Guiding beliefs:

• Safety first – the safety of our students, faculty, and community is our highest priority.

• Schools need to reopen because kids need to learn and interact with others.

• Schools reopening is an important factor to support economic recovery as parents need the ability to work and not continue providing childcare and remote learning supports during work hours.

• Reopening decisions will be based on epidemiological data and guided by public health officials and local emergency management partners.

• Public health guidance and COVID-19 data will determine the movement between Phases in this Framework. As a community, we need to recognize that in the absence of a vaccine or extensive, widely-available rapid testing, this Framework needs to be fluid. That means having the ability to transition from a remote learning model off-site to a phased-in approach to safely reopen our schools as we progress through the Phases. The Framework acknowledges that it may be necessary to progress or regress through the Phases as public health conditions change.

• This Reopening Framework must be flexible enough to respond, on a case by case basis, to students or staff who present a properly documented medical restriction preventing their safe return to campus.

• This Reopening Framework must support educational equity for all students.

• This Reopening Framework must support the personalization of learning for all students.