Instruction

Features of Elementary Instructional Models

• Instructional minutes will meet or exceed the established state standard.

• Attendance will be taken daily.

• All essential standards will be assessed during the school year.

• All support services will be provided to students, as needed.

• Art, PE, Music, Science, and Library continue in both models.

• Instruction will be delivered synchronously and asynchronously.

Teacher-facilitated learning is a synchronous (either on-site or off-site) or an asynchronous learning experience planned by WCSD teachers and instructional specialists. The experience is structured to develop, deepen, and assess new knowledge and understanding relative to academic content standards.

Learning Day: Students benefit from consistent routines, connections, purposeful instruction, quality engagement, well-rounded learning activities, nutrition breaks, play, physical activity and outdoor time. As the building block for the full arc of a student’s school year, a learning day will include teacher-facilitated learning time, applied learning, and time for adequate nutrition and wellness.

WCSD Learning Models

1. Elementary Remote Learning Model- Grades PreK-5

This option will allow your student to continue with a remote learning model of four days per week (half day synchronous instruction & half-day independent, applied learning time) and one day of enrichment lessons (Wednesday). This instructional model will follow our new hybrid bell schedule and your child will be assigned to an AM or PM stable group for synchronous instruction. It is important to note that your child may be placed with a new teacher for the remainder of the school year.

2. Hybrid-In-person Instruction

This option will have your student attending school on campus four half days per week in a physically distanced environment, four half days of independent applied learning time and one full remote day (Wednesday) of enrichment. This instructional model will follow our hybrid bell schedule. Families must be prepared to pivot to full remote learning if health and safety require it at any point.

Hybrid scheduling helps ensure that social distancing within the stable groups can be maintained and mitigate viral transmission by decreasing the number of students and staff each individual has to interact with, particularly during arrival, class transitions, and dismissal. We will make an assumption that siblings will want the same schedule. If this is not the case, please contact your child’s principal.

When Hybrid In-person Blended Model begins, students will follow the following schedules. Shortened Days noted on the WCSD Academic Calendar will be remote learning days for students.

TK-K Hybrid Blended Model Schedule

Grades 1-5 Hybrid Blended Model Schedule

Tice Creek Grades 6-8 Hybrid Blended Model Schedule

WCI Hybrid Blended Model Schedule

All students will follow the following schedules while the district remains in Full Remote Learning:

TK-K Full Remote Learning Schedule

Grades 1-5 Full Remote Schedule

Tice Creek Grades 6-8 Full Remote Learning Model

WCI Full Remote Learning Model

COVID-19 Health & Safety Commitment

All families who select the Hybrid In-person instruction model must sign a Family Compact Letter documenting their commitment to following health and safety requirements that align to the state and county health guidance.

The following safety protocols must be followed in this model.

• All students will be required to wear masks. Any health exemptions must be documented with our district nurses two weeks prior to the return date.

• Students will receive one cloth mask. Disposable masks will be available at each school site.

• All staff members, including teachers, will be required to wear masks.

• Families must commit to symptom checks at home each day before entering campus.

• Students will be dropped off each morning and walk independently to class. Parents will not be allowed to walk students to classrooms.

• Non-essential visitors will not be allowed on campus.

• At the elementary level, should students be on campus for lunch, schedules will be staggered to ensure students remain in their stable groups. Stickers will mark the spot for students to sit - spread out six feet apart.

• All schools will use outdoor learning spaces when practicable.

• Learning spaces will be set up with 6 feet distancing between students.

• Classrooms and school building furniture will be sanitized daily.

• Use of individually assigned District iPads (grades TK-1) or Chromebooks (grades 2-8) and daily use of Google Classroom and SeeSaw will be continued.

• Signage will be used to support social distancing and proper hygiene practices in addition to a wide array of other measures, which are being taken to keep our students and employees safe.

• Hand sanitizer stations will be located throughout each school campus.

• Hand-washing stations have been placed on school grounds to support good hygiene practices.

• Additional hydration stations for refilling water bottles will be placed at each school campus.