Enhanced Hygiene Protocols

Explicit instruction of healthy hygiene practices:

• Videos with explicit instruction were created by administration for faculty and staff, parents and students. The videos were shared in zoom meetings with everyone. Teachers will show students again during the first few days of in-person instruction in the classrooms. Administration will share with parents the videos on healthy hygiene practices again during the zoom Back to School meetings.

Among the healthy hygiene practices that will be taught and reinforced are:

• proper handwashing technique, avoiding contact with one’s eyes, nose, and mouth, and covering coughs and sneezes.

• Minimizing the sharing of supplies and equipment among staff and students to the extent feasible. When items must be shared, we clean and disinfect items between uses.

• Minimizing staff’s and students’ contact with high-touch surfaces (e.g., propping open building or room doors, particularly at arrival and departure times).

Reinforcing healthy hygiene practices

• To minimize staff’s and students’ contact with high-touch surfaces we will keep open the building and room doors at both, arrival and departure times.
  

• Teachers will have their students in grades 4th thru 6th create new videos illustrating healthy hygiene practices as well as demonstrating the reasons and the proper use of face covers. They will share the videos with the younger classes of TK thru 3rd Grade.