Bryson issues plans for opening school

BRYSON – A summary of opening school guidelines was issued by Bryson ISD officials recently.

The list will continue to be developed as the opening gets closer.

Prevent:

• All staff members and students will be screened daily. Parents will ensure students do not have a fever of 100 or higher before sending students to school.

•Confirmed, suspected, or exposed individuals must meet this protocol before returning:

• At least 72 hours passed since recovery (fever resolution without fever-reducing medications.

• individual has improvement in symptoms (cough, shortness of breath

•at least 10 days since symptoms first appeared.

Response:

• The school will notify the local health department. Close off areas heavily used by the individual, unless more than three days since person was on campus. Notify all teachers, staff, and families of students in school.

Mitigate:

• hand sanitizer throughout the school

• Teachers and staff encourage more frequent hand washing

• social distancing dots in line up areas

• Institute more cleaning practices in classrooms and shared areas like cafeteria and athletic facilities

• students issued a personal Chromebook

• ongoing training of students and staff on good hygiene

• Bryson ISD will follow governor’s order in wearing masks for people ages 10 and up in counties that have 20 or more active cases. Jack County has one active case right now.

* Student desks will be social distanced.

• Possible homeroom assignments for grades 6-13 in three core classes.

• High school students will be in homeroom of they enter building before school

• Four breakfast and lunch times

• buses cleared after each bus trip, windows when possible (parents encouraged to bring students)

• Drop off plan

Elementary at auditorium – split by grades into the cafeteria and auditorium

• Pick up times scattered in the afternoon.

Remote instruction

Intro

• Parents must commit daily time and effort to ensure success. New material will be taught totally different than last Spring.

• Daily attendance and participation is necessary for school funding, absences will be recorded daily. Ninety percent attendance for credit

• Parents of remote learners must attend a parent meeting

• Do parents have connectivity to support remote learning in the house? More intensive work required. Parents must consider how many kids and amount of bandwidth required.

• Chromebook will be issued to remote learners, unless they have one they’d rather use at home.

• Remote learners will need to pick up meals this year if they want them at the back of the cafeteria at a time to be determined later.

• Paper materials from school to home are not recommended.

Instructional Schedule

Teacher and student interaction is scheduled and expected daily through Google Classroom in the following ways:

• Daily viewing instructional materials and response

• Daily submitting work online

• Daily interaction through messaging on Google Classroom

• Face to face occasionally

Teachers will have a set time to give directions, answer questions and give feedback on progress. It will most likely be their conference and possibly another time in the day.

Teachers may expect you to be logged in and be a part of their class for live instruction.

Students with IEPs will be offered accommodations that are appropriate in a remote environment.

Student work for each day must meet the following minute requirement.

• Pre K-5th 180 instructional minutes or 3 hours.

• Grades 6-12 240 instructional minutes or 4 hours

CTE and electives can require some attendance to demonstrate skills. Ex: Fridays after 2 p.m.

Material Design

Remote learners will follow the same scope and sequence as the regular classroom. Assessments will be comparable to regular assessments. Students may be asked to come test Fridays from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Remote learners will have access to instructional videos produced by teachers or online resources to help complete assignments.

Student Progress

• Expected progress in remote learning will be planned in advance, defined by the day and ties to the course syllabus.

• Engagement and curricular progress will be measured through the following means:

Data from Google Classroom accounts, Teacher/student interactions made each day, completion and submission of assignments planned for that day.

• Academic progress will be measured through assessment to inform instructional practice

• Feedback will be provided from instructor at least weekly to inform students of areas of remediation.

•School grading policies for remote student work will be the same as the regular classroom.

Communication and support for families doing remote learning will be provided by the district.