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In both of our buildings, we will increase circulation of outdoor air as much as possible by opening windows and doors, unless doing so would pose a health or safety risk to our students and personnel. Our building housing 1st thru 6th grade has air conditioning and we have installed Merv-13 AC filters.
In the Kindergarten and Transitional Kindergarten classrooms, desks have been spaced out at least six feet from one another. In the classrooms for 1st through 6th grade the student desks have been spaced out at least 3 feet from one another, and in them every desk will have a 3 sided wrap around sneeze guard.
Our rational for not spacing students more than 3 feet from one another is that we would like to accommodate as many of our students as possible since 75% of our students speak a another language at home (Spanish or Vietnamese) and since most of our students parents are unable to help them in their school work due their limited knowledge of English or their limited formal education.
Additionally, since more than 90% of our students receive significant financial aid and the financial situation of the parents requires for single parents to work more than one job, or in two parent families, both parents need to work, parents either have to make a decision to leave their children unsupervised at home or have to find child care with friends, neighbors and relatives, risking their children to unsafe environments.
Teachers will be moving as much instruction and as many activities as possible to outdoor spaces and other spaces within the school to allow for greater distancing between students and greater dispersion of viral particles. Among the possibilities that teachers are looking to schedule for their students are science labs, social studies workshops of interactive nature, geometry and art activities, meditation, movement and yoga, etc. The areas that are open for these activities are: the ramada of benches and tables with umbrellas which could fit up to 25 students spaced out six feet apart, our gym which could fit up to 31 students spaced out six feet apart with space left over, and several areas around the playground with benches all around the perimeter – desks will be stored in a convenient area outside of our main building for easy take out by any of the classes that would need them.
The teacher’s and the teacher assistant’s desks have been placed at the front of the classroom (more than six feet from the students at the front of the classroom and from each other) and a white line has been placed on the floor pointing out an area in which the teacher and teacher assistant can walk and keep a distance from the closest students in front of at least six feet.
Teachers and teacher assistants are directed to observe the white line to keep their distance from the students, and to go beyond it for very brief periods of time to assist students when necessary.
Students need to stay at their desks when inside the classroom, keep all their supplies, food and drinks brought from home, and books in their desks and in their back packs which will be located next to their desks or hanging on the back of their chairs.
Students are prohibited from sharing any food, books and supplies, including those supplies lent by the teacher for the day, while making sure they have been properly disinfected.
In grades TK thru 4th the ratio of students to iPads is of two to one. Teachers are expected to plan carefully the use of the iPads during the day making sure the iPads are disinfected as different students in the cohort utilize them.
In grades 5th and 6th the ratio of students to iPads is of one to one. Students take their iPads home and are expected to fully charge them overnight so as not to seek charging them in the classroom. Students are prohibited from sharing iPads. When necessary a teacher may give
an iPad to a student who forgot his or her iPad at home, making sure the iPad has been properly disinfected.Desk barriers will be provided to students who have a difficulty staying seated at their desks in any grades from TK thru 6th grade.
Upon entering their classrooms, the students will be expected to do the following:
Keep the 6 feet distance when using the marked walkways within their classroom to their
individual desks, place their backpacks in the place indicated by their homeroom teacher (either next to their desks or hanging at their chairs) take out the necessary books and supplies for the scheduled subject activity.Throughout the day students will be allowed and encouraged to stand in place and stretch as teachers request them to do.
When students need to use materials not in their desks or backpacks, the teacher or teacher assistant will distribute the materials at their desks from a blue container (materials in blue containers have been disinfected) and will pick them up after the activity to place them in a red container (materials in red containers need to be disinfected)
At the end of the period or at the end of the day, the teacher or the teacher assistant will have to properly disinfect the materials in the red containers wearing gloves and using Clorox wipes or spraying the materials with a disinfectant dedicated for this purpose.
Our librarian will communicate with teachers and students via zoom to offer and take requests of books available in the library. The librarian will give teachers the books in containers to be distributed to the students and when the books are returned to the librarian, she will disinfect them.
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