June 10 August 11 May 19 May 21 Superintendent Possible first day of PUSD Budget Advisory Taskforce shares introduces Planning school Committee Meeting progress at School Assumptions & Board Meeting Considerations Tool 5

Task Force Meetings Meeting 1 Meeting 2 Meeting 3 Meeting 4 ● Elementary and ● Considerations ● Ground work ● Blueprint Secondary group ● Scenarios ● Unpack Recommendations work ● Elementary and Considerations completed ● More prototypes Secondary ● Begin Data ● Prototypes prototypes Review refinement schedules 6

Assessment & Grading Equity Health & Safety Considerations Instruction for 2020-2021 Professional Learning Focus Groups Special Education/504s Student services: academic, behavioral, mental health, social-emotional 7

District LCAP Goals Goal 1: All students and staff will feel physically and emotionally safe and part of a caring and inclusive community. Goal 2: All students will engage in relevant learning experiences that foster life-long curiosity, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and responsible citizenship. Goal 3: Teachers and staff, with district partners, will ensure an outstanding educational experience for every student through collaboration, innovation, and professional growth.

Piedmont High School Student Data ● Number of synchronous meetings lower than expected ● Not all teachers followed Distance Learning schedule, creating conflicts with other classes ● Schedule: Start later and lunch wasn't long enough ● Exercise rates were high ● World Language received high marks for their approach ● Several teachers received accolades for their activities and organization of their courses

Millennium High School Student Data ● More sadness and loss of connection to friends ● Exercise was very low ● Students reported high levels of distraction working from home

PMS Student Data ● Wide range of responses; no consistent themes emerged ● Some students wanted more synchronous learning ● Some wanted less ● Lots of positive feedback and praise for teachers

Grade 3-5 Student Data ● Students want more facetime with teachers ● Expressed challenges finding lessons from specials ● Expressed some challenges finding work across different platforms (Google Docs, Google Classroom)

ThoughtExchange "What are the most important things our school district needs to think about as we continue to respond to COVID-19 and plan for the future?" Different process than a survey.

ThoughtExchange: "What are the most important things our school district needs to think about as we continue to respond to COVID-19 and plan for the future?" Ratings Quantity

ThoughtExchange: Top Thoughts

ThoughtExchange: Commonalities

ThoughtExchange: Commonalities

Planning for Different Scenarios 18

Scenarios Some scenarios will be determined by health department declarations or guidelines. Some may be determined locally, based on our priorities. At this point we know we need: ● Distance learning models ● In-person models that are responsive to county health department guidelines

DISTANCE FIXED ROTATING 100% SOCIAL "REGULAR" LEARNING STABLE TEACHER (RT) IN-PERSON DISTANCED SCHOOL COHORT COHORT Prioritized 50%? capacity (effective vaccine) ● No social ● SIP and ACPH ● 15 students or ● 15 students or ● Children of ● 15 students or orders less less essential less distancing ● Previous ● In response to ● 6 ft apart ● 6 ft apart workers/staff ● 6 ft apart cases in school ● Masks/ ● Masks/ ● Prioritized ● Masks/ operations or cohort hand-washing hand-washing students hand-washing ● A chosen ● Screening ● Screening (special ed?, ● Screening delivery model mechanism mechanism k-1?, at-risk, mechanism ● Any closures ● 1 room per day ● 1 room per day other?) ● Students lasting more ● 1 teacher per ● Teachers ● 15 students or disperse to than 3 days day rotate to less different ● Different different ● 6 ft apart rooms based accountability rooms ● Masks/ on schedule model than Spring hand-washing 2020 ● Screening ● Mix of synchronous mechanism and asynchronous Contact Tracing Impact

Ideating with Different Prototypes 21

Ideating with Prototypes Process Broadstrokes Reviewed several prototypes Listed pros and cons for each model Forced rankings of prototypes Iterations and further development of prototypes

Elementary & Secondary Prototypes ● AM/PM hybrid & DL ● DL- Original 2 ● "Focused" Hybrid & DL ● DL- "Double Loop" Alternating Full Day DL- Modified Block ● ● 4/10 Alternating Days ● ● ● Elementary Small Groups ● Alternating Days Livestreaming ● Sample Distance Learning Schedule ● 4/10 Three additional DL models that Advisory ● ● were generated today as part of the Some other iterations! ● Taskforce

Next Steps Collecting feedback from Taskforce on Models Elementary: Full DL Model & Hybrid Development Secondary: APT, CSEA, APSA Negotiations School Board Meeting - June 24, 2020

Q&A Public & Board