DCPS Employee Return to In Person Work Guidance
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Anonymous
| ^^ Oh sorry and extra classrooms are found at local middle & high schools. On the Hill, S-H could accommodate half of L-T, SWS, Peabody and CHML easily and is only a few blocks from most of them. E-H and Eastern could cover Miner (wouldnt need much coverage), Maury, Watkins, Payne and Tyler; not quite as convenient, but not unmanageable. And so on... If parents don’t like it, they can opt into DL, staffed centrally/combing kids from various schools. |
Anonymous
Depends a lot on the school... L-T has aides through K, so that takes care of itself. For 1-5, you need 3/3/3/3/2 extra teachers I think. (Classes are from 20-23 students, so this relies on a few opting into DL, but I’m sure that would happen.) You have PEx2, librarian, Spanish, art/French, footprints x 2, science, music, ELA instructional coach, math interventionist & computer... So we extra teachers right there, leaving you only 2 short. Surely the after-school coordinator and/or one of the 15ish other special services support staff or 5ish office staff or AP could step in. Also, the 6 City Year folks could be used creatively to supplement in classes with aides. Anyway, you’d probably need to move things around a bit — working with teachers — to match people to their kids well, but there are absolutely enough teachers at the school for it to work. I’m sure it’s true at other schools too, I just don’t know details of their staffing. Anyway, I think it’s feasible. |
Anonymous
Well let’s see. My upper NW school has 4 specials teachers, 2 reading specialists, two math specialists, 3 aides in PreK, 3 aides in K (for 4 classes) and that’s it for non classroom teachers. We have 5 classes per grade level. Special education teachers can’t have a class as it would violate LRE. Paraprofessionals cannot be in charge of a class (unless they are napping). We also have zero extra classrooms. So even if we could split the kids, there would be no where to put them. It’s against their contract. So your idea may work in Title One schools, but it won’t work everywhere. |
Anonymous
| ^^^its against the paraprofessionals contract to ge in charge of a class |
Anonymous
This wouldn’t work for any Deal/Wilson feeders. There are no extra classrooms in MS/HS. This is part of the reason this is so hard to figure out for Dcps. What may work for some schools will not work for others. There is no one solution for the school system. |
Anonymous
The whole idea is this would be paired with 100% DL for MS and HS. All the classrooms would be empty. |
Anonymous
I feel like this could be worked around on a temporary emergency basis pretty easily. Let them opt in for more $$. |
Anonymous
L-T isn’t actually Title I anymore. I’m surprised you upper NW school is so poorly staffed, I admit. I thought UNW was the land of gravy train PTAs...? Science teacher and Foodprints are all paid for by the PTA. I think the wealthier schools on the Hill (Brent/Maury) have aides through 1st grade. And I thought they had more specials? |
Anonymous
Upper NW schools (minus Janney) got out of HSA’s paying school employees. They now cover supplies so the admin can move that money to cover salaries. I’m surprised other HSA haven’t gotten out of paying employees. It’s a conflict of interest. Schools up here don’t get much of any at-risk funds in the budget. That adds up to a lot of missed dollars. |
Anonymous
Okay at least have K-2 full time with specials teachers/instructional coaches/reading and math specialists taking a class. Those grades are crucial for reading and therefore should be prioritized. |
Anonymous
You’re assuming that they would want that responsibility. I know people who have been paras for decades because they do not want the added responsibilities of grading, planning, and meetings. |
Anonymous
I’m not sure you’d want the aides in my school running a classroom. We have some much older ladies who clearly love the kids and can handle helping out, but no amount of money will give them the skills to handle kids and instruction by themselves over night. (That being said I once worked with an aide that was better than the really good classroom teacher, but she was a fully certified teacher and this was the foot in the door to a regular position, not a career as an aide.) |
Anonymous
Grading, planning, & meetings aren’t happening. We’ll be teaching your kids from behind plexi glass. We won’t be walking to their desks, conferring- really anything. You kid will sit at their desks with a book, pencil, & paper. And just no. No is having their contract changed. Your kids will alternate days in the classroom. Maybe taught by the grade level teacher & maybe taught by the PE teacher. Also- a special education teacher can definitely have a class. A poster up thread said it would violate LRE... Ummm, no. Give them a class of kids with IEPS & kids without IEPS. No problems with LRE |
Anonymous
That might work if you have enough sped teachers in the school to divide kids like that. We don’t. We have one sped teacher cover three grades. |
Anonymous
| This thread proves the point that this is nearly an impossible task. Every school is staffed and funded differently. During a normal year this doesn’t matter much, but during an emergency this makes a huge difference. Some schools have tons of support staff and some do not. The funding inequalities are really showing. This has exposed what people have been saying for years about DCPS. Why does L-T have all that extra non classroom staff? How are they getting the budget money for it? Meanwhile, my EOTP school had to cut aides due to the lack of head start funding. |