The district’s health and safety compliance liaison, facilities director, building custodians, principals, and the superintendent visited each classroom and learning space in the district’s five school buildings. If health data and advice from state and local health officials allows the district to open for full, in-person learning (e.g. transmission rates are low), the following facility-related adjustment will be implemented:

· Where feasible, six feet of space will be created between students’ workstations.

· Classrooms and learning areas that cannot sustain six feet of space will not be used. Those teachers and students assigned to the unusable spaces will be relocated to repurposed spaces that are able to accommodate the six feet of space.

· Space between teachers and students will be maximized.

· Signs and messages related to stopping the spread will be posted and accessible for all students with disabilities and in language appropriate for the school population.

· Health and safety protocols will be designed in collaboration with the district health and safety compliance liaison, school nurses, and local health officials. Training modules will be identified and/or created and implemented prior to reopening.

· The Portland Board of Education has adjusted the school calendar to provide six days of training for faculty prior to reopening. The first four days of school will be early dismissal days for students, which will give faculty and staff the opportunity to meet in the afternoon to discuss and refine protocols.

· All students, faculty and staff will be required to attend training on social distancing, cleaning protocols, and hygiene protocols. The training will be repeated and reinforced as needed throughout the year and made available to parents.

The training will be required for all students, substitute teachers, faculty, and staff who begin the school year after the first day.