What’s your elementary school plan?

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Anonymous wrote:PP mention that K kids will have direct teacher instruction in person 4 days and wednesday virtual in March, for real? No looking at monitors/chromebook for 4 days a week in person, that is exciting news to hear!! Is it because only 50% of K kids chosen to go in person, so the school building can make these accommodation? I hope that reflects hope that more young elementary grades kids will have direct teacher instruction days in the fall when more kids choose to come in person.....

My daughter attends a school that considered doing this because we had about a 50% of kindergarteners wanting to go back and 50% virtual but then that meant that 50% of students would have to switch teachers (including a lot of virtual students ) and parents at my school were extremely vocal about not wanting to have their child change teachers in March so the principal decided to keep it with support to virtual.

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Anonymous wrote:PP mention that K kids will have direct teacher instruction in person 4 days and wednesday virtual in March, for real? No looking at monitors/chromebook for 4 days a week in person, that is exciting news to hear!! Is it because only 50% of K kids chosen to go in person, so the school building can make these accommodation? I hope that reflects hope that more young elementary grades kids will have direct teacher instruction days in the fall when more kids choose to come in person.....

It is probably a Title I or focus school.

I am the (or one of) the people that mentioned 4 days a week for K (and only K). It is not a Title 1/focus school and it is actually at a school that had among the highest in-person survey response in the county. And I would have to assume the return rate for K was at least as high as average.

The K classes have around 20 kids in them, so they will have to have more than 10 to 12 kids per class to make it work, although I am not sure how.

And they are not doing A/B weeks? Because our school was told there is no flexibility from county to offer every week, even if <50% of the kids are coming back.

If you're teaching at a title and our focus School the in person kids are in school four days a week. Otherwise I think yes you have a little bit more flexibility on A/B week type of situations

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Anonymous wrote:PP mention that K kids will have direct teacher instruction in person 4 days and wednesday virtual in March, for real? No looking at monitors/chromebook for 4 days a week in person, that is exciting news to hear!! Is it because only 50% of K kids chosen to go in person, so the school building can make these accommodation? I hope that reflects hope that more young elementary grades kids will have direct teacher instruction days in the fall when more kids choose to come in person.....

My daughter attends a school that considered doing this because we had about a 50% of kindergarteners wanting to go back and 50% virtual but then that meant that 50% of students would have to switch teachers (including a lot of virtual students ) and parents at my school were extremely vocal about not wanting to have their child change teachers in March so the principal decided to keep it with support to virtual.

According to the email we got, we would have our current teachers. There was a brief, oblique reference for the potential for changes, but if the principal thought that adjustments would actually have to be made, it would be a weird way to first address the issue.

It is interesting your school's reactions. I would have thought that more people would have preferred to have actual in-person, even if it meant some people switching to other teachers. (Critically, assuming I understood you, these are other actual K teachers at the school, not random folks hired off the street.) While not ideal, many would view it as better than "support to virtual," which is nothing more than current DL. But, maybe my views are skewed by the fact that we have already had a few teachers this year because of a maternity leave and, while I would prefer my kid not to lose his teacher, I've heard good things about the other one's as well and he is used to new faces.

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Forest Knolls elementary announced last night that they are reshuffling k-3 kids into new classrooms so there are 100% virtual and 100% in person classes. 4th and 5th grade will do simultaneous instruction.

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We don't have specifics yet on individual classrooms, but for the most part, existing classes kept together, teacher in room teaching simultaneously to the virtual and in-person kids. For classes where the teacher is remote, the existing classroom aide will be in the classroom with the kids. As of right now, only 11 kids (out of about 38) chose in person in my kid's english instruction grade (it is an immersion school, for the immersion classes it was closer to 50% in person).

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Anonymous wrote:PP mention that K kids will have direct teacher instruction in person 4 days and wednesday virtual in March, for real? No looking at monitors/chromebook for 4 days a week in person, that is exciting news to hear!! Is it because only 50% of K kids chosen to go in person, so the school building can make these accommodation? I hope that reflects hope that more young elementary grades kids will have direct teacher instruction days in the fall when more kids choose to come in person.....

It is probably a Title I or focus school.

I am the (or one of) the people that mentioned 4 days a week for K (and only K). It is not a Title 1/focus school and it is actually at a school that had among the highest in-person survey response in the county. And I would have to assume the return rate for K was at least as high as average.

The K classes have around 20 kids in them, so they will have to have more than 10 to 12 kids per class to make it work, although I am not sure how.

And they are not doing A/B weeks? Because our school was told there is no flexibility from county to offer every week, even if <50% of the kids are coming back.

If you're teaching at a title and our focus School the in person kids are in school four days a week. Otherwise I think yes you have a little bit more flexibility on A/B week type of situations

I think it depends on the school. My kid goes to a Focus school, K-3 are 4 days a week, every week, grades 4-5 are on the A/B rotation.

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My W elementary is doing 4 days a week in person for K.

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Our FOCUS school hasn't announced plans yet, though they will be sharing more this week with parents. What's clear is that they do anticipate needing some $15/hr monitors-- but I imagine few of them and only in higher grades since our class sizes are capped at 18 in the lower grades and the overall in-person choosers are only at 30%. That's an average of 6 kids per class. So I wouldn't think they'd need monitors, but maybe if some teachers can't come in person?

In older grades I think the cap is like 22, so I can see if a random class had 60% opt into in-person, they might need to split the kids up.

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Anonymous wrote:My W elementary is doing 4 days a week in person for K.

Did your school, at least by W standards, have a low return to school rate? Otherwise, how are they going to do that without having too many kids in the classroom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forest Knolls elementary announced last night that they are reshuffling k-3 kids into new classrooms so there are 100% virtual and 100% in person classes. 4th and 5th grade will do simultaneous instruction.

I think that's really smart. It will allow both teachers to teach more effectively than trying to split attention.

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Anonymous wrote:My W elementary is doing 4 days a week in person for K.

Did your school, at least by W standards, have a low return to school rate? Otherwise, how are they going to do that without having too many kids in the classroom?

All schools are supposed to be doing 4 days every week for k-2. I think they’ll be using the extra classrooms created by putting the older kids on A/B rotation.

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Anonymous wrote:My W elementary is doing 4 days a week in person for K.

Did your school, at least by W standards, have a low return to school rate? Otherwise, how are they going to do that without having too many kids in the classroom?

All schools are supposed to be doing 4 days every week for k-2. I think they’ll be using the extra classrooms created by putting the older kids on A/B rotation.

In the building, yes. But that doesn't mean that they will be with their teachers. They may still be with monitors doing school over Zoom.

I interpreted PP's post to mean actually with the teacher, although I guess that wasn't clear from the post.

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Anonymous wrote:My W elementary is doing 4 days a week in person for K.

Did your school, at least by W standards, have a low return to school rate? Otherwise, how are they going to do that without having too many kids in the classroom?

All schools are supposed to be doing 4 days every week for k-2. I think they’ll be using the extra classrooms created by putting the older kids on A/B rotation.

In the building, yes. But that doesn't mean that they will be with their teachers. They may still be with monitors doing school over Zoom.

I interpreted PP's post to mean actually with the teacher, although I guess that wasn't clear from the post.

Yes, the teacher and para will need to switch rooms so the kids have time with both.

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Our elementary school is doing:
K - 4 days in person with teacher
1-2 - 4 days in person with teacher or "overflow" room with a monitor
3-5 A/B week rotation

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Anonymous wrote:Our elementary school is doing:
K - 4 days in person with teacher
1-2 - 4 days in person with teacher or "overflow" room with a monitor
3-5 A/B week rotation

Ours is the same, except they were explicit that 1-2 and would be 2 days with teacher and 2 days with monitor.