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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hearst note:

Term 3 Updates
The Hearst Reopen Community Corps had our final Term 3 meeting on Wednesday, January 6, and reviewed the updated Term 3 reopening plan. As previously shared, our plan allows up to gradually reopen our school building to more students and staff in Term 3, with the hopes of bringing back additional students and staff in Term 4. The plan is built upon three principles that we consistently heard prioritized by students, staff, and families in reopening conversations - safety, consistency, and socialization. The plan prioritizes in person seats for our students who are at-risk, have disabilities, and/or are English language learners (ELLs) and will allow us to meet the needs of our students furthest from opportunity in a meaningful way, while also minimizing disruption to the current virtual learning model, given that the majority of Hearst students will remain virtual in Term 3.
My approach to the plan was also based on a both/and approach to staffing as opposed to an either/or approach. With an either/or approach, if personal or family health or childcare needs meant that a staff member was unable to work in person in Term 3, they would be forced to take leave for the duration of the term and be unable to serve our community in any way. The both/and approach took a different view, allowing staff to both take care of their personal and family needs during the ongoing pandemic while also continuing to serve the Hearst community virtually in Term 3.
The approved plan, revised since I shared the initial plan in my 12/20 update, allows us to serve just under 20% our of students in person and includes the following in person learning options for students in Term 3:

PK CARE classroom, maximum of 8 students, staffed by two contract teachers, one with several years of experience leading PK4 classrooms
K-2 CARE classroom, maximum of 10 students, staffed by Hearst partner teacher
3-5 CARE classroom, maximum of 11 students, staffed by DCPS staff with education experience
K in person classroom, maximum of 10 students, staffed by Hearst K teacher and Hearst K partner teacher
CARE+ classroom for English Language Learners (ELLs), maximum of 11 students, the morning CARE classroom component will be staffed by a Hearst partner teacher and the afternoon in person instruction will be led by a Hearst ELL teacher.
CARE+ classroom for students with disabilities (SWDs) in the general education program, maximum of 11 students, the morning CARE classroom component will be staffed by a Hearst partner teacher and the afternoon in person instruction will be led by a Hearst Special Education (SPED) teacher.

While we were hoping to open in person learning classrooms for our students in our CES classrooms in Term 3, DCPS staffing requirements for CES programs in combination with our staff availability in combination unfortunately will not allow for us to open in person CES classrooms in Term 3. We will revisit this in Term 4, in hopes that we can offer in person options for our CES students as part of our plan to open additional in person classrooms during the final term of the school year.[/quote]

1 Teacher + 10 K students will be brought back for live learning. All of the rest are CARES classes. This is a farce.[/quote]

Do you know what was the demand from parents? Did the school survey the community to see how many parents wanted in person learning? The way all this reads is that the decision-making was based on the needs of the teachers and accommodating them and not necessarily what parents want.[/quote]

On one of the reopening calls the principal said the school was almost evenly split with 50% of parents wanting in-person instruction and 50% wanting to stay virtual.[/quote]

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