Return to School Second Quarter Fall 2020Superintendent Update

October 12, 2020

Updates on Health and Parent Data • We continue to review health data on a daily basis including:

• IDPH, CUPHD, University of Illinois, National Databases including CDC and http://covid-dashboard.fsm.northwestern.edu/ which is being used by a number of northern Illinois Districts. The website allows the user to include all zip codes relative to Unit 4.

• The following examples are some of the daily of data that we review.

Northwestern Data (cont)

Example IDPH Information (as of October 8)

University of Illinois (as of October 10, 2020)

Updates on Health and Parent Data (cont)

• The combination of different data sources allows us to gain a clearer picture of COVID-19 infection rates within our community.

• Interested parties can access the websites directly with the following links:• Illinois Department of Public Health (Region 6): https://www.dph.illinois.gov/• CUPHD: https://www.c-uphd.org/• University of Illinois Shield Testing: https://go.illinois.edu/COVIDTestingData• Northwestern Metric Website: http://covid-dashboard.fsm.northwestern.edu/

Updated Data From PK-5 Parents

• Building Administrators continued reaching out to parents to determine their preference for in-person learning vs. remote distance learning.

• September 30th to October 9th Building Administrators contacted all their parents to determine their selection of in-person vs. distance learning.

• 4,889 student families were contacted (291 remain to be contacted)• 1,891 (or 38.5% of those contacted) desired an in-person option based

on the AM/PM model• 2,727 (or 55.6% of those contacted) desired to stay in a distance

learning model

Results from Building Surveys (10/12/2020)

School In-Person Distance Remaining to Contact

Percent Responding

Percent In Person

Percent Distance

Barkstall 190 230 5 98.8% 44.7% 54.1%Bottenfield Elementary 155 233 45 89.6% 35.8% 53.8%

BTW 128 221 13 96.4% 35.4% 61.0%Carrie Busey 213 224 4 99.1% 48.3% 50.8%

CECC 107 114 27 89.1% 43.1% 46.0%Dr. Howard 137 210 4 98.9% 39.0% 59.8%Garden Hills 119 171 36 89.0% 36.5% 52.5%

IPA 173 254 1 99.8% 40.4% 59.3%Kenwood 111 225 19 94.6% 31.3% 63.4%Robeson 155 219 58 86.6% 35.9% 50.7%

South Side 113 154 0 100.0% 42.3% 57.7%Stratton 135 339 14 97.1% 27.7% 69.5%Westview 155 133 65 81.6% 43.9% 37.7%

Total 1891 2727 291 94.1% 38.5% 55.6%

Review of Information From Other Districts

Updated Phase 1.5 Second Quarter 2020 Plan● Current Plan: Elementary Grades – PK to 5th grade

● ALL PARENTS WILL HAVE OPTIONS

● Option 1 – Distance Learning● Families/students can remain with distance learning and receive 2.5 hours of distance

learning instruction each day with a teacher, and 2.5 hours of structured, independent learning each day.

● Option 2 – Modified In-Person Learning At Their School● Families/students can attend 2.5 hours of in-person instruction each day with a

teacher, and then continue with 2.5 hours of structured independent learning 4 days per week – Tuesday to Friday.

● Monday will be a REMOTE DISTANCE LEARNING DAY ONLY.

K-5 Second Qtr Proposed Model Early Start

K-5 Second Qtr Proposed Model Late Start

Special Education

● The District opened parent respite centers.● Work continues on how to provide more in-person assistance to students

and parents in 6-Young Adults.● Special Education staff continue to meet to develop plans for bringing

additional students into respite or support centers

Summary of Meetings With Buildings

● Lisa Milkereit, CFT President and I met with all the K-5 Elementary Building Administrators and CFT Building Stewards to discuss and brainstorm ideas for returning some students back to in-person learning.

● From our conversations we were able to develop the modified plan presented tonight which includes having Monday as a “Distance Learning” only day allowing teachers and administrators an opportunity to do additional collaboration.

● This would also allow the vast majority of the students to remain with their existing teachers.● We reviewed questions and provided answers around a number of Operational Safety protocols

and will be updating our District document in the coming days.● I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from our building administrators and CFT leadership

and together we were able to brainstorm a number of solutions.● We will be providing additional updates to building administrators, staff and families over the

coming week as we finalize plans for staffing, transportation, school supplies and schedule issues.

● Since July I have been meeting weekly with CFT and will continue to do so for the remainder of the quarter as we begin planning for both Second Quarter and the Spring 2021 semester.

Updated Next Steps