What are the expectations for attendance?
What will the metric for daily attendance be when students are working remotely?
What does attendance look like in a rotational schedule?
What does attendance look like in a full remote schedule?
Be sure to Leverage/Examine current policy for online learners.
Completion/Participation as a measure for Remote Learner.
If you have a district cyber program handbook, consider utilizing it as a foundational component of your remote learning plan.
Who will be responsible to track attendance for students working remotely?
What procedures will be in place for the students without internet access?
How can we equitably track student attendance on “remote learning days”?
Are the attendance expectations that are created easy to understand by parents and students?
Expectations may differ from elementary to middle to high school students
Will we have rotating due dates to accommodate learners who share devices/have limited school/work time at home?
Can we stream or record lessons to remote learners on remote learning days?
Can we create a clearinghouse of resources to assist caregivers in supporting their students when learning remotely?
Develop guidelines by grade level for the amount of time a student should spend completing remote learning.
Understand that Elementary students will be different from Middle and High School students.
Create clear expectations for remote learning that consider how students will be graded and held accountable in a way that is manageable by staff.
Consider a digital homeroom/check in by students.
Can be synchronous or asynchronous depending on intent.
Manage digital demands with childcare constraints - provide flexibility in schedule for remote learners.
Communicate the attendance expectations to the school community clearly before school starts and on an ongoing basis while remote learning occurs.
Create clear expectations on completion of remote work and grading that ensure flexibility and student accountability.
Align your FID Expectations for Attendance to your remote learning attendance policy. (indicated as “participation” when an off-site instruction is in play. Reporting Attendance/Participation on a FID is required.)
Current quarantine guidance for close contacts of persons with COVID-19 may present attendance challenges for students who are quarantined because of a household contact with a case. A "close contact" is defined as either being within approximately 6 feet of a COVID-19 case for 15 or more minutes (close contact can occur while caring for, living with, visiting, or sharing a health care waiting area or room with a COVID-19 case), or having direct contact with infectious secretions of a COVID-19 case (e.g., being coughed on). See the Department of Health Case versus Contact for more information on these distinctions.
Schools should be prepared to refer symptomatic individuals or those who have a known exposure to a confirmed case to an appropriate health care provider or testing site. Refer to DOH information on Coronavirus Symptoms and Testing for details on current testing locations throughout the Commonwealth.
Schools should support students and staff who are quarantined by allowing for leniency in absenteeism from in-person instruction and extra-curricular activities and transitioning to remote learning and work.