Prior to the district expanding the time students can spend in school buildings on March 22, families have an opportunity to change their student’s learning format.
Any family that would like to change their students learning format from in-person to remote, or from remote to in-person, should fill out this link: https://forms.gle/BXEadSF6MTYRrsxr7
This form is only for families who wish to change their child’s learning format for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year. This form will close at 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 5.
If your student is currently learning in-person or remotely and you would like them to stay in that format, you do not need to fill out this form.
If you have more than one student in the district, you should fill out this form for each student.
Your student’s remote or in-person learning format will remain in place for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year, unless a student needs to temporarily quarantine or isolate for health reasons.
Whether or not you change your child’s learning format, they will remain with the same teachers they have been working with this year.
Please note: In the new schedule, some students will be in classrooms where desks are less than six feet apart. The latest CDC guidance is for schools to keep six feet of distance to the greatest extent possible. The American Academy of Pediatrics now advises that desks may be less than six feet apart if the school is using other layers of mitigation, including mandatory masks and good air ventilation.
The district estimates with current in-person totals, desks would be six feet apart in about 80 percent of classrooms. If more students return in-person, fewer classes will have desks six feet apart. No desks will be less than three feet apart.
Until the district knows the total number of students who will be in-person, it may not be possible to say which classes will have desks less than six feet apart. Some in-person middle school students may learn in overflow rooms (such as the library) at times during the day to reduce class sizes.
In classes where desks are less than six feet apart, more students may be quarantined when there is a positive case in the class.
You can learn more about the post-March 22 learning conditions here:
If you have questions, please contact your school principal.
Planning for summer and the 2021-22 school year
At this time, the district’s goal is to return to full, in-person school five days a week at all grade levels for the 2021-22 school year. If the district offers a remote option, students would be assigned to work with full-day remote-only teachers. The district does not intend to have remote and in-person instruction going on simultaneously in the same classroom.
The district will continue to monitor health trends this year and throughout the summer.
CCSD 89 will be offering summer school for students currently in kindergarten through seventh grade. (Current eighth-grade students would take summer school classes through their high school.)
The summer classes will run in-person from 8 to 11 a.m. June 7 through June 25. Mitigation will still be in place. The district will share more information about registering closer to the end of the school year.
