Updates from 86

Schedule for the Week of Jan. 11

District 86 will begin bringing up to 50% of our students on campus for in-person instruction Jan. 11-15. Below is information about the schedule and activities for this week.

Students in Learning Cohort A will be on campus for in-person instruction on Monday and Tuesday, and students in Learning Cohort B will be on campus for in-person instruction on Thursday and Friday. Students who are not scheduled to be on campus or are assigned to Learning Cohort R (R stands for remote) will engage in synchronous learning from home on these days.

We will follow the Wednesday remote schedule that we have been using since the start of the school year - i.e., students and teachers will engage in synchronous instruction from 8 a.m. to 11:25 a.m.

Students and staff who are on campus will be required to follow the district's health and safety procedures and protocols - e.g., performing symptom self-checks, participating in daily temperature checks, wearing face coverings, wearing IDs on a district-issued lanyard, adhering to the six-foot rule in accordance with social distancing guidelines, adhering to the rules and expectations regarding the flow of student and staff traffic in the building (e.g., hallways, stairwells, entrances/exits and classrooms), etc.

Students who are participating in the hybrid model will eat lunch on campus one day per week (i.e., either on Tuesday or Friday). They have been assigned to a designated lunch group and location, and will eat at staggered times during a two-hour window (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.). On the other days these students are at school for in-person instruction (i.e., either on Monday or Thursday), they will receive a free grab-and-go lunch at the end of third period.

Parents/guardians who would prefer that their students not eat lunch on campus may request an accommodation. Below are links to the school-specific forms that can be used to submit a request.

Day-to-Day Hybrid Schedule

Lunch Schedule

Schedule for the Week of Jan. 18

All students and staff will be off on Jan. 18 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As a result, we have modified the schedule for the week (Jan. 18-22) as follows:

Tuesday, Jan. 19 will follow the Monday schedule - i.e., students in Cohort A will be in person for early bird and periods one through three.

Wednesday, Jan. 20 will follow the Tuesday schedule - i.e., there will be no Wednesday remote schedule on this day. Instead, students in Cohort A will be in person for early bird and periods 4/5/6, 6/7/8, nine and 10. They will also eat lunch on campus this day.

The schedules for Thursday, Jan. 21 and Friday, Jan. 22 will remain the same - i.e., students in Cohort B will be on campus for in-person instruction on both days, and will eat lunch at school on Friday.

Below is the updated schedule for the week.

COVID-19 Data

Below is the updated COVID-19 data for the district as of Friday, Jan. 8.

Current number of positive cases among students and staff - 28
Current number of students and staff in isolation - 41
Current number of students and staff in quarantine - 23
Total number of positive cases among students and staff since the start of the 2020-21 school year - 232

You can access the dashboard where this information is being stored by visiting https://bit.ly/3d93aws.

Lunch Duty Volunteers

We are currently seeking volunteers (eight to 10 at Hinsdale Central and three to four at Hinsdale South) to help with in-person lunch service every Tuesday and Friday from 10:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

If you are interested in assisting us with this important task, please use the links below to complete the application for the lunch duty supervisor positions.

Shivani Rao

Junior Shivani Rao from Hinsdale Central was invited to present at the American Society of Hematology's Annual Meeting and Exposition, which was held virtually in early December. The focus of her presentation was the study about blood types and COVID-19 severity that she conducted with Dr. Shivi Jain from Rush University Medical Center. You can learn more about the study by visiting http://bit.ly/2Lv4sbm.

We congratulate Shivani on this tremendous honor.

Information Night Hosted by the Transition Family Group

The District 86 Transition Family Group will be hosting a virtual information night on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 6:30 p.m. The featured presenter for the evening will be Service Inc. of Illinois, which works with health care groups, social service agencies and advocacy organizations to provide critical services and support to people with developmental delays and disabilities.

You can access additional information about the event by visiting https://bit.ly/3shq2Bk.

Board of Education Meeting - Jan. 14

The next District 86 Board of Education meeting will be held on Thursday, Jan. 14. The agenda and packet of materials for the meeting, as well as instructions for how to participate in the session, will be posted on BoardDocs (https://bit.ly/394u9as) and shared via email tomorrow (Jan. 12).