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WELCOME!

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• day’s Outcomes

The plan is a high-level plan; we need to learn from our employees and community what questions they have and where they would like us to land in response to those

• questions. We won’t be able to make everyone happy, but we

do want to craft the myriad additional details that the complete plan will require with the input from these groups.

• Understand the rationale and priorities for the DMPS

Return to Learn plan.

• Understand the DMPS Return to Learn Plan at a high level.
• Help us identify what we may have missed or perspectives

that were not considered in the planning process.

Our Lenses

Equity Achievement Safety

We Heard You

All (100%) of Anti-Racist Town Hall discussion groups called for increased focus on social- emotional learning, restorative practices, and building teachers’ & leaders’ skills to talk about race and social justice.

We will invest in that skill development.

Anti-Racist T

• wn Hall Findings

Finding Action Steps So Far… Teaching, learning and assessment is driven by adults using whitewashed curriculum

• Full curriculum review of

literacy/English Language Arts

• Review of district-selected

assessments Recruitment, selection and retainment of staff produces a majority white staffing population

• Black employee affinity group

meetings starting the week of July 13 A lack of capacity within the district to create positive, supportive school experiences for students

• Including social emotional learning,

social justice, and race talk in the 2020-21 professional development calendar The current school system is perpetuating systemic racism

• Including more community and family

input in our return to learn planning

Core Beliefs for R2L

• Return to Learn plans should reflect the needs, desires, and

parameters of our community, students, staff, parents, and health professionals.

• Return to Learn plans are designed to prioritize and support the

health, safety, and well-being of students and staff.

• Resources and efforts will be placed FIRST on ensuring that EVERY

student has access to high quality, grade level instruction; variety of

• ptions for SOME comes secondary.
• The board goals and instructional levers determine where time,

energy, and resources should be placed.

• A high-quality plan is prioritized, focused, versatile, and adaptive due

to the rapidly changing environment in which we live.

Survey Participation

Parents: 74.7% Students Grades 5- 11: 32.8% Staff: 77.6%

Survey Results

Instructional Models

100% Virtual Learning Model Teachers and students are engaged in instruction through Canvas and virtual meeting platforms. The district is working to put as many courses online as possible, but the course

• ptions will not be as

expansive as they have been in the past. Hybrid Model Students attend school for in-person instruction on a rotating schedule in order to reduce the number of students in a building on a given day. When they are not in-person, they will be engaged in virtual learning.

Virtual Model

DMPS is investing resources in the expansion of

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Virtual Campus to include K-8. If families choose to enroll your student in the 100% virtual option, your student will be served by

• ur K-12

Virtual Campus. More details related to Virtual Campus can be found at https://virtualcampus.dmschools.org/. Information on K-8 will be available soon.

Virtual Campus

• DMPS

Virtual Campus is a K-12

• nline school designed to

provide greater equity of access and opportunity for success to ALL students.

• Rigorous, Standards-

Driven Learning

• Relevance
• Opportunities for,

collaboration, cognitive complex tasks

• Individualized: Student

Voice, Choice and Ownership

• We strive to partner with all

students, by understanding, personalizing, and accommodating to their flexible needs in their current life situations.

K-8 Hybrid Model

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Cohort A; In- person learning Cohort A; In- person learning Full virtual for all students and staff; buildings disinfected Cohort B; In- person learning Cohort B; In- person learning Cohort B; Virtual Learning Cohort B; Virtual Learning Full virtual for all students and staff; buildings disinfected Cohort A; Virtual Learning Cohort A; Virtual Learning

High School Hybrid

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Comprehensive High Schools 9th Grade Students In- person learning 10th Grade Students In- person learning Full Virtual for all students and staff; buildings disinfected 11th Grade Students In- person learning 12th Grade Students In- person learning Central Campus 12th Grade Students In- person learning for Lab-based courses 11th Grade Students In- person learning for Lab-based courses Full Virtual for all students and staff; buildings disinfected 10th Grade Students In- person learning for Lab-based courses 9th Grade Students In- person learning for Lab-based courses Central Academy Full Virtual Full Virtual Full Virtual for all students and staff; buildings disinfected Full Virtual Full Virtual

Preschool

• We are prepared to offer full-virtual learning.
• Current enrollment is low - if current trend

persists, then we will offer 4 days in-person (M,T,Th,F) and Wednesdays virtual for both students and staff.

• If enrollment increases, then we will move to a

hybrid model similar to K-8 and assign cohorts.

• Drake University has already determined that

they will cap enrollment at 10 students per class for Head Start.

Health and Safety

Social Distancing PPE – Mandatory Face Coverings for students and staff Hand Hygiene Monitoring and Excluding for Illness Lunch in Classrooms

T echnology and Access

• One-to-One Learning Platform (every student

assigned a laptop device).

• Preschool & Kindergarten students will be

assigned a tablet device.

• Plans to strengthen and support infrastructure

needed for more reliable connectivity is still underway.

Transportation and Food Services

• Every effort will be made to provide

transportation to students who qualify.

• Even though we anticipate fewer students on a

bus due to a rotating schedule, we cannot guarantee safe distancing. Students will be required to wear masks and have assigned seats.

• Meals will be provided for every student,

regardless of virtual or in-person instruction.

Childcare

• Metro Kids will be available – currently

working with the state for approval of full-day childcare; fee structure must be approved by DHS and DMPS School Board.

• Developing a childcare site map that provides

the location of DHS licensed childcare providers throughout the city as well as available club programming (Boys and Girls Club, YMCA, CFUM, etc.).

ONLINE REGISTRATION BEGINS JULY 13

• Selection of learning model (virtual vs. hybrid)
• K-8 students: request to move cohorts in the

hybrid model

Learning Model Decision Considerations

100% Virtual learning:

• Families/students will be expected to commit to virtual

learning for at least the first term of the school year (August 26 to October 28).

• Virtual learning will be self-paced to allow for flexible

scheduling of learning. Hybrid learning:

• Face coverings will be required.
• May need to quickly shift to 100% virtual learning due to

COVID-19 status in the community or a school outbreak.

• If eligible and in need of bussing: full social distancing is not

possible (cloth face coverings required).

Q&A