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Stakeholder Group School / Worksite What are your most important needs at this 7me? Is there anything else you would like to share with us? Staff Briarcrest A plan as soon as possible. I would like to know before Elementary the end of July how we plan to reopen, so that schools and teams can have @me to prepare. As a teacher moving up to middle school, there's already so much change for me, so knowing my schedule and an@cipa@ng what the school day will look like will help with what is already a stressful situa@on. Staff Briarcrest As a Paraeducator, I am not issued a district laptop. If I wonder if anyone has looked into having parents sign a Elementary home learning happens in the fall a district issued waiver to have their child aDend school in the fall if no laptop would be appreciated. I do not feel comfortable vaccine is available yet. We do this for field trips to protect using my personal devices when associa@ng with against liability ... just a thought. students. 1 Staff Briarcrest Early decisions so that we can properly prepare. I am wri@ng from the perspec@ve of a shoreline teacher, Elementary parent to a school-aged child and reading interven@on specialist. It is my opinion that if we are to decide on a rota@on schedule for students in our classrooms, then they should be coming to school the same days every week so that a parent/parents can have a work/childcare schedule that can be consistent. My idea addresses that and more. I propose that the school week for students is a 4 day a week schedule with longer days. That way, we can fit more into every school day with students, it ends up being more teacher contact @me with the op@on of having “study @me” integrated into school so that students can do their extra prac@ce/homework at school with support from teachers and para-educators. This allows parents to have a full work day that are consistent days where their child is in school and when they are needing childcare. I also think the longer days will support more interven@on @me during this “study @me” where students are not missing core instruc@on and can have access to cri@cal interven@ons. Furthermore, if students are in school two longer days a week in a row, the cross-cohort contamina@on would be minimized. My idea for Friday is that teachers would have @me to collaborate on that day and prepare the distance learning lessons and materials for the following week that the students will need on their distance learning days. Staff Briarcrest Feel the need to get back into the classroom esp. to I feel that the shoreline school district did a great job with the Elementary help the students that are at a struggle and make sure virtual learning. And knowing that we will get back into the that they do not fall through the cracks. Let them schools/classrooms, to help All Students. know that we do care. Staff Briarcrest Figuring out whether will be online and in-class PBIS and SEL needs to be addressed and re-implemented for Elementary teaching together how to have all the assignments the school. ready for the week... will need @me to restructure teaching methods. Staff Briarcrest For people (including me) to be careful and follow I think it's very important for K-5 students to have some Elementary guidelines over the summer so that we can have some hours in the school building every week star@ng in version of in-person school in the fall. September. 2 Staff Briarcrest Having a plan in place before the start of school. Have I am not able to answer whether a "structured school day" or Elementary necessary PPE available for students and staff who are "flexible school day" would help students be successful not able to provide their own. Educa@ng parents about because there is not a clear defini@on of what remote the guidelines and making sure they follow them at learning would be. Would it be a Zoom class or would it be school buildings. pos@ng of videos in a learning pla[orm? How can you make sure that all students have access to remote learning and are actually able to do the work posted? I had less than half of my students accessing the Learning Ac@vi@es posted in Seesaw. More students aDended the Zoom mee@ngs. We need equity for ALL students. Staff Briarcrest Healthy & Safety It is extremely important that we have systems in place for Elementary being able to very easily contact trace if needed at a moment's no@ce. It is extremely important that we are able to have a system in place to take every person's temperature each and everyday at the start of the day. It is extremely important that we have a system in place that we follow if someone has an escalated temperature or other COVID-19 symptoms It is extremely important that there are Plexi- glass barriers in every office. It is extremely important that we have enough PPEs on hand at all @mes for all scenarios. It is extremely important that we have a system in place so that if we had to close a school for a day or two or 14 days due to exposure to COVID-19 and for a thorough cleaning of our school that we can automa@cally con@nue working/ learning from home so as to not upset the scheduled learning/working progress. If that means making sure all of our students/staff have technology checked out from the get go to make sure that they can learn/work from home then we need to provide that. 3 Staff Briarcrest I am concerned about exposure to COVID-19 when we I really appreciate the amount of input that you are allowing Elementary return to in-person instruc@on, for students and staff us to give. Thank you! and all of our family members. I have no@ced that people start out trying to follow the guidelines and then they get more lax with them due to the inconvenience, and I am worried that that will happen when we start school up again. I have also no@ced that some people in our county ignore the guidelines, and I am concerned that they will do the same with school guidelines. I think that there needs to be an across-the- district expecta@on that people will strictly follow all of the guidelines, and that no one will be asked to do something that is against the current health guidelines (such as work closer than 6 feet to someone else). Collabora@ng with my grade level team made a huge difference in helping me manage all of our online learning tasks. I hope that grade level team collabora@on will con@nue to be encouraged. Staff Briarcrest I feel safety is the most important need in how we re- Elementary open. Teaching students protocols for social distancing at the elementary level will be difficult and maintaining those protocols over @me will be stressful. Personal protec@ve equipment is also a concern. As a specialist I provide release @me to general ed teachers. I am concerned about being able to do that in a meaningful way if all the students stay in their classrooms. I do not want to go from classroom to classroom to teach music as I think that defeats the purpose behind isola@ng classrooms. I feel broadcast lessons from the music room is a beDer op@on but that would mean a para ed in the room so that a real release is offered to the cer@ficated general ed teacher. 4 Staff Briarcrest I know safety is a top priority, but I also desperately Elementary want kids in school as much as possible for their own social, academic and emo@onal growth. I am concerned about Covid but I am also concerned about our kids not being in school. I am concerned that they will be in a sterile and non engaging environment with all of the restric@ons that could be in place in the fall. Staff Briarcrest I work as an SLP and am therefore, face to face with Elementary students during instruc@on. I would like to have a plexiglass screen that I could put between the student and me. If this screen was available, I would be able to see my student's mouth and hear them which is mandatory for instruc@on for most of my students. I would need two screens since I am at two buildings. I would also need cleaning supplies to clean the screen between students, and gloves to wear during cleaning. I am over 60 and in a high risk medical category. I would not be willing to sit in a room with staff for mee@ngs, etc and would hope that any staff mee@ng or staff development be done over zoom from the privacy of our classrooms. Masks for staff and visitors should be mandatory. Staff Briarcrest I would like to know ahead of @me if Paraeducator jobs Elementary are going to be cut because of COVID-19, and how our school is going to do the "coun@ng" to see if classrooms/teachers will qualify for Para help (e.g. will this process be different for 2020/21 than in previous years).