Here is our school opening plan as of July 27. If you have any questions, please call the office. Can’t wait to see our students!
Woodrow Wilson Condensed Reopening Plan
Communication and training
On July 20, 2020 we met with our faculty and shared with them a framework for them to use as a guide to develop our reopening plans. The following documents were used to provide guidance; USBE Reopening Requirements and Recommendations, Governor’s Office Phased Guidelines v4.7, Leavitt Partners Mitigating Risks Framework, and Granite School Districts’ COVID Response Phases.
On July 29, 2020 we will meet as a Back to School Roadmap Committee to review the reopening plans and make specific procedures to give to teaching staff
On July 30, 2020 we will meet as a building leadership team to review the specific procedures to give to teaching staff, make adjustments, and finalize.
Teachers and staff will be training on action plans beginning on August 13, 2020 and continuing during the school year. Training will continue to be provided to staff in faculty meetings, PLC’s and coaching opportunities.
The GSD communications department and Wilson Elementary will send out information to parents indicating how they can access both the district’s plan and our school’s individualized plans in their preferred/primary language.
School Reopening plans will be posted on August 5, 2020. A link to Wilson’s plans will be located on the school’s website for parents, students and teachers.
Administrators, teachers, and staff will provide clear guidance/training for expectations/procedures to students the first few days of school. They will continue to reinforce teach and re-teach throughout the school year.
Christine Christensen, principal, will be the point of contact for questions or specific concerns
Accommodating Individual Circumstances (e.g., High-Risk, Personal Decisions)
We will share our plans for mitigating risk factors. For those students/families that would prefer to participate in distance learning they may fill out a form letting us know their desire to do so and we will accommodate their request.
Staff that identify as high risk may reach out to our Human Resource Department and we will provide reasonable accommodations.
We will provide personal protective equipment such as masks, shields, and possibly plexiglass barriers, for employees that identify as high-risk. We will also take increased cleaning and sanitizing measures.
School Schedules
Granite School District has three schedules that they are prepared to implement depending on what may be happening due to the virus. The three schedules are Regular, Modified, and Dismissal. With the regular schedule students K-12 will be allowed to attend every day using the board approved school calendar with increased safety and mitigation measures in place. We plan to use this schedule most of the time. The only time we would utilize another schedule for an individual class, grade, school, or the district, is if we were recommended to do so by the Health Department, the Governor’s office, or the USBE.
If it is deemed necessary that we reduce the number of students that are attending school, we will utilize a modified schedule. On a Modified Schedule, schools would operate on a split A/B schedule M-Th (Half the students in a class will come on Monday/Wednesday and half on Tuesday/Thursday.) Students not receiving face to face instruction will utilize distance learning or paper-based modules. On Fridays, all students will receive distance learning. Teachers will also use Fridays for planning, small group meetings, and interventions. Students would be divided alphabetically K-12 so students in the same families can be on the same schedule. Accommodations will be made on a case-by-case basis.
The third schedule would be a dismissal. We would only utilize a dismissal for a class, grade, school, or the district in the event of an outbreak and in consultation with the Health Department.
These schedules allow for optimal flexibility and are aligned K-12 to best accommodate the students and families we serve. Any of these schedules may be done district wide or on an individual school basis. The district, or an individual school, grade, or class, could be on any one of these schedules regardless of what color phase the state, county, or city is in.
Monitoring Incidents
We will adopt the new Utah School Nurse Association (USNA) protocol for symptom monitoring.
• These protocols will be emailed to all staff and included in Staff binder.
• Our school nurse will help in training on the protocols and answer questions.
Principal will review these protocols in opening staff meetings on August 13-20, 2020
Containing Potential Outbreaks
Wilson has established a sick room as well as an isolation/quarantine room for suspected exposure. All suspected cases will be reported to the school administrator who will contact the school nurse. The school nurse will then work with the local health department to verify positive cases, provide information for contact tracing, and to establish next steps recommendations for the school (i.e. patron and staff communications, enhanced cleaning in designated areas, prevention education, and determination of other actions needed to prevent an outbreak).
Transition Management Preparation
Wilson Elementary will utilize the blackboard platform to send email, phone calls, and text messages to patrons and staff in the event of a temporary dismissal. These messages will be translated to all available languages
Mitigating Tactics for Specific School Settings
Classrooms
• Students and teachers are to wear face coverings when engaged in contact longer than 15 minutes or within 6 feet
• Assign seats in classroom, small group, and specials
• Maximize space between seating/desks
• Seat students forward
• Nonessential furniture and equipment out of classrooms to increase distancing footprint
• Classroom cleaning bucket w/supplies
• Used rags container
• Student water bottles (brought from home/school purchased)
• Dots for lining up in classroom for distancing
• Individual student books/supplies kept at each desk – no sharing
Transitions
• Reduce transitions
• Hallway-walk on the right side of the hall, no touching the walls
• Students will sanitize hands before leaving and after returning to class
• Increase time for transitions
• Use alternate methods of providing water/no use of drinking fountains
• Prop doors open or have door holders to reduce touch
• Clean high-touch surfaces before/after transitions
• Require students/staff to wear face coverings during transitions
• Minimize/monitor congregation of students
• Designate traffic pattern flows in classrooms and other school areas
Entry/Exit Points
• Each grade level will be assigned an entry/exit door
• Designate entry/exit flow paths
• Doors will be propped open by teachers as student enter and exit
• Teachers will walk students in and out of the doors
• Students will enter and exit in a single file line, arm’s length apart
• Limit nonessential visitors/volunteers
- Follow district protocol for any non-regular staff including temperature checking and wearing of face coverings
- Establish protocols for drop-off/pick-up and communicate to families
- Hand sanitizer available for both entry/exit
- Before School – students line up by class at a grade level designated door
- One class enters at a time keeping appropriate spacing
Transportation
• Social distancing will be expected at bus stops
• All student on busses must wear face coverings
• Students will be assigned seats on the bus
• The first week of school students will be met at the bus by staff, staff will write on their hands their seat number using a marker corresponding to the “bus color”
• Students will line up with the colored bus flag and be dismissed by bus
Restrooms
• Signage and instruction on proper hand hygiene
• Regularly scheduled cleaning for high touch areas
• Scheduled bathroom breaks for individual classes
• Minimize number of individuals in restroom
• Encourage mask use while in restroom
Lunch/Cafeterias
• Students wash hands in classroom and visit the restrooms
• Students enter through lobby (West) doors.
• Teacher marks students being served lunch on a roster, keypad use discontinued
• Students pick up lunches in the serve and exit through opposite door
• No self-service bars
• Food Servers wear face coverings
• Sanitizer before/after meals
• Increase cleaning and disinfecting of high touch surfaces
• Distance seating areas marked on lunch tables
• Students sit in assigned seat by class
• Students are dismissed by table to dispose of garbage
• Students exit out the East door to hallway and out West exit to playground
Large Group Gatherings (e.g. assemblies, performances)
• Cancel or limit nonessential assemblies
• Record assemblies to be viewed in classrooms/at home
• Hold virtual meetings when possible
• Wear face coverings when at large group gatherings
Unique Courses with Higher Risk of Spread
• Build in time for sanitation between sessions/use
• Push-in service pattern
• Outdoor PE when weather permits
Recess and Playground
• One grade level bathroom break before recess.
• Once outside must stay outside.
• Classes enter and exit to playground through designated grade level doorways to ensure decrease in congested areas
• Doors stay open
• Playground equipment 1-5 grades not in use.
• Disinfect Kindergarten playground between use, to the highest degree possible
• Students assigned to activity groups.
• Activity groups rotate through activities together.
• Activities monitored by Playworks coach and recess duty.
• Sports equipment is sanitized between grade level groups.
• When classes line up, students face forward with as much distance as possible between students
• Student will wash hands before and after each recess
Special Education, Related Services, or School Counseling (e.g. School Psychologist, Speech Language Pathologist, etc.)
• Face shields, or auxiliary aids for one-on-one close contact
• Offer reasonable accommodations for students who are unable to wear face coverings
• Speech sessions one-on-one in hallway when appropriate
• Special education services as push-in to the highest degree possible, when push-in is not possible ensure pull out groups disinfect before and after each group and adhere to social distancing guideline
PD/Faculty Meetings
• Use of face coverings
• Social distancing in the gym or large group meeting room
• Limit number of participants in grade level PLC’s
Before/After Student Supervision
• Teachers will be assigned an area to supervise
• Face coverings will be required
Drop Off/Pick Up Areas
• Teachers will be assigned an area to supervise
• Face coverings will be required
Front Office
• Wear face coverings
• Plexiglass at the front counter
• Wipe off Guardian Gate after every use or have one person enter information
• Hand sanitizer available for patrons
P/ T or SEP Conferences
• Social distancing in gym and cafeteria with chairs
• Face coverings required
Safety and Fire Drills
• Social distancing while in line
• Face coverings
• All students facing forward
Patron Meetings
• Face coverings required
• Appropriate social distancing in setting
Library/Media Centers
• Media Specialist will visit classes to teach use of ebooks and share a story
• Media Specialist go to classroom to deliver books for students to keep
• Books will not be circulated
• Use of face coverings required
• Use of gloves for the media specialist
IEP/Special Ed Meetings
• Use of face coverings required
• Appropriate social distancing
• Offer online option for parents and document
Multipurpose Room
Use of multi-purpose room/gym will be limited to:
• Faculty meetings: doors propped open, tables space with appropriate social distancing, meeting length limited, staff will enter/exit through designated doors
• PE: (only used if weather does not allow for outdoor activities) teacher will socially distance students, door will be open for increased air flow, classes entering and exiting will follow traffic flow procedures to minimize congestion points during transitions.
• Class activities (scheduled) that require more social distancing than the classroom will allow.
Hallways
• Limit transitions
• Walk on the right side of the hall, no touching the walls
• Students will sanitize hands before leaving and after returning to class
• Increase time for transitions
• Use alternate methods of providing water/no use of drinking fountains
• Prop doors open or have door holders to reduce touch
• Clean high-touch surfaces before/after transitions
• Require students/staff to wear face masks during transitions
• Minimize/monitor congregation of students