2021-2022 RETURN TO IN-PERSON

INSTRUCTION PLAN

Updated Guidance Since Last Meeting

Updated Guidance Face Coverings/Masks CDC/IDPH/DCHD

● Recommends everyone, including fully vaccinated individuals, wear a mask in public indoor settings in areas with substantial and high transmission. This recommendation includes employers, retailers, restaurants/bars, fitness/recreational centers, libraries, governmental entities, healthcare facilities, and other public venues.

Close Contacts and Quarantine IDPH/DCHD

● When following mask guidance:○ Vaccinated: no close contact or quarantine (unless they have symptoms)○ Unvaccinated: close contact 3 feet and quarantine is 10 days (without

symptoms)

Transmission Level Low Moderate Substantial HighTotal new cases per 100,000 persons in the past 7 days in DuPage County

0-9 10-49 50-99 100+

Face Coverings/Masks

All students, staff, visitors and volunteers may wear a mask indoors and must while riding a bus, regardless of vaccination status. (Masks Optional)

All students, staff, visitors and volunteers must wear a mask indoors and while riding a bus, regardless of vaccination status.(Masks Universal)

Preliminary Return to School Plan Details● School will return to a traditional 8 period day with lunch.

○ Limited outdoor eating spaces will be provided.○ First day back - modified schedule (Grades 11/12 in AM and Grades 9/10 in PM) with common

expectation meetings by year in school in each session. Focus on expectations and support.

● Stay home when sick.● Continue to promote and provide opportunities for students, staff, and the

community to be vaccinated.● Mask wearing will follow CDC/IDPH/DCHD guidance based on transmission

levels in the county - updated each Friday. ● Maintain a distance of more than 3 feet as much as possible.● Guidance from federal, state, or local health officials - or an increase of illness at

school - could cause changes in practices.

Close Contacts and QuarantineContact Tracing:

● CDC still defines close contact as an individual who is not fully vaccinated and was within 6 feet of an infected person for 15 minutes or more cumulatively over a 24 hour period.

● When following mask guidance, contact tracing is at 3 feet.

Quarantine

● Per the CDC, those vaccinated or those that have had COVID in the past 90 days do not need to quarantine.

● When following mask guidance, quarantine is at 10 days.

Return safely to in-person instruction for all students

Continue to:

● Promote and provide opportunities for students, staff, and the community to be vaccinated.

● Maintain practices around ventilation, handwashing and respiratory etiquette.

● Respond to changes in guidance from federal, state, or local health officials.

Plus:

● Add additional supports and programming to help students return and remain successful.

“Students benefit from in-person learning, and safely returning to in-person instruction in the fall 2021 is a priority.” - CDC

Additional Student Supports

● Personnel:

○ Student Success Coordinators

○ Interventionists

○ Social Worker

○ Health Services (Nurses)

○ Teachers (Increased FTE)

Additional Student Supports

Resources:

● Academic Resource Center (redesign in progress)

● Expanded STRIVE (in progress)

● PATH (full) Implementation

● Teacher Office Hours - synchronous help

● SEL/CASEL Programming (in progress)

● Paper Online Tutoring

● Safe2Help (replaces anonymous alerts)

Questions