Teddy & Linda Struhl Elementary School

Kindergarten -5th Grade

(updated 7/24/20)

Our primary focus is to ensure the students of the Teddy and Linda Struhl Elementary School have the opportunity to learn on the school campus, in a healthy and safe environment. The social emotional growth of our students, cognitive growth, as well as their growth in Torah learning and middot, will continue to be our priority.

Fully on Campus Classes with Social Distancing
Class sizes will be based on CDC and local health department social distance guidelines. Our goal is to have students on campus every day but movement will be limited to help ensure the health of our students.

Differences from standard on campus practices will include:

  • Smaller class sizes with teachers and assistants rotating between the classes

  • Students remaining in the same classroom throughout the day within defined student cohorts

  • Increased scheduled sanitizing and disinfecting throughout the day, and deep cleaning at night

  • Masks will be worn by all staff and students

  • Lunch will take place in the classrooms or outside, as health guidelines allow

  • Students will have individual supplies

  • Specials will take place in classrooms, other than PE which will take place outdoors

  • A rotation of outdoor play time to distribute numbers of children in outdoor space

  • Playground time will be one class at a time and the large structure will not be used. This type of play and movement is so important for their development.

  • Friday Onegs and other communal events will take place but will either be held outside to enable social distancing or will be delivered via online technology into the classrooms.

If for reasons beyond our control, we are unable, for some period of time, to operate fully on campus the following plans would be put in place.

Plan #1: Small Cohorts/Hybrid Model
If CDC guidelines change from current guidelines, it may be necessary to break the classes up into smaller cohorts, distributing the students and staff between additional classrooms but with a similar schedule. If this becomes necessary, we would create smaller cohorts, resulting in the lack of physical space on campus for all of our students necessitating a move to a hybrid model. The hybrid model combines on campus learning as well as at home virtual learning. While our Early Childhood, Lower School, and Middle School will each operate differently, we remain committed to providing every students with significant on campus learning supplemented by educational experiences that will, if necessary, take place at home. In the hybrid model, students would be on campus specific days and learning remotely on alternate days.

Plan #2: Distance Learning
In the extreme case that the disease has reached unforeseen proportions and we need to close either a classroom or the whole campus we will transition for the relevant period of time to distance learning. We have learned a lot over the past few months from our experience with distance learning, from parent and teacher feedback, and have made changes accordingly to enhance our students’ learning experience if this plan becomes necessary.

  • Students will follow a regular schedule similar to daily in-school schedule and Zoom together for teacher and student learning time, morning meeting, Tefillah, and lunch time

  • Specials (art, music, PE, science, technology, B'not Sherut) will also take place via Zoom

  • Videos will also be posted for students to watch at their own pace

  • Educational packets and materials will be prepared in advanced and provided

  • All educational curriculum and class announcements will be communicated through Google Classroom

  • The school will provide all parents with opportunities to be trained on Google Classroom

  • Individual 1:1 virtual student check-ins will occur weekly with teachers

  • Live Q&A time with teachers

  • Onegs and other communal events will take place via Zoom

  • Technology assistance will be available for students and parents

*Remote Access: If there are families who do not feel comfortable sending their children onto campus, or students who may need to temporarily quarantine, students will be able to join our live classes from home.