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School Reopening Draft Plan #OneMechanicville

We will create a positive culture by empowering staff to focus

• n learning in a collaborative environment to achieve agreed

upon results while celebrating student and staff success.

In designing our reopening plan, we kept our mission in our front view. It is our

• bligation 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.

What concerns you most about your child(ren) returning to school?

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

• wn 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.

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

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,

• ne 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

Physical Safety

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

○ The District is required to provide PPE for all students and staff ○ 1800 Gaiters (over the head, neck wear face coverings) with school colors and logo have been purchased using BOCES CoSer for easy and quick cover ○ Students and staff will be permitted to bring an approved face covering from home ○ Face shields do not qualify per the DOH ○ Disposable face masks will be provided to both students and staff forgetting to wear one ○ Poly bicarbonate table shields will be utilized for health reasons as well as appropriate educational services such as speech therapy ○ Accommodations will be made for medically eligible students and staff

Physical Safety

• Food Services

○ We have purchased Food Carts (such as those used in hospitals and nursing homes) to deliver hot meals to the classrooms for grades K-5, & 7-8 ○ Students grades 6, & 9-12 will eat in cafeteria ○ We have purchased a readable scanner so that student meal ID cards will be read (non touch) for end of day pick up of breakfast and lunch for students 7-12 to have the next day (their remote learning day) ○ Students eating lunch in the classroom will be supervised by non-instructional staff ○ We will provide meals to qualifying students learning remotely

Physical Safety

• Health Services

○ Staff will sign off on an attestation form that they have not traveled to an identified area that requires a period of quarantine, not been in contact with a known positive Covid-19 case, do not present any Covid-19 symptoms and have their temperature taken upon entry to the building ○ Any student or staff being sent home from school due to presenting with a known Covid-19 symptom will need to remain home and be symptom free for 72 consecutive hours ○ Any student or staff testing positive for Covid-19 must have a written note from their physician that they are eligible to return to school

Physical Safety

• Health Services

○ Each school building will have 2 health room locations set-up. A room for Covid-19 related symptoms and a room for dispensing medicine and obvious non-Covid related issues ○ All staff will be trained in identifying overt symptoms such as coughing and protocol for sending students to the nurses station ○ We are working collaboratively with all schools in Saratoga County and with our Department of Health to determine the metrics for quarantining a cohort of students as well as determining when school will need to close based on a number of Covid-19 positive cases

NEXT STEPS

• Parental Choice(s)

○ In person ○ Remote only ○ Do you require district transportation

• The district will be sending forms home asking for responses to those
• questions. Every plan of action requires knowing how many students will be

present vs remote as well as how we will organize our bus runs

○ We request that if you select remote instruction only, you make the commitment of at least one trimester for ES students and semester for Jr/Sr HS students. It can certainly be extended if you choose at that time

NEXT STEPS

• Before and After School Child Care

○ The Mechanicville Area Community Services Center will be hosting before and after school child care at the MES ○ Please contact the MACSC regarding registration and priority qualifications

• Start date of School

○ Due to the amount of training for all staff we will be front loading all Superintendent Conference Days. Anticipated start dates: ■ Grades 1-12: Monday, September 14 ■ Kindergarten Screening 9/14-9/16; first day of class Thursday 9/17

• Please provide your child with a refillable water bottle

○ There will be opportunities throughout the day to refill their bottle at our self dispensing stations

NEXT STEPS

• This draft plan may change depending on:

○ Number of students electing in person instruction ○ Number of faculty needing remote instruction accommodations based on personal health

• In the event of a full school closure due to metrics being met causing a

closure, our pivot plan will mirror that of the current schedule presented. ○ We are in the process of securing devices for all students K-12 to have access to remote instruction, unfortunately we anticipate not having devices available for some students in grades K-2 until mid-October due to the current high demand of technology

Projected Costs of Pandemic

• Academics

○ 1 additional ES teacher (recall from RIF moving from TA to teacher) - $24,000 ○ Chromebooks for K-2 students - $75,000 ○ Upgraded Technology for Remote Instruction - $10-30,000

• Social Emotional Well Being

○ No additional costs as we were already budgeted to program this way

• Physical Safety

○ Additional Bus Run for both AM & PM - $355,000 (aided at 70%) ○ Misters, PPE, safety equipment, signage - $75,000 (aided at 65%) ○ Lunch coverage for classrooms - $62,000 ○ (3) day time cleaners from substitute list - $70,000 ○ Disposable PPE, additional cleaning supplies - Unknown at this time

Paying for the Pandemic

• Due to restrictions and circumstances, there will be budgeted line items that

do not get fully expensed ○ Positive balances from those expense lines will be redirected to Pandemic Expenses

• Unrestricted Fund Balance

○ Any amount remaining as a negative balance I will request that the BOE approve a resolution for necessary and contingent expenses due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and allocate those funds from the Unrestricted Fund Balance to the General Fund

SAMPLE DAILY PROGRAM SCHEDULES

Kindergarten and 1st Grade Sample Schedule 8:00-8:30 Arrival Routine, Breakfast in the Classroom, P2 Lesson 8:30-9:00 ELA 9:00-9:10 Movement/Brain Break 9:10-9:40 ELA 9:40-9:50 Movement/Brain Break 9:50-10:15 In class music or art lesson 10:15-10:45 Lunch in the classroom 10:45-10:55 Movement/Brain Break 10:55-11:25 Math 11:25-11:35 Movement/Brain Break 11:30-12:00 Math 12:00-12:10 Movement/Brain Break 12:10-12:40 What I Need or “WIN” Block (Intervention Block) 12:40-1:00 Dismissal Procedures

2nd and 3rd Grade Sample Schedule 8:00-8:30 Arrival Routine, Breakfast in the Classroom, P2 Lesson 8:30-9:10 ELA 9:10-9:20 Movement/Brain Break 9:25-10:10 Math 10:10-10:20 Movement/Brain Break 10:20-11:00 ELA/Math 11:00-11:45 Lunch in the classroom 11:45-11:55 Movement/Brain Break 1:55-12:15 In class music or art lesson 12:15-12:45 What I Need or “WIN” Block (Intervention Block) 12:45-1:00 Dismissal Procedures

4th and 5th Grade Sample Schedule 9:00-9:30 Arrival Routine, Breakfast in the Classroom, P2 Lesson and Home Room Check-In 9:30-10:30 ELA 10:30-10:40 Movement/Brain Break 10:40-11:40 Math 11:45-12:15 Lunch in the classroom 12:15-12:25 Movement/Brain Break 12:25-12:50 ELA/Math/ART/Music 12:50-1:00 Movement/Brain Break 1:00-1:40 What I Need or “WIN” Block (Intervention Block) 1:40-2:00 Dismissal Routine

Grade 11 Sample Schedule Start End Period 1 - ELA 11R 10:00 10:40 Period 2 - Algebra 2 10:45 11:25 Period 3 - Spanish 3 11:30 12:10 Period 4 - Chemistry 12:15 12:55 Lunch 12:55 1:25 Period 5 - Elective (iTutor) 1:30 2:10 Period 6 - US H&G 2:15 2:55

This is an incredibly difficult time for all of us. We recognize there is no perfect plan. We are, and remain committed to fulfilling our promise to our community by supporting our students, empowering our staff, and creating a Community of Learners. Our country is going through an incredibly difficult time, the MCSD will leave the politics to others, we will lead with best practice and

• evidence. We thank you for your trust in us, we are grateful for

your support, and we need your patience and understanding. My best, Bruce #OneMechanicville