The use of a cloth face covering by students and staff are required where six foot social distancing cannot occur. If there is a health reason for which students or staff believe they may not be able to wear a cloth face covering, a healthcare provider should be contacted. A written statement from a medical doctor on official letterhead / form shall suffice for an exemption. Students will be taught how to use face coverings, including cleaning and how to put on and off.

Mask Down Times can occur when:

• students are socially distanced and stationary (6+ feet from others).

• the classroom is outdoors.

• students are eating breakfast or lunch.

Mask Down Zones are:

• areas marked off in classrooms where students can safely, but temporarily, remove their mask (if possible).

• used with teacher approval.

We will be implementing many efforts to socially distance our students as much as possible including but not limited to:

• Assessing and altering classroom seating arrangements to better utilize the entire classroom and create more space between our students.

• Altering lunch protocols, including increasing the number of lunch locations, spreading out lunch tables, and limiting seating at lunch tables.

• Eliminating large group student assemblies until further notice.

• Implementing high expectations for students to monitor their own social distancing. We will not condone students gathering in large groups.

• Marking tape and signs will be posted in key areas to assist with social distancing.

Our efforts include but are not limited to the following:

• Routine cleaning procedures and schedules for facilities and transportation.

• Altering and increasing cleaning schedules and procedures to keep our classrooms sanitized on a daily basis and as needed.

• Disinfecting the following classroom items between each class period: desks/tables, door knobs/handles, chairs, light switches, pencil sharpeners.

• Disinfecting the following office items throughout the school day: door knobs/handles, chairs, counter tops, the Raptor system and plastic dividers.

• Implementing protocols of leaving classroom doors open whenever possible to minimize the number of hands touching door handles.

Administration, teachers and staff will teach and reinforce proper hand washing during key times throughout the day.

• • Arrival and dismissal

  • Before, during, and after preparing or eating food

  • After using the bathroom

  • After blowing one’s nose, coughing, or sneezing

  • After touching objects with bare hands that have been handled by other people

Middle school and high school students who are in the following classrooms with multiple sinks are afforded time to wash hands thoroughly: Mrs. Gutknecht, Mrs. Marchesani, Mr. Rohler, Mrs. Geer, Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Dier, Mrs. Schuller, Mr. Lindeman (locker room), Mrs. Lynch (locker room), Mrs. Sternhagen, Mr. Seitz, Ms. Steckelberg and Mr. Olson.

Our efforts include but are not limited to:

• A full time nurse is available in our school district.

• Health inspections being completed weekly by the school nurse.

• An additional quarantine/isolation space provided in the secondary building for symptomatic students and monitored by the school nurse.

Our efforts include but are not limited to:

• All persons who are sick are expected to stay home. Those persons who become sick will be sent home.

• Hand sanitizer provided to students and staff in every classroom, at entrances, and throughout our building.

• Touch-free water bottle fill stations are placed throughout the building. Students will be encouraged to bring water bottles.

• Food is not permitted in classrooms.

• Students should use their own materials.

• Non-essential visitors, volunteers, and outside groups will be limited.

• The CDC recommends coughing/sneezing into your mask, if no, turn away from people and cough/sneeze into your elbow.

Our efforts to transport students to and from school include but are not limited to:

• Encouraging parents who can arrange to transport their children to and from school to please do so, in an effort to reduce the number of students on buses.

• Applying hand sanitizer as students and drivers enter the bus.

• Requiring cloth face coverings for students and drivers.

• Assigning seats to every student (households may be assigned to sit together).

• Disinfecting our buses between morning and afternoon routes.

• Prohibiting food or drink on the bus.

When dropping students off at school, keep traffic flow one way to assist with student safety. Traffic flow will be from east to west (from 10th Street to 12th Street). See Map (Link)

The doors to the secondary building will open at 7:45 am.

Students who are not eating breakfast and arrive to school between 7:45 am - 8:00 am should enter through the following assigned door and report directly to their assigned location:

• 5th Grade: South Gym Door || South Gym

• 6th Grade: South Gym Door || South Gym

• 7th Grade: Main Office Entrance || North Gym

• 8th Grade: Main Office Entrance || North Gym

• High School: Commons Door || Auditorium

Students who arrive to school between 8:00 am - 8:10 am should report directly to their first period class. Students should enter the building utilizing their assigned entry door location listed above.

Students who arrive to school after 8:10 am should enter the building through the main office entrance; all other door locations will be locked after 8:10 am.

*Cloth face coverings need to be worn as students enter into the school building.

• • Teachers will take the last 2-4 minutes of class time of each period to clean and disinfect including but not limited to the following:

    • Desks / Tables

    • Chairs

    • Door Knobs / Handles

    • Light Switches (if needed)

    • Pencil Sharpener

  • Students must have a cloth face covering on in the hallways as they transition from classroom to classroom.

  • Students will be asked to apply hand sanitizer when entering classrooms.

  • We will keep the same passing schedule at all levels (Grades 5-12)

• The doors to the secondary building will open at 7:45 am.

• Students should arrive through their assigned door (arrival/drop off procedures) then report to the commons.

• Breakfast is served between 7:45 am - 8:00 am.

• Students need to wear their cloth face covering while going through the breakfast line.

• Students will remain in the commons until the 8:00 am dismissal bell to report to their 1st period class.

• Parents are encouraged to pay for meals online through Infinite Campus.

• Students will report to their assigned lunch location prior to being dismissed to the lunch line and will return to the assigned location to eat for the remainder of the lunch period.

• Students need to wear their cloth face covering while going through the lunch line.

• Students may take their cloth face covering off once seated for lunch and social distance is maintained.

• Lunch supervisors will disinfect tables, chairs and bleachers between each lunch shift.

• Parents may not eat lunch with students in school, but may notify the office to make arrangements to take students for lunch off school grounds.

• Parents are encouraged to pay for meals online through Infinite Campus.

Lunch Times/Locations

• 5th Grade (12:10-12:35)

Commons

• Middle School (11:43-12:06)

6th Grade - Commons

7th Grade - North Gym (south side)

8th Grade - North Gym (north side)

• High School (11:14-11:37)

9th Grade - North Gym (south side)

10th Grade - Commons

11th Grade - North Gym (north side)

12th Grade - IMC

• Students should wash hands before and after recess.

• No masks are required by students or staff.

• If recess is indoors due to inclement weather students will be required to wear a mask.

• Maintain 6 feet or more from other students as much as possible.

• Shared equipment (balls, jump ropes, etc.) will be disinfected after each use.

• Students are encouraged to use their school provided Chromebook to access the online catalog.

• Students may browse the book stacks when considering a book to check-out.

• Contactless book checkouts

• Books checked out will be quarantined for 48 hours before being checked back in and re-shelved.

Our efforts include but are not limited to:

• Utilizing outdoor spaces and the auditorium as alternate rehearsal locations for social distancing.

• Disinfecting the following items between each rehearsal or lesson: chairs, music stands, door knobs/handles, light switches.

• Purchasing performance masks for each band/chorus student.

• Routinely cleaning performance masks.

• Limiting the sharing of instruments/supplies/equipment including music and percussion mallets.

• Providing each singer individual copies of music.

• Increasing ventilation in existing spaces with open air channels.

• Coordinating traffic flow into one-way patterns for larger classes.

• The number of students in the locker room will be limited.

• Students should bring their own physical education bag each day to include a t-shirt, shorts/exercise pants, PE shoes, socks, deodorant, towel and water bottle (soap and shampoo if showering).

• Individual clothing/towels should be washed after every workout immediately upon returning home.

• Locker rooms will not be used as a storage area for clothing and/or equipment; students will not be assigned a PE locker.

• Cloth face coverings will be worn in the weight room and locker rooms. Cloth face coverings will not be worn during PE classroom activities.

• Any PE equipment shared by students will be sanitized after class.

• Door handles will be disinfected after each class period.

• School is dismissed at 3:10 pm.

• 10th Street will be closed at 3:10 pm - See Map (Link)

• Buses will depart from M Avenue at 3:15 pm.

• Freshman, sophomores and juniors leaving from the east parking lot should use the east exit onto 9th Street.

• Seniors leaving from the west parking lot should turn north onto 12th Street.

• Parents are encouraged to pick up students on 12th Street or M Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets and to travel north on 11th or 12th Streets after student pick up (refrain from using 10th Street).

*Cloth face coverings need to be worn until students exit the school building.

Iowa Girls HS Athletic Union (IGHSAU) COVID-19 resources

Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) || COVID-19 General Guidance Fall 202o

• Specific guidance for Grundy Center will be coming soon.

• Work directly with Grundy County Public Health to conduct contract tracing to identify potential prolonged exposure at school.

• Collaborate with Public Health who will notify families of students who were in close contact (Prolonged Exposure -defined as being with 6 feet for more than 15 minutes) of the person testing positive for COVID-19.

• Conduct extra cleaning of the areas where the person who tested positive spent time.

• Continue to provide education to students quarantined or those needing to be at home.

• Work with families to monitor symptoms of students who are sent home ill or exposed.

• Protect students' families' privacy by maintaining the confidentiality of those who test positive or are asked to quarantine.

• Provide personal identifiable information, including the grade level, of those testing positive or who are in quarantine.

• Immediately change district / building learning models due to a single positive case.

• Allow an individual with a positive case to return to school or a school event before we are confident it is safe to do so.