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They're going to put six more points on the floors to see how to separate the students a bit. The children will be separated, and when they enter the classrooms, they'll still be at the same level of development and monitoring. They're going to look at the possibilities of planning the buildings. Oh, to see three of the schools—one elementary, one middle, and one high school— the arrival and departure plan for classes, how they'll be arranged for the children when they arrive, for lunch distribution, and there wo n't be anyone in the cafeteria, at least according to the plan we're currently working on. The state hasn't told us yet what they're going to do. They're going to distribute the meals to the classrooms, and they're going to talk about that later. The health department is addressing heatstroke; they're going to have more ventilation. The special teachers are also pushing for that.
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if I'm not mistaken so they are working on that again they understand the value and can see the the potential you know kind of roadblocks if it's during instructional time and mr. Greer can you go back and I just want to clarify on that Monday so can you just tell me that one more time and talk about what that what that time looks like you said on that Monday a space for parents so so yeah what was this is what was suggested is so if we remember back to the to the calendar there's that 8 o'clock to 8:45 time block that was that's currently listed as an instructional block for all students but again that means that that would be an earlier day for for the you know majority of students and so again the parent communicated that she felt the same way and said you know in thinking through creative ways and you know as parents are asking for support on you know as they're partnering with the teachers to do the teaching throughout the course of the week what if that space was was designated to have time for a group of parents to be able to join in and interface with the teachers for any of that that choose to so you know clearly there would be no attendance and it wouldn't be required but if there was one or if there was four parents or ten parents that wanted to join in on the zoom or excuse me the the google meet then then they then that would be an option and so there that way it's still consistent across the board as far as teaching but then provides additional you know support for for parents as they're partnering with teachers to do the learning ok board member cruise glutes on us yeah so my my question is around sort of the pieces that engage that really engaged students so thinking about to curriculars or we think about music class so how are we how is music going to be delivered and so that's my number one that that's question number the car first part of it and then second a second part like are we think what kind of creative ways are we thinking about like how can we create like non-magic spaces for the kids to socialize online that's not related to learning [Music] that was a that's a it's an interesting question because that was a lot of the questions that I was talking with Stacy gal Dumas from think together yesterday and so in thinking about this this flexibility that was one of the questions that we talked about was if we are allowed to to create some of these think together is allowed to create some of these spaces during the day I'm just gonna give an example perhaps it might be part of a rotation right so we're thinking about flexible learning so it was something that we definitely talked about and again she's she's actually going to create some different scenarios and options and so we're going to be taking a look at some of those things the other piece about music are you are you specifically talking about elementary is that what I guess because I'm assuming I mean that's we're gonna have the secondary right yes yeah oh yeah that's it well and the secondary periods are they're already built in the schedule yeah and that's the that is one of our actually that is one of our items for planning is now that we have this distance learning block schedule what does that look like so we have been working with our music coordinator and and thinking about how we might be able to do that and what it would look like and and and the other pieces that we want to make sure and you know involve our music teachers in terms of what that might look like because we have we have band and we have choir and so we've got to do some some planning around you know how we'll provide that and what looks like so that is that is in the works and we have been having conversations around that and as soon as we have again landed on that one we'll definitely let you know but that's a that is on the one of the top tickler files for us to do board member Rodriguez Pena yes so we're speaking about music will the students in virtual learning be able to to be in chorus or play an instrument or an ahmadi hockey program and either participate in any of those extracurricular activities yes that's a great question and just like we did in the spring the students were able to make appointments and check out their instruments and be able to have class one of the things that the secondary teachers did is they used a program called Smart Music and this was a really great tool where students were learning how to read music they could play along with professional accompaniment that's a really cool feature with that program and so that will continue yes so we be great because it would keep the enrollment up in our music program in our arts program and you know our extracurricular activities board member our EMS yeah Deana hi I just wanted to make sure did I hear you correctly virtual academy students will also be included in the music choices so so Virtual Academy students will be able to participate in activities at the school so let's say for example that we are you know we we're opening up the schools again and they're the public health order has allowed us to open up activities right so if a student is involved in Virtual Academy then an after-school activity let's say a mariachi yeah that's a perfect example so yes a virtual Academy student would be able to participate in an after-school programming so Orchestra that's one yeah yes okay any more questions board member Pena okay all right there you go all right and with that I'd like to thank everybody for all the work you did thank you dr.
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Tsao and cabinet and lots of folks in the absence of that we are still required to offer right now currently five days a week in school learning and so the choices currently are based on on that premise that we have to offer an in-school experience five days or just learning option there is always of course the homeschooling option which you see on the screen but in terms of the bigger choices that families are making most families are making the choice between in school and distance learning now should the state grant us permission to enter in a hybrid model then we will be able to have folks edit their choices and to update their selections and of course if there's any changes in that that would change you know that would be awaken weigh heavily in the way that parents would want to make choices we would allow of course for families to make those updates and to make those adjustments but you have to understand something within this our distance learning plan and what we're able to offer is based on the number of staffing that we have available the number of students who select that option it's a little bit of a chicken or the egg situation here because many parents want to know exactly what it looks like in order to make a clear and informed choice we need to know kind of what our pieces are as well so that we can put together the best plan possible I will explain a little bit something about the the distance learning and a program called edgenuity at the secondary level and I want to clear up a couple of misconceptions about that and some of that may have been a result of the way things were captured or phrased in the survey to you and it is also part of evolving information that we are learning as we are working with the company to understand more about some of the programmatic features that we have access to and so in the nutshell edgenuity is not a third party that we would send kids to off to to be educated for educated with I'm sorry I'm edgenuity is a curricular platform and there is a resource for teachers to use in class to support teaching and learning in a digital environment the courses can be aligned very closely to our DPS curriculum they can be customized and so all teachers at the 612 level in the core areas mainly the core areas would have access the students will be enrolled in those courses and students will get used to using materials and digital content from those from those from that resource there is an option within a Genuity to have more of a self-paced course which we were considering very closely however there are some technical issues that we're working through at the end of the day a DPS teacher will still be working with your child in distance learning whether it is in a fall cohort or if the district should switch over and we're working out the details behind that on so they'll still be contact with the DPS teacher we do have issues around certification that we're trying to work through and how what that looks like at the secondary level and so you know but students you know their experience would be would be different then then if the district converted over to the whole district in distance learning where the teachers are largely available to work asynchronously and synchronously with the entire class so more information will be coming out about that but I just want to be clear that students who would participate in the distance learning in the fall core cohort would still likely have contact with with their teachers but would be would be working more independently and have a little bit less contact and students who are in the class obviously in person in school okay I know that's a lot to absorb there's a lot of questions around will I be able to change my change my decision once I make it when some more information becomes available and what where what we want parents to understand is that we will be staffing and trying to you know creating bus routes and transportation to make sure that we're adequately servicing kids who select the different options and so changing over very quickly and coming in and out of those options is not easily done certainly a parent we could work with parents to to make make those things possible if needed but they wouldn't be instantaneous they would have to occur at certain breaks where we have time to adjust and and redeploy so I know that that was a big concern with folks so your choices for the fall that you had an opportunity to see where the in school again traditional schedules maintaining blended and learning connections some traditional schedules in the census the teachers see students five days a week but some of those schedules will be adjusted so that we and and possible some early releases which you'll see in the next page the homeschooling option which is always an option and we can work with families who select that little bit more closely to explain what it is that they need to do and again the distance learning at the k5 level I didn't speak too much about the k5 they would likely have our own DPS teachers working on creating a virtual classroom this could potentially mean that you're not your child is not necessarily assigned to a school per se but rather a teacher who will be teaching grade two or grade three course content for example and so we have to be able to again adjust these based on the number of teachers that we have available and the number of students who select the option and where those occur which schools in which grade levels so it's a very complex matrix of decision-making that needs to occur Kevin you can go thank you so I do have a couple of our principals at each level we have an elementary school principal middle school principal and high school principal to briefly talk to you about some of the k-12 schedules and the proposed schedules that we're considering the first one deals with the phase one and then the second one deals with what a hybrid schedule could look like and we will start with the high school dan are you on yes great thank you thanks for having me here tonight try to get through these schedules that is everyone has said I had the opportunity to sit and view this chat and I think it's very important that the teach teachers and parents even some students that are on here that it's very important to understand that very high school Danbury public schools everybody is pushing for the hybrid model so what we're doing now and these schedules that are coming up or because this is what the state asked us to do so we have been sitting with the administration and the exodia NAND facilities at Danbury high school and did a tour with an architect trying to find the maximum space in our rooms you haven't got the total recommendations for them yet but as we've come through we're getting a good idea of how many students we could fit in in each classroom as dr.
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The high schools, especially, are going to try to see that. They're going to talk about how to clean and disinfect the objects before the schools open. The city is going to review all the buildings in the system that are operating efficiently. They're going to replace all the filters and other equipment. And not to replace the 13 front or where it is necessary to replace 3 per year after the scoop after the school starts the ventilation system has to be at full capacity a week before the school reopens and one to discuss with the administrators and with everyone to be on the same page to some of the buildings and they are not going to see how they are going to do it before I have a fluid area as they say an hour after occupying and reorganizing that they don't want the air to keep flowing every time the children move there will be ventilation the windows have to be open so they have fresh air to reign many things so that the buildings are ventilated and this is a very good capacity where the temperature is correct they are going to work with signs where they always say they do not cover the most faces wright at each entrance there will be this sign and also the sign to maintain the six, the six feet distance and there will not be a mass outside where they are going to receive the children when the parents drop off the children there is one in the corridor they are going to put the children but with the separated distance that should be.
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Mitchell what's outstanding um anybody else it's all done we will move on then we're going to move on to 10-point consent calendar item 10.1 all matters listed under the consent calendar are considered by the board to be routine and be enacted by the board in one motion in the format following the last consent calendar agenda agenda item there will be no discussion of these items prior to the time the board staff or the public requests specific items to be discussed if discussion is requested by a board member that item will be removed from the consent calendar and it will be considered separately the superintendent and staff recommend approval of all consent calendar agenda items do I have a motion on the floor I like to pull item 10.8 please okay well I would like to pull out item 10.3 okay do we have a motion oh I move to approve the consent calendar with the exception of ten point three and ten point eight a second okay moved by board member Greer seconded by board member Ariana's let's go ahead and vote okay I'm zero and at this point we now have okay we'll discuss item 11.1 appoint School League representatives to CIF Federation the California Interscholastic Federation my only question was in it went through my head and now I understand why is why Sierra high school wasn't listed on having a representative and then I realized that each of the students placed boards in their home schools correct correct and Sierra high school does not have they have intramural athletics but they didn't participate in the CIF alright that was it so now we'll move on to eleven point two um a point of order I think we need to vote on that item okay thank you um all right let's vote i motion to approve you didn't play well oh I'm sorry thank you board member Grier and board member Cruz Gonzales first bite motion motion by board member Greer seconded by board member Cruz Gonzales now voting there's no yes five zero and then we will move on to item 11 point two which is approval of Memorandum of Understanding MoU with Foothill family yes my question to that is I know there's none of the put your family under assist who your family will provide online on-site counseling and I noticed on do you want some APU the other ones we have in here else a virtual son didn't say we're sure this one only says on site so I don't know when you change the wording on that or um how they do it on site that is yeah that's a great question and so I would have to go back and ask them I we are not open on sight and so I cannot imagine that we would not be doing like telehealth you know like some of our other services as well so but you think that's who are improving a contract we should have yeah we can definitely pull it and then we can have them revise it absolutely thank you okay so do I have a motion to table it so 11.2 yes you live in point - I like your table that please until we have that correction and okay its motion by a board member Rodriguez Pena and seconded by board member ariana.sea let's go hey and it passes 5-0 so now we'll move on to item 12.0 Human Resources 12.1 approval of the contract between Los Angeles County Office of Education laco and Azusa Unified School District for joint powers agreement employee assistance service for education EEF second okay motion to approve by shining board member Cruz Gonzales thank you did by board member Rodriguez Pena and discussion certificated I'm yes I remember Gonzales it's like it's for all ma USD employees and their families just a bit of background for regarding this item you the program that has been with this is for many years however we haven't had a contract in place with them and this is something that they sent to us to have approved so the amount that we're paying per employee is not it's not changing and the number of employees that were extending the service to include all of our teachers certificated employees our classified employees are part-time employees and management thank you okay any other questions all right vote s is 5 0 and with that we are gonna have a quick question I forgot to ask you earlier is that okay well please Mel go right ahead yeah sorry Dana um you know just fine point I'm sorry I'm going back to distance learning I'm so I you know in terms of the like that and the extra the extra curricular activities so how what's how is it gonna work with clubs like clubs at the middle school in high school level like have you guys thought about that hmm question so yeah that is a great that's a great question so that is also something to think about in terms of when we have actually I have we have our middle school principal meeting I believe it's this this Friday so I will bring that up and talk about what that piece looks like and then let you know but yeah so in terms of again all those other pieces with school that make school fun for kids right involving and and how we do that so and the other pieces that we'll ask them what were some of the things that they did in the spring how did they do that and what you know what worked and and the other thing is finding out you know what do kids like right so yeah that's a that's a great question okay thank you for that the new Spanish in what you call this I'm sorry translation I hope you worked out well for the families I really do and that's great whoever figured it out Thank You Tommy Lika I know board member Cruz Gonzalez actually gave us the link and mentioned it so and board member ariana.sea for it so this is great alright well with that 8:17 we're closing session and you know meeting next week it's the first week in in like three or four months uh-huh exactly you've had one more there's been one more week off oh here we go all righty well everybody have a great week bye [Applause]
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Sal mentioned there are many many classes at Danvers High School that are over 24 students and and how and what we would do with that is what we're working on now so we're going to go through the three phases there will probably will be some or two phases they'll be some adjusting guy Kevin adjusting this is the first phase that we came with and the big thing that you'll notice is while we start on time at 7:05 and 720 that no one will be dropped they're allowed into the building until 7:05 generally we have some students that show up as early as 6:45 in the morning get dropped off doors will stay lock and entry will be not allowed until 7:05 because kids will have to report straight to their just their classrooms no more gathering in the cafeteria or open spaces you can't have that the big change is that were out hour and a half early every day at 12:30 now why do we have to do that because there is no way for us to serve our lunches our cafeteria was the first thing that we tackled measured and found that we cannot service our for lunch waves in there so at 12:30 we can do what we're referring to as a grab-and-go lunch from different kiosks around where we have the buses and we're looking to dismiss you know certain waves or areas of the building at a time go down grab your lunch and go and get on the bus and eat it when you get home 12:30 you know is late in the day it's you know almost 5:00 it's five hours later or something eating so you know we've encouraged kids to bring snacks and things like that but then when they get home at after one o'clock - 1:55 it's independent practice time this has allows teachers to you know get in contact with students that weren't there it gives teachers the opportunity to work on some deal stuff with their colleagues that we have part of - Devon you want to go next one this one is the in-person modify so we would divide our DHHS up we are still discussing how to do that but we are leaning towards you know dividing it by alphabet taking a through K and L through Z and making a group one into group two reasons for that is it allows families to go to school at the same time and we think that's the best model that we can work for doing that with Wednesday's off for everybody with synchronous learning with their teachers this gives a lot of time for office hours and things like that but with this model right here I feel very secure and safe that we can get all of our students into the building and maintain safe distances while I think we'll get a good handle on the classrooms I don't think we're gonna be able to manage a six foot or even the distance in our hallways we've been working with the architect and making you know looking at our stair towers up and down stair towers we did not go with one-way hallways because it was too difficult but what we did with the towers going up and down is that it almost makes one-way hallways as you come through it will take some extra time for students to figure this out especially our ninth graders you know we will be looking to do small groups something or other to have tours or put something out just to you know not only our freshmen coming in as their introduction to Danbury high school but even our tenth eleventh and twelfth graders this is going to be a whole new traffic pattern to them we've been working very hard on and I believe we're continuing by the time we're done we'll have it pretty much mapped out within a week or so thank you Dan dr.
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They're putting up signs that say you have to wash your hands, where you have to use sanitizer. Paths and floors will also be marked with instructions, like, "one way" and "one way," indicating where the bus stop is, where the traffic is, and where you have to go. There will also be many signs in the classrooms. The architects are also trying to show us how the desks will be arranged. Each classroom has a certain capacity and they have to be spaced appropriately. At Spring School, you can see an example of how the desks and tables will be arranged. They're opening up the spaces to give the children more room, so the teachers can arrive and everyone has their own space. The only thing they'll always tell the students is to keep maintaining distance. They'll always encourage them to wear masks. They'll cover their faces. Some of them are like street protectors.
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Zuleta appers schedules the schedule is very similar to the high school with the time-shifting and we work together to make sure that there's not a bus run time in between so you're looking now at two schedules one for Rajesh prog Robbie and Westside and then one for our endeavour Academy so students it's a shift in our time to come in usually kids are dropped off at 7:25 and from 725 to 7:40 they're coming in they get their breakfast they're kind of milling around different so they're gonna be dropped off between 735 and 750 there will not be a breakfast it's going to be a grab and go kind of kiosk as they walk up specific stairwells three to six feet apart and they go directly into their first class which is their team in Richmond so there will not be any congregating there will not be anybody in the cafeteria they're gonna go right into their classrooms for a very simple breakfast learning piece will occur between 750 and 1250 we're still looking at our rotation that we have in so that all their core classes are seen looking at a 45-minute core class of elective class I'm each day and so the kids will continue to maintain on what we're used to doing in class now at the dismissal that'll be a 1250 and we'll start with where our parent pickups in our walkers and nobody's dismissed again 3 to 6 feet apart walking down specific always it's going to be very different between the three buildings we have different layouts well aside only has one floor and so it's what its gonna be us going in mapping out when I walked with the architects at Rogers Park we were able to talked about the two-way traffic but there's got to be someplace is where you can't go both ways and so we decided just a one-way around but we're able to get two lines of kid but also in the classrooms I know we didn't see any middle school classrooms pictures but I did with again with the architect kind of laid out a science room we had a lot of tables across the three buildings we have a lot of single tests typically and so we were able to kind of add our desks where the kids were kind of sitting ours was a 16 at that point but I know that they're working on this reinforced foot bar but students will be facing forward masks 3 to 6 feet apart it's there's not going to be a lot of interaction and small group work like that so just so that you'll understand that this is going to be different than what we are normally doing with all of our collaborative work because of the safety of the students and for the teachers very working on bringing the lunch so students will be picking up there the building they're not allowed to eat it on the bus but they will be they will have that for when they get home and then like dance I will be expecting our students to continue yes afternoon and our teachers and they're still using the familiar I Excel that they have and andraz kids for some of our it's not students teachers people to monitor that live in the afternoon answer questions and endeavors this same kind of setup their times are just a little bit so our modified hybrid because again I would echo what Dan said is I preferred we are you know et the middle schools is over a thousand students my side will be at 750 that school remember was an intermediate school it's not made for giant children and so the more we pack in there the harder it's going to be to social distance them so we also like everybody else has said on this meeting prefer that the hybrid and so ours would look very similar to what Dan had said again at the times are different with the group a in two days everybody home who comes in to date we had discussed some different getting everybody in already thinking about addresses no not all families have the same last name and so we did talk about in some of our small groups looking at address that the busing rafi easier that way and endeavor again same just times are a little bit different thank you Thank You Christine dr.
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They'll also be used on school buses and transportation. Students will have to cover their faces. There will be plenty of masks for all the students and the bus drivers. That will also help. They will be cleaning the windows, and they will be open. The recommendations and guidelines say that the windows have to be open. They are also working with the city for extra people to help with traffic, and with the principals and the workers to see where the children will be received, where they will be taken, to encourage them, as they say, to maintain social distancing at all times. And here is a picture where they are cleaning the glass, especially where the children touch, especially the seats. They will be constantly disinfected for the food service. They will try to put four things in a bag and have the flexibility to choose what they want.
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hayslett up on behalf of elementary schools able to attend Oh Thank You principal Matt you know so this is principal Michelle I am the principal at shelter Rock myself Tina Tina hislop who is the president excuse me the principal at King Street and Lenise Ehrlich was on with me as well the principal of stat they left rough for kind of put in charge of the elementary schedule which is quite a challenge as you can imagine given the differences in building sizes layouts of buildings and so forth so our five day in school schedule looks like as you see in front of you there the 8:05 to 8:25 is for the early schools students arrived that grab and go there and get their breakfast they attend their learning their in-person learning also includes their special area class so they would still you know receive art music PE and media at the conclusion of the day they would grab and go lunch we have addressed our concerns with you know our younger population waiting so long to have their lunch so we are looking into providing them a midday substantial snack to hold them over until they get their lunch and then travel home the teachers would stay in the building and they would offer independent practice and support our distance learners and for our late elementary schools that we would run the same type of schedule except they would obviously start half-hour later I think what is really important when we think about the elementary schools is that we are planning on utilizing all of our entrances to try to appropriately keep the children as apart as we can we've also had some discussions about staggering the parent drip drop offs as well as the parent pick up so it doesn't unfair interfere with traffic as we anticipate there will be a lot more families who are electing to drop their children off at school rather than taking the bus and I think if you go to the hybrid model I think what's important to note too about the elementary school is our grab-and-go decision comes from you know I know sadly ruff shelter Rock we have an excess of 500 children which makes cafeteria challenges recess challenges extremely difficult the grab-and-go provides us the opportunity to provide our children with a safe environment as well as providing them their breakfast as well as their lunch so we are very much in favor as well as the modified hybrid schedule with the a B day we are also looking into grouping our children by families in terms of siblings so all of a particular family would go on the a day and that would be Monday Tuesday Wednesday teachers support the distance learning they so we'll provide lessons for the students live and then our second half of the building comes in on Thursdays and Fridays so they do receive the full day they're still getting all of their their core subjects and we are so able to provide them with the opportunity for breakfast and lunch the specials would be in their classrooms right the specials are in their classroom so we would have art on a car music on a car the PE teacher would push into the classroom we are also working closely with our custodial staff in terms of making sure that the rooms are free and clear of extraneous kind of materials so administrators are coordinating with custodial staff as well as teachers who need to come in and kind of remove some of those items that may be personal items so that also allows us to ensure the safety of the children in the classroom environment Thank You Ana next section before we move on to the calendar and training support just a comment on preschool regarding the schedules we are currently still in the process of working out preschool and allowing us to alter some of the ending times for the k-12 level it does present a little bit of a challenge with preschool that we're working through and so we will certainly um be in contact with those families regarding the exact times for those sessions um just to note too on the proposed schedules that we did show you please just note for parents and community members that those times are tentative they are not written in stone yet we are working out some of the details to make sure we have enough time for to get our buses you know safely and securely from one level to the next and cleaned appropriately but that will give you a general idea or sense of what the anticipated schedule for the fall does look like le grande roll should be ready right yes that's correct and Granville is our new preschool location and we are expecting to open that up at the end of August thank you thanks Kelly you could just go to the next slide okay um so on this slide you will see that part of our reopening plan has been staff training and that has been a critical component of our plan I'd like to just start by reminding you earlier in the presentation that we are proposing that we go with the state's waiver for 177 school days for children which would give the district 3 additional staff training days and that would mean that our first day of school would be pushed back until September 1st for students so staff would still start on their first day which is which was proposed by the district which I believe was August 20th um and then we would get those three additional days to do much of the training that I'm going to outline it would not affect the last day of school as a hundred and seventy-seven student days would be what would be required for the state waiver um part of our training is going to be broken down into a couple of different components or buckets the first is regarding curriculum as dr.
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They will give the workers who work in the cafeteria a full set of supplies. They will also give them the nutrition and safety guides, and they will also provide safety information for the distribution of meals. They will also provide training. They will try to ensure that they don't touch many things at the time. From giving them lunch and applying all the safety measures at the stand, for example, they're not going to give much, they're going to give more of the food, the choice, they're going to bring them to the classes, they're going to see who the appropriate people are to take them from the cafeteria to the classes, oh yes, there's going to be a late dismissal, so they have to see how the meals are going to be distributed, it still has to be approved with respect to the state, the state doesn't have to test faces, they're asking with respect to the individuals who need the sketch or how it's going to be done, they have to work with respect to that, the fact is it's a single one, a single side, now we have to work with the teachers and with the system, how to work, how to distribute the food, other schools that you're going to hear about that will be available to eat in the cafeteria, they're looking at that, it depends on the number of students, these 100 are still consulting, they're still talking with the city, what we're proposing is recording, it means choosing, and when they say balance and balanced nutrition, right now it's going to be Speaking about purchasing spectrum with gloves, AM in health and wellness, Frank, a truth once again, the alliances, face coverings for students and all workers, will always be communicating with health officials, with the teachers who work with the special program, they will provide different materials that can protect them, the different equipment that they can use.
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chasm era had talked about we are trying to invest in different digital supports to help students to learn both in our hybrid and our distance learning models and one of our efforts in the fall will be to how to train students and staff of how to best use those models when we have them in front of us in early in the school year we noticed that that was a challenge as we transition to distance learning and so one of the things we would do with those additional days at the beginning of the year for staff would be to train them in things like engineering and other programs and software that we're using to supplement instruction for kids um the next bucket would be on social-emotional we've broken that down into a couple different components the first is social and emotional for staff you know we are concerned about staff our staff members have been through a lot through this distance learning they work extremely hard some of them have endured personal situations Family Matters and we want to make sure that they take care of themselves first and so we will be doing a series of trainings for our administrative team our teacher trained team our power educators and others across the district and how in looking at their own well-being and emotional well-being and so that will be done through our Sigma plan and we'll also be reminding as Kim Thompson had spoken about earlier of all the resources that are available through our insurance carriers Sigma which is the EAP program and other online resources for staff the next bucket will be looking at social emotional supports for kids um we know that this situation that has happened has caused a lot of trauma for kids it was a sudden stop in closure of schools there has been less connectedness with their teachers their school communities their friends their family members and so we'll be looking at a series of training on trauma-informed instruction and what that looks at is making all of our staff that are working with children aware of what this time trauma can come in many different forms it could be related to kovat or other situations and we want to make sure that teachers are prepared and how to deal with that I'm so additional staff training in that area will be provided at the beginning of the year we'll also be talking about social emotional learning and how to infuse different activities and lessons to build on the school climate and restorative practices work that the district has done over the last few years I'm going to make sure that's that two tiers put at the forefront connecting with their students and checking in on themselves and also talking about ways in which our support staff our social workers our psychologists or school counselors can support those efforts in the school building I'm reminding people as always confidentiality but particularly with with regard to health reporting recording record-keeping of how important it is to maintain confidential information and just bringing that awareness to people's attention on the other side of the slide you'll see some of the training on new policies and procedures we have to put into place personal hygiene and etiquette how to teach students to frequently wash their hands to wear their masks to maintain social distance a lot of the things that we've previously encouraged like working in groups or being really close to a peer a friend we're going to have to teach our younger children and our older kids that that's no longer acceptable in a school environment um we'll talk about physical distancing when students are walking in the halls transitioning to the bus and all of those things will have to be new trainings protocols and procedures Forest to learn we'll talk about screening for symptoms to make all of our staff hyper vigilant about looking at students and their staff members as they're coming into school and it's important to impress upon our families that this will be a partnership with them and making sure that they're screening their children before coming to school we'll also talk about personal protective equipment and how to appropriately wear and dispose of that equipment and reminding us staff on little different policies procedures regarding face masks and how we need to reinforce that throughout the school day for kids thanks thank you for technology and connectivity and access hi everyone Jena jasmine director of technology our main focus with technology and access is to support the curriculum across all models for all students and so we have worked really hard to supply Chromebooks to all students during the during the spring and we continue to do that over the summer we'll also have a supply of Chromebooks for any new students entering the district's the district and through a generous state grant we received brand-new Windows machines for all students grades 9 through 12 we'll have an inventory on hand in the event that a device gets damaged or lost or stolen those things are bound to happen so we will have an inventory on hand so we can replace devices the district will provide a model for which all students can transport their devices to and from school safely and be able to basically pick up and if we have to have a sudden school closure they will have a device with them I'm really excited because the district is excuse me currently working to secure wireless access internet access to all families and we think we've come up with a solution where students will be able to sign out a device and they will be able to have some internet access to continue their learning and of course we're going to develop protocols for the frequent cleaning of devices Thank You jr.
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They will also work regarding the possibility that the children, a member of their family, the children catch the virus, and they will only work regarding that with the same child and with the family, and if 100 children don't feel well, well, they have to stay home. The children who test positive for COVID, and there are things that have to be followed in place. Instead, they will be consulting regarding how they will proceed with that. The one speaking can't be heard, it seems the volume is off, and now yes, and regarding the other thing, they have been working with the finance department once again so that before entering, all the workers have the necessary things that they have to use for at least four months of the year. School and this security that everyone is correct are records required by the state that all that buildings and individuals have have the symptom of community and the room will serve as a waiting room before the individual is transported home they are going to be working on identifying those buildings where the children are and if there is a case they have the agreement to do the transportation home they are going to be putting information on the pages of the chamber and public scrum ghana in just the children is having sick well the parents have the ability to come and pick up their children [Music] whether they are special children who need something exceptional we are just going to work with respect to that also the super internet also has and they have created them in the cases and also those of the two health officers once again those who have young will be sent home and from there the health department will be informed and after that what will proceed after that and they will identify with the school and the district ivana red report with the nurses with the superintendent identify the teachers so that there is one or more teachers well they They're going to provide good information [Music] regarding what's being discussed in the questionnaires.
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and so back to Kelly our director of pupil services social emotional support thank you um so just to piggyback on what I just said a moment ago and I apologize for revisiting the same topic I'm really just impressing upon the social emotional supports again for students um particularly to the planning at each building we will make sure that all staff are establishing that positive safe and supporting learning environment we know that that is something we always strive to do but particularly for students that have been out of school now for five months that's going to be that much more critical we're also going going to address topics I'm and have further dialogue further instruction further reading and exposure to books regarding race equity and bias and bringing about the importance of these topics particularly in our world and surroundings today in each school we will develop a plan of how we plan to check in with individual students and follow up with them on an ongoing basis for any students that may just be displaying signs and symptoms that they need some additional adult support we want every kid to have at least one if not more trusted adult in the building in which they can go to and seek support if it has something to do something that's bothering them we have seen a lot of kids that have fear around around issues that are going on in society a lot of students that are dealing with their basic needs you know and struggling to have those met and we want to make sure to address those in our plans and lastly just further impressing upon the training that will do to staff to make sure that they're able to support our kiddos in the best way possible Thanks Thanks thanks Kelly after me his family school partnerships yes I'm here good evening everyone thank you Kelly and Kevin I'm in need I'm the director family school partnerships and if you'd like to go to the next slide Kevin that would be great we have been working hard in my department to enhanced the shared responsibilities between schools and family and in doing so we will be looking for parents to help us keep everyone healthy in the schools we will be doing some heightened communication to understand the new policies and protocols that our health department will be putting in place and in doing so we will be enacting a family's remit that we will expect every family to read and to adhere to as we reopen schools this is protection for our students our community our teachers and all of the staff in the school if we all do our part we'll be able to keep healthy many people have asked about looking at the schools and visiting the schools that is something that is always near and dear to our heart having an open-door policy though to keep our buildings clean and safe and cut down on any chance of transmission of anything we will be doing videos to show you the changes in the building and schools we'll be doing some zoom meeting or meet for orientation for incoming children to their classroom along with that will also be more training for parents to better understand how to facilitate their children's learning how to navigate the technology we have how just to be more supportive in a distance learning model and understanding that new technology and then the next slide many questions have come up about our extended learning program this is our before an after-school program yes we will be open we are now taking registrations you can call the EOP office at two oh three seven nine seven four seven three three or go online at the Danbury Public School website under family and community there's the forms there you can fill out you can send them in with a payment listed on the form or call the number that I just gave you two visit our 49 Osborn Street building to pay and to submit your registration forms we are not giving a total start date yet because we want to see exactly where students will be and how we're best going to be able to meet family's needs so that's gonna be for an after-school program dr.
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We're very important for this because the parents are the ones who use what they choose, what they pick, what's going to be done in the system. In the scenarios, it's important to know what idea is already held regarding office 4, how they're going to take time off. For example, workers who have a positive test result for the young person are all working on this. Family and protection is an act of protection for the Santana family, to help the workers, all the workers in a resort. In a resort, humanity, family, is also an act of letting go when it's not delicate. Everyone is trained on how to do the things they have to use to approach and manage. They're no longer anxious. It's very important to give them a calm mind. They're going to take different training sessions. There are many 11-6 videos, dozens of them.
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Sal has asked me to look into the possibility of running some full-day programs off-site from the schools so therefore I am looking at two different buildings and looking for proposals that we would be able to run a 7:30 to 5:30 program for families especially if we're in a V model it would give parents the opportunity to enroll for a fee their children should be able to have recreational activities learning we would support their distance learning while they are there but it would also provide care for families while they're working and we will continue to from my department to encourage the use of community resources food trucks Connecticut Food Bank August 5th there is an upcoming food truck at Rogers Park it says 8 o'clock in the morning please visit our web page on family and communities for community recently we want to make sure families are getting what they need and I will now turn this over to chips thank you exact chip both athletic director chip Sava screening good evening everyone I'm the director of athletics yeah my name is chips Thomas trineas Kevin I want to thank the administration and all the members of this committee as you can see there's been a lot of work put into this about athletics and extracurricular activities we are follow and we are monitoring the guidance from the CIA see for those who don't know the CIA see the CIA sees the governing body of Connecticut high school athletics they are arm of the state education system so we are what's called education based F and we follow as I mentioned we follow those guidelines to the T the CIA C has allowed athletic programs across the state to implement a phased an approach for participation activities and athletics started it started on July 6th actually we've had we're averaging about 350 athletes a week in our program the athletes are all screened by coaches and our athletic training staff we've had very good success Kelly mentioned about the gives kids missing things there has been a tremendous upbeat atmosphere at the high school with the kids just coming in for three hours a week our programming is outside we don't use the buildings just yet the athletes train in cohorts of ten and that will remain the same until we are waiting for additional guidance from a state to begin the next phase of programming which would be around August 2nd or 3rd the anticipation from the state of Connecticut is that we're going to have a sports program we would love to have the kids back in high school at the hybrid having a taste of the having the kids in the building again our program uses setup to run as we normally would you would see different things of course we are continuing ongoing and established lean procedures in the process to sanitize shared equipment we're working with the state on that one of the things you need to know as parents moving forward school field trips are going to be canceled for at least the first six months until we figure out what how we're going to measure those for safety and all those things we're asking for visual trips to be encouraged by our teachers and for those students who are going to do distance learning they still can participate in extracurricular activities I just want to point out that if you choose parents as a home school and you decide that you want to participate in sports that can't happen you have to be in distance learning and role in a school district in order to participate in the CI a C programming thank you very much Kevin that's it for now thank you chip dr.
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There's information on how to be safe before opening the schools. There are also many health creditors and how to respond while they're doing a variety of training so that everyone learns about it and so that all the workers who work are free. There are badges, there's a day of jos, they're going to continue until October for all the workers who are testing positive. Ah, there are many workers who have health conditions, they're going to work with respect to that, they're working with the juniors, with whom everyone is connected, and they're working individually with her as an indication to understand the health condition they have, to work with appropriate safety, a process that has to be done right now. The number isn't many, 20, 4, 25 workers. We're going to see what's happening, they're going to continue dialoguing, they have to talk to them through the law, always connect and discuss each one with the individual things they do n't have, always promote the sense of safety, and when they return with that, with that, towards safety.
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Tsao yes these dots this has been long and I'm going to turn it over I appreciate all the hard work that's gone in and it will be going even further the elementary principals who are shorten year will be coming back we've just sent something out to him so they could spend the detailed time within their own buildings to develop individual schedules so all of that is working I'm glad you reiterated that if some choices needed to be headed and we have some advice from the state and parents want to make another choice we will open it up to a lot of those parents to make those adjustments so with that Gladys I'm going to turn it over to you and I thank everybody for their diligence and listening to us it has been a very long summer and I think we've planned it as best we can for our youngsters so thank you thank you on board I just would like to think I'm and everyone that was listening to the presentation we know that you're working hard we can hear and we can see it I want to thank our council members and everyone that's on the phone and most of all board members that have listened to the presentation before this one and I just want to thank you and our delegation we want to thank you and hopefully hopefully that we will stay in contact and that you know everybody has said that we support the hybrid model and that's what dr.
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Thank you. What else do you have? Two more minutes. Oh, today they're talking to you regarding the model script, and I'm talking with respect to the lipid model, and with respect to the test, they're reading a text regarding the drinks, how it has been happening with respect to the virus, with respect to children, how the amount is happening, they're not seeing the amount of children who will come to the colon, friends, who don't get it, what are they? The results, especially for children with health conditions [Music], are about providing safety. A new school will start, or they're going to try to see how it can be used if the children or parents want the children to stay home. It's so important in school in the context of the virus. Right now, those who are taking this person were also giving their opinion regarding that, whether it can be used more for the children to be at home or in person.
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Sarah has slept forth and I hope that you somehow can put it into our gonna head that this would be the best fit for Gambia and on that I just like to close and thank everyone who are listening tonight thank you so people have questions obviously bring them to us I'm sure that as soon as I have some information I will get it to the board particularly about the health ooh that mark discussed with us this morning when they construct that letter I'll share it with you and we'll attach that to our plan on Friday so thank you thank you thank you very much
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