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). Staff Briarcrest I would need childcare for my school age children if I I think that for Kindergarten Dual language it is very Elementary am required to work in the building and they are not important for the students to get instruc@on in the classroom on the same in building schedule as I am. Before care as half come in without the language of instruc@on (spanish). or ajer care would be needed. Virtual classroom only would be almost impossible for students at the beginning of the year.

5 Staff Briarcrest -Improving the ven@la@on systems in classrooms - Elementary Making PPE available to staff and students -Time to rethink rou@nes in the classroom and throughout the day (what do whole group and small group lessons look like, recess, lunch, pull outs, specialist @mes, etc) Staff Briarcrest Knowing what to expect when we get to August. To Elementary best prepare for how to best serve our students. Staff Briarcrest Meet once a day with kids for more than an hour. Elementary Video record lessons step by step so students can go back and watch if need help and teacher isn't available. If doing paper packets, make them send out what they'll be teaching not just random sheets, students want to stay current with peers. If students need extra work they can do Khan, Epic, or some other applica@on if available. Staff Briarcrest Students aDending school in person, but with social If schools are relying on intrinsic mo@va@on for students to Elementary distancing and enforced quaran@nes for those who learn, the challenging content or less interes@ng content will were exposed to Covid 19. not be learned at a distance for most students. Staff Briarcrest To have able to work with before and ajercare Please don’t overlook Extended Care!! Elementary children. Help families that need childcare. Staff Briarcrest distance learning the way we did it only worked well for some Elementary of the students. Kids would watch the videos or say they watched the videos, but most did not do then assigned work. About 8 students, mostly girls, did most of the assigned work. Most students did about 25% of the work. Staff Brookside - our school district coming up with clear direc@ves for - not at this @me, thanks. Elementary beginning the 2020-21 school year. Staff Brookside 1) Knowing a plan as soon as possible to see if it is I was confused by the ranking ques@on of who should aDend Elementary logis@cally possible for me to find childcare, educate first. The choice/volunteer was too vague for me to rank my own children, while s@ll having the means to be accordingly. Basically, students with the greatest need (ELL, good teacher to my future students.. 2) Know the Special Ed, people of color) should have first access to in plan, so I can begin planning lessons for the fall. person instruc@on to make the system more equitable.

6 Staff Brookside Childcare. I'm not sure how to do my job with my If we are doing some type of split schedule, I think AM / PM Elementary schedule and with my 2 year old and 8 year old. What schedule should be considered. This I think would be the best happens if she goes back to school 2 days a week and I for student learning. It would not be the best for my go back to school 5 days a week? Can I bring her to childcare situa@on, however I think it would be the best for school with me? Is it safe to bring her to school? Is it kids. Being able to see each of my students each day for 3 safe to send her to school? hours, then send them home to do online learning would foster the important connec@on and follow through that is founda@onal in our profession. Maybe it looks like a 8:30 to 11:30 then send home with no lunch while we wipe down desks/sani@ze and have the next group arrive from 12:30-3:30. That way we can keep kids in our classroom for most of the day since transi@ons outside the classroom seem quite daun@ng. We can also connect with students each day and for those students who are not able to have support at home, they can at least check in with their teacher every day and teachers can send them home with an expecta@on of con@nued learning via online ac@vi@es. Teacher prep could be narrowed down since we would teach the same thing morning and ajernoon and when students are not present students would have the same online assignment which could be specific IXL assignments or Raz Kids reading or independent reading or maybe a ready made unit by the district? I worry with a two day on 5 day off approach for kids. I worry about them checking out and not connec@ng with peers, teachers and academics. It would be easier to hold students accountable if we could see them every day even if for a short period of @me. I'm not sure how I would work this at home with my own kids, but I think this is the best way for kids to learn. Daily check-ins with their teacher. Staff Brookside Concerns: -social distance guidelines: how is this Elementary possible with current class sizes? Will there be addi@onal staff to help sani@ze supplies such as manipula@ves for young students or will this fall on the teachers? What will recess, lunch, etc. look like? -will young students truly be able/be expected to wear masks all day? -will there be a back up plan in place if we must shij to distance learning once again?

7 Staff Brookside Health and safety I am the high risk category as an educator and am highly Elementary concerned with the energy it will take to teach first graders (6-7 year olds), while wearing a mask all day (with the physical energy and exer@on it requires). I am worried about doing this while helping support my first graders to keep a mask on all day while teaching and interac@ng. I am worried about what that might look like. As well as "story and learning @me" I used to have at my carpet area, if desks are spread out. Even with desks spread out for 6 j distancing, that won't be possible in my small classroom space with 20+ kids. Thank you for all of your considera@ons at this @me. Staff Brookside I cannot go back to work full-@me without full-@me Elementary school/childcare for my own children. Staff Brookside I think more training with tech and @me for] teachers I'm proud of the way my teaching team came together to Elementary to prepare lessons and other \ expecta@ons. The manage weekly lesson checklists, lessons, and engagement @meline for lesson comple@on was extremely chao@c with students. We all worked very hard to ensure that our for the teachers. I know COVID19 was unexpected, but students were taken care of. the teachers were overwhelmed with a very strict and inflexible schedule of expecta@ons. Some students in the classroom had very specific needs that made it very difficult for the classroom teacher to support and manage. For example, ELL students, students on 504 plans or IEPs need special considera@ons, @me and support. I had to work extra hard to ensure that my students and families were understanding of how to use the resources we were providing. It was all very overwhelming. The students that need the most support, I feel didn't receive it. Staff Brookside Just an understanding that next year is going to look Elementary very different and that we will need to be flexible. Staff Brookside Keep my family safe and having a fun, relaxing summer. I feel it's important to have the A/B schedule for all children Elementary in the fall, with some at home learning. Staff Brookside Keeping myself safe from other adults in the building. I am concerned about HR being able to honor unique work Elementary Being able to interact closely with students without environments for high risk staff. spreading the virus. Staff Brookside Planning and providing less screen @me for K-1 Elementary students for learning at home.

8 Staff Brookside -Safety of staff Who work at each building -PPD-What Elementary will district supply for personal protec@on? -Unlimited Entry access for Teachers to prep, Prepare, Work in building to get ready for in class teaching-oneed to maintain social distance and use common areas when fewer staff are around. Principals, custodians, office managers, have 24 hour access and they do not work one on one with kids. Staff Brookside Staying healthy! I believe wearing a face mask considerably increases ones Elementary protec@on however, the thought of having to wear a face mask everyday, all day causes me great concern. I can’t stand wearing one now for more than about a half an hour before I feel the need to rip it off....I don’t know what the solu@on is though... Also, the return to school will prevent me from seeing my elderly parents for the en@re year due to my concern for their safety which saddens me greatly..... Staff Brookside the health and safety of students and staff. Is the quality of our in-school educa@on going to be Elementary compromised by an early return back to in-person schooling? (i.e. will the experience be more troubling for students who are used to our school structure and rou@ne as we will not be able to establish our same classroom connec@ons and school community-building ac@vi@es?) It is a great concern that we will not be able to provide students with the same love, care, and connec@on they have grown to know in Shoreline Public Schools with the emphasis being more on the reopening of public schools and less on the wellbeing of our students, staff, and essen@al workers.

9 Staff Brookside I also think we need to have more conversa@ons about actual Elementary curriculum during our grade level district mee@ngs. I don't even know half of the teachers in the district at my grade level and we could be good resources for each other. We also focus on topics that don't have direct applica@on to us dealing with a brand new math curriculum. It would make sense to spend our district @me focusing on implementa@on within the grade level across the district.

lot of overlap, direc@on, or conversa@ons between grade levels apart from the grade level lead team, which I was a part of. Some of the systems lacking during normal school became more evident during COVID. Focus on core standards. Timely Scope and Sequence- we received the ELA one incredibly late. I've never worked for a district that didn't have pacing guides developed and handed out during beginning of the year trainings. I'm also surprised that we're just now working on common assessments. California school districts have been doing these for 15 years, so I find it odd that we're just now beginning to work on crea@ng them. Staff Brookside Did not see appropriate sec@ons for subs@tutes to complete. Elementary I re@red from Shoreline a few years ago and have been a frequent subs@tute in grades K-2 at several schools in the district. No op@on to select more than one school. What are the plans for the use of subs@tutes IF schools are open in the fall? Will those of us over 70 be considered too high risk to work in the classrooms should we choose to do so? I realize there are many unanswered ques@ons, but I would like to know what plans have been considered at this @me. Nothing has been published or sent from the subs@tute or instruc@onal offices.

10 Staff Brookside 1) How might a hybrid model look at the elementary level? Elementary 2) Will specialist @me be modified in any way(s)? 3) For teachers, students and their families who are in the elevated health risk category for Covid-19, is a 100% online op@on being considered? Staff Brookside As a classified staff member, many of these ques@ons were Elementary hard to answer as I was not involved in classroom lessons, teaching, etc. Staff Brookside I am concerned about length of @me in a confined space. I Elementary am also concerned about air ven@la@on in some of the older buildings (I travel between buildings). Staff Brookside If I am exposed (even if I can't "prove" the exposure Elementary happened at work) and have to quaran@ne at home for 2 weeks, I don't want that to be counted against my accrued sick leave. I think the district should cover that. Staff Brookside If we are back to an online model, older students need to Elementary have access to email. It was really hard to make sure they had the informa@on they needed when it had to pass through their parents. A lot of students would not get the info un@l it was too late. When my students finally figured out they could message me through Google Classroom, things really started to improve as far as online learning was concerned. Many of my students became responsible for their learning, and really u@lized that func@on to ask ques@ons or voice concerns about an assignment. They were also able to request Zoom mee@ng info. and other informa@on that made it possible for them to be engaged during this process. Staff Cascade K-8 As a special educa@on teacher, I need to be able to Many students did not learn well through video lessons, and teach my students. In person is impera@ve for the they were incredibly @me consuming to make. As a specialist, students who were unable to aDend zoom mee@ngs I did not have @me to watch all the lessons and stay on top of this spring. For other students, if we had a set all the technology. predictable schedule, I think they would be able to aDend via zoom. Teaching reading is my highest priority. Reading is the key to everything.

11 Staff Cascade K-8 -Being able to follow the health guidelines to make a return as safe as possible -Making sure high need students receive aDen@on, and receive priority for return to school Staff Cascade K-8 Decisions made as early as possible so I can prepare for the Fall. Most of the social distancing sugges@ons seem nearly impossible unless my classroom size is doubled or my class size is cut in half. Wearing masks is preferable. Staff Cascade K-8 Finding out as soon as possible what the plan in for the Strict social distancing will be IMPOSSIBLE to implement and start of the school year, so I can be prepared (even if maintain- our classrooms and schools simply aren't big the plan changes). Also knowing the range that may enough. Other measures (like face masks or shields) need to occur doing the school year if there is a second or third be ac@vely pursued. Also it seems impossible to have wave of COVID illnesses. equitable experiences if students are expected to spend a majority of their @me learning from home. I hope we can return to school (even if the schedule is modified). Staff Cascade K-8 I am worried about the smaller programs (Dual Thank you! I know this is not easy to plan. I appreciate Language Program, CK8, Hi-Cap?). We did not have everyone's hard work. larger teams to help share the workload of crea@ng videos. Crea@ng videos for math, reading, and science was very challenging and took an incredible amount of @me to create and produce. I'm worried about the increased expecta@ons for fall. Without more support, I don't see how it'll be manageable. I think increased collabora@on across buildings will be key if a similar model con@nues into the fall. Staff Cascade K-8 I just need some @me away to regroup and get ready I think my distance learning could have been really successful for another year. had I had the use of Kami for students to be able to write on some of the documents I put out. I could have measured and assessed students much beDer. The other big issue is that there has to be a message that we are going to have real grading otherwise we don't get the buy-in from parents or students. Staff Cascade K-8 I need a star@ng point for prepara@on for the fall. It would be really helpful to at least have one of the scenarios to start working on, since the prep. for next year will be extensive.

12 Staff Cascade K-8 Meet more ojen (we went from 32+ hours to 1-2 hours per week). Make video recorded lessons mandatory and step by step (so student can go back and watch if needed). If doing the packets make sure they are for that weeks lessons not just extra work. Some students didn't have access to printers and couldn't print but wanted to stay current with peers. Set expecta@ons across the board! Staff Cascade K-8 My most important need is one I don't think the Given an aging popula@on of teachers and a lot of teachers district can realis@cally provide - to know what kind of and staff with underlying health issues, I am afraid that a learning I will be planning for. Given the spikes in return to school will be a death sentence for some staff. I also COVID around the country, and the resistance to believe that if I have to manage social distancing among my measures such as masks, I would be really surprised if students as the most cri@cal issue, the pedagogical benefits we are able to return to in-person learning in any full of being at school together may be lost. Most of the best way, and I do not think it is realis@c to plan for a return strategies, student study teams, pair-and-share, etc, are to school as the most likely/preferred op@on, as the impossible with masks and social distancing. Meanwhile the state has put forward. So the most crucial thing is to stress on kids of having their ability to connect with each make a beDer plan for distance learning than what we other be visible, but out of reach, and be yet another did this spring. If we are able to be together in some behavior for teachers to correct seems to add yet another way, that would be lovely, and people should work on level to an already precarious situa@on. Classrooms are not what that could look like, but I think teachers need big enough to have 25 kids seated with appropriate social support in learning how to effec@vely do distance distancing, much less the 30-40 in some middle and high learning, need a curriculum that can be used in that school classes. How do we get kids to school safely - is a bus way, and need access to technology at home that will driver supposed to maintain social distancing as they drive? support that more effec@vely. Meanwhile, budgets are being slashed, so how can we take the measures to be safe. Because schools are the primary childcare providers in this country, and because there is no other resource available, geyng the economy, "back on track" depends on open schools, so I think regardless of all these problems, we will be back at school in some way this fall, and I'm truly afraid of what that will mean in terms of physical health and safety, in terms of good teaching, and in terms of educator and student mental health. Staff Cascade K-8 PPE for nurse and staff to be provided by the district ON TIME for the first day. Protocols for PPE. Protocols for temperature checks.

13 Staff Cascade K-8 The most important need is the development of I don't work with students, so this ques@onnaire was difficult strategies around parent / student contact. to answer at @mes. Communica@on without contact. I care for elderly parents, and cannot risk exposing them. Staff Cascade K-8 Consistency district-wide in terms on how lessons are delivered, where students find and turn in assignments, how much engagement is expected in each class Staff Echo Lake *While an overall structure is needed for the District, I Elementary also think that each school should have some autonomy n instruc@on. Each school knows their kids and has access to the teachers who knew them before. I do really appreciate "not being thrown to the wolves" ini@ally while I learned new technology, but once we were on Phase 4, it seemed to run much smoother and parents could connect with their child's teacher. Before, it was too much e-mail and too many direc@ons for parents and so some were overwhelmed, gave up, and it was hard to get them back. *As a classroom teacher, it was very overwhelming to try and do my job well and to also feel like I was the access/contact for interven@on and ELL teachers to do their jobs too. I know everyone was just doing their best, but that has to be worked out beDer if we con@nue to have an online component. I will not be able to manage other people that are cer@fied, if I am doing my best to manage a classroom that is probably con@nually pivo@ng. *I am concerned about geyng sick, and also, about how could I ever be out two weeks if I got it and had to pass on my job to someone else? The reality of being a step ahead on this is the truth.

14 Staff Echo Lake 1. Compliance with Health Department guidelines. 2. 1. Families need a predictable school schedule in order to get Elementary Considera@on given to work load for all staff (teachers, back to work themselves, even if that means a hybrid model. custodians, office staff, etc) par@cularly if a hybrid 2. If students are working remotely the message needs to be model is chosen. very clear that school is not op@onal, but there should be flexibility in when work is done. 3. A district curriculum map with standards to guide instruc@on is helpful. Working as a building grade level team to produce videos and other remote learning ac@vi@es is the most efficient model. A huge thank you to all of the Shoreline staff members who provided food, technology support, staff training/support/ resources. Thank you! Staff Echo Lake A clear plan that addresses the health guidelines and Elementary safety of all staff and students. Staff Echo Lake A safety protocol that allows for in-person student Elementary assessment, con@nued flexibility for comple@on of evalua@ons. Staff Echo Lake Access to a plan for maintaining a safe and clean school We need more training on school health procedures during Elementary environment. Access to PPE at school. Training on the pandemic. More training on home learning for families. hybrid models of learning. Staff Echo Lake An idea of what school will look like next year. Elementary Hybrid? Mandatory masks? Will school provide them? Daily temperature checks? Do students eat in the classroom? Do I get a break during the day? How to manage online and in-person learning? How many cases in Shoreline schools before we switch to 100% online? Staff Echo Lake BeDer communica@on and more clear job roles as a Elementary one-on-one, especially when the student does not par@cipate. Staff Echo Lake Concerns about those with autoimmune diseases. Please don't penalize those of us who have autoimmune Elementary issues, and help protect our jobs. Staff Echo Lake Don't risk in person school if rates of Covid are not Thank you for asking for our opinions and for working this Elementary acceptable according to health standards. Keep doing summer on a plan that has the best chance of working. Thank full on line school. you so much!

15 Staff Echo Lake Figuring out the restric@ons and requirements to keep Because student par@cipa@on was not tracked by specialists Elementary students healthy in the PE seyng. It's a unique learning in elementary this year, it would be helpful to have access to environment that will need great considera@on to do the number of hits our websites/video content get from the well in the fall given the pandemic. community. That will give us beDer feedback about what content is most engaging and what might need more work. Staff Echo Lake Guidance for the instruc@on of students with special Elementary needs in self-contained classrooms. Staff Echo Lake I believe that if masks are a requirement the school Elementary district (or the state, or even the federal government) should supply them. I believe it's an equity issue. Many of our families, and perhaps even staff, may not be able to purchase enough masks to last an en@re week of school. Staff Echo Lake I don't see how I can teach kindergartners using masks Teachers can not do both remote learning and have children Elementary that cover our mouths. It's hard enough to teach there in person at the same @me. The remote learning was phonics and understand 5 year olds with out masks on. s@ll about 50-60 hours a week between lesson crea@ng, And not having them interact with one another and commiDee mee@ngs, staff mee@ngs, trainings, parent not being able to touch them when they need to be communica@on, checking assignments, crea@ng class consoled would be cruel and confusing for this age bulle@ns, and aDendance / data collec@ng. If half the group. There are also so many materials, math class is aDending and the other is not, it doesn't maDer if it's manipula@ves, books, toys, and recess equipment that 10 or 20 children being taught in person, it is s@ll 100% of the they would be touching and it would be impossible to instruc@onal @me and planning @me being used and needed properly disinfect all of these things. I also think the for those smaller groups. We CAN NOT be expected to pull spray used coats the materials with a greasy film that off both. It is 2 different full @me jobs. can't be safe for children to touch all of the @me and it ruins materials. Staff Echo Lake I just want to be safe at school. I have some underlying I'm puyng a lot of work in to lessons; I understand that a lot Elementary health condi@ons that make me a liDle nervous about of families don't have equitable access or supervision, but I being in a room full of children. Families have to believe there needs to be more accountability for learning. follow the guidelines. There will need to be alternate/ The students with less access to tech and supervision need to affordable child care for kiddos whose families have a be at school the most. hard @me with the possibility of an alterna@ve schedule.

16 Staff Echo Lake I need to be able to make a personal connec@on with I think the District did as best they could considering this was Elementary new families in the fall. That might be in small group uncharted territory. However I did not feel successful un@l format with only 3-4 kids at a @me. There needs to be Phase 4 when I could ini@ate the lessons and talk to my some face to face contact even briefly to kick off the students virtually. The ques@on about how well are my year with trust, support, and an understanding of students prepared for next year is very hard!! Of course by expecta@ons. missing 13 weeks of the year, I know they missed out on a lot. I did my best using online tools and assigning work but it ul@mately could not replicate what would have been taught in the classroom. There were also kids who did not ever do any of the work as the District policy was is wasn't "required". This is difficult when a ques@on asks do I think they are prepared or not. It is based on so many different situa@ons! Staff Echo Lake I need to stay healthy to assure my husband who is in a How will teachers receive planning @me if we are in school. Elementary high-risk popula@on stays healthy. I hear a lot about Asking specialists to cover every classroom exposes them to children faring well but liDle talk of how staff will stay too high a risk. I could see librarians teaching virtually from safe and healthy. with in a building which would provide learning but not planning coverage. Staff Echo Lake I want to return to school if at all possible. If there is a This was the most frustra@ng @me for me as a teacher. I was Elementary combina@on of on-line and in-person instruc@on, I not allowed to provide specially designed instruc@on for my need to be allowed to instruct to IEP goals in small students to teach to IEP goals, or any small group instruc@on group format. at all. I ended up holding zoom mee@ngs for social skills, zoom mee@ngs for math games, zoom mee@ngs for reading and wri@ng games and 1:1 zoom mee@ngs to help students with general ed curriculum. The majority of my students were unable to access general ed instruc@on and were unable to make any progress at all during this @me. It would have been such a simple maDer (although I am aware of the greater ramifica@ons) for me to provide targeted reading, wri@ng. math, and social skills instruc@on and I believe students would have benefited. If on-line learning is con@nued, I definitely need more training, more daily structure, student accountability in terms of aDendance and permission to provide specially designed instruc@on. I think overall the district did very well in responding to this unprecedented emergency, but I hope we can return to the classroom at least par@ally in the fall.

17 Staff Echo Lake If students rotate in for in-person learning (like on a Elementary MWF/TWTH schedule, or a AM/PM schedule), staff will s@ll be exposed to ALL the kids, so it seems that's problema@c for staff health and further transmission. Staff Echo Lake If we are aDending school in person, teachers would Re: distance learning: It would not be equitable to require Elementary need addi@onal classroom resources to support social strict log-in @mes, especially for younger students. If their distancing. This might include: addi@onal sea@ng parents work, they may not be able to log-in at tradi@onal op@ons, plexiglass barriers, floor markers to indicate 6 school day @mes since they need adult support. However, j spacing, etc. If we are distance learning, having a "aDendance"/par@cipa@on requirements need to be clear 1:1 ra@o of District-supplied devices and internet and consistent. access is cri@cal. Frequent opportuni@es to send learning resources home such as workbooks, school supplies, and books would also be needed. Staff Echo Lake If we do return that school is a safe place to be. I Elementary Staff Echo Lake In all honesty, the thought of returning to the building Elementary with students and staff terrifies me due to the increased risk of exposure to COVID. I'm also worried that we aren't using our @me wisely to create a more robust online learning situa@on instead of focusing on returning in the fall. I'd be willing to bet that there will be another large outbreak at least once this school year and I would rather not have that feeling of scrambling and trying to get things in order at the last minute. I want us to be prepared to go into online learning mode as seamlessly as possible when the @me comes. Also, I have three children who aDend the school I teach at. If there is a hybrid model where I'm required to be in the building each day, but my own children aDend only part of the week, who will watch them on their "off days"? Thanks for listening and taking all of this under considera@on. Staff Echo Lake Knowing what the district has in mind as soon as Elementary possible, to give staff @me to adequately prepare. Staff Echo Lake My most important needs are making sure that school Elementary in the fall is a safe environment.

18 Staff Echo Lake N95 masks need to be provided to teachers I will need Elementary childcare for my daughter if there is an A/B schedule. Staff Echo Lake Personal safety as I have underlying health issues and Elementary am not willing to die for my job. Staff Echo Lake Students with disabili@es need to be back in school. If school does take place in person and online, please give Elementary For this to be safe, students need to return in smaller teachers one or two days with no students to plan and class sizes to with same staffing to accommodate the provide the necessary things for online learning and lack of face masks, safety measures and the need for classroom learning even more 1:1 instruc@on. Staff need to be provided with protec@ve face shields. Staff Echo Lake Support!! Be it technical or instruc@on based, support I simply do not see how we can return to our classrooms and Elementary is of the utmost importance. expect to maintain distance. If I have almost 30 students, given the size of my room, I'd be lucky if I could get 1/3 of my students into the class at any given @me. Which then creates a huge issue with rota@ons, or providing support or frankly even managing the curriculum. I know we have to keep moving forward and get crea@ve but at what expense. Time outside is compromised to some degree, ea@ng meals is compromised, etc. Staff Echo Lake Taking into account those of us who have Please make sure those of us with immunocompromised Elementary immunocompromised systems (staff and students systems aren't penalized for having such systems. alike). Staff Echo Lake The need to figure out the school schedule ASAP. Who We need to make sure that each child has a device and Elementary will need to be in school or not? This is for students internet capacity to work at home and at school. Any one and teachers. Who will make these decisions? What who needs transla@on of direc@ons, informa@ons, lessons, will be the criteria on how a hybrid model will be etc. must be provided by the district. Teachers also need to equitable for all. Meaning who says who gets to work have the choice to work at home or at school with internet from home or not. What will in person learning look provide. like? Who's providing the ppes and policing the 6j social distance guidelines and if someone is wearing a mask or not. Staff Echo Lake To be able to return as Before and ajer care instructor. Hopefully the Before and ajer care get to con@nue in the fall Elementary

19 Staff Echo Lake To know what the plan is for next year so we can I apologize if you are geyng this twice. The first form I filled Elementary prepare over the summer. Who is going to provide in did not tell me it was submiDed. Kindergarten will need PPE? some type of blended learning next year where they and special need students should be considered first for being able to do some in-person type learning. It will be very difficult to have any type of successful online learning with them if we haven't built trust through community building and procedure teaching in person at school. Please allow us to teach at school even if we are only preparing lessons for online. There are many of us who do not have adequate space to teach from home. I was not able to successfully complete online videos for a variety of reasons - no space to use things I needed like easels, props, etc, internet issues, etc. Staff Echo Lake Training on pla[orms Elementary Staff Echo Lake I feel students with disabili@es should be priori@zed for onsite Elementary learning. Staff Echo Lake The ques@ons about learning tools above aren't well worded Elementary or have enough choices for beDer answers. I am a para- educator for Title and regularly work with small groups of students in reading and math. During the closure there were no op@ons given to me to help support these students, such as break out rooms in Zoom. I was not involved in Seesaw or Google Classroom lessons or lesson planning. Even communica@on from my supervising teacher was preDy much non-existent. Also, it wasn't part of my job expecta@ons to communicate with families. Staff Edwin PraD Early A clear plan on how to keep the students and staff safe. Learning Center As well the way best serve ( educate) our students at school during the pandemic.

20 Staff Edwin PraD Early A PLAN. Once there is a framework of a plan for the Learning Center district, I will be beDer able to imagine adapta@ons I will need to make as a clinician, and have a beDer idea of what I may need from the district. I think regardless of the plan, I will need: -PPE, and flexibility in its use. In my work, my students need to be able to see my mouth, and I need to see theirs. Face shields may work beDer than cloth masks. -extra @me and/or staffing for disinfec@ng materials and surfaces -flexibility in service delivery- I imagine a mix of in person, virtual services, and consult -a budget for materials for new types of service delivery and assessment Staff Edwin PraD Early Access to appropriate PPE for preschool. Preschool, as Learning Center always, is different. I am ojen sneezed on - in the general face area. Teachers are vigilant about hand- washing, but will never be able to monitor every child that touches their mouth, nose, face. All preschool children do not cover their mouths when they cough or sneeze. Some can be taught, some will not understand. To be an effec@ve therapist, my students need to see my mouth. Much of my therapy requires me to touch a child's face/tac@le promp@ng. Preschool is play-based, my therapy is play-based - it will be difficult to engage and teach effec@vely without proper PPE that allows us to get close to the children we work with. Staff Edwin PraD Early Financial and technology support Learning Center Staff Edwin PraD Early Flexibility, informa@on about expecta@ons and safety Learning Center Staff Edwin PraD Early Further guidance on specifics of possible reopening I have concerns about ability of preschool age children to Learning Center scenarios and what public health phases/guidelines wear masks consistently and also to adhere to social would be in place for each scenario to occur. distancing guidelines. Also of concern is how symptoms will be handled at school. What protocols will be in place to reduce risk of students being sent to school who are unable to control their secre@ons and therefore may pose an increased risk to other students and staff.

21 Staff Edwin PraD Early Having my job in fall. Having kids when they have a runny nose or cough and no Learning Center temp. sent home. Staff Edwin PraD Early Health, safety, income and content for older learners. I don’t know if I answered this as a teacher or a mom to 4 Learning Center school aged kids. Staff Edwin PraD Early I am concerned for the most vulnerable students and Learning Center cannot imagine how they would aDend safely. An in home op@on or zoom/some contact op@on seems necessary for some students. I think the status of a vaccine will be an important factor as well--maybe start in homes with goals of in school "soon" I would think we have a variety of needs that may take a variety of op@ons in schooling in the fall. Staff Edwin PraD Early -I don't know how I'll return to work if my schedule Learning Center differs from that of my two elementary aged children who aDend SeaDle School District. -Clear communica@on and guidelines around different scenarios/phases. Staff Edwin PraD Early I have a lot of flexibility in my schedule, and am eager There are challenges to early learning and COVID, but our Learning Center to open and serve children and families! My children work is vital to young children. I worry that we may not open. are in college and highschool, I am not worried about My biggest concern is losing the rela@onships we have with them needing childcare families, as well as losing our recently hired staff. Staff Edwin PraD Early I hope that our program and district administrators can Learning Center work together to find a way forward so that the before and ajercare programs can s@ll operate and serve our children and families in the fall. Staff Edwin PraD Early I need access to a face shield or goggles when working Learning Center with preschool students because they will not be able to always wear a mask or manage their bodily fluids well. Staff Edwin PraD Early Im sure not use to being at home. I would much rather I love my job & all the children. I would love to be back at Learning Center be working. I do provide medical/dental insurance for work. my son & I. Husband has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. I worry about not having money for mortgage and food. Staff Edwin PraD Early Income, safety, health insurance Learning Center

22 Staff Edwin PraD Early Making sure that our students are safe and geyng the Learning Center resources they need Staff Edwin PraD Early My most important need at this @me is to know that Please put social emo@onal learning at the forefront of Learning Center my families and their children are ok. I miss them students needs, especially PreK through 5th grade, by having tremendously. them return to in person classes as soon as possible. Staff Edwin PraD Early My most important need is to be safe from geyng I highly recommend if we are physically open with limited Learning Center exposed to COVID due to the fact I share property with number of people in building/classroom, we should have all parents who are immune-compromised, at the same half day classes so more students can aDend or just 3 days a/ @me I really want to be in the classroom in the fall. week students are on campus. I also really think it important Some of the import things I think should be considered to have less people in the building including families at drop- if opening in the fall are that 4 year olds should be off and pick-up. It worked well in March to have families do served first since they are going into Kindergarten, as both at the back door entrance of each classroom. It was well as SPED students, and those w/ an IEP, especially much less exposure in the classroom/hallways. Head Start students. I think the best way to achieve social-distancing in school is going to be either a part @me on campus/off campus or a limited number of student allowed. Staff Edwin PraD Early PPE - Schools should be providing this and it is cri@cal! Learning Center Staff Edwin PraD Early Preschool class cannot be effec@vely held virtually, Remote learning presented some serious equity challenges Learning Center especially for our preschool students with special and reinforced the differences in our community. Some needs. Virtual learning is neither age appropriate or families were able to work from home, while others lost their developmentally appropriate for our preschool jobs or had no choice but to put themselves in the front lines students at this point in their educa@on. There will and go to work, to provide for their families. It would be need to be strict guidelines for health screening for inequitable to aDempt to hold school virtually and con@nue these children when they enter the building, as some remote learning unless it remains "op@onal" and would not of them may not be able to wear masks all the @me, penalize students for not par@cipa@ng in assignments or due to either their young age, or disability. joining group calls at a specific @me. This is in part to support those families who might WANT to be able to support their child's learning, but have to work during the day or have other priori@es that trump school. As for our youngest students, they must be supervised at all @mes, and cannot yet be expected to be independent with school work, let alone safely playing and entertaining themselves on their own.

23 Staff Edwin PraD Early Purely to make sure all families are safe and well Good luck and I hope that we all will be able to find a posi@ve Learning Center informed. I want to provided students with virtual way to keep everyone, safe, happy, and informed. :) learning elements and in person. I think there is a great balance we can strike here if we all work together. Staff Edwin PraD Early Safety first and taking social distancing precau@ons, As a paraeducator in the Shoreline School District, I work Learning Center wearing masks in public, etc. throughout the en@re district K-12, and Special Ed, but mostly at Edwin PraD Learning Center. I would like to inquire about the need for para's during this upcoming school season with the Covid precau@ons, etc. Do you an@cipate there will s@ll be a need for Para Educators at the PraD Center and in Shoreline School district? Thanks much

Staff Edwin PraD Early Sleep Thank you Learning Center Staff Edwin PraD Early To be Healthy I am worried about kids with immunity system week and Learning Center grandparent and some health issue Staff Edwin PraD Early With special educa@on preschool students, my main While I am hopeful we might return to school in some way, I Learning Center concern is the challenge of helping them keep their am concerned about how we would be able to keep the risk bodily fluids and droplets to themselves. It would be a of sharing COVID to a minimum. challenge for many of my students to keep a mask on their faces and many might want to pull on other masks as well. Staff Edwin PraD Early Even though cases may be low in Washington compared to Learning Center other states, it s@ll does not mean there is a vaccine or medical treatment for the virus. Cases will go up during the summer because of the false sense of security of the warm weather and the public's frustra@on of being at home for the last three months. The reason for our low case numbers is because social distancing and the stay at home order worked. I understand parents are desperate to send their young kids to school and send them to extended care but I hope the safety of our staff is just as a priority as our students.

24 Staff Edwin PraD Early Some of the ques@ons were not applicable to me since I work Learning Center in extended care. I want to work but honestly I am not sure how this will safely work. How do you keep kids 6 feet apart in social and play situa@ons? I am also high risk because of my asthma and being overweight. I need to make money but I struggle whether this will be safe for me. Staff Einstein Middle *Having the ability to get to know my students I think I would value some sort of par@al week/par@al class School individually to really know what they need. * The aDendance to get to know my students vs. all on or all off ability to manage high needs SpEd students with social campus. distancing. Staff Einstein Middle A need to know what the op@ons are, as soon as School possible. Staff Einstein Middle Access to an online pla[orm to distribute lessons, I will not feel safe returning to work if I m not in a classroom School availability of useful prac@ce work on line like IXL, and school that can actually social distance. That means class beDer video recording tools. Screencas@fy full version size has to be much much lower. I need ppe as well with edi@ng virtual whiteboards

25 Staff Einstein Middle As a band teacher, I'm worried about having enough Thank you! School instruments so that students don't need to share. I am adding 100+ 6th graders and was already was short certain horns this year. It's hard to know exactly what's needed, as many 6th and 7th graders switch ajer geyng to middle school, so I'll have a beDer idea in the fall ajer kids have tried out instruments. I'm hoping the district will help if needed, especially with repairs of current inventory (I have some going in for repair this summer, but was told to be conserva@ve and so didn't send in everything I could have), and possible purchases of new instruments if needed, as well as sani@zing spray for mouthpieces, reeds so kids don't have to share when trying instruments out, etc. I also worry about students being able to par@cipate from home if they don't have an instrument. Larger instruments are not allowed on the bus, but we don't currently have enough of the large horns for all students to keep one at home to prac@ce and one at school for rehearsal. If we had the inventory, last minute or long term cancella@ons wouldn't have as big an impact on par@cipa@on /engagement if those students already had an instrument available at home. We had some success this year using the online pla[orm Smartmusic during home learning. Kids can record themselves, I can hear and give them feedback, give assignments, the program has a MASSIVE library, and it also assesses them on rhythms and notes. If we are doing any sort home learning next year, whether full or part @me, I think Smartmusic would be an excellent tool to use. It was free for the last few months due to Covid, but there's no guarantee that will be the case for next year. Having it at the START of the year, and being able to introduce students to it and get them comfortable with it will mean increased engagement for any home learning that may have to happen.

26 Staff Einstein Middle As a leave replacement it is to find a job. School Staff Einstein Middle At this @me, I would like a clear set of op@ons/ I would love regular, weekly updates throughout the summer School con@ngency plans for what reopening might look like. as to the status of the planning, if possible. Much like the state published clear guidelines and features for each of the "phases" of coun@es reopening, I would like to see a similar approach to school (ie, phase 1 of schools, phase 2 of schools, etc). In this way we would know what to expect with each phase of reopening, much like in the broader community. In addi@on, I think it's very important to align plans regionally with our neighboring districts. Many teachers live outside of Shoreline and have children who aDend schools in their home districts; if districts each have different schedules and protocols, that could make it very difficult for teachers to balance their work schedule with their own child's school schedule.

27 Staff Einstein Middle At this @me... I really need a break and some As a science teacher I am VERY apprehensive about School separa@on. I want to reflect and start mentally instruc@on for the fall. We are already having to totally preparing myself for the fall (whatever that may look reimagine and reinvent lessons that are the opposite of like). I need to feel like the district is serious about everything we have been working toward. Much of our keeping health and safety a top priority for students curricula is based on collabora@on and partner talk/ac@vi@es. AND staff (providing wipes for surfaces, hand sani@zer, Sense-making through collabora@on and discussion. It is clear cleaning standards/guidelines, etc.) and not just really hard imagining how this will all work in person with rushing back into tradi@onal school because it's social distancing. How can we maintain social distancing and inconvenient not to have tradi@onal school. I am s@ll help a student in a classroom? Will students be able to genuinely concerned about becoming a vector for the safely interact? It's really disappoin@ng to be removing so spread of illness in the fall. many collabora@ve pieces and having to make everything independent... worksheets? I guess? Also, I struggle with the equity pieces of engineering projects... It's such an important piece, but just feels like a logis@cal nightmare. How can we make sure ALL students have access to supplies needed (even if it's "just" recyclable goods, or tape/scissors/glue other generic supplies etc.) if we have to go back to home learning or have a hybrid model. What would this look like in the classroom? We've brainstormed different ideas... one of them being to have teachers demonstrate/perform many (possibly all) of the inves@ga@ons/labs. While a great way to meet social distancing requirements and the like, it really takes away from the student experience. They're not geyng to experience/learn/interact with lab materials. I understand these are unprecedented @mes and changes are necessary, but it's been really hard to shake the feeling that students will miss out on so much actual science and will be receiving a sub-par science experience. Also, wondering about addi@onal stresses on teachers trying to track and connect with students with sporadic aDendance due to illness and/or fear of illness. Also, addi@onal considera@ons for tracking/ teaching/assessing with a hybrid model. Especially in middle school... how can we beDer hold students accountable while also striving for greater equity for all students? Staff Einstein Middle CANVAS PD (I just registered for a summer course) School GOOGLE PD A Vaccine :)

28 Staff Einstein Middle Coordinated efforts from the district for both the School technical and adap@ve changes that the next year will bring. Staff Einstein Middle Going to school! Kids need to learn and be social in 1.District curriculum should have mandatory alignment School order to thrive. Parents cannot teach kids when they between ALL schools in the future. It is what is best for kids to have full @me jobs and no childcare help. make sure every teacher isn't just teaching "whatever they want". I came from Edmonds where everything was aligned and it is concerning to see how Shoreline doesn't have alignment. 2. I think if we enter school it shouldn't be with paranoid environment. Let kids be kids. Teach them to wash their hands. If we create an anxious environment, I am concerned for our students and my children. 3. Please return to school. Staff Einstein Middle Having appropriate PPE and the school set up to Highly concerned about having exposure to so many people, School protect us from this virus. staff and students, INDOORS during this virus. We need to have appropriate PPE and screens to protect us from others. I worry about MS students being able to social distance. Staff Einstein Middle I am concerned about childcare as I have two young School kids at home. I am concerned I will not be able to find/ provide care for them if I am teaching and they are not in school. They are in elementary school in the Shoreline District. Staff Einstein Middle I am the primary caregiver for two elderly parents. One School with demen@a and the other just recovering from a stroke. I feel strongly that I cannot bring COVID-19 home to them. I also want to engage more than my 70% of students who worked this spring. It is hard to know what to do. I am hoping the school district keeps in mind not just the safety of students, and has a meaningful curriculum and way to deliver it that supports all students.

29 Staff Einstein Middle I have a child who aDends Syre Elementary School. If I truly believe that students need to have a consistent lesson School we have staggered classes next year, I will have trouble plan framework/format (hyperdoc structure, for example) for accessing childcare for him while I need to be at all their classes next year. This will alleviate confusion and school. Because I teach 2 different grade levels, I may frustra@on among students and families. be needed at school more frequently if we move to a structure that only provides educa@on for one grade level on specific days. Poten@ally, I could be asked to teach each day while my son is only in school for 3 days a week, for example. I feel strongly that elementary school children need to be back in the classroom, with their peers in a safe environment. Masks, hand- washing, etc will be required. These students should not move from class to class and remain in their individual classrooms for lunch. Staff Einstein Middle I have concern over the ability for students to I would like us to think strongly about the social emo@onal School communicate with their teachers and each other if needs of students returning during this very uncertain @me they are wearing a cloth face mask. I would like face and how we will be suppor@ng those students. shields to be considered for both teachers and students -- the isola@on from lack of ability to communicate properly (seeing the whole face) is something I feel would be detrimental to kids returning to school.

30 Staff Einstein Middle I need to feel that my I as a teacher and my health are I think we need to have one plan for secondary and one for School safe, valued, respected and protected at my school. elementary: elementary and secondary will have different needs. Addi@onally, there is no possible we can go back safely with classes of around 30 in our classrooms; we will need to see kids in hybrid alternate days and if there are a lot of cases, we need to go back to fully remote learning. Not being able to teach through zoom became problema@c; we will need to either teach in person in a hybrid mode or be able to teach synchronously with wriDen direc@ons for those who can't aDend; students need to interact and be able to clarify in a more dynamic way than email presents. Being responsible for a small group through a homeroom class was helpful as it did not seem overwhelming. We need to streamline the number of apps we use: everything should be done through Canvas and not Canvas + Google Classroom for example (and I love Google Classroom) and we should have one video app, and one way to contact students. There were too many emails going home; we need to limit or find a different way to share info--families are overwhelmed. We absolutely need to adopt a tex@ng mode of communica@on to reach families, especially some of our families who experience economic insecurity as tex@ng may be the preferred method if they don't have computers. Staff with young children and aging parents have situa@ons that need to be considered in order for them to come back to work. For our families, partnering with the Y or Boys and Girls could be essen@al for child care/supervision and a posi@ve outlet. We need to consider that many teachers--not only teachers in their 60s plus--are afraid for their health with underlying condi@ons that they may not want to disclose, aging parents, children with health issues, etc. Frontline workers who were under 60 died at an alarming rate and make no mistake, even some of those frontline workers don't spend the amount of concentrated @me that we will with the same group of students and staff in a contained space with no ability to open windows or doors to the outside; we are embarking on an experiment that could put many people's lives at risk.

31 Staff Einstein Middle I need to know that schools will not focus their School energies on "core" subjects and marginalize the elec@ves by sugges@ng that those are done remotely more easily. Staff Einstein Middle I want to return if we think there is a safe way to do it. I guess, in my ignorant mind and not knowing NEARLY all of School It's not worth the return to risk the health of the the facts, my dream scenario would be that students who students and staff in our community (and their could really use the extra academic support could come to families). I wish there were a way to let all K-3 kids school EVERY DAY and the rest of the school would come return and all students working below grade level. I every OTHER day. I envision myself teaching my lessons daily, think daily, in-person learning would be INCREDIBLY and recording them, so that half of my students are learning beneficial to those two sub-groups. live with me and students at-home are watching the lessons LIVE from home, if possible, or the recorded version later in the day. I guess I'd try to limit the amount of "homework" kids are doing, since learning from home comes with its own challenges anyway. I have three kids of my own (ages 11, 13, and 14). I'd like them to be at school at least every other day, at least for their CORE classes. If we have to let non-academic elec@ves go for a year, we will survive (and I say that as a mother of three band kids, one of whom was about to go "State" for the Solo/Wind Ensemble compe@@on. But this is a different year and I think we need to focus on the core subjects (and the mental health of our students, families, and staff). I like staggered start @mes and passing periods and one-way hallways. I believe masks should be REQUIRED, and maybe days are only four hours at school or less, thus including no meals, except FRL students. The less opportunity the kids have to convene, the beDer. I know you know this all already. Just feels good to put it in wri@ng. Thanks for asking for input.

32 Staff Einstein Middle I would like guarantees that: I will only have as many It would be awesome if there the District gave us an "If-Then" School students as will allow for social distancing, that hand set of plans. For example, "If there are less than x number of sani@zer and PPE will be provided by the District, that I cases, then we will return to school full @me. However, if will have enough sick days to stay home when I am sick there there y number of cases, then we will return only half- (I typically work while I am sick, which is several @mes @me, if there are z number of cases we will con@nue distance a year), and that there will be enough subs (who are learning." etc. That way we know what to expect and are not typically elderly and high risk) to cover all of us being surprised or scrambling to adjust at the last minute. out sick. Most importantly, I NEED a LOT of dedicated @me to adjust content to the blended learning model. Crea@ng online learning content takes a lot more @me than in-person planning. For example, if we have "A" kids Monday and Tuesday, and then "B" kids on Thursday and Friday, I will NEED all of Wednesday for personal planning @me. Staff Einstein Middle I would love to know what next year might look like as School soon as possible so that I can be prepared to teach my students. I would also like some support on blended learning and how to support students who are unable to engage in home learning during the school year. I feel that because the situa@on changed so much this year, we lost some students because they had a hard @me adjus@ng to different expecta@ons as they shijed, so I would also like to see more structure provided and common messaging so that students and families can know what to expect. Training in Canvas and how to have students complete and turn in work via Canvas so that I am not managing emails all day long with assignments in a variety of forms would be helpful as well. Staff Einstein Middle Mostly, I need an idea of what next year will look like I liked using Zoom as a way to connect with my students, but I School so that I can plan and be ready for my students. I did not use it as a teaching or grading pla[orm. If we were to would like this year to feel successful for students. I be required to use it as a teaching tool, I would love to have think it's essen@al that our school has a consistent set specific training around how best to use it and how to up for learning in each class so that expecta@ons are address student aDendance/lack of aDendance. If we can't clear for students (where to go to find work, where to go back to school in-person, we need to think about ways to turn in work, grading expecta@ons, aDendance connect to our students so we can SEE each other and build expecta@ons) community.

33 Staff Einstein Middle My concern for the fall is the constant stream of School people traffic ( students, parents, staff) through the office. I am also concerned about sick children in our vicinity if the nurse can't have them in her space and that they will be funneled out to rooms in the office that myself and other staff may need to keep an eye on. I would hope due to my large front counter that I would have plexiglass around myself. Staff Einstein Middle My most important need at this @me is staying alive so I am dedicated to my life's calling of being an educator and School that I can con@nue to live life, support my family and teaching children. However, I am not a martyr. No lives are support my students and colleagues. expendable in an effort to achieve short term educa@onal goals. Staff Einstein Middle My most important need is to physically be at the School school and have as many students possible in my classes. Staff Einstein Middle My most important needs would be: - knowing we'll Thank you for allowing input from all of us. School all be safe - clear expecta@ons of what learning management systems we are all using - template of how to launch lessons - opportuni@es for PD in these areas - clear, concise communica@on - @me to transform my lessons into the best form for students during remote learning Staff Einstein Middle Nitrile gloves for Custodians & Masks. School

34 Staff Einstein Middle Safety for all staff! Teachers need to stay safe and Many of my middle school students struggled with mo@va@ng School healthy! Need for a clear plan. The plan for the themselves to get to work. I talked with several students in 2020-2021 school year needs to be announced before zoom mee@ngs who reported that they knew that they August so that teachers have @me to get things in gear needed to have a schedule and needed to be disciplined, but for a successful start of the school year. We need to they were never able to pull it off and turned in liDle work start strong with policies, expecta@ons, and procedures during home learning. We have to help students and families in place so that we can maintain the engagement that with structure (more than just sending out a suggested naturally comes with the beginning of the school year. schedule). Students need to have a @me to "report" to class, they need to be held to accountable for their par@cipa@on in remote learning both in terms of aDendance and grades. Flexible deadlines really made it difficult to pull my students together at zoom mee@ngs as I had some students who were up to date with me, some who were 1 unit behind me, and others who hadn't even started any of the remote learning work. I had suggested deadlines in hopes students would stay with me but the reality is that a suggested deadline isn't as mo@va@ng as a real deadline. I am concerned about aDendance rates especially once the regular cold season begins, students get sick with fevers, what will our aDendance rates be in the winter cold season with extra precau@ons and screenings in place? Staff Einstein Middle Safety precau@ons against virus exposure, PPE, and School social distancing.

35 Staff Einstein Middle The sooner we can know next year's K-12 model, the I have been researching how other districts and countries School beDer prepared we can be for teaching in that model. plan to balance the needs of kids, staff and community next year. I think we need to priori@ze bringing K-5 back to school full @me. Classes of 24-32 students should be split among two classrooms with an instruc@onal assistant assigned to support the classroom teacher. This might mean that K-5 students need to occupy the elementary, middle and high school buildings. Teachers and IA's from high risk groups and/or those who are not comfortable coming back to the building can be assigned to teach remote classes for students who need to learn from home. To maintain distancing, students will need to eat breakfast and lunch in the classrooms. We will need to alternate groups of kids through outdoor recess. We will likely need to have specialists come into the classroom to work with students. If there is a student or staff member has COVID symptoms, their small group class will need to be shut down for two weeks but not the en@re school, as long as the school has maintained hygiene standards and social distancing. 6-12 grade students can either be 100% remote or in a hybrid model. It makes sense for incoming 6th/7th graders and 9th graders, to have some @me on their campus with teachers so they can build stronger rela@onships and feel connected to their school and each other. We will need to reduce transi@ons and maintain social distancing, perhaps by having students stay in a single classroom as a cohort and having the teachers travel to the students. We could also looking at having a rota@ng schedule--perhaps one week on campus and two weeks off campus which corresponds with the virus' infec@on cycle. I think we can improve distance learning for our 6-12 students through stronger teacher collabora@on and a building or district-wide commitment to use common rou@nes, rituals and pedagogical strategies. I think a mostly asynchronous model can work but we need opportuni@es for more frequent synchronous check-in's with students. Our building only allocated and/or expected teachers to go live two hours per week. This was not nearly enough @me for us to build rela@onships and collect forma@ve assessment feedback from our students. I do not want us to move 36 Staff Einstein Middle To have reasonable safety measures but kids at school. I will do almost anything within reason to con@nue geyng School My students need to be at school. paid and working. Staff Einstein Middle We need beDer engagement in the fall and I believe School that includes some level of in-person classes and leDer grades. Yes, safety is the most important, but as we are able to keep fatality rates low and take all the precau@ons necessary, we should be able to get back in the buildings in some capacity. Staff Einstein Middle What my needs are at this @me could be very different School when we begin school. Right now I need to know that staff and students are going to be safe.

37 Staff Einstein Middle Work with surrounding districts/YMCA/Childcare Please remember that the middle schools are also moving School providers to align childcare needs of families with what buildings, adding an en@re grade level and so many new the school provides. Clear, consistent and regular classes which require new curriculum and training, and add updates for staff and families. We need weekly updates 1/3 more staff. This would be stressful during a regular year, in summer plus major announcements as needed - so please give flexibility to principals and staff to do what is even if we just say "we are in a holding paDern" as needed in these buildings to get us set up physically and to anxiety is rising among staff and families as they try to build community and teams for the upcoming year. prep for the fall. Rota@ng schedules so building is never full of students. Work with teachers and other district staff to iden@fy families and students who are in most need of support academically, emo@onally and/or financially and finds ways to support them with dignity and privacy. Look realis@cally and pragma@cally at goals from health department. It is unrealis@c that kids will truly distance w/in a classroom and school so how can we mi@gate these risks and also be up front w/staff and families about what is going on so everyone can make informed decisions. Require masks for all who can wear them, and provide extras as needed. Support staff members who are unable to return due to health concerns, protec@ng both cert and classified staff, and make sure we are working in tandem with all unions and stakeholders so all staff feel protected and cared for. Support staff w/ @me and instruc@onal coaching as requested in planning for how to support students who are unable to return. Give extra planning @me for cert staff to prep for both in person and online lessons. Make sure all "August days" and PD are focused on current needs - we do not have @me or space in our brains/lives to do ac@vi@es for the sake of doing them (for example, the regular day of "kick-off events" should be canceled to make space for teachers to work. This is a crisis and we need to respond as such. Flexibility and understanding for staff and students with a focus on the differing and unique needs of each situa@on/family.

38 Staff Einstein Middle I feel overwhelmed by the amount of social/emo@onal care School and support I am guessing students and families (and staff!) will need when we return without a consistent systemic SEL curriculum at the secondary level and without addi@onal support staff (e.g. full @me family advocate at each middle and high school, full @me mental health therapist or crisis counselors or grief counselors at each bldg). I would really like some district guidance or some agreements across middle and high schools for the above and how first days will look, what supports we can and will have in place etc. I worry about my ability to take a last minute leave if my child cannot go back to school full @me in the fall. Will I be allowed to take the leave? It has been difficult/impossible to perform full @me employee du@es with kids 6 and under at home. Staff Einstein Middle I think a lot of really important collabora@on happened that I School would hate to see get lost when we move forward: across the district, between buildings, with KCLS, with librarians and instruc@onals coaches, with teams, and inter-departmentally. I'd love to see a way to keep that sort of thing in place when we are not doing so much home learning. A lot can change between now and August 20, but I've worked really hard to follow the stay home orders and to stay safe. The idea of going back into the building with SOOO many vectors and so much exposure is really frightening. We work with (1200!!) middle school students - they won't follow social distancing guidelines, they won't keep their masks on. How much @me will be spent reinforcing norms and expecta@ons? What about our staff with high risks (or caring for family with high risks) - will they be expected to use sick leave? What about classes like band and choir? If there is informa@on that can be given to us sooner than August 20th, that would be greatly appreciated. The more @me that we have to figure things out before next fall, the beDer. We already have so many things that we weren't able to figure out for the new grade level and staff coming in. Thank you for asking for and listening to our input.

39 Staff Einstein Middle I think that strict due dates could help students stay on track School with learning and help set them up for success if the expecta@ons are clearly set out ahead of @me and there is a lot of no@ce to students and families about what is expected to be done by the due date. In the same way that the end of a semester is ojen a "strict due date" but there could be monthly due dates to help break up the longer grading period. Staff Highland Terrace At this @me, my most important need is for a break. I hope the district can come up with a plan and get Elementary everything through the union quickly. Obviously things can/ will change, but full transparency is helpful. Parents need to know what Extended Care might look like. I haven't heard anything about plans for before or ajer school yet. Staff Highland Terrace Being in a blended class, student numbers are already I am sure all aspects to returning to the classroom have been Elementary limited, so the classroom set up could be more easily discussed/thought through by representa@ves from all designed for safety precau@ons in most cases. Even employee groups. dividers could be u@lized. I would think the most important needs would be strict requirements of staff, temperature checks, proper PPE at all @mes, (including gloves), social distancing as much as possible, cleaning surfaces, u@lizing the outdoors for educa@onal programs when possible, example for science projects. Staff Highland Terrace Communica@on from district as informa@on is available Elementary regarding next school year. Staff Highland Terrace Concern for spiking of cases to high risk students and Elementary staff. Concern for childcare for my young children's if schools are not open Staff Highland Terrace Flexibility with sick @me for everyone so people will Elementary stay home if sick. Flexible learning with online and in person. Outdoor learning classrooms. Staff Highland Terrace For my children to go to school on the same days so Elementary that I may work at the school.

40 Staff Highland Terrace I am anxiously awai@ng news of our learning model. This is not easy for me to say, but I'm going to say it. I didn't Elementary While my health is compromised due to asthma, I am understand the inequality piece of staff not working so hopeful, our learning model aligns with my health contracted hours either at all or event at 50%. I have safety needs It is VERY important to me that should con@nued to work long hours as a cer@ficated teacher, we have a hybrid learning model, I be able to work in responding to needs daily and all hours. My learning curve my classroom. I need to be able to access all of my was steep and my days were long. It took me a long @me to resources quickly. This was a roadblock for me while at learn all of the technology. While tech was available, I pulled home. my hair out regularly, hiyng roadblock ajer roadblock trying to learn all the sojware and how to use it. All the while, having to teach parents the systems that I didn't fully understand or know how to navigate from their end. I felt it unfair that while I was working to the bone on so many levels, not all colleagues were and I know of classified staff that weren't working at all or working very liDle. I sure could have used help on any level. For example, I'm assigned a para for an hour a day. I didn't get that and it would have been helpful for her to help me even once a week with family check ins via phone calls or helping me to manage my 1,800 plus Seesaw assignments/comments and possibly the tracking piece. I know classified would have been capable of suppor@ng me in these capaci@es. Staff Highland Terrace I fear that the below grade level k and 1st graders I The parents are going to be the best voice for what students Elementary work with have made progress, but not enough for need if at-home learning occurs. them to be prepared for Fall. They need extra resources from the beginning. Staff Highland Terrace I have been student teaching in a blended classroom. I know that my own kids will be ok but I really worry about Elementary Our students have been adversely impacted students in our Special Educa@on sector. Especially as it academically, socially-emo@onally and would be relates to IEPs and how we can deliver SDI if we are not returning to school dealing with a range of trauma. actually in school. Reduced class sizes and 1:1 instruc@on with extra precau@ons are going to be absolutely necessary for engaging with our students. Staff Highland Terrace I think we need to plan the August reopening now with Thanks for your hard work. Elementary the idea that the virus will be an even bigger problem in the fall and winter.

41 Staff Highland Terrace I work in a self-contained elementary classroom with I have been thinking about the structure of our classrooms - Elementary very young students. I highly doubt most of my perhaps one idea might be that only 3 or 4 of our students students will be able to wear a face mask or keep any aDend on-site class, every other day - and those students kind of social distancing. Also, we ojen have 4-5 who need 1:1's be divided between the days so that there are adults in our classroom (1:1's) raising the number of less adults in the class daily. I also think we should shorten people in our room to around 14 (we ojen have 8-9 the day to avoid long term exposure - perhaps students come students). We also share a changing room for for only half a day or un@l 1 or 1:30 pm. I don't think we diapering with another classroom, so our two should have half the class in the morning and half in the classrooms are in contact with students and staff from ajernoon - the classroom ought to be thoroughly cleaned both rooms. And, none of our classroom windows between each group of students, and we need to protect open, and we cannot leave our door open. How can staff from hours-long exposure. If we did an "A/B" paDern, we have fresh air in our classroom? When we were Fridays could be an on-line class for everyone - we could do s@ll working in the classroom, if a student needed to go our weekly class mee@ngs that day. Or pick another day of home due to illness, some@mes their parents were the week - maybe students come Tuesdays/ Wednesdays and unable to pick them up in a @mely manner because Thursdays/Fridays, and meet on-line together on Mondays - they were at work and had to arrange childcare, or to start with week together, and whenever there are Monday didn't have transporta@on, or had to locate another holidays, students would not miss their on-site instruc@on. person to pick them up. I am very concerned that if we have a student in the class presen@ng Covid-19 symptoms who needs to go home, they may end up remaining at school for part or the remainder of the day - and one of our classroom staff members may have to support them outside of the classroom. Due to the nature of our program, we ojen have to sit right next to individual students, so distancing is impossible for our academic structure. Students sneeze and cough while we are near them - part of our job is to teach them to cover their sneezes, etc. We also use use hand-over-hand instruc@on for fine motor prac@ce. How can we keep our students and ourselves safe and healthy in this type of environment? Staff Highland Terrace I work with young students with special needs. My staff Elementary and I will 100% need extra safety measures (i.e. face shields, gloves) in order to work and interact with our students. I'm worried about what feeding and ea@ng will look like as well as student hygiene (most are not poDy trained).

42 Staff Highland Terrace In an@cipa@on of more situa@ons of remote learning, I Elementary think we need beDer systems to support kids learning at home. In order to feel like I'm doing my job well I need : * tools/online op@on for work to be submiDed and reviewed (with expecta@ons of teacher feedback) at the elementary level *expecta@ons that all students engage in work (vs op@ng for parent provided work) *would prefer to have access to my classroom in @mes of remote learning. Lots of challenges trying to manage working from home without access to classroom materials *consistent expecta@ons of lesson produc@on from teachers across the district. A range of 0-3 lessons per topic is not best for kids when some teachers opt for the bare minimum. *schedule determined asap -- in order to manage work + childcare (for my own children) schedules for fall Staff Highland Terrace In class learning, technology PD and structured remote Working from home is challenging when we don't have the Elementary learning plan tools to teach effec@vely. Staff Highland Terrace Knowing that ... *People are working on a clear plan Are we trying to do all the academics of 180 days into the Elementary for distancing and safety. *Making it equitable for all hybrid sliced up schedule? How will we do it when a good students- * Working on safety regarding part of class is cleaning and grooming to stay safe? How will Transporta@on procedures * Establishing cleaning we be evaluated? How will we offer a rigorous academic schedules and prac@ces *Mask wearing mandatory path with so many inconsistencies across each school, let * How will we offer a rigorous curriculum through all alone the district? I heard so many complaints from parents this? And no coaches for support. saying they hardly had any teacher input and others had too much? Accountability- Equity. How to judge and grade such different experiences in people's homes? Staff Highland Terrace Making sure we have sufficient equipment and Nothing at this @me. Elementary materials (masks, gloves, face guards, disinfectant sprays and wipes, hand sani@zer, etc.) to keep students and staff safe. Also, knowing the school schedule as soon as possible (early August) so that we can plan accordingly for the start of the upcoming school year.

43 Staff Highland Terrace My most important need is to keep myself and others I am a Speech Language Pathologist. For me to be able to Elementary healthy and also be able to effec@vely work with work effec@vely with my students, they need to be able to students. see my face. Wearing a mask is not ideal for this. The idea of a full see through face shield seems cumbersome and maybe scary for my students. I don't know a good solu@on though.

44 Staff Highland Terrace One of my biggest concerns is how do we make I have created a business plan to hopefully find a fit for me Elementary students feel safe; especially when I don’t necessarily feel safe. My main ques@on is what about children who are at risk and have family members at risk. It looks like they will probably have the op@on of staying at home for con@nued long-distance learning. It is inevitable and desirable that schools reopen. It is also almost certain there will be no vaccine un@l 2021, possibly not even un@l the fall of that year or beyond. It also remains to be seen whether it will provide total protec@on like the polio vaccine or whether it will merely reduce the likelihood of contrac@ng the disease to 50% or so like current flu vaccines. That creates a situa@on more dangerous for high risk individuals like me and my husband and others than even existed when schools first closed. The virus is now more pervasive. Contract tracing is limited. Social distancing is inadequate to address the risk of death to those of us in the high risk category, especially in a school seyng. My husband and I both have lung condi@ons that make us high risk. I am 58. I have poor lung func@on from an embolism that occurred ajer a surgery. My husband is 66. He is immune suppressed and has pulmonary fibrosis and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, life- threatening lung and lung/heart diseases. It was too great a risk for me to remain at work. I thought I would probably survive the virus. We didn’t believe It is unlikely I, and others like me, will be able to return to school in the fall, absent a vaccine. I am worried about my job and my loss of income. I have worked hard during the school closure and have found the work that I do is valuable and valued. I want to work hard for the District, but I likely will not be able to do that in a school building. Are ways being crajed so that people like me can retain their jobs and contribute without being in the building un@l there is a vaccine? I have read that CA is considering not having children return to school who Staff Highland Terrace Our school building and staff will not be able to put Elementary into prac@ce the CDC guidelines for COVID-19 health and safety. Staff Highland Terrace PPE will be crucial par@cularly with our sped students Elementary who need hands on help. They are ojen coughing, sneezing, or drooling directly on staff members. We need face shields, not just cloth masks. Staff Highland Terrace Schedule, consistency, expecta@on, stability. I know this is difficult but the kids need educa@ons, the adults Elementary need to work, and all of the above need to be safe. Perhaps high risk families asked to remote learn. Alternate with a hybrid model for all students. Staff Highland Terrace Taking care of my own children. Black Lives MaDer everyday LGBTQia rights are human Elementary rights from preschool to 12th grade. Staff Highland Terrace The school coming together as a community we are. Elementary Staff Highland Terrace To limit class size to 15-20 or less per room. To have a Elementary plan to send home kids who are running a fever, even if kids don't have family members with a car/ transporta@on. (what happens when child is sick, but parents cannot be reached) To have a way to teach/ play/move around OUTSIDE for kids in elementary school. Staff Highland Terrace Worried and concerned about high-risk popula@ons Elementary having to return to work in the fall without the presence of vaccines. Staff Highland Terrace Although students' learning needs of some core subjects are Elementary seemingly eminent in the current situa@on, I believe suppor@ng students with the whole child approach is important in the long run. PE and Music have been excluded in grading (tracking students' aDendance) and summer curriculum planning team. These subjects require dras@c adjustments of the lessons and ac@vi@es to safety measures by careful planning. I hope to see the district's more inclusive prac@ce with PE and Music, in considera@on of the far reaching influence of the the learning on the students' future.

46 Staff Home Educa@on I think things have gone just about as well as possible Thank you, Shoreline District, for the K12 account access for Exchange for our program, outside of not being able to have in Zoom and Google Classrooms. This would have been person classes. impossible without these addi@onal tools. Staff Home Educa@on Making sure both staff and students/families feel safe Thank you!! Exchange when returning to classroom instruc@on. Having the flexibility to put together a proposal to provide safe instruc@onal strategies that work best for each school seyng and school district. If there are general safety requirements for all schools, for example requiring face masks be worn by all students and staff while at school, that this can be implemented. Staff Home Educa@on At Home Educa@on Exchange, our class sizes are already Exchange small, so we feel fairly confident about opening in-person classes in the fall. Staff Home Educa@on The Home Educa@on Exchange, in many ways, was built for Exchange this. Much of our typical opporta@ons is what is being discussed for tradi@onal classrooms right now. Our "classes" are no more than 14 students. Families are on campus 20% of their learning @me, the remaining 80% is implemented by parents. We offer several online resources that provide support to their learning plans. Homeschoolers tend to be adaptable to the situa@on, so while it has been a challenge our students have con@nued their learning even while unable to aDend the onsite aspect of our program. We have been able to connect virtually to provide support both in their student's learning and access to technology.

47 Staff Kellogg Middle As a parent of a student entering her senior year and If we are going to go forward with any distance learning next School another entering first grade, I see personally how year, it is important that all classes modules are structured important it is to get back to in person learning. It was the same and that students are able to access the Canvas not successful for either of my students on the calendar to track their assignments. There should also be due opposite ends of the age groups we serve. The dates for work, to encourage students to stay on pace with rela@onship between parent and child is not the same their distance learning and to make the work seem less as teacher and student and my necessity to mo@vate op@onal. The Zoom sessions, if we use them, should also be their online learning had a nega@ve effect on our presented as class periods with an aDendance component for rela@onships and their desire to learn. As a BT the same purpose. If there is a hybrid schedule, where suppor@ng middle school students, most students students are home learning part of the @me and on campus were not engaged and did not take advantage of at other @mes, it will be important to con@nue to use the support Zooms. I think everything felt very op@onal Canvas pla[orm for the delivery of lesson materials, and I imagine that most parents were having the same resources, and assignment submission. This way the challenges that I was having. Safety and health are transi@on to online learning at home will be supported by important, but so is geyng as many students possible, training at school, where they can get support from staff and safely back in the building. Special Educa@on is build posi@ve habits in online learning. Lastly, teachers should par@cularly difficult to support online because of the be asked to only post lessons and lesson materials through need to individually scaffold supports and demonstrate Canvas (not on Classroom or other sites) and assignment concepts with different mediums. It was very difficult submission should be encouraged via the same channel. to do over Zoom and those students who did not show up, were geyng no outside support at all. Staff Kellogg Middle Being of age that puts me in to the vulnerable category School what is being done to protect my life? Staff Kellogg Middle Clarity and a commitment from the district that all I appreciate the hard work the district did with a very difficult School students will have access to the curriculum, not just situa@on, and I was impressed by how many students s@ll did the ones who have ample computers and wireless at the work, even when they weren't being graded. But it was home. very hard to hold students accountable or assess their learning in this environment. Staff Kellogg Middle Clear guidelines for physical distancing and wearing of School masks. Consistency once we are in the buildings. Student and staff safety be the number one priority. Staff Kellogg Middle Con@nued bulle@ns re district plans. Credit for School con@nuing educa@on.

48 Staff Kellogg Middle EVERY student has a laptop and internet access. School Hotspots do not provide enough data minutes for students to watch all of the lessons. Reassurance that teachers will not be required to provide their own supplies (sani@zer, masks, cleaning spray) Reassurance that classes will have ONLY the number of students that fit in the room with 6' distancing. Clear expecta@ons around @me/responsibili@es if we end up with a hybrid model. Clear instruc@on around grading, aDendance, etc. Clear policies for what will happen if students do not adhere to safety policies (e.g. refuses to wear mask, refuses to stay 6 feet away). The ability to contact students and families via phone or text without using my personal phone number. Permission to enforce expecta@ons around grades, due dates, and aDendance (dependent on every student having a device and internet access). Staff Kellogg Middle Flexibility. If things remain stable or get beDer, then we I think it is important to serve the most needy students first School should have contact @me with students. However, if with regards to in-person learning. Please consider there is a big spike in infec@ons, we should delay "alternate weeks" as a possible hybrid solu@on, as is done in student contact. Singapore. Staff Kellogg Middle I believe the district is already aware of this, but I want School to reiterate just in case: Teachers will need more training to make home learning successful. We need training in Canvas features and how to effec@vely use the resources available to us (Newsela, Khan Academy, etc.) in the context of home learning. Staff Kellogg Middle I have an auto-immune disease. While people in this School category don't seem to be the primary concern as much as they were back in March, I s@ll have concerns about my own safety. I am game to come back to school but believe that if we are back in school then the health guidelines must be strict. I don't know how that works given that when I look at the general public there is a wide spectrum of adherence to masks etc.

49 Staff Kellogg Middle I have an underlying condi@on that puts me at high Given the recent surges, the thought of returning to school is School risk. Before returning to school I would need to have a overwhelming and it seems unrealis@c. It is my sincere hope solid understanding of what the district is doing and that the district will make a decision as soon as humanly providing vs what the teachers and staff will be doing. possible so that teachers (and families) have plenty of @me to For instance: -Will the district: - provide mul@ple prepare one way or the other. We punted as well as we masks/PPE for each person on campus each day? - could this spring and did reasonably well, but that was reduce class size in order to ensure 6 j social emergency teaching and we have to and can do beDer. But distancing in the classroom? -Will the district hire we need training - and from people who have actually trained addi@onal staff to: - do temperature checks? - to be online teachers, not from others who are also pun@ng. sani@ze desk and chairs each day? - enforce social Copyright laws need to be considered when planning for fall distancing outside of the classroom (hallway/ teaching op@ons. The majority of my curriculum can only be lunchroom/courtyard)? - drive more busses to shared legally if it is on a secure, password protected portal, ensure social distancing? which was an issue this spring. This includes streaming or sharing recorded lessons. It was a huge challenge was having so many different devices. Hopefully all kids will have a district issued device that will be the same for the whole school so that everyone is logging on to a Chromebook or other. Trying to do ac@vi@es in Zoom mee@ngs when some kids are on their phone, some are on an iPad, some a MacBook, some a PC, etc was so hard because each of them saw something different and I simply cannot troubleshoot that.

50 Staff Kellogg Middle I hope our union and teachers/staff/nurses/etc... have Thank you for seeking our feedback, I hope this con@nues School at seat at the table when determining the plan for throughout the summer. Are we partnering with other Shoreline for next year. I think we need to priori@ze districts to see what plans they're doing? the needs of our high risk popula@ons first like K-5, EL, SPED, and other high risk students @ the secondary level. There needs to be more PD on how to teach online - what are the best prac@ces? What does the research say? We need to make sure that we have enough hot spots for students to allow for high speed internet access. We need to do more phone calls and check in's. It was unacceptable that all teachers were not give access to Google Voice or other programs to "call" families during school closure. We need clear communica@on with families on the plan and looping them in & seeking input as well. We need to figure out how to priori@ze our most marginalized students this fall and making sure that whatever model we use is accessible to them. Staff Kellogg Middle I need to have regular mee@ngs, either virtually or in I'm all in. Whatever you need me to do. I want the students School person, with my students. Both they and I need to be safe, and have the best opportunity to learn. I have a structure to our days and weeks. Also, my students child at home, and I hope that that can be considered and need their materials fro class, some of which the grace is extended if she is not in school and I have to be school provides. I also need new sojware and funding/ responsible for her home learning as well. I teach an training for online resources if we are not going to be elec@ve class and have always felt like the steward for that at school. class. I feel like that class may be in jeopardy now, and my hope is that the decision makers understand the strong social and emo@onal support my class offers to kids, especially now, and priori@zes my class in away that has never happened before. My class is always an ajer thought when push comes to shove. Kids need it now more than ever. Staff Kellogg Middle I work one on one with a special needs student. This is School a very physical/hand-on job. I worry about exposure to Covid because of that.

51 Staff Kellogg Middle I work with the visually impaired. A more accessible School curriculum module especially for science. The module was complicated and complex with too many links to links to links. It was impossible for my students to follow. Staff Kellogg Middle I'd like to know what the school district's guidelines will I'd love clear scenarios by beginning of August so that we School be. Will everyone where a mask? Will teachers be know what to expect and plan for in the fall. provided with plenty of disinfec@ng wipes and hand sani@zer? How will or can class size be reduced in order to have social distancing? Staff Kellogg Middle List iden@fying student's level of progression in School learning standards from last year. List from students iden@fying preferred method of contact for remote learning. Training on how to give valid assessment during remote learning (secure browser, etc). Training for students on how to use Remote Learning through Canvas, Google Forms, etc. so that this isn't a barrier to accessing content/learning. Staff Kellogg Middle Making sure my kids school schedule lines up with School mine to avoid high childcare costs Staff Kellogg Middle Mental health- kids need to be around other kids and Thank's for asking us for our feedback. This has been one of School have a daily structure of in person school. the strangest and hardest years any of us have experienced and your leadership is appreciated and valued. Thank you for all of your hard work and though[ul decisions... we will get through this! Shoreline strong! Staff Kellogg Middle More direc@on for classified School Staff Kellogg Middle Please include school nurses in your planning. They School are best equipped to interpret DOH guidelines and problem solve solu@ons! =)

52 Staff Kellogg Middle Resources for homes so all learning isn't on the I don't feel comfortable leaving my soon to be 6th grader at School computer, flexibility for teaching if we go on a A/B home by herself if I teach full-@me and she goes part-@me. schedule because of our own children. More support Work/home balance has been near impossible through this and flexible workload if we work remotely. @me. There should be learning pla[orms that we can use like CK-12 or something else that we can use so that we are not crea@ng everything from scratch and so that we have @me to actually connect with students. Staff Kellogg Middle The ability to hold students accountable to doing work. Students gave the feedback that they were overloaded with School work, without a structured class @me, students end up doing work all day long for some classes and teachers don't have a sense of how to pace students and when they are struggling with understanding. Staff Kellogg Middle The reality of our popula@on of teaching middle school Who do teachers talk to when / if there are concerns? Our School students while following the COVID guidelines is almost middle school is moving into a significant change with 6th impossible. Teachers need to have consistent, clear & grade joining Kellogg and we have not had ample @me to plan tangible support on how to support the diverse needs due to COVID. *What are the specific ways that teachers of our student's to ensure that all sides are supported. are being supported? *How can our teachers con@nue the change in our grading focus as we did during COVID? The idea of giving all students access is cri@cal. I think that this season has revealed cri@cal elements in terms of equity and family engagement. What are we doing to ensure that we are building on what we have learned? Staff Kellogg Middle The Safety of Students and staff. School Staff Kellogg Middle To know whether or not I have a job next year. To know School that the school will provide PPEs if I do return. Staff Kellogg Middle Unsure what my specific needs are--I am feeling very School overwhelmed about the upcoming year since nothing is set in stone. I am prepared to go with the flow, and ask for help once I get my foo@ng.

53 Staff Kellogg Middle Very concerned about our self-contained students. What has been a huge challenge is the communica@on School Online learning is completely inequitable and a huge methods of the district. Things were SO unclear and ask for our parents to engage with. In person learning confusing. Expecta@ons were lost and I felt as a teacher I will be a challenge because due to diverse disabili@es didn't know what was expected of me. Families were not on students cannot maintain social distancing guidelines. I the same page as teachers. There needs to be some kind of think it needs to be small groups of students and staff clarity going forward. We need to support our teachers, in the classroom. Parents need training and protect teachers and set them up to be successful. empowerment to support students to learn in the Communica@on is essen@al to doing this. home. Staff Kellogg Middle Don't cut staff and then increase class sizes - it is impossible School to socially distance with the amount of students we have in our classes. Staff Kellogg Middle I have elementary age kids, and while I am willing to go to School work to teach (secondary), I would need care for them. I think the focus should be on geyng the elementary kids back in the physical school. Staff Kellogg Middle I'd like to live in a world where grades didn't maDer for School par@cipa@on, but we don't live there. We need to give grades if we expect students to par@cipate in difficult/challenging ac@vi@es. Staff Kellogg Middle Please keep in mind ALL curricular areas, not just certain School ones. If they cannot all be accommodated in meaningful, effec@ve ways, we need to know as soon as possible. There are some classes which simply cannot be taught remotely. Staff Kellogg Middle When the district cuts staff and inflates class sizes its almost School impossible to socially distance from others. Also, students have to have the technology to par@cipate in online learning. Need to do a beDer job of geyng students laptops and/or hot spots. With the hot spots they need to have more than 10 minutes of streaming for the students. Staff Kellogg Middle You didn't ask about the concerns of front office staff who are School poten@ally exposed to any/all students, families/siblings and visitors. We need to have adequate PPE and clear barriers at the counters and windows where we take payments, enroll students, etc.

54 Staff Lake Forest Park 1. Time to develop lessons! 2. Individual sets of math I'd really like to see students come to school in some capacity, Elementary materials for every student. 3. Leveled reading books whether it is 2 days a week or 3 -4 half days. If students for students to take home and return. 4. Computers aDend on a rota@ng basis, Teachers can't teach all day and and internet access for every student. 5. Printed then be expected to provide online lessons to students who materials so students are not relying on a screen for all are not in aDendance the other days of the week. of their learning. 6. Students need to aDend in person part of the week to maintain rela@onships and build on background knowledge. We cannot rely on home learning alone to determine what a student does and doesn't know. Some families have more than one child at home so it is near impossible to give each child aDen@on to assignments teachers make unless parents are equipped. If parents are that equipped they might as well home school and not be bothered with district demands/compliance. Staff Lake Forest Park A plan for the fall, so I can prepare how to alter my Not at this @me. Elementary schedule to accommodate increased cleaning/ handwashing. A plan that will meet the needs of the parents, so parents feel safe sending their children to school. A consistent plan that isn't changing dras@cally from minute to minute. Change is going to be necessary as we navigate a situa@on that we haven't dealt with as educators in our careers. I want to be ahead of the game, not behind like I felt we were during the spring. Staff Lake Forest Park A safe environment where we can teach in ways that Difficulty to imagine teaching on the school site when there Elementary are pedagogically relevant in 2020. Reach the won't be a way to have small groups, work in partners, bring students who need us the most - those who have been kids to the carpet, have sta@ons, work 1:1 with students the most disadvantaged during the closure and need conferring in reading or wri@ng. When the choice is to take ALL the resources that a school can provide. pedagogy back 40 years, I'm less interested in being on site with students. I fee that technology can help us keep engagement and stay safe. Staff Lake Forest Park As a classified (High Impact Para-math) staff member Elementary being able to access material in the curriculum. Staff Lake Forest Park Clear communica@on from the school district. Elementary

55 Staff Lake Forest Park For students to go to school. Even if they meet Elementary academic standards, they need the social side of living. Kids need to interact with other kids to learn how to be good, socially adept humans. Staff Lake Forest Park Having face to face in person teaching @me with my Elementary students at least 1-2 days per week. Staff Lake Forest Park I have very few needs at this @me. I do have my own Just do the best you can, but we need to get back to the Elementary children, but they are school age and a liDle older. classroom. I would like us to be cau@ous but not paranoid. However, I do not like the idea of them home when I We just need to do the best with the data we have and make am not. It can happen some, but not a lot. informed plans on that. I agree with the state superintendent - geyng back in the classroom is the only equitable thing to do. Staff Lake Forest Park I need to know what the plan is so that I can wrap my If we end up with a rota@ng schedule of students in the Elementary mind around how to teach! The sooner we make a building, I think it is very important that we see every student decision about full-@me/part @me in-school learning, in our classes each week. If we have 1/2 the class for 2 days the beDer. I also need to know that we will have and then rotate the other half in for the next 2 days, I think enough support to do this work without the help of we can set up enough structure for the students to be much our coaches and several key TOSAs. I need to know for successful both at home and at school. With very small that there is a balance of weighing the risk of the virus classes and priori@zed learning goals, we can get a lot of versus the risk of permanently damaging our kids both content covered in a short @me. I would be very concerned if educa@onally and emo@onally. We can't make teachers are being asked to manage in-person learning decisions based on one or the other, but need to alongside part-@me distance learning as well as coming up always consider both. I need to know that our older/ with learning plans for those students who choose to stay health compromised staff are feeling safe at work. I home for pure distance learning. need to hear from the district frequently over the summer and feel that I am hearing updates ahead of the general public. I need to know that teamwork and flexibility will con@nue to be a priority!

56 Staff Lake Forest Park I need to spend more @me looking at the different I'm concerned about the idea of choosing specific standards Elementary func@ons of Seesaw. I know there are more things that to focus on. In primary grades, the students' needs are will be helpful to me, but felt overwhelmed trying to stretched so far along the spectrum that I feel like telling learn about them while also doing remote teaching. teachers to pull out specific standards as the most important ones would meet the needs of very few students. I'm also concerned about the idea of having students "aDend" class virtually and ask them to watch the live teaching on the days they are at home. Geyng primary students engaged in person is difficult enough - asking them to sit at home and be engaged with a screen while I'm teaching other students in person is just not a viable op@on. Staff Lake Forest Park If we move towards a hybrid online learning model, the There are many parts to running a successful school district. I Elementary District needs to: 1. Bring in outside trainers (from feel so fortunate to be a teacher in this District. I appreciate successful k-12 online schools) that train teachers and you taking the @me to read my sugges@ons. Thank you for all paraeducators to implement strong educa@onal your hard work! :) programs. 2. Purchase adap@ve online learning programs that engage elementary school children (such as iReady). 3. U@lized all staff (ELL/Title teachers and Paras) to lighten the load. 4. Allow for flexibility. As the year progresses, collect construc@ve feedback from teachers, students, and guardians. Then, improve the model. This will ensure that Shoreline Students get the best educa@on possible. 5. Use clear, concise communica@on with Staff and Families. 6. Create an environment where Shoreline Staff treat each other with dignity, kindness, and respect. Staff Lake Forest Park In order to return to work I must have full @me child Thank you for your hard work making this survey. I'm very Elementary care. My children and two and four and we have not eager to get back to teaching! had childcare and it will be near impossible for us to pull this off since both my husband and I are teachers in the district. Our daughter aDends Edwin PraD. I am eager and very willing to return to work but childcare MUST be a priority.

57 Staff Lake Forest Park PPE (plexiglass, gloves, extra manipula@ves for tes@ng, See above for comprehensive list. Elementary face shields) for direct tes@ng and services with students as psychologists work 1:1 with students for long periods at a @me. Separate office space as I currently share an office with another provider. No in-person SST or GT mee@ngs (con@nue to do remotely with families) Flexibility to work at home for report wri@ng, paperwork due to health circumstances and to minimize risk (currently pregnant, a por@on of my child care is my elderly parents who are at risk) Flexibility in leave due to childcare needs and at-risk popula@ons (immune compromised, pregnant) Ensuring that students with the most significant needs return to school first and for more @me (special educa@on, English language learners, homeless, at-risk, etc.) Concerns about providers such as myself who work in mul@ple buildings throughout the week and day - what precau@ons are going to be in place as we would be more easily to spread the virus. Do we work from our primary building? Have the op@on to work from home? How limit travel across buildings?

58 Staff Lake Forest Park Safety for myself and my students. Are the safety What are the op@ons going to be for staff that may not be Elementary measures doable for the youngest learners? Ex. able to return to work due to risk factors due to health wearing masks all day for kindergarten? How do we concerns, age and family concerns? Can we take leave? use all the tools we need for teaching and learning for Be allowed to work form home? What is the @me line for math, reading... while maintaining a clean & safe those decisions to be made. Is there a plan in place if the environment? As the numbers of the virus are numbers spike during flu season? climbing and the amount of precau@ons increase when is too many precau@ons too many to make effec@ve use of the @me in the classroom/building? Instruc@onal @me lost due to temperature checks, Increased hand washing, missing school due to fever... Focus on SEL, trauma informed instruc@on. I am concerned about the stress on my kindergarten students, with masks, frequent hand washing, temperature checks... as they try to learn in a new environment. Balance of work life for the myself and other staff as we are learning a whole new way to navigate school and teach. Concern about workload. Staff Lake Forest Park Safety of staff and students. This is a short term (1 If teachers are teaching in the classroom during the day, it Elementary year) problem. We are all resilient and will catch up will be too much to also plan and execute online programs for when it is safe. We can all do our best and keep the students at home as well. That is 2 jobs. I am concerned that learning going, but make sure families are safe and these expecta@ons will be placed on teachers. We have lost healthy first. We don't need to place guilt on staff and our supports from the districts with the elimina@on of TOSA's families when things are not as they were in the past. and coaches and adding new responsibili@es to make up for this is not realis@c. I hope the district has a plan! Staff Lake Forest Park Students need to aDend school in person but not full Daycare should follow school schedule and help families as Elementary classes five days - unless health situa@on dras@cally much as possible. If students/staff are screened each day, is changes. I'm in favor of the AA/BB schedule with online it necessary to wear masks within the classroom? I do NOT learning blended in. In order to do this I need help in agree with students at home live zooming or the classroom training students and families how to use the being recorded for students at home to watch. That will NOT resources. I need training in Seesaw. I need planning work at the elementary level. I can't fit 26-30 students in my @me to be able to do both learning methods room safely. School assignments need to be required and successfully. not op@onal for students to engage in learning.

59 Staff Lake Forest Park Support for teachers/students/parents in how to I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to teach things like Elementary manage remote teaching/learning. Students all day/ math/demonstrate from home with no doc camera or other staggard days ex. MT/TF schedule in person Support similar technology. I tried my iphone and it just didn't work. from district with virtual tools - Bridges/Wonders and Teachers shouldn't have to figure this out on their own @me/ other curriculum are not online friendly for teachers/ money. students but we aren't allowed to use other tools. Technology to be able to do doc camera from home or tech to show students live/recorded how to do work. All informa@on in one place for parents/students PARTICIPATION/ATTENDANCE REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS Videos/help in accessing materials remotely Teachers teaching their own students Staff Lake Forest Park Tes@ng! I want to know who can be at school and who As an older teacher, I would like the op@on to teach online Elementary should stay home. from home. Staff Lake Forest Park That all students are able to have access to a Elementary meaningful educa@on. We need to have our students back in school. Staff Lake Forest Park That kids actually wash hands, cough and sneeze in Elementary arm. Don't touch and share food in the lunch room. So many touch zones. Staff Lake Forest Park What will school look like, so I can be prepared for next Elementary year What is Seesaw going to look like next year?

60 Staff Lake Forest Park I arranged for a leave next year because I am in a high risk Elementary group. (asthma, underlying lung issues) I was not sure how to fill out the above group of ques@ons because, obviously I am concerned enough to take a leave. The other issue for me was the fact that I was scheduled to do a job share next year. I did not want to be in the posi@on of having to pull myself out if/when there is a second wave. I did not feel that would be fair to the children to have to have a third person to work with. In the spring I pulled out a couple of days before the district closed and I really hated to have to do that per my pulmonologist's sugges@on. Distance Learning: I had a very good rate of par@cipa@on and eventually was able to engage my at risk learners. I found that if I could provide things in a format that they were familiar with it really did serve as a bridge which lead to higher numbers comple@ng assignments. I also kept in close contact with the parents. I did 2 emails a week, (brief, bulleted, nothing wordy) and 3 zoom mee@ngs over the course of the 4 months with just the parents.. (I did 2 zoom mee@ngs a week with students. They could chose which one they wanted to aDend.) From the beginning I approached them as partners and they were incredible. They appreciated the mee@ngs (only 30 min.) asked good ques@ons and were able to support their kids. I felt like being available in this way eased their anxiety and they felt free emailing me with other ques@ons. Lots of problems were solved. I acknowledged that they were naviga@ng new waters as well. I always had flexible deadlines and always gave them, students understanding and an out if things weren't geyng done. Eventually, it all got done. I feel strongly that the worst thing that I could have done was to make more stress for students or the parents. This all was so imperfect but I am proud of my students and their parents. We made it work. Staff Lake Forest Park I believe elementary kids need to be in school and I hope we Elementary are able to make that happen. Staff Lake Forest Park Without consistent in-school teaching, the equity and Elementary learning gaps will greatly increase. We can’t con@nue the distant learning, no maDer the cost.

61 Staff Meridian Park 1)Health and safety 2)Mee@ng the academic needs of One of our classrooms created a "Small Group Google Elementary students who have not been engaged in academic Classroom." Assignments that were considered crucial (only ac@vi@es. Students who have been doing "choice 2-4 each week) were modified and made accessible. The ac@vi@es" are not a concern to me. It's the students students who were not engaging were invited to join the who have seemed to be doing nothing. How can we Small Group Google Classroom and aDend special weekly promote student and family engagement in learning zoom sessions. At those sessions, they were given individual for our students with the greatest achievement gaps? assistance on how to succeed with their assignments. The classroom teacher, ELL teacher and Title/LAP teacher aDended all sessions. Other classrooms held "Office Hours" that were specific to Math or ELA tutorials. Those sessions seemed very helpful to students. Staff Meridian Park Certainty...which I don't think I'm going to get... But Elementary just let me teach. Don't micromanage from the district level. Offer help, offer digital tools. Don't force me to use your units of study. You trust me in my classroom. Trust me online too. Staff Meridian Park Clear communica@on to the parents so they stop How are we going to sort out 1). class size 2) minimize Elementary asking the teachers what's coming. student contact with each other 3) masks for all. ???

62 Staff Meridian Park Conversa@ons with classroom teachers and support I LOVED the Seesaw pla[orm. I felt like I was able to push out Elementary specialists (LAP/ELL) to discuss how to maximize our "in meaningful lessons, get student responses & provide direct person" @me with students. Through digital learning feedback in a @mely manner. I LOVED using Talking Points as pla[orms, we have learned which lessons are most a way to connect with families who ojen were unable to effec@ve for student engagement online, and which par@cipate with online learning. It allowed me to reach out need to be "in person" learning to allow for immediate and connect with families to ensure they were receiving feedback. (for example: reading comprehension skills offline materials. or vocabulary could be done easily online via Seesaw, where phonemic awareness or wri@ng needs to be in person to give immediate feedback) Another issue is that as a LAP teacher, I was restricted to the classroom teacher's Zoom Mee@ng @me, which ojen conflicted with other teachers, or my own personal capabili@es/limita@ons (part @me, with toddler at home without childcare due to COVID). The inflexibility to host my own Zoom small group was difficult for me to visually see my students (this was not the case for all LAP/ELL teachers due to their own circumstances and availability). As a LAP teacher, the ability to mail books to students is a must - especially for those who were unable to do online support. It provide them with tangible/physical resources to con@nue their growth in reading, especially when in-person/digital learning was not an op@on. Funding for mailings similar to this would be vital in a all digital pla[orm. Staff Meridian Park Direc@on from the District. As a Dean, I am going to All teachers need to be on a consistent digital pla[orm next Elementary be tasked with safe and effec@ve management of year. We need to have the ability to transi@on to distance systems and providing a safe and equitable learning learning seamlessly. environment. Knowing what the basis skeleton of a plan is from the district (rota@ng schedule, staggered start etc.) will allow me to develop a site specific plan. Staff Meridian Park Health concerns for all students and staff instruc@on most important is the health of the individual Elementary that meets the needs of each student and the necessary devices to access learning with proper training and instruc@on or troubleshoo@ng provided for students and parents Equal opportuni@es for all students for learning Good nutri@on provided for all

63 Staff Meridian Park I feel younger children need rou@ne and personal Teacher will have to get used to being filmed. Lessons that Elementary contact. Not sure how to maintain social distancing. are filmed are more successful and probably the closest you Would prefer week on week off schedule. Thinking all can get to regular school experience. Students need to be lessons will need to be filmed/recorded videos for graded and there needs to be due dates. access for students who are home by choice. Not sure what transporta@on will look like. There needs to be an expecta@on of aDendance and grades from the very beginning. Can't say there will be no grades = no work from kids of all ages. Staff Meridian Park I miss my work family, but can't say I have any unmet I am concerned that the necessary efforts to keep everyone Elementary needs. I am very concerned about our underserved safe will create an environment that alienates children from students. school. I am especially concerned about this for our most underserved students. Staff Meridian Park I need a plan. Even if that plan may change, we need Elementary something!!!! I also feel I need more professional development to increase my effec@veness with remote learning.

64 Staff Meridian Park I need to be able to be available to my own school- I'm worried that next year there will be limited in-person Elementary aged children next year. I also need to be protected @me with students that will feel pressurized to focus on from the virus. I am really uncomfortable wearing a academics only when really that limited @me may be the only mask but am willing to do so for a a couple of hours @me they aren't isolated and when they really need social/ but not more than that. I worry about kids in masks emo@onal connec@on and support the most. It would be and the distrac@on/discomfort both physically and great to have all teachers on the same page and working in emo@onally that wearing masks will cause them. We teams to support kids in-person and online. as teachers need to be able to create accountability for students and would like a districtwide policy on that so all teachers are doing the same thing. As a parent, I found it very helpful when one teacher sent progress reports. As a teacher, I did not feel that I was authorized to send out progress reports for fear of puyng pressure on parents and families and going against the message that home learning was op@onal. Also, star@ng late with home learning means that many students were already down a path away from school and didn't fully return. We need to start the year with clear expecta@ons for student par@cipa@on and regularly scheduled parent communica@on/follow up about student par@cipa@on and progress. Staff Meridian Park I want to see social distancing, and mandatory mask I realize that this would require a lot of transporta@on which Elementary wearing. Would kids have their temperature checked would need social distancing and masks as well, but what if before they get on the bus, with a health care staff on kids were divided into morning or ajernoon lessons with board each bus? homework. Maybe each day could be alterna@ng subjects. The morning students could bring their lunch home. The ajernoon students would eat in a less crowded lunchroom. If the students were only at school for a rela@vely short @me, would recess be necessary? To keep kids more secluded, maybe teachers can rotate between the classrooms according to subject and grade level, and the students would stay in one room.

65 Staff Meridian Park If we are going to do distance learning: 1. Devices for Some kids (those who engaged fully) will be somewhat Elementary all students (Chromebook) 2. Email for students in 4th prepared for next year. Some kids (those who didn't engage and 5th grade 3. Hotspots for students who need fully) will be somewhat unprepared. Some kids (those who them 4. Clear district expecta@ons and communica@on didn't engage at all) will be very unprepared. Clear district on aDendance, requirements, grading, and report expecta@ons and communica@on around learning cards 5. Access to technology tools such as requirements will ensure that more students are involved in Screencas@fy, whiteboard apps, etc. 6. Google distance learning should we have to do it again in the Fall. Classroom 7. Pacing plans that allow us to reteach and teach core learning standards If we are going to do in- person learning: 1. Devices for all students 2. Email for students in 4th and 5th grade 3. Social distancing guidelines 4. Masks and hand sani@zers 5. Clear district expecta@ons and communica@on 6. Pacing plans that allow us to reteach and teach core learning standards Staff Meridian Park II am going to take classes all summer. I'm going to I thought the Instruc@on dept. did a great job considering the Elementary have a plan for ways to improve my students sudden closure. I really hope we have a well designed and connec@ons and mo@va@on. It was just so dissa@sfying well communicated plan if and when the next remote to work so hard to create lessons for distant learning learning experience happens. I'm really hoping that we get to and have 7 students complete them. I hope the district at least meet with students at the beginning of next year. will have sugges@ons despite the recent decima@on of Keeping connec@ons with students was a challenge even the Instruc@on dept. I'm hoping there can be more when I'd been with them for six months. It will be really hard "real @me" teaching where students are are REQUIRED if I haven't met them at all!!! You probably realize this, but to be online listening and learning. If we have to do engagement went way down without the teacher connec@on. this again, we will need tools at home like some sort of I also want to recommend that we find a way to streamline all pad that can connect to the computer so we can write the informa@on the families are geyng. Students too but the and teach. I realize some teachers created a doc families got burnt out trying to figure out where to look for camera from their phone, but I don't want to use my lessons and all the communica@on in addi@on to whatever phone in that capacity and so a doc camera would be they were doing at home. great at home, Some of the best @mes during the At home Learning was when I could write and students could see it and we could interact and they could ask ques@ons and prac@ce in real @me with me.

66 Staff Meridian Park Job security and earliest possible no@fica@on of Wanted to con@nue helping teacher w/2 hours of overload Elementary furlough or lay off. Being able to claim para support. Teacher did not include or ask for any unemployment for reduc@on of contract hours due to assistance when things went virtual. Wanted experience as a contract end date and no opportunity to add new para assis@ng with virtual learning but was not given the contract hour(s)as well as classified subs@tute hours opportunity to do so. suddenly stopping. Subs@tute hours loss should be eligible for unemployment when you are s@ll employed with only a few permanent hours. I.e. 2 permanent hours a day. Significant reduc@on in pay 2 months prior to school ending and not eligible for par@al unemployment. How much will classified subs@tutes be needed in the 2020-2021 school year? Staff Meridian Park Need to get students and teachers back into the actual Since children are not problem spreaders or a high risk Elementary classroom. Masks Op@onal for students in the popula@on generally speaking for COVID-19, schools should classroom, but not when outdoors or in PE. Masks for fully open and resume in the fall with good safety measures music class so kids can sing. Once a vaccine has been in place mostly to protect vulnerable popula@ons, and older delivered and is effec@ve, masks off for all, and social teachers. Schools should only provide other op@ons for distancing ended for all. learning outside the classroom to vulnerable popula@on children or those specifically reques@ng that. Staff Meridian Park To figure out what we’re doing so I can feel prepared Elementary for fall! Staff Meridian Park To focus on student's mental health and emo@onal Choosing the op@ons for "What is needed for you to return to Elementary health -- I'm worried about the affect this has had on in-person school?" was hard -- I need my kids in school for parents and families and the possibility of increased me to be able to return, yet the idea of smaller class sizes trauma for students living in extra stressful situa@ons. seems needed. We can't do that without going part @me for So many teachers will be anxious to "catch students students it seems. Lose-lose situa@on in many regards with up" from the academics they missed, but we as a this situa@on and it's just so very hard to think about district need to ensure we focus on the hierarchy of planning. I also can't imagine elementary students keeping needs first and foremost; ensure students brains and masks on all day or staying isolated in their rooms with emo@ons are ready to engage in learning and feel safe limited access to PE, music, or recess...sounds like a recipe for first. disaster. But staying home isn't great either! Ugh. Staff Meridian Park To get back to school and being with everyone again. The Zoom mee@ngs are very cool, it is nice to see everyone :) Elementary

67 Staff Meridian Park We need extensive professional development around Elementary best prac@ces for remote learning. We need to have school or district-wide expecta@ons for how learning will be provided that is consistent. We can't have some teachers rocking this while other teachers choose to par@cipate at the lowest possible level. We also need extensive professional development around the standards and how to both choose which standards are a priority and then how plan standards-based instruc@on.

Staff Meridian Park ** In the ques@on about statements that are true - to which Elementary degree- "rela@ve to my school" is really just me answering for my own classroom and those of my grade level/PLC teammates. I have no idea about my "whole school". Staff Meridian Park I am concerned that there will be an expecta@on that our Elementary online classroom presence will be as pronounced as it was this Spring while also maintaining a full classroom presence. It took a considerable amount of @me to produce online lessons with the work load shared between members of my grade level team. Staff Meridian Park I work with Kindergarten students. The idea that they will be Elementary able to stay in a designated area, wearing a mask for an en@re school day is not realis@c. I would like to see a half day model with half of the students coming in the morning and half coming in the ajernoon. Online learning opportuni@es could be provided for families during the half of the day their child is not in the classroom.

68 Staff Meridian Park There were a few students who did not come to a single Elementary zoom mee@ng, so I did not see them since march. I have no idea if they had resources and materials they needed, if they were okay, etc. I would like a beDer system to know the situa@on of my students if they are not in school so that I can beDer support them. Staff Meridian Park childcare is going to be an issue not only for school Kindergarten employees but also parents and families. Whatever is Program done needs to have an equity focus Staff Meridian Park Clear con@ngency plans for possible/likely scenarios Kindergarten regarding inevitable exposures as we re-open schools. Program Flow chart style with detailed instruc@ons for how to proceed if there is a: suspected case, confirmed case, staff who is vulnerable, etc. And to make that informa@on public so staff, families, and everyone will know what to expect when we start in September. Staff Meridian Park concerned about child care when students not in Kindergarten school, for myself but also for families Program Staff Meridian Park I am worried about being forced back into the building I don't understand how it will be feasible to maintain the Kindergarten even though I would not be comfortable. Many guidelines, especially for liDle kids. I can already see having to Program corpora@ons are con@nuing to work from home, I be the mask and social distancing police. Kindergarteners understand this is a different situa@on but I think we have an especially hard @me with maintaining cleanliness need to provide protec@on for people who are s@ll throughout the day already. I cannot count how many @mes a scared to "go back to normal." I feel like school day I am mid conversa@on with a student picking their nose, employees are being unnecessarily thrown into the and I don't think stopping every minute to have them go front lines during a pandemic. wash their hands or get hand sani@zer is conducive to good teaching. Staff Meridian Park I will need my children to be in school or at safe Managing online learning was very @me consuming this year. Kindergarten childcare when I work at the building next year. If we do a hybrid model, teachers need enough prep @me to Program manage and plan for both in-class and online learning. Staff Meridian Park It would be helpful if paraeducator posi@ons were I feel that elementary level students really need in-school Kindergarten planned/allocated/hired now, or at least earlier than experience. There is so much social and emo@onal learning Program normal (like August). that takes place in the early grades, as well as academically it is really hard for young kids to focus very long on Zoom mee@ngs/online lessons.

69 Staff Meridian Park Knowing that it is required that all people in buildings I am absolutely concerned with the way adult staff in some Kindergarten wear masks and social distance . I don’t think it will schools are not wearing masks and social distancing. If we Program work, I have already seen staff not wearing masks and cannot get all adults to comply then how do we expect not social distancing. students to comply. I am also concerned that our most vulnerable students who are low academically will con@nue to fall behind. Staff Meridian Park My most important need is the @me to implement I have concerns. My first concern is that in order for a Kindergarten whatever we do well. It took much more @me than kindergartner to learn online they need someone siyng with Program thought to create Seesaw ac@vi@es that were them, direc@ng them, discussing with them and really appropriate for kindergartners. teaching them. The parents that did this had the students that were successful. It is too big of an ask for parents to be expected to be teacher and parent. My other concern is that for a kindergartner, especially at the beginning of the year, they need to build rela@onships with their teacher in order to par@cipate in anything online. It would be extremely difficult to have buy in to work hard at home for someone they don't perceive as important. The purpose of kindergarten is to get the students school ready. By school ready I mean: how to be a student, how to sit and take turns, how to be a good friend, how to compromise, how to get your needs met in a construc@ve way. An online pla[orm can not teach this. I highly suggest half day kindergarten 4 to 5 @mes a week with half the students coming in the morning and half in the ajernoon if we are modifying our school schedule. This would alleviate the lunch @me/food issue. For those students who are on free and reduced lunch, they can take sack lunch home much like the summer. I have also thought about kindergarten and the masks. Please consider other op@ons like a neck warmer style mask that does not have to come off the student's body and can be pulled up or down as needed. Or a plas@c shield so that the students can see expressions for SEL learning and mouths for phonics learning. Thank you!

70 Staff Meridian Park Student management is extremely important if we go I understand the need for parents to go back to work and Kindergarten back. As read in the states guidelines there are several need support for the online learning model. However the Program school and classroom management changes that need safety of staff and students should be the primary concern. to be implemented and will take @me away from Prior to COVID parents rou@nely sent their students to school instruc@on as well as needing extra support from staff. with symptoms of illness because of their need to work. How Also is it realis@c to keep primary students wearing as a staff are we going to monitor all student and check their masks during all school hours? Then how can as symptoms before they enter the door? Elementary students teachers can we be safe if students do not comply with especially primary age students will have difficul@es following guidelines? Those are major concerns as well as ALL the guidelines of social distancing with other groups of teaching and keeping students engaged. Guidelines students around. Please consider the prac@cal aspects of include students desk arrangements apart and in rows. student management following the guidelines. If followed this means structure changes for instruc@on, no carpet @me, or small group work such as reading groups. This will be very difficult for primary age students to be engaged during instruc@on along with classroom general management problems. Staff Meridian Park To take a break from school responsibili@es and have as I am concerned about my future employment with the Kindergarten normal a summer as possible under current condi@ons. district. My job has ended and I understand there are going Program to be financial cutbacks. I'm currently considering looking for work outside the district. Staff Meridian Park I feel that the youngest popula@ons have had the most Kindergarten challenges and they are the group that would benefit the Program most from being able to have in person learning. Teaching reading and the other content that is grade level appropriate for K-2 is beDer served in person. I feel that there should also be special considera@on for those learners who receive special ed services. These are most of the @me extremely crucial to the development of this popula@on and adds a heavier burden on the parents when they cant have their children receive what is set up for them. As for the 6-12 popula@on--- I feel that an effec@ve on/off schedule of in building and home learning could help these learners to be able to get the social aspect of school that they crave as well as the interac@on with the teachers that so many of them were missing this spring. There are many crea@ve ways to have it work for all--I am apprecia@ve of being able to give input both as a parent in the district and as a staff. Thanks for the @me that is being invested in this process!

71 Staff Meridian Park It is very difficult for parents to manage home learning of the Kindergarten younger students (e.g., K-1) while working from home. It Program would be good to return to a half-day model (with limited pull out for specialists) to provide for consistency. If the half day is reduced to 2 hours vs. 2 1/2 hours, that would allow for teachers to clean classrooms and materials in between classes and ajer school. It would also allow for daily learning of our younger students. Staff North City As a staff member with early elementary children of Thank you for keeping students, staff, and our community Kindergarten my own in the district, the most important need is for safe! Program me to be able to do my job each day. Whether that means they're in school or district-provided care, they're allowed to come with me when their class isn't in session, or some other op@on, those two will have to work together in the fall. Staff North City Availability of cleaning and sanitary items . Those who work in extended care need to have proper Kindergarten Appropriate adult student ra@o and adequate space for spaces and make sure that we have necessary items to keep Program everyone. I'm concerned about the social and our spaces clean and sanitary... Hand sani@zer and adequate emo@onal development of especially the younger kids supply of soap for handwashing needs to be due to all the restric@ons being placed.. available..androomsneed cleaning everyday not just 2x a week.. Adult to student ra@o is very important and having only1 adult in any given room with kids is not really adequate. Its strongly encouraged to always have a second set of eyes and ears in the area to ensure safety for all staff and students in our extended care program ..

72 Staff North City Feeling safe to return to a classroom seyng. High How will it be decided if we are ready to open school? Will Kindergarten levels of parent accountability and expecta@ons for the teachers be given the opportunity to share what model they Program health and safety of their children (ie s@ll isola@ng from would be most comfortable with? How will teachers be others, temperature checks, proper use of masks, hand supported? washing, understanding what 6 feet looks like when distancing, staying home when ill) Figuring out how we can teach young children without using manipula@ves, games, toys, partners, equipment,etc. Knowing how school will look and what the op@ons for teaching will be- in person, remote, combina@on of the two? What model will we be using and will teachers have a voice in the model they are most comfortable with? For example: one groups comes M/T Deep clean Wednesday and planning day for teachers, second group on Th/F. Will staff be given more sick days if we do become ill and need to stay home for a extended period of @me? Staff North City I am hopeful to be in class with students in the fall in These ques@ons were hard to answer from a classified Kindergarten some capacity. Of course safety is the priority for all standpoint. They were directed more towards cer@ficated Program staff and students. posi@ons. As a classified paraeducator I felt it was hard to be able to connect with students. I knew the load was huge for teachers and it lej me feeling helpless and wan@ng to help more. I understand that it was difficult due to keeping us apart but I would love to see crea@ve ways to get paras involved if we are remote learning. Towards the end of remote learning it got easier to connect but it was based on teachers allowing you to get on SeeSaw and be a present at their ZOOM mee@ngs. Staff North City I will wear a mask but would prefer a face shield so the Kindergarten students can see my lips moving when I talk. Kids Program need to be at school and I need to be at the building to do my best teaching and to feel my best self. I do not do well at home working. Zoom mee@ngs need to have standards and structure so there is equity between classrooms.

73 Staff North City I worked 33 hours a week at I will be gradua@ng from Shoreline Community College in a Kindergarten . My biggest need isn't couple weeks, with my AAAS Degree in Early Childhood Program connected to the virus, it's based on working that Educa@on and, as soon as I have @me to study, I'll take the many hours again. I don't have child care issues and am exam for Para Professional. able to work any schedule you need. I had originally asked for Edwin PraD or Meridian Park, but I'll work any school or office you need me at. I'd be happy to assist a teacher in the classroom, or assist a few teachers. I'd also be happy to do paperwork, run errands, or just fill in where needed. I've been an administra@ve assistant, a nurse in 2 other states, a mail carrier, you name it. I'm a worker, ask And I rarely need to call off. I'd also be able to start in August, or whenever, to help with set up. I've been with you guys for 2 years and hope to return asap. Am I hoping for my job back? You beDcha! Thanx. Staff North City Knowing my placement for next year, if there will be I feel all ages should have at least some in-person learning. I Kindergarten same/more/less hours available for classified in am concerned that younger elementary and Kindergarten will Program elementary. Will classified du@es/tasks change or look be difficult to keep socially distanced. different? How will my schedule coordinate with my own children's schedule. Staff North City Knowing whether I have a job Kindergarten Program Staff North City Let’s get a plan that works for everyone. Absent Kindergarten parents and families need to be a part of home Program learning. Much less computer-based learning.

74 Staff North City My son needs his peer and school community. As a parent of an upcoming high schooler (going to 9th at Kindergarten Shorecrest next year), I would like there to be much more Program strict requirements about aDending Zoom and expecta@ons for work for classes and make sure parents are privy to these requirements as well and can track their child's progress easily. S@ll have ambi@ous expecta@ons please! There may be students that can't do this and they can let you know that, but I would like the default to be an expecta@on that students aDend Zoom and do the work to a high level. As a teacher I would like this as well. It seemed like a lot of my parents felt like the school work we were providing was op@onal. I can do a beDer job communica@ng this as well if I that is a districtwide expecta@on. Staff North City PPE provided if it is required when we return. I really need the district to think about the impact online Kindergarten teaching has on teachers and how different it is from in Program person teaching. I know there is talk of part @me online and part @me in person and I would like to point out that 50/50 in that scenario is more that a 1.0 posi@on. I have never felt more drained than I do ajer all of the zoom mee@ngs, lesson planning and recording, giving feedback on Seesaw, and filling out the data tracker. I can not imagine doing that for all of my students on top of teaching 4 full days to half the class at a @me. I also would like to say that I am not comfortable to the idea of teaching "live" to half of my students. That does not seem appropriate at the kindergarten level especially at the beginning of the year. At the end of the year they can barely focus for a 30-45 minute class mee@ng on zoom.

75 Staff North City That teachers will have access to their classroom to I hope the district looks at the work load issue/ @me if we are Kindergarten make videos or conduct live lessons if that is where we to do half online and half in person shijs with our students if Program are heading in the fall. I have a very small house which this is the choice that is made. Making videos, holding Zoom does not accommodate the ability to make a classroom mee@ngs for students, Zoom mee@ngs to plan for the videos space with a document camera and I do not have took a lot hours during the day/ week than a normal work sufficient wall space for teaching posters. I had to use day. That being able to work in groups to create videos a very small wall space in my bedroom which was the within our grade level was helpful in sharing the workload only place in my house that I could close the door to issue. At least at Kindergarten I heard from many parents the rest of my family and fit that neutral background that 9 lessons a week was too much for them. That geyng requirement. My kids had to have space in our kitchen/ through all of them within the context of 45 minutes a day family room which was an open space concept for went over this @me limit that was suggested. them to do their work and Zoom mee@ngs. I hope the district will be flexible if we have to work at home at any point about what equipment is used and having access to a classroom space. Staff North City I think it's really important for teachers to receive and Kindergarten par@cipate in professional development around family Program engagement and communica@on with families, given that teachers might need to have much more contact than in previous years. Building rela@onships with families should be a priority and should start at the beginning of the school year. I also think it will be important for teachers to have a way to contact families by phone in the case of school closure/ remote learning if teachers don't have access to their classroom phones. Staff North City In kindergarten, I am very worried that the students are not Kindergarten going to be able to adhere to the strict social distancing Program guidelines put in place and that these guidelines will not be appropriate developmentally or socially for them.

76 Staff Parkwood *Teaching young kids I felt was very stressful when we *I teach kindergarten. One of my students' grandfather is in Elementary were s@ll in session and were very concerned about the hospital right now with Covid. I am so grateful that I was surface contamina@on. I don't know if that's s@ll the not responsible for keeping her or her peers virus free. It case (it seems scien@sts are less concerned about that) makes me really scared to think that if school were in session but I'd need some parent educa@on and informa@on she or her family could have spread it to me or to other done about the level I could realis@cally protect them students. from. *I don't think I can teach a whole group of kindergarteners if they are not able to be at the rug close together. It seems hard to keep their aDen@on. *I am very concerned about trying to teach in a mask: the kids can't see my facial expressions or my mouth when we are talking about sounds. Honestly, I am worried I will not be able to do it because I think it will be so exhaus@ng. *Teaching half the class seems much more manageable--especially even with the amount of @me spent on handwashing. Staff Parkwood A clear idea of how to best teach my students and No, i know you have a lot to think about and consider with Elementary follow all the district and na@onal guidelines to stay everything going on, but I just want to make sure that the healthy. Lots of communica@on to help us feel like we health of students and especially the staff are taken into know what is going on also will help. considera@on. Most of our students should be okay, but some of them live with their grandparents and or health compromised family members at home. We also have a lot of teachers who are older and being surrounded by students (especially elementary students) is really concerning. I do want what will be best for the students learning wise, but I do always believe that health comes first. We can always catch up students as they move on in other grades, but we can't teach a person who is no longer with us. Staff Parkwood A job. We were told that there won't be a need for Elementary 1:1s at the beginning of the year. Ajer that, all safety guidelines should be followed. I would go back to work. Staff Parkwood A plan for self-contained special educa@on students. Elementary

77 Staff Parkwood An inalienable adherence to social distancing Elementary procedure should we return to onsite instruc@on. With though[ul and inten@onal supports in place not only for tradi@onal classroom instruc@on, but impera@vely for specialists. (Library, PE, Music, Band, Orchestra). Staff Parkwood Being able to support my two children at home. For I found parents of my students appreciated a weekly Elementary much of home learning in spring my ability to assist my schedule that was sent out on Friday ajernoon. This allowed two children was put on the back burner. Consistent parents to plan ahead and gave an overview of what their format for online learning across grade levels. student's week would look like. My 7th and 5th grade Receiving a junior high school schedule on Monday students received "lists" of tasks to complete. Both of them morning at 8:30 was too late. By that @me I was lacked the ability to priori@ze and/or create a balanced working and my 7th grader's inability to find/upload schedule for the week. assignments impeded his learning and my ability to support my class. Staff Parkwood BeDer ways to engage students more frequently. Once . Elementary a week is not enough. Staff Parkwood Comple@ng more trainings on crea@ng and providing Elementary virtual instruc@on. Staff Parkwood Custodial assistance as is planned for the SeaDle Public Perhaps providing temporal thermometers to each family and Elementary School District a website to input daily student temperatures prior to coming to school would allay parent/teacher fears of possible contamina@on on busses and in the classrooms. Parents would and should be responsible for maintaining appropriate health guidelines as good partnering with the district where we plan to do our part in maintaining a healthy environment for students to aDend.

78 Staff Parkwood Equity and the lack of it is the most important subject Elementary that needs to be discussed. Distance learning is not equitable for a mul@tude of reasons. I would like a conversa@on or conversa@ons to happen from top down that discusses this in detail. We know that we are going to be dealing with a lot of social emo@onal issues one of which has to do with the achievement gap. Our families who feel marginalized ojen don't have social currency. They have to work to survive and keep food on the table and a roof over their heads and now we are also asking them to teach their kids with the new distance learning that might be taking place in the fall. It is not right or fair, and it is definitely not seyng our students up for success. What are my most important needs at this @me, is to know that the families in the fall are going to be taken care of at the highest level of understanding and grace. To be preemp@ve in our conversa@ons and prepare ourselves for what is to come. Thank you Staff Parkwood Following the guidelines, but hopefully geyng all Elementary students back to school in the fall on a regular schedule like before. Staff Parkwood I need guidance on how everything is going to be There needs to be a planned laid out for staff and families Elementary handled. I need to know that our school's staff and ASAP! Even if it is only for September and could change in student's health and safety are the priority and not just October. Having a plan makes everyone at ease so everyone whatever the government is saying. I need a consistent knows what to expect. pla[orm that families will know what to use for online communica@on and teaching. I need students and staff trained in online tools. Staff Parkwood I need to know that we are doing due diligence to learn I have been reading that air filters and air circula@on are Elementary about the latest science around transmission in order extremely important in reducing the transmission of COVID. I to keep staff and students safe. hope that the District will look into this research and do whatever they can to improve our air circula@on systems as much as is feasibly possible. Thank you! Staff Parkwood I think students need to be in school. I think best Elementary learning is done in person. We need some live teaching on zoom.

79 Staff Parkwood I would like to have @me to phone call parents -- with Most students struggled with geyng things turned in . I Elementary giving feedback to students on work-- tracking think this was due to parents not being able to help or keep recorders , zoom mee@ngs ( staff mee@ngs, mee@ng track of what kids where doing. We need to educate parents with your team, group team mee@ngs from school, on how to look at what there kids are doing on google zoom mee@ngs with kids and office hours ) Crea@ng classroom. Most kids were picking lessons they wanted to lessons----- There was not @me to communicate with do since they knew that they weren't being graded. No parents. Worked from 7:00 am to 10:00 p.m. Way report card-- big mistake. Parents and kids didn't take this too much to do to keep in touch with parents like I seriously. would have liked. I am wondering how we are going to teach and do on line lessons????? How much @me will we spend with kids if they get music, instrumental, library, P.E. ?????? How to keep from geyng virus Staff Parkwood Important needs include a tenta@ve "plan" on how Families communicated with me that the learning was most Elementary Shoreline is moving forward so everyone can begin valuable when their own teacher was direc@ng and able to planning and preparing for the fall. Everyone knows provide lessons. A weekly plan was published and that it will be different but as everything has been communicated with families with only the essen@als and then different these last 3 months. People need and want they were able to access when it was convenient for them. to process and prepare for the next steps for Families felt overwhelmed with the menu of choices on the themselves as well as their families, especially with district website and it took them a long @me to sij through children. what would be appropriate. Staff Parkwood Instruc@onal support. School-wide consistent The loss of our instruc@onal coach is preDy devasta@ng. I do Elementary expecta@ons across grade-levels. Every grade level in not feel like I have enough support at the building level and elementary using the same technology for pos@ng do not have a strong, collabora@ve team. I am concerned assignments, progress reports, assessments, etc. about being isolated and alone teaching next year. In (SeeSaw or Google Classroom). Technology support in addi@on to managing the logis@cs of kids and staff in the how to create assignments and assessments, and building there needs to be an awareness that instruc@onal communicate student progress to families. support is cri@cal to student success. I can't do it all by myself. Teachers that teach intermediate grade levels need more support. Staff Parkwood Knowing what the model is for next year to get Elementary prepared materials and schedules in order - especially day care Staff Parkwood Maintaining social distancing to avoid geyng ill. I need Elementary to feel safe and healthly at all @mes. My family also needs to be kept healthly. Having people follow the guidelines to prevent the spread of Covid is very important and needs to be done of all.

80 Staff Parkwood Make a decision. Elementary Staff Parkwood Making sure everyone is safe Elementary Staff Parkwood PPE Elementary Staff Parkwood Safety is the most important part of school at this @me. I would rather be safe than sorry. Elementary This is safety for the students, the families, and the staff. Washington State's Covid numbers have plateaued BUT they have not come down far enough to be safe. I have an elderly mother living with me that I am very worried about. Other staff and families have underlying health condi@ons. I went into the school several @mes now to clean. It was incredibly difficult to keep my mask on at all @mes. How are the children going to do this? Staff Parkwood Some form of face to face instruc@on must be provided Elementary - especially for high need students, students in primary, and/or students needing support with technology. Some instruc@on must be provided in 'real @me' in order for teachers to provide immediate feedback as it pertains to learning. Not all instruc@on can be 'asynchronous'. With home learning, every student needs their own device and access to internet in the home. Every student and family must be offered tech training and support in their home language. Staff Parkwood Stay healthy. Not much moving around. Try not to It is beDer to focus on cleaner students themselves and the Elementary increase the number of pa@ents. classroom and inside of school. Students clean their desks every day before going home. Students wash their hands more frequently, like ajer recess, before and ajer lunch and snacks. Not sit down on the carpet and floor because students touch the floor. It is not clean. Staff Parkwood Structured online learning with teacher teaching the Elementary topic. I would like to see my personal kids have an on line lesson via zoom with their teacher and not just a class mee@ng.

81 Staff Parkwood The kids NEED to be able to go outside to play if we’re I worry about the burden of needing to teach students in the Elementary going to go back to school. I’m also concerned about classroom as well as provide online instruc@on. I felt that the chemicals used to disinfect. I understand that providing online instruc@on was almost more @me consuming they’re necessary, but myself and other teachers were than in-person teaching. I can’t imagine being able to do both geyng migraines daily from the new COVID cleaning and do them well. I also worry about a staggered schedule. products that were being used in March. Kids need @me and consistency to learn rou@nes and procedures, having the kids on a staggered schedule will make it difficult to form rela@onships with students as well as get them accustomed to their new teacher and classroom. Addi@onally, a staggered schedule is puyng parents in a very hard place again for finding childcare several days a week for their child on the days or @mes they’re not in school. Staff Parkwood There needs to be computers that func@on without Elementary freezing, dropping either sound or video, and an internet connec@on that is consistently func@oning. While aDending zoom classroom, the school issued Chrome book I used froze, dropped sound or video 15-20 @mes in one hour. I was using my own personal internet service (5.0) with only one computer in use on it. Those sorts of issues do not occur with my own computers. Also, all the students need to be equally able to access what ever learning method is selected using equipment that doesn't add to the frustra@on of both parents & students. Staff Parkwood To keep my posi@on, even if it could change I would hope that the district walks the talk, and makes Elementary temporarily, but would have the ability to keep hours decisions that is suppor@ve and equitable for ALL staff during (income) and medical/dental as we con@nue to this @me. That Shoreline District shows how we are an navigate through these unprecedented @mes. That we innovated, suppor@ve, crea@ve, safe, and responsible for our are All supported and acknowledged as essen@al staff, children, and families. That we live up to being one of employees. Therefore, are innovated and crea@ve in the "BEST" districts in Washington. temporarily changing our job descrip@ons to help in other capaci@es un@l we can resume back to regular school prac@ces. Staff Parkwood To know how schools will look in the fall? Which staff Hope you will reach a good decision about schools in the fall Elementary (like one on one )will able to work next year ? and all the next year which ensures the best educa@onal and stoical outcomes for all the students.

82 Staff Parkwood While I would love to be able to return to school, I am Elementary at a higher risk because of my health. I am doing my best to use technology and have learned a lot. I would say my greatest need is a qualified coach that can con@nue to be available to support me with technology. I also hope we use one pla[orm next year such as SeeSaw. We should begin the year with training and support for parents so they can access learning with their child more easily. Staff Parkwood Because I work in special educa@on I would like clear Elementary communica@on regarding what is specifically being done to keep these fragile students safe. Including what PPE staff will be wearing. Staff Parkwood I started working just days before schools were closed, so my Elementary experience is preDy limited. My responses may not be as insigh[ul as those of staff who have years of experience with school. Staff Parkwood While I understand and appreciate the though[ulness and Elementary equitable way the Shoreline School District came to develop its Home-Learning plan for this school year, and I also realize it was an ever-changing and evolving, once in a life@me world health crisis, I feel it had some definite shortcomings that could have been beDer mi@gated. Having a more consistent approach to what learning outcomes are expected will certainly assist students and families in naviga@ng @me management and school responsibili@es. Staff Ridgecrest 1. Our most vulnerable students who need support. 2. 1. Young children need to be in school with a classroom Elementary Our younger students and kids with disabili@es who teacher - not online. 2. Face shields need to be an op@on for require help to be successful in school. 3. A crea@ve teachers so faces can be seen. 3. Rela@onal connec@ons system that allows us to be in school. 4. I'm have got to be made for kids and families to have buy in -- concerned for families that need to work and how kids which means we need to be crea@ve in how we get kids to will be supported if at home. 5. Social/Emo@onal school. health of kids and families needs to be a top priority. Staff Ridgecrest As for me, I worked with extended care, therefore most I would like to know, what is going to happen to extended Elementary of the ques@ons does not apply to us. As for important care and the people who work for the extended care? Thank needs; are we going to be able to work this upcoming you! school year? Is there going to be an extended care?

83 Staff Ridgecrest At this @me my greatest need is knowing that if we are I want to say an incredibly large thank you to everyone who is Elementary returning to school with students and staff in the working towards developing a plan for our district that will building, that we absolutely are providing a space that allow for a safe and equitable learning experience for the is safe for everyone to be in so that our minds can families we serve. I can't even begin to imagine how large & focus on learning and growing together, rather than complex this task is, and I know that every answer comes what we may or may not be exposed to at any point in with a tenfold of more ques@ons. We appreciate you, and @me. It seems impera@ve that we limit the number of are hopeful that a plan will be able to come together that will bodies in or buildings so that we may successfully and allow for us to successfully and safely con@nue the crucial consistently Social Distance. However, at the same work we do in teaching our students and seyng everyone in @me I believe our students are going to need more our communi@es up for success. support than ever. So, it is that trick of finding the balance between the health and safety concerns that we need to be diligent about maintaining support for, while simultaneously ensuring that our students academic, as well as social and emo@onal growth is strongly supported as well. At the end of the day we all need to feel safe to come to school without risking our own health or the health of those around us, both in our school communi@es, as well as in our homes. Staff Ridgecrest Best prac@ces for distance learning- I am worried that if I really appreciated the town hall and discussion on equity we Elementary we do online learning again or some sort of blended had. I feel like these discussions are important for staff to be learning we will use units that feel disconnected with apart of and involved in. I am curious what the informa@on the teacher and students in the class. Support from the survey will reveal and how this will be shared with balancing online and in person learning- I worry that staff. Thanks! teachers will be asked to manage online and in person learning- I don't think I could do this well. Social emo@onal support- I also am worried about social and emo@onal learning and how teachers will build rela@onships with students and teach them skills to enhance their well being. Supports for struggling students- I also am worried about the gaps in the classroom and what supports will be put in place for students. Staff Ridgecrest Clear guidelines from the CDC as well as lots of @me for Elementary planning for the new year. Staff Ridgecrest Feeling safe to return. Elementary

84 Staff Ridgecrest I am a specialist, so I am very concerned about what Elementary learning will look like next year for me teaching students. Exposure to 1/5 of the students in my building every day is my norm, and I want to teach and connect with students, but it needs to be in a safe way that takes the specifics of specialist jobs into considera@on. I need to know the plan for specialists when it is known so I can begin to plan and work within the parameters. Staff Ridgecrest I am very concerned about the rela@onship between Elementary my own health condi@ons and the poten@al for contrac@ng Covid from students and others. In order to do distance learning I think we need significantly more training. I also think we need to consider other instruc@onal resources that are consistent across the district rather than expec@ng teachers to create videos. By u@lizing online adap@ve learning programs, like is being done for summer school, and training teachers in how to support student learning, I think teachers would be more effec@ve at helping students progress and families would see a clear path to learning that students could engage in without the need for so much parent support.

85 Staff Ridgecrest I don't know how we're going to keep kids and Elementary teachers safe. ONE person could give the virus to 10+ people WITH social distancing and face masks. If someone has a cough, are we going to send home the en@re class to quaran@ne? Dozens of kids could be sick at any one @me with a common cold, but we're not going to be able to differen@ate who has a cold and who has Covid. I'm also concerned with staff safety. Staff will be exposed to dozens of other people every day. What happens if the teacher gets sick? Do we have enough subs to cover classes for mul@ple 14-day quaran@nes? I don't know how to keep kids accountable and make sure they're learning when there are so many factors at home that we can't account for or change. I'm also incredibly worried about our students with special needs, ELL, low- income, etc. They're going to fall more and more behind. I don't have an easy solu@on but I'm worried about their long-term success. Staff Ridgecrest I hope that whatever model or pla[orm we use, Elementary students would be explicitly trained in how to use it. I hope we have some in-person training with them before another peak occurs. I believe flexible is our best modality given that children do not ojen have control over their daily schedules. But explicit target goals and clear accountability would be helpful in the fall. Students loved Khan and it sequencing and feedback.

86 Staff Ridgecrest I teach first grade. I had great rela@onships with the Elementary students this year, and their families. Even then it was difficult to get families on board with what I wanted students to be comple@ng. Many choosing to do their own ac@vi@es, and a handful choosing to paper and there was no way for me to give feedback on that work. That being said, I'm just concerned about star@ng off the school year with first graders that I literally have no connec@on with, and knowing that they're likely way behind. Not to men@on haven't really been school for 6 months. Staff Ridgecrest It is very important that elementary students are Elementary allowed to have their specialist @mes. They need to have music, PE and library. Many ac@vi@es and classes can be taught outside, if needed, but they need to see those teachers in the music/PE classrooms. Staff Ridgecrest Just answers! I just need to know if I am going to be I knn m ow you all are working so hard for us, to keep us safe Elementary able to work next year. I am a single mom of 4 kids, and well and are doing your best to get us back out there. this job is my livelihood and I love it! Thank you Staff Ridgecrest Limited exposure to mul@ple people in a confined It is my understanding that the greatest risk to contrac@ng Elementary space for an extended period of @me without adequate the virus is to have extended periods of @me with others in a airflow. confined space without adequate airflow. Masks are essen@al to reduce the spread of aerosol droplets. However, if the people are in a space for an extended period of @me (an hour or more), without adequate circula@on of air, the risk increases as aerosols build up in the space. I would feel uncomfortable returning to school in this situa@on and I think it would cause in an increase in exposure and spread of the virus. Staff Ridgecrest Maintaining Covid-19 infec@on reduc@ons in our DOH needs to be ready and able to shut schools down if Elementary popula@on. Staff and students need to maintain social Covid-19 infec@ons rise. We really need a vaccine to enable distancing, wear masks, wash hands ojen. Staff needs schools to return to normal func@oning, un@l then we need appropriate PPE provided by the district or state. For to be cau@ous, wise and able to make difficult decisions. close contact this would be N95 masks, face shields, gowns and gloves. Staff Ridgecrest Making sure my schedule as a teacher will match up Elementary with my child's schedule.

87 Staff Ridgecrest My biggest need is to be available for my child (a 3rd I am very concerned about the spread of the virus and that Elementary grader at a different school than where I teach) if there we are planning to reopen before it feels safe to do so. I am is par@al in-person school. I am concerned that my also concerned with the student's ability and willingness to teaching schedule will conflict with her school schedule follow social distancing and hygiene expecta@ons. I am also and we will not be able to be at home together. concerned that not all staff do and will follow safety Another need I have is to feel safe from exposure, guidelines for preven@ng the spread of the virus. In the few which I do not feel is really possible with in-person @mes I have been in the school building, not everyone is schooling right now. Also, I find it really important that always wearing a mask, and not everyone is staying a safe the students most at risk of academic loss be given distance apart. These rules need to be enforced by school extra support and individual/small-group aDen@on by staff, and staff needs to provide a good example for students. school staff in order to be successful with at-home I have always had many students come to school with colds learning. I am most concerned about students who are and this will not be acceptable any more. But that is a very already below standard, students who have working difficult situa@on for many families, especially those who do families who cannot support them in crea@ng rou@nes not have a parent or family member who is at home all the for learning, and students who are English language @me. These students will miss out on even more learning learners. Furthermore, I need support in crea@ng than they would have if we were not having in-person useful and effec@ve online lessons for students, as well schooling. as structures for collabora@on with other teachers. Some of my biggest frustra@ons this past few months was lack of @me / structure / plans for collabora@on with other teachers, as well as lack of using structures that were in place and meant to help. My teammates did not always share their work with me in a way that was useful to my students, for example, a teacher who had created ELA lessons would later tell our team, "Oh, I gave my students this extra resource / lesson and it really helped them with the (original) ELA lesson," ajer the fact. And my team did not share files and slideshows and videos on the shared team drive, which meant I couldn't see their work un@l they published it on Seesaw. Staff Ridgecrest My needs are being met as well as can be expected I am not a classroom teacher so some of the possible answers Elementary above do not pertain to me yet I was required to answer them. I did so to the best of my ability. I also feel that a lot of these ques@ons pertained to teachers/parents and not to me as a classified staff person.

88 Staff Ridgecrest Our teaching model (good teaching prac@ces) are not Elementary conducive to social distancing in elementary schools. Teaching is about interac@on between students and between students and the teacher - feedback is cyclical and distance learning models make this extremely challenging. Having a clear understanding of the instruc@onal model and what instruc@onal support teachers will be given as soon as possible will allow teachers to prepare for the work ahead. Staff Ridgecrest Safety - for myself and others. I am the primary The pandemic isn't over just because we want to go back to Elementary caregiver for my elderly mother, and if I get exposed to school. Yes, I want to teach my kids - I want to sit with them Covid, I will expose her as well. I do not want to put my and help them understand new concepts, and watch them health and the health of my family at risk. This also learn and grow. However, I do not want to do this at the applies to our students and their families - many of my expense of people's lives. Students will recover from missing students live with grandparents or other at-risk family some school. Families will not recover if they lose their loved members, and could poten@ally expose their families ones because we rushed back into school buildings before it to the virus. While returning to school would be was safe. good academically, I can't see it being a safe op@on at this point. I had 32 students in my classroom - there is no way to keep 32 students 6 feet apart at all @mes. Some classrooms don't have sinks for hand washing. Students with sensory issues or other learning disabili@es need to get up and move, but won't be able to if we are jamming them into a classroom and telling them to stay 6 feet apart. Staff Ridgecrest Since students with sensory issues or other issues If students aren't able to wear a mask they should be Elementary aren't required to wear a mask, that probably would be schooled at home remotely. 50% of an elementary school.. I do not feel safe to teach if masks aren't required for ALL students and staff at ALL @mes. Currently I don't believe schools will make anyone except employees wear mask, and I do not fee safe to teach in that environment. Staff Ridgecrest Specific services for special needs My students with special educa@on needs have fallen behind Elementary in a big way. If we are not planning on opening school completely in the fall, we need to figure out how to give these students what they need.

89 Staff Ridgecrest If we are going to by part in person and part online, I can't Elementary imagine as a classroom teacher planning and preparing for both. To prepare only a few lessons a week was a full @me job. So I am wondering if there will be a designated team who focuses on online, and while others focus on in person lessons? Doing both well seems nearly impossible. Staff Ridgecrest My job is not possible through any remote learning scenario. Elementary Staff Ridgecrest Staff at this school were not following guidelines by CDC Elementary before we closed officially. Very concerned with what the fall will bring. Staff Shorecrest High #1: to receive informa@on about next steps frequently Home learning, quaran@ne, and protests have helped me see School and immediately, even if things are constantly things in ways I have not been able to before. I have seen changing. #2: to be involved in planning and preparing excellent things happen as a result of Home Learning, and I star@ng NOW. hope we can use this opportunity to capture the poten@al for advancement in teaching and learning. Staff Shorecrest High 1) Ability to social distance 2) Some contact in person School with students 3) Ability to hold students accountable as we know almost all students have the internet at home.

90 Staff Shorecrest High 1. Being in class with students - even a liDle bit, like An instruc@onal coach is absolutely essen@al right now. Her School 1/2 days or one to 2 days each week. 2. Following CDC wisdom, her calm, her ability to shepherd us forward with recommenda@ons for helping all stay safe - distancing, quality resources and teaching strategies are priceless. masks, temperature taking 3. Helping them navigate their learning in a hybrid model. If we could ensure @me at school for all children whose families are comfortable AND have online learning where teachers are recording lectures and pos@ng them then I am HAPPY to help small groups of students access informa@on, ac@vi@es, partner work, etc. Our model this spring is unsustainable for all and I fear if we return will do more damage than help. I fully understand the difficulty in mee@ng the guidelines presented by OSPI, but we must try! And do not harm grading CANNOT be a part of next year. Flexibility will be key. Crea@vity will be key. But students have to have a predictable schedule, with guidelines and expecta@ons to show up and engage. Staff Shorecrest High 1.) To feel like I can completely "turn it off" during July Let's not lose sight of the importance of elec@ves (art, band/ School before having to gradually ramp up again in August. choir/orchestra, pe, etc) in helping our students re-connect 2.) In person instruc@onal @me with students in the fall and re-engage in their school experience. - even if it's just a couple days/week to begin with will be cri@cal. In my es@ma@on, 100% online has not been a good model for students, families, or staff. Any successes I had geyng kids to engage online these last 3 months were aDributed to my rela@onships with my students. ADemp@ng to begin the school year without opportuni@es to build those face-to-face rela@onships will make teaching/learning incredibly difficult for all. Staff Shorecrest High 8-4pm, regular work Social distancing and safety from School exposure, but moreso for my students and their families. Not wan@ng them to be exposed and taking it home to their families.

91 Staff Shorecrest High A coherent/concise plan from the district and the Make a plan and s@ck with it - The district is not trea@ng School union. labor inhumanly or not bargaining in good faith. I do not know how you listen to this rhetoric when people (shoreline taxpayers) are losing their businesses due to the prolonged closures of their businesses. Shoreline schools district employees are s@ll being paid...

Staff Shorecrest High A limited set of focused learning and skill standards to Those students who require substan@al support to reach the School guide the return to instruc@on and catch up work in basic literacy and numeracy skills that will allow them to the fall. An easily administrated and consistent access grade-level curricula need to receive said literacy/ (across the state) assessment for said standards numeracy instruc@on in person. (should focus on founda@onal literacy and numeracy skills) so we know what skills students are beginning the school year with. Resources such as tutoring to help students who have lost academic progress due to the disrup@on in in person instruc@on. Time and resources to train parents and guardians in how to support learning at home (i.e. a sort of mini- homeschool tutorial). Staff Shorecrest High A School wide plan that takes teacher and student School voice into considera@on. I need to be able to assess and grade. I also need to be able to work with my colleagues in like content and to be held to the same expecta@ons. (we need to work together beDer between schools) Staff Shorecrest High An instruc@onal coach! Seriously, our coach worked This was tough not really having any expecta@ons. I realize all School @relessly to help us with tools and training. We would we did was following OSPI rules and such. But so many of my never have been able to do the job as well as we did students did one assignment to get a grade (ojen an A) and without her. then checked out for the rest of the semester. So they did not aDempt to learn content, and will not be prepared at all for the next level course. We really need to find a balance that provides equity and integrity to the coursework.

92 Staff Shorecrest High As a single mom of 3 kids in elementary school, I Thank you for honoring staff contracts. Thank you for asking School absolutely need childcare in order to return to work if these ques@ons. my children are not returning to school full @me. Can there be priority for children of district employees to have access to extended care? Flexibility about working from home if s@ll able to manage demands of my job. Want to know ASAP to begin planning and prep for my job as well as my family for the re-opening of school. Staff Shorecrest High Being able to work in a safe environment while A top priority needs to be a con@nua@on of work on race and School maintaining personal connec@ons with one another equity. A cri@cal component at each school is the despite having to wear masks. Really worrisome to instruc@onal coach. I believe it would be a mistake to think about how much will be lost in communica@on, eliminate the posi@on. learning, recogni@on, rela@onships, community, and connec@on without being able to see faces. Staff Shorecrest High Being hired back in the fall School Staff Shorecrest High Clear and firm expecta@ons for students and their Schools and staff will need a lot of support in the fall in order School families. The "Home Learning" experience of the past to successfully resume schools. Lets learn from the many 3 months was largely a failure, and liDle learning was fundamental failures of the past three months and not repeat accomplished. Most students did not take the them. assignments seriously, as they knew that they were not accountable for comple@ng them. This policy completely undermined teachers' efforts to educate students. The policy also established a bad precedent for what teachers and schools expect and require of our students. Staff Shorecrest High Clear communica@on about what to expect as soon as School possible so I can plan accordingly. I can make anything work, but would love to know what that looks like. Staff Shorecrest High Communica@on and PD to help support students School Helping students with trauma caused by Home Stay and transi@on back to classroom Staff Shorecrest High Compensated @me to work over the summer on School remote learning lessons.

93 Staff Shorecrest High Ensuring safety precau@ons are in place for high risk How do we social distance with students who are required to School students and staff working in sped be within arms length for safety reasons? How do we social distance with students who need full assistance in daily hygiene (wiping nose, feeding, toile@ng, etc.)? Will staff in higher risk situa@ons be en@tled to hazard pay? Staff Shorecrest High Everyone safety, students and staff. School Staff Shorecrest High Follow the guidelines set up by the scien@sts Allow School students flexibility, yet structure & accountability, esp for the high school student Staff Shorecrest High Grades need to 100% count. ADending once a week We need our Instruc@onal Coach now more than ever. Figure School Zoom mee@ngs should be required as well. it out, please. (ADendance taken by teacher, parent contacted if student does not aDend). Staff Shorecrest High Having an instruc@onal coach to guide and support our School work and provide a consistent learning experience for students Staff Shorecrest High Health and safety of students, staff, and families. All School families having con@nued appropriate access to resources. Staff Shorecrest High How are we going to social distance when we have full Students might have to do some form of Home Learning so School classes at @mes? During this @me of quaran@ne many maybe requiring students to come in for Quizzes or tests students needed help, but not many actually logged on would be a good way to asses the students' true knowledge to Office Hours. How do we make it a "requirement"? of the content. What is the best way to assess students on the content? Staff Shorecrest High I am not concerned for myself...I am concerned for the As a district, I am proud of what we accomplished this year. I School students. We have been tasked with a very difficult am so proud of our students. I am so grateful to be a responsibility of giving an equitable learning member of the Shoreline School District. experience during very uncertain @mes. I need to know that our at risk students, ELL students, and our special educa@on students have appropriate avenues to learn, not just have an equitable grade for the transcript.

94 Staff Shorecrest High I am preDy flexible at this @me! Most important is to Yes, Behavior Techs and Paras that work with students and do School well informed on goals etc. a lot of coaching and help teaching are not given adequate tools to work with. I had to depend on my own home equipment ie. Computer, IPad, Phone, etc. to work with students! Staff Shorecrest High I have lupus and a heart condi@on. I am afraid to be Making more things mandatory (like aDendance and School exposed to so many people and follow all health par@cipa@on in home learning) would drama@cally improve guidelines AND teach. I have a lot of anxiety and fear instruc@on and community for classes. around being around others and I imagine students do as well. I don’t want to be forced to be in person if it’s not safe or feasible logis@cally. Staff Shorecrest High I like the idea of both a “structured school day” virtual School schedule for students who need rou@ne/structure it. However, I also think we should allow students a “flexible” op@on for those that have family or other commitments at home. Staff Shorecrest High I need a support person to help me with a variety of School instruc@onal strategies. This spring, that person has been our building's instruc@onal coach. She was able to help (all of us) narrow our focus onto important learning standards, find the best way to present it to students, and communicate with families in an effec@ve way. I also cannot see myself in a classroom with 35 teenagers if there are not VERY strict COVID rules in place, like wellness monitoring, social distancing, masks, etc. I tend to catch everything they have in a usual year! I am high risk for COVID, and need to do everything I can to keep myself safe. My classroom is based around group work and peer to peer learning, which will not be able to happen if all people are socially distanced from each other. More than ever, I will need help (instruc@onal coach) in finding new and effec@ve methods of teaching students when they won't necessarily be able to work together.

95 Staff Shorecrest High I need protocols/guidelines in place for students who School are medically fragile, students with limited mobility, students in diapers, or/or those who just need extensive assistance with toile@ng. I need protocols/ guidelines for students who can not or won't wear masks/shields. I need to know if we are going to open, that the school district is commiDed to collabora@ng with the District Based Transi@on Program in placing students with special needs at internship sites - accommoda@ons will be considered. I need protocols/guidelines for working with students who have challenging/aggressive behaviors. All of my students will have staff with them so they can not social distance themselves. I need to know that the staff and students feel safe. Staff Shorecrest High I really want to focus on our students who did not It is extremely important to keep as the School engage during Home Learning this year. I fear we are . She was extremely helpful widening the opportunity gap, if we con@nue with a this year, and teachers need that support as we experience model similar to this year. If the CDC allows us to be in- different learning environments. Also, she is dedicated to our person in any capacity, that would be really nice to see students of color. She will be able to provide support to make students at least once a week. That in-person is so sure all teachers address the inequity and injus@ce in our important to stay connected and build rela@onships. school system. She will be vital for our improvement as a school. Staff Shorecrest High I test students-in person at a distance of maybe 1 j in I think all staff should be tested for COVID an@bodies prior to School a small, not seemingly well ven@lated room. I am returning (though the tests are not all that reliable) and there lots of concern that while we may be able to should be rou@ne screening of staff on every other day basis; mandate masks and social distance at school, what do especially those at high risk such as myself. you think is going to happen outside of school? Hint; no mask wearing nor social distancing by the students. Avoiding the cafeteria for lunch not easy as it will take much more @me for students to pick up their lunches and take them back to class. I am concerned that there really aren't any reliable alterna@ves for tes@ng so I will be dependent on my prac@cum students to do this for me. My mee@ngs, which are plen@ful (SST; SIT; IEP) can be done of course by zoom but it only works if everyone on it, even those in the room. This will be very cumbersome- but doable

96 Staff Shorecrest High I think to be successful, we need some form of face-to- My "ideal" hybrid schedule for next year would be to divide School face @me with the students. Even if students are asked my classes in half (groups A & B), have group A come to to be at school 1-2 days a week, I could get more done school on M-T, leave W open for online access/scheduled with them in that hour or two (with addi@onal home zooms/office hours and cleaning of building, then have group learning/independent tasks) than I can with them B aDend on Th-F. I would also suggest that we see all of our home all the @me. That rela@onship/connec@on piece classes on each day they aDend (make every day an "all" day is CRITICAL in geyng students to buy in and at the high schools) so that if a student is absent one class, par@cipate. The only reason we were moderately they don't miss an en@re week of in-person connec@on with successful with many students this spring is that we'd that teacher. Finally, I appreciate that you are asking for our already goDen to know them in class. To start new thoughts and input. courses without some form of direct, in-person interac@on would be seyng everyone up for failure. Addi@onally, we need the instruc@onal coaches at the high schools. They are a HUGE support during all of this. Staff Shorecrest High I want to come back but will need technology training I am a staff member who is 60+ years old and have an School to create even beDer lesson for my students. The immune compromised dependent at home so I need to know teacher I co teach with and I had zoom classes every what alterna@ve I have to coming back to face to face week just like we would have, had we been in school. teaching in the fall if my dependent's specialty team believes We had 90% aDendance and the parents were I should avoid large groups of people. wonderful in helping their students. I will be taking all the PD he district is offering and have purchased some other trainings to help improve my use of techmoliogy. Staff Shorecrest High I want to make sure all staff and students are provided Has anyone thought about having paras in the self School safety. containment class wear scrubs? Staff Shorecrest High I would like a plan in place so that we can be prepared. Instruc@onal coaches would be key to helping with School I think if we do some form of online learning, I would implemen@ng these changes. prefer a hybrid. I also think there needs to be a structured day setup by the school, & student expecta@ons for what they need to do for their learning., Staff Shorecrest High I'm good Thanks for reaching out School Staff Shorecrest High In self contained sp ed program our students are at School highest risk of regression. As the majority of their learning is hands on we NEED to be in the classroom!

97 Staff Shorecrest High Informa@on that shows agreeable evidence / n/a School prepara@ons for all teachers to be safe to work if schools reopen. Staff Shorecrest High Just make a plan, so we can adjust and prepare before School the last minute. Also, we need training on the pedogogy of remote learning. I know how to use the details of Canvas...what I need is advice on how to execute remote learning in the most effec@ve way possible. Staff Shorecrest High Just need to know the plan for the fall, which I realize is Online learning can work as long as everyone can connect to School difficult with everything changing from day to day. it and as long as students are held accountable for grades and aDendance. I know OSPI made it difficult this year to hold students accountable, but it is impera@ve that grades maDer next year. Staff Shorecrest High Know the schedule to plan for my child. Be permiDed You are doing a excellent job honoring our community, School to fulfill a boundary excep@on so my children are closer learning diversity and educa@ng teachers for how to to my school. This is ESSENTIAL When grades don't approach this. maDer, HS students typically don't have intrinsic mo@va@on to log on or work. Students want and need accountability. Our educa@onal opportunity gaps for black and brown students seem to have grown. We were working to narrow this gap, but when I look at grades and who logged on, I see this race divide. Staff Shorecrest High Knowing if I have a job next year or not Thanks for taking input from staff School Staff Shorecrest High Knowing if my job (AVID tutor) will be available in the School fall. Staff Shorecrest High Let's just go for it and start school. Let's trust people to School stay home when they are sick. Staff Shorecrest High Lots of helpful tools were provided by the district. Very concerned about social emo@onal impacts of Home School Students need to have structured days- need to be Learning. Even though it can have an appearance of being required to aDend classes, work in groups on Zoom or strict to require aDendance in online classes, I think that has similar if we are going to be in Home Learning. the poten@al to posi@vely affect student mental health also.

98 Staff Shorecrest High Need a clear plan with enough @me to prep for my I really want to be back to school but am not on board with School classes Realis@c expecta@ons but firm expecta@ons just all at once and "try the best we can" I have a daughter that mark clear learning for students. We need to with Asthma so I am very cau@ous about exposure un@l there grade effec@vely so students take the assignments and is a vaccine. grades seriously. Staff Shorecrest High Nothing at this @me. I intend to enjoy the summer as I School can and take up concerns closer to the fall semester. Staff Shorecrest High Please consider the needs of ESA staff, including nurses School and counselors. Our work will be greatly impacted and we need inten@onal support from the district to do our jobs well. Staff Shorecrest High Professional development in online tools and resources School for virtual learning, also @me needed to prepare for mul@ple scenarios. We need @me to have both our in- person lessons planned, as well as @me for any online learning that have to do. In many ways it's two separate curriculum plans. Staff Shorecrest High Social distancing. Cleanliness. Flexibility. Personally I feel I work beDer in person with students. School Staff Shorecrest High Special educa@on NEEDS to go back to school. These School students are already at such a disadvantage and not being able to work on their IEP goals has put them back even farther. Some can do basic home learning but most need the in person contact to educate them on basic needs. We don’t need to go into the community we just need them to be able to go into school at least a few days a week. Staff Shorecrest High Technology training to create stronger on line lesson I am 60+ years old and have a dependent in my home who is School that are easy for students to access. immune compromised. I am wai@ng to hear form my associa@on and the district on what can be done for folks like myself should it be unadvisable for us to return at the beginning of the school year. I am also very interested in what plans will be developed for students unable to return due to their own health issues as I teach several students in this situa@on.

99 Staff Shorecrest High Technology training, info about individual student School levels, curriculum, being able to be safe Staff Shorecrest High That the district address self-contained classrooms and School their specific needs. Wearing of masks by most students will be a challenge. Social distancing is not possible for students who require close supervision or hand-over-hand supports. Non-verbal students will not be able to indicate if they are feeling ill. How will this be addressed? Will students be screened prior to geyng on the bus each day? What will the district do to provide beDer support surrounding safety and sick leave for special ed staff? Virtual learning does not work for self-contained classrooms, as students have IEP's. All students have individualized learning that can't be met solely by the classroom teacher. Paras are limited in their roles and what support they can provide to both teachers and students in the current model. Staff Shorecrest High The ability as a teacher to feel safe being in a room School with a different set of 32 students 5 @mes a day. That is 160 different people to be exposed to each day. That scares me. Staff Shorecrest High The instruc@onal coach at SC was essen@al for me in School Home Learning. I am the only teacher who teaches my classes so I don't have a 'team' and our instruc@onal coach filled in that gap. We need accountability and structure to the grading and par@cipa@on when we go back in the fall. Students had the op@on of not par@cipa@ng in HL and many chose not to for a variety of reasons. While those reasons may s@ll be real next fall, there s@ll needs to be a requirement to aDend and par@cipate or we'll have a whole genera@on of kids who won't have a decent educa@on. I need the state and the district to make decisions about policy in a more @mely manner so that at the building level we can begin to plan.

100 Staff Shorecrest High To have a job! School Staff Shorecrest High To know if my au@s@c dd ebd student and I can aDend School and be safe Staff Shorecrest High Up to date informa@on as it comes out this summer. School Staff Shorecrest High Ways to keep the students engaged and accountable. Above I checked both flexible and rigid due dates. Flexible School Need training in best prac@ces for pos@ng teacher- dates are good for day to day work. However, there needs to made video. be some rigid deadlines and due dates for assessments because word gets out and the chea@ng goes way up. Addi@onally, it is very difficult to con@nually monitor assignment comple@on for work that had been assigned a long @me ago. Work that is turned in regularly is of much higher quality than the work turned in by the student who aDempts to turn in ten assignments right at the end of the semester. Staff Shorecrest High We need an Instruc@onal Coach at the High School. School Please bring them back. Staff Shorecrest High We need to hold students accountable for their School learning -- We need to be able to provide feedback and assess student growth. Students need to have @me with their teachers, @me to focus, ask ques@on, etc (even if it's online, a class to aDend). Staff Shorewood High - help encouraging students to engage with online I've heard a lot of students and families report that online School learning, check Canvas, aDend zoom sessions, etc. learning was difficult for them because each teacher Online teaching is demanding, and I don't have @me to communicated differently (e.g. email, skyward message, chase down students who have gone AWOL. - clear, canvas announcements, etc.) and each teacher uses Canvas decisive direc@on from administra@on about volume differently (e.g. announcements, modules, calendar events, and type of learning that is expected from each etc.). I think it would help students and teachers if we were teacher. Many of my students said that they were very given common use guidelines. For example, perhaps each busy with work for other classes (par@cularly science), teacher posts an announcement on Mondays with an and they de-priori@zed my class. overview of the week, and each lesson is a self-contained module? We all need to be doing things in a similar way to minimize confusion.

101 Staff Shorewood High • I really need the district to recognize that many I thought this was a good ar@cle. It highlights many of the School teachers and staff are very fearful of returning to overwhelming challenges we face if we head back to in school. • I also need the district to take this very person school. hDps://thebolditalic.com/we-cannot-return- seriously. Our health and our family's health is just as to-campus-this-fall-1ad91b8a65e0 important as our students and their family's health. • I worry that that the district will be in a rush to return to normal in order to make parents happy. That isn't the right thing to do. • Who will provide PPE for staff and students? • What about buses? The commons? Class size? It is overwhelming to imagine how in person learning can work.

102 Staff Shorewood High 1) My personal safety and limited exposure. I'm most Let's center the social and emo@onal needs of our kids in School concerned about bringing the virus home to my decisions about what school looks like in the fall. husband who is self-employed and works at home, is our primary provider, and has limited exposure out of the home right now. We aren't in a high-risk group, but this is s@ll my biggest concern. 2) I'm concerned about effec@ve teaching and learning at school in the fall. If we have to be 6j apart and in masks, that seems to negate the ability to interact in group discussions, for example. I could probably have beDer group discussions online. I can see in-person classroom @me being important for taking tests and quizzes. Much of my curriculum can be delivered online if I'm not able to get kids together in groups. Classrooms are social, collabora@ve spaces. I'm not really sure what a socially distant classroom would look like for me. I love our block schedule, but I'm having a hard @me seeing what a 100-minute class period would look like if I can't put kids in groups for collabora@ve work. I'd hate to see in- person school turn into mostly just kids spaced far apart, no group discussions, too much teacher lecture, and individual work @me. I would rather have a shorter, in-person class period (60 mins?) for tests, quizzes, presenta@ons, and check-ins. 3) I would like to see our district use this as an opportunity to be flexible and innova@ve. Flexible start @mes, smaller learning groups in person, use of school as a place to connect and get some social interac@on. I can teach my content in person or online. I'm 100% sure I can get crea@ve with technology, video, and other cool pla[orms to both deliver instruc@on and track progress and learning online. The connec@ons and social experiences, however, just came to a complete halt for our kids. They need to see each other (safely) and I'm hoping we can ensure that in-person school doesn't just become lecture with kids working quietly in their masks at their tables. What's the point of coming to school for that? Could we allow one ajernoon a week for club mee@ngs and teacher office hours? 103 Staff Shorewood High 1. Need to know District plan. I am in the "at risk" No. Thanks you for the opportunity to par@cipate. School category due to age and health issues. I simply do not believe it is possible with teenagers to guarantee a zero-risk of contrac@ng COVID-19 in a public school seyng using exis@ng methods (masks, distancing, temperature checks etc). The CDC guidelines for "higher risk" staff and students acknowledge this. I think that given what we know at this @me, the only way to assure safety of students and staff is through vaccina@on. Ajer all, this is a disease that kills. So I need to know how the District plans, specifically, to protect at-risk employees (and everyone for that maDer) in a face-to-face teaching/learning environment when there is not yet a vaccine available. Once I see that plan then I can decide if my personal needs will be met by the plan. 2. Need to know possibility for a LOA. I need to know whether it will be possible to be granted a Leave of Absence un@l such @me as robust vaccina@on is in place. District has not been able to be clear on yet (as of last week). Staff Shorewood High 1. How to support students with higher support needs School (at home as many will require support from a family member/caregiver, AND at school while keeping staff and other students safe from poten@al exposure). 2. Ensuring teachers are not forced into high risk situa@ons (kindergarten, self-contained, etc.) 3. Community/work ou@ngs. In the transi@on program this is part of our instruc@on, but that automa@cally can create a higher risk for my students AND myself. 4. With that, ensuring our paras are safely suppor@ng students in following health and school safety guidelines, 5. How IEP and SDI will look next school year.

104 Staff Shorewood High A consistent schedule for students, staff and families. School A decision about what the schedule looks like ASAP so we can start to plan for next year. Secondary - uniform use of Canvas by all staff members to students and families know where to find things and check on assignments. Enough PPE for students and staff - I assume many students will bring their own but not all. Hand sani@zer was an issue last spring. Regular communica@ons to the parents about what is happening and why. Hot spots available to ALL students who need - we can't get close to equity without internet for all. Staff Shorewood High A plan for fall as soon as possible so there is @me to School create lesson plans which are assured will be different. Staff Shorewood High A plan moving forward. Authen@c teacher input (not School just a survey, but actually on the commiDee with a vo@ng voice) on an academic plan Authen@c teacher input (not just a survey, but actually on the commiDee with a vo@ng voice) on a reopening plan Staff Shorewood High Adequate training for online resources. Check in with School families providing them with help and support. Staff Shorewood High As a high school teacher, I mainly need to know that I would like the opportunity to get to know my students in School my students will have access to the technology they September, but if we then shij to remote instruc@on, it is need to engage in learning and higher expecta@ons for seamless. I would like clear expecta@ons delivered by engagement than what they had in the spring. Even if administra@on to all the teachers, parents and students. we return in the fall, some students will choose not to Allowing everyone to fend for themselves leads to decreased without a vaccine due to having a vulnerable family learning and frustra@on. I would like ONE mode of member. It will be very difficult to teach with a high communica@on that ALL teachers are trained on and use so absentee rate unless kids have: 1. Technology 2. that students are not looking at a bunch of different places to Expecta@ons that they MUST engage in order to earn a access their work. Again, high expecta@ons for both certain grade or credit. teachers and students will lead to a good school year regardless of what the state throws at us. Staff Shorewood High as a Sub, and Para one on one, I am wondering how no, just wai@ng to hear. I accidently filled out the District School this all will affect me and my employment with the employee survey first, before I realized this is the one I should Shoreline School District. fill out..

105 Staff Shorewood High As a teacher I need to feel that my safety and the School safety of my students is the utmost priority. When I hear the state say things like..."the young are beDer able to handle the virus, so being back in school shouldn't be an problem for them", or even not having all students everyday that discounts all of the adults that will be coming in contact with all of these students on a daily basis. I don't think it is ok to put one group of people at risk because another group is beDer able to handle a virus. On the flip side, if we are providing distant learning, students need it structured and schools need to require teachers to communicate to their students in the same format as every other teacher in the school. There needs to be some mandatory "in-person (zoom)" office hours at the same @me for each class weekly. Staff Shorewood High As close to a "normal" work day as possible. 7:15-3:15 I think the top priority needs to be focused on returning School young children to the classroom. Our future depends on it. Elementary age kids need the structure, social interac@on, accountability, and support of being in our buildings.

106 Staff Shorewood High As long as we are following health department In remote learning, students need opportuni@es to re-engage School guidelines, I am good to go. I am concerned about on a regular basis, like "restarts" every few weeks so there is students. We lost many students during the closure. If some hope about trying again. Many students told me they we're going to be "online," then offer at least some couldn't deal with the moun@ng lists of assignments and courses to every student that were designed to be emails, so they just stopped opening their chrome books online, such as ini@al credit APEX and/or SVL free or altogether. We need well-adver@sed points in @me that are charge. And allow students to take less classes at once. restarts, school-wide, and get all teachers on board to give 3 per quarter? Six classes done remotely, at the same "just try this one task" type direc@ves, vs. adding more and @me, is too much for most students/humans to more assignments for months. Quarter system would work manage. Courses should be self-paced with modules much beDer for remote learning. Less classes at once. A that are clearly laid out, so students know what to do staffing concern I have is that staff who feel comfortable and can pace themselves according to their own home being in the building will be burdened covering for staff who schedules/demands. It is not equitable or appropriate are working remotely. For example, I am a high school to expect home environments and parent(s) to support counselor. We have been slammed with the many academic, educa@on from home. Nor can students be expected to credit/grading, and mental health implica@ons of the closure. spend hours and hours every day learning by If I'm the only counselor comfortable or able to work in the themselves. Must keep it simple. Note: the disengaged building, I can't be expected to cover for everyone; I already students are not going to fill out these surveys, so the am spread very thin with my 350 students. thanks -- this is student input you're geyng will be from the engaged going to be tough planning work! so many details and ripple students. effects.

107 Staff Shorewood High Being able to provide SDI to students and what that I have felt very supported in my role as an SLP. School would look like--especially to students with severe- as well as, my SLP cohorts have provided great support profound handicapped. I do see being involved as a and grace with this COVID closure. I also have felt that specialist in the classroom seyng as an op@on--but it colleagues have stepped up in so many ways--even given would take a lot of coordina@ng with schedules for these challenging @mes. I worry a lot. And I know I am not each student on my caseload (over 35 for part-@me). I alone. I worry about what the future in educa@on holds for am concerned about @me management--and being on our students and the nega@ve impacts this school closure and screens too much (ie. siyng too much) as part of my disrup@on in their everyday social interac@ons with peers and job where I normally would be moving about. I am adults can have on them. I strongly feel that parents could also concerned about this with our students. In poten@ally "opt-out" of in-class educa@on. They could addi@on, a large concern of mine is the lack of ability homeschool through the HEE program if there are concerns for my students to socialize and that impact on social- about the risk of geyng the virus. The parents that are emo@onal growth at all age levels. comfortable having their student aDend in-class educa@on-- could sign a waiver (or consent) and agree to abide to all necessary safety precau@ons in order to keep people safe and less likely to contract the virus. Mandatory tes@ng/screening could also be done on a regular basis. I feel this could be a viable op@on for students to go back full @me--although it does not sound like this is possible, given the state guidelines. Overall, to me--the impacts of kids missing out on social interac@on is more of a nega@ve impact than possibly contrac@ng a virus that (most likely) will not effect someone longterm. Staff Shorewood High Clarity and guidelines. I can make anything work , I just I am worried that we are going back to in-person school too School need to know what it will be, so I can start preparing. soon because people want to get back to work and they need I am worried about the mental health of my students. us for childcare. This last year was really rough on many, we will all need extra support especially from counselors. Staff Shorewood High Communica@on with other classified staff and School standardized procedures to collaborate and establish expecta@ons and ability to work as a team.

108 Staff Shorewood High Direct consulta@on, coopera@on, and follow through. The above but with explana@ons: Direct consulta@on, School Par@cular needs for my space and job, including: • A coopera@on, and follow through. Par@cular needs for my hands-free way to operate the door of my public space. space and job, including: • A hands-free way to operate the • Some sort of barrier or subdivision of my space so door of my public space. I used to leave it open, but that that it is not all public. • Staff support--primarily, a would not be advisable in a pandemic. My door usually has second staff person to aDend & assist Zoom webinars 30 -160 people a day coming and going, all touching the door. & events. • Electronic support. Classified staff should • Some sort of barrier or subdivision of my space so that it is have all of the tools & resources that cer@ficated staff not all public. It is a large room that is also frequently used as do, plus help to create videos (my events serve the a shortcut, so there is no stopping point delineated, plus en@re student body, ojen a grade level at a @me). there are people coming and going using the shortcut who • Support for other needs as they arise. have nothing to do with my work. • Staff support. The survey ques@ons presume that all classified staff are under the direct supervision of a teacher, and that is not the case. In order to hold virtual office hours and hold events, I will need a second staff person to aDend & assist Zoom webinars & events. This spring, I drajed friends who work on staff. This works well because I know them, but is not sustainable since they have their own du@es and it is a lot to ask someone to tune in daily b/c there isn't an official assignment. BTW, the counselors will also need this so that they can have conferences. • Electronic support. Soon ajer the shutdown, I had to prac@cally make a case for having a Zoom account, which was ridiculous. Classified staff need to be given the same electronic tools as cer@ficated. The district seems to have an idea that all classified staff do is assemble materials or help students in the moment and that is SO far from the truth. [Way back when I started, I had to have my principal call the district to say that yes, I need a laptop. Basically, there is an established paDern of the district under-equipping classified staff.] This misconcep@on and prac@ce of shortchanging classified staff ends up adversely affec@ng students. We will need support if we want to hold webinars, office hours, create videos, and back one another up. Staff Shorewood High Distribu@on of art supplies is an important need next Distribu@on of art supplies is an important need next year. School year.

109 Staff Shorewood High Every student needs to have technology, a safe space School for schoolwork, internet access, structure but understanding and support. Special needs students need their support people. District employees with children in the district need flexibility scheduling. Staff Shorewood High For remote learning: - Tech needs met for EVERY School student & household in our district - Method of tracking student engagement and accountability - Agreement on uniform norms around assignment pos@ng and student/family communica@on For in person: - Willingness to think and do things outside the box to meet the needs of students during this unprecedented @me in terms of school day & year schedule, transporta@on, etc. - A face SHIELD instead of masks for teachers - so students can see & hear instruc@on clearly - Scheduling/Spacing so students can be an appropriate distance apart - Class set of small whiteboards & markers Staff Shorewood High Health & safety School Staff Shorewood High Health and safety To see my students in person once I don't know if I can really wear a mask all day long. I get so School or twice a week-but at the very least once a week To hot I get kind of dizzy and my glasses fog up! be able to give them supplies to work with when they are home

110 Staff Shorewood High I am a subs@tute (which is why I lej most of the survey If teachers are wearing masks, would it be possible to use a School blank) and I would be happy to help in any way that I mic in the classroom so students can hear us beDer? That can. Of course if there is an opening in chemistry, math may be a pie-in-the-sky idea, but it could be helpful, and it or physical science, I would love to be considered for would help students watching at home hear the audio beDer. the posi@on. But if not, I will fill in wherever I am needed. I can help other teachers tutor students or lead smaller groups to help them catch up with the material. I could help students with skills over the summer if there is a system for that to happen. If we are all wearing masks, and allowing students to either come to class in-person or see a video of the class from home, we may be able to serve students and keep the spread of COVID to a minimum. It may help if we dress warmly and keep some windows open to circulate fresh air.

111 Staff Shorewood High I feel able and willing to return to work if specific I am STRONGLY opposed to the no@on that high school School health protocols are in place and rigorously carried out. students should not be priori@zed to return to school in Temperatures taken upon entry and hands spray person. Adolescent development for the vast majority of sani@zed every day. Minimize exposure for extended students does NOT support asynchronous remote learning- periods of @me. Sani@zer all over the building, and students hated it, did not do well with it, and were very LOTS of soap, water keyed to stay on for 30 seconds depressed during this @me. Many students told me this. A warm water in bathrooms. Sani@zer sta@ons on way small handfull thrived with this system, but they were my into lunchroom. Flexibility about holding classes students with diagnosed clinical anxiety. Almost all students outside as needed and able with weather- spaced out really wanted to return to school and said that they could not in sec@ons. Dealing with Covid-19 is all about being maintain their mo@va@on and focus on their own at home. OUTSIDE as much as possible. I need to know Adolescents primarily learn through socialized interac@on Shorewood has a very strong air filtra@on system, and and processing- part on their own and part together. That is we may need AC within that for some of the @me. how their brains are working. So I am very alarmed at some We also need to know how we can have enough @me of what I hear at the state level about teenagers being able to and staff to run 2 versions of a single class, plus handle it on their own. They told me, in no uncertain terms, prepare for and communicate around remote learning. that this was really mentally difficult for them (the learning). I am concerned about the lack of staff. The building All learning in the fall, in person (if that happens) should should be providing lightweight high quality cool masks immediately be about suppor@ng and learning the protocols to staff- ajer test running them outside for student and systems to follow should we have to go all remote in checkins, I know my room will be far too hot to stay in winter (as most of us expect to do). The district should help with a mask on for 8 hours or more. We need one us understand the ONE UNIFORM SYTEM that is developed consistent messaging and pla[orm system- I think the for communica@on and learning, and we should go all out district should specify the communica@on tool for the with propaganda, essen@ally, to teach a uniform system that high school and enhance and enable this. I felt like I families and students will understand when we have to go all had to send a version of everything to try and reach remote again, prior to vaccine. We should have GRADES, just a frac@on of the popula@on. We need to norm it. and LIVE CLASSES WHERE WE GET TO PROCESS CONTENT- the We also need the ability to call families without using lack of rigor this spring was a real disappointment, and felt our personal cell phones. If we are at school, this strange. Students wanted rigor, but also could not mo@vate should help on this point. High schools should be themselves. The district MUST PROVIDE ONE LAPTOP PER using the Module system to guide learning. STUDENT in the district and enough hotspots for ALL, from the get go. I wonder about the responsibility of the city of Shoreline to assist with low income access to internet. I assume they are in discussions with you all about that. Broadband for all. Everyone should be VERY CLEAR about their role. I could definitely have used some paraeducators to support my work with students- one on one zooms and emails for support for IEP and 504 and other struggling students in my content classes. All staff should be very clear about their hours (even in flexible for some of it) and how 112 Staff Shorewood High I have concerns with working with the Special Needs School students and their habits of puyng fingers in their mouths, noses, etc. and then touching other people or things without always being able to use hand sani@zer or wash with soap and water. Staff Shorewood High I have health concerns that would preclude me from I realize that some students struggle comple@ng work at School risking exposure. I would also need clear direc@ons home. This has always been an inequity, however I also know from OSPI, and the district and building about that high expecta@ons benefit students. We set a very low expecta@ons for staff and students. I know it was new, bar this year. There also needs to be some accountability but I think the shijing philosophies ended up built into the system with flexibility for kids who struggle at detrac@ng from the at home learning. home Staff Shorewood High I hope that the school district is stocking up on A small percentage of my students who did not engage in at- School sani@zer and PPE because a lot of students will show home learning this spring were strong students that were just up to our classrooms and not have their own. Every choosing to pursue other worthwhile hobbies and interests. classroom will need extra sani@zer and PPE. They are capable of engaging in at-home learning and making good progress. However, most of my students who did not engage in the at-home learning this spring are probably the same students that REALLY need to be in a physical classroom with a teacher and peers in order to be engaged in learning. A good star@ng place for iden@fying students who need to be in a physical classroom with a teacher and peers is to look for kids who did not engage in the at-home learning and who also tend to struggle academically. Staff Shorewood High I just want to know a plan from the district so that I can School start preparing now for the fall. Not having a plan @ll August means that everything will be done at the last minute.

113 Staff Shorewood High I need to feel safe and have my students feel safe. I School need to be able to keep my family safe from anything I may bring home (I have an immune compromised husband.) I want to take into considera@on the various needs of students (economic, cultural, ethnic, social/ emo@onal, etc). I do not want to come back to full classrooms and early morning starts. Immune systems work beDer on rested bodies. I would hope we could have some online work that started later. I know this spring, my discipline was assigned 8am Monday morning zooms, and that was a disaster. I ended up having to hold mee@ngs outside of the normal assigned @mes to get anyone to aDend. I would like to discuss later start @mes even as an op@on for coming back in person. Everyone does beDer with more sleep. Staff Shorewood High I need to have a place to do my work. I need to be able Thank you for sending out this survey. I do hope that a School to use my classroom to prepare lessons. I do not have a representa@ve of all the voices, or as many as possible, are at place at home for this to happen and it highly impacts the table as you work through making these decisions. my ability to meet my students needs. I also would like PD on how to make my lessons more accessible to students who are not able to aDend school. Staff Shorewood High I need to know what I will be teaching in the fall as If we will be online at least some of the @me, I think that a lot School soon as possible. I need to know as soon as possible of work needs to be done among the teachers at my school what the plan is for the fall, so that I can feel prepared so that we can: 1. provide consistent structure to students, and not panicky. I need to feel that there is a clear in terms of where to find lessons, materials, instruc@ons, etc. system in place for me to express my concerns as we 2. ensure that students can focus on all of their courses, and move forward. that they have a balanced workload. As a World Language teacher, I saw that students felt that they needed to focus their work elsewhere, and that felt unfair to me. 3. communicate a consistent and fair policy around grading, late work, etc. Staff Shorewood High I really really really don't want to wear a mask 8 hours We're doing what we can under these very limi@ng School every single day, day in, day out. That is extremely condi@ons. I'm so @red of teachers not showing empathy to uncomfortable for me. students under so much stress from this situa@on. Most students (and teachers) need structure to their day, if they're to par@cipate and engage. We need structure!

114 Staff Shorewood High I teach students with disabili@es, and although we have It is very hard to teach social/emo@onal skills and adap@ve School a small number of students, and a large classroom, skills and take data on independence on many skills some of my students have 1:1 and some have a hard remotely. We need some face to face learning @me for these @me remembering not to touch their faces, covering skills. Some lessons can be taught via Zoom, but we will need sneezes and wearing masks. I would like plexiglass on some @me face to face. I am hopeful of having at least a the desks, and the ability for students to wear face hybrid week. It is also very hard for my students to take gen shields. I would also like to have a microphone to ed classes and be included with gen ed peers. assist with teaching. Staff Shorewood High I think it is impera@ve that each school present School communica@on to students/families, assign homework, and grade in a coordinated and standardized fashion. I felt like some teachers lej homework as op@onal or when it worked for students which works for some subjects but does not work for subjects that are sequen@al in nature. It was also really hard to feel like the educa@on provided was authen@c when there were no aDendance consequences or assessment op@ons that guaranteed students were doing their own work. Staff Shorewood High I will turn 64 this Fall and my wonderful wife will turn School 74 this Fall. My concern is safety. I'm not sure that I should be in a classroom. I do not wish to contract the virus and I certainly do not want to expose my wife to the virus. Staff Shorewood High I'd like to have a plan where we feel safe and we feel School confident about how things will go. This is difficult and unprecedented but I also think this crisis might teach us a lot about how students learn and might destroy old ideas (such as seat @me) which needed to be destroyed.

115 Staff Shorewood High If we do some sort of hybrid model of in person school School and at home learning, staff childcare needs are a big issue. Staff have children at home who will also be doing at home learning and therefore staff need to have flexible schedules to work at home as well. If a staff person's job responsibili@es allow for it, please considering giving as much flexibility to work at home as possible to reduce exposure opportuni@es. School counselors, family advocates, etc.. Staff covid related sick leave is a need to be increased. If we are poten@ally exposed, we need more sick leave availability to also allow for sick leave when we are sick. Staff Shorewood High I'm pregnant and would like op@ons for mee@ng with School students virtually from my office and understanding that face to face interac@ons be avoided if possible. I feel comfortable coming in and working from my office, but would like to limit who I see in person and handle things via phone and zoom when possible. Staff Shorewood High I'm the most concerned with next year's schedule -- if School my own elementary-aged children are on a different schedule than me, what do I do about day care? Staff Shorewood High Internet access for ALL families, and a device available School per student. Staff Shorewood High Knowing the kids are safe during their classes. Nothing that I can think of at this @me. Thank you for School everything! Especially the staff and directors for all they have managed since this began in March. You all have done an OUTSTANDING JOB. Staff Shorewood High Knowing the kids are safe during their classes. Nothing that I can think of at this @me. Thank you for School everything! Especially the staff and directors for all they have managed since this began in March. You all have done an OUTSTANDING JOB. Staff Shorewood High Knowing what is going to happen so we can think and Staff need to use common forms of communica@on, structure School prepare. of delivery of material, know that work done at home is not the same as if it was done in the classroom.

116 Staff Shorewood High Making sure that the student's needs are met first. I am worried about my health due to having an auto-immune School Making sure that those with compromised health disease. I worry that I may get infected and not survive. I issues, both students and staff, are being cared for or think remote learning is a good thing but also worry about thought of as to how they could become infected and the students being disciplined enough to want to do so perhaps fall very ill or die from this virus. This virus remotely. I am aware that this is a hard decision to make. spreads very fast and is deadly. Many of the staff members are the main source of providers for their family. It would be sad to see them being unable to care for their family because they contacted this disease. I am also worried about the fact that in the past few weeks we have seen how fast the virus has spiked soon ajer businesses have opened up. Will this happen in school as well? It could. Staff Shorewood High More regular communica@on from the District about School what the plans are, even if the answer is "we don't know yet". Staff Shorewood High More support tools for online learning for elec@ves. I I feel that if there is some form of online learning at the School feel that while there are ample online tools for general beginning of next year, there needs to be a clearer educa@on classes, elec@ve classes do not have as much expecta@onS communicated to students regarding support as far as provided resources. engagement. I think the bar was set really low and student engage was really poor. I had several students email me sta@ng that they were sa@sfied with their grade, and knowing that they could not drop, would not be par@cipa@ng in online learning. There needs to be a higher standard set. Addi@onally, I know equity is a huge concern, and I would like to see more informa@on about my students who may be struggling due to a lack of access to resources. It was difficult to disseminate which students were not engaging due to equity issues and those who just simply were not par@cipa@ng. Even in reaching out to students, they may not full disclose their struggles, so more help from counselors or other school officials would be useful.

117 Staff Shorewood High My most important needs are professional Focus on the most impacted students first. The students who School development with online tools. I am someone who will do fine in school tend to do just fine remotely. We need to research and learn on my own, but I need tech help focus more energy on the students who cannot learn during making my OWN materials for class. I don't want to remote learning. ELL students, students with 504s and IEPs, depend on other people's EdPuzzles, I want to make and other students with needs that make online learning my own. difficult. A place in the school for students to volunteer to come who know they can't do it at home. In regards to strict @mes- imagine the scenario with a teacher who has to teach between 8-9am and their own children have mandatory zoom at the same @me. Or the kids who have one space for class and the 8th grader and 11th grader have to be in class at the same @me. Who takes precedence? Staff Shorewood High My own kids and their educa@on and school I hope the work load of high school counselors is looked at if School aDendance. I need to make sure I can work and be we are learning virtually. This past spring high school there for them if they are at home. counselors really took on a lot. It was overwhelmimg at @mes. Staff Shorewood High Ongoing personal safety at work- working condi@ons. School Staff Shorewood High Online learning in the fall unless there is a required Puyng staff at risk is not ok. School vaccine in place. Staff Shorewood High Open schools 100%. The longer we go with this Open schools 100%. I am ready to fulfill my du@es as a staff School Lockdown, the more the disadvantaged, lower person as such. No restric@ons. socioeconomic, and students that lack mo@va@on, etc. will be falling behind. There is no science that suggests kids 0-18 are vulnerable to the virus, and those that are vulnerable in society already understand the parameters associated with their wellbeing and con@nued quaran@ne. Staff Shorewood High Probably some sort of tech-palooza to learn of beDer Please take every cau@on possible in making your decisions School ways to do distance learning. about next year. I have an 81 year-old with respiratory problems in my contagion group and I don't want to be the guy who killed grandpa. Staff Shorewood High Professional development around distance learning Some of these ques@ons didn't seem like they were designed School tools that will be used as a suite by teachers to for the staff. I hope you can s@ll get some good informa@on facilitate students receiving coherent instruc@ons from our responses. school-wide.

118 Staff Shorewood High Protec@on from contamina@on Cleaning between School classes How to safely interact in the school. Staff Shorewood High Reduced class sizes. My classes almost always do not The district needs to take into account the needs of all School have enough seats. 3 students share desks made for 2 children and what is best for them educa@onally, emo@onally right now. My class is always over crowded and and physically. Students need educa@on but if we mess up some@mes students have one on one help so there is the start of school we will stunt them emo@onally and even more bodies in the classroom. possibly physically by opening them up to illness in their families. Star@ng school a month later and then working into it slowly with staggered days and @mes over next 2 months then leaves us at the holiday break at the end of 2020. At that point a decision can be made on what the return to school ajer January 1 will look like. Maybe the schedule will then increase or maybe we find that no do to anything we have done we need to con@nue staggered days. The worse thing you can do as far as students and families is to tell them there is a set schedule then change it last minute. Lastly the biggest mistake of this school year was done when it was stated to do no harm and students grades can only increase. This really set a president to students and families that they did not have to do work unless they wanted an increase in grade. I understand the hardships of some students not having internet I fought to get my students internet but when they realized that they didn't have to do their work well that just wrecked it for any educa@on to happen. Maybe some select students need to have @me at school to catch up on work or to maintain a passing level. Please don't just reach out to teachers in a survey for informa@on take the effort to talk to individual teachers pull names from a hat just talk and see what works and doesn't for them. Do the same with parents and students don't look for volunteers randomly talk to parents and students. Staff Shorewood High Safety of students, staff, and families. Teachers at each school need to use the same pla[orm. It is School too difficult to figure out each of their 6 teachers systems for communica@on, accessing the lesson and assignments. Staff Shorewood High Safety. Focus on the stragegies of engaging students in Remote community building ac@vi@es explored. School aDending and succeeding, in remote learning.

119 Staff Shorewood High Small class sizes. OR small number of students in It will be important to coordinate my family's schedule IF my School classroom at a @me. Find a good way to connect with children are also staying at home for remote learning with my students individually or in small groups for remote work schedule so that they are not home alone. learning. TIME?!! for 150+ students! Staff Shorewood High The tools and ability to do my job from home if If we return to the building I want to feel safe at school. Social School necessary. distancing absolutely necessary at this @me. Safety guards in place in public places in the school such as front office, counseling office, aDendance, etc. Clear and concise protocol on social distancing and strict policy for visitors in the building. Face shields, plexiglass shields for counter areas and visitor windows in public offices. Open the school for business later in August so we don't have visitors in the building. Have online registra@on so we don't have families coming in to register. Staff Shorewood High There needs to be a way to hold students accountable. One of the challenges was that we had no @me to prepare. School Many students were not mo@vated to work even if With all end-of-year targets removed, we were moving away they were able, because they knew they would not be from "school" rather than toward it. Hopefully if we need to graded. I understand that provisions need to be made recreate this in the Fall with the probability of restar@ng for those students that are unable to fully engage due school at some point, there will be more incen@ve to engage to their home circumstances, however perhaps a because we will have a more organized approach, and there waiver procedure would be a beDer way to handle will be the sense that we are working toward an eventual that. I am really hoping we can return to face-to-face goal/assessment, rather than just trying to keep students school in the Fall. I'm not sure how much more busy. I do believe the teachers put their hearts into teaching distance learning our students and staff can tolerate. and did the best they could, but I think many students saw it as busy work that they would never be held accountable for. Staff Shorewood High To be able to safely do my job. I NEED to keep my job School to support my family during these difficult @mes. I am my households ONLY source of income.

120 Staff Shorewood High To be respected as educators and not seen as Best of luck making the decisions. hDps:// School babysiDers - as in being the ones to care for others' www.washingtonpost.com/local/educa@on/schools-reopen- children so THEY can get back to some normalcy...our fall-coronavirus/2020/04/26/ health should not be put at risk for the sake of this just d60e2f62-85b3-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html because we are teachers. You have the Cal State system "Amid the planning, there’s plenty of skep@cism. Parents, in California going online for fall...making that tough teachers and administrators fear poli@cal pressure will force a decision in prepara@on for a second wave of the virus. return before it is safe. Some dismiss the social distancing You have some ins@tu@ons shuyng down in November ideas under considera@on as a joke, saying it would be nearly to avoid any chance of illness. We MUST be crea@ve impossible to prevent virus transmission in a school. “ with the tough decisions that need to be made - be it a 'What I’m really worried about is this false sense of safety,' hybrid model; be it working into next summer if need said Andrea E. Smith of Haverford Township, Pa., a suburb of be. Maybe half of a class of students (speaking high Philadelphia, who has a son in second grade and a daughter school here) are grouped in cohorts and stay in one in nursery school. Even with fewer students in a school, she classroom and teachers come in and out of that said, 'it just takes one person” who is sick to infect others. space...keeping things contained more. I'm not sure. I Mae Winter, who has a kindergartner and a fijh-grader in know it'll be hard to figure out and not everyone will Seminole County Public Schools in Florida, is considering be happy, no maDer what. My main concern is feeling puyng her children into the county’s virtual school in the fall. that my own health is respected when these decisions Her husband is immunocompromised, and she ques@ons are made, and that decisions are not just made whether there is any safe way to bring hundreds of children because of community need or outcry. I want to see and adults back into a school. 'How do I send a kid to a my students in person. I miss them, and learning is school with 700 other children and so many faculty, staff, much beDer that way, for sure. But definitely not at the teachers, aides, volunteers in and out, and s@ll ensure that his expense of my own health. exposure is minimal to none? I can’t. It’s impossible,' she said." Staff Shorewood High To know what I'm teaching next year. I can't do ANY In considering the fall op@ons, please take into account the School planning without that informa@on. I also can't plan for @me that is needed for online instruc@on. Teachers can't be the fall un@l I know if it will be in person or con@nue expected to do the 'normal' in class instruc@on for students online. Please make these decisions as soon as who CAN come to school AND online instruc@ons for those possible so we can move forward. who want/need home instruc@on. Also, this survey was confusing. The first few ques@ons were really wriDen for students - at least it seemed that way. I have no idea what worked for students (an Email from me vs single contact from school). Seems like the teachers should have a different set of ques@ons. What ways did we try to connect with students? What systems had the best results? One more thing - please come up with a DISTRICT grading policy if we con@nue online instruc@on. Leaving it up to buildings, or departments, or even PLC's leads to equity issues.

121 Staff Shorewood High We need a decision on the model that we will use for We need to get going on plans to do what needs to be done School student return. It can't wait un@l August. We should be to bring students to school. A model, a structure for safety, willing to do something different dependent on level. an structure and plan for shuyng down, etc. Staff Shorewood High We need to have plans in place for each scenario In general, thank you for the support and grace you provided School instead of wai@ng for OSPI or DOH to come out with us. We would appreciate the ability to have more teacher more detailed guidelines. The wai@ng for guidelines input into future designs (and I understand this may be this spring really caused SPS to get off to a rocky start happening over the summer). But even if unknown scenarios for online teaching and was very confusing to staff and arise next fall, please keep the lines of communica@on open families. to the staff. Neighboring districts took the @me to educate and involve staff in what was going on, but we had radio silence from the district for weeks. Then, as a parent in the district, I got email updates BEFORE I got my staff email update (which did not provide any more informa@on as to expecta@ons of what staff would provide for students). It was beyond frustra@ng. Your staff wanted to help and needed more communica@on and support during that @me. Someone at the district needs to facilitate common language and expecta@ons between the high schools, between the middle schools and among the elementary schools. We would hear very different messages from each school around grading, expecta@ons, agreed upon deadlines for student work for the semester, etc. Staff Shorewood High Working as a one to one paraeducator, safety to my School students and myself is very important. Staff Syre Elementary Ability to manage students in behavior programs while Concerned about not hearing much about how the District being Covid safe. plans on addressing behavior classrooms with students who will not wear masks and regularly spit on staff and other students and do not recognize any social distancing. Also, rou@nely, these students require staff to use Right Resonse measures to keep them and others around the safe, this means staff needs to safely restrain or remove individuals from situa@ons. None of these prac@ces are within Covid guidelines.

122 Staff Syre Elementary Adequate PPE especially for me to do my job; maintain Concerned about students who don't have support at home strict guidelines on student/staff health; discourage in to do on line learning; parents who are working and unable person mee@ngs face to face (e.g., staff mee@ngs), to have an extended working/school rela@onship with their SSTs, etc. Doing individual small group sessions I child, being able to assess a student's produc@on without would need some kind of barrier in addi@on to masks significant parent influence; being able to measure student's so students can see my face. performance Sufficient support in technology before having expecta@ons from staff to perform on line teaching. I believe during the unexpected school closure everyone did their best given the situa@on. I just hope the public realizes that it isn't like turning on a switch...so much more is involved with on line learning. The @me to produce the videos and comment on student work is overwhelming. Staff Syre Elementary As a librarian, my needs are understanding how specialists will fit into the school schedule. I hope that, when you are planning how school will look in the fall, you take @me to meet with us to let us have a voice in that planning process. Staff Syre Elementary CLARITY and frequent COMMUNICATION from district/ Communica@on is cri@cal! I have so many ques@ons that will instruc@on. Students of color held at the center of impact my teaching - Will I be geyng desks? Can I design my any/all opening plans. A decision made soon, so own units? Can students use a classroom library? What there is TIME to plan (for teachers and families). about shared math materials? If we are remote, can I teach Apps/tools to teach remotely (that might not be free from my classroom? The sooner we have answers, the anymore) (ex. Peardeck, digital whiteboard, Epic, sooner we can imagine how our classrooms will run. The not ability to add extensions to Chrome). Teachers to knowing is really hard. Expec@ng teachers to get informa@on teach remote students who DO NOT want to come on August 20th and then be ready to welcome kids 2 weeks back. I can't do both. Permission to zoom one on one later is impossible. Please make a plan and communicate with students/families. soon!

123 Staff Syre Elementary Communica@on and the importance of students being Seesaw worked well but there were some families that just able to loop with teachers if possible. didn't want to use online learning. An alterna@ve plan beDer than the one we had should be developed for these families. There also needs to be considera@on for families with mul@ple children if we are looking to alternate days. Parents indicated frustra@on from the early rollout and as a result gave up by the @me it was under teacher control. Teachers need to have the ability to adapt as needed for their students and individualize for students via small group Zoom mee@ngs or even one on one. Students who were behind and receiving LAP services would have benefited from small group zoom mee@ngs but instead were lej to clicking links. The whole process was not equitable to teachers. Specialists did not have the work load or responsibili@es that classroom teachers had. Classroom teachers should not be required to use their own spoDy internet and programs should be easily downloaded to computers for support of online learning. The IT department is fantas@c but were limited in their ability to support in a @mely manner. Ojen the classroom teacher had to troubleshoot IT issues for colleagues and parents. Students having mul@ple type devices in one classroom made it difficult for teachers to support (some students had iPads and others Chromebooks.) Wri@ng/typing for students was very difficult on iPads. Staff Syre Elementary Considera@on for high-risk popula@ons (immune Please don't penalize those in the high-risk category. compromised). Staff Syre Elementary Ensuring the health and safety of all staff Staff provided with protec@ve gear when in contact with students and other staff Mandatory use of masks, gloves, face shields, wipes by all staff Safe area when assessing students 1:1 - shields, gloves, approriate assessments if manipula@ves are not able to be used ( for ESA Staff) Staff Syre Elementary Geyng my students back into the classroom in some capacity be it full or part @me. Staff Syre Elementary Having a coach and PD to support all of my new We need more support learning.

124 Staff Syre Elementary Having the resources to con@nue on line teaching. Keeping the kids accountable, with strict aDendance of when they log in and exit @cket expecta@ons. Staff Syre Elementary Health and safety of all students and staff. Ensuring that there are equitable solu@ons in place for all students to access what they need to be successful. A focus on the social and emo@onal learning of students over purely academic content. Staff Syre Elementary I am a behavior technician in the BLS program at syre. It was a very tough semester but I think a por@on of our We are expected to keep kids apart for safety in a students did beDer than expected. I do think "required" regular school year. Our popula@on has a hard @me online @me would be beDer for the future because I heard with maintaining space in a "typical" day. Many of our from parents that they hated being the enforcer and wished students will have issues with keeping face masks on or for more "requirements " from teachers to take some of the hands away from their faces or peers. If they need to burden off parents. add "no face coverings" into IEPs that will change how staff and other students may be affected by them. As a tech we have to put hands on to escort or help students maintain safety for themselves and others, I'm so unsure how this will work in a social distancing classroom. While doing online learning we rarely had to deal with behavior and had students who were "beDer" behaved during learning @mes. Unfortunately we had a harder @me geyng more students to even par@cipate. More "showed up" to in person than online. I made weekly phone calls to families and I enjoyed the connec@on during that @me when families were willing to par@cipate in that. Staff Syre Elementary I am the Lead at before and ajer care and we need to Keep Extended care in mind. Parents need child care. The have the same COVID-19 prac@ces and space to service community needs us our children. Parents need us. The children need us! Staff Syre Elementary I simply want to do my part in whatever the school district needs in reopening the school in the fall. If there is any way we can return for school in the fall, I believe we should take the necessary steps to ensure that reality.

125 Staff Syre Elementary I think it is important to provide as much stability as I feel confident in adjus@ng in-person instruc@on to address possible during this uncertain @me. I would rather my students needs as long as we have a scope and sequence build a strong and well thought-out distant learning map to follow district wide - This is what we do and have plan than go back to school and be disrupted by been trained to do as teachers. In the case of full-@me online closures and changes of plan due to poten@al new learning I need clear structures and expecta@ons to be spikes of outbreak. I need to see STRONG district-wide communicated to us teachers first and then to families. protocols to feel safe to return in ANY capacity. Please talk to teachers - not just TOSAs in planning what this However, these strong protocols will be detrimental to will look like. Us teachers tried and learned SO MUCH this a thriving learning environment. I want us to be spring. Doing a hybrid of in person and online will take an innova@ve in our approach and take this huge immense amount of planning and inten@onality. This take disrup@on as a chance to rebuild in a more equitable @me. Crea@ng online learning content is extremely @me way. As a mom to two young children, I am trying to consuming. Please be reasonable in your expecta@ons. I have balance the health and safety of my own family and heard the idea live-streaming in class learning for students at serving my students in the best way possible. home and I am having a hard @me imagining this. We will be managing all the health protocol of social distance, mask wearing and hand washing with kids who are with us live - this is will be disrup@ve to any kind of cohesive learning for the students are tuning in from home. Staff Syre Elementary I think requiring students to wear masks is unrealis@c, I appreciate the work and effort that is being done at the especially the popula@on that I teach and support. In district level to determine what is best for our students, addi@on, social distancing seems incredibly difficult in families and staff. It's not an easy task but please know that an elementary seyng, especially the younger ages. your work is appreciated. Even when we don't have to social distance, we are constantly reminding students that they need to keep their hands and feet to themselves. I teach a specific popula@on of students, and I think that being able to provide consistency and structure is cri@cal so I encourage the district to choose a model that they can consistently follow.

126 Staff Syre Elementary If in the fall, there is a plan for some remote learning, I Remote Learning was a tremendous amount of work and I would like to see increased tech support for teachers. worked many more hours than contracted and even more Some@mes, there was a need to get some support but than a usual year. I feel proud, however, of our district for the it was challenging to get it because everyone was so plan they were able to put in place in rela@vely short order. busy. It would be nice if the librarians could add While some other districts reacted more quickly in some technology office hours. The hours that were available instances, I think there were some issues and missteps. I during the Spring, were during my class mee@ng @me. appreciated the though[ul plan that was employed. I feel like It would be nice if they could offer more than one @me. we were able to support our students as best we could. I felt With all the lessons generated, I am not sure how a real partnership with parents and also felt that they did much my students were accessing the library lessons. their best to support student learning. I was treated with Also, it is going to be so helpful to have clear grace and understanding, as I struggled through one of the informa@on, as soon as the district is able to outline, to biggest learning curves I have encountered in my teaching ar@culate exactly what the plan is. Teachers need to career. I also appreciated the flexibility of allowing teams to have an understanding about what the delivery of work together to provide lessons at the building level. I felt instruc@on will look like so they can begin to gain a the students were far more engaged when the face supplying conceptual picture of the instruc@onal model. If there the instruc@on, was a familiar one. While district level lessons are major shijs, let us know sooner rather than later, were good and I appreciated them. I think that student so that we are able to adjust and plan. engagement increased when they recognized the instructor. Staff Syre Elementary Knowing if paras will even have a job next year, BLS students need to be in their own building because they knowing if it is expected that we go to full days with all don’t understand social distancing or keeping a mask on and students or if we would do par@al days with some expel too many bodily fluids on to people, class sizes need to students. be a lot smaller in order to keep social distancing, paraeducators need a reasonable assurance for next year, knowing what recess and the lunchroom will look like Staff Syre Elementary Lots of windows and doors will need to be open for Hope we can somehow keep people healthy. There will need fresh air. Or could we have some groups or classes to be more flexible sick @me so that people are encouraged outside? I haven't been inside a crowded space with to stay home if they are sick. anyone outside of family for a long @me so that will take some adjustment. Being outside is good. Most families are now connected to online learning so keep that going con@nuously even if some in person. Recognize that these are unusual @mes so there will need to be flexibility. There needs to be sinks for hand washing and ways to get drinking water. Staff Syre Elementary My own children's school schedules and how that will impact my availability for work.

127 Staff Syre Elementary My posi@on some@mes requires that I come into physical contact with students for safety reasons. I need to feel confident that the district has created a work environment for me where I am not at a higher risk of infec@on than other district employees. Staff Syre Elementary Plan a, b, and c for the fall so i can best be prepared. Thank you for asking BUT I really hope we have a commiDee A joint commiDee of teachers, director, transporta@on, working THIS July to prep. I know we all need a break but food services, maintenance, and building admin there is a lot of work to plan for a full return, a par@al return, working on each plan. To know by August 1- the plan or being at home. I am here to help! for September 1. Communica@on from district officials about my work for the summer to help plan and prepare. Specific contact people once a plan is in place to answer ques@ons. Staff Syre Elementary Staying healthy and being updated with new informa@on about the next school year. Staff Syre Elementary The most important need at this @me is to know our Please give us a plan soon. I know staff and community District's plan sooner, rather than later. I would like to members need to start planning for child care if we do go know whether I should be planning for remote learning back in the Fall. or in person learning. The unknown is not seyng myself/future class up for success. To have a meaningful and inten@onal school year, I need to know the plan. I think educa@on can change for the beDer and we can con@nue to be innova@ve. However, if we are only given a week or two no@ce, it is going to be the same chao@c learning curve we had in March. My most important need for the fall is social distancing. Even while dropping off report cards and end of the year supplies, social distancing s@ll seemed limited. I am concerned about the social/emo@onal health of our youth. However, I am also personally worried about the pandemic and spreading it to older family members and the community in general.

128 Staff Syre Elementary Working with special ed. students in a behavior program is very dificult remotely. Even if the rest of the school is working remotely, I believe the BLS team should meet in school. Being able to encourage and engage the child is very difficult remotely. Most of the learning issues is work avoidance and geyng them to remotely log in and work is almost impossible with this popula@on. It is too easy for them to avoid the work by not logging in. I struggle to see how my role would be relevant if we are not mee@ng in person next year. Staff Syre Elementary I am a BT in a special educa@on self-contained behavior classroom and am unsure how we will maintain CDC guidelines with this par@cular popula@on. Close proximity to students is a common strategy to manage behaviors and some@mes a necessity if students become escalated. We will need extra training or guidance on how to keep staff and students safe during in-class learning. Staff Syre Elementary I work in food service so most of the ques@ons do not apply to my job. If at all possible to have a survey for employees who do not work so directly with students and staff. Student Briarcrest .in person teaching Elementary Student Briarcrest A plan that does not change every week. Consistency is Allow kids to go to school again even if that means holding Elementary key for families. classes outside. Invest money in canopies and take advantage of the great outdoors of the PNW instead of inves@ng in distance learning tools. School online DOES NOT work. Human contact is needed. Move school outside, weather permiyng. Kids build immunity by being outdoors, not by breathing germs through a mask. Student Briarcrest A teacher to teach in class lessons, seeing friends, and Elementary going to the school building. Student Briarcrest A way to be with my friends. Elementary Student Briarcrest be with my friends In person conversa@ons Elementary

129 Student Briarcrest being with my friends Elementary Student Briarcrest being with people. I really miss being with friends. Elementary Student Briarcrest Friends talk face to face Elementary Student Briarcrest Going back to school in person. Elementary Student Briarcrest I do not have any needs. Elementary Student Briarcrest I don’t really have any Elementary Student Briarcrest I had a hard @me staying focused not being in the Elementary classroom with my friends and teacher. It was hard for my parents to spend a lot of @me helping me during the week because they both worked from home. I really miss school a lot! Student Briarcrest I learn best at school with my teacher helping me. I Please let us come back to school. Elementary miss my friends and sports. Student Briarcrest I need to be with my friends since i wanna be with Elementary them and school learning i wanna be in the classroom Student Briarcrest I needed mo@va@on. During this online school @me, I Elementary didn't have enough mo@va@on at the start of the week, but towards the end, once I had a liDle pressure, I can get my schoolwork done. Of course, I'm not allowed to do that will my parents, but it's something that worked. Student Briarcrest I want to be in school. Learning at home is too hard. Elementary

130 Student Briarcrest If school is distance learning again, I would like to have If we go back to school in the fall, but I have to stay in my Elementary the zoom mee@ng to be more than teaching how to log classroom all the @me and I don't get to play with my friends, in. I would like them to be an actual lesson of school I'm going to be really sad. Because that will kind of feel like stuff. I also miss my friends, so I would like more social what I have at home, except I know my friends are really ac@vi@es to be available online - maybe some online close. class games?. Or even pass out contact informa@on, since I don't always know how to get in touch with my friends. Student Briarcrest If we do home learning I would like to have it where Elementary the whole class is together over Zoom. We have some @me to talk and connect with our friends and teachers. Then, we do work and instruc@on all together. I think I will learn beDer that way by a lot. Student Briarcrest If we go back to school masks should be required and I dont think having masks on k-4 graders is going to be Elementary so should constant sani@za@on. possible. Student Briarcrest In person instruc@on. learns best from being in Individual zoom @me would be helpful, to stay connected and Elementary the classroom and needs to see her friends. engaged. Student Briarcrest in person learning Elementary Student Briarcrest In person learning!!! I feel strongly that as long as children and staff are masked Elementary and there is ac@ve cleaning and hand sani@zer available they should be safe to return to school. Student Briarcrest It is my great hope that kids can go back to school If online learning is necessary, I think all kids should be on the Elementary safely in the fall. I don't feel confident telling you same device and that all teachers are using the sojware in what's most important to our family, you need to make the same way. This online learning feels like a totally new skill choices that are the safest and best for most. I am set and some teachers were beDer at it than others. I hope hopeful my kids can con@nue with the ac@vi@es they kids don't miss out on learning because of where teachers are love (band) and that the school days are predictable. at with their use of the tools. Our experience was preDy good, but very different between my two kids. Student Briarcrest Making sure there is concern for social distancing and Elementary masks but at the same @me do in-person learning that is actually good. Student Briarcrest Mandatory video recording of step by step If teachers have Office Hours, they don't take phone calls Elementary instruc@ons/lessons. Packets that are consistent with during that @me. what the teacher is teaching for that week. Students can log on to applica@ons on devices for extra work!

131 Student Briarcrest More interac@on with the teacher not videos. Being in the dual language program all her videos were in Elementary dismiss with no transla@ons. We are not a Spanish speaking him so watching videos were moot with Closed cap@on or transla@on. At least in class the teacher can gauge student understanding Student Briarcrest My most important needs are athle@c ac@vi@es, seeing Elementary friends and ability to access online learning. Student Briarcrest my most important needs at this @me is a good Elementary educa@on Student Briarcrest My parent's support or something like that. Elementary Student Briarcrest Need friends Elementary Student Briarcrest No salir Si sales lavate las manos y si puedes bañarte y lava los Elementary alimentos Student Briarcrest None Elementary Student Briarcrest Not having the same teacher as this year. Being able to Elementary see my friends. Student Briarcrest Nothing much, but if school doesn't restart (in person) No thank you. Elementary this fall, I would like to have mee@ngs more frequently. Student Briarcrest nothing. I want there to be a vaccine before we start school in person. Elementary Student Briarcrest Physical ac@vity, some social interac@on, structured Elementary schedule. Student Briarcrest Seeing friends and playdates at Ajer-care. Elementary Student Briarcrest Social interac@on Thank you for considering what the students and parents feel Elementary and would like to see in the fall! Student Briarcrest socializing not having Mom as teacher vaccine health Should be some 1 on 1 communica@on with teacher, we had Elementary and safety school none. Student Briarcrest Staying safe. Elementary Student Briarcrest To be with my friends and be social. Elementary

132 Student Briarcrest To be with my friends and to wear masks if we go back Elementary to school. And it’s way easier for me to learn at school than on seesaw. Cuz seesaw is just hard because I can’t see the teacher in person and I have no friends or teachers to help me except my mom. And if I had 2 wishes it would be to go back to school and see my friends. And one on my friends named and she is one of my best friends ) I haven’t been able to see her since school canceled. It’s just really really really really really hard to stay home and do school work at home so please open school back up and don’t separate the classes and only let sertain kids come back to school - Student Briarcrest to be with my friends in step two of reopening. thank I would like that most of the elec@ve classes like music and Elementary you for leyng me have my say. art are offered at school. Also, I would like that Extended Care is offered, too, because some people need it because their parents can't pick them up right ajer school. I really loved going to ajercare with is amazing and she works really hard at making things fun for me and other children. I really miss Briarcrest like it was before Covid. I would really like if you could do everything you can to make it like it was, with the safety precau@ons needed. Student Briarcrest To go to school and see my friends Elementary Student Briarcrest Trying to learn from home was too hard. My mom tried Elementary to help me and work at the same @me. I don't feel like I learned anything new. I really missed my friends. I wasn't ac@ve. I love school for so many reasons. I want to back next year. Student Briarcrest Zoom mee@ngs are a good idea but my child found them Elementary stressful. Also, it was hard to keep my child mo@vated to learn when he knew that all the work wasn't being graded. Student Brookside Ability to connect directly to my teacher via e-mail. I miss being with my friends, my teacher, and learning in Elementary Geyng to talk to my teacher in person. Seeing my person. friends. Make sure I don't fall behind on my grade level.

133 Student Brookside Accountability will homework Elementary Student Brookside Always need to where mask or protec@ve gear around Elementary people. Student Brookside As of safety, I will feel safe going to school when my I was really looking forward to cross country and track and I Elementary teachers do, and when there are some safety measures was wondering if we could s@ll do the ajer school clubs, put in. I think I will need stricter due dates and @mes to maybe they could split up the number of people in them. keep me on task and focused. I would like zoom calls if Also, I want to see my friends, and talk with them and stuff, we are s@ll doing everything online, and I want the so maybe s@ll some social @me. teachers to be teaching during some of them. Student Brookside Be with my friends Elementary Student Brookside Being able to interact with people in person. Elementary Student Brookside being with my teacher and my friends and in person I miss you all! Elementary lessons Student Brookside Choice is good. Students/families who want to go to Elementary school do. Those that don't, don't. Maybe there are a couple of cool/new homeschooling op@ons. Or mixed school/homeschooling op@ons. Want to see friends and hang out/not get rid of all the fun parts of school. If we can't have elec@ves/ac@vi@es/lunch/hang out @me whats the point. I think there should also be choice with vaccine. I don't think we should be forced to get vaccine that hasn't been tested on kids. Student Brookside Clear instruc@ons Working links Elementary

134 Student Brookside Defined expecta@ons - what are the requirements for Consider keeping the grade groups together vs spliyng Elementary the core subjects. The printed packets were clear and classes if you go to an a/b schedule. concise. We knew what 4/6 math sheets needed to be completed per week, etc. Centralized site for learning - Having too many pla[orms and suggested websites was overwhelming and confusing with various passwords, etc. Simplis@c turn-in site for work. Seesaw wasn't a great experience. Zoom calls with smaller groups. The large groups didn't facilitate connec@ons and kids got lost in the mix. My 2 kids did not like the zoom calls. The computers were nice, we appreciate having one per kid. Student Brookside Food ,water ,health,fun Not that I can think of Elementary Student Brookside Friends. Elementary Student Brookside Geyng the right amount of work and being able to do Elementary the work that we would regularly be doing in school Student Brookside Having siblings be at school for the same schedule. Bus Having math being taught on live video for ques@ons and Elementary transporta@on spacing... siyng with siblings, answers. A less overwhelming list of things to accomplish at cleanliness of the bus, masks to be worn always home. Or the easiest items to be completed at home. Making it really clear to parents what's needed to be done at home and when it's due. Student Brookside I don't know. I want to see my friends. I want to get back to class. Elementary Student Brookside I need more @me to read problems and math. I wold like to have more in person instruc@on. Elementary Student Brookside I really don’t have any needs. I’m not worried about coronovirus Elementary Student Brookside I really, really, really want to go back to school. Online I want to go back to school in the fall. Elementary learning does not work. I need to be in a classroom learning.

135 Student Brookside I think that equal access to learning is most important. I have two children, one just finished 4th grade and one just Elementary I do not think that equal access is achieved with the finished kindergarten. Both of their teachers provided learn at home model. I think that the burden on weekly assignments. The 4th grade teacher did not respond families to meet the learning expecta@ons to emails I sent with ques@ons regarding turning in dispropor@onately affects families that do not have assignments, or zoom mee@ngs. The kindergarten teacher child care needs met and are required to con@nue was great at responding to emails. working either out of the home or in a home. Childcare needs and face to face instruc@on is more of a necessity for families with younger children. Student Brookside I want to go back to school without a face mask. This is I hate face masks.They are stuffy,annoying,and hard to talk Elementary more of a strong want than a need, I'd rather have through. One of the most important things about school are everyone get what they need. I think we need to have my friends. Even if we have masks, a socializa@on period strict protocalls, but have flexcible social @me. would be nice Student Brookside I want to see my teacher and friends and be in person I would like to be back at school in person and be with my Elementary in fall and be at school and not wearing a mask! friends. Student Brookside I would really like in 5th grade is - fun breaks like Elementary art - fun things to look forward to the next day or later that day - friend interac@ons - choose who is in your class. This would help being comfortable with the students who are in your class so gems and cleanliness Student Brookside It would be helpful to have a 2nd laptop from the Elementary school district. I shared one with my 7th grade brother this spring. I didn't have a lot of work, but I some@mes had to wait to get my own stuff done because he had several classes to work on. Some@mes kids talked to too much during our zoom class session when I wanted to listen to the teacher. Maybe parents could watch how their kids act during these calls to be sure everyone can focus. Student Brookside keep hand sani@zer in every class Elementary

136 Student Brookside Knowing that I will be safe from COVID-19 at school. I had a hard @me not being able to ask ques@ons of my Elementary Having teachers that are nice and kind. Learning help teacher when I was trying to learn something or do my from school. Having teachers teach me, not from homework. I have a struggle with math both at home and at videos; Zoom classes instead of video classes/Google school so a good math teacher who explains stuff well would Classroom. I would like no more Google Classroom. be nice. In the past I have had anxiety to ask ques@ons in class so it is some@mes hard to focus in classes that I do not comprehend. Extra math help would be amazing if that could be possible. During my classes I use puDy or a squishy that is @ny that I keep out of sight to help me focus so hopefully that is ok to use at Kellogg? Thank You. Student Brookside Learn English Elementary Student Brookside Missing friends and teachers Elementary Student Brookside My child misses her friends and craves socializa@on. I Elementary also am worried that she is not adequately prepared for the next year -- math, reading and wri@ng were done at home but I doubt we accomplished what was needed to be at grade level. The concern lies in that the lack of grade level learning will accummulate over the year. Student Brookside My child needs some level of in-person contact with I think a combined in person and home school approach Elementary other kids and with teachers. I, as a parent, also need would be fantas@c. Whatever you come up with I have for her to be instructed by a teacher who is trained to confidence that you're doing the best you can to keep do that. I wasn't raised with common core math and everyone's needs and safety in considera@on. This is an have a hard @me teacher that methodology to her. She unprecedented situa@on, keep up the good work. also just misses the social aspect and rou@ne of going to school. Student Brookside My most important needs at this @me are teacher-lead Elementary instruc@on and being able to work with my paraeducator so I can learn the technology and use hands-on manipula@ves (graphs models etc) like I would use in class. Student Brookside My most important needs at this @me is a vaccine Nope. Elementary ( depending on what the side effects are ), because my father is high risk.

137 Student Brookside No need. I can get really scared when people at school would get sick Elementary with COVID-19. Student Brookside Nothing much just an@ boredom stuff Elementary Student Brookside playing with my firends I would like to know that I miss my friends and drawing at Elementary school Student Brookside Seeing friends again. Elementary Student Brookside Social contact with friends. I wish people cared more Elementary about COVID-19 and how serious it is. Student Brookside That if we are going to go to school this fall. Elementary Student Brookside That we have either a) in-person instruc@on (within I was very disappointed with the 6th grade curriculum (or Elementary limits to ensure health and safety) or b) that if we lack there of). The teachers seemed to basically "check out" cannot go back, or have to stop aDending school later and then said they weren't able to do anything due to District in the fall, that our classroom teachers are ready to restric@ons. We had one 30 minute Zoom call per week, but teach online. I was shocked at how long it took the that had no instruc@on from our classroom teacher. I think District to get up and running. All teachers should be that was the cri@cal missing piece. While I care a lot about required to be trained over the summer. What is equity, it felt like Shoreline erred on the side of doing very most important is that the District NOT subs@tuted liDle in the name of equity. I think that lack of structure and canned videos for actual teaching. Canned videos are resources- lack of checking in with students and families that not teaching. We need to u@lize our teachers and their may need extra assistance- actually adversely impacts equity skills. We need to use every day live check-ins to make a lot. Kids that could afford supplementary resources - tutors, sure we are keeping track of all kids. paid sojware- were able to get it when it became apparent that the District wasn't going to be providing live instruc@on. I hope that next year, with the benefit of planning, there is an expecta@on for kids to aDend and to do the work. How about having the teachers host 2-3 "classes" a day with the same lesson (understanding that not all families have the same schedule). If a child doesn't show up for any of the scheduled mee@ngs, have the teacher or school counselor contact the family so that some children don't get lej behind. Many of us came to this District in large part for the schools. Frankly, it was very disappoin@ng to see the District's response. You have @me to course correct over the summer and I sincerely hope the administra@on takes it. Thank you.

138 Student Brookside To get back in the classroom. I love my mom but being I feel that my teacher checked out. this was hard and even Elementary around friends and playing is missed. harder when my teacher didn't seem to care. i did the work each and every week but it didn't seem to maDer because she wasn't checking the work and when we did meet she stated that she prefered being at home instead of with us in class. didn't make me want to do the work. but my mom sure did make sure that i did everything even though my teacher didnt care. really made me sad. Student Brookside to go back to school please let us go back to school. i miss school Elementary Student Brookside to have fun and learn so that I can have fun in the Nay as in no Elementary future. Student Brookside What is most important to me for going back to school Elementary - I think students should be able to choose who will be in their class. That way, you could make sure that you are with students who are clean and are less likely to spread the corona virus. - Breaks to help with concentra@on (ex. art breaks) - Something to look forward to everyday and/or the next day - Friend interac@ons - Lunch in classroom so we don't have to go to the lunchroom - Clean bathrooms frequently Student Brookside Chromebooks are too glitchy; was not helpful. Elementary Student Brookside Shoreline was far behind other school districts in Elementary implemen@ng and execu@ng the online learning. My students teacher stopped teaching them and had them follow lessons from other teachers. Henonly met with the class once per week and never had any individual contact. We would look at Prvate school if Shoreline does online learning again Student Brookside Yes, I think that if you had a mask on you would not need to Elementary social distance but if you didn't have a mask than you would need to social distance maybe 3-6 feet. Student Cascade K-8 a device to do school on Student Cascade K-8 A more helpful and beDer structured/more flexible learning system.

139 Student Cascade K-8 A set schedule and set curriculum. Online access and regular interac@on with teacher. Student Cascade K-8 Being able to meet new people and interact with I think this school year needs to be very flexible with the friends. given situa@on. Everyone is adap@ng and being flexible, so I strongly feel that if we don’t have a flexible school day kids will fail. Every home life style is different. Some people have more rough family’s and homes and a structured day won’t work for them. Others can choose to create their own structured day but it shouldn’t be required. Thanks so much! Student Cascade K-8 Being in the classroom Both of my parents were working from home and I need help with online learning. I didn't like online learning. Student Cascade K-8 Flexible due dates and consistent schedule for when assignments are given. Student Cascade K-8 For parents trying to work from home, the more flexibility the beDer! For older and more self managed children, I can see how a structured day would be helpful. But my 6th grader with adhd is not there! Special ed support was a life saver this year - thank you Student Cascade K-8 Friends Student Cascade K-8 good videos for instruc@on, daily work plan I like kahn academy beDer than the videos from school. They are beDer at explaining and the homework seems to relate beDer. Plus, it's easy to click a link to see the videos again if you don't understand a certain thing. Student Cascade K-8 I feel like when we come back most people in my class will want to have interac@ons with the rest of the class. I know that our last year of middle school will probably want to be spent with at least some interac@ons with our friends. Student Cascade K-8 I just need to be able to reach my teachers at all @mes Student Cascade K-8 I miss my friends, and I want more screen @me! Student Cascade K-8 I need extra hugs, like 2 hugs, from my parents before The remote PE videos didn't work for me (1st grader going to going to school. I need to see my teachers and friends. 2nd grade). Student Cascade K-8 I really need to be in class again. I have failed to learn Please do not require masks. No Masks. online.

140 Student Cascade K-8 I would really like to have a smaller class size, so there My mom is really nervous about Covid-19 and would love it if is a smaller risk. there is a really small chance of me catching the virus. Student Cascade K-8 It's hard for me to learn when I'm by myself. I need to be with a group or a teacher to not get distracted/ if i need help i can have it. Student Cascade K-8 Lessons, videos teachers make, and assignments Student Cascade K-8 More frequent live mee@ngs with teachers in large I am conflicted. I really miss my friends but I don't want to get groups and one on one. More lessons on all the s@ck or get anyone sick. I'm really worried the school will not technology tools. I did not really understand how to be able to make an the students behave safely. I don't want find my work and turn it in because it was a lot. to have to start school in person of there is a chance that school will shut down again. I would like to see homeschool made beDer. Student Cascade K-8 My friends. My learning. Home learning isn't working for me. I think students should bring their own lunches. Student Cascade K-8 My most important need is to be able to keep my family and self safe and healthy. Student Cascade K-8 My most important need right now is to have more academic learning in the zoom mee@ngs Student Cascade K-8 My most important needs are to be safe from COVID-19, but also s@ll have a normal school year. Student Cascade K-8 NOT DYING Presenta@on skills. We need more of them. Student Cascade K-8 not sure Student Cascade K-8 School Student Cascade K-8 Sports. Student Cascade K-8 stay healthy Student Cascade K-8 That we get back to school as soon as possible Student Cascade K-8 To be able to ask ques@ons when i am trying to learn new things Student Cascade K-8 It would be great to have Zoom's with teachers teaching class if we can't go into school Student Cascade K-8 Kami works good for reading and wri@ng, but not good for math. Teacher made videos worked good for math.

141 Student Cascade K-8 We lost my dad, my kid’s grandfather, to COVID-19. The likelihood that my children will return to school in the fall is very slim. We just ask that online learning be available and in person aDendance not be mandatory. Student Echo Lake "feeling like school is a safe place" more interac@on w "I'm ready to go back to school!" Elementary teacher especially in person Student Echo Lake A more long term plan of home learning or mix of As the parent, I appreciate the efforts of all the faculty to Elementary home and school learning. Opportuni@es for some maintain learning and contact with the students. COVID and social interac@ons with friends. Concerns about the lockdown were shocking to me. I’m very grateful for the availability and safety of Ajerschool programs in the materials provided. I also was helped by the lunch program. fall. While our family did not suffer from food instability, the variety was beDer in the lunches. Thank you! Student Echo Lake A vaccine for everyone, so we can go to school. Elementary Student Echo Lake Being able to see my friends and conact with the Elementary teacher. Student Echo Lake Being safe and not capturing diseases. Elementary Student Echo Lake Being with family and friends Elementary Student Echo Lake being with my freinds Elementary Student Echo Lake Being with my friends and actually seeing people in I really want to not be staring at a screen all day. Elementary person and connec@ng with people. Student Echo Lake Check in with councilor. I liked not having distrac@ons and be able to work hard when Elementary my brain was ready to learn. Student Echo Lake food water sleep i gess it would be nice to talk to Elementary friends in person but not really anything diffent then normol human needs Student Echo Lake Having good teachers who communicate Elementary Student Echo Lake having work to do Elementary

142 Student Echo Lake I just need to see my friends at school P.S. It Not really ! Elementary would be nice to be in class for once!!!!!! P.P.S. she is my best friend and we have never been in the same class before. Student Echo Lake I need more structure from the school for lessons and Elementary teaching. I am a healthcare worker and cannot be responsible for as much of the educa@on as happened during the closure. We also absolutely would need chrome books again. We don’t have enough laptops for our three school age children. Student Echo Lake I need to make sure I understand everything that my Elementary teacher assigned. I also need to be able to contact people that I care about. Student Echo Lake I need to prac@ce speaking in English. Elementary Student Echo Lake Learning in school environment , being with friends, I'm looking forward to go to school in person. Elementary sani@zing, washing hands ojen, health screening. Student Echo Lake Mi necesidad mas importante es mi estudio Hasta cuando podría ver a todos mis amigos maestros y Elementary compañeros de la escuela. Student Echo Lake Probably being with my friends and making sure that I Elementary learn what I have to learn Student Echo Lake Structure. Clear guidelines to what needs to be done Our house both parents are working and kids are in charge of Elementary what day. More communica@on with families.. doing the work themselves. I am able to check when kids might not have turned things in, but, by then it’s too late. I do not want them to fall behind Student Echo Lake That everyone stays safe and recognizes the Elementary seriousness of the situa@on. Student Echo Lake Time with my friends and other kids my age. Instead of zoom mee@ngs with the whole class, it would work Elementary beDer to have videos of the teacher teaching then later have scheduled @me to talk to the teacher and ask ques@ons one on one or in a small group. Student Echo Lake To have my family to be safe and healthy Elementary

143 Student Echo Lake To see my school mets and friends. To resume back our I just want to see all my school friends in person. I would like Elementary school to normal. To see all the problems we already everyone stay safe and healthy. I would like everyone should faced stopped forever. be aware of the guidelines of health care offices. Student Echo Lake Tranporte escolar, alimentación gratuita , ú@les Gracias a todo el equipo de ges@ón del colegio Elementary escolares, ropa Student Echo Lake We would like to see more Black teachers at Echo Lake and Elementary virtual video teaching might be a good opportunity to do this. Student Einstein Middle 1) That all my teachers mark "completed" on Canvas I got accepted into AVID and to be a WEB leader at my school School for all of the work I turned in 2) Updates but I'm worried that I won't be able to do those things due to the school closure. If school is s@ll closed in fall will we be able to do these online? Student Einstein Middle A more rigorous learning environment. School Student Einstein Middle A vaccine or no recent COVID 19 reports School Student Einstein Middle A weekly homework / learning plan from teachers is School very helpful. It helps my kid to plan and manage @me to finish his work well. Student Einstein Middle A weekly schedule and a teacher that puts out plenty School of links, videos, and documents so it’s easy to do work. Student Einstein Middle Accessibility to be able to talk to my friends. School Student Einstein Middle aprender lo que nos falto por aprender durante este School cierre de ciclo escolar Student Einstein Middle At this @me, communica@on with families and students Personally I'm fine with online learning for a couple months School from teachers or future teachers is very well needed un@l things get figured out, I find I learn beDer in the comfort and make things easier to understand, and get people of my own home and not being distracted by people who prepared for whats to come in their new learning have no urge to learn. while s@ll being able to stay in touch system. with friends and teachers. Mainly because I've been given an opportunity to move for a liDle bit and experience new culture, if the op@on of online school comes up or certain days we go to school. Student Einstein Middle Being able to play with my friends School

144 Student Einstein Middle Being around people School Student Einstein Middle being in a class with teachers teaching me School Student Einstein Middle Being safe, clean, and semi distancing. School Student Einstein Middle Being with my friends and teachers. School Student Einstein Middle Being with my friends in person. School Student Einstein Middle Being with my friends. School Student Einstein Middle BeDer mental health and less schoolwork. Shorter Online school sort of wrecked my mental health, and School lessons would probably help. considering my stress it wasn’t really good. I think some of the lessons should’ve been easier, and our en@re grade (some classes are a liDle like this) not based on online learning. Student Einstein Middle clearer informa@on on grading and how it affects me. This was ineffec@ve and I had a hard @me keeping up with School school Student Einstein Middle Con@nued teacher instruc@on. School Student Einstein Middle COVID-19 Vaccina@on. Social distancing. Proper Everyone's bored at home having nothing to do, I've always School hygiene. Masks. looked forward seeing my friends at school. Now, all I can do is hope for available vaccines :D Student Einstein Middle Don’t have any needs right now, I would just like to be School able to see friends Student Einstein Middle For me, it is simply the need of seeing my friends again. School Student Einstein Middle For things to go back to normal School Student Einstein Middle Freinds Family Food Water Stuff to keep me busy School Student Einstein Middle friends School Student Einstein Middle Geyng to socialize with people. I'm going crazy School because I can't see anybody!

145 Student Einstein Middle Going to school School Student Einstein Middle Good educa@on that can help me in the future. School Student Einstein Middle Harder content in my classes. Well, actually, I don’t Not really, I just want to see my friends in person and have in School know how hard the online ninth grade classes were person classes or at least beDer online learning. However, I this year, but the eighth grade classes were way too don’t know how switching classes or having lunch would easy. work. Student Einstein Middle Having something to occupy my @me. School Student Einstein Middle Having @me to do schoolwork. School Student Einstein Middle Help keeping my family and friends safe School Student Einstein Middle How the heck is this all going to work? If social I'm a bit concerned about going back to school. Please know School distancing is s@ll a thing then we can't really have that. school because do you really think that a lot of the people will follow the social distancing rule, or the rule to wear a mask? Do you really think that they'll follow it? Just explain to me how lunch will work, heck explain to me how anything will work. Student Einstein Middle I just want to go to school and have it be as normal as School it can. My most important need is to keep everyone safe but we also need a good educa@on as well. Student Einstein Middle I need supplies and someone to teach me what I need School to know. Student Einstein Middle i need the most help on staying on track School Student Einstein Middle I need to be in school right now. I hate online learning I HATE ONLINE SCHOOL School and if I have to do it again I will go crazy. more crazy that I already I am, I am sick of everyone around me I hate my brother and parents, and I don't want to have to spend another three full months with them, I need an in-person school with all my friends, I honestly would rather go to school right now than go to the happiest place on earth

146 Student Einstein Middle I need to be with my friends and learn at school with School actual teachers. Student Einstein Middle I really want to be able to take my elec@ve classes, School which I was really looking forward to, and sports. I also want in school learning, with op@onal social distancing. Student Einstein Middle I think going to high school as a 9th grader is going to School be somewhat confusing, so I would appreciate if things were less strict and more flexible.

147 Student Einstein Middle I think that all classes that can use google classroom I wish that the district had done something to prepare for School should use it. I really liked using google classroom, it this, generally they do a really bad job with snow days, make- was easy to understand, it was organized and I felt like up days, and stuff like that. I feel like if there was any type of the lessons made sense. Having all of the work in one emergency (fire, hurricane, human threat) that a bunch of place was helpful, and it was nice that for the teachers people would die because the schools and district do such a that used it their canvas page was not super crappy job, they don't have a system and they only have a overwhelmed with links and lessons which has vague idea of what they would do in an emergency. The happened with a lot of teacher's pages. I wish that school district should be ashamed of how horribly they Social Studies, Science, and French had all used it to prepare for stuff and I hope from now on that they will each some extent. Also there is a clear way to turn in my year update and form new plans for if this ever happens work which to me, is really important because turning again. Families are puyng in so much money in taxes that the stuff in through Canvas is confusing and stressful. Also I district should have been ready (maybe not with any idea of like how they wrote the direc@ons on the document as how the pandemic would work out but they should know well as when you go in to a lesson page. The direc@ons what to do if we ever have to do home learning again) for were clear and well wriDen. The frequent zoom calls anything. were also helpful as was the class discussion, it was fun to get a chance to talk and debate with classmates in the discussion as well as on zoom. The zoom calls were fun, although I wish kids were required (as well as possible) to aDend the zoom calls. Also for English, it was nice because the zoom @mes stayed the same throughout home learning, which was nice, because some teachers changed it last minute which made it hard to keep track of and make a normal schedule. I loved google classroom (can't say how much I do) I thought it was great. For French 1 we had silly videos to watch which I thought was cool because it is a good brain break, and it gives you something to laugh at. I think it would be nice if the teachers would send emails, maybe once a month or once every two weeks, to check in personally, because honestly the weekly Pride check in doesn't have any sort of personal tone to it (at least for mine). The email wouldn't have to be long but just asking how we are doing, and telling something about what you are doing would be nice. Also if students were required to aDend zooms (to the best of their ability) I would like to see more kids on the calls, and I think if part of the lesson was taught on the call, rather than the call just being a check in, that 148 Student Einstein Middle I think that my most important needs at this @me are No, but I just look forward to learning with my peers and School in-person teacher lead instruc@ons and learning with fellow students/friends again... And I hope that will be soon my peers. I strongly think that socializing is very important and I think that learning with other people, having class discussions and group projects teach student will help students learn more than just the specific topic but we should maintain distance when doing so just to be safe. I don't mind the online learning but it would be nice to get more reminder emails or no@fica@ons from my teachers about the assignments and due dates because I did not know that I had some important assignments and essays due un@l it was extremely close to the due date or it was past the due date... I do understand that each teacher manages things differently, just like they teach differently but I wish I had known about the important assignment since it was going in the gradebook. (I don't know how the grading system works now but I'd rather have full credit instead of "late" or "missing" just because I didn't know about the assignment) Besides that I can't think of my most important needs at this @me. Student Einstein Middle i would just like a zoom class everyday School Student Einstein Middle I would like to be back in school but at the same @me May we during this virus, we can have half in person learning School would like to be safe from the virus. and half online learning. Like have 3 days of in person learning and the other 2 days are on line. My parents work from home so I don't need a daycare. This is hard for people who rely on daycare. Maybe for those people they could have a choice of daily in person learning. Student Einstein Middle I would like to be more connected with my classes and School teachers Student Einstein Middle I would love to see my friends and teachers back in School school and at my neighborhood Student Einstein Middle I would very happy to find that we are not doing online The online homework is very stressful. School school next year.

149 Student Einstein Middle If I'm not going to be at school for learning, then I think School that a flexible schedule is important. While I'm at home, figuring out a schedule that works best for me is more prac@cal than a pre-decided schedule. A structured school day makes much more sense when someone is actually at school. Student Einstein Middle If we are returning to school in the fall. I would like School people to be screened, masks and all those health instruc@ons. Student Einstein Middle I'm missing my friends but other than that I'm just kind School of bored. Student Einstein Middle in person school School Student Einstein Middle Informa@on School Student Einstein Middle In-person learning Online learning did not work for me Teachers weren't School teachers Student Einstein Middle Interac@on with kids my own age and instruc@on to School con@nue learning in a way that's easy to understand and manage. Clear goal seyng. Student Einstein Middle Internet. School Student Einstein Middle just to be able to talk to my friends i guess School Student Einstein Middle Learning School Student Einstein Middle Live Instruc@on School Student Einstein Middle Mainly just keeping everyone safe and trying not to School spread or contaminate more places/people. Student Einstein Middle Make schoolwork worthwhile. Not just busywork! School Student Einstein Middle Maybe hand sani@zer or mask and wash hand and try School to social distancing

150 Student Einstein Middle More @me outside and out of my house. School Student Einstein Middle My health is most important so I don't care when the Please do make the correct decision reopen the school. School school reopen. Just need make sure no more COVID Before open the school make sure there is no more pandemic PANDEMIC. risk to every students. If it happen to someone, it would be many bad effects to there en@re life so consider seriously. Thank you Student Einstein Middle My most important needs are a structured learning School environment in which I can see others in person and have the ability to for fill my social needs by seeing my friends. Student Einstein Middle My most important needs are to be able to hangout its School my friends some@mes and cases to a baseball field once a week. Student Einstein Middle My most important needs at this @me is that there is No School social distancing and that people are washing hands, wearing mask, surfaces are geyng clean, if in contact with someone with covid-19 not go to schools for 14 days Student Einstein Middle Need a break from online school!!! Some teachers made slideshows to follow, which included School clicking links to videos and linking Google Docs. These slide shows were very confusing and hard to follow, because the slides jump around. Some teachers used slideshows in Google classroom, too. The slide show is not a good way to teach someone. Just use the modules in Canvas, instead. They are easy to follow. Student Einstein Middle Need in-person support for learning. Parents work and Using Canvas was difficult. Technical difficul@es with online School I try to do school work on my own but ojen get stuck systems/ programs were frustra@ng. not knowing what to do or don't understand what is being asked. Student Einstein Middle Online school was way easier for me and more fun because School they give you flexible @mes for zoom mee@ngs. Also you have flexible due dates for all or most of my classes Student Einstein Middle Just that if we go back to school always have hand sani@zer School available for anyone and in each class room and maybe masks but I don't know what it will be like in the fall.

151 Student Einstein Middle Probably just geyng back to school and being back in a thanks for the survey School classroom. I really, really miss seeing my friends, and I would really like to do my learning in a bigger seyng with more students and knowing what my teachers expect of me instead of having to do it all on my own. Student Einstein Middle Quaran@ne to hopefully end the Coronavirus. School Student Einstein Middle School School Student Einstein Middle Seeing my friends ajer so long School Student Einstein Middle Seeing my friends and playing sports. School Student Einstein Middle Seeing people in person. Geyng face-to face School instruc@on/ques@ons Student Einstein Middle Smaller class size with strict social distancing measures, School spliyng up certain days for in-school learning, and if in contact with someone with COVID-19 14 day stay at home order. A split schedule where I have three classes of instruc@on one day and three classes of instruc@on the next day with the rest home learning. Student Einstein Middle Socializa@on and in-person teaching School Student Einstein Middle society School Student Einstein Middle sports and friends. my high school experience. School Student Einstein Middle Staying healthy, but also being able to spend @me with I really want to be able to have in-person learning. I’m going School friends. I just don’t want more students, teachers and into my freshman year and I want to be able to aDend pep staff to get sick. rallies and spirit weeks and homecoming. I really want to be able to see all of my peers and teachers. I want to keep everyone healthy and safe, but I want in-person learning. I don’t think that I’ll be able to learn as much with home learning and that will impact my learning for all of high school and beyond.

152 Student Einstein Middle staying safe School Student Einstein Middle Teachers who understand peoples circumstances and School are trying their hardest to provide the resources for students to con@nue to grow and learn. Student Einstein Middle the ability to see other students School Student Einstein Middle The in-person instruc@on in my classes School Student Einstein Middle The most important things at this @me are we have to No School stay safe but I also think we should have interac@ons with our friends and other people. Student Einstein Middle The most pressing need is the need for health safety. School Student Einstein Middle To be able to have the required learning done so that I Not really School understand what happens in the next year. Student Einstein Middle To be safe School Student Einstein Middle to be with my friends i gesse School Student Einstein Middle To be with people School Student Einstein Middle To con@nue with educa@on in a safe way for everyone. School Student Einstein Middle To feel mo@vated School Student Einstein Middle To have some human interac@on with people other School than my family and to s@ll be geyng a good educa@on and what we need for the next grade. Student Einstein Middle To have the community safe at this @me. And un@l the School number of cases goes down we should reopen school. Right now the needs are for the kids safety And educa@on. Student Einstein Middle To interact with other people. School

153 Student Einstein Middle To learn from home but not have it be so strict that it School gets overwhelming. I also think it would be helpful to have an easier way to turn in assignments. Student Einstein Middle To socialize with my friends when I start middle school. THANK YOU for taking the @me to collect this informa@on. As School From parent: to have more structure to our day, and district leaders, you are in such a difficult role to get a plan more consistency in formal (it's been hard to have (and a back-up plan or two!) in place that serves the needs of Canvas, Google classroom, etc with different ways to all our kids. I know there is no perfect solu@on but appreciate turn things in and ways to check kid's work) you taking the feedback of kids and families into account. Student Einstein Middle To stay focused and not get distracted. Online learning is kinda hard cause I get distracted really School easily and I end up doing something else than my homework. Student Einstein Middle To stay healthy Thank you for all of your hard work School Student Einstein Middle To stay safe How or when would I be able to return some stuff back to my School school? Student Einstein Middle uh geyng out of my cast (fractured my leg) School Student Einstein Middle Well, for next year if I had to stay home and do online School school, I would like to have the types of lessons that were the most straigh[orward lessons in my opinion were the unit slideshows that I got in science. My science teacher would email me when a new unit started ajer I turned in the last unit slideshow. All the links to different stuff would be on the slides and if you somehow missed a unit, you can go on the canvas home page on science and see all of the units in order. I also liked simple Google Doc worksheets emailed to me, so I could simply make a copy, put my name on it and turn it in on canvas. I did not like assignments on canvas, some@mes they took longer to load and were more confusing to find the date of them if they don't have a date marked on them. Student Einstein Middle Going into high school if a major transi@on and it would be School nice to have your friends at school at all @mes.

154 Student Einstein Middle I just feel like COVID-19 will s@ll be preDy high in the fall School especially in the fall when it’s flu season again. I feel like school and ac@vi@es need to take a part to stop it, even though that’s not what all of us wants. We need to help be the stop to get Covid-19 almost gone. I don’t feel like having ajer school ac@vi@es and school would make everyone comfortable and also taking vaccines could make families feel uncomfortable Student Einstein Middle I think since online learning is hard and students don't have School the guidance from their teachers as they would in school, There should be less work. Everyone is trying to get used to the online learning and less work would make less students stress out about school. This is if there is online learning for fall. Student Einstein Middle I want in person school to be back to normal. I wouldn't really School want to go back to school if we would have to wear masks, desks be 6j apart, be with the same classmates and teacher for the whole day, same classroom all day everyday, and lunch in the same classroom with the same teacher and classmates that we have all day. Student Einstein Middle It would easiest if all my teacher's assignments showed up in School one place. For example, most of my teachers just put their assignments as assignments in canvas, while some just put them as linked pages, and one even just used google classroom. It would be much easier for me if I had all my assignments all in one place, because it gets a liDle confusing if they are all over mul@ple pages and websites. Student Einstein Middle School Student Einstein Middle School Student Highland Terrace 1. Mee@ng recommended safety guidelines 2. In- Thanks for all you do! Elementary person teaching 3. Virtual teaching Student Highland Terrace a normal schedule in class at least once a week Elementary

155 Student Highland Terrace Being able to social distance with friends Elementary Student Highland Terrace Being able to work with my teachers in a classroom full Elementary day. Student Highland Terrace Being in person with a teacher that can help guid you Elementary and instruct you to stra@gys to make it easyer! Its really hard for me to work with someone acrost a screen, computer, or preee recorded video. Student Highland Terrace Being out of the house. Although the emails were helpful...there were just too many. Elementary It was hard to keep track on a daily and even weekly basis. Overwhelming. Student Highland Terrace bigger rooms Elementary Student Highland Terrace Break from online learning. Screen fa@gue! Using Google Forms to submit the answers to your math test Elementary does not work well. Taking photos of each graph/problem and uploading it is unreasonable for a kid to do. Use a mul@ple choice format instead or have students upload/email the en@re test in a scanned format. Student Highland Terrace Elementary students should be aDending school in the School laptops should be issued to each student and Elementary fall. incorporated into the regular in-person school day. If they are used in school then the students know how to navigate through the learning management sojware and can stay current whether they log in remotely or not. Student Highland Terrace Geyng away from my mother as a teacher. I miss my school and friends. Elementary Student Highland Terrace Go back to school Elementary Student Highland Terrace I think i just want to go back to school and do Elementary something that feels kind of normal-ish.

156 Student Highland Terrace I think my most important needs at this @me would I know that i said this in the ques@on above but I think that to Elementary probably be the following: (1.) Being able to learn make school more safer in the fall when we come back would the same things but s@ll safely. (2.) Having contact be to have breaks to go to the bathroom and wash hands to with my teachers to be able to see how my grades have keep everyone around us safe. Also, you've probably already dropped or have improved. (3.) Having social established this but, when kids AND staff need to stay home interac@on with the people my age. (4.) Having clean when they are sick, we should probably encourage that. classrooms (5.) Having breaks to watch hands, hand ~ sani@zer, Etc... Student Highland Terrace I think that zoom mee@ngs should be at one @me a Elementary week and you have to show up, but the rest the week should be flexible. Student Highland Terrace I want to be able to do band, and see my friends. Elementary Student Highland Terrace I want to be back in school and not wear masks. Elementary Online learning was terrible it was the worst. Student Highland Terrace I want to see my friends. I feel super lonely without Elementary seeing them. I also really want to be able to have Orchestra lessons in -person, because I feel nobody is there to correct me and give pointers and it wouldn't be the same on Zoom. I feel like it is mandatory to wear a mask, wash hands, and physically distance. Student Highland Terrace I would like to go to school in the fall if possible. Elementary Student Highland Terrace Just not geyng sick. Elementary Student Highland Terrace Kids/teachers stay home if you or your family is sick Elementary Student Highland Terrace My child gets a lot of his therapy from school (OT, PT, : ) Elementary Speech). It's tough to be missing all of that. It would be nice to get the special needs students back to school so they can con@nue geyng the help they need. At home learning just didn't work for my liDle one. He needs the structure of the classroom and his peers learning along side of him. Student Highland Terrace nahhh idk day by day by day bay nothing to share. just hope that we can Elementary go back to school

157 Student Highland Terrace Nothing really important Maybe if we are able to can we get the 6th graders (now Elementary going to be 7th graders) to go to camp this coming year I would appreciate that because we have been wai@ng for a lot of fun stuff for 7 years and then this virus hit and we get nothing. So camp in 7th grade would be good to have, for not only me but my friends as well Student Highland Terrace Playing and learning new things. 6 feet! Elementary Student Highland Terrace school Elementary Student Highland Terrace Seeing my friends and going to school Elementary Student Highland Terrace Smaller class sizing with social distancing. Spliyng up Elementary in person at school learning with at home learning. Maybe English (basics and paper wri@ng), Math and Reading specialist one day and Science, Social studies, computer learning/help another day. Feeling like Computer help/studies is going to be cri@cal if we are doing more distance learning. Then take what we have learned for at home assignments and homework. Student Highland Terrace Socializa@on with classmates If the requirement is that my child wear a mask all day, I most Elementary likely will not send my child to school. Please consider the difference between my child peacefully doing school work at home vs him being at school with plexiglass par@@ons, social distancing and all day maybe wearing. I won't put my child in a posi@on where he is living in fear, which is what that school environment sounds like to me. I want my child in school, but if he has to wear a mask all day, and have ridiculous requirements, I won't send him. Student Highland Terrace Socially interac@ng and going to band. Elementary Student Highland Terrace Structure and learning. My mom needs childcare Elementary because she works Student Highland Terrace the ability to be safe and learn I am grateful for my school and teachers Elementary

158 Student Highland Terrace The most important needs for me in this @me is Elementary Health, Seeing other people, even though that isn't possible right now. Student Highland Terrace The safer and health of everyone. I would like actually on line classes for example Math Elementary 8:20-8:55 Science 9:00-945 English 10:00-10:55 And so forth. With actual on line lectures and have tests and quizzes. Student Highland Terrace To be back in school without masks. Online learning is awful. It was so astressful and hard on me Elementary and my family. I need to be in the classroom full days next year. I do not want to wear a mask because I can't breathe. Student Highland Terrace To go back to school and see my friends and new I MISS ALL OF THE SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOL Elementary teacher. Student Home Educa@on I would like to know if band will happen next year. I am Exchange most looking forward to it of all my classes. Student Home Educa@on School should con@nue to be online in the Fall. This insures Exchange we are staying safe and healthy by social distancing. Student Kellogg Middle A centralized, one or two pla[orms for learning. The School mess of 10 different pla[orms to use to essen@ally teach yourself is hard. Student Kellogg Middle A nice teacher that explains thing well and doesn't School mind if needed to re-explain. Student Kellogg Middle Academics, elec@ves, seeing friends. I will be going back to school, as my family and I are not on School the level of concern some families are. Also, I think this is more Kellogg-related, but, please, don't mix 6th, 7th, and 8th graders between lunches. Most students want lunch (which is the only way most students can see their friends, as most of the @me, you won't have classes with all of your friends) with their grade, which is where most of their friends are. Also, a friend of mine went to a middle school prior to Kellogg where they structured lunches like this, and the 8th graders bullied and beat up the 6th graders, and people protested, and, no joke, lit trash cans on fire. Thanks for educa@ng us, -[insert name here] (I think this is anonymous, so...) Student Kellogg Middle access to mee@ng teachers and email. School Student Kellogg Middle All I need and what most people need is a vaccine for School this virus.

159 Student Kellogg Middle An actual school environment. Online school is kinda boring, and ineffec@ve. School Student Kellogg Middle Because of my IEP I need 1 on 1 @me with my teacher. I School need help with wri@ng. I need @me to socialize with my friends. Student Kellogg Middle Being able to connect with my friends and classmates School and feeling safe. Student Kellogg Middle Being able to con@nue learning safely School Student Kellogg Middle Being able to do the work when I have @me School Student Kellogg Middle Being safe. School Student Kellogg Middle Being with friends and playing in my band. School Student Kellogg Middle Being with my friends again, geyng help in math School Student Kellogg Middle Capability to access lessons and work when I am Special needs students who need aides or extra help should School mentally able, and grades/class expecta@ons not being have more priority to get in person learning because there is affected when I cannot complete something. a much higher chance they need said assistance than neuro- typical able-bodied students. Student Kellogg Middle Face masks, gloves, washing hands and social School distancing. Student Kellogg Middle Food ,paper learning packets and mental health School resources. Student Kellogg Middle Food, water and air School Student Kellogg Middle For my mom to get a job School Student Kellogg Middle For students don’t have to stress about geyng good I really want to go back to school for my mental health it’s School grades with everything that’s going on. needed. Online learning is ojen frustra@ng and once behind, really hard to catch up on. I really like the no harm grade system as there’s so much to be unsure about right now, we don’t need the addi@on of stress and anxiety from school

160 Student Kellogg Middle Friends School Student Kellogg Middle From a parent perspec@ve, expecta@ons that are set Aim high in your expecta@ons. Leverage/create new support School for our kids. It's been hard to track what has been systems for those that are falling through the cracks to ensure asked of them and I'm unclear how to support other all students get what they need. Leverage the PTA to help than checking their work has been done. So, include a with new needs. They can mobilize parents preDy quickly. parent expecta@on list in addi@on to the students. Oh, and create a new mentoring model that matches HS Please DO NOT set the bar low. We need to s@ll students with middle and elem students -a tutoring/support challenge our kids in parallel to ensuring kids don't slip buddy system. Have the HS student hours count towards through the cracks. You will lose the aDen@on of the gradua@on. students that can self-direct and need to be pushed. Student Kellogg Middle Geyng help from my teachers in order to understand Do you know how ojen you guys use zoom for high school? School everything like all the informa@on that all the teachers are saying to me. Student Kellogg Middle Have summer break. School Student Kellogg Middle Home learning because there isn’t yet a cure for School Covid-19 so it would be safer. Student Kellogg Middle I am mainly worried for the safety of my family so I I would like to par@cipate in choir this year but I am afraid School would like everybody to use hand sani@zer and wear a because when you sing your saliva gets everywhere and mask. I love strict instruc@ons and strict due dates and that's how covid-19 spreads I really want a quality educa@on Student Kellogg Middle School Student Kellogg Middle I want everyone to be safe but i also dont want school to feel School like a prison so we are trying to make school work but at what cost. Student Kellogg Middle School

161 Student Kellogg Middle I believe that in the fall, the school could have a mix of online School and in-person learning. Such as kids should be expected to show up one day of the week for in-person learning and the rest of the week should be online. I think this creates a steady balance that lowers the chance of infec@on while giving kids one day where they can get help from their teachers and keep kids from being cut off from social interac@ons that will stunt there social ability. Also, I believe they should con@nue to assign Chromebooks to freshmen because it lowers the number of people touching others computers and they are a more effec@ve learning tool for kids. Student Kellogg Middle School Student Kellogg Middle School Student Kellogg Middle I just want to go to school, and I’m worried that I won’t Please open schools School get a freshman year Student Kellogg Middle I just want to have everything back to normal and I didn't get to celebrate by big 13th birthday I had always School enjoy my 8th grade. dreamed about, I started being a teenager in isola@on only with my direct family. Student Kellogg Middle I learn best at school with my teachers. Sports and Please let us return to school. I don’t want to fall behind. School friends are important too. We need to go back. Student Kellogg Middle I need at least some physical instruc@on (not on-line) School by a teacher. I struggled with some aspects of home learning. Student Kellogg Middle I need more of a challenge. I haven't had a lot of School challenge with home learning and with everyone taking honors next year, I don't know how much of a challenge it will be. Student Kellogg Middle I need to be able to learn and to prepare myself for School future ac@vi@es, including college. Student Kellogg Middle I need to fix my schedule fpr next year, but I cant email School the highschool councselor because she is on break, but I need to fix my schedule before it is too late. Student Kellogg Middle I need to have balanced assignments instead of lots of School math and a @ny bit of everything else.

162 Student Kellogg Middle I need to know that my academics will not be affected School by quaran@ne. Student Kellogg Middle I really need to see my friends, they are what keep me School happy and perky and I just really miss em Student Kellogg Middle I really wouldn't be able to follow a schedule were you School must log on at one @me and stay logged on and do your work at one @me. I have other courses i am doing not connected to school, so I really need a flexible schedule. Also i like to make my own schedule and follow it and be able to change if needed. So For me, personally, the best type of instruc@on for home learning would be: Teachers assign work on Monday that is due on Friday ( not strictly, it could be next week...) So you can choose when to complete it, And occasional zoom calls. Over all, I just need a super flexible schedule, (i.e. teachers give work, you do it correctly, No every day given schedule you follow that is just stressful!!!!!!!!!!!!) Student Kellogg Middle I think it is important that everyone does the School assignments, but I don't think that it's important that we have to aDend an en@re zoom class. Student Kellogg Middle I think my most important need is to know if I am doing School enough to learn at my largest capacity. Student Kellogg Middle I think that my most important needs are staying safe (I My teachers have been AWESOME during this whole online School have diabetes which makes me a liDle more exposed/ learning thing. I loved having some structure (zoom mee@ngs venerable to the virus than others) and being able to at a set @me) but otherwise having flexible due dates and properly take care of myself without any real dangers. work @mes. I think it would help a liDle more next year if we If kids aren’t able to follow the rules or my doctors say I worked a liDle more on working independently. I’ve no@ced shouldn’t aDend school I won’t. But another need is that a lot of teachers have,in the past, focused on working also to have human contact, to talk to people soon, together in a group but in the next few years, if we keep besides on a computer screen. I don’t like siyng having to remotely learn, that would definitely make it more behind a computer for more than 2-3 hours a day. difficult for some students. Student Kellogg Middle I want everything back to "normal" School

163 Student Kellogg Middle I want learning packets, online stuff is very stressful, School and hard to understand at @mes. When I have a learning packet, I feel like I can actually look things over. Student Kellogg Middle I want to be in school but if there s@ll needs to be I just want high school to start as regular as possible School social distancing and quaran@ne in place in understand and I’m fine with at home learning Student Kellogg Middle I want to feel safe and I want beDer clear instruc@ons School for at home learning. I need a calendar of plans each week to succeed. Student Kellogg Middle I would like to be able to see my friends that are in my School grade again Student Kellogg Middle I'm good, the paper packets are very helpful. School Student Kellogg Middle JAPAN TRIP 2021!!!!!!!!!!! ORCHESTRA and other School music classes. Some social @me with other students. Student Kellogg Middle Just to stay safe School Student Kellogg Middle Less homework when it is given to us weekly School Student Kellogg Middle Make room for mental health. School Student Kellogg Middle mee@ng teacher and access to email. School Student Kellogg Middle mental engagement School Student Kellogg Middle More @me with the teachers and beDer School communica@on. A link to a “lesson” is not enough especially when parents are expected to fill in the gaps. It has been decades since I did some of the stuff my student is asked to do and I never did common core. There was a ton of guess work on my end with very liDle support. Also too many conflic@ng Zoom mee@ngs.

164 Student Kellogg Middle mo@va@on, mostly School Student Kellogg Middle My main want is to move back into school so I may be School with my friends and have in-person lessons. I also would like to do this in the safest way possible. Student Kellogg Middle My most important need is for social distancing and School washing hands. Student Kellogg Middle My most important needs are clear instruc@on and If we con@nue home learning next year, be flexible with the School very clear tools. During home learning I’ve been very due dates. Many people including myself have lost there confused and lost while being taught. work ethic and are procras@na@ng more then they usually would. Student Kellogg Middle My most important needs at the @me are the need to The home learning this year was not good. I did not learn all School get a vaccine and the need to be able to go to school that I should have if I had been in school. Half the @me, the and par@cipate in athle@cs/ac@vi@es. material was things that I had already learned this year. Other @mes, they were just assignments that didn't teach me anything. I didn't learn very much from the home learning. Some teachers would take days and some@mes a week to respond to emails that I sent them. There were some teachers that were good about responding and having lessons that taught me things. But others didn't respond and had lessons that didn't teach me anything. If this were to con@nue next year, I hope it is a lot beDer than this year's home learning. I would like to learn things next year and not just have things that I have already learned or that don't teach me anything. Thank you. Student Kellogg Middle My most important needs for the school year this fall is Nope! School that we don have to do home learning on the first day of school. And to mostly see my friends. Student Kellogg Middle no homework no homework would help School Student Kellogg Middle not a huge workload face to face learning School Student Kellogg Middle School Student Kellogg Middle Not being too overwhelmed School

165 Student Kellogg Middle Not Geyng Covid-19 and Being with my family School Student Kellogg Middle School Student Kellogg Middle School Student Kellogg Middle School Student Kellogg Middle online learning is bad School Student Kellogg Middle Reduced assignments for each class. This year there School were too many assignments and I was too overwhelmed. Student Kellogg Middle Safety for all kids to be in school. School Student Kellogg Middle school items School Student Kellogg Middle School sports to be open (swimming, football) School Student Kellogg Middle see my friends online school was stupid. School Student Kellogg Middle seeing my friends if we don't go back to school I'm gonna cry School Student Kellogg Middle skateboarding School Student Kellogg Middle Some sort of small enrichment lessons over the My math teacher did not provide any video or live instruc@on School summer, so I don’t forget everything. throughout the closure. Student Kellogg Middle Something I want right now is to be with my friends School again. Student Kellogg Middle Staying safe School

166 Student Kellogg Middle Students might slack as we go up is phases and we I have a lung issue so if there is no vaccine I am not likely to School might have to go back to phase one. Social distancing Is aDend school. I am more at risk than other students and my another issue because so many people aren’t doing it. main concern and need is for all kids to be ac@vely trying to Also, availability of hand sani@zer and facemasks is very be clean and safe. very important. The school should be enforcing safety as their main concern not educa@on because safety is more important. Student Kellogg Middle Stuff to do School Student Kellogg Middle That my parent con@nue to homeschool me because I How am I supposed to answer this ques@on, I'm 10 years old! School have very liDle connec@on to school now, especially "If not all students are able to aDend school during the ini@al moving into middle school as a new 6th grader. No one reopening, what criteria should be used to select students for has reached out to me or my family from Kellogg about in-person learning? Please Rank 1-4 with 1 being the most star@ng school there--no connec@ons, no enthusiasm, important criteria" My parent home schooled me with not excitement or welcome. It's sad and siloed, like curriculum chosen by said parent. We did not regularly use everything else right now. the school district curriculum because it was unsa@sfactory and boring. You did not ask any ques@ons in this survey that would allow me to voice my level of educa@on or ability based upon parent-led homeschool ac@vity. My teacher rarely reached out, had any helpful content or engaged me in ways I expected. There was in fact, very liDle school engagement at large, let alone much of anything aside from weekly disorganized Zoom calls that led me to disconnect from everyone at my school. There was nothing to look forward to, to feel a part of, no recogni@on of work done or achieved other than from my parent who kept copious records of my daily work and progress. Student Kellogg Middle the ability to see other people like friends and family School and to go places because I'm kind of stuck at home most of the @me. Student Kellogg Middle the one that i need most is books. School Student Kellogg Middle This home learning was difficult to maintain , we were i appreciate all the effor the school did to help us learn in the School able to do it for these months but that should not be home learning @me but we can not do this for the coming what we plan for in the fall. We would like the district year as we were not able to learn as much as we should. to plan for how we can have in person teaching so we can learn as we should be able to.

167 Student Kellogg Middle Time. I have lots of personal issues that I struggled with Frogs are adorable you should go look at some it'd make you School before home learning that were amplified by the happy changes. Dealing with major mental illnesses including depression and anxiety really made it hard when I would see a giant list of things that had to be done. I spent a lot of @me doing personal learning instead because I felt like I got a lot more out of it. Student Kellogg Middle to be able to go to school and see my friends no but please reopen the schools at this point School Student Kellogg Middle To be able to learn without having to ask my parents This survey was kind of confusing on this last page, so School for help all the @me. hopefully people understood it, might just be me. Student Kellogg Middle To be with my friends School Student Kellogg Middle To see my friends and get help from my teachers in Why is the only the op@on for White when answering the School person. Ethnicity ques@on and not White/caucasian? Student Kellogg Middle to see my friends and not get COVID-19 ;) no im good, thanks for leyng the students provide feedback School though. Student Kellogg Middle When school was totally online I spent a lot of my @me I think it would help a lot if most of the work was not School being stressed about the amount of work delivered so required. if we do have online school next year then I dont want a lot of work assigned. Student Kellogg Middle Wifi, stocked pantry, and connec@on with my friends. School Student Kellogg Middle I appreciate flexible due dates, but at the same @me when School the expecta@on of assignments feels op@onal, it's hard to get mo@vated.

168 Student Kellogg Middle I very much appreciate you reaching out to the community School for input, this being an incredibly complex decision with so many varying factors to consider. I have 4 children in the Shoreline school district entering various grades next year: K, 7th, 10th and 11th. They all will be capable of very different things upon returning to school and I hope that developmental readiness is considered. For example, there is no way that my son entering kindergarten could wear a mask all day. So in his case, a reduced class size with alterna@ng days at home and in the school in addi@on to staggered recess @mes with other classes seems a reasonable op@on. Granted, this adds complexity for people who need childcare. On the other hand, my older students would be more likely to be able to wear a mask in the classroom and could stay in a single classroom with rota@ng teachers. They could wash their hands on schedule 3 @mes a day and perform other safety rou@nes. However, they desperately need @me to socialize, exercise and burn off steam with their friends and lunch@me would be impossible for staff to enforce distancing. In their case, I'd suggest half-days, rota@ng AM/PM with classroom instruc@on for those subjects best-served by in-class instruc@on (labs, art, music etc). Then lunch would be either at home before or ajer school and would at least take place with a smaller group of friends. Good luck and thank you for everything! Student Kellogg Middle School Student Lake Forest Park Being able to access online work. Open to part @me in class and part @me home learning Elementary environment.

169 Student Lake Forest Park Being engaged with school, finding extracurricular We were disappointed with the amount of @me it took to Elementary ac@vi@es, being mo@vated. ramp up the more formal student learning, while other school districts were already doing online learning a week ajer school closures. By the @me there was something more concrete, the mo@va@on was gone and the stress was already high. It was hard to get back into a rhythm. We enjoyed the interac@on and detailed learning plans ajer May 4th. We also liked the drive through gradua@on, our daughter enjoyed seeing her teachers as a closure for this hard school year. Student Lake Forest Park Clear guidelines Taking turns going to recess Elementary Student Lake Forest Park Feeling like I can understand the lessons , seeing other Elementary kids in my grade learning at the same @me , that encourages me to learn Student Lake Forest Park For the adults and teachers to know that this is Elementary stressful for us to Student Lake Forest Park Freinds Family I like small zoom calls Elementary Student Lake Forest Park Friends Elementary Student Lake Forest Park Friends and family. no I think I'm good for this school year. Elementary Student Lake Forest Park Friends, video games, Family and being outside. Elementary Student Lake Forest Park Going to school and rou@ne If we have limited capacity I have a sibling and will need to Elementary align to that schedule too Student Lake Forest Park Having other people to talk to, being with my friends, Elementary being able to learn and be ac@ve. Student Lake Forest Park Having parents home to teach me. Elementary Student Lake Forest Park Having @me to socialize with other kids and direct Elementary instruc@on from a teacher. Student Lake Forest Park I feel like my most important needs at this @me are the no Elementary feeling of safety from the virus and yet s@ll feeling like I'm not restricted to just my family.

170 Student Lake Forest Park I need to be back in school with my teacher and Elementary friends. Student Lake Forest Park I need to be with my friends. 30 minute zooms. Elementary Student Lake Forest Park I NEED TO SEE MY FRIENDS AND NOT BE LOCKED UP I LIKE BEARS Elementary AND BORED TO DEATH Student Lake Forest Park I think that my most important needs at this @me is to Elementary get work that will help me push myself and learn just as much as I would in school. Student Lake Forest Park I would like to stay social: I just need to see people. Elementary Student Lake Forest Park In person learning and instruc@on is most important We need to go back to School. Elementary for catching up with lost learning. Addi@onal support for mental health returning to school and with friends ajer long isola@on. Regular, structured days in a safe environment that mi@gates risk of exposure. Student Lake Forest Park It would be important for all the kids and stuff to be We think kids watching videos and doing ac@vi@es isn’t Elementary safe. We believe kids should have social contact with working. We believe that kids should have at least half day other friends, it would be important that kids have with the teacher interac@ng and explaining the subjects, of daily learning contact with the teacher instead of only school needs to be online it would be really great if way more chat zoom. interac@on between teachers and students. We also think that kids should be able to spend @me with their friends. It is a very hard @mes we all are going through and there is too much important decisions to be made. Student Lake Forest Park Making sure I have food. It's hard to actually get help I'm very afraid of my child being exposed to the virus Elementary from resources when it comes to rent and power bill.

171 Student Lake Forest Park Mostly I am missing my friends and social interac@ons Covid is the pits Elementary with others. We started out with only one Zoom mee@ng a week, and I liked it when we finally moved to having two Zoom mee@ngs a week because it gave me the chance to see my classmates more and feel like I was s@ll a part of the school. I miss sports a lot. I would like there to be more ways to connect with my classmates if we wind up doing this in the fall. School at home felt lonely some@mes. Doing schoolwork from home worked well for me in some ways because I was less distracted and could work at my own pace and have more choices in what I was working on and when. I just had to get my work done by the end of the week. I could also take breaks whenever I needed to which was nice. Student Lake Forest Park My most important need is to be with and see my I am sad right now and am really hoping that I get to go to Elementary friends. school and see my friends. And have them in my class. Student Lake Forest Park Provide more structure and more virtual contact. Elementary Student Lake Forest Park safe environment to learn in It was too confusing to try to figure out where and how to do Elementary school work. It would be easier to have synchronized learning through a structured LMS (canvas, blackboard, etc.) - google classroom was terrible and/or inefficiently used. The need for several windows, constant toggling between instruc@ons and assignment, was nearly impossible for this 10 year old. An unsustainable amount of parental facilita@on was required - and will not be available in the fall. Student Lake Forest Park Seeing my friends. Elementary Student Lake Forest Park Staying healthy and socializing I’m not a fan of the Idea to have students aDend school on Elementary separate days in the fall. Example, A days and B days. Student Lake Forest Park The most important needs at this @me are learning and Elementary a real, not virtual teacher. Student Lake Forest Park To be taught by a live in person teacher, I also really no not really Elementary want to see my friends.

172 Student Lake Forest Park To go back to school and get in person lessons Elementary Student Lake Forest Park to see my friends!!!!! If you want to be able to go to school you should and if you Elementary don't feel comfortable then you can have the op@on to stay home. School shouldn't be closed, I would rather have masks and screening and sani@zer than have smaller classes and isolated classes. Student Lake Forest Park Zoom mee@ngs should be limited to under thirty Elementary minutes. Zoom links could be tested by students on a rota@on to make sure the link works. Flexible assignment due dates. Tools in the classroom to help reduce student stress. Mindfulness sessions. Student Lake Forest Park Aligning schedule w older sibling Elementary Student Lake Forest Park I don’t think children should be forced to wear face masks. It Elementary is not safe and there are las@ng effects to wearing one too long. My children will not aDend school with that guideline in place or if there are deviders in place to separate them. That is not a life I want my children to “get used to” I want to thank everyone for all the hard work through this I’m grateful for that. Student Lake Forest Park I feel like at home learning was a nega@ve experience Elementary because I didn't get to interact enough with my peers and teachers. The videos by teachers who were not my own were not helpful. I would like there to be more scheduled class interac@ons. I would like zoom mee@ng to be a @me for learning and not just hanging out. The work that I had to do on my own ajer the video lessons was hard to complete because I want to be able to talk about the work with a friend or teacher. Student Meridian Park * Healthy people * Hand sani@zer * Hand washing * A Elementary clean classroom Student Meridian Park A un-covidifier Elementary

173 Student Meridian Park ADen@on and solid curriculum from teachers. If remote Elementary learning will happen this fall, I expect at least 2 virtual mee@ng a week, not one virtual mee@ng and few office hours a week. The office hour won't make students to join in. In addi@on, in the virtual mee@ng, teacher should have online quiz or games to make sure students understand that week topics, not just checking in how students are. I feel like remote learning can be done beDer, however, it is lack of ideas and teacher involvements. In term of involvement, I refer to teacher check with student works and guide if it needs. Student Meridian Park Connec@on with other students, easy to follow work. Too many random emails and due dates. Seesaw doesn’t Elementary Make it easy to track and follow the work. Office hours work well. Google classroom is much beDer. Need one hosted by teachers was helpful. Video mee@ngs need centralized place to find all of the required work. There were to stay brief. too many links, tools and emails to follow. Use google calendar and set a schedule , embed the required links in the cal invite. Student Meridian Park doing thing that are most familiar, and safe areas with Elementary masks and other slowing contamina@on tools. to see other people that you feel safer with (teachers, friends) Student Meridian Park El apoyar a mi hijo en sus trabajos de escuela. Algunas Es muy diãcil para los niños estar en casa por qué aveces no Elementary veces no sé cómo explicarle . quieren hacer las cosas Student Meridian Park Everyone should be required to wear masks and wash Elementary their hands. Student Meridian Park Everything or any academic or schooling should be If it’s online, then it should be strictly structured with Elementary structured.. kids should be able to get up and log in to schedules and mandatory for all student.. and this way classes online all at the same @me. This will con@nue aDendance could be accounted for their responsibility, accountability and organiza@on skills.. Student Meridian Park Face to face working. Or else I will go crazy. I do not like online learning at all because not being able to Elementary get specific instruc@ons. When I ask ques@ons, some@mes I get answers a day later. Student Meridian Park Family I liked distance learning more than in-person learning Elementary because I was able to feel more relaxed about my work.

174 Student Meridian Park Feeling safe about school and quaran@ning, as well as Elementary contact to the outside world. Student Meridian Park Fixing up my lacrosse skills. To have a good diverse curriculum. Learn about different Elementary cultures. You get the idea. Student Meridian Park Flexabily so I have help from my family when needed, Elementary and access to a laptop. I also would like instruc@ons on learning programs taught to me on a computer that is similar to mine. There were a lot of instruc@ons given for an apple computer when I was using a pc. Student Meridian Park Friends Elementary Student Meridian Park Friends,Ac@ve P.E,Teachers. Elementary Student Meridian Park Geyng a good educa@on, staying healthy, contact with Elementary others, and staying safe. Student Meridian Park Haveing beter scedule Elementary Student Meridian Park I am good Elementary Student Meridian Park I dislike home online learning. I would instead prefer to Elementary go to school. I would also like for my family to be no@fied mul@ple @mes about gatherings and fun stuff in case we don't get the first @me. Student Meridian Park I just miss being with friends, teachers, and just a sense Elementary of community. Student Meridian Park I need staff pa@ence and understanding that i take Elementary longer at @mes and learn differently Student Meridian Park I think it would be helpful if I had a chrome book and a Elementary hotspot. It would also help to have them during the summer Student Meridian Park I think we need to learn more because when we do go No Elementary to school we will be behind and might struggle. Student Meridian Park I want to go back to school! I think elementary should Elementary definitely be in person.

175 Student Meridian Park I would just like to get back to school Elementary Student Meridian Park I would like to keep fall and winter school online un@l I am very concerned about this survey that many folks/ Elementary we have a vaccine " . We are very comfortable with parents do not speak English. How we will capture their voice E-learning/Online School for now. given meridian park is very diverse school? Please take reopening very carefully because we are hearing a lot of uncertainty. This is what I want to share for now. Student Meridian Park I’m scared I’m not ready for 5th grade. I do not like zoom mee@ngs. Elementary Student Meridian Park I'd prefer teachers talking to us live vs taped video Elementary lessons when we are in a virtual environment. For example, if half of the class is in person and the other half is virtual, the full class would be learning at the same @me. I also would like everyone to wear a mask while on campus and to prac@ce social distancing as best as we can. Student Meridian Park knowing the assignments for the en@re week in Remote learning was difficult for me. It's hard to learn on my Elementary advance, having a suppor@ve family, have zoom own. I missed learning from my teachers. mee@ngs at least one @me a week or more. Student Meridian Park Making sure I get good grades and meet friends Elementary Student Meridian Park More schoolwork that I can do on my computer to turn Elementary in that are crea@ve projects Student Meridian Park My mom has to work and I go to daycare. We don’t do Elementary any homework there and I’m too @red when I get home Student Meridian Park My most important needs are to be able and actually No. Elementary have your teacher teach you in person instead of just doing it online because I think that it is preDy hard to be able to understand something that your teacher says online. Student Meridian Park Not geyng Covid-19. Elementary Student Meridian Park other people to interact with I would rather have in person not online classes Elementary

176 Student Meridian Park Sanity. Freedom of socialness with friends and people Some of these I didn't really know how to answer because, Elementary in general. Carona TO GO AWAY!!!!!!!( Though it we don't know what the future will look like. I had to assume doesn't listen to me). the normality of covid cases were lower. Though I do appreciate you taking your @me to do this! Hope you are well! - Student Meridian Park School checklist for next semester. Ac@vi@es and Elementary resources for this summer. Student Meridian Park Socializing. I really wish we could get back to school soon. I really miss all Elementary my friends and teachers. Thanks. Student Meridian Park Someone to help me sort out what I need to do and Elementary when and someone to answer my ques@ons Student Meridian Park Staying away from coronavirus, and being around my Elementary friends. Student Meridian Park That everyone washes their hands and/or uses hand Elementary sani@zer Student Meridian Park the content I need to move on to middle school. Elementary Student Meridian Park The most important need is for school to start on @me District issued laptop was a great help along with the Elementary this fall. classroom google. It would have been helfpul to have a district issued laptop issued at the beginning of the year to help with school work. Student would have been more comfortable with remote learning if they had been using the google classrom from the beginning of the year. Student Meridian Park the slow or stop of COVID-19 Elementary Student Meridian Park To be able to have in person learning and to see others Elementary including friends, but have an widely adhered to policy for social distancing and hand washing. I also want to be able to do elec@ves. Student Meridian Park To see my teachers and get to actually learn IRL Elementary Student Meridian Park Washing hands whenever needed and sani@zing My mother is usually making the decisions Elementary

177 Student Meridian Park I like online learning much beDer then school learning. The Elementary reason that I like online learning beDer is that I can finish assignments in one, two, or three days and have the rest of the week free. What I am saying is I like to have more control of the days I work and the days I don't. I would like it very much if our teachers would post all the assignment for the next week or two so I could work ahead. Another big part for me strictness. I would strongly prefer that everyone follow social distancing everyone to prac@ce social distancing but it is impossible to never make mistakes and as long as people are trying their best to follow social distancing rules I would like there not to be extremely large punishments. The biggest parts for me will be that everybody constantly wears a mask and surfaces are wiped down every period. The number one biggest thing forever and forever (infinity x infinity) x infinity and two most important thing is low numbers of cases!!!!!! Student Meridian Park Structure, daily tasks, frequent teacher interac@on Kindergarten were most helpful. We could have used a higher Program workload; most of the @me it was too laid back and too easy for our student's learning style. (We recognize that this does not apply to all, but we needed more.) Student Meridian Park We just finished a wacky year of kindergarten, both Kindergarten with the magnet program and the COVID restructuring. Program Many of the above answers were talked through with an adult. Student North City keeping our family healthy and safe. making in person lessons op@onal un@l a vaccina@on is Kindergarten available gives me peace of mind knowing my child will be Program home and safe but back in his shoreline classroon hopefully in the winter or spring when things are safe. Student North City A 6 year old kindergarten student answered these ques@ons Kindergarten to the best of his ability with help of some reading from Program parent. Student Parkwood A normal rou@ne Good communica@on Elementary Student Parkwood Being able to do things and see my friends Elementary

178 Student Parkwood Clear guidelines for in-class conduct (social distancing, If the 2020/2021 school year is a mix of in-person and online, Elementary etc.) once school begins in the fall; clear expecta@ons I now believe with these past few months of experience that for assignments (how to carry out, due dates, etc.) the approach to teaching will need to be very tac@cal and when learning is conducted online. segmented. Which is to say, focus the virtual @me on explaining upcoming assignments while geyng maximum engagement from students talking about and understanding the expecta@ons for assignments, including due dates. Then focus in-person classroom @me on review and discussion where teachers can use all the visual queues they normally use to gauge student understanding. My 6th grader to-be is very adept with interac@ve technology (chats, videos, online gaming), which is not uncommon in this era. But this is not the same as understanding schedules, due dates, expecta@ons. It's going to be cri@cal to get the right mix of in-person and online, focusing those elements of teaching that are best suited for online for that @me, and focusing those elements best suited to in-person for that @me. My sense is that online is best suited for delivering clear expecta@ons, while in-person is best suited for dealing with ambiguity and though[ul discussion. I hope this helps. Student Parkwood During remote learning I would like too have a way to Elementary communicate with my teacher when I have ques@ons. Student Parkwood For my mom to get her job back. Elementary Student Parkwood I need more @me with work. Elementary Student Parkwood I would like to have a weekly calendar of expecta@ons Elementary and assignments. The day by day was hard to manage some@mes. Student Parkwood Interac@ng with others!! Elementary Student Parkwood My most important needs currently are my availability I believe that we should be aware and be following necessary Elementary to do school work and zoom calls. precau@ons if we do choose to go back to school and that we should agree on terms which have to do with our and other's health.

179 Student Parkwood Safe and healthy We miss the school Elementary Student Parkwood School that is not at home!!!!!! Elementary Student Parkwood Seeing friends and having in person school. Elementary Student Parkwood Social distance Our family is very worried about star@ng school this fall in Elementary person and really wish they would hold off un@l there is a vaccine. Student Parkwood Special Educa@on and IEP delivery by classroom Elementary teacher is the most important thing to us at this point. Delivered in a safe environment. Student Parkwood Staying ac@ve. Calling friends. Ea@ng healthy. Spending It was very hard to learn at home!!! It was hard to stay on Elementary @me with your family. task. A lot of other things were distrac@ng around me. I was at my mom's child care center. It was hard learning on the computer. Student Parkwood The classwork needs to be available to everyone and Elementary support from teachers throughout the day. Addi@onally structured learning and tools that work for instance, we had issues edi@ng slides and some of the other work which can be frustra@ng with minimal support. Student Parkwood To go back with all of my friends I miss school Elementary Student Parkwood To try to not get sick Elementary Student Parkwood I hope we can get to school in the fall! Elementary Student Ridgecrest A clear and consistent schedule Elementary Student Ridgecrest A structured school day in person teaching Get beDer curriculum to share with parents since may end up Elementary teaching and homeschooling. Allow us to purchase curriculum and get reimbursed like a real home school program

180 Student Ridgecrest Actually learning something because I did not order I would like to share with you that I have or nothing Elementary anything this year for at home learning provided by my absolutely nothing from the teacher provided material this teachers year I have orange from what my parents have given what I have worked for and what I have seen through other resources you have done nothing for me this year Student Ridgecrest As a full @me working parent naviga@ng the various Elementary programs in use is frustra@ng and tedious. One pla[orm for the class is sufficient Student Ridgecrest Being at school to see teachers and friends I miss my teachers Elementary Student Ridgecrest Being with my family. Elementary Student Ridgecrest Friends Elementary Student Ridgecrest Geyng stricter learning priori@es. I have not as much Elementary trouble geyng on as much as others, but s@ll, have a liDle bit of trouble geyng myself to do it. Student Ridgecrest Hand sani@zer, probably not a lot of students in one I didn't like video learning when the videos were too long. I Elementary class, lessons that don't require a lot of touching couldn't ask ques@ons about certain lessons. (example; basketball, shared science projects and instruments). Student Ridgecrest I need my friends to make me at the most happy. Elementary Student Ridgecrest I want to be in school but I don’t want to wake up I have a dog named Toby. Elementary early. Student Ridgecrest I want to come back to school with the avaiable op@on Elementary of face-to-face teaching.

181 Student Ridgecrest If remote learning model is used, a classroom type I feel the Shoreline School District (SSD) is doing the best it Elementary interac@on with specific @mes to interact with my can at helping students during this @me but what they are teacher and peers in my class. Also, the ability to doing is inadequate. The SSD is not setup to be an online socially interact with others in a "classroom" seyng. program and should consider teaming up with online programs already established so that they are not trying to reinvent something that already exists. I know that might mean staffing changes but the current staff is not able to create enough content to keep students busy without crea@ng a lot of ques@ons and requiring a lot of parent involvement. Student Ridgecrest Keeping myself focused while trying to do ac@vi@es. I Again, more structured school day Elementary would like an everyday 2 hour class zoom mee@ngs Student Ridgecrest LEARN SOMETHING. Oh, and be with my friends. I hate quara@ne, and I wish I was out already. I also miss my Elementary teacher. :( Student Ridgecrest Making sure that all (teachers students volunteers and Elementary other that come to pick up students or to school), are educated and following the guidelines to stay healthy. That kids are also constantly reminded and taught in the school seyng how to stay healthy and keep social distancing etc. Student Ridgecrest My friends Elementary Student Ridgecrest My most important needs at this @me would probably I think I shared preDy much everything I need to. Elementary just be staying safe. Home learning isn't that problema@c for me but if we did go back to school, I would want everyone to be safe. I would like to try to follow social distancing at school, but it might be a hard thing to do. Student Ridgecrest physical ac@vi@es Elementary Student Ridgecrest Safe guidelines to reduce risks Elementary Student Ridgecrest Since my mom's a teacher and my dad's a doctor I will Elementary be staying home alone a lot. Also, it might make it hard to do online learning since I'll most likely be doing it by myself.

182 Student Ridgecrest To stay safe and not bring any exposure at home for Elementary others who are being safe. Student Ridgecrest We don't have any, thanks! Elementary Student Ridgecrest We need direct instruc@on, live, from teachers. We Elementary need regular and consistent feedback. Student Ridgecrest Zoom mee@ng everyday helps. Elementary Student Ridgecrest I have missed in-person schooling, and I wish to go back, Elementary especially because I am star@ng at Kellogg, a new middle school for me. But, like others, I don't enjoy having to prac@ce social distancing. I think that if we are required to wear a face covering, and maintain a distance of at least six feet, it's not worth going back. There would be more chances of geyng exposed to Covid-19, and it would be a pain to keep that in mind with all of the other learning we do. Also, I think about the liDler kids, in kindergarten and preschool. The masks are mostly uncomfortable, and I don't like wearing them. The younger kids must have a harder @me, and even I don't understand the consequences of not wearing it. I don't want to return to school if it means we s@ll have to prac@ce social distancing. I appreciate this survey being sent out to consider the opinions of the community. Student Ridgecrest The videos did not always match the lesson and I got Elementary frustrated with online learning. Student Ridgecrest When virtual classes were provided during the pandemic Elementary @me, as a parent, I found it's beneficial to have more virtual mee@ngs than just 3 @mes a week. In addi@onal, some 1:1 @mes schedule will be great to check in with students progress and help students engaged. 3 @mes a week (half hour each) are too minimal to help students on track for academic progress. Student Shorecrest High - BeDer set-ups and weekly plans from teachers with School more videos and slideshow walkthroughs. - Social life

183 Student Shorecrest High 1. Having a regular @me to check-in one-on-one with Not at this @me. School the teacher. 2. Having access to the resources I need to succeed in my classes and gain a good understanding of the course material and key concepts. 3. Finding a way to structure my @me and priori@ze my tasks so that I can be as produc@ve as possible. Student Shorecrest High A live teacher that I can ask ques@ons in front of me. School Preferably in person but on a screen is fine Student Shorecrest High A reason to do my assignments, although when school School starts in fall I would probably do all of them. Student Shorecrest High A reliable educa@on where I know that I am actually School benefi@ng from the content that is being provided to me. Also the mo@va@on and incen@ve to actually do my work. Student Shorecrest High A slow come back School Student Shorecrest High Access to a printer so I can be more efficient in my School comple@on of assignments and access to school materials. Student Shorecrest High Accessibility to teachers I’m not into the home learning because it’s preDy confusing School to switching digital teaching than normal going to school Student Shorecrest High An actual “teaching @me” from the teachers instead of School just reading a page in the textbook especially for harder classes like pre calc Student Shorecrest High Athle@cs School Student Shorecrest High Being able to get the credits I need to graduate School Student Shorecrest High being able to go to school in the fall. School Student Shorecrest High being able to graduate on @me School Student Shorecrest High Being able to have the fun parts of school to relieve School stress like sports, ac@vi@es, etc

184 Student Shorecrest High Being safe Nothing School Student Shorecrest High Communica@on and teacher accountability need to be Teachers are all so different when it comes to hl. Things School higher while we can s@ll maintain a safe environment. need.to be more uniform. This should be about how to keep We need.to get back to school. the students learning and their mind engaged. Instead it was more we need to cover this content, take a test... The only thing true about home learning is it was at home. I know me and many of my other peers didn't learn. Student Shorecrest High communica@on with teachers, my Thank you for crea@ng this form School did video lessons on youtube where you could access and rewind on and they were very helpful. You could tell she wanted to be with us Student Shorecrest High Contac@ng counselor for running start registra@on I really DON’T want to have regular zoom mee@ngs before School 9am at the earliest. Also if the use of slide shows could be reduced that would be great. Student Shorecrest High Cuyng the students some slack. Especially for the class School of 24. We're star@ng at a brand new school and don't even know how we're gonna learn yet. Student Shorecrest High During home learning, I felt very unmo@vated. Not School being able to have any structure, really gave me nothing. Student Shorecrest High flexable sleep schedule School Student Shorecrest High Flexibility. It is irra@onal to expect the “normal” from Over the course of the COVID school period, the only class School students when many may be working jobs, taking care that I was engaged in Zoom calls with was my Shorewood of their siblings for their parents, worrying about if class, I felt extremely disconnected with my their parents can afford the house rent, and trying to Shorecrest classes, and many teachers assigned a lot of work maintain both emo@onal and physical health at the without offering the necessary resources to complete it. Also, same @me. Because of this, teachers need to be expecta@ons about grading were s@ll extremely confusing, especially flexible and understanding during this @me. and that is one element that can not be confusing when students are trying to maintain their grades. Student Shorecrest High flexible teachers since everyone may be going through no School things that we dont know about and are unable to start/finish their assigned work. it is also tough for others who have hard @mes studying/working by themselves.

185 Student Shorecrest High For all those in charge and with authority to make Be understanding to student needs. School things fair and easy for students and teachers. Why make life more difficult during these @mes? Student Shorecrest High Fresh Air School Student Shorecrest High geyng everyone back to school so they can learn and Send out a waiver for parents to sign so if kids get sick they School not be dumb when they are older. Young kids aren’t at can’t sue the district. Because yes you might care about the high risk so let the kids that want to go to school go to kids but you care more about not geyng sued school. Student Shorecrest High Go back to school and play sports Home learning sucks! School Student Shorecrest High going back to school i want to go back to school School Student Shorecrest High Going back to school and being able to play sports School Student Shorecrest High Good communica@on about the plans for next year. School Student Shorecrest High GRADUATING School Student Shorecrest High have a summer and not think about the fall School Student Shorecrest High having a good summer School Student Shorecrest High having flexible due dates and @mes for class School Student Shorecrest High Having the vaccine for COVID-19. Can’t go anywhere School due to having parents that are high risk. Which means I will NOT be able to aDend in person at the school, no maDer the precau@ons it may have. Student Shorecrest High Having @me for myself School Student Shorecrest High Health safety School Student Shorecrest High Health, not endangering other people, vibing, School

186 Student Shorecrest High high school soccer and also being able to have the PSAT I also believe that the seniors didn’t get half the recogni@on School is my most important priority. I make school and soccer that they deserved. Everyone has been given a solid prom, at the top of my list and As I am aware of risks and how Caen laida, and gradua@on. now I know with corona it was bad corona is right now, I think that it’s unfair to have bound to be different but I don’t think that it was handled school learning in the fall for everybody at least people properly. While other schools are s@ll geyng to be in the with athle@cs should be able to prac@ce with masks arena that they would regularly graduate in, I couldn’t even etc. aDend my sisters gradua@on because there was a 2 person limit. And that is sad. I also was upset that when we got there my sister tried to talk to her friend in another car, and an administrator told them they need to go back to their families. I also would like to point out that no one knows where the prom money went towards. The seniors were very upset to this as they spent four years aDending this school and not even a teacher emailed them to apologize or even say congrats. 2020 was an amazing class, and the board and school did nothing to show that. Student Shorecrest High I am a senior and I need to have sports con@nue! I School swim and I will be on varsity this year and sports are my life without swim I might not get into college and it is a top priority that ALL SPORTS have a season. Student Shorecrest High I desperately need to be able to see my friends/ Home learning does not take into account neurodivergent School classmates and par@cipate in a class. Being at home people who may not be capable of doing schoolwork at and trying to do this home learning is NOT home. For me, without the proper environment, I cannot working at all and I nearly failed mul@ple classes bring myself to get the work done because I don't have the because of it. I cannot focus on schoolwork without a environment I need to focus. I don't have the classroom, I school environment. don't have the classmates, and I don't have the teacher. Zoom doesn't work for me either and honestly, it might be worse than trying to go at it alone. If we can do school in person in the fall, I would REALLY like to because otherwise, I am GOING to fail. Student Shorecrest High I don’t want to experience my senior year locked in my To consider priori@zing the seniors and giving us the best School room at home all day and not having any school chance at school @me. experience. Student Shorecrest High I don't have good wifi in my house so I bearly did my I didn't know when te deadlines re so I didn't turn things in School work. @me.

187 Student Shorecrest High I don't really have any important needs as of this It would be very helpful if there was more informa@on about School moment but it would be nice if there was any guidelines regarding academics because during covid I was informa@on about if there will be any summer told that our grades couldn't go down and could only go up, homework for AP classes. This isn't a priority, I just but towards the end of the year my grades started dras@cally think it will be helpful as students will able to get an going down in some classes (even though that shouldn't be idea of what's to come and can get a head start on it (if possible). In addi@on, it would be nice if teachers were more we end up geyng the homework). flexible about do dates and incomplete work because I really struggled to complete all my assignments due to conflicts/ issues at home and not all my teachers were understanding about it and made me feel guilty that I wasn't doing my work or geyng it in on @me. This doesn't just go for covid and our transi@on back to school in the fall, but it would be extremely helpful if all the informa@on sent to parents was also sent to students because not all students have reliable parents that will relay important informa@on back to them. Personally, i have to take up the parent's role in terms of my academic journey because my parents haven't been there to fully support me in that aspect of my life so its really frustra@ng that my parents get crucial nforma@on that I need to know and i never get to hear about it. :^) Student Shorecrest High I feel like the ability to go to school because it's so School important. If we had masks and screening, then I would feel comfortable. Student Shorecrest High I hope that teachers and administrators communicate School with us as much as possible so no one is lej in the dark. Student Shorecrest High I just want to see my friends. I want to eat lunch with I hope you are doing well. School them like we used too. I just want to be in that dynamic again. Student Shorecrest High I learn things beDer in person, and I can actually ask School ques@ons and get them answered in real @me. So having class in person would be needed.

188 Student Shorecrest High I need it to feel useful, meaningful, with the beDer Please have everything feel meaningful, when a teacher School teachers and easier to understand contact. When an assigns a thing which feels superfluous, or when they don't assignment feels useless it's difficult to want to do it, publish the dates and informa@on regularly, it makes the and without the structure of a normal school day at an situa@on untenable. Also when and if doing distance learning ins@tu@on that's not possible for me. schedule the zooms, and record them. Making the videos available if they were issues geyng into or using the VoIP program, and for later reference. Student Shorecrest High I need my teachers and my credits School Student Shorecrest High I need rou@ne and structure. Being at school. I feel School access to peers and teachers as a group and and Q&A with teacher and students is important for my learning and helps me stay on track or know if I'm doing something correctly. I hope we get to have in-person school next year but if not, want to have regular Zoom mee@ngs with my teachers and students either in small groups or as a class. I play soccer and miss having a group to be a part of. I hope we get to play soccer in the fall. I want to get involved in clubs but it's not as important if there aren't any clubs. Student Shorecrest High I need school sports and performance teams School Student Shorecrest High I need some answers about how summer homework School will be structured. Student Shorecrest High I need the school district to make a well-thought- School through and informed decision about returning to school with the health and safety of students and staff as the highest priority. Whatever this decision is, I will try my best to get the most out of school. Student Shorecrest High I need to be able to stay healthy and protect my School Immunocompromised family members at home un@l there is a vaccine or the numbers are way low.

189 Student Shorecrest High I NEED TO BE AT SCHOOL. I will be very unhappy if we No one even cares about COVID 19 anymore, people need to School have online learning, and if we do have to go half @me, toughen up, and just have school in person, same as the please divide us up by grade, not by name. We will beginning of last year. miss our friends if we are divided by name, and no one will do work because of how much we will miss our friends. If I can’t see my friends at school, I’m not even gonna go to school. The only way I’d come is if I got to see everyone in my grade. Student Shorecrest High I need to feel safe and I feel safe at home, social School should not open in the fall out of safety concerns. School distancing. Being at school opens up anxiety and Students are not able to keep social distancing. Home unnecessary worries that would be alleviated by Learning works and is accessible to students. Home Learning staying at home and s@ll learning. should be the plan of ac@on un@l a vaccine. Student Shorecrest High I need to go to school to be able to learn, learning at School home just doesn't work. Student Shorecrest High I need to know that I am in a safe environment if Thank you for all the hard work and carefull considera@on School classes are in person at school. But if they are online, I you all are puyng into this! need a liDle more structure and instruc@on from the teachers for a beDer experience. Maybe have strict aDendance and class @mes on Zoom, but have flexible due dates for assignments as not everyone may be able to follow the strict due dates. Student Shorecrest High I need to know what the grading policy is School Student Shorecrest High I really just want to be able to go back to school, do the Please make home learning assignments not just busywork. School ac@vi@es I love, and hang out with my friends that will Having to do pointless ac@vi@es is the worst be gradua@ng this year Student Shorecrest High I want to be able to feel ready about the plans for I think that I would mostly like to interact with students and School school next year. teachers more. At @mes, some of the slideshows were a bit vague and didn't fully explain instruc@ons. I hope by this fall we will either be in school or a bit more interac@ve Home Learning. Student Shorecrest High I would describe my most important needs as being School able to remain safe while con@nuing my educa@on without any major interrup@on.

190 Student Shorecrest High I would like to have some sort of an in person class School (music and hands on learning). Whatever happens, I want teachers to be as involved as possible Student Shorecrest High i’d like to know what the plan is once it is available. School Student Shorecrest High School Student Shorecrest High School Student Shorecrest High In person instruc@on and seeing friendos. School Student Shorecrest High In person learning. I cannot keep up with online School courses. Student Shorecrest High In person school We need to have in person school, in not doing so, we will be School missing out on vital years of our life and we will not grow and learn the proper way. Student Shorecrest High In-person instruc@on I think making physical school happen in some form should School be a priority. I also think high school should be priori@zed because high schoolers are working towards college/career, so we have much more immediate consequences. Student Shorecrest High Just being told what the assignments are and when School they are due. Student Shorecrest High just pa@ence, I’ve got things going on in my life and School more focus on quality of work rather than quan@ty. So instead of making students take 20 pages of notes just do 5 pages of high quality thorough notes. It cuts down on @me spent and you’re more likely to have students want to do high quality work than a massive amount of work that they can’t produce in high quality in @me. Student Shorecrest High Just Seeing my friends and not being trapped at home School and inside all the @me. Student Shorecrest High Keeping in contact with my counselor and other staff School members about college applica@ons. Student Shorecrest High Keeping up grades and geyng enough credits to School graduate.

191 Student Shorecrest High Knowing that my teachers are okay. I think a good plan for online schooling would be to limit the School amount of strictly required homework; that is, homework that is counted towards your class grade. Many kids disliked home learning since they felt that the amount of work per class was far higher than it would be if school was how it normally was. I've heard of classmates spending over 5 hours a day, nearly every day of the week, doing classwork that felt unnecessary or like 'busy work' instead of focusing on subjects that they struggled in or especially enjoyed... which, frankly, I think are the types of classes students should dedicate their study @me to. Having too many assignments in each class---and thus an overwhelming amount in total--- causes students to become stressed and anxious over falling behind and hur@ng their grades, and leads students to focus solely on work comple@on over deep understanding of the content, leading them to quickly forget it before tests and be under-prepared for future classes that build off that poorly absorbed content. I have also heard of students sending each other answers to homework in order to meet deadlines in @me, and I do not blame them at all. There are students who are being significantly impacted by COVID-19 as of today, and as far as I'm concerned, that alone is a big enough source of stress and anxiety. Adding seemingly endless school work, falling behind in class, and dropping grades to the mix and their situa@on becomes all the less fortunate. There of course needs to be some amount of required work to show teachers that their students are par@cipa@ng and are ac@vely learning the content, however I think that making more of that work op@onal would reduce the stresses of doing non-essen@al assignments, and thus benefit students. Student Shorecrest High Maintaining social distancing while also gaining School instruc@on for my classes next year, which will be more challenging than in previous years Student Shorecrest High Make sure teachers are assigning homework on the School same days and making them due on the same days. That just makes everyone procras@nate.

192 Student Shorecrest High Mental health and awareness about myself. It was a School liDle hard in the beginning during home learning but once I got passed a big hurdle then mo@va@on came easier. Student Shorecrest High Mental health support and extensions when required, Several teachers seemed dismissive of the possible mental School and prompt contact with teachers (except over health repercussions of the shutdown un@l I and/or my weekends; weekends are for rest, and my mother's a mother contacted them, some@mes several @mes before they teacher, so I know the consequences of not having a understood the seriousness of the situa@on. I'm well rested instructor as well as a non-rested student). equipped to deal with my mental health; I have a support Generalized emails are good for basic plans but bad for network, a prescribed an@depressant, and an excellent individual ques@ons, as half the class may have the therapist, but there are many other students who don't have same one and the teacher will s@ll have to field all 15 access to the kind of resources I do. Even with all the help I emails separately. Maybe a discussion page (instead of had, it was s@ll very difficult for me to learn remotely, due to a zoom call, which is unreliable and stressful) where a combina@on of depression, anxiety, procras@na@on, bad comments were visible to all par@cipants would save teaching e@queDe, missing my friends, and needing @me, energy, and further den@ng of desks from @red, structure. I worry about students--and teachers--who can't stressed teachers banging their heads down in get help, especially during lockdown. I would suggest an all- exaspera@on ajer the thir@eth iden@cal email in a row faculty mee@ng about helping special needs and reminding them that they misspelled a word in their neurodiverse students with structure, worsening mental slideshow. health, and stress management. Personally, when I have lots of deadlines at once, my hallucina@ons get more frequent and intense. Perhaps staggering deadlines would help students with aDen@on issues priori@ze their work. Student Shorecrest High mental health support. School

193 Student Shorecrest High My biggest concern about school in the fall is the School quality of educa@on provided. As much as I appreciate the situa@on teachers were put in and the work required to get something in place for this year, the quality of instruc@on was a complete joke. How engaged the teachers were was completely hit or miss. Some teachers really did there best and were engaged and put in the effort but many just didn’t. I would like to hear from you how you are going to make sure the quality of educa@on my child receives will be equivalent to what they would get in the classroom. I have experience with online private school and quality instruc@on is absolutely possible online. I have many friends whose kids aDend private school in the area and every one of those schools transi@oned seamlessly to online learning without as much as a hiccup. I understand you have different rules to follow and more complex issues. I am not trying to be en@tled nor do I lack empathy for the situa@on. But, next year absolutely has to be beDer and I certainly hope that actually educa@ng the kids is going to take a central posi@on in planning for next year. My child will be going into Junior year, taking mul@ple AP courses and this is the most important scholas@c year of their life. The ques@ons in this survey didn’t address academics at all. I appreciate that many people are in need. But this is first and foremost school with the purpose of educa@ng and preparing my child for college, yet this seems to be at the boDom of everyone’s priority list. I would like for you to address the quality of instruc@on issue in future communica@ons. I also have great concern with some of the requirements to return to school and the feasibility of complying with these. First, as much as I am a fan of masks, it worries me that my child will be required to wear a mask for 7 hours straight without a break. I don’t know about you but I tear the thing off the minute I leave the grocery store. It is a health risk to wear a mask for extended periods in this way. Even health care workers get a moment 194 Student Shorecrest High My most important need right now is for doctors to Some of my teachers gave me a good amount of work but for School find a vaccine. some it was a lot Student Shorecrest High My most important needs for me is that I will get None. School informa@on about the school year will look like in the fall and athle@cs. Student Shorecrest High My needs are personal that i cannot share at this @me. It's been a crazy year no doubt about that at all. School Student Shorecrest High Next year school being normal School Student Shorecrest High no stress School Student Shorecrest High Not being exposed to the virus??? I wholly do not understand why anyone should go back to School school when there isn't a vaccine. That's crazy and I'd be not only scared for myself and my family but everyone else's family, like that is such a large network of possible infec@ons even in just one classroom. Student Shorecrest High not geyng covid-19 or exposing anyone else to it...? if covid-19 is s@ll an issue in fall we should absolutely NOT go School back to school and instead stay in home learning with a no penalty grading method. this is a horrible @me for everyone and i would much rather focus on staying alive and staying mentally healthy than have to struggle through both school and a worldwide pandemic at the same @me Student Shorecrest High Nothing Because Money is always important As in No School pocket money Student Shorecrest High Nothing stands out at this point. Some ques@ons on the survey were to vague. Especially the School ones about learning tools. Student Shorecrest High online zoom learning class teacher ,teaches the lesson School live then we do the hw Student Shorecrest High Open gyms for volleyball School Student Shorecrest High Paper school work School Student Shorecrest High Pa@ence and understanding that I’m struggling to keep School myself going right now

195 Student Shorecrest High Sanita@on, so lots of soap. And informa@on, people School are informed with lies, or don’t know the depth of the situa@on. Student Shorecrest High Seeing my friends School Student Shorecrest High Seeing people IRL who I am not related to. Also known This is what I think: I think making everybody wear masks in School as physical interac@on with people that I don't see in school is extremely ridiculous, dumb, ineffec@ve, and my house. unnecessary. I plan on wri@ng a full argumenta@ve essay on this during this summer and will probably send it to people. This whole thing is overblown, and before you say that by doing this we have saved lives, take a look at the fact that we only stopped deaths from a poten@al overload of the medical systems, and not in general. This whole thing is mostly unnecessary, and if you look at Europe, they are doing fine now. The vast majority of people who have died from this were compromised in their health, or were old (the elderly and immunually incapacitated make up the VAST majority of deaths, and the US medical system has also bribed doctors and hospitals to over-report deaths as COVID 19 deaths for no good reason). Look into non-mainstream media that says differently. Also, originally the CDC and WHO both said that there would be no health benefit for healthy people to wear masks during this @me. Consider all of this please. Student Shorecrest High Social distancing and covid awareness, masks, sana@zer School Student Shorecrest High social interac@on School Student Shorecrest High Social interac@on and sports. School Student Shorecrest High Some form of structure School Student Shorecrest High Some kind of in person interac@on with teachers (not Thank you for all the effort and hard work that has gone into School zoom). crea@ng home learning from scratch. The fact that you had no previous experience or knowledge of how to create a completely online program, and managed to do so in such a short amount of @me is truly amazing.

196 Student Shorecrest High Some kind of teacher-led instruc@on (even if it was It is important to have some sort of human connec@on, even School online/Zoom) is important. It helps to feel connected if it is just a short Zoom mee@ng to connect with a class. I to the class and ojen makes learning less @me- think there should be some sort of required class mee@ngs consuming because students aren't "teaching because of this. I think that it is important for students to themselves;" it also helps to add structure to a understand that, if we go back to school in person, they need student’s day. Something else important is for work to to take precau@ons, I don’t think everyone understands the be due at different @mes throughout the week (but not seriousness and how easily it could be avoided by simple on the weekend, breaks are important). I, personally, steps. found myself having trouble mo@va@ng when most of the work was due on one day (there were ojen around eight-ish assignments due on Fridays and only two or three the rest of the days of the week). In addi@on, if, hypothe@cally, there were to be a structured school day online, it should probably be for short increments so that students to not spend all day on the computer. Spending a lot of @me on-screen is very draining and it helps to take breaks or just have shorter @mes.

197 Student Shorecrest High Somedays, I get very stressed about the horrible things I, for the most part, enjoyed home learning. If it is not viable School going on in the world. Whether it is due to COVID or to for us to return to school, I have no problem learning at the racial injus@ces and fear for family and friends, home. Also, I think it's important to talk about racism. I think some@mes it is difficult to concentrate and I struggle to it's important to show how it exists in healthcare, in schools, stay on top of everything. I think I need resources: and in many other places. People need to be able to ones that allow conversa@on, links to unbiased sources recognize signs of unconscious racism and acknowledging its that explain what is going on, links that help one existence. We should also be shown how it impacts everyday understand COVID - why people are recommending life. My teacher, , once asked if students in our certain things, etc. In general, just places to get class had felt that they had been unfairly treated due to their informa@on and ask ques@ons. race. I was shocked because I thought we were all treated the same. I had never heard any of them discuss it before so I didn't know any of them had gone through such an event. Their voices need to be heard. If something could be done where people of color within our school system can share their experiences and help to change the system to beDer suit their needs, I think that would be incredible. Also, English 10 was really well done and I believe that what we learned in the class will help us immensely in the future. Another thing I wish would change is the lack of learning about other cultures un@l we are older. World History is incredibly important and I think many fail to understand the world as a whole because the history taught is so focused on America. (Sorry this is really off-topic...) Student Shorecrest High Staying healthy and keeping a schedule for myself. I have asthma so wearing a mask can trigger it and I worry School about having to wear it for a long @me during the day. Thanks so much! Student Shorecrest High Staying healthy, remaining engaged, suppor@ve It would be nice to have more actual Zoom classes and have a School learning way to get to know our teachers and classmates for school next year. It would would also be nice to get email check-ups with teachers and receive emails to remind me about important due dates. Student Shorecrest High Staying healthy. School

198 Student Shorecrest High Staying safe I strongly feel as if everyone is rushing for School everything to get back into place when Vaccines won’t be happening any@me soon. Y’all need to realize the safety of others lives not ur dumb school board. We as a county aren’t taking our @me to move into the next phases, especially because our county has more deaths and cases than snohomish etc. Stop trying so hard to get school started up, Safety is a huge factor with our district and y’all need to now more than ever start thinking about the safety of others. Student Shorecrest High Staying Safe. School Student Shorecrest High Taking care of my loved ones, maintaining social Thank you! School distancing and taking extra precau@ons, and making sure others around me are happy and healthy. Student Shorecrest High Thankfully I don't have any needs that I'm worried will Have a good summer! School be fulfilled. But I am worried about my peers and their ability to have access to schooling and other resources.

199 Student Shorecrest High That the safety of all students, staff, and their families I am a high school student, and would most definitely make a School is considered first above all other things. few sugges@ons. 1) Keep u@lizing Canvas in a consistent manner, whether that is sending out a weekly message of what the week's assignments/lessons would include, or whether that is using the calendar/assignments por@on, etc. 2.) Possibly s@ck to requiring all teachers to either use Files or Modules when puyng in assignments or lessons. And of course, have all use the "Assignments" sec@on. Some teachers would post material in files on one day, and some would post in modules on the next. This made naviga@ng material slightly more difficult and unorganized than it could have been. 3.) This is a very difficult and crazy @me, so having a "structured" home learning day would be inconvenient. That being said, stricter due dates would much beDer assist in pacing and mo@va@on when it comes to finishing assignments. Allowing students to work through at their pace, and have flexibility in their schedules and rou@nes ALONG with s@ll holding them accountable with more due dates would be a very effec@ve combina@on. I understand that with that freedom and flexibility in a school day (not being expected to log in at certain @mes on a daily basis) would likely lead to many students taking advantage of this and just not log in at all. To combat that issue, there could be a form of aDendance to s@ll hold students accountable. (For example, making sure students turn in assignments on @me on a weekly basis). 4.) Similar to how many teachers have different teaching styles, many students have different learning styles. Of course, the different pathways of learning would likely vary depending on the course. However, for a majority of classes and subjects, a variety (such as through reading textbooks/files as WELL as having video resources) would be very helpful. 5.) It is very understandable as to why the exact plan of Home Learning changed many @mes within the first couple of months, as everything was very new and complex. And while I understand much of the Home Learning plan depends on the Governor's order, if possible, having a solid, permanent working plan in place from the start would be very helpful, if possible. That way, students won't be confused with a constantly changing plan regarding grades, 200 Student Shorecrest High The assignments need to have a decrease in our grade. School Meaning if so and so turns in an assignment late it should effect the grade. Just so that the student can push themselves harder. Student Shorecrest High the grading rules need to be clear and consistent home learning School across all teachers Student Shorecrest High To be around people and my friends Hope you all are doing well!! School Student Shorecrest High To be at school with other students and to have in School person elec@ve classes since most can’t be done online Student Shorecrest High To go back to school and be able to see my friends I want to go back to school because it’s easier to learn at School school Student Shorecrest High To graduate and maintain my gpa. School Student Shorecrest High To graduate next year School Student Shorecrest High to have fall sports season we need to have sports season School Student Shorecrest High To have in person learning. Online learning is hard and I don’t have mo@va@on to do it School because there isn’t teachers to keep me on top of work and help me and I’m not saying they don’t but I mean emails and zoom call aren’t alway the best way to keep me on top of it I need to see them and work with them. Student Shorecrest High TO keep having educa@on School Student Shorecrest High To keep me busy and safe School Student Shorecrest High To not have too many assignments due on the same Please try not to assign class schedules for virtual learning as School day. the same days as every other class. Please try to spread out due dates for assignments. Student Shorecrest High To protect those with weakened immune systems from Thanks! School COVID; also to get a half-decent educa@on. Student Shorecrest High Transparency, as is currently being fantas@cally You guys are absolute rockstars. I have full faith and School demonstrated, from our District and OSPI. confidence in this District to navigate this. Since this is anonymous-

201 Student Shorecrest High Trying to get PE credits School Student Shorecrest High Home learning absolutely . It's almost impossible to School learn without feedback from other peers. I am a straight A student and I had extreme difficulty learning. It made me realize that I learn the most talking with peers and the teachers don't teach very well on their own. The thing is, we can't learn new lessons on our own, without some in-person contact with a class. What should the school district do about this? Look to Shoreline Community College--I took an English class over quaran@ne and it was excellent. Every single module was planned out in advance, and I could work ahead if I wanted to. Also, it wasn't too much work. I have never felt truly overwhelmed in school, and Shorecrest quaran@ne home learning overwhelmed me, almost to the point of panic aDacks. Student Shorecrest High Home learning will likely never be as good as in school School instruc@on and while grades may be higher due to the flexibility (which is good), actual learning is suffering. Student Shorecrest High I am scared to return back to school. I don’t think I will feel School safe un@l there is a vaccine for COVID-19. Student Shorecrest High I did not interact with my teachers at all other than a few School @mes at the very beginning and it was disappoin@ng to not receive any educa@on Student Shorecrest High Is paper homework allowed? I need physical work in order to School concentrate and be produc@ve. Student Shorecrest High It is very hard for many students have a strong mo@va@on to School do school work at this @me so just being pa@ent with many of them and staff members as well would be great! Student Shorecrest High please have school in the fall i need school no home learning School please just school

202 Student Shorecrest High Teacher led instruc@on in the form of online zoom classes or School screen casts. ADendance required would be for online classes oppose to @mes students were expected to log into canvas or another similar site. Screen casts and zoom classes give a clearer expecta@on of what is required and are more engaging (and feel shorter) than slideshows, large readings or other methods where students are expected to teach themselves. Of course, there could be a combina@on of readings and recorded or live lessons, but solely relying on the first puts all pressure on the student to manage their @me and stay mo@vated. Recorded lessons are also good for auditory learners like myself. Web sites that are supposed to let the student figure out the goal of the lesson by trial and error, (Khan academy or Gizmo) were extremely confusing and felt like a waste of @me. This is because in many of these sites, most of my @me was spent dragging things around the screen, matching things or randomly plugging in numbers. Please. Do not include these sites in any curriculum Student Shorecrest High The amount of schoolwork given from each teacher was far School too much to keep up with. For students who struggle to find mo@va@on to do the work in the first place having 20 assignments a week is horrible. Student Shorewood High a good mental health. School Student Shorewood High A single way of assigning assignments. Small groups work beDer on Zoom. School Student Shorewood High Although I miss going to school and having in-person My parents and I are extremely concerned about going back School classes, the most important thing to me is to be safe to school in the Fall considering the current situa@on. I do not and not contract the virus because I live with think social distancing will not be taken seriously by students. immunocompromised grandparents who are extremely We would like an op@on to do home learning for those who vulnerable to the virus. do not feel safe to return. Student Shorewood High an in person educa@on only if it doesn't come to the nope School risk of my health. But I do running start and am never at shorewood except for sports, but i need access to guidance counselors and Ms.Stephens for college stuff.

203 Student Shorewood High At this @me, some sort of summer curriculum created School by each high school department. What I mean by that is some sort of summer homework that is not mandatory but s@ll beneficial for the next year. I think there will be a lot of distrac@ons next year if we're in school, so having some base knowledge of each new subject would be helpful. If not a summer curriculum then some resources that could be helpful. Student Shorewood High being able to aDend school in person as much as School possible Student Shorewood High Being able to finish and complete all things I need to School have a good and set senior year. Student Shorewood High Being able to fully learn the content in my classes to I really hope we can have in person school. If not the en@re School the est of my abili@es. Especially in my AP classes, year or semester, then at least on a par@al schedule where elec@ves aren't as cri@cal to me. I also want to feel fully we go in a few days out of the week like it's been talked prepared for the college applica@on process in the Fall, about. since it's a very stressful thing. Student Shorewood High Being able to go outside and do some physical exercise Nope School because my parents won't let me unless instructed by school Allow football teams to start prac@ce Student Shorewood High Being able to have access and learn the material -Not everyone has the materials to do art projects -Staff School necessary to con@nue my highschool career at the reduc@ons(teacher assistants) might lead to more high normal rate in a safe environment where I'm not schoolers like me spending more @me helping special needs endangering my health by coming to school. That siblings with their work and have less @me for their own. - includes elec@ves, normal curriculums and clubs. I Commu@ng might be challenging because of busy parents worry that the lack of community service and club and the dangers of taking public transporta@on for distance par@cipa@on will show on my college resume, commuters -Zoom mee@ngs some@mes overlap, so a paren@ng me from perusing my ambi@ons. I also worry system/schedule for zoom mee@ngs per period should be that big test and project due dates will affect a person's established. Also offering mul@ple during the week -If judgement to come to school when they feel unwell. someone misses school, They should not feel stressed about Also if lunch is to be eaten at school, the lunch period what they are missing, so more online materials, instead of should be broken up by year due to the cramped paper materials -Like canvas, have a specific note taking cafeteria arangments. app(Google Keep) and video recording app(Flipgrid). -Be able to call tech support when troubles arise and someone is stuck at home Student Shorewood High Being able to see my friends. School

204 Student Shorewood High Being able to socialize and athle@cs School Student Shorewood High Being in a classroom learning from an instructor, I Just because these are unprecedented @mes and no one School haven’t been able to learn at all during this @me of really knows what to do or how to act doesn’t mean staff quaran@ne. Masks should definitely be required, but I have authority to be s. I fully expect a “zero tolerance don’t know if strict social distancing is needed. policy” in regards to social distancing and the like (as SW has Teachers need to be flexible and reasonable with had with preDy much everything), but I don’t think that’s students, all of mine have. necessary or fair. You cannot blame a student for wan@ng to walk with a friend to class or siyng with a friend, and your hos@lity will not help the situa@on. Be kind. Don’t be vague (like most things in this survey), and listen to students. We know you have our safety in mind but it is ojen overshadowed by your coldness and strict instruc@on. The students have a lot of good ideas and should be taken seriously. Also, let the seniors turn in their own senior photo this year. Offer the photographer too, but please give us the op@on. Also consider having homecoming outdoors. Also get rid of Thank you. Student Shorewood High Being safe School Student Shorewood High Being with my friends School Student Shorewood High beDer wifi, personal space English is difficult to learn online School Student Shorewood High Clear and accurate informa@on about what work needs School to be done and by when. Student Shorewood High Coming back to school in person School Student Shorewood High Comple@ng community service and na@onal tes@ng Will gradua@on requirements be modified? School (SAT, ACT) Student Shorewood High Definitely a flexible school day. School

205 Student Shorewood High Could we not do the half days on Wednesdays and get back School to staff day work days ON MONDAYS NOT ON FRIDAYS because some@mes as a high school student I need liDle breaks from school and I bet the teachers need it too to do a lot of grading. Also the staff day work days always get used up by the winter days so we never have those rn. Student Shorewood High Emails from the School district to my K12 Email for Football is a HUGE concern of mine (I want to play :) ) School Updates (Weekly hopefully) Student Shorewood High engaging lessons that I can learn from, but aren't While I enjoyed the reduced amount of homework, I didn't School overbearing. learn much and I don't want to fall behind in classes. More structured lessons should be prepared that beDer match the rigor of high school to help reduce learning gaps. Student Shorewood High School Student Shorewood High Es el estudio de mi hijo Muchísimas gracias a todos los maestros y que se lo pasen de School lo mejor. Student Shorewood High Everyone is safe and doesn’t have a fever of anything. School Student Shorewood High Everyone to be safe and healthy! School Student Shorewood High Everyone trying to be as healthy as possible and School flexible teachers with school work Student Shorewood High feeling comfortable with schoolwork, and not being I believe that a more flexible/less strict school schedule School overwhelmed by it. would be very helpful for students during @mes like these. Student Shorewood High Feeling like I am able to engage and have fun learning. School It's way too easy to feel depressed and disengaged even if teachers are pushing for online learning par@cipa@on. Student Shorewood High feeling safe School Student Shorewood High Flexibility School Student Shorewood High flexibility and understandment. School

206 Student Shorewood High Flexibility in the system to accompany for as many School people as possible Student Shorewood High flexibility, clear instruc@ons and a consice way of If I don't check in with my teacher, email me too not just my School communica@ng what needs to be done when. It would parent. Most of the @me I just forget to check in, and I can't help if we checked in with all our teachers in the same keep track of all the check ins required. if you email me to way. like if every Monday each teacher had an remind me, it'll help me remember instead of having my announcement that we had to reply to by Wednesday. parent get mad every week because I forgot about a certain I got confused about how I was supposed to check in class on accident. I am confused about the ques@on with each teacher. regarding what health guidelines I need to return to school. I am not a health expert, I do not know. That should be up to the health and safety department to decide what is needed to return to school, not the students. Student Shorewood High Flexibility, mo@va@on, able to graduate, and contact School with teachers/adults. Student Shorewood High FLEXIBILITY. I cannot do everything on @me every@me. I No. I do appreciate the meals you guys are willing to serve. School need to rely on the fact that I am not gonna be more Thats respectable. punished during a pandemic than I would be if everything was normal. Yes, students would take advantage of this, at the same token, those same students probably did try to take advantage of how it was to start woth. Student Shorewood High Flexible due dates School Student Shorewood High flexible due dates and for teachers to not email School students’ parents about missing work because they don’t know about home situa@ons.

Student Shorewood High Flexible due dates. School Student Shorewood High For lenient grading, and for teachers to be If school doesn't occur in-person this fall, expect some of the School understanding if I have not been logging on. There is a student body to be at work during the school day. As a low- lot going on at home which may impact my ability to income student, I'll be star@ng a job next week and will ask log on at certain @mes, so flexibility and leniency are for more hours if school doesn't take place in-person. I am crucial. preparing for the economic downfall from this virus and MUST work to support myself in my future college educa@on tui@on.

207 Student Shorewood High For me, and many of my friends, it has been incredibly School difficult to mo@vate ourselves into comple@ng home learning. Although it doesn't sound the most appealing, if we were to do home learning again, I believe more structure (such as daily ac@vi@es instead of weekly), could be a great aid. Student Shorewood High Geyng back to in-person learning is my biggest need. The structure of online learning is confusing, because all the School This is because it is extremely difficult to comprehend teachers do it differently. This leads to mul@ple problems and ask ques@ons without being with the teacher. It is related to how and when assignments were supposed to be also important for me to maintain my grades at a high completed. Also, I think that it is very hard to judge and grade level for college. This would be much easier to a student based off of what they accomplish without being accomplish if we went back to physical school. able to interact with the teacher in person Student Shorewood High Geyng to be with friends and have ac@vi@es and School sports for the fall. Student Shorewood High Go back to school School Student Shorewood High Going back to school and learning I’m not concerned about coronavirus. Of course we should all School be careful, I’m not saying we shouldn’t take cau@on. But the most important thing in order to not further impact my learning and the learning of my peers is to have in person school where we are expected to complete assignments and can easily reach out to our teachers. High school is where the most important learning in our lives can happen and we’ve already taken away 1/3 of a year from our educa@on. We cannot afford to take any more if we want to go on to have successful futures and have a shot at becoming things like doctors, teachers and lawyers. Student Shorewood High Having a clear plan for the day Having instruc@on with I think that I will learn the best with in person instruc@on so School a teacher via zoom or in person especially for more I’d love for that to be a priority difficult classes Student Shorewood High Having in person class or regular zoom classes. I need stability when it comes to school. All my teachers did School something different during quaran@ne and it made it very difficult to accomplish everything. Required zooms would help me priori@ze and manage my @me. I did not do well with teachers who just send me videos of other people talking about what I needed to learn.

208 Student Shorewood High Having low stress because everything happening in the School world is stressful so keeping school lower stress is important while s@ll learning. Student Shorewood High Having strong communica@on and teaching from my School teachers. Student Shorewood High Having the ability to learn in a classroom seyng with a As a high school student using canvas, the different places to School teacher. If that is not an op@on, having actual learning find assignments and work was at @mes challenging. classes, over zoom or a prerecorded video, instead of Personally, I preferred the modules op@on, as it had the just zoom check-ins for wellbeing and ques@ons about week’s work all laid out, and different forms of learning and the work. Overall, more interac@ve content. applica@on could be used (links to videos, websites, quizzes, pages). Also teachers releasing all of the work for the week on Monday, and not releasing and assigning work mul@ple @mes a week. If there were to be more interac@ve classes (like zoom calls), also pos@ng the videos for people who missed the call or so students can re-watch for beDer understanding of the content. Student Shorewood High Health and safety I don’t like it how a teacher changed grade during the online School learning part I had a A before and now have a F. Student Shorewood High Hopefully we can go back to school without worrying School about corona too much. But if next year is online, that’s completely fine. Student Shorewood High i am fulfilling my needs during this pandemic School Student Shorewood High I am much more produc@ve when I have in person I really hope we can have a vaccine before the school year. School conversa@ons with my teachers and other students. It would help me immensely, over a screen is not the same. Student Shorewood High I don't care about anything but wrestling for next year. It's really hard to find mo@va@on and have accountability School I would do anything to wrestle one more year. when you work from home. Student Shorewood High I don't really have pressing needs at this @me. But I School think that , if possible, students should only come to school if they believe it's safe to come back. Student Shorewood High I feel that there is no subs@tute for in-person School instruc@on. I will be very sad and worried about my educa@on if I can't return, at least part @me, to school next year.

209 Student Shorewood High I have to be in school in person with a teacher and my I did not learn with online school and every single person I School classmates to learn most effec@vely. Online learning asked said that they heated on every single assignment. was mentally draining and caused my mental health to Please do not con@nue online learning. Let us go back to decline into a depressive state. school in person. I am very depressed. Student Shorewood High I just need to be able to take my @me with work Online learning is kind of making it hard to get my head in the School because anxiety is the thing most stopping me from mindset for school doing online learning. Student Shorewood High i just want the community back teacher send way too many emails!!! it takes me longer to School read through all of them than it does to actually do my homework... Student Shorewood High I just want this situa@on to be handled in the best way School possible when school starts in the fall. Even if that means star@ng with online school. Student Shorewood High I need a smaller work load and more instruc@on from School my teachers. A day of the week dedicated to one or a few classes would be ideal. I’m also an essen@al worker so I have to try to manage my work schedule and keep up with the heavy work load. This is made more difficult by the fact that I am also in running start. Student Shorewood High I need preset instruc@on and work @me because I Personally, if it comes down to it next year, I would much School struggle a lot with being able to start and follow rather prefer to do online schooling for the beginning of next through with work when it's completely up to me. year, rather than some weird hybrid schedule. But really, online school where we're lej completely to our own devices to figure it out on our own really really doesn't work for me. Student Shorewood High I need to be able to leave my home to do school work When concerning vaccina@ons, mid-November would be the School as my home is not the best study space for me. earliest @me that they could be distributed, so I understand that it may make it difficult to get back to school. But, thank you for caring.

210 Student Shorewood High I NEED TO BE BACK IN SCHOOL IN PERSON WITH A I doubt you know how hard the last semester has been on School TEACHER AND WITH MY CLASSMATES. Yes I know that the mental health of your students. Students became was shou@ng. I need you to hear me. We cannot depressed. Some were suicidal. You took us away from each survive another semester or even a month of at home other, and away from all the supports we normally would "school". "On-line" or "distance learning" was a joke. have had in the classroom, school building, counselor's We did not learn. Our grades are not going to be taken offices. I don't know that many students will find the survey seriously by colleges. We logged on a few hours a day, or answer it, but I bet if you asked them, and they spoke for turned in some made up work assignments, and themselves, and not just repea@ng their parents, they would passed, and learned nothing. The video calls with a tell you they would risk anything to have school back to teacher and classmates helped some. We got to see normal. Those who don't want that probably liked the easy each others faces and hear each others voices and on-line "school" we just had where we had liDle work and discuss something in real @me. But even that was learned nothing but everyone passed. This is not a cri@cism stressful for those of us sharing space with lots of other of our teachers. I know they were as surprised as we were people needing to be online working or online school. when the Governor ordered everyone home. And I know Without in-person classes with a teacher and once they learned we were not coming back at all for the classmates, we cannot learn and move on. You are year they tried to give us something to finish out the year. I hur@ng our college op@ons and chances for admission. appreciated the teachers who did video conference calls to You are depriving us of essen@al learning. We did not connect with their classes. Those were beDer than everything sign up for an online school. We enrolled for in person else. But they s@ll did not subs@tute for what we lost. Please high school. High school students should be allowed to don't take away anything more from us. Let us get back to be in class in person if they feel safe to do so. Give all normal, back to school, back to sports, assemblies prom, of us that opportunity. Do not keep us home due to gradua@on. Back to learning. And back to the help we concerns of staff or parents or younger students. seniors need to apply to college and get on with our lives. Many of us are legal adults and we should be allowed to choose to come back. On-line school was easier for the school and staff. They had less to do. They did not have to leave their homes. But what we were given was not at all equal to what we had before. Throughout the shut down, when we were not allowed to have in person school, many high school students worked in stores and delivery jobs interac@ng with people every day. We were not able to stay home. And we did not get sick. Many of us grew angry that we were banned from being in school, banned from being with our friends, but you were all too happy to have us out working in the world all hours doing the work you all needed us to do to so everyone else could stay home. But you would not let us go to school, have a gradua@on or a prom or an assembly or do sports. Or 211 Student Shorewood High I need updates for the fall plans. There were inconsistent dates of assignments being posted. School There were overlaps for zoom calls in my classes. I didn't feel like all of my assignments were educa@onal, but rather @me fillers. I feel like there could have been more purposeful assignments, such as analyzing a short, quick, and easy paragraph instead of doing a scavenger hunt for English class. Student Shorewood High i personally need to absolutely know IF we going back please actually take peoples opinions into considera@on, not School to regular in person school that everything is sani@zed, just what the school board wants!! cleaned, but if we do online school that there will not be as strict expecta@ons when it comes to learning and turning things in. but Student Shorewood High I think it's important for this coming year that teachers School all assign work and give that informa@on through canvas, when its assigned in different places it complicates the submission. Student Shorewood High I think that for some people they can only learn by I actually really enjoy online schooling, it lets me do things my School being in school and having a teacher in front of them way which i think helps me a lot and i’m not stuck in a while others can focus and get things done without classroom for 6 hours. I’m able to get all my work done and needing a teacher in front of them. I’m definitely s@ll have @me to help my mom and myself, which i think is concerned about the exposure even if the covid cases very important! are low I want to keep them as safe as i can, and i think i’ve done a lot beDer with online school. Student Shorewood High i think that there should be masks and also clean desks i hope there is first day of school assembly at shorewood and School everyday and everyone stays in the same desk for the home coming assebly since it is the last one for me year Student Shorewood High I WANT TO BE BACK IN SCHOOL!!! I promise to never I really disliked the zoom mee@ngs and how ojen my School come to school when I am sick even when I have a @ny teachers contacted because they seemed a liDle pushy. I also cough. feel like we do not need to wear masks because they are unnecessary. I feel like sports could be played because some sports don't require you to be close to one another. Please don't make me social distance because it would be very difficult for everyone to do that.

212 Student Shorewood High I want to be ready for more challenging course work School and college pace work. Without in-person learning, I feel I will lose learning skills and social skills. School ac@vi@es like sports are very important to me as well so I can stay mentally and physically healthy. College applica@on requirements may be changing, but I s@ll want to be in a good posi@on to be accepted to the schools I want and I'm worried the lack of ac@vi@es available to me will lessen my acceptance chances. Student Shorewood High I want to go back to normal learning, it’s really hard for Me and my family are completely agree to go back to normal School me to engage,understand and learn with this new learning this fall if the system takes strict safety measures system!! (mask,social distancing,constant hand washing) Student Shorewood High I work 3 days a week, and with covid I start preDy early School in the day. Those work @mes could possibly increase or with ac@vi@es returning closer to the fall, and junior year being full of difficult classes I chose before quaran@ne, less stress and anxiety and flexible days would help that. Student Shorewood High I would like a structure to my day. I found it very Thank you teachers for all you did during this @me! School difficult to complete assignments on @me as there was no schedule and everything was very free-flowing. I would also like some sort of @me management skills to be taught. Student Shorewood High i would like to not learn stem (math and science) School classes online it’s really hard for me. i’d love to do any of my other classes online but not stem Student Shorewood High I would most need some in class @me with my teachers School and peers, as it creates a sense of involvement and educa@on as opposed to a side course that you take at home aside from school.

213 Student Shorewood High If we go back to school and can't go from class to class I YES! Some of my teachers did a great job with zoom School would love to have some of my friends if possible in my schedules but some others didn't and were switching @mes class because it is so hard to not be able to see them. I lej and right which was very frustra@ng when I was trying to also would love to be able to be taught in zooms so structure my day around the zooms and had other zooms that I can ask ques@ons to the teacher then and also scheduled, so making sure teachers are just doing one @me she/he can see what we need to work on. and s@cking to it would be helpful. I know that the teachers were supposed to have @me slots as well for zooms but I don't think all of my teachers stuck to that. I also would love for if we had to do full on distance learning in the fall for all of the work we have to do to be assigned on Monday so we can have the whole week to do it, we are more mo@vated at the beginning of the week too. I also think that we didn't get enough work overall. It was definitely a drop in assignments and work when we switched to online learning. In par@cular my needs some extra support as well. His assignments didn't have very clear direc@ons and had lots of typos. Many assignments were repe@@ve like duolingo every week and quizlets which were fine but got old. His emails were short and when I emailed him for help he didn't really help me and just said the same direc@ons from the assignment. I just feel like he needs a bit more support through this process so that he can be a beDer teacher. My last thing is that I think the most effec@ve way of online learning for high schoolers is through canvas modules. They are good for structure of weeks work and also are easy to follow and see if they are completed. Some of my teachers went through modules and it helped me much beDer then just assignments that didn't have specific direc@ons. Student Shorewood High If we're going to con@nue to do online/at-home Idk Stay safe ig Wash your hands All that jazz School learning, please, for the love of god, when you make instruc@on videos, be more concise. I don't want to sij through half an hour's worth of unnecessary wording to get to a concept that can be explained in 10 minutes. Be simple. Student Shorewood High in person aDendance School

214 Student Shorewood High In person learning or a daily structure School Student Shorewood High In terms of learning, my most important needs are to Something that is very important to realize is that there are School feel like I'm geyng the same opportuni@es as everyone students who want to learn. There are students who want to else. I understand that some families and students may con@nue their educa@on and there are students who care feel scared to come back to school, but I really want to about their futures and what they can do right now to con@nue my educa@on in a way that is challenging and prepare for it. Those students are the ones who want the progressive for me as a scholar. S@ll, I want people to best resources for learning and the best opportuni@es they have the same opportuni@es, such as the opportunity can get for higher educa@on, and I think that if it's possible to to perhaps come back to school, the opportunity to give those opportuni@es to them and everyone else, it'd be have online learning, and the opportunity to get an quite amazing and would be a relief for many students. If educa@on of whatever form that is possible. If we can coming back to school is a possibility, I'm sure many students physically come back to school, I want everyone to be would like that and would really take advantage of it. S@ll, if given the decision of whether or not they want to go that is not a possibility, I am also sure that many students without any backlash of not going. Just the opportunity would understand. With that being said, I hope that online to be able to go would be great, and everyone should learning can be just as challenging and beneficial as going have that if possible. back to school would be. If I was able to get the same kind of learning as I would in school, such as retaining new knowledge, learning new skills, being challenged in subjects, being able to think deeply, and actually progressing with our educa@on, I would be very happy despite not being able to go back to school. Student Shorewood High Interac@on with people . School Student Shorewood High it is hard to do home school so in person school is i hope there is at least a homecoming assembly since it will School beDer with masks be the last one for me Student Shorewood High It is important to keep everyone safe. I think the best School op@on is keep doing online classes. Student Shorewood High Knowing that I’ll have a sport in the fall School Student Shorewood High Knowing what school will be like in the fall. School Student Shorewood High Knowing whats going to happen in the future School

215 Student Shorewood High Learning online is very difficult and almost impossible. I You should change SAT grading for the next 3 years because School want to come back to a classroom environment so I the highschool kids didn't get to learn as much as they were can learn and not fail the SAT. suppose to. Make the SAT scores much more flexible. Student Shorewood High Least amount of stress and worries as possible. School Student Shorewood High Making sure I'm learning the material that I need for School next year. Student Shorewood High Making sure seniors get “in learning” Please priori@ze seniors over younger students School Student Shorewood High Making sure teachers keep in contact with students School Student Shorewood High mental health breaks! School Student Shorewood High Mental health is one of the most important things in I would refrain from an online school. even if we do a hybrid School my life right now. It should be the school's top priority. system (half online, half in-person), it can s@ll take a major toll on students learning paths. Student Shorewood High more explana@on of concepts next year School Student Shorewood High my most important need for aDending school would be If its necessary for only certain grades to be able to aDend School actual instruc@on from my teachers. During the school in person, I think it would be more beneficial to have quaran@ne I received SO much instruc@on from some the older grades (9-12) aDend. Since the older students are teachers and NONE from others. It would be necessary closer to gradua@on and are learning more complicated to receive an even amount from all of my teachers. topics, it is very difficult to do so online. The younger students have less complicated lessons that can be taught virtually and can be aided by their parents. Student Shorewood High My most important needs are probably some sort of If school is unable to open again, I feel like the best thing to School mo@va@on to do schoolwork. My issue with distance do is just distance learning. Although some people don't like learning-- although it is convenient if there are flexible it, and some do, an easy compromise for people like me who due dates and schedules -- is that I tend to simply loose need a teacher to tell when what to do is just to do things like mo@va@on to do the school work. Zoom mee@ngs and such. I don't need to be in a face to face, classroom situa@on to learn, I just need a teacher to tell me what to do, and some@mes, for me, this kind of makes the consequences of my grades more real which mo@vates me to finish the work I'm assigned.

216 Student Shorewood High My most important needs at this @me are flexibility School while s@ll having consistent, direct communica@on with teachers. Student Shorewood High Online school is too easy to get distracted. It's like wri@ng by School hand vs typing, it's beDer to write by hand if you are trying to focus. Student Shorewood High School Student Shorewood High School Student Shorewood High I work harder when I work online. Also we have flexible School @me,and I can listen to music,also it’s more safe to do online school. Student Shorewood High School Student Shorewood High School Student Shorewood High See you next fall. School Student Shorewood High Since I'm a full @me running start student, I don't know how School useful this survey will be to you. Student Shorewood High I think the structure of a normal day would help me School Student Shorewood High Nothing, but vaccine in the fall School Student Shorewood High pa@ence from teachers and for them to know to we School have other class that assign harder work that takes longer too Student Shorewood High reduce stress, and as normal school as possible. School

217 Student Shorewood High Remote learning was a bit difficult. I struggled mostly School with Alegbra and Science. I feel like learning math in person is really going to help me understand the work. Science had hour long videos which took a lot of my @me away for other work that I wanted to finish that day. I missed working I classrooms and seeing my friends on a daily basis. Student Shorewood High safety School Student Shorewood High seeing friends and other people besides family and School school sports Student Shorewood High Some @me away from family. Bored out of my mind. School Want to see my friends again. Student Shorewood High Stay with my family. School Student Shorewood High Staying at home and taking care of myself and my School family. Student Shorewood High Staying safe but being able to learn both required and Ranking the criteria ques@on was very weird and confusing. It School material that we want to. Ability to graduate and have could be worded beDer. the same level of academic knowledge and prepara@on as normal gradua@ng classes. Mo@va@on and structure: I need to know what I need to do, and when. Student Shorewood High Staying safe, seeing my friends, and par@cipa@ng in Teachers & Staff: Please be understanding of students' School Drama circumstances. Thank you. Student Shorewood High structure and good communica@on School Student Shorewood High Study hard during this quaran@ne. School Student Shorewood High Taking care of my mental health School Student Shorewood High Taking care of my physical and mental health School Student Shorewood High The most important needs are the videos that were :) School recorded from teacher or virtual mee@ngs.

218 Student Shorewood High The most important needs at this @me is students and If the school has a hard situa@on to close the school over a School their families safeness. Whether the cases are slowly year, we could use hybrid system that gives students choices going down or the graph is stable, the cases are s@ll whether going to school or doing online classes at their much, which is s@ll dangerous for the students and houses. By teachers recording their in person lessons and especiall for their families. If the school is opened, I am assigning online students same assignments as the in person sure that the cases in washington state would increase students get, all students could do efficient learning with extremly with closing school again. We need to avoid their best choises. Again, this pandemic is something that our opening the school as possible as we can. safeness should be considered as the most important thing over the any other things. I hope you find wise solu@on for this. Student Shorewood High The most important thing for me is any sort of I know this whole process has been incredibly difficult for School structure. Whether that be with scheduled class @mes everyone trying to figure out how to proceed. Thank you for or with due dates. your flexibility and pa@ence. Student Shorewood High The most important thing for me is to have a I just want to ask some of the following ques@ons What are School somewhat structured day because I might start to work some of the ways the half online and half in person schooling and I need to be able have some flexibility. I also would look like? What are ways your going to allow students to do need a form of mo@va@on for me to complete school elec@ves? I did PE during the summer....is there a way that work because i was struggling to do my work during will be available again? the quaran@ne. Student Shorewood High The system is beDer than it was in the spring and School teachers actually teach us.

219 Student Shorewood High There needs to be a beDer system to teach students I do value educa@on, and I understand the importance of School this fall, and there are numerous ways to achieve that. truly learning course content rather than comple@ng work for 1. BeDer Communica@on with teachers -I struggled comple@on sake. But my learning experience this break has severely with my Introductory Chemistry class and made me loathe complete online learning and somehow when I ojen emailed my teacher for the course among made me yearn for a means of physical learning. Ini@ally, other teachers too, I had to con@nuously email for Shoreline Schools said to make all work op@onal and not weeks to get a response which didn't even answer my required, which confused every student I talked to, and later ques@on. I personally saw teacher responses to email us all over when the work was changed to be dras@cally decrease and fall during this pandemic, and I comple@on-based, forced students to rush learning before know that beDer communica@on would allow for the impending summer break deadline hit. Secondly, teachers beDer learning and structured learning. 2. Zoom would simply respond slower. I would ojen email teachers Lectures rather than only Zoom Office Hours -Zoom on about ques@ons about their lectures and they would respond paper is a great concept, but I see it as being ajer days or upwards to a week, causing me to fall further implemented incorrectly. Most of my Zoom calls cover behind in an already rushed and unclear environment to the curriculum which I had to self-teach myself, leaving complete assignments. Third, many teachers had to reduce no use for a Zoom Call as why do I need help if I their course content, this may not look like a big deal, but already taught myself the ques@on. Zoom Calls need to many of these courses are introductory courses, such as be used for lecturing, as I would learn a lot faster and Chemistry, Physics, or Math, which will build upon what you throughly if a teacher explained a concept to me rather ini@ally learn. Because of this, cuyng out content devalues than learning from numerous links to Khan Academy the significance of these important subjects and sets up and Youtube which don't connect and teach ideas students to struggle in future classes which build off of these differently to the point of confusion. 3. THERE MUST fundamental concepts introduced in high school. BE PHYSICAL LEARNING FOR SPECIFIC CLASSES -There needs to be physical learning of some sort for specific classes. Sciences such as Physics and Chemistry are very hands-on and lab-oriented in terms of learning and understanding, and removing labs and experiments from Lab Sciences ruins the point of a lab science having labs. I saw my chemistry class and my understanding of chemistry fall apart and confuse me more as the course moved online, forcing me to email numerous teachers in order to learn from previous recorded years of classes and in the big picture was@ng valuable learning @me. Other courses besides science have a vital physical aspect which cannot be replicated at home or through mailing resources, such as 3-D Arts, Theatre, and Music. Because of this, courses that are online fundamentally need beDer access to learning directly from a teacher and beDer 220 Student Shorewood High Things to do to stay engaged and resources to get School ready for the upcoming school year Student Shorewood High To be able to aDend school in the fall. I will be a freshman at Shorewood High School in the fall, and School I’ve been looking forward to this for a long @me. The best part of being in High School is the experience : the school dances, pep assemblies, spirit week, making new friends, mee@ng new people, trying new things, branching out. When we have online lessons, we usually have a couple of assignments, and tests. But it’s hard for most people to actually learn by just reading ar@cles, we need to learn in person with more resources. I honestly didn’t learn that much over the quaran@ne part of the school year because I wasn’t mo@vated and the online learning material was somewhat helpful, but I s@ll didn’t fully learn what I should have. I’ve also been training mul@ple @mes a week for cross country, and I’m really looking forward to that in the fall! I’m also really exited to take a cooking class and a photography class and learn more about both of those subjects!! Thank you so much for suppor@ng everyone during this hard @me!! Student Shorewood High To be able to go to school and have certain events if opening school should only be considered if it is safe for all. School possible. Student Shorewood High To be able to go to school because it sets a schedule for School me. It will also help me learn if I’m in class. Student Shorewood High To be able to go to school. It's A LOT more difficult to School learn from home. Student Shorewood High To be able to learn and understand what is being School taught in the classes I am taking, and that there is in person educa@on in order to maximize learning. Also, that athle@cs are able to con@nue. Student Shorewood High To go to school in the fall I strongly dislike online learning School

221 Student Shorewood High To have all of my teachers ac@vely doing zooms and I think that some teacher's lack of communica@on has been School online learning, some of my teachers failed to do a very frustra@ng. Many of them would give assignments with single zoom mee@ng or only did one in the few months instruc@ons however, they would fail to do instruc@onal that we were in Quaran@ne. I no@ced that the teachers zooms or zooms for homework help. This has affected some who were consistently doing zooms/ instruc@on had of my grades and how much I par@cipate in certain classes. I the best student grades. understand that it may be hard for some teachers to do zooms but I feel that it is perfectly reasonable to do one 30-45 min zoom every other week. Student Shorewood High To have instructor led classes whether they are in I think it would be great if the teacher could teach in the School person (if it is safe) or through a Zoom. Also, it would classroom and those students who are comfortable could be be nice to have the structure of a school day. in the classroom and those who are not could watch the classroom live and par@cipate in the ac@vi@es as if they were in the classroom, but then the school day could have the same structure as it normally does.

222 Student Shorewood High To have support and understanding from all the I wish all of us can be sensible enough to know that we all School teachers and the school district when we resume need to stay home. Our rights to freedom mean nothing learning next year because it will be difficult for us to when it comes to life, which is one of the most important remember all that we have learned. It may help if we privileges that we all have. It's horrible to think that we can were given some support in the summer so we can try become a part of an experiment to see how school can work and retain what we have been taught. More in a pandemic, for lives can be lost and cannot be brought importantly from what I can think of is that my family back any@me soon. I really do not want to go back to school. needs me to stay home so we all can have more My mom and I are both immune-compromised, and it's scary opportuni@es to stay healthy. for us to go outside since there's a chance that we might get sick. My family is thinking about me aDending an online school program if school reopens. There are so many dangers if we go back. It's very unlikely that students will ever prac@ce physical distancing and wear face masks at all @mes, and if we are in an enclosed space, air can circulate within the room, which increases our chances of contrac@ng COVID-19. Another thing to think about is that we can catch the virus if we are in a lunchroom, using the microwave, use the restrooms, are given papers, or turning papers in to the teacher. This is only the beginning of the pandemic, and we can't let our guard down any @me soon. Regarding remote learning, it may be helpful if there are set standards for each school subject. It would give all students more chances to be given the same quality and amount of learning, and lessen the likelihoods of anyone being lej behind. Addi@onally, it could help if there is a set @me for teachers to provide homework for us because some@mes most of the day goes by before we receive an assignment. When we get it, we wasted a day of learning. Another idea is to make all of the assignments come up on our emails so we can easily know what we need to do. Lastly, it's beDer to be safe than sorry. Student Shorewood High To pass all of my classes. , I have things to do and school isn’t always one School of them. Student Shorewood High ueuruururu 3iiri99 School Student Shorewood High Understanding for people struggling with poor mental School health in this current situa@on.

223 Student Shorewood High Understanding. School Student Shorewood High Vibing School Student Shorewood High Water School Student Shorewood High When at home I like being able to learn at my own School pace, I like @ when teachers would assign a weeks worth of work on Monday and we'd have un@l Friday to finish it. Student Shorewood High Clear direc@ons and a consistant place where I can find School assignments on Canvas/Google Classroom. Student Shorewood High I feel like teachers/staff should be understanding of each School student’s situa@on, such as if a student cannot turn in an assignment on @me due to circumstances. Student Shorewood High i hope there is hoco assembly since I will be a senior School Student Shorewood High I want do online school because it is more flexible and even if School I am japan in the fall I can s@ll do assignments that my teachers give me and it is more safe for me for online school Student Shorewood High I would s@ll love to aDend/ be able to make clubs during the School school year. If there is online school next year, I would like if I could find all my work for that class in the same place as all the other classes (In Canvas) like in the "ASSIGNMENTS" Sec@on ex) Honors Chemistry HW in "assignments" English HW in "assignments"... Student Shorewood High Let me go back to school I hate online classes . I wish I never School went to school anymore Student Shorewood High Please let us go back to school normally! I miss my friends School and I want to have events like dances and football games and assemblies! Student Shorewood High Use google classroom School

224 Student Shorewood High Zoom mee@ngs are not helpful School Student Syre Elementary 3 day in person 2 day online. Social distancing required flexibly. Also I want to be IN PERSON for 3 days because online school is much shorter and I feel like we are not geyng the educa@on we need. Also because frequent @me at home is star@ng to feel like i'm trapped. Student Syre Elementary A good amount of books. Student Syre Elementary being able to go outside Student Syre Elementary Being able to read at least once a day because it helps me clear my mind and think beDer Student Syre Elementary Being able to see friends again and learn more. Student Syre Elementary being safe but being able to see people Student Syre Elementary Computer Student Syre Elementary For me it's just to have a kinda loose schedule Student Syre Elementary Full school day teacher(s) and classroom like engagement Student Syre Elementary Having a hands on educa@on that is both safe and has To lower the risk of exposure to covid-19 I think some schools less screen. Also being able to connect to teachers and could open to student in shijs based on need, want of in friends in person. person educa@on and ability to come to school. If a person doesn’t want the risk of exposure of the virus then they can do online learning. Student Syre Elementary I need con@nued reading support. RAZ KIDS is helpful. Videos by other teachers, other than my own teacher, were not as fun. The videos were too long. There were too many lessons given to us on Mondays and it was a lot at the same @me. A staggered approach might be helpful and less overwhelming. I would like to be in the classroom next year. Thank you.. Student Syre Elementary I need more challengeing ac@veitys. Also it was very Also I would juust like to state that when school was up. We frustara@ong to see schools take such a long @me to were s@ll anxious about it. prepare for it. May! May! that is so late even April is late. In my cousins schools in Utah it started right away. It would be very tricky to see you guys at the school district take so long if spring is like this.

225 Student Syre Elementary I need my books and computer and last my lunch and I need some @me with my friends and by myself. snacks also water. Student Syre Elementary I need social interac@on and seeing my teachers and friends. I like being in class and being able to ask my teacher ques@ons. Student Syre Elementary I need to see my teacher and friends and do class work with them Student Syre Elementary I really want to be with my friends and play at recess. I I do not like the recorded videos because most of them were also want to do sports. I would rather learn in a way too long. I like zoom mee@ngs and wish we had more. I classroom. It's less fun at home. wish that we could do some of the more crea@ve stuff on the computer as part of our learning so I think the teachers need more training on this stuff. Student Syre Elementary I want classes to resume so I can go back to work. I would like to know what childcare support will be available for working parents if classes in fall cancelled. Student Syre Elementary I want to return to in person learning in the fall. However, if we have alterna@ve schedules in the fall, being on the same schedule as my friends is important. I am transi@oning from elementary to middle school and with all the unknowns, being with people I know is more important than ever. I also want to be on the same schedule as my sister, who goes to Shorewood. Student Syre Elementary In person teaching Student Syre Elementary Learning more of what I had missed during the quartan@ne. Student Syre Elementary Making sure my family is safe from the virus Student Syre Elementary My most important needs are to go back to a school environment, see my friends, and to be able to do sports. Student Syre Elementary My most important needs right now are that I get to see my friends in fall whether its a video call or in person I just want to be able to interact with them.

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Student Syre Elementary Not as many people in the cafeteria at one @me Student Syre Elementary not being overloaded by school Student Syre Elementary not having covid be a risk to the people I care about. being with friends hoping for at least some degree of normalcy next year - at least par@ally in-person learning to go with any virtual school Student Syre Elementary Online learning was really hard for me. I need to be in class. Student Syre Elementary Safety of staff and students. Don’t make online We all know kids can’t stay 6’ apart while wearing masks learning op@onal. Parents need the school to say it’s during a school day. The public supports you making the required. wisest and safest choice for our kids. Student Syre Elementary Seeing friends Student Syre Elementary Seeing my friends Student Syre Elementary Seeing my friends and learning I want to go to school Student Syre Elementary Seeing my friends human interac@on Stop giving us emails with 5 paragraphs and 4 of them being all fluff about how we miss you and hope your safe. Student Syre Elementary Staying Safe Student Syre Elementary That I get learning and to enjoy the summer.

227 Student Syre Elementary THE MOST IMPORTANT NEED IS TO HAVE A MORE I AM VERY SCARED TO SENT MY KID BACK TO SCHOOL BCOZ STRUCTURED SCHEDULE IN TERMS OF ONLINE OF THE HIGH RATE OF TRANSMISSION AND AS KIDS ITS VERY TEACHING. DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO MAINTAIN PERSONAL HYGIENE AND SOCIAL DISTANCING. I AM ALSO DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE SCHOOL STAFF WHO MIGHT BE AT RISK BCOZ OF THE AGE OR PRE EXISTING CONDITION. AT THE SAME TIME I DO WANT KIDS TO GET BACK TO A NORMAL ROUTINE OF SCHOOLING. SO MAY BE TILL WE GET A VACCINE OR TREATMENT FOR COVID WE SHOULD CONTINUE WITH ONLINE EDUCATION BUT IT HAS TO BE MORE STRUCTURED AND STREAMLINED. Student Syre Elementary To have recess and lunch with friends Student Syre Elementary To stay healthy Student Syre Elementary Tutors Student Syre Elementary Videos recordings by teachers vary and are to long. Need consistent video sojware And videoing standards Student Syre Elementary we are fairly stable and don't have cri@cal needs at this I think it's cri@cal that the district keep in contact with @me families who have different needs or who have been nega@vely impacted in basic needs due to covid. Student Syre Elementary We will be unable to aDend un@l there is a vaccine readily available. We have an immune compromised member of our household. Thank you! Student Syre Elementary I do not want to wear masks all day. I want to have school on-line at home. Student Syre Elementary I don't want to go to school and wear masks all day and I prefer to do on-line learning at home un@l it is safe to return. Parent Briarcrest I have no needs . These children are in need of an The district handled this horribly. How did other Starbucks Elementary educa@on in school. The district handled this horribly. turn it around in a week or so while shoreline sat and How did other Starbucks turn it around in a week or so twiddled their thumbs . Disservice to the children in our while shoreline sat and twiddled their thumbs . district Disservice to the children in our district

228 Parent Briarcrest A consistent pla[orm (seesaw or google classroom). I Since I've got two kiddos in different grades having one place Elementary found the daily lesson plan sheets with hyperlinks to and one consistent pla[orm for their online lessons really the students worksheets and online lessons most helps. I think it will be difficult to keep kids away from each helpful. would other so crea@ng class pods with smaller class sizes where email prior to the start of the week. If there were a their desks are six feet apart, with a staggered schedule for mechanism (a check box next to the lessons and school, with an ajer care type situa@on with their pods on worksheets) to track what they've completed and what their off days (not in class) is best for our family. Physical they have not that would be super helpful since they ac@vity is super important but I've been doing that with them are usually working when I am. The daily lesson at home so having at school not a big deal - same with art, for plans were emailed to both me and my kids so I could now. Priority for me is a pod type setup to reduce exposure print from my email what they needed printed. This is poten@al, skill level appropriate math, science, and reading a huge @me saver because it saves me having to login with a teacher who can walk with them through those tough to their school accounts when I can just access it from and essen@al concepts that I can bridge with lessons they do my email super quick if they pop into my office needing at home using the schools online pla[orm. The rest is not something printed. We have been doing science and necessary during this @me. Also, thank you. Many of us reading at home and just doing math online. Both have been stretched thin and emo@ons are high. Seems like kids need more advanced math as their lessons are we have a chance to combo home-school and school-school way to easy for them. I have been going to the upper and that's awesome. We have a chance to get back to grades to get other worksheets to challenge them at teaching kids and not mee@ng anonymous federal guidelines. it's really nice to have access to other grades besides You guys are awesome and I know you will work toward the theirs. I'm not sure if they will have access to math and best solu@on given these challenging @mes. Keep it up, rest science lessons at home next year, and they will need well, and the kids are going to be alright. lessons beyond their grade for that too. So being able access other grades lessons is extremely helpful so we can tailor their challenges as needed. Parent Briarcrest a decisive structure for the start of school so that I love Shoreline schools Elementary parents can plan for fall. Parent Briarcrest A liDle more structure on a weekly basis around Ajercare is an important part of our childcare needs and it Elementary assignments, descrip@on of the tools to be used for the would be nice to gain more understanding around how this assignments, and seyng expecta@ons around what we service will be affected in the coming school year. should be doing with our kids from a lesson standpoint. It took us about a month before we realized that our teachers were focusing efforts on working in Seesaw and that we were moving away from online resources at Shoreline Remote Learning site.

229 Parent Briarcrest A sojware program that works beDer than Seesaw. It Elementary was a very frustra@ng program to use. Parent Briarcrest A structured day, in person one on one learning. The Sadly it has been hard on us with the unflexibility of Zoom Elementary availability of counselors to do check ins with at risk or class @mes. The lesson although explained in video hard to past at risk youth. The structured meal @mes, kids are understand once doing it alone. Not knowing exactly what not able to aDend school meal @mes due to my work assignment to do or what to focus more on. Not equitable for schedule. children who receive special services such as speech. Parent Briarcrest Ability to adapt to children who don't want to sit in Elementary front of a computer. Self led ac@vi@es, variety of lessons that can be scaled up or down depending on the children's learning ability. Flexibility in content to create an engaging learning experience. Parent Briarcrest Ability to work is dependent upon in-person school In retrospect, distance learning has been an exceedingly poor Elementary subs@tute for in-person instruc@on. The con@nued push by administrators to create a false narra@ve of semi-equivalency between the two is deeply frustra@ng to myself and most parents I know. This District and others are simply not mee@ng the educa@onal mandate and that should be acknowledged in substan@ve, expanded services in the future when it is safe. Adherence to outdated models of summers- off should be discarded. School ended in March, and we should all stop pretending otherwise. Parent Briarcrest Access to the kcls online library Con@nued access to We used the borrowered chrome book allot to access: Elementary online learning resources with school laptop Seesaw,Bookflix,kcls resources like Hoopla, Epic, typing club, Capstone Library,Rubix cube, learning videos,art,and music. Parent Briarcrest Ajer school care All day instruc@on Dual language was not successful at home Elementary Parent Briarcrest s@ll learning reading and phonics skills. She is not I feel that Shoreline school district could have had a beDer Elementary at grade level reading yet, so I feel in person instruc@on virtual learning program. Also it took way too much @me to is necessary for her. I need more support! She doesn't implement and get up to speed. It seemed like we were lej learn so easily, so the support from school teachers hanging for weeks. The only reason has learned as much and staff are very helpful to her. as she did was the twice a week virtual mee@ngs with her teacher. went above and beyond what was expected from the program. You can tell she really cares about each kids learning process.

230 Parent Briarcrest At least some in person instruc@on with other students Thank you for your hard work! Elementary — academic and developmental connec@ons. Parent Briarcrest At this @me, we need need a break from the home It is clear that this pandemic is far from over. It will not be Elementary learning. It has been difficult to manage work over in the Fall. We are essen@ally where we were 3 months schedules and school. this was due to the rocky roll out ago. It is purely a poli@cal decision to make opening schools of home learning plans. It would have been much more in some new normal in the Fall. There is no way that most effec@ve to allow teachers to have more control of elementary students will be capable of wearing a mask, their individual classes, as opposed to a district wide maintaining social distance, washing hands etc for an en@re plan. the connec@on to the class teacher would have school day. In addi@on, the spread of the virus also depends helped. on @me of exposure. Masks do not prevent the virus form entering the air. Children will be exposed to a full day of poten@al exposure to the virus. Masks will not help. And as you know, many of the classrooms are poorly ven@lated and stuffy. Addi@onal concerns include the likely event of star@ng school, only to have it closed, maybe more than once, due to an infec@on event. This will be extremely disrup@ve to the students, especially younger students. The district should consider a limited opening for students with the greatest need. Students should be separated in @me and space as much as possible. For example, half the students go into a school building for a half day twice a week. Parent Briarcrest authen@c and real ways for my children to connect I hope to see a much deeper focus on equity and Elementary with community (teachers/friends), a school distrcit inten@onallty on closing the gap in opportunity and learning that shows up for them and supports them. Summer that has widened during COVID. teachers who are prepared learning opporun@es that are flexible and engaging to meet my children where they are and not track them into would be great. courses/spaces that they think they should be in due to skin color or precieved academic ability. Adap@ve, responsive and individualized learning opportuni@es based on student need and interest

231 Parent Briarcrest Because I am in educa@on, I feel like I can homeschool I think my daughter is academically prepared for next year Elementary my daughter, but I can't provide the socializing and because we did intensive home learning with supplemental interac@on with her peers that she needs. I also think materials. I don't think what the school provided was an that if in-person learning isn't an op@on, classes need adequate amount, and she didn't receive any feedback on to be structured in a way where the children can rely her work. Also, I don't think she would have been successful on the teacher for instruc@on and help and the work is in comple@ng her work if she had to do it independently. I structured in a way that they can complete it had to ac@vely help her for several hours each day, and we independently. I really felt like we were on our own had to supplement all the work with our own resources. It and that if I wasn't able to commit several hours each did not feel like she was really in school. I felt like we were day to homeschooling, not much learning would have really almost completely on our own. occurred and there would have been a large amount of frustra@on on my daughter's part. I think it's also very important to have more real-@me interac@on and try to find ways to build community for the students. Parent Briarcrest Being safe from Covid-19. Elementary Parent Briarcrest BeDer tes@ng otherwise risk is unknown Please do not reopen schools given resurgence is likely and Elementary assumed to begin in mid-September Parent Briarcrest Child care - before/Ajerschool Safety and mental There must be child care before ajer school it’s a must for Elementary health for kids when they transi@on back to school our family Social emo@onal when back to school

232 Parent Briarcrest childcare It has been extremely hard to work and maintain school Elementary lessons these last few months. Both parents work at home and remotely throughout the week and geyng my child to care about lessons at all was tedious. We made it through and my child's teacher did an amazing job of puyng together a weekly/daily lesson plan that was managable. It could be done whenever we could, but it s@ll held for very long days. We will have two children in school next year, one in dual language. With both parents s@ll con@nu@ng to work full @me, I really have no idea how we are going to make that work. Lastly, the first month of so of the school closures was frustra@ngly ridiculous. The lesson plans were absurd, there was no guidance of what the kids should be doing (ie...what we finally started to receive in May). I highly suggest if there is going to be some type of in-home learning that over these next few months to really get things squared away with the child's teacher crea@ng and implemen@ng the lesson plans. That is who they are going to come to when they have ques@ons. It was beDer for say all teachers from same school/grade, but really this needs to be at the teacher level. That is who are children are comfortable with. Parent Briarcrest Clear, concise lesson plans The biggest challenge was We appreciate all your @me and effort. We know this isn’t Elementary confusion about what they were supposed to do and easy or something you signed up for. We wish to say a how to do it. The constant ques@on in our home was sincere and hear[elt †“What do I do next? We could usually get them started on a lesson, but 20 minutes later they were done and asking what to do next again. Having to figure out what they were supposed to do for the day while also helping when they were stumped, and double checking work before they turned it in took a lot of @me and effort. This was disrup@ve while trying to juggling working from home. We ended up crea@ng our own schedule and rou@nes which also include art, PE, and extracurricular ac@vi@es. Things did get a lot beDer as @me went on Parent Briarcrest Communica@on as to what will be happening in the fall Thank you for doing what you do! Elementary

233 Parent Briarcrest Distance At-Home Learning Model: Peer reviews and Elementary doublechecks for presented material. Our experience with one of our teachers was the materials had a lot of mistakes, broken links, and pointers to incorrect workbook or online material pages. This made it a very frustra@ng experience for us and our child both. Return to in-person school: On-school Extended Learning is a very key in this situa@on, as we are 2 working parents with possible return to work expecta@ons by the fall. Parent Briarcrest Distance learning is very hard for children with ADHD. Elementary Children with ADHD and kids other needs and support such as IEPs and 504s should be the first to return to in person learning. Parent Briarcrest Dual Language should listed as a specialized program We are privileged and have really struggled with distance Elementary within this ques@onnaire. Teacher lead instruc@on, learning even with our resources. I am very concerned about out child is in dual language and we do not speak the families who do not have as many resources as we do. Spanish at home. I would never have chosen this Social, emo@onal, physical, and academically we have all program if I was going to be the instructor in a been deeply affected by this closure. I do not feel my child is language I don't speak/read/write. My spouse and I ready for 2nd grade, she is very much s@ll a first grader. both need to be able to work full-@me. I am essen@al and I have been working but my spouse has not been able to go into work due to having to care for our child. Social interac@on is so important. My child is struggling and not ea@ng or sleeping well. She has become increasingly fearful throughout the @me at home. Parent Briarcrest En distanciamiento usar mascarilla Elementary

234 Parent Briarcrest Face to face instruc@on with my child's teacher. The I think considering OUTDOOR educa@on and classrooms Elementary online teaching is just not working well for us. Even half would be extremely beneficial, we have the space, it would days would be great. Also, making sure that my child is decrease transmission rates and would likely be healthier for safe at school. Proper cleaning of all surfaces, all. What about enlis@ng parent volunteers (who have been computers, etc. Making sure that decisions to go back prescreened and maybe even tested for COVID) to teach to school are not made has@ly, I want the possibili@es small groups of students a lesson that they first get to be throughly considered. Smaller class sizes with instruc@on from the teacher on? I would be willing to do this distance is key and frequent hand washing. It would be to keep class sizes small and yet get lessons to all the kids. For lovely if kids could maybe be with their 2019-2020 example a parent/family member/etc. could teach 7-10 kids a teacher for a few weeks (or so) of transi@on if possible. math lesson for 45 minutes and then teach the next 7-10 Communica@on about if kids are ill is REALLY kids. Even if parents did this a few @mes/month that could be important, my son has a fragile immune system and helpful. daily we would be making decisions about his emo@onal and physical well being and would want clear communica@on if anyone that he was in contact with was symptoma@c. Parent Briarcrest Flexibility for working parents...I can't monitor my kids It is unreasonable to expect small kids (or really any kids) to Elementary online assignments and keep my own job. There has to adhere to masks or social distancing. If the district decides be lots of flexibility for parents with smaller kids that to go to a par@al schedule, it would be easier for parents if it can't sit all day with them on seesaw. Also, many young was the same each week so we can schedule work around kids can't be in front of a screen for long periods of this (and please keep in mind families with mul@ple kids!). @me. So we need to con@nue handing out learning packets, and it would be good if they could actually be the same assignments that are online. Parent Briarcrest Food and funds to pay bills. Elementary Parent Briarcrest For school to start. Distance learning was Elementary inconsistent--despite teachers best efforts--and my kids are unhappy without socializa@on. My kids have had COVID so they can go to school and I think they should have the op@on.

235 Parent Briarcrest Former K-5 SPED teacher: A safe and suppor@ve age- I will be teaching from home in an effort to support the Elementary appropriate learning environment. My child will be physical health and emo@onal well-being of educators and entering Kindergarten. Social distancing and masks do the families in our community that need resources the most. I not support Kindergarten coopera@ve learning models. feel more than confident about tailoring instruc@on to meet Assuming direct instruc@on is the default in a academic benchmarks. I will lean on the WASL/EALRS/GLES classroom with socially-distanced Kindergarten when I need to supplement. I an@cipate my child re-entering students, I do not feel an affec@ve and age-appropriate school above grade level. We will plan daily socializing with learning environment can be accomplished. I strongly other students who are distancing. I realize our situa@on is feel the K-3 popula@on should be encouraged to micro- unique and priveledged. My goal here is to shine light on the school/pod with home-based instruc@on, un@l at possibility of micro-schooling for those of us who have minimum of Spring 2021. I feel the physical space in worked in educa@on. classrooms should be reserved for students who need services. Parent Briarcrest --from the School District? Clarity. Prior to the fall it The digital classroom has benefits I believe our District could Elementary would be extremely beneficial for both students and take beDer advantage of--such as digital presenta@on for parents to know what to expect--whatever that some subjects that adjusts to an individual student's pace happens to be--so the primary focus can be on learning and responds to feedback from integrated digital assessment. educa@onal content, rather on naviga@ng a disparate In some cases, gamifica@on can also be an advantage to child array of resources and requirements. This is engagement. These could be useful whether instruc@on par@cularly true for parents with mul@ple children, occurred in the classroom or at home. Teachers should be since many online schooling features were specific to able to manage student involvement progress and students certain ages or by class. The district should also should be familiarized with it in advance of full @me develop communica@ons geared toward kids--whether instruc@on. videos or direct teacher outreach, etc. Parents should not always have to act as translator or middleman between the school and their child; that reduces children's independence. We will certainly engage with our children about what they are learning, and support them when they struggle, but they should each be able to basically grasp what the school is asking of them. Parent Briarcrest Geyng my child educated Elementary Parent Briarcrest Geyng out of the house and around other people, Elementary both students and teachers.

236 Parent Briarcrest Going into the Fall semester, the most important need Elementary is for my child be be able to physically aDend school again. In spite of fantas@c support from all of the Briarcrest staff, educa@ng two students full @me is not conducive to the schedules of two parents who work from home 50+ hours per week. We do our best to give children the support they need, but nothing can replace the value of in-class instruc@on and face to face @me with teachers. In addi@on, while my children were able to thrive academically in the distance learning format, they suffered greatly from reduced social contact with their peers. Parent Briarcrest Google classroom is nice, but hard for parents as we do Elementary not have login to see assignments or completed work. A “parent portal†Parent Briarcrest Hạn chế ra ngoà i nếu không cần thiết.Tá»›i Elementary khi nà o có Vaccine .

237 Parent Briarcrest -Having a more specific schedule with specific results We are lucky, as is star@ng 7th grade and has always been Elementary expected. For example: Mondays might be math. really self-sufficient and responsible. In general, we really There might be an online required mee@ng, then an enjoyed having online school. could focus on her assignment due on date X, with ques@ons/answers/ classwork without classroom behavior issues. She could take open office hours between the mee@ng and breaks for snacks, play, and rest. She could ask ques@ons in assignment due date. -Having a weekly scheduled the online forums and get responses (some from the released before items are due or mee@ngs nearly teacher,some from other students). It was great having missed. For example: there will always be a lessons she could re'watch and take notes, so she could really classroom Zoom mee@ng at 10a on Tuesdays or 2 pm "get in" and understand the topics. I think in a tradi@onal Thursdays (must aDend at least 1), and the weekly classroom, this would have been boring for the other kids to schedule will be released on Friday ajernoon or have the teacher re'explain things several @mes... and the Sunday evening. -When it is something with more teacher might be looking at the clock for balancing out the loose expecta@ons, that needs to be stated clearly. - rest of the day. The kids really need to have socializa@on of some sort. I'm not sure what that means... but they need to interact with each other. - I really, Really, REALLY want the teachers to feel safe about teaching and FOCUS on teaching. They should not have to be patrolling kids for mask use, sanita@on of the classroom, and otherwise COVID related issues. They also shouldn't have to be IT professionals either... Teach my kid to write a sentence with appropriate tense, spelling, and grammar. Show her how to best calculate area. Explain why the Electoral College is important (though, that topic might take forever...). Parent Briarcrest Having the kids back on a normal schedule The response to this situa@on was very disappoin@ng. We Elementary were only given links of resources for the first month and a half while other districts had everything you ended up having in a weeks @me. While our kids got 30 minutes once or twice a week from their teachers on Zoom, other districts were doing daily mee@ngs of around an hour and received phone calls from their teachers on a semi regular basis. Parent Briarcrest Hay gente muy irresponsable y sale de casa y siempre Las personas no man@enen su distanciamiento y no se lavan Elementary anda para todos lados visitando a muchas personas las manos

238 Parent Briarcrest Health safety and social distancing. I strongly believe Elementary the schools need to reopen with virtual leaning as an op@on for anyone who needs it for their unique reasons and offer in person classes to who that wish and are not at risk for aDending in person. Parent Briarcrest I am a single parent and will not be able work and Elementary support our house if my daughter is not at school. Extended care is also Absolutely Necessary. I really wish North City had chosen to provide more packets throughout the school year as using an Ipad for Seesaw and math lessons is near impossible for a 5.5yo and it completely eliminates their ability to prac@ce learning to write. thank you! I know this isn't easy for any of us. Parent Briarcrest I can't get my kids to do school work when I am home Also, I work for the district and I am not sure how I will return Elementary working full @me. I know when it is a teacher they are to work without a full school week and BEFORE AND AFTER all good listeners and follow direc@ons but not from CARE is very important to my family. Thank you! "teacher mom." Have an in person teacher and LAP reading services teacher is important to me. Parent Briarcrest I do not feel comfortable with my 5 year olds to school Thank you for taking the @me to get feedback from parents Elementary wearing masks for 8 hours a day. The socializa@on and and students. friendships made at school are impera@ve aspects which they can’t get at home. For our family, we priori@ze the mental wellbeing of our daughters and we want school to be a fun place for play, discovery, and social interac@on. Our daughters are extremely crea@ve and I worry that things like music and art will be cut. The virus is of very minimal concern for our family compared to the long-term implica@ons of social distancing, mask wearing for children, and changes to curriculum. Although we don’t have experience with online learning, we are a household that prac@ces very minimal screen @me so distance learning is not feasible. We are strongly considering homeschooling next year.

239 Parent Briarcrest I need my children in school full @me. I can’t work and We need school. Elementary care for their educa@onal needs all on my own as a single parent. No school has been extremely challenging and stressful for our family. Parent Briarcrest I need my children to be safe. They have their en@re Please don’t reopen at the expense of peoples lives. Elementary lives to learn. We are possibly sending them back to Children are resilient and if we teach them that we care for school at the expense of peoples lives and it’s not each other now they will live their lives In service to each ok. We need to beat this before we can send them other and others. We need compassion for the high risk in back to school. I think opening some form of district our communi@es, this is far from over. sponsored childcare for workers is appropriate but full @me school should not be allowed un@l we have this virus under control. Parent Briarcrest I need to feel that my student's learning will be Elementary supported regardless of the learning mode in the fall, and that we will be supported even if we opt out of in- person instruc@on. Parent Briarcrest I need to have ways for my 11 year old to socialize with I do NOT want 6-6.5 hours of academic instruc@on for my Elementary his classmates and schoolmates in a variety of school child each day - that is too much in an online seyng and I based seyngs, even in a remote seyng. 1 weekly know that he does not receive this amount of instruc@on zoom with the class helps, but it does not meet all the when he is at school get in-person instruc@on. Therefore, social/emo@onal needs our kids have to interact with please do NOT try to replicate the same number of hours at one another in formal and informal ways that occur in home. During remote learning, my son flourished when he: a "normal" school day. As we look to next year, I hope -had choice in how to respond to his learning -had learning that we can think about how to structure down @mes embedded within projects (i.e. science inven@on project where students are able to talk informally with one where he had to invent, research (read), write, create a another, just as they do at lunch/recess/ before school, website) -had the opportunity to pursue things he wanted to etc. whether we are in-person or in a remote seyng. learn more about - prior to Phase 4, he was choosing to learn on Khan Academy grade level math + Duolingo Spanish for at least an hour every day because he enjoyed it. Once Phase 4 was fully going, he saw learning as more of a chore and stopped his previous learning because he had so much more to do and not enough @me to do it all. We need to narrow down the essen@al standards and determine ways for students to show us what they know though problem-based learning...no more read and answer ques@ons.

240 Parent Briarcrest I need to return to work full @me. I am a single parent Elementary and don’t want to leave my kids alone during the day. I also am concerned with using just video lessons. Live teaching is much beDer. My kids were done with their daily work in just over an hour. It was not challenging enough. Parent Briarcrest I think it is important for the kids to interact in person Elementary even though they have to wear mask at school. I would encourage to think of a list of criteria that is reasonable and agree upon with other parents to ensure safe measures are in place if the school reopen. Masks should be mandatory no maDer what because it is the only thing we have to help minimize The spread before the vaccine is available. Something covering the mouth is beDer than nothing. Tell the kids the step-by-step rules to keep each other safe. If 5 days a week is too much for second graders, I am open to three @mes a week in person learning and two @mes a week remote learning or some other hybrid leavening. They should get more assignments to get back on track as they lost three months of school learning. Seesaw was helpful for the @me being but not the same as In class learning for sure. I would like the learning to be more structured if school year will be held remotely, with required aDendance and expecta@ons of the students who par@cipate in the program to hold the kids accountable. Zoom session teaching is rela@vely short, so maybe mul@ple group sessions per days by the teacher (hence smaller class size). If hybrid learning is adopted, the small groups can come to school for in person learning on alterna@ve day schedule. Just a thought. Besides academics, may need to focus a bit on the current events and how to deal with emo@ons etc. it will be a challenging year but so far I think the school district has done a good job in making learning fun for the first graders through seesaw. Really appreciate it.

241 Parent Briarcrest I think that schools should reopen to all students, with Elementary the use of sani@zing and a reasonable amount of social distancing. I believe that children are at the lowest of risk of geyng covid and as long as staff members are being safe (for both their own safety and the students health) that NOT going back to school will nega@vely impact families who are already and have been struggling over the past 4 months. If we stagger days or @mes of day, parents will not be able to work and will be piling their kids into crowded daycares (which is completely inequitable and a health risk) or sending their kids to other people's homes (more of a health risk to more adults) or leaving kids alone at home (dangerous). School seems like the safest place for children if sani@zing guidelines are put in place. I am an educated, English speaking mother and even with the hard work and best of inten@ons from our teacher, feel that my child learned nothing, was emo@onally distraught, lonely and isolated. School is so much more than academics. Our family was tense and stressed out all of @me. I am for reopening school to as close to the tradi@onal way as possible. Parent Briarcrest I think the most important thing is to be able to have Elementary my child in consistent Learning Assistance Classes. She was really beginning to make good progress un@l we began home school. The online games are good but don't replace her LAP teacher. Parent Briarcrest I think you need to look to Canada and how they are I think you need to look to Canada and how they are Elementary approaching in person learning. They are not requiring approaching in person learning. They are not requiring masks. Their focus is a nurturing environment to learn masks. Their focus is a nurturing environment to learn in, not in, not a sterile, literal and figura@vely, to learn in. I a sterile, literal and figura@vely, to learn in. I think you are think you are completely ignoring the needs of two completely ignoring the needs of two working parents and working parents and single parent households, with single parent households, with low income, to even consider low income, to even consider home schooling in the home schooling in the fall. To this end, you need to have a fall. To this end, you need to have a before and ajer before and ajer school program for this large segment of the school program for this large segment of the student student popula@on popula@on

242 Parent Briarcrest I would like my children to be able to have access to his Elementary teacher more in the fall since he is in dual language. He can’t have Spanish 80 percent of the @me and English 20 percent of the @me if he isn’t seeing his teacher every school day. Parent Briarcrest I would say by far the most pressing need is contact Elementary with other children. My daughter is an only child and has really struggled not being able to play with other children. Parent Briarcrest I’m not sure what sort of interven@ons there were I think that having full school days yet not every day would be Elementary for Title/ Learning assistance programs. There was so much more preferred than half days. much informa@on and resources given out in April that it was a bit overwhelming. It would have been helpful to have the Title I teacher or a staff member reach out directly to me by phone. I know there were a ton of resources on the SD site yet not all of them were ones my child needed to access so we probably missed something geared towards helping with reading. My child was super frustrated with the Imagine Learning app. This issue was one of many we experienced while seyng everything up and logging onto websites. I think a direct contact with a staff to check in and make sure she’s on-track would have been helpful. Parent Briarcrest If my employer mandates on-site work, my child’s Elementary ability to par@cipate in remote online learning will be limited. My son’s mental & physical health + learning has been significantly affec@ng by total remote learning. He would benefit greatly through even par@al on-site interac@on with his teacher & students. The weekly Zoom mee@ngs were definitely the most beneficial.

243 Parent Briarcrest If online school happens again, need to have at least a Covid19 is primarily spread by sharing the same airspace with Elementary daily zoom mee@ng with the teacher. Need to have a an infected person even if they are asymptoma@c. An way to have the teacher receive and give feedback on infected person exhales viral par@cles even just by talking or assignments. Need more due dates submission, and breathing, they don't have to cough or sneeze in order for it feedback from teachers for even elementary grades. to happen. If school happens in person, please plan safety The more structure built in to the system, the beDer. It precau@ons accordingly. was hard on parents to supervise their children's work. Every parent I spoke with said their child didn't do the work unless the parent supervised each piece of it. That is difficult when a parent is also trying to work from home, you really can't do both. So, if online, please build in a way that the teacher has more oversight of the students and it is less dependent on parents checking each assignment. Parent Briarcrest If we aren't able to have in person classes, we need We felt like we were preDy much on our own. There was one Elementary more direct interac@on between teachers and students class check-in zoom mee@ng a week. There was one 20 and between students with each other. minute lunch get-together every 3 weeks or so for each grade. Those were the only interac@ve parts of school for the last three months (other than emailing the teacher with an individual ques@on). We felt very isolated from school. The principal put out one very short video a week. I stopped watching because he was just reading what was wriDen on the screen already. The teachers put together some great math videos, but that was 3 15-minute videos a week. The other lessons didn't feel like there was much to them. Maybe the teachers are being too burdened with "back-end" responsibili@es like mee@ngs and trainings. It didn't feel like there was much "front-end" ac@vity going on. If we have to have virtual learning again, can we please get some more interac@ve stuff going on? Why not have real-@me band or choir prac@ce? Why not have some real-@me gym classes that can be done virtually (ac@ve games, etc). Why not have a set lunch @me for students to have lunch together? How about student chats? Why not have actual classes with teachers teaching? How about feedback on student work? We need to feel more like we are actually in school, and students need to feel like they have classmates and teachers.

244 Parent Briarcrest I'm really concerned that the online learning model is The school did an incredible job communica@ng and trying to Elementary just really touch for my child. It requires a huge amount make things work. Whenever I reached out, the teachers of @me and discipline, and he learns so much beDer responded quickly; they checked on how my son was doing, from his teachers and being with his peers. I'm worried offered ideas to help him be successful, and clearly put A TON that he's fallen really far behind and will struggle a lot of effort into crea@ng curriculum and lessons that were next year and into high school. relevant and interes@ng. The weekly checklist with links and priori@es was a life saver and if we need to do this more in the fall, I would love to see something like that con@nue. It was the only way we could manage at all! Parent Briarcrest In person learning As a health care worker who job requires me to be physically Elementary present before/ajer school care through the extended care is cri@cal for me. The extended care program allows my child to have a safe, educa@onal and fun experience while I’m working. I depend on their care greatly Parent Briarcrest In person learning with social distancing . I do not want I feel strongly that wearing a mask is going to make things Elementary to do distance learning, it does not work for us. If we very difficult. If you guys can find a way to implement a plan have half days or par@al school /par@al distance, my where the kids can sit far enough away that they don’t daughter will refuse the distance. I am not a teacher, have to that would be fantas@c. nor do I want to be. Parent Briarcrest Informa@on how school and class will be coming fall. Elementary Parent Briarcrest In-person, teacher led instruc@on Elementary

245 Parent Briarcrest It is very hard to maintain working from home and Elementary suppor@ng/helping kids in distance learning. Neither of my kids were engaged in remote learning- it ojen felt that it only added stress to our days. Its unrealis@c that my kindergartener is going to sit and watch a recorded video lesson and then perform some work based on the video unless I'm right there with her, reminding her to listen, ignore the toys nearby, etc. That level of parental involvement makes it incredibly difficult to get my own work done, aDend mee@ngs, etc, not to men@on helping my 3rd grader with his lessons. Being in an in-school environment for younger students seems so important towards their success. No maDer how kids return to in-person learning, Extended Care is very important to me.

246 Parent Briarcrest It wasn't listed as a special program on this survey, but When I asked my first grader what didn't go well working Elementary my child is in Dual Language at Briarcrest, and one of from home she said "working from the computer". I asked the biggest concerns I have is that for successful her what she meant - what would have been beDer? and she par@cipa@on in the program, she needs regular said "doing school in my classroom!" which preDy much sums exposure to hearing and reading Spanish. It was also it up. I want to recognize and appreciate the hard work the really hard for her to engage with learning on a district, our school and our teacher has put into a brand new computer in English, let alone Spanish, and very distance learning model. It was an unprecedented situa@on, difficult as a parent to coach her through her and it certainly didn't replace school - if anything, highlighted assignments. I think in person learning is vital for her all the reasons we need to be in the classroom, but there program and her age group. As we con@ngency plan were so many improvements in such a rela@vely short @me. for some poten@al distance learning, the following When we switched to direct-from-teacher content, it made a items are what would feel like an improvement to me: big difference to my child's engagement. The pla[orm wasn't - A weekly 1:1 or small group (1:4) Zoom with teacher perfect, but the structure, and ability to get even a liDle for more meaningful direct instruc@on (especially to feedback from the teacher helped us feel more accountable. rela@onship build with a new teacher) - beDer And I liked, as a parent, being a bit more involved with what managed full class zoom at least once a week with my child's lessons were - and I found myself ojen impressed clearer audio and video from teacher, and more with what she had learned prior to the break and some@mes management of student mu@ng/unmu@ng/ shocked by what she didn't. But I definitely felt more par@cipa@on - math and reading materials in paper informed than I did before. The past few months have form to accompany the lessons. It was next to really highlighted how much value we place on our public impossible for my 1st grader to do math worksheets school. We as parents, and our child have really missed from seesaw. I hand wrote them all out , which was learning in a classroom, really missed her teacher, obviously obviously a lot of work. Lessons matching to paper missed her friends and peers. I really hope we will find Bridges pages would have been so much easier and ourselves back at school in the fall as much as possible! more effec@ve. - con@nued recogni@on that while we care deeply about our child's educa@on, and not falling behind, etc, that if our child is not in school, then we are managing their at home learning while also working from home and managing a younger sib, and therefore flexibility is s@ll very important (though I would always priori@ze scheduled class mee@ngs, that's fine, but I could never manage a 4-6 hour school days worth of content from home)

247 Parent Briarcrest It's important to give informa@on about each school's The speech interven@ons sent to us did not work well during Elementary plan to keep students and staff safe. the remote learning. We actually ended up not doing any since all focus was on trying to keep our kindergartner mo@vated to engage with the lessons posted on Seesaw. With the many resources and licenses that Shoreline Schools has access to, is it possible to provide access to online SLP resources or apps to download to mobile devices? Parent Briarcrest It's most important that we know and understand how Our child's teacher did not have parent/guardian Zoom Elementary the schools plan to keep students and staff safe. mee@ng(s). Check-in emails from the teacher were responded to from us but unanswered from the teacher, so the communica@on just seemed like a checkbox item from our perspec@ve. Parent Briarcrest Kid needs help and prac@ce cul@va@ng social skills and Elementary making friends. Kind but can be shy. Parent Briarcrest Kids need to go back to school. It’s unfair to the kids Elementary that their parents are failing at teaching because they don’t have @me to work and teach full @me. The kids miss socializa@on. Whatever it takes for them to go back (especially the younger kids) - I think parents would gladly do. Parent Briarcrest kids' social life Elementary Parent Briarcrest Knowing what Fall will look like so I can plan Elementary

248 Parent Briarcrest Knowing what the children are expected to know going Schedules coming out weekly were somewhat confusing. We Elementary into the next year (I'm not sure how to evaluate if my weren't sure what should be done when, and ojen the children are behind/what we can work on over the assignments would be all done Mon-Tues-Wed and Thursday- summer) Is there a test that we can use to evaluate if Friday would be lej with nothing (assignments to easily our children are where they should be? spread out/balanced). It seemed to suggest every subject isn't done every day ( which I know is the case for subjects like science/art/music/or), so how should it have been spread out? It would be good to know the subject of learning, so that if I needed to find filler material or use of workbooks as I ojen needed to, I would know what to look up. I'm working from home so I can't sit watching over my children as they do their assignments to know what they are working on, and trying to ask them what they just learned lej me with a vague answer. Zoom mee@ngs seemed useful, but our internet was ojen slow (overused?) at the @me of the zoom calls (three people in the house all using the internet) and so the mee@ngs were ojen frustra@ng to the children. Parent Briarcrest Maintaining regular contact with school regarding Elementary changes and plans. Hi Parent Briarcrest Making sure my child is safe, but also being able to Elementary provide age/grade level appropriate learning so he doesn’t fall behind and feels he can succeed. Parent Briarcrest Mantenimiento de la limpieza estricta en la escuela, A mis hijas no les gusto el aprendizaje desde casa! Es un mal Elementary tener todas las medidas de distancia social! Seguir hábito no respetar horarios y que no tengan supervisión de usando cubrebocas durante el acercamiento de gente!! un adulto! . Los padres que tenemos que salir a trabajar no Lavar las manos constantemente! Y muchas otras cosas importa que pase! Los estudiantes @enen el derecho y la más! obligación de asis@r a la escuela! Claro sà Parent Briarcrest Materials for the next year to prac@ce during the Elementary summer @me.

249 Parent Briarcrest Mi hijo necesita formar parte de un grupo que le ayude Ha sido muy dificil trabajar y educar a nuestro hijo. Nos Elementary a socializar, @ene inmadurez social-cogni@va, es uno de sen@mos un poco abandonados por el colegio y nuestra los mas chicos de su clase y es hijo unico. Nos urge que comunidad. Es una edad dificil en donde mi hijo recien logre interactuar con companieros de colegio. My son aprende a hacer amigos ojala pueda hacerse algo para que needs to form part of a social skills development los ninios interactuen. Ajer care ha sido una herramienta group, he was diagnozed as a kid with delayed indispensable para funcionar como familia pues los dos socializa@on and maturity, he is one of the youngest at trabajamos. It has been very difficult as we are full @me school and he is our only son, so we urgently need for employees and now are taking @me off work to teach our him to interact in real life with other peers and kids son. So kudos for the dedica@on and love that you bring to our kids. We felt a liDle abandoned with the COVID, nobody called to see how our son was doing and how he was coping with online schooling. Our son was just star@ng to learn social skills, making friends and interac@ng with peers and this pandemic really derailed our progress. Also ajer care has been key for our func@oning as a family as we both work full @me Parent Briarcrest More zoom calls with teachers; more teacher I took too long to get up and running. It was roughy 6 weeks Elementary interac@on. 1 teacher was 15 minutes per week! before things got up and running; interim programs should have been set up. Parent Briarcrest More direct interac@on and guidance from teachers. Elementary (1) 30 minute zoom overview for the en@re week does not even come close to actual teaching. As parents we can go thru the assignments with our kids, but that is just helping with homework, it's not teaching. Also having a student in dual language, again (1) 30 minute zoom in Spanish every other week is not immersion. I am very worried about my child's ability to con@nue his Spanish fluency at a pace to keep up with grade level expecta@ons. We also recieved no feedback at end of year, so I have no idea if my kids are ready for the next grade level.

250 Parent Briarcrest More socializing. My child is REALLY bored and lonely. I know the teachers all did the best they could and I really Elementary Both parents are working from home full @me and a lot appreciated the daily schedule, Zoom calls and videos they of nega@ve aDen@on seeking behavior has developed put together. Once things got up and running fairly smoothly as well as my child has had WAY more screen @me than around mid April things were at least somewhat predictable I would normally feel comfortable with - that was not and semi manageable. But overall this spring has been educa@onal. There was not enough school work my incredibly hard. child could do without help, which was incredibly stressful for everyone because it meant working on school work in the evening, weekend or a parent taking leave from work. Parent Briarcrest Moving into middle school, having ALL teachers use Elementary Canvas uniformly would reduce the tension of understanding what the expecta@on and assignments are for all 6 classes being taken. It would provide a way for my student to be able to synthesize the expecta@ons into a single calendar/schedule and plan more efficiently for the week/quarter. Parent Briarcrest My child and the other children's mental heath/ Before school starts in the fall, it would be great for the new Elementary emo@onal well being. This is hard on everyone, as teachers to do a zoom call to meet the new students and adults, we have beDer tools to cope. Children are not families, individually, to help break the ice. Could be a short as resilient as many ojen say, we need to allow them 10-15 min call. Once school begins, zoom mee@ngs may to process things and be more flexible with their want to start small. Being on a group zoom call may be needs. overwhelming at the start of the year for many. Perhaps smaller groups of students for the first few zoom calls to get them situated. Thank you for planning ahead. This is not an easy task as it has never been done before. Please allow yourselves some room for error/learning. You will not get it "right" and many may disagree with your plan. I trust you have the students best interest and we will follow your lead. Thank you. Parent Briarcrest My child is in the Dual Language program so I have I am a single parent who has had limited childcare op@ons Elementary struggled to keep him on track learning Spanish since during this @me when I have needed to work full @me. It has we are an English speaking family. made teaching my child very challenging because he is too young to do independent work.

251 Parent Briarcrest My child wants to connect with his teacher and feels Elementary very uncomfortable watching lessons from other teachers. He some@mes has trouble switching back and forth between the lesson instruc@ons and the place on see-saw to submit the answer. We learned he was skipping parts of lessons when we thought he would be able to do it in his own. Parent Briarcrest My child was required to engage in roughly one lesson I know the teachers and staff worked very hard to create Elementary per day on a single subject once we began the school curriculum as quickly as possible, but on the whole, I was based learning. This was unacceptable. I had to figure very disappointed in SPS' response and programming. I feel out supplemental work. My expecta@on is that my that my son missed out in a LOT of curriculum. Games where child has the ability in the fall to connect with his parents have to play with children to support their learning teacher and class, have regular lessons, work are NOT helpful when the parents are working at home. It expecta@ons that is more than one hour a day, and be was insul@ng that simple books being read to kids on video held accountable for that learning. My child's was seen as educa@onal content. I would like to see live academic progress is my main concern. His social and zoom instruc@on on all topics in each class if we aren't in emo@onal needs are my second concern. I feel that as person next fall. Lessons can be recorded on zoom for those long as the health department is in support of it, I want who can't make it. But most kids where there during zoom him to be in school as much as possible. We will calls. They could have lasted longer and been more than a engage in any health needs as required. check in and share. Why was some staff paid full @me and they did not do anything the rest of the semester? shouldn't they have been furloughed and money saved for use later? I would like to see an extended school year or summer school to make up content once a vaccine is distributed or things can otherwise go back to normal. Parent Briarcrest My daughter has benefited from one on one support If there weren’t a ton of equity issues affected by pulling Elementary during quaran@ne. She is almost reading at grade level, out to home school, this would be an easy decision. and she is about half a year behind in math. At our parent teacher conference, she was more than a year behind for both. We scrapped nearly all of the content coming from her teachers and crajed our own curricumlum. So while I need her at school so I can work more, I’m not interested in jeopardizing our health for less than suppor@ve instruc@on. I can be part @me for a while.

252 Parent Briarcrest My daughter's most important would be in school Thank you Elementary learning. But safely. Relearn second grade spanish! If online would like several days a week in small groups at school perhaps. But online would need more structure with daily contacts with teachers.

253 Parent Briarcrest My Oldest is entering high school and just really has a Thanks for all the effort that was put in. It was a great try. Elementary difficult @me feeling like they can ask ques@ons about how the technology works to turn in work for distance learning. They basically only did 1/10th of what was assigned to them during the shut down. This happened because I was busy facilita@ng for my younger children. All of my children need me to facilitate every assignment. In most cases this means I have to listen to the lesson also so that I understand what the result should be. This is very @me consuming and I have only been able to do so consistently for my third grader. Let me state again THIS HAS BEEN VERY TIME CONSUMING. We home school in the summer @me and push our children preDy hard academically as well as with life lessons (Like cooking and car maintenance) and we do not have to 1:1 facilitate nearly as much as distance learning with the school district. And it is not that the work is hard, In many cases it was much too easy, but they don't understand how to use the tools to create the output required output. This is why they did beDer when I took the lesson so that I could understand and guide them through. Not the answers, but the produc@on. This is how my 8th grader evaded all of their assignments because they managed to look busy while I was busy with their more vocally frustrated siblings. The teachers just let me know this was the case this week. Similarly my third graders teacher did not tell me their work was incomplete for the first month of the shut down. Thankfully my 5th grader has struggled the least and managed to turn in all of their work but no without frustra@ons, except in the very beginning when my 5th grader did not know where to find her assignments. Again I discovered it before the teachers let me know that work was not being done. The other thing that we all struggled with is that at no point were the teachers able to really help them learn how to use Flip Grid, We Video, or SeeSaw really effec@vely, I feel like we all teachers included need/ed a vendor tutorial for those sojware packages. 254 Parent Briarcrest My son had ZERO communica@on from the school We are dependent on extended care to be able to be working Elementary about his 504 plan during distance learning. I am VERY parents. concerned about the schools ability to implement these accommoda@ons and increased needs during the distant learning and new school structure. I am VERY concerned there seems to be very liDle aDen@on to how these different schedules will work for working parents. I may be FORCED to quit my job if there is a week on / week off schedule. We are dependent on extended care to be able to be working parents. The informa@on released so far regarding the school s@pula@ons depict a very emo@onally unhealthy environment for children. I am very concerned and worried about school and the fall. I don't know when we are going to get FIRM informa@on about what to expect, so we can actually plan and prepare for how this is turning our lives upside down. US needs to review how Canada is returning children back to school without masks. The informa@on we have received so far is daun@ng and leaving SO MUCH in the air. Our families need clear answers asap. Parent Briarcrest My son has Concerned about fall going in person as my son is high risk. Elementary I would like to be able to have a online op@on for Would like to have a 100 percent online op@on and s@ll allow him in the fall. him to aDend his homeschool of Briarcrest. Parent Briarcrest Need to feel my family will be safe if my child is at risk Elementary of exposure at school. Need to know if any other student’s family becomes sick so school can close for deep cleaning. Need to reduce class size by 50% to ensure social distancing. Need beDer tes@ng and tracing to have any insight.

255 Parent Briarcrest None My son’s teacher did a wonderful job connec@ng with Elementary students over daily read aloud and a weekly class mee@ng. She provided great instruc@ons through Zoom recordings for math lessons that made it easy for my child to follow along and learn the material. In Google classroom, the lessons were outlined for the week and by day so it was super easy for him to know what he needed to do for the day and helped establish a rou@ne for him (which was badly needed! # ). is awesome!! We love her! Parent Briarcrest Not sure but it was hard keeping kiddo focused with Elementary both parents working 100 hrs plus and not much help and some kids doing nothing. Parent Briarcrest Nothing If the kids is going to school this fall, my only concern is the Elementary health and safety of all the students and staff. Aside from using a face mask ,can I suggest that the students can wear a face shield? More protec@on for them and for someone else. Parent Briarcrest One of my kids receives speech services and trying to If there is any online learning next year, I would like to see Elementary do the exercises at home was not very effec@ve. I have more live instruc@on @me especially for things like math. The seen a regression in his speech and would hope that it teachers did a great job these past few months with the @me could be more hands on next year, even if it is via they had to prepare and the final online learning stage was zoom. really great and well organized. Parent Briarcrest Op@on for distance home learning provided as op@on if Would appreciate distance home learning as an op@on as Elementary in person classes start in September. student and family members in home are considered to be at a higher risk to be suspectable to complica@ons from COVID-19. Ability for parents to work not dependent upon kids returning to school Parent Briarcrest Our child gets so much socializa@on at school that Elementary it’s become something she depends on. Also having a structured day keeps her focused and excited about what’s happening next. Parent Briarcrest Our most important concern is that everyone is safe As you're likely already aware, children geyng acclimated to Elementary and healthy. We definitely feel that our child is beDer a new teacher, new classmates, and new expecta@ons will be served being at school with teachers and students, but a very different situa@on than moving to an online model understand that may not be fully possible and could ajer already knowing the teacher and classmates well. We're manage if that's the case. concerned this could be extremely challenging and present addi@onal barriers to learning from home.

256 Parent Briarcrest Please outline the services or op@ons for Extended Day I appreciate all the teacher's hard work through all this. My Elementary Ajer school care or op@ons for parents who have to daughters have expressed returning at school and joining work full @me. My daughter aDends the Extended Day friends again more ojen than not during the closure. The Ajer Care at her school daily given my husband and I social-emo@onal learning is vital to any learning- providing a work full @me. As well, please outline give flexible necessary balance to my children's overall well being and op@ons for Preschool at the Edwin PraD Learning confidence. As much as the Zoom class mee@ngs weekly Center as my other child also aDends full @me helped, it's not the same as in person interac@on. However, I everyday. What are the op@ons for full @me working do understand the necessary closure! I look forward to the parents? How will Extended Day Ajer Care and decisions that will be made to the benefit of the students. Preschool be flexible to my family's needs- both parents work full @me- especially if there may be learning with alternate schedules?? This is very very important. As well, how is Extended Day Ajer Care going to follow health guidelines for COVID-19 as my daughter will be at school longer than other students? Parent Briarcrest primeramente la salud y seguridad de nuestra hija y Elementary segundo asegurarme que este recibiendo buena instruccion de aprendizaje y socializacion con sus companeros. Parent Briarcrest Que encuentren la vacuna para el coronavirus. Y que Elementary mis hijos vuelvan a clase normal Parent Briarcrest Que todo este bien I que los niños regresen pronto a Que están asiendo buen trabajo Elementary la escuela Parent Briarcrest Reading support for our son We would be happy to send our son to school wearing a Elementary mask and with a boDle of hand sani@zer. He needs social interac@on and in person learning opportuni@es. He feels isolated and lonely. Trying to help him do his school assignments while working full-@me from home has not been very effec@ve. Parent Briarcrest Regular school aDendance Classes and assignments are mandatory Elementary

257 Parent Briarcrest Return to regular in-person school in the fall is the The following ar@cle contains statements from high school Elementary most important need. Providing meaningful and students across the country regarding their experience this fulfilling experiences this summer. spring. Every comment rings true to my 4th and 6th grader's experiences. Please read this ar@cle: From The New York Times: What Students Are Saying About Remote Learning: Teenage comments in response to our recent wri@ng prompts, and an invita@on to join the ongoing conversa@on. hDps://[email protected]/2020/04/09/ learning/what-students-are-saying-about-remote- learning.html?smid=em-share Parent Briarcrest Returning to regular school in-person in the fall is the The survey does not address the quality of the online Elementary most important need. Both of my children have learning. I sincerely appreciate the teachers @me to make experienced a significant mental health decline during the videos, but most were so tedious that my child tuned out this experience. Having meaningful and fulfilling ajer a few minutes. Watching a pre-recorded video does not experiences this summer is also an important need to take the place of in-person or live interact for grade-school aDempt to restore them. The following ar@cle children. Its difficult for college kids and adults to learn this contains statements from high school students across way. The only lessons that were completed were those that the country regarding their experience this spring. were quick and easy. Also those lessons that had slideshows I Every comment rings true to my 4th and 6th grader's could print and math lessons in the math workbook were ok, experiences. Please read this ar@cle: From The but required a lot of my @me to teach. My child never had New York Times: What Students Are Saying About any feedback on any work turned in other than provided by Remote Learning: Teenage comments in response to me. Most adults require feedback to stay on-track and our recent wri@ng prompts, and an invita@on to join mo@vated, and to feel fulfilled. The online learning provided the ongoing conversa@on. hDps://[email protected]/ was intended only as a stopgap measure during a public 2020/04/09/learning/what-students-are-saying-about- health emergency. It did not in any way adequately replace remote-learning.html?smid=em-share K-12 educa@on provided at the school and should not be considered in any way as a model for future schooling. I am deeply concerned about my children's mental health and school learning regression at this @me and urge you to open the schools in the fall to all children, using masks and social distancing un@l a vaccine is available. Parent Briarcrest Right educa@on for the child . Please reopen school when it’s absolutely safe for Elementary everyone. Parent Briarcrest Safety Elementary Parent Briarcrest Safety and Health Social emo@onal support transi@on Elementary back to school environment

258 Parent Briarcrest Safety for our kids and the community. If we can be Elementary provided adequate tools to support our children's learning from home, let us be a part of it. Realizing that not a lot of parents have the availability/@me with kids learning at home, it would be great to have a somewhat structured breakdown of students that can par@cipate in certain days to make it more produc@ve. Or mix of kids to make it more manageable for teachers to interact with the students that are on-line with them. Ajer-school child-care is s@ll very important. If there is a way we can be crea@ve in being safe around others and con@nue to prac@ce these with kids it would be very helpful. Parent Briarcrest Safety is the biggest priority. I need to know that public Elementary health guidelines will be strictly followed without excep@on by everyone in the district. I am skep@cal this is possible. Beyond safety, my middle schooler needs his friends in some capacity. He is really struggling emo@onally without social connec@on to kids his own age and the virtual connec@ons are not sufficient for his developmental level. Parent Briarcrest Safety should always be a priority. However, we We strongly believe that students should return to school in Elementary strongly believe that students should return to school the fall. However, spliyng some 4th graders into AM only in the fall. lf all kids and all school workers are classes and other 4th graders into PM only classes is a temperature tested every morning (easily done with a horrible idea. Please don't do it. This will be very difficult to forehead thermometer and not intrusive), this would nearly impossible for parents to coordinate with work give parents more confidence that their children are schedules. Anything in lieu of this would be beDer, from safe at school. We also strongly urge that you schedule temperature tes@ng to wearing masks and social distancing. thorough school surface cleanings on a regular basis as an aDempt to keep the school as clean as possible. Parent Briarcrest Safety. We have elderly people live with us. So we Elementary cannot risk of being exposed to COVID. Hope the school will con@nue distance learning please!

259 Parent Briarcrest School close monitor if social distancing are prac@ce Would be nice if school can reference how China, Hong Kong Elementary and if everyone wear masks the whole @me during the and south korea resume schools. They asked Students wear school hours. For small kids, please make sure they big hats that have cover in front of their face and with masks constantly wear masks and washing hands. we are on all the @me. totally okay to keep online school as in person school for small kids are harder, since they dont have too much of self control on hygiene. Parent Briarcrest Seguir estudiando en casa pero sin computadora que Ningún comentario. Elementary tengan acceso a libros y a escribir (lectoescritura). Parent Briarcrest Since my children are very young it is difficult to lead I am okay with the idea of masks, but have a few Elementary them through their school work while also working. reserva@ons. My children have been wearing them on and off They are not yet readers so they cannot even figure out during the past few months. My concerns are the length of what is being asked if them or access the work @me as they have never worn them a full day, also my independently. I feel in person instruc@on will be younger child has sensory issues and my older needs some cri@cal for them this next year. speech help. If there is a way to accommodate everyone I think it’s a good solu@on. Parent Briarcrest Social/Emo@onal needs are the most pressing. I hope the district priori@zes learning for those kids who are Elementary Academically, I think he is doing okay, but he feels sad most at risk of falling behind. I can and have the flexibility to and anxious ojen now. con@nue to teach my kids from home. But, I know a lot of families are not as lucky as we are. Parent Briarcrest Socializa@on and assessment of where my daughter is I am a teacher in Edmonds School District at the Secondary Elementary in her learning. Has she improved in her reading? Is she level. I am worried about the two schedules matching. Also on track with Math? what will happen with extended care? Parent Briarcrest Some type of extended day program if kids only go Elementary back for par@al days. Extended day care needed in general. Parent Briarcrest stricter learning Elementary Parent Briarcrest Structured daily lessons from the teacher in video There are too many pla[orms to log into and keep track of. Elementary form. The teacher should be teaching, not online Everything should be in one place- the lessons, email programs. I need to decide if I should enroll my child in communica@on with the teacher, virtual mee@ngs with the a school that actually knows how to provide virtual class, etc. learning if our school is not going to be allowing the teachers to actually teach my children.

260 Parent Briarcrest Structured reliable schedule that we can work around. Some of the classes did not review nor provide responses to Elementary Single and standardized forms of communica@on the classwork. Having to do all the error checking and a large across the mul@ple classes and teachers. No last part of instruc@on is very taxing, especially in our house with minute emails with last minute changes. Emails mul@ple students. should highlight the delta or what's changed and important (vs generic or repe@@ve no@ces). Geyng 10 emails with lots of overlap info and from different sources just makes it more difficult to understand the message. Parent Briarcrest Tareas para el hogar, ya que con todo esto que estamos Me gustaria que enviaran un poco mas de material didac@co Elementary viviendo ellos se aburren mucho y como para que ellos se puedieran entretener mas en la casa comprenderan a veces no los podemos atender al 100% por que tambien tenemos que trabajar par poder mantener todo en orden Parent Briarcrest That health and safety remain the top priority at all I trust the district and our state DOH to keep the safety of our Elementary @mes. students/staff/faculty/families as the top priority. Thank you for doing your best for us. Parent Briarcrest That my 5th grader is learning what he needs to learn I wish there was more zoom mee@ngs with his teacher for Elementary to advance to the next grade. I would like some new lessons. inorma@on on what he should know for each grade so I can help him where he is weakest. Parent Briarcrest The distance learning was tough for my first grader. I Elementary believe in person/classroom will be best for his development. I think if the school is strict with the social distancing and mask wearing it could be doable. Thank you! Parent Briarcrest The kids need to go back to school! Online learning at Please give away for parents to call teachers. Some@mes the Elementary home does not work. Children need teachers other needs that we have are not easily described or met in an than their parents and exposure to people other than email. Please focus on geyng our children back to the their parents to grow and learn properly. Staying physical school campus with teachers that are trying to teach. focused while staring at a computer is not a good way Even if that means that we only do math science and history for elementary and middle school children to learn. the school year, we have to get the kids back! Consider doing Not having them physically at school is a huge a morning session and an ajernoon session. Doing so a disservice to our children. The kids go through the double the capacity of the current building space. mo@on but our retaining very liDle informa@on.

261 Parent Briarcrest The most important needs at this @me is that if in this Elementary fall the school is re-opening, school should come up with some regula@on to make sure students, teachers and staff will strictly follow social distancing and other related health safety rules. School will ac@vely be doing the health monitoring, such as daily screening. Schools should increase the frequency of sani@zing school public area; limit the amount of students/staff present in a enclosed space such as gyms, library etc. For the lower graders, teachers should be be able to no@fy the students to wash hands ojen, etc. Parent Briarcrest The safety of my kids when they go back for next year. I would like to thank for all the wonderful teachers for Elementary ass@ng us, with all the oline resources. Checking and guiding kids and keeping them connected with their classmates. Parent Briarcrest The Seesaw pla[orm is TERRIBLE!!! Please Please I think with masks, hand washing, social distancing, and Elementary Please switch to something beDer, as we spent more quaran@ning those who are sick, a return to physical school @me trying to navigate that awful OS than we did would by far be the best solu@on academically and socially learning. Also, the quan@ty and quality of work for my child. assigned was way too low. I supplemented every day with Kahn and other learning resources as the demands put upon my student were way too low. She was bored and unchallenged. Finally, the lack of online teaching was frustra@ng. We had only one mee@ng a week, and during that 30 minutes, the teacher would either read a chapter of a book or lead a show and tell ac@vity. There was no live instruc@on at all and very liDle contact. The depression and isola@on my child felt during this @me was palpable. Daily zoom instruc@on would be a huge improvement. Thank you for trying to improve this and for considering parent feedback. Parent Briarcrest To actually go back to school. Distance learning for 2nd Elementary grade and under is ridiculous. And I would consider just switching to full on Hone school if the distance learning con@nued.

262 Parent Briarcrest To feel like my student's learning will be supported in It would be really helpful under the remote model if parents Elementary the fall whether or not in-person teaching is happening were given the most important benchmarks to achieve by the and whether or not we are comfortable aDending end of each quarter, and especially by the start of the school. I want to be supported even if school is open upcoming year (learn mul@plica@on facts, be able to read and we feel un-safe par@cipa@ng in-person. books of level x, be able to count 100 items, be able to spell words such as a,b,c,d..

263 Parent Briarcrest To find healthy ways for my kids to spend @me in the I am hoping we can find a way to move to an in-person Elementary summer while I con@nue to try to find ways to catch up learning program! Even if that picture needs to move to an on work that has mounted over the past few months. alterna@ng day or half day schedule, I feel strongly that it Geyng paid for that work. Knowing that my kids will would benefit students and families to allow some interac@ve be able to look forward to being around friends for @me with teachers and peers. It would also allow families the their overall health and happiness. ability to have some @me to focus on and schedule necessary work in order to beDer support their children when they are home. Any level of home learning would be appreciated to have support in the form of online mee@ngs with instruc@on or video content that offers instruc@on with a certain level of expecta@on of them aDending/par@cipa@ng. It seemed ques@onable to my kids if their peers were doing any schoolwork so it created an addi@onal hurdle to expect them par@cipate. Thankfully my kids rarely need instruc@onal support in the form of having ques@ons with content, however the learning model that the school moved to in the final stage was very difficult to find mo@va@on in and some@mes navigate. The weekly google classroom had an easy to read calendar that consisted of three videos per week in Math, with very abbreviated math assignments, then one science and one wri@ng project the kids needed to work on throughout the week. The kids were needing to self navigate the larger science and literacy projects with no teacher instruc@on - there were links to the Wonders or Bridges curriculum. Some of these were confusing or difficult to find the correct content with liDle mo@va@on and interest to do them - even the teacher-led videos in Math became difficult to focus on as @me went by. There were @mes we considered moving toward earlier content with a liDle more interest-based curriculum op@ons that we self-navigated or created in order to make learning fun again and alleviate the moun@ng frustra@ons at home. It was a challenge to find happy points in trying to navigate the content and support them in learning (which I can't say it felt like a lot) all while I was also trying to find any minute in the day to work from home. Definitely trying @mes for all...glad we all made it through and I know it was a lot of work for teachers, schools and the district to put together in rapid form so it was appreciated, as is the ability to provide feedback. Thank you! 264 Parent Briarcrest To go back to school. We pay for extended care - that is super important for next Elementary year. Although my main priority is having the kids go back to school. Being a full @me employee and a full @me Teacher didn’t work and my kids didn’t engage or learn the way they would have. Because they are liDle, the assignments required us to help - which when you are working 60+ hours a week is challenging. We did it but it was not effec@ve or engaging. The zoom calls were choa@c and my kids hated them. So we stopped having them hop on. We are having to supplement by hiring tutors Which are expensive. 2 of my kids are in dual language and we don’t speak Spanish so I am very conflicted about if we set them up for total failure in the program as they are Also behind their English only speaking peers. I think the teachers did the best they could with the @ght turn around and lack of resources. This was not planned for and we all adapt. That said, given the op@on and knowing the risk, We will gladly do whatever it takes to get the kids back in Actual school. Extended care would be a bonus. Parent Briarcrest To interact again with other children Elementary Parent Briarcrest To keep the community and my family healthy and Elementary safe. Parent Briarcrest To make sure school is a safe environment for everyone Need more informa@on on how the dual language Spanish/ Elementary working and aDending. English program works in the fall at Briarcrest Elementary school since daily classroom interac@ons are so important for this program. Parent Briarcrest needs to get tested for a 504 plan for reading. We I miss his amazing teachers. he had a GREAT year with his Elementary believe strongly that he has dyslexia. he was going to teaches this year. We need to be back in school. be tested when the shutdown happened. he needs to be at school with in-person help for his reading. Parent Briarcrest We are a fortunate to be living in a healthy and safe We appreciate the work that is going into making mul@ple Elementary home with access to food. It would be helpful to have plans. We understand hard decisions will be made and we Spanish resources as my children are apart of the dual appreciate being able to give feedback to make things beDer. language program.

265 Parent Briarcrest We are most focused on the mental/emo@onal health My children aDend ajer care every day and part of my ability Elementary and phyisical health of our children at this @me. to resume regular work will be con@ngent on whether the Maintaining academic skills are also very important to school is offering ajer care. I would like to hear from the us, too, but we have been able figure out alterna@ve school over the summer about what the offerings will be for learning models that meet our kids' needs. We just ajer school programming. fear that strict health guidelines required for in-person instruc@on will be very hard to maintain throughout a day and will affect how my (and other) kids engage with the teacher and other children and learn, in general. I am willing to give in-person a try, but would like to have op@ons as a parent in case we determine in-person is not working well for our children. I know these aspects are very challenging to figure out how meet all families needs and interests, but the more flexible we can be the beDer. Parent Briarcrest We need to return to school in person. Distance Elementary learning has been a disaster for my youngest child. Parent Briarcrest We really want to see the kids have, at minimum, Elementary par@al in school learning. Parent Briarcrest We want our children to receive as good an educa@on We don’t feel that our children received anywhere near Elementary as possible. We need structure, regular teacher what they needed ajer the buildings closed. Understandably, interac@on, clear assignments, clear due dates, teacher it took quite a while to get the online material up and evalua@on and interac@on regarding assignments, and running. But once running, we simply feel that support and as much social interac@on as possible. structure were severely lacking. And we feel that our children did not receive anywhere near an adequate educa@onal experience. LiDle one on one with teachers, liDle feedback on quality of turned-in materials, minimal instruc@on, ques@ons about assignments, unclear assignments, and other issues lej us very concerned with their prepara@on for coming years. Parent Briarcrest We work full @me and have very busy days with back to It’s not for me to say whether it should be required to Elementary back calls. We need in-person instruc@on in which thy take measures such as separa@ng classrooms of kids. I’m can be supervised and taught by a professional. We sure there are recommenda@ons from professionals. We just don’t have the bandwidth to act as their teacher. need you to ensure that in-person instruc@on resumes in the Also they need social interac@on for their mental fall and that you take the necessary precau@ons to minimize heakth the risk of spreading COVID.

266 Parent Briarcrest We're most concerned about everyone staying safe As you're likely already aware, children geyng acclimated to Elementary and healthy. We also believe that in-person learning is a new teacher, new classmates, and new expecta@ons will be incredibly important. a very different situa@on than moving to an online model ajer already knowing the teacher and classmates well. We're concerned this could be extremely challenging and present addi@onal barriers to learning from home. Parent Briarcrest While we should've been able to to support our kids You're survey doesn't account for the Dual Language special Elementary beDer with online learning (two English-speaking program (with in person classes being vital). Also, we have parents with computers and internet access), we had relied heavily on the Extended Care program for the past five trouble juggling two full @me jobs and our kids' years. The teachers have always been amazing, learning and emo@onal needs during this @me. As a being excep@onal. My kids look forward to going result, despite the last 6 weeks having clear to Extended Care. Laura and the other teachers work hard to assignments, we struggled to get them onto a make it so much more that a day care. They are constantly schedule. Also, suppor@ng our 1st grader who is in the coming up with new and exci@ng arts and crajs projects, Dual Language program was nearly impossible (since a special snacks, STEM ac@vi@es, trivia and sport challenges, big focus of the program is daily immersion in the while s@ll fiyng in @me for reading and homework. language). Something that could be pure daily drudgery for my kids is fun and interes@ng. I've even been "scolded" by them for picking them up earlier than usual. Parent Briarcrest Work or ac@vi@es my child can do over the summer to Elementary con@nue her educa@on. Social interac@on with her friends. Parent Briarcrest Wri@ng/composi@on instruc@on, being around friends Elementary Parent Briarcrest ኧԭ౯๜Ոӧտ᝕෈҅ಅզᛔ૩ࣁᕚර੕਎ৼํᅩ Elementary ࢯᵙ҅ইຎݢզጱᦾ҅ᬮฎ๗๕ੜ਎ৼݢզྋଉࣁ ໊਍ԟ̶ Parent Briarcrest 1- I heard of some private schools where students received Elementary online instruc@on during the whole school day. I think this was of great benefit to students. 2- Having one place to go to (Seesaw) was the most efficient use of my @me, especially since I was working from home. Parent Briarcrest As a parent of a future Kindergartener and this would be her Elementary first experience with school. It is important to me that she would feel comfortable with a teacher and students. That she would be able to play with other students without fear.

267 Parent Briarcrest Distance learning has been extremely difficult, and my child Elementary really does not engage well with online content. We are in the dual language classroom and immersion is impossible under the circumstances. It is very hard to try to support mul@ple children in their learning at home. My two other children who are not enrolled at this school have a 504 and an IEP. I am very concerned about the long reaching ramifica@ons of this for an en@re genera@on of kids. The situa@on seems like it will just increase the socio-economic dispari@es for children in our country. Perhaps kids could work on service assignments as part of their learning (for example high schoolers reading with elementary students via zoom for a service project aimed at literacy). This may be a @me to look into project based learning that speak to individual student interest as well. Kids will be more engaged at home if they get to work on something they care about. I think it would helpful to have beDer understanding of learning standards that are expected per grade so parents can understand the goals. And perhaps to determine networks that can support with areas that parents might not be able to support as well at home. Perhaps community partnerships can be forged to fill the gaps and help keep kids learning new material. I was impressed with the teacher's ability to pivot to online learning this past Spring. Parent Briarcrest Having the school open is very important for many reasons. Elementary As the sole, working parent suppor@ng our home, I have to be able to work my regular rou@ne. If schools close, daycare also closes. This leaves us in a significant bind. Parent Briarcrest I know that I failed as a teacher to my kids. They did their Elementary assignments every day but they had to own it - my husband and I both work full @me. 2 of my kids are in dual language and we speak English at home so I am incredibly concerned on how far behind they are as they haven’t had more than 10 mins a day of Spanish. I would do whatever it takes for the kids to go back in the fall - this didn’t work. For kids or for parents

268 Parent Briarcrest Info about before and ajer care. Ajer first 2 weeks of Elementary online learning seesaw worked preDy well. Parent Briarcrest My daughter hardly did any school work ajer we went to Elementary home learning, no maDer how much effort I made to help her into it. She had no accountability, no structure, and knew that it didn’t maDer whether or not she actually completed or did her best on a lot of assignments. She is extremely unprepared for next school year, and I’m sure she’ll be behind in her learning. Parent Briarcrest Elementary Parent Briarcrest Remote learning (even with a parent home helping) was a Elementary really struggle for different reasons with my 2 kids. My 3rd grader needed me to basically sit beside him for all lessons and work (and I am trying to run a business at the same @me) and my 6th grader was miserable. I turned into a task master whom he basically didn’t want to see. In his words “school at home is all of the work and none of the fun†Parent Briarcrest The socializa@on is very important to my kids and I want them Elementary to return to at school learning. Parent Briarcrest The teachers did not design any lessons to ac@vely engage Elementary students such as Nearpod or Padlet. The teachers only met with my students once a week for 30 minutes. There were no read aloud, small groups or even one on one check ins.

269 Parent Brookside - A more clear plan of ac@on for each day/week from As a parent, it was very difficult to know what the teacher's Elementary the teachers. Our most successful situa@on for our kids goals are for a given day, week, or subject. While we're given during this @me was with one of the teachers who sent some assignments, we don't have any background on what a clear plan of what to work on every week, how many the class is learning or how the teacher wants to go about days they should do the ac@vity, and an approximate teaching it. This makes it extremely hard to know if we're @me. This made it much easier to know what the child actually helping the child be successful or not. One of our should be doing. - A standardized communica@on teachers sent a weekly assignment sheet with some of this regime. Another issue we had was the variety of informa@on, which made it much easier to help the child. methods of communica@on used by the elementary But, for elementary kids who aren't old enough to drive their school teachers. Some teachers used email, some used own learning, leyng the parents know the overall objec@ves an app of their own choosing (meaning you could have would help them help the child with schoolwork. mul@ple apps you had to use), and some did something else. Having disparate forms of communica@on made it more difficult to track all of the various things going on for the kids (and the school overall), which was already hard enough to do without having to try to remember which place to look for informa@on. Standardizing the communica@on @ming, format, and medium, so that all teachers are doing the same things, would be very helpful. - More feedback from teachers. No assignments were graded, so we don't know if the kids are doing the work correctly and actually learning it. - More interac@ve teaching. There were no interac@ve classes with the teacher. Instead there were video conferences (once or maybe twice a week), and these mee@ngs generally did not involve any real teaching. Instead, they were just for connec@on. Connec@on is fine, but I have a hard @me believing that real teaching could not be done via Zoom or other video conferencing pla[orms a few @mes a week. I think this type of learning would feel more like normal school for the children. Parent Brookside 1. Safety 2. Childcare 3. Flexibility with assignments, Elementary due dates, etc.

270 Parent Brookside 1. Social learning from being around other kids. 2. One of my two kids really struggled with trying to do school- Elementary Figuring out how to find enough hours in the week to related ac@vi@es from home, because the simple difference in teach with two parents working full-@me. 3. Keeping loca@on really maDered to him. He never really respected his the kids interested in online learning. nanny as a surrogate teacher, especially because her aDen@on was divided between him and his brother. The heavy focus on online ac@vi@es also disrupted things because it greatly increased the screen @me that our kids were used to, making it difficult to permit the usual screen @me we granted them for things like TV or video games. I know there's no easy way around this, but it really proved to be difficult for us to balance. On the flip side, they did become much beDer with computers, never really having spent much @me on them prior to these last few months. I think it would have been much more effec@ve if the Zoom mee@ngs that were held were actually used to teach, rather than to simply play games or read stories (two things for which parents are actually preDy well prepared, as opposed to the actual teaching of a curriculum). I also think it would have been very helpful to have the teachers have periodic one-on- ones with students to hear their concerns or just let them have a normal conversa@on. The one @me I requested this from one of the teachers they accommodated us, and the change in aytude was drama@c and immediate. I only wish I had requested it sooner. Parent Brookside 1. 규칙적인 시간을 정해서 온라인으로 매일매일 수업하는 처음에 온라인으로 들어가서 하는 게 많이 헷갈렸습니다. 무엇보 Elementary 것 2.매일매일 하도록 과제의 분량을 정해주는 것 3. 위의 다 아이가 규칙적인 생활을 못하는 경우가 많은데 학교에서 아침 상황을 항상 학교측에서 체크하는 것 마다 온라인데 본인이 접속하는지 확인해서 아이가 학교에 다니지 않아도 규칙적인 생활을 할 수 있도록 도왔으면 좋겠습니다. 무엇 보다 백신이 개발되기전까지 직접적인 수업이 없었으면합니다. Parent Brookside A decision based on the situa@on of the virus at the As two full-@me working parents with a 4 year old and a 2 Elementary given @me (next Fall), not a decision based on pressure month old, we need a lot more support and structure from to reopen. the district for distance learning than we had for the past 3+ months.

271 Parent Brookside A human teacher in a class with other human learners. Thank you for allowing me to express my concerns and Elementary The learning management system was confounding preferences here! and buggy; I struggled to interpret the expecta@ons for my child and to keep her focused on the work. She needs the structure and "feel" of the classroom seyng. She needs a professional teacher. Parent Brookside A plan so that we can prepare our lives and schedules. My kids want to go to school to be with their friends and Elementary And a backup plan for when the first plan has to go learn from a teacher, we can only do so much at home. away due to con@nued COVID risk. The distance learning model did not work the best for us with such young children...but because they are young their learning goals are less than older kids. It is difficult all around but I would love for as much at school @me as possible even if that means a full year school calendar. Parent Brookside A vaccine. Many high risk individuals in our immediate A vaccine, but we don't have one yet. Elementary and close family. Our kids need social interac@ons and structured academics. Juggling full@me work for both parents and filling in gaps for study from home has been nearly impossible. Much of the day the kids are on their own to fill gaps and ask ques@ons at the end of the day.

272 Parent Brookside Academics Educa@on of kids Experience for parents and kids was very dependent on Elementary teacher. We were extremely disappointed in our teacher — input From parents on what is working on not was not welcomed. We felt teacher checked out Kids were almost encouraged to do nothing and just be happy. And then parents got in hard situa@on of needed to be educators and seyng expecta@ons. Teacher was not checking any of the work and not providing inputs (besides one assignment in those 3 months). ELA assignments were not clear at all; even for parent that is trying to help! Zoom mee@ng ( only one per week) was only used for socializing and teacher was not even prepared for that. We feel that zoom should be used for talking about plan for upcoming week, clarifying what is expected, what is new being reached, explain homework, talk about construc@ve goals,.. for educa@on! addi@onal zoom session can be organized for socializing. Math lessons on another hand were excellent! Teachers that put those lessons were very crea@ve, finding different ways to deliver lessons, lots of thoughts were put into them. Expecta@ons and homework was clearly explained. School was doing great job with sending regular emails with lots of useful info; providing daily announcements; and ways to stay connected with families and students.

273 Parent Brookside Access to all of the expected content for grade level Equity is important, but holding back the kids that do have Elementary curriculum - assignments in the spring generally felt access and support does not benefit ANYONE. We were told preDy light (math only 3 @mes per week, a few science that teaching could not be conducted via zoom in case there experiments, a liDle wri@ng, no social studies). Book were students who were unable to aDend at a specific @me. read-alouds were a waste for us, as reading alone and If we have issued devices to everyone, then we need to together were the easiest things for us to do on our provide the content in the most effec@ve way (record for own and it seemed a shame that the teachers spent others to watch later?). In a vacuum of content from the their precious @me on that vs. recording curriculum district, there is a greater benefit to students whose parents lessons. Visibility to all assignments and their status, are available to teach them and who know the material including anything incomplete from previous weeks. themselves--this is a far greater inequity than having to watch This seemed to be a liDle easier for my son in 5th grade a recorded zoom session! We cannot con@nue to fall behind whose teacher used Google Classroom. She seemed to the curriculum and expect not to have huge problems in the just have a lesson plan that we had to keep looking future. back to see what she hadn't done yet. But neither of the kids received any feedback from the teachers assessing their work, in fact very liDle of it was "turned in" for evalua@on. It was kind of on your honor that you completed the assignment, but no feedback regarding its adequacy. Concerned that kids will be at different places based on the learning they were able to accomplish remotely. I think there is a risk to charging forward with the assump@on that everyone is fully at grade level, but I also think we did a reasonable job of keeping up and don't want to have to sit through reteaching of missed material when we do return and either miss or rush through the 4th grade curriculum. I am guessing this would require teaching the scheduled curriculum and having some sort of progress assessment in order to help the kids catch up where they need to?

274 Parent Brookside Actual teaching - via in person or Zoom. Remote Based on our experience this spring, I am VERY worried about Elementary learning did not work. It felt like the bare minimum and Shoreline School District’s ability to teach this fall. The district it wasn’t well executed. If you are going to simply post moved too slow, offered too liDle, and withheld our teachers resources online, with no teacher interac@on or from doing any actual live teaching. Providing an equitable assignments with checking/feedback, we are beDer off experience is of course tremendously important. However, using resources like Khan Academy where the videos once laptops and WiFi hot spots were passed out, the district are simply beDer and more engaging. The Shoreline did not step up to the challenge of reimagining teaching in a District content was simply terrible. Much later, the remote environment. Teachers were withheld from students teacher-led content was somewhat beDer, but varied for 2 months (!) and even then, were only allowed to interact widely by teacher. Some teachers just weren’t good at with students briefly, once a week. In the elementary sphere, making the content easy to understand or engaging. All social/emo@onal connec@on is everything and you lost so of the resources required way too much parental many students and families by taking too long to connect and involvement and interven@on, and it felt like we were doing too liDle. I hope this fall you are able to understand the the teachers trying to interpret/explain the subpar importance of teacher connec@on and live teaching; the content. As a result, most parents I know simply gave importance of peer and class interac@on, and build learning up or found other online resources that were beDer. plans around this. This can be done in a remote environment with some innova@on and experimenta@on! And at this point - you have many other schools and districts who were able to do this for you to learn from. Please, please try harder and do not hold back all students in the name of equity. You can work hard towards equity and s@ll teach well at the same @me.

275 Parent Brookside Adequate teaching. Brookside 6th grade resources Based on our experience this spring, I am VERY worried about Elementary were not adequate. It felt like the bare minimum. Shoreline School District’s ability to teach this fall. The district Connec@on with other students. moved too slow, offered too liDle, and withheld our teachers from doing any actual live teaching. Providing an equitable experience is of course tremendously important. However, once laptops and WiFi hot spots were passed out, the district did not step up to the challenge of reimagining teaching in a remote environment. Teachers were withheld from students for 2 months (!) and even then, were only allowed to interact with students briefly, once a week. In the elementary sphere, social/emo@onal connec@on is everything and you lost so many students and families by taking too long to connect and doing too liDle. I hope this fall you are able to understand the importance of teacher connec@on and live teaching; the importance of peer and class interac@on, and build learning plans around this. This can be done in a remote environment with some innova@on and experimenta@on! And at this point - you have many other schools and districts who were able to do this for you to learn from. Please, please try harder and do not hold back all students in the name of equity. You can work hard towards equity and s@ll teach well at the same @me. Parent Brookside Adults in community to be good role models and Elementary exhibit good behavior that protects public health. Communicate expecta@ons to children about such behaviors in firm and respec[ul way. Help everyone understand that if we all behave respec[ully according to science, we all have a beDer chance of returning to in-person schooling at a greater capacity, sooner. Parent Brookside All children need to be at school daily for in person Please get all the kids back in school this fall. This is our Elementary instruc@on from qualified teachers. Every effort needs community’s greatest need! to be made to make this happen consistently and ongoing. Our children’s future is at risk and I am VERY concerned about their future success. Maybe this is the @me to consider year around school.

276 Parent Brookside Any informa@on from Kellogg Middle School about fall Principal and staff at Brookside Elem have been amazingly Elementary arrrangements and new expecta@ons for 6th graders. helpful and communica@ve during the pandemic. Stark I have not heard anything from them since all contrast with Kellogg so far. orienta@ons were cancelled and we filled out a short enrollment form. Parent Brookside Assurance that the Covid 19 will not come home with The distance learning we went through for the last 3 months Elementary my child was done with 2 teachers . Both used a different method of contact. The informa@on from the school and district used another. If distance learning is to be used there should only be 1 point of contact for everything Parent Brookside , I To be asked to do so much more while cuyng the budget, I'm Elementary will be choosing the remote learning op@on and I'm so sorry. I thank you so much for all that you're doing. extremely grateful to have this op@on. For him to return to in person schooling I would require a vaccine or regular tes@ng and good contact tracing. I'm privileged to be able to stay home and help him with remote learning, due to that I don't feel its fair for me to fill out the ques@ons for those who will be returning. I leave that to you professionals who know far beDer than I on how best to handle this. As far as my preference in the structure for remote learning: - Strict due dates are good but a flexible day worked well, meaning the @mes are mostly flexible. (Some days he was off and needed more "recess" before star@ng. Also he engaged when I let him choose the order of what we did. I had a daily check list and a "reward" of 20 min or so of screen @me once, and only if, he checked them all off. He loved checking off his progress as he worked.) - If most people who are also remote learning agree with strict due dates, having the material at least a day ahead of the due date would be very helpful. (So if it's an area he isn't interested in I can have a liDle wiggle room of when it is done, so that he doesn't get too frustrated.) Parent Brookside BeDer instruc@on in core subjects - math and language It is really hard to mo@vate kids to do anything when the Elementary arts. assignments aren't graded and they don't receive feedback.

277 Parent Brookside Choice for who wants to go to school and who wants to I am against manda@ng a vaccine. There will not be enough Elementary do homeschooling. Possible new/interes@ng safety informa@on about long and short term nega@ve effects homeschooling hybrids and ideas. on children, by the @me the school district will be looking to mandate it. Parent Brookside Clarity in communica@on from the school district in a As the parents of two school aged children, we experienced Elementary @mely manner. very different supports from our children's educators. One teacher was engaged, suppor@ve and provided a regular stream of assignments and guidance. The second teacher almost completely disengaged from our student except for one Zoom mee@ng weekly of no educa@onal value. In this case, we were very much lej on our own. Parent Brookside Clear academic structure and expecta@ons to prepare My two children experienced differences in teacher Elementary them for subsequent school years. involvement and direc@on. I believe a more consistent approach across the faculty would have benefited my student who had less involvement and direc@on. Parent Brookside Clear communica@ons by teacher and school. - Do not Elementary discriminate among students. - Provide more Clear assignments. - Have teacher teach daily classes through media virtually to all class students throughout the day. - Advise teacher to be nice, polite, and respec[ul. Parent Brookside Communica@on from the school about what will Elementary happen in the fall.

278 Parent Brookside Communica@on. SeeSaw is sub-par when it comes to As parents we felt very helpless. We weren't kept up on the Elementary being able to communicate effec@vely with our student teaching methodologies, which would have lent us the and the scope of work that is expected. The curricula opportuni@es to be beDer auxiliary instructors. Mathema@cs, that comes out at the beginning of each week supplies for example. Having gone to grade school in the 80s, we're link ajer link, out to other applica@ons and web preDy old-school with our maths. resources, and not all of those are accessible to parents. Being able to complete homework 100% online should be an op@on. But, with the workflow and the Chromebook opera@ng system it becomes rather burdensome to have to log in as one account and log out from the students' home account in order to authen@cate into the school applica@on sessions. Instead, we printed school work so it would be "in scope" for what needed to be turned in each week, but those packets and school work weren't always the complete expected work. SeeSaw included a checklist which parents didn't have access to. Furthermore, instead of using web forms, it required a drawing applica@on which was clunky and obscure, to create check marks on the screen. Daily rituals being vital, it would be very good to have a daily ritual each morning, beyond just the morning announcements video. Expec@ng the kids to answer some basic morning ques@ons would be very helpful, and having them web-based would be great. Parent Brookside Concern about safety. Concern about falling behind. 1 zoom mee@ng a week was inadequate. If we have home Elementary Concern about having to be a teacher at home. school again I would expect a minimum of daily zoom Concern about building a rela@onship with next years mee@ngs with students. We were unable to take the @me to teachers. try to sort out mass amounts of videos and checklists and ul@mately gave up. The only thing that worked for us as working parents was the preprinted packets available at the school each week. These were an absolute Godsend. Parent Brookside Concerned that our kids don't fall too behind in their Elementary learning, but we also recognize this as a singular @me where public health is more important than specific learning goals.

279 Parent Brookside Consistency, emo@onal and social support, child care Elementary Parent Brookside Con@nued safety with regards to our community's Elementary health. In person instruc@on for my child. More teacher led instruc@on for my child, and less parent led instruc@on. More Zoom mee@ngs (higher frequency than a single 30 min session per week). Parent Brookside 英文å 英文å Elementary Parent Brookside Emo@onal support for 2e student. Learning about How are IEP and 405s handled in distance? My son was in the Elementary ADHD and trying to inspire staying on track. I do not middle of geyng diagnosed ADHD and we will be looking to have the training or the ability to focus on more than set up systems at school. Thank you. one kid and in par@cular regarding my very high need 2e son who is headstrong about not doing school work. Parent Brookside Even if it is only for half days or par@al class groupings, Please create some consistent expecta@ons for teaching staff. Elementary I would like my child, who is star@ng middle school, to My child had only 30 min "connec@on @me" zoom with 6th have some in-person classes to meet her teachers, grade teacher per week, while peers with other teachers had meet some classmates and get a sense of middle actual lessons being taught, homework corrected and more school expecta@ons. I think star@ng middle school with mee@ngs via zoom. I was very disappointed that her teacher only online learning, will make it very difficult for her didn't do any online lessons, herself. and others to feel like they are part of a learning community. There needs to be some rela@onship with their teachers, before students will "buy-in" to the expecta@ons in the classroom or learning online. Having a mix of in-person/small group @me and online @me would seem like safer way to start the year. Parent Brookside Flexibility and access. My wife and I both work so the Elementary flexibility to be able to access school work/informa@on is very important. Also, having two students in the house and only once computer, having access to a second computer for use would be great or again the flexibility for the girls to be able to access their classes when able. If they are to go back to school in any form, knowing the safety rules/guidelines that are in place and making sure those are enforced.

280 Parent Brookside For elementary students, I would Strongly prefer half We may decide to homeschool our children next year, and Elementary day classes with no expecta@on for distance learning at I’m sure there are other families considering this op@on home (Homework, reading Log, etc. as usual would be as well. I would love to have an op@on to enroll part @me for appropriate). I am hoping that if kids are spread out subjects that would be difficult to teach at home (music, PE, across mul@ple school sites, that elementary students elec@ves, etc.) so that my children could s@ll feel like part of could s@ll be placed in an elementary school seyng (vs the Brookside community while receiving educa@on at home middle or high School site, or Other site). I would like in a secure, familiar environment. If there were ways that to see students tested for ability and familiarity with Temporarily homeschooled families Could engage at school content in the fall and grouped accordingly to insure on a limited basis, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank appropriate leveling for kids who need more or less you to all the teachers, staff and administrators for taking on remedia@on for their current grade. It would be nice this daun@ng task of providing a safe and appropriate school for students to be grouped with kids from their environment for our kids!!! previous class if possible for familiarity and con@nuity. Our 2nd grade teacher had a great handwashing method, where groups of kids took turns geyng water and soap, then went to the back of the line to scrub and then rinse when they got another turn at the sink. I’d like to see this prac@ce happening hourly in the elementary seyng. I would like to see the schools provide the same type of PPE to all students for consistency, and to be sure it is cleaned/replaced properly. Parent Brookside For my child aDend a physical school, have face to face If in person school is canceled next year for my second grader, Elementary instruc@on and interact with other children. I would My wife will move to Texas to live with my in-laws so my kids like to have some form of summer school for my child, can aDend school. Believe me, this is the worst case scenario. this summer! We don't like Texas. It's impera@ve that my daughter aDends in person school. My wife and I are not teachers for a reason... we're terrible at it!

281 Parent Brookside For my fijh grader to aDend in person school this fall. First of all, I know you're just the messenger and keeping that Elementary in mind, I have a couple of things: If in person school is canceled next year for my fijh grader,

It's impera@ve that my daughter aDends in person school. My wife and I are not teachers for a reason... we're terrible at it! Furthermore, It was disheartening for my wife and I and especially my daughter, when her 4th grade teacher stated she liked this more than in person instruc@on. I hope the other 4th graders got more out of this 5 month summer vaca@on than mine did, but that's just sour grapes. Thanks for reading. Parent Brookside For school next year students should be graded and I don’t think the online learning was as successful as it Elementary held accountable for work. Solid schedules and email could have been. Teachers should hold zoom calls daily and communica@on with students Directly with set teach as they would in person instead of giving a weeks of schedule expecta@ons work and sending them on the way. Shoreline wasVERY behind geyng everything up and running that students missed out on 6 weeks of actual learning Parent Brookside Full day school learning. Engagement and socializa@on Having 3 children in school running 3 completely different t Elementary for our kids. systems for educa@on is ridiculous and a waste of tax dollars. Don’t put a square peg in a round hole online learning exists don’t reinvent the wheel. Parent Brookside Get them back in school please. Thank you for all you have done. I am sure many parents Elementary have expressed displeasure and complaint, and I would like to express gra@tude. I am also an educator and I know how impossible of a task it was to convert to online learning with no @me to prepare in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. Thank you.

282 Parent Brookside Geyng kids back in the schools so parents can go back If we do not have in-person schooling by next Fall, it would be Elementary to work. helpful to meet virtually with the teacher (daily?) to go over class expecta@ons, assignments or daily lessons. A daily structured schedule to follow will be helpful. It is also hard to measure growth without needing to turn in assignments or grading. Use of google classroom to assign and turn-in work will be helpful to track progress. A lot of burden is currently put on parents to track, monitor or help children with ques@ons and grading, so it is helpful if the teachers were more involved. Parent Brookside Giving our child the safe learning environment. Elementary Parent Brookside Guidance for next year. Structured interac@ons Thank you!!! Elementary Parent Brookside Having siblings be on a similar educa@on schedule. Elementary Have less things needed to be done at home. Having a daily check list of needed home assignments instead of weekly. Making it really clear what needs to be done. More text communica@on from teachers if assignments aren't being recieved. Having math not fall on parents. Virtually learning for math being small groups done live not pre recorded Parent Brookside Having social interac@on with other students his age I appreciate everyone’s work to find a way to bring kids back Elementary and having in person hands on learning. I understand it into school safety. While a vaccina@on will be amazing in may not be everyday although that would be ideal but person learning needs to happen. as much in person school with smaller cohorts is necessary for my child to learn. He did not do well with home learning and I would prefer to not rely on it nearly as much as previously.

283 Parent Brookside health and safety. Once we gained access to SeeSaw things became much more Elementary structured and easier to manage as well as understand what my child was supposed to be comple@ng each week. If home learning con@nues into the fall, I assume this structure would con@nue as it was very helpful and created a more produc@ve learning environment at our home. Also, it would be helpful to have a very clear expecta@on of what the child's goals are. E.g. By the end of X quarter your child should have these math skills, reading skills, etc. I'm finding it very hard to gauge whether my child is properly prepared for 1st grade or not. Parent Brookside Help my child feel safe in the school environment so I appreciate how quickly you delivered online learning and Elementary she can focus on learning, implement and follow a recognize the enormous challenge. Thank you. strict health code (wearing masks, 6 feet social distancing, air circula@on. etc.) and be clear on what happens when students do NOT follow this health code policy. I will not send my child to school if it is acceptable for students to remove masks or skirt around health code policies. She has a medical condi@on and she will be at greater risk. I also think students need social-emo@onal learning to process what has happened in the world with a pandemic as well as with a BLM movement. How can we all feel safe in school regardless of our race? How can students become allies for each other? Finally, help get my child's lost academic progress back to grade level. I feel like she's behind in all subjects and I worry about how she will catch up. Parent Brookside Homeschooling has been an extreme challenge in our Elementary household. We are hoping to be back to in person teaching this fall.

284 Parent Brookside I am very concerned about the spread of the virus At this @me "no" Elementary affec@ng my children, other children, and staff if they aDend school. I would feel more comfortable if there was a vaccine before my children aDended school. I am aware that there is not one yet but, that would give me peace of mind. Another important need is having access to a computer for each of my children to use at home to complete assignments, communicate with friends and teachers. I would like access to assessment material to administer for reading, wri@ng, math, etc. My other important need is to protect my children from cyberbullying. When my child was on a Zoom mee@ng this Spring, one of the students sent her a text and called her a name. She refused to par@cipate again in any other Zoom mee@ngs ( even with her teacher). I did report the issue, but, I would like to follow up on what will happen in the future if that happens again. It would be an emo@onal struggle to have her to join another Zoom mee@ng. Parent Brookside I don't wish to expose my child (or others!) to a serious Elementary disease but it's really crucial for our family that school open up for in-person instruc@on in the fall. Our work- from-home mandate will be ending in September and we'll be required to return to the office full @me ajer that so if school isn't in person I don't know what we would do. We simply can't work full @me and try to home teach full @me. Parent Brookside I have an incoming K, so not able to answer these Happy to have as much as possible of the day outside! This Elementary ques@ons about what worked. For her entering school, could work especially well for K. I just think she needs to be grounded in what it means to go to school - even if it's only 3 hrs a day - having a rou@ne, seeing the same people, having the same expecta@ons as ojen as is possible makes a big difference in her equilibrium.

285 Parent Brookside I need my child to feel safe at school so he can learn. To My son has a 504 and none of his online learning reflected Elementary him, this would look like all students being required to this. Due to his learning disabili@es, it was extremely hard for wear a mask, have temperatures taken before school, him to complete assignments. On top of this, his teacher social distancing and increased airflow in classrooms, didn't remember he had a 504 and had no idea he was when feasible. He will be anxious about geyng the suffering. The large class Zoom mee@ngs were not a place he virus. I think he is also VERY behind going into 6th could talk about this. If there are any amount of online grade and I'm worried he will not be able to keep up learning in the Fall, we need the teacher to reach out more to with middle school curriculum levels and pace. On top students with 504's to see how they are doing and modify of that, he's going to a new school that he doesn't assignments when needed. They need to take the ini@a@ve to know so his anxiety will be higher that usual. see that their students are understanding materials. Something that would help is being able to tour Kellogg Eventually, I told the teacher what was going on and we before it opens. Is this a possibility for the new 6th scaled back but it was a horrible experience for him. He's graders? also the type of student who needs to ask ques@ons to understand concepts during a lesson. Passively watching videos and filling out slides or taking quizzes didn't connect the dots for him. In the Fall if there is online learning, I really hope it can be synchronous or "live". I would imagine the teachers need this feedback too so they can see if the students are geyng it too. I understand there are inequi@es related to this type of learning but this is how my child learns best so how can his needs get met? Parent Brookside I think my family's needs at this @me is the need for I'm worried about the inequity remote learning is causing; as Elementary informa@on, some kind of plan and the need for us to well as the nega@ve academic, social and emo@onal impact choose. In person school cannot be replaced and is on the students. During the shut-down, I was very vital for kids, families and communi@es. I need there frustrated with the discrepancy between schools as well as to be consistency in our public school educa@on within the schools. There seemed to be zero consistency to system. I'm worried that on-going remote learning is what was provided and communicated from a single school, going to create a bigger divide between the 'have' and let alone different schools across the district. I would hear of 'have nots.' Not everyone can afford private schools other elementary schools doing vastly different things. In who have their online learning programs put together order for equity to be somewhat achievable, it is cri@cal that or tutors, but unfortunately private schooling and there is consistency across the board regarding educa@on, tutors are becomingly increasingly essen@al if you want 5th/6th grade celebra@ons, distribu@on of materials, teacher your child to succeed as the public school system is not contact, etc. It varied widely and was extremely frustra@ng. cuyng it anymore.

286 Parent Brookside I think the needs of our school district community are Elementary complex. When I think about what MY child needs...she needs contact with her friends. She needs enriching school assignments and ac@vi@es that are not just online worksheets well below her abili@es. She needs individualized aDen@on with assignments tailored to her abili@es that challenge her. She needs opportuni@es to be excited about learning, to explore areas of interest, to have meaningful engagement with her teacher in a way that fosters curiosity and a passion for learning. She needs to be safe. She needs to be masked. She needs to be an environment where the top priority is student and staff safety. But that is what MY child needs. She lives in a house where she has two full @me working parents. We CANNOT do distance learning. I work at a hospital. My husband is trying to work full @me at home while home schooling two young kids. Frankly, her online ac@vi@es were the least of our priori@es, especially when so many didn't interest her or felt like busy work or were in no way challenging or engaging. It did not work well, despite the most AMAZING teacher who provided support above and beyond what we could have asked. But what my needs are and what my daughter's needs are PALE in comparison to MANY families in this district. While I would love to say my child needs to be in the classroom in the fall, the students who actually need to be in the classroom this fall are students who are behind. Students whose parents risk losing their jobs without the childcare that school provides. Students from marginalized communi@es who have experienced inequitable access to resources. This is a moment where we can truly put equity, not equality, at the forefront of our priori@es. All kids in this district don't need EQUAL access. We need EQUITABLE access, which means kiddos like mine can receive less than other students. Is this best for her on an individual level? Not necessarily. But some@mes it's about the community at large, not about the individuals. I 287 Parent Brookside I thought the videos were low in content and that I’m sure it was difficult on teachers as well as students Elementary some@mes the teachers were just making up silly because they were caught off guard with covid and had no topics. Some teachers talk so slow you lose interest. training in making a video. That’s understandable but s@ll Many @mes we would speed up the verbiage because difficult. The math pages and assignments that could be of that and it improved things. filled in on the computer and then self checked so they knew their success rate were much beDer than those that were just teacher pages and not interac@ve. The packets of papers the school provided were hard to use because the pages were not ho poked together and numbered... at least they needed numbers. Some@mes we couldn’t find them by using a @tle of the page with 50 or 60 pages. Parent Brookside I wish the kids can go back to school! Elementary

288 Parent Brookside I work from home. Having a flexible schedule for If there is online schooling in the fall it would be helpful to Elementary learning is great because it allows my kids to work on have weekly assignments go out on Friday evening or even their own @me and allows me to be present when they Sat morning. This helps to be able to plan for the following need me. One of the most frustra@ng things that week. I can then see how many assignments are scheduled happened during these last few months was the last for the week, preview lessons so I can help my kids and make minute assignments and Zoom calls that were sure I have all the supplies needed for the assignments. It was scheduled. I ojen got an email from teachers telling chao@c each week as my kids were constantly telling me in me that my kids had a Zoom call the next day. That the middle of the assignment that they needed a worksheet email would come in at 8pm the night before for an printed (I had to find these online), or they needed supplies 11am Zoom call. I had to scramble to reschedule our for an ac@vity that we didn't have (some@mes tears were day to make this work. Or figure out how to get them shed over this) or they needed a partner to for an ac@vity on while I was in the middle of teaching my own Zoom they were doing. Another piece that would be nice is lessons. Having a set schedule or more advanced communica@on from the teachers to the parents. The no@ce would be great. Then I can plan for this. Also teachers were showing the students on Zoom calls what they knowing ahead of @me some of the supplies we will were supposed to be doing and how to use the online need for assignments would be great too. We do not programs. My kids did not remember everything at the end own all the supplies that teachers assumed we would of Zoom calls and ojen forgot how to navigate the online have around our house. So we would start an resources. As a parent I had to figure out how to do all this as assignment only to find out we could not complete it. well. If there is a way to have a Zoom call with parents to This some@mes resulted in tears as my kids wanted to show them the online resources kids will be using in that finish their assignments. class and talk about the expecta@ons that will be required this would greatly help. Having clear communica@on with parents (especially those with younger kids) is very important. Having clear expecta@on of what is required is very helpful as well. It was confusing as each grade level and each teacher had different expecta@ons. One of my kids turned everything in and the other did not turn anything in. The one that turned nothing in was disappointed that they did all the work and no one saw it. So I ended up checking that child's work. My child was proud of what they had done and wanted their teacher to see it. It was also confusing as each teacher had different expecta@ons on what was due or turned in. So as parents, when we talked to each other, we got confused about what was happening. There were so many rumors going around because of the different informa@on we received. Having clear, detailed informa@on about what is expected (especially school wide) would be very helpful.

289 Parent Brookside I would like some advanced no@ce on the plan for the I was skep@cal at first that the distance learning wasn't going Elementary fall. If there is a different schedule or modified school to work that well for the K-4 kids. My son is in third going to @mes and or days, i would like enough no@ce to be fourth. But the videos and learning sessions were great! I able to work with my work schedule and or care givers think there may be room for improvement. I think my kids to make the adjustment ahead of @me.. I'm lucky to could have benefited with an addi@onal class a week to meet have a flexible work schedule but not many families with students, and do group ac@vi@es via Zoom. I realize that have that ability. having a lot of children on a call can be difficult but the teachers were great at coordina@ng it. I know more than once the teachers had to cut the call at the 1 hour mark because they generally had another class or teacher mee@ngs. With the ability to do group work and breakout sessions, it makes the classes seem more like in class learning. The videos were easy to follow and made it easy to do work at our own pace. Parent Brookside I would like to have a more clear understanding of the It would be great to see more alignment and consistency with Elementary curriculum expecta@ons for each grade, at the teachers of the same grade. Kudos to the Brookside second beginning of the year and ongoing. I would like to see grade team. They definitely did this, but I did not experience the tasks/assignments build on one another so that this with my other child. There seemed to be very different students can ul@mately achieve fluency in each area. I instruc@onal plans all year long. Addi@onally, for any remote felt this with my second grader but rarely with my fijh learning situa@on, material should be beDer streamlined on grader. My fijh grader was all over the board this year one pla[orm (or as few as possible). Keep it simple. It with lesson materials and I do not feel mastery was created A LOT of extra work by us parents to oversee the achieved in any subject area. It would be great to get children when they have to jump to mul@ple websites, more individualized communca@ons/updates on videos, worksheets and pla[orms. It would also be great to progress as well. It seemed as if assignments during have textbooks involved with the lesson plans. Children on virtual learning, at @mes, were just random ac@vi@es the computer all day long is not healthy. Thank you! that did not align with previous material and there was no context behind them. Parent Brookside I would like to see the teachers zooming with students I feel that elementary school students naviga@ng social Elementary once a day at minimum. I would like to see speech distancing and masks will make for a distracted year for many. interven@on happening via zoom. I feel we should have teachers and students mee@ng via zoom at least once daily and having homework assignments due regularly as well as speech or other interven@ons happening as they should via zoom.

290 Parent Brookside If we are not able to have in person instruc@on, I think Elementary it’s very important to have all work on one pla[orm with clear guidance on what is expected from the student. More actual lessons from teachers and less games/ busy work. Also flexibility on when a child log one so working parents can aDempt to con@nue to work. Parent Brookside If we con@nue distance learning it would be helpful for It is hard to keep my students engaged when the parent is the Elementary me to understand where the curriculum is headed and authority figure. My children are much more willing to work how to assist my child. My kids don't like me to watch for their teachers with me as a support figure. If their with them and it is difficult to do while I try to do my teacher can set the expecta@on they will rise to the challenge job. If I had an idea of what they were supposed to be with less fight for me. learning and the strategies that I could quickly see, I could try to assist my children with consistent language that they are geyng from their class. Parent Brookside If we con@nue with distance learning there need to be I felt my child did well with distance learning, but he really Elementary tests/quizzes to help gauge where students are at in needs someone keeping him focused and on task. There are a the curriculum. My son did all the assigned homework lot of distrac@ons at home. I’m not sure he’d do well if but I’m not sure how much he actually retained at we had to return to work and he was on his own. However, the end of the day. if the kids/staff have to wear masks all day and be subjected to the harsh chemicals from overuse of sani@zer and disinfectants I would prefer to keep my child home. This virus, while ugly, has been SEVERELY blown out of propor@on. Parent Brookside I'm not sure, to be honest. Obviously I have concerns I'm hoping that even a split schedule will help with my child's Elementary about safety (mostly safety of the staff and faculty) but engagement (par@al week in the classroom). I understand distance learning has been difficult. My child thrives in that this is a very difficult situa@on and I don't know what the a classroom environment but she has mostly rejected best solu@on is. distance learning- both recorded lessons and live zoom mee@ngs. The work that we have done with her has depended on myself and my husband to act as teachers/facilitators, which has been difficult since we both work full @me and he is essen@al so works out of the home most days. Parent Brookside I'm unable to give my child the school aDen@on she Open up the schools. Elementary needs as I have to work or I'll lose my job, so she has fallen well behind where she should be. She needs to be on-site to get the educa@on she deserves.

291 Parent Brookside In person educa@on I cannot work full @me and teach We need kids back in school!! Elementary my child Parent Brookside In person educa@on and regular school day structure. We need to get the students back in class and back having a Elementary normal structure. It is proven COVID is no more dangerous than the common flu. The disrup@on this has caused to daily rou@ne in unparalleled. The "learning" that happened ajer the stay at home was issued was a complete joke because there was no learning - there were video check-ins - that was all. If we have a to choose between the "instruc@on" at the end of last year and home schooling - there really is no choice - home schooling would be a baDle but at least they would be learning and not fall behind. One idea I have heard it parents would be forced to teach their kids as a supplement. That is an awful idea. It would seem only half the kids would show to the video check ins. What makes you think the parents will actually teach their kids? Why is the district so content to let our kids fall further behind? Parent Brookside In person learning at least par@ally would be great if If at all possible it would be great for kids in the same family Elementary possible this fall. to have the same schedule. Parent Brookside In person school. No masks. Please.... we can’t work with children at home. And they Elementary have no interest in interac@ng over a computer. We need classrooms and normal schooling back. They also refuse masks... this seems very unreasonable and sad to ask children to learn in a distanced classroom and mask. I can’t even convince my daughter to wear a mask if I offer ice cream as a reward. It’s going to be very distrac@ng from learning.

292 Parent Brookside In-person learning. If that is not possible, then daily We have three kids in the Shoreline School District. All three Elementary structured school. One 1-hour zoom call per week per loved school and were good students prior to March of this kid, and mul@ple links to various assignments with year. The last few months have been VERY difficult, to put it working parents is just not realis@c. mildly, on their academic and social well-being. They now do not like school, have not been mo@vated, are highly frustrated, and have even asked us if we'd move them to another school for the fall, as they are fearful it will con@nue in this same way. Its been very emo@onal in our household to watch our kids struggle with school which they have loved for so many years. We understand the concerns & risk associated with this pandemic, and are extremely empathic to those who are at-risk in this climate. We just ask for some middle ground. I consider school & educa@on ESSENTIAL! It is essen@al to the development of our children, but also to our economy, allowing parents back to work. PLEASE consider ALL op@ons (even those moonshot, out-of-the-box op@ons) before resor@ng to distance learning. AND IF you do HAVE to resort back to distance learning, please can we follow another model -- is there an establish homeschool program we can leverage? THANK YOU for establishing a survey and considering feedback from families. We know this isn't easy for administrators and educators to navigate through either. And we appreciate all of you! Parent Brookside In-person school Anything but full school is a major hardship both both our Elementary child and us. Not having school will not reduce the spread of the disease because we will be forced to find care for him anyway. Parent Brookside In-person teaching Socializa@on Reading and wri@ng Elementary learning support Time management

293 Parent Brookside It was some @me before our teacher put up I also have a rising senior. Your survey only let me select one Elementary assignments on google classroom and it was a struggle grade. For him he missed social interac@ons but is to get my 10 year old back on track. There were responsible enough to do whatever his teachers assigned. online assignments but my son did not always have his username and password for things like IXL and Reflex. This was frustra@ng that there are class codes etc that were not posted in an easy to find loca@on. If school will be online I would like some learning management sojware like canvas that can show me if my son did his work. I have to do work myself so I can't sit and watch him all day but I need some way to track that he has done what is expected. Parent Brookside Kids need to be kids. Strict social distancing and zero It's clear that the district wasn't prepared for this Elementary play@me/recess/elec@ve courses will be a disaster. I'm (understandable), but one-size-fits-all online learning will not really worried about my kids wearing masks all day work. The magic of our teachers is their ability to reach each already, so doing that without any physical outlet will student on their own level. Please keep that dynamic in mind be a bigger problem than keeping them at home. as these decisions are made. Parent Brookside Kids physically seeing other kids, as much as safely 1. Thank you so much for a) adap@ng to distance learning, Elementary possible. and b) taking care to make sure equity issues were addressed in our district. 2. I feel strongly that the teachers need to check in with students at least once per day. This can be a quick note over SeeSaw in the morning reminding them of their work for the day, and to watch the morning announcement video, etc. 3. Please provide the teachers with training on how to best do distance learning! 7. ) used SeeSaw and provided a daily updates and ac@vi@es/lessons each day of school (and was absolutely amazing throughout the en@re @me of distance learning this spring). Also, through SeeSaw, my child was able to get feedback from her teacher (rather than all informa@on going to an email to me, that I would then have to remember to tell my child). These daily updates kept my first grader on track and excited about each day. This was brilliant, and would have been wonderful to have for my other (older) children.

294 Parent Brookside Knowing the school district's plan as soon as possible Elementary so my husband and I can plan accordingly with our work schedules come fall. Parent Brookside Less screen @me expecta@ons for k-2 grades. Elementary Parent Brookside Live teacher instruc@on and socializa@on with peers. Elementary Parent Brookside mainly a sense of normalcy and structured learning Elementary and expecta@ons. Parent Brookside Making sure he doesn’t fall too behind with star@ng Elementary middle school. If online learning will con@nue have it more structured. Parent Brookside Making sure my child is able to aDend school in the Elementary classroom instead of at home is important both to his academic and social success in part because of my inability to take significant @me off of work to assist in my child’s educa@on and his need to have social interac@on with his peers. Parent Brookside Making sure my child is ready for middle school. She There were so many glitches with many of the files and links Elementary required a lot of parent help to get through every which were very challenging to figure out. I think it was much assignment and I think she needs a teacher to help beDer by the end, but it was definitely hard to work with push her along... some of the files and links. Parent Brookside Making sure my high risk son will be able to learn and I don’t think you should feel pressured to open just Elementary grow in an environment that is safe for him. because people want the “brick and mortar school†Parent Brookside Making sure our community is protected. It is Elementary important to us that school leaves a good first impression for our kindergartener. Support in this would be appreciated. Parent Brookside More in-person directed teaching or live classroom via Printed materials were super helpful. The assignments like Elementary zoom. More assignments that get teacher feedback. playing math games that require parent involvement were Thanks for everything this year. always tricky as I tried to balance my work and school. Plain old handouts were actually preDy helpful because they could sit quietly and work without too much oversight.

295 Parent Brookside more structure and access to teachers. My kids I strongly encourage you to look to the models of the many Elementary teachers told me they could not interact with children online schools in our state and across the country. I'd also 1:1 including via email. There is a need for a learning love to see more learning be put in the hands of teachers. management system that puts the teacher in the role they are highly educated, commiDed professionals and not of teaching. Neither of my children knew where to every decision needs to be come from the top down. look because there were sooo many resources thrown Examine policies and prac@ces that serve a safety pursing in at us. I am not a teacher, don't want to be a teacher, person, but don't in a remote environment. I really wish my and know there are online/remote models that work kids had more @me w@h teacher and with other students. really well. Once a week connec@on via a group zoom would also like to find way to build community among is not enough. learning driven by parents isn't enough. students, even a zoom play date/recess or ability for kids to There was almost too much choice to the point that I engage in online games together. Please have more had to argue with my children because his teacher said structured @me beyond a once a week zoom. At a minimum the learning plans were op@onal, and since I was kids should interact with teachers daily, even if just for an working full @me I didn't have the ability to 'enforce' hour. Lots of models are out there. I'm open to providing learning plans so they only did required assignments, support as I worked in digital and online learning from OSPI which were very few. at one point in my career. Also, the parent partnership programs have great models to lean on as well. Parent Brookside Most important is a safe environment for learning. Elementary Much worry about high numbers now of Covid virus. Parent Brookside My boys educa@on I was very sa@sfied with the third grade teachers at Elementary Brookside. Thank You! Parent Brookside MY child does not learn with his parents instruc@ng Elementary him. He needs to be at school. Parent Brookside My child has an IEP for speech and needs speech Elementary therapy. As new Kindergartner he needs in person instruc@on all day or at least half day. Virtual learning does not work well for young children and children with IEP's. Please priori@ze having young children K-2 aDend in person and especially children with IEP's.

296 Parent Brookside My child needs a teacher and unfortunately my Elementary husband and I are not teachers. My child also needs to socialize with kids his age. There were not enough zoom mee@ngs or one on one teacher/student @me. I am confident that if my child does not have a teacher who works with him regularly and gets to know what he needs to learn he will not be set up for success academically. Parent Brookside My children need to learn directly from their teachers. Please relieve parents of the need to be our child's school Elementary Self-directed learning is not working, especially for my teachers as much as is possible during these unprecedented beginning middle-schooler. If school at home is part of @mes. We have so much else to be responsible for. I felt very the school model, some pla[orm needs to be used so overwhelmed and burdened by the need to see my child teachers are speaking and teaching directly to the through the last few months of school. students. The video lessons were lacking in that students could not ask ques@ons or get alterna@ve explana@ons when needed. The Google Classroom format lej my very right-brained child at a major disadvantage; it was so restric@ve and too linearly desired. Crea@ve op@ons, such as art classes and music performance (choir in par@cular) need to be included so students' brains can be crea@ve and allow for the other academic subjects to be learned. Parent Brookside My daughter is on a 504 for dyslexia and ADHD. Send them back to school!!! Elementary Distance learning doesn't work for her and she received NO special interven@ons. If distance learning con@nues, there needs to be ac@ve teaching via Zoom, in smaller group seyngs.

297 Parent Brookside My daughter's teacher did a fantas@c job in her efforts Thank you for all of your efforts this spring. I know you all Elementary for distance learning. However, there is no subs@tute worked REALLY hard at the district level. for in -person classroom teaching to check for understanding. As a parent, I was able to make sure my daughter did her work but as far as how much she was retaining/learning- that was difficult. I fully support geyng our kids back in their actual classrooms so the teachers can teach, adjust and modify instruc@on in real @me which is what teaching really is. Distance learning worked in a pinch, but I feel like it was just a frac@on of what my child would have received at school under normal circumstances. Parent Brookside My kids geyng instruc@on from trained, caring My gra@tude for all of your efforts and your care for our kids, Elementary teachers. The ability to have both my kids being taught your empathy for the difficulty of trying to fill teachers' shoes at their respec@ve grade levels at the same @me. I can't while also trying to work. Thank you. emphasize enough how important the teachers' professional exper@se is needed. Parent Brookside My kids need in-person teaching, the ability to see I am mostly anxious for a vaccine to be available. I realize this Elementary other kids they know in person ( not just via Zoom), takes @me to test and then manufacture. In the mean@me, clearly defined assignments and their due dates, the for life at school to return to a " normal" that is not more ability to have some sort of interac@on outside in a depressing and isola@ng than it needs to be; maybe just responsible way (and safe) way. I also think that my trying things at least part-@me at home and just s@ll try to be kids enjoy a balance of @me with & without their safe when kids are at the school in smaller numbers at a @me parents. ( maybe not all there at the same @me). Also, I really miss volunteering and seeing the staff at the school too myself. Parent Brookside My kids NEED to be in school. My youngest son learns Please consider the impact of a hybrid schedule for district Elementary best by listening, watching and engaging with the employees who have mul@ple children in the district. teacher and peers. He needs the socializa@on with peers and ac@vi@es to keep him from being bored and away from computer games. I am also a district employee and do not know what my schedule will be like. I need the op@on for childcare if my older children are in school while my youngest is at home.

298 Parent Brookside My kids needed more interac@on with their teachers so I was very disappointed in the lack of communica@on my kids Elementary they can ask ques@ons, teachers can check for had with their teachers. One 30 minute Zoom call "for fun" understanding and keep them on track. during the week in 6th grade. None for the highschooler. In HS we didn't even get the 504 renewed for my student. The ball was dropped on that one. Parent Brookside My most important need is to have my elementary- I am a teacher in the Mukilteo School District and I am very Elementary aged children on a normal school schedule so that I can concerned that my district will require I work in the work and not worry about an increased risk of geyng classroom in the fall and Shoreline School District will have COVID-19 because they have to go into day care. I will some sort of modified schedule where my elementary-aged not necessarily be able to work from home in the fall kids will do distance learning part of the week. This means or quit my job so I need my elementary school that I will need to try to find a day care facility for my kids (on students to be in school. If this is not possible then the short no@ce) which not only increases the risk of my kids and district should provide child care op@ons for family being exposed to COVID-19 but also increases the risk elementary-aged families. I strongly recommend that of them bringing it into the classroom on days they are doing you consider working families in your decision and onsite learning. It also makes it highly unlikely they will be seriously consider keeping elementary-aged children in doing distance learning if they are in a daycare type seyng. I school as much as possible while having middle and think it is really important that Shoreline considers what high school aged students do distance learning if other districts in the region are doing and try to come up with needed. The district has not in the past supported some coordinated plan. I also feel that the district should working families with regards to child care (in make their top priority trying to keep elementary-aged par@cular, during the 2 weeks of conferences) so I students on as much of a normal schedule as possible. sincerely hope this is made a priority. I am also concerned if I need to send my elementary-aged children to day care because of a modified school plan then they are at an increased risk of exposure to COVID-19 which they are then more likely to bring back to the school. I really hope you consider the fact that elementary-aged students cannot stay home alone while their parents work whereas middle and high school aged students can. Parent Brookside My most important need is to make sure my daughter Elementary is safe. At this @me I s@ll do not feel it is safe for her to return to an in-person learning environment. I am hopeful that the at home learning environment will con@nue next fall.

299 Parent Brookside I feel that it would be most beneficial to have a hybrid model. Elementary One with some in person instruc@on and one with structured on-line instruc@on. Maybe pick out the subjects more difficult to learn on-line and teach those at school. Otherwise, we need a voucher to use to help offset the cost of geyng addi@onal on-line tutoring. We already pay for addi@onal tutoring for math and then to have to pay out more for English/ Comprehension would generate a financial loss not I would like to know what Shoreline is an@cipated. While I know on-line learning wasn't planned going to do for those children who have special for the remainder of this school year, I had to take a great accommoda@ons and who need addi@onal academic deal of @me and write out lesson plans breaking down what help. He needs to stay focused and it's hard with his was sent out to the students because it wasn't easy to follow. ADHD and if he doesn't have structure it will truly Allot of @me the links didn't work or were broken. I had to impact his learning going forward. I would like to set @mes for my son because otherwise it was a pile of work know if there will be some out reach to parents who's that he couldn't breakdown and organize. I had to con@nue children qualify for special needs and if there will be to work as Im an essen@al worker so spending that @me ajer some type of mee@ng prior to school starts? work each night and weekend was @ring. We had to do what was most difficult first and then work to the most simple. So, I hope some thought goes into organizing and @me management if we go towards a hybrid model. In addi@on, now that my son will have mul@ple teachers it would be good for them to have a teamwork approach so as to not overload the kids and have flexible due dates as most parents will probably need to help them with their work to get it completed. No more comple@ng work in class as it will all be done at home, unless we get some in class @me. Parent Brookside My son need a teacher that will follow up on him I appreciate all of the teacher and everything they are doing. Elementary through out the day. He is easily distracted and won't finish anything given if not checked on. Parent Brookside My son needs daily instruc@on from his teachers, Elementary weather it be via live zoom class or in person. He has to have daily assignments that need to be turned in.

300 Parent Brookside My son would benefit from a smoother virtual learning I recommend a hybrid model for Fall and the 2020/2021 Elementary experience with videos and Zoom calls from his teacher school year to maintain social distancing with smaller class for each subject, and more interac@on with the sizes and also support virtual learning at home. I understand teacher. I don't feel he learned enough during the 3 there wasn't much @me to prepare for virtual learning in the months of distance learning, so switching to an online Spring, though with more planning for Fall it should be more class model like in college would be more produc@ve. organized so our kids can learn more at home and not have a Also, the Elementary should implement the Canvas lost school year. portal for all the learning lessons, videos, assignments, grading, and communica@on with the teacher for a more seamless experience. My daughter used Canvas at Kellogg and that worked beDer for virtual learning. The Elementary model of clicking on links within various emails and websites was not as well organized as Canvas and harder to follow. Parent Brookside Need to have an in person onsite school day. Kids need Zoom mee@ngs do not work well for groups larger than 4-5 Elementary the FaceTime and in person instruc@on and interac@on people. Especially not effec@ve for younger elementary aged with real people. kids. SeeSaw is a terrible logis@cal hurdle and made learning slow, tedious, and not fun. It wasted more @me logis@cally than it did teaching the kids anything. You cannot expect a kid to learn when they are focused on how to write or draw with some basic program and a mouse. Please do not use that program. Parent Brookside Normalcy as much as possible - my child is REALLY Elementary struggling with isola@on from her community. Parent Brookside Our child misses the socializa@on of being with peers. Elementary This @me has shown us how important that is to him. If he can have that back as much as possible, even if it's par@al weeks with no recess/gym, it would really improve his perspec@ve. Parent Brookside Our family needs school to provide structured and Distance learning is not appropriate for our child with special Elementary skilled educa@on to our children. My husband and I needs and has been to his detriment. both work full @me and we are relying on an au pair to provide educa@onal support, which is not her training or job. Our kids need the social interac@on that school allows.

301 Parent Brookside Our most important need is a sense of connectedness Please con@nue your examina@on and response to the Elementary with the school community. disparate impact on families of color and other underrepresented groups. Parent Brookside Real instruc@on of our kids, whether in person or We were shocked how poorly our teacher/our school/our Elementary online. district approached providing any semblance of a quality educa@on when school went online. -While kids in other districts had class over zoom everyday, structure, and real expecta@ons, our teacher/district had a measly one hour per week where nothing substan@ve was discussed. -Our child generally did fine with in person teaching, but the fact the teachers were discouraged from providing more robust educa@on when classes went online was really, really discouraging to us as parents. -some subjects (like math) really need instruc@on/feedback. That didn’t happen with online classes. We were lej to find resources for ourselves. Some examples: -Our student thrived with the online format, but that credit wasn’t due to the school. -Half the links didn’t work, it took a half dozen passwords (ojen which were wrong), the teacher was unresponsive and did not provide any support or structure for her students when there were problems (ojen, her response was to instruct students to skip assignments if they couldn’t log on). -Class assignments were posted late, ajer almost a full teaching day had already passed. We are seriously considering homeschooling our children in the fall. We have children that want to learn, but we had a teacher/district that wasn’t priori@zing teaching. We expect beDer for our children. We don’t take any excep@on to making sure kids in our district have access to food, but the primary purpose of schools is to provide a quality educa@on, not to be a social service agency. Parent Brookside Reassurances that the schools have an adequate plan Elementary in place for reopening, that parents will be beDer about keeping their children home when they are sick and are prepared to quaran@ne in the case of illness, and the school is empowered to strictly enforce the use of masks for in-person learning.

302 Parent Brookside Regular structure, age appropriate online learning tools Elementary (my kindergartener needed help with almost everything online), more engaging online learning Parent Brookside Resources and support that enable me to facilitate Elementary learning at home. I’m eager to help my kid but have limited @me. Help with overall structure and feedback along the way is essen@al so we stay in track. Parent Brookside Return to in person school rou@ne for upcoming school Elementary year. Parent Brookside Returning to in-person instruc@on in some shape or My child is in the highly capable program, so had both her Elementary form. If in-person instruc@on con@nues to be homeroom teacher and her walk-to-math teacher doing impossible, then smaller online classes with teachers remote learning. Her math instructor had a small class size of actually providing instruc@on in real-@me. If home only about 6 students. This teacher held Zoom mee@ngs with learning con@nues, greater clarity on what the the kids three @mes each week and because of the small expecta@ons of turning in work are. This was very number of students and frequency of connec@ons and actual confusing to both my kids and me, and maybe the instruc@on that con@nued to happen, my daughter con@nued teachers had to say that things were "op@onal" but to learn new things during the remote learning @me, and then to kids that can sound like they don't need to do stayed engaged and mo@vated. In contrast, my daughter's it. home room teacher did a short Zoom call once each week that was just a check in / touch base with the en@re class at one @me, and those did not feel produc@ve. I would have very much appreciated some kind of online calendar system that my daughter could have access to through Google Classroom (or whatever pla[orm) where teachers could have sent mee@ng invites and where she could have played a role in managing her schedule and remembering when all of her Zoom mee@ngs for the week would be. With teachers not able to email students directly, and all of the emails coming to parents it adds a lot to the parents' plates to read all of those scheduling emails, keep track of the online mee@ng @mes for mul@ple children, and becomes par@cularly challenging in a divorced family situa@on where kids are going back and forth between two houses. I think managing an online calendar is also a good skill for the kids to learn, and while I understand that younger children might not be ready for this, I feel that my 6th grade daughter would have been more than ready to take this on.

303 Parent Brookside Returning to in-person instruc@on in some shape or For math, it was hard that the Bridges workbook some@mes Elementary form.  If in-person instruc@on con@nues to be did not correlate with the online lessons. It would have been impossible, then smaller online classes with teachers nice if the teacher could have taught a lesson online and then actually providing instruc@on in real-@me.  If home had the kids turn to page XX of their workbook and complete learning con@nues, greater clarity on what the that assignment ... and then turn it in or at least check expecta@ons of turning in work are.  This was very answers somehow. There were also many @mes in the confusing to both my kids and me, and maybe the videos when the teacher would say, "mark this below" or teachers had to say that things were "op@onal" but "put a check here" but it was impossible to edit Google Docs then to kids that can sound like they don't need to do or you had to request permission to edit. The system was not it.  Also, as a full @me working parent, I was not set up to have the kids be able to show work, follow listening to all of my kids' Zoom calls or online videos instruc@ons, and know whether or not they needed to turn in that they were watching from teachers, so I had to work. I would have very much appreciated some kind of trust that my kids were staying on top of all of their online calendar system that my son could have access to work. When I would ask my son if he had done through Google Classroom (or whatever pla[orm) where everything that was expected of him and he said yes, I teachers could have sent mee@ng invites and where he could had to assume that was true, but didn't get any have played an ac@ve role in managing his schedule and feedback from his teachers saying whether or not he remembering when his Zoom mee@ngs for the week would was up to date on everything. My rising 5th grade be, when assignments are due, maybe even son typically really enjoys school and excels at recommenda@ons of how to schedule the day and how much academics, and it was VERY hard to mo@vate him to @me to dedicate to different subjects.  With teachers not engage with school in the online format. I feel like he able to email students directly, and all of the emails coming did very liDle learning of new material during the home to parents it adds a lot to the parents' plates to read all of learning @me, and can see his aytude to school and those scheduling emails, keep track of the online mee@ng learning changing if home learning has to con@nue. @mes for mul@ple children, and this becomes par@cularly challenging in a divorced family situa@on where kids are going back and forth between two houses.  I think managing an online calendar is also a good skill for the kids to learn, and while I understand that younger children might not be ready for this, I feel that my 4th grade son would have been more than ready to take this on. Â

304 Parent Brookside Right now, we are working on trying to catch our child We felt that the District was very slow to get going, and then Elementary up over the summer. It would be helpful if all online informa@on was way too complicated and overwhelming. materials could be made available un@l the Fall. We The message seemed to be "here's a hundred billion different would appreciate crisp communica@on from the links, each requiring a different username and password - just District on what the process is to determine decisions do any of it." By the @me more focus and structure came for the Fall. What are the objec@ves and @melines, around (a month later?) our kid was lost. It was frustra@ng who is at the table, how and when will parents have not to be able to communicate with our teacher by Face@me input other than this one ques@onnaire? It would be or with Zoom un@l well into our @me at home. It is what our helpful to have the goals for grade levels explained at child needed; 8-year-olds can't really just talk on the phone. the beginning of the year and then with the We understand that the guidance seemed to be if everyone assignment sec@ons. We appreciate the need for can't do it, no one can, but that leaves everyone out. We equity and understand that it should be a very have no idea of the scope of the challenges the District faced important priority. We would also appreciate the with this crisis, but we saw what was possible with friends recogni@on that some families have someone (parent, with kids in other districts, and it was frustra@ng. We were nanny, etc.) who can help the kids with their school very lucky to have the second grade teachers at Brookside work and day generally and some don't. Our family eventually preparing our materials, but I got the feeling that has two full-@me+ work from home parents, and one they were constrained by rather than supported by the kid who is too young to be able to video learn alone. District (they did not say this - we read between the lines.) The most success we had, by far, was a learning session We understand the enormity of trying to figure out what will with the teacher and a small group of students on happen with school this Fall, with various scenarios and the Zoom. We would be very happy to see more of this unpredictability of the course the Coronovirus will take. That type of learning. said, we hope that, if the students cannot return to school, there is a robust plan in place for home learning with many opportuni@es for online learning in small groups and for contact with the teacher and other kids. Parent Brookside safe, data-driven decisions on opening distance Elementary learning did not work for our student. siyng in a zoom mee@ng once a week for 40 minutes where she reads for 3 minutes and then listens to other kids read was not a great expenditure of @me. I understand everyone at the schools are doing their best, and these are trying @mes, but next year's instruc@on has got to be beDer than 40 minutes a week.

305 Parent Brookside School needs to be available in the Fall. As a single Compared with other kindergartens in the district, I was Elementary parent this has been a challenging @me and I have to disappointed with the lack of contact with my student. About go back to work full@me in the Fall. I need before/ajer two months into the stay home order my student began care and consistent school instruc@on. having a weekly Zoom call. All they did in the zoom call was read to each other. The calls were usually 10-15 minutes. There was no in-person instruc@on, personal check ins (call, emails to individual students). My student is doing fine with content but my student feels a real lack of connec@on with teachers and classmates. Parent Brookside Schooling for my child. The lack of guidance and curriculum during all of this was Elementary terrible. While I have an understanding that changes in teaching and educa@on is tough, the children are who suffered. Out of all the videos and lessons available on the Seesaw applica@on, only 1 teacher seemed to try and have interest in teaching and keeping children engaged. Sadly, that was not our teacher. Zoom online classes only opened our eyes to the favori@sm and lack of pa@ence some teachers have for students. While changes are hard, I can’t help but wonder what students do during a full school day when some teachers could barely engage more than a few @mes a week via mass sent video. I hope to find a beDer schooling set up for my child next year. Parent Brookside Sending the kids to school and returning to work Elementary Parent Brookside She's never aDended before. We registered her for Elementary Kindergarten before Covid-19 and now we have no idea on a @meline when she's mee@ng the class/ teacher. We also have a very real concern about before and ajer school care. My ex and I are divorced and we both work. Trying to prepare and set up for the school year is crea@ng a lot of anxiety.

306 Parent Brookside Simple assignments Simple process Simple pla[orm While I appreciated the work that the second grade teachers Elementary Realis@c expecta@ons eventually pulled together at Brookside for their lessons, IT WAS TOO MUCH! Ajer several weeks of fending for ourselves with success, we were then overwhelmed by the amount of random work assignments. Especially for parents that have jobs it was A LOT. My daughter is 8 so needed a lot of help figuring out the lessons in SeeSaw. My ques@ons is if this school district is on Google educa@on - JUST USE GOOGLE! Google docs, google share, google meet, etc! just use one pla[orm for everything and don’t make it complicated with a million different ways to view classes, videos, submiyng work, receiving assignments. Less is more to be honest and my kid and I like simple. Printables, reading books, art. I expressed my frustra@on to the teacher and I s@ll have no idea if my daughter was penalized because most of the videos and assignments DIDNT WORK on a technical level.

307 Parent Brookside Social and peer interac@on and working together - I feel that as a parent of a younger student, that is fairly new Elementary regular accountability on assignments so that the to using the districts online learning tools (Google classroom, students understand that the learning and lessons do doesn't even have a school email yet, never taught how to s@ll maDer - whether that is grading in some form, or organize or func@onally learn using G-drive), that there was a one on one reviews of work, or group reviews of work. HUGE assump@on that there was an adult at home with More frequent mee@ngs if we stay at home. Once a enough flexibility in their own job, to work through the giant week was not enough. In person learning is my top learning curve of not only at home learning, but simply the priority and what works best for my child. content. Even working from home, we did not have the ability to sit for very long and work through finding the right links, videos, and then understanding content and teaching math for instance. It was extremely hard fiyng any of it in during my and my husband's full regular work schedules. Even the STEM videos, assumed that you had all the materials at home to do the ac@vi@es, and for a 4th grader, most of the ac@vi@es 100% required adult help and understanding concepts, and even doing the ac@vity. The main thing for my 4th grader was knowing that most of it didn't maDer. He didn't get feedback on assignments (except one, which made his day and should have happened more) or any real sense that he had to do anything, since no one was looking at it or accoun@ng for it. I have only good things to say about his teacher this year. My comments above do not reflect on her, it was about the situa@on and how things were or were not rolled out. Parent Brookside social interac@on for my kids are the most important. The zoom mee@ngs didn't work that well. Too many Elementary Face@me with teachers is important for kids to ask students, internet connec@ons some@mes cut off. Trying to ques@ons they don't understand during a lesson. work while teaching the kids was not the easiest. kids need to go back to school. if it's alternate @mes, please keep siblings on the same schedule. Parent Brookside Social needs and special services Elementary

308 Parent Brookside Social/emo@onal learning Teacher led, interac@ve The asynchronous pre recoded online lessons were not Elementary lessons engaging for.my kids. I also had very liDle understanding of the long term goals, so had a hard @me priori@zing what lessons to do and which we could skip. The amount of material received was overwhelming. I appreciate the op@ons given but it was too hard for us to figure out which to do. Impossible tondo homeschool with younger kids who need direct supervision while s@ll trying to work myself Parent Brookside Socialización para desarrollar inglés, apoyo de Durante el aprendizaje en là Elementary maestros para leer y escribir en inglés. Parent Brookside Socializa@on and problem solving with others. She is a Elementary good student but requires peer pressure to do the work - either from teachers or others in class. She was not engaged with online learning and it was hard to get her to do it. She is an only child and both parents work full-@me in very intense posi@ons. She suffered from isola@on without her class and teacher support. Parent Brookside Socializa@on for the kids but without them feeling Elementary awkward and wrong with social distances and masks Parent Brookside Structure, a beDer online system for learning. The Elementary assignments via google classroom were cumbersome and there were so many links to follow that my high achieving 5th graders were so frustrated. They also need access to email that they can use to communicate with their teacher. In elementary school this was not available and it was frustra@ng to be the "go between". I hope that you use Canvas or Blackboard or some other improved online learning tool. Parent Brookside Structured Guided learning weather on line or in Teachers and admin staff did an amazing job Doing their best Elementary person to try to engage children despite the circumstances and making them feel connected. Parent Brookside Structured schedule, more frequent online mee@ngs, Elementary less reliance on gimpy online programs.

309 Parent Brookside Thankfully, no serious needs right now for our family. I would like to beg and plea that in the fall when school starts Elementary Most challenging thing is finding @me to get my work again, please increase the amount of "class Zoom @me". This done (working from home) while mee@ng the basic spring my kids had 1 hour per week on Zoom with classroom. needs of kids (food, ac@vi@es, exercise etc). Neither We feel very strongly that this was not enough. This @me with one gets done very well. the teacher and other kids had a huge and demonstrated impact on my kids' well being and mo@va@on to complete the online work. Even if it is less instruc@onal @me and more broad-based oral/storytelling lessons (social studies?). Or the kids just get more @me to talk to each other this would be incredibly valuable for the school to take a lead on this 'social' @me (lunch bunch x10!). My kids have very liDle interac@on with their peers outside of this @me. They cherish rela@onships with their classmates, but may not have a way to contact them outside of the class @me (don't have phone numbers etc). Parent Brookside That my child actually learns something and not get Elementary busy work. Also, i am a working parent, so I don’t have the @me or ability to help my child log into zoom calls and ac@vi@es. Although the assignments looked organized at first, but you click a link and that opens another link, which opens another link. It was confusing and hard to keep track and manage for younger kids on what was due. Parent Brookside That schools open up and support learning. Children Children need in-person educa@on. Get the schools open and Elementary are in need of learning and social interac@ons. Children do not require masks to be worn by children. There are no are much safer in this environment. The spring issues with children, and if someone has severe underlying semester was a huge challenge, and somewhat a condi@ons and concerns, they should do remote learning and failure, but what has been lost can be made up if get support for that. schools open up and children get back on track. One more semester of home school or missed out school will create even more inequity and children and families will suffer. Do not mandate children to wear masks. Europe has successfully run schools without masks, and with liDle or no interrup@on. Parent Brookside That the District solicit feedback and have a plan for Synchronous distance learning is a disaster for our child. She Elementary the Fall ASAP. Very concerned that other Districts such needs a teacher in person or at least on line daily. as Bellevue have already worked on and posted plans.

310 Parent Brookside The discrepancy between the learning environments I do understand that the teachers have been working hard to Elementary between grades and technical support and fluency of video and educate the students, but I feel more transparency the teachers is a concern. For example, 1st grade at into what they are doing, as with the Principals would help Brookside was excellent, videos every day, emails to parents have more understanding and empathy. I found it parents etc. 4th grade was not the same experience hard to understand when would pop in to a and leads to concerns of prepara@on to enter 5th class mee@ng for 30 seconds one @me with the voice over of grade, especially as we parents are not as well the teacher saying he is super busy. Parents who are not prepared to teach that level of educa@on. If the tech aware of the day to day work of the school in normal @mes, skills of your teachers is that varied, priori@ze are not sure what is keeping everyone so busy. No addi@onal IT support to the teachers and parents for judgement, this is a sugges@on for more transparency or those grades going forward please. maybe a series of a "day in the life of...." to help us understand all the changes you have been going through as well - i.e. working full @me, working with the city and educa@on system, taking care/educa@ng of your own children full @me, learning technology would go a long way as we fight this pandemic together. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU ARE DOING! Parent Brookside The health and safety of my child. Elementary Parent Brookside The kids NEED to go back to in person schooling. It is We parents are not trained teachers. This Spring's learning Elementary not healthy to keep them separated and away from was shoveled into our laps. Most people I talked to said it peers. Let people have the FREEDOM to choose added great stress to an already stressful @me. I understand acceptable risk to their family. It was very hard to find it was a learning curve for us all. But the kids need to aDend assignments and figure out what the kids were school in person next Fall. supposed to do. Informa@on kept coming from different sources. High frustra@on and lack of learning resulted. 1 classroom mee@ng a week, a "social hour" was a joke. This Spring was a huge loss for learning. Seemed like the district did nothing for 2 months.

311 Parent Brookside The most important need for my children is that they I think the social interac@on piece is impera@ve and teachers Elementary are learning. The online schooling felt like assignments/ did their best with limited resources for engagement. I think tasks with liDle to no 'teaching' or learning happening. it's worth the 'risk' for kids to resume school in the fall, but if It took way too long for the school to come up with a a mask is necessary to wear while in class for the en@re day, I structure and it is impera@ve that teaching be done by think it would be more of a distrac@on. While I would like my the student's teachers and not by some random person children to aDend school in-person, I would be more likely to they do not know in the district. If school does take the support an online model in the Fall un@l King County is in the form of online learning, there needs to be live appropriate phase for going back to school as 'normal.' It instruc@on. The Zoom check-in calls were a nice to seems like a poten@al waste of @me and resources to have, but did not come close to replacing live teaching. implement all new procedures, reduce class sizes, etc. if we Social interac@on with peers is also cri@cal. The may be back to 'normal' in a few months following the start interac@on, team work, problem solving with of school. I would opt for online un@l all kids and teachers classmates is a key part of learning and the online could be reunited together in the classroom. There are model did not address this. already so many changes taking place that shijing the en@re school building model and what they are familiar and comfortable with may be a nega@ve. Parent Brookside The number one need for our child is educa@on. I I do not support any other model than kids geyng back to Elementary know that others have various needs but at the end of school on @me and full @me as soon as possible - with the the day the public school system exists to provide proper healthy ac@ons put in place (masks when necessary, children an educa@on. Con@nued focus on other issues hand sani@zer, thorough school cleaning, limi@ng volunteers). delayed the delivery of 'distant' learning curriculum Online learning has not been effec@ve and has had liDle accountability for students and teachers. If online learning is a considera@on for Fall 2020 (which I do not support), it needs a complete overhaul which means investment - and I don't believe this would be ready or acceptable by September 2020. We need to get back to school. Parent Brookside The number one need is for my children to get back to Remote learning was far from successful. I was disappointed Elementary in-person, full @me school. If remote learning with the inconsistency, not only across the district with con@nues, their educa@on and social/emo@onal health different schools, but also within the schools. If this system will con@nue to suffer. My children have always loved con@nues, I'm worried that inequity of student's educa@on school and, as a result of remote learning, they are not will skyrocket. It was very frustra@ng to hear different schools mo@vated, very difficult to engage and are struggling. doing different things. There did not seem to be consistency It is also very stressful to think about the impact on in really any aspect of remote learning. I was also very childcare and my employment if school does not return frustrated with the lack of accountability and feedback from in the fall. The decisions my spouse and I will have to teachers. Kids were not engaged. Please allow students to make regarding employment are very stressful and will, choose to go to school next year. most certainly, impact our family nega@vely.

312 Parent Brookside The school district must have a plan for when a student Elementary or staff member tests posi@ve for COVID-19. Parent Brookside The use of SeeSaw was posi@ve and my child's teacher It was a disappointment that all work was op@onal this Spring Elementary did a great job with it. What was lacking was live online and nothing was graded. It would be beDer to have some sort teaching. Some type of live instruc@on is most of accountability to mo@vate comple@on. The online model important for my child. The videos were not always seemed to further make the divide between the 'haves' and successful, especially when they were of teachers not the 'have nots' even more prominent. I don't think kids even at the school. There were not enough live check- should wear masks to school. They are uncomfortable and ins. One zoom mee@ng for 30 minutes per week was would most likely be more of a distrac@on. not enough of a touch point. Geyng my child back to school with normalcy of schedule (friends, specials -- library, PE, music) is cri@cal. The AM/PM schedule with a reduced class size does not sound like a viable op@on. I would opt for online learning at the on-set and wait un@l it's 'safe' to go back to school like normal. There was no teaching happening this Spring. It was all assignment based with no real lessons. It will be cri@cal to get the teachers back doing what they do best, teaching and interac@ng with students. Parent Brookside There are TOO many videos and exercises in different Elementary websites, like seesaw, school district online learning, seesaw apps. If all school related learning is integrated into one website, it will be easier for parents and kids, especially the k-3 grade younger kids.

313 Parent Brookside There should be parent/guardian monitoring of We appreciated morning messages... Helped us Elementary behavior of students to ensure they're not being feel connected to school. My child was disappointed every disrup@ve during class mee@ngs. week that there was no message from our school librarian. He is one of her favorite people at school and we had no access to the public library all of this @me. She could see other schools' librarians pos@ng things, but nothing was provided by ours. At the end of the school year, there was an assignment with a requirement to write a paragraph with suppor@ve ideas. My child explained that she read an ar@cle that was praising police because her teacher was upset by the protests and lack of support for police. I would request that teachers carefully choose social jus@ce assignments. Some households, like ours, share mul@ple sides to each story. We have family members and friends who are BIPOC and we have open dialogues about what protesters and police are doing; both sides of this issue. I found it to be in bad taste for my daughter to have to write a paragraph without being able to support the other side that she also knows as truth... Par@cularly since I had aDended the District-promoted event about how to talk to kids about race and have since been ac@vely implemen@ng tools and suggested language. The discussions of support for racial equality and jus@ce in our home also include dialogue about defunding police and scru@nizing media offerings. Both sides should be presented given the overall goal of the current movement, if we expect our kids to be wri@ng and speaking their truth about history in the making. Thank you.

314 Parent Brookside This is going to be a very challenging year for my The elementary school experience during COVID was a Elementary youngest as he is entering Kellogg and did not have the tremendous disappointment. My son's regular classroom typical prep for the last few months of the year in teacher met with him once a week for less than an hour. I preparing him for the transi@on to middle school. My would have expected the teacher to make a greater effort to important needs for him are that he has clear be in contact with the students - maybe break them up into informa@on and guidance about what the start of the groups of 3-5 and meet with them once/twice week in school year will look like. It would be beneficial for addi@on to the class mee@ngs. My son's math teacher did a students to have the chance to visit the school more great job of communica@ng with families via Class Dojo and than once before the school year begins - once to just also of mee@ng with him regularly to offer instruc@on and visit the school grounds and walk around. A second to also having expecta@ons of student's performance and get their schedule and walk the school and a third for aDendance during her lessons. This was greatly appreciated. them to walk the school and meet their teachers. It Also, worth men@oning - the "packets' the district offered at will also be important for him to be able to start the the start of all of this was a feeble aDempt at offering families school year in person and meet the teacher. It would learning tools for their children. I was expec@ng more be helpful if teachers are able to start the year by though[ul learning content and not a collec@on of paper that saying - here is what we are going to accomplish this did not apply to my son's age group. I also grabbed the 7th year as a class that meets in person and if we are grade packet thinking I could help prep my son for that, but unable to con@nue to meet in person, we are going to that was a gigan@c manual on how to write a book. No actual s@ll get through this content, because your learning school content. Disappoin@ng. and prepara@on for high school maDers to me. I want him to feel like his teachers care and are invested in his learning from the outset of the year. I would really appreciate the teacher's doing a good job of communica@ng school work expecta@ons to students and parents on a weekly basis and using a consistent method for communica@ng. Canvas is a great tool - when updated in a @mely fashion and with clear guidance.

315 Parent Brookside Time - and a professional educator for my son. I am Yes - 2 things: 1) Elementary needs a proper LMS. It doesn't Elementary an educator (in another district) and I only have 1 child; have to be Canvas, but it can't be "Google Classroom" going that said, it was incredibly frustra@ng to try to help him forward. Google is not an LMS, and our con@nue his learning this spring and work full @me didn't use it well (or hardly at all). SeeSaw is an (mostly from home). Not only was it exhaus@ng for LMS. I think there is an idea at Brookside that SeeSaw is only both of us to do learning ac@vi@es at all @mes of day for liDle kids - but that is not true. My elementary school when we could fit them in (I can't work 10 hours a day uses SeeSaw for all grades, and in fact the 4th and 5th grade and work with him for 3-6 hours a day on academics teachers are the ones who introduced it to the rest of the concurrently going forward), but we also would buD school. I can't handle another school year with endless, heads constantly about how to do the work and what constant emails from the teacher with a "checklist" copied the teacher wanted. I can't be his mom and his from Word, and random video lessons with no assignment teacher - I don't want to be a homeschooler. connected, random references to the printed packet (which was 75 pages and we weren't going to print - and no way to turn in work reference from the packet), and then some@mes, thankfully, rare assignments aDached for Flipgrid and Google submission arbitrarily thrown in. I need a single LMS with the ability to have all submissions, lessons, resources and assignments neatly organized and I would like my son to be taught how to use the LMS by someone that is not myself or my husband. If we are remote next year, he needs more small group mee@ngs on Zoom and more contact with staff - she only did 1 mee@ng a week, and teachers at my school met with kids at least 3x a week. 2) Teachers need to communicate their weekly learning plans with students and parents with much more no@ce than they have been doing during the closure. My son's teacher would email us "the weekly plan" at something like 6am every Monday (star@ng in April - prior to that she emailed us long excuses that she was learning tech and would send work soon). They need to use the calendar feature on whatever LMS they use (not Google). They can't decide what they are teaching or what kids are doing the day before, a week before, etc. - they need to have inten@onal long term learning objec@ves and resources ready to go at least a few weeks out, because parents are scheduling work mee@ngs, child care, meal planning/grocery shopping, pick up/drop off of kids at least on the weekend before the school week, and some@mes even farther out than that. When I got the "weekly plan" at 6am on a Monday, it was already too late for me to fit my 316 Parent Brookside To get kids back in school. This @me away from I was extremely disappointed with the lack of teacher Elementary structured academic learning and socializa@on is feedback or involvement ajer they emailed assignments to increasingly detrimental to the kids. The inequity of the kids. There was ZERO feedback on my child's work. I had sending kids part-@me, choosing only some kids to the opportunity to ask my child's teacher at about an aDend in person, requiring remote learning and social assignment my child completed. The teacher hadn't even distancing at all @mes is tremendous. Our kids are looked at it. Why are the kids doing work and the parents suffering and the recovery from this (academically & doing work and the teachers can't be bothered to even look socially) is going to take years. Please allow our kids to at it? Myself and my child were extremely disappointed. go to school. It is where they need to be. School and teachers are essen@al. Teaching is essen@al. Remote learning consists of sending assignments via email. It is NOT teaching and it is NOT learning. Parent Brookside To have a Safe School Staff/ environment that at least The first couple of weeks I felt terrible,I totally felt Lej alone Elementary to follow the basic guidelines for COVID-19. “And from my Son’s School, I felt got lost with No Academic most Importantly an Experienced Teacher who has learning Direc@ons..... But ajer 2 weeks in general, I would Her/ His Focus on teaching, let all parents could asked like to express my Thank You to the principal & all staff about their Concerns or ques@ons! And TREAT all Her/ member for all their hard work coordina@on, all those online His Student’s class equally with an experienced Tools/ Apps that at least help me to be confident to made my academic learning, respec[ully, and kindness†son & I Discipline for learning @me, and to be stayed connected with School. In my one on one observa@on on my son, everything on seasaw was either very easy for him! May it was just because they were mostly repeat from his previous lesson in class or it seemed easy for him due I had to be sit down with him in order he be Disciplined to finish 2 or more daily ac@vi@es! Parent Brookside To know what the plan is, whatever it is, so we can Very hard for my first grader to stay mo@vated and focused Elementary begin making appropriate plans and arrangements from home.

317 Parent Brookside Trying to maintain social/emo@onal/mental health with Remote learning Some teachers did beDer than other Elementary the isola@on that is occurring. Having children with teachers. Some teachers were not able to gauge how their special needs, it has been challenging to work on lesson would be received by students. Some lessons were academics in addi@on to behavioral and other too long and boring. Some lessons crammed too much work challenges. It has been physically and mentally into a lesson. Some lessons did not offer enough support for exhaus@ng and now summer break is star@ng and I am the assignment. I also saw well paced lessons and @red and my kids are @red of being home. They want appropriate assignments and it was easier to handle remote to go back to school. learning in these cases. However, remote learning overall was frustra@ng and unenjoyable. We also had a huge issue with monitoring ac@vity on the computers. My child was ojen caught playing video games instead of working. It was so difficult I would label it an obsession. I also feel the amount of screen @me necessary to complete daily work was too much. Between lessons, IXL, Reflex, Epic, Google docs, etc. it was usually at least 4 hours a day. That is too much for elementary students. I am hoping for a full @me return in the fall. Parent Brookside Understanding what teachers wanted went poorly. One If there is par@al school days ( ei, students I shijs), it will be Elementary of my kids teachers gave a clear outline, but all the impera@ve that my kids have the same shij. work seemed like busy work. No learning. The other teacher had some good content, but it was impossible to follow her plan. We ended up avoiding both classes in favor of a home school plan. Parent Brookside We appreciate paper assignments to reduce screen- Elementary @me, increase flexibility of when/where work can be done, and beDer parent visibility/oversight/guidance. A visible weekly chart of assignments/due dates/ mee@ngs is preferred. Regularity is appreciated. Avoid hiding important info in email text.

318 Parent Brookside We have 2 kids at Brookside Elementary. One child is in Elementary high risk category. It is very important next year to have online class op@on available. The version in which online school was offered this year didn't work well for us. There were no interac@ve lessons with the teacher. The zoom mee@ngs were only to touch base. We would like some actual live teacher lessons next year a couple of @mes per week with a structured "school day" and a single online pla[orm for home-works and other online teaching tools. We didn't like the free youtube links - this makes the child to go on you-tube on places that might not be child proof. Also, we didn't like the mul@tude of apps in e-classlink. We prefer IXL for math, literacy and science. The other free version where limited in content and not useful. Moreover, Very confusing for kids. The online classes recorded by the teachers many @mes required parent to stay and listen to the class recording in order to know where the child need to go in SeaSaw to answer, what other links to click... or to make sure that the child answer is complete. This is not working. Please follow pla[orms used by Washington online schools offered for free for Washington state students. Our kids miss in person teaching and social interac@on with classmates but returning to school in a military version would be worst than online school and actual zoom social interac@on. A child younger than 10 years old might not respect social distancing, keep the face mask all the @me, perform proper hand washing. The risks of in person classes might outweighs the benefits. Parent Brookside We need a rou@ne and consistent clear schedule. We I strongly dislike vague lists of lessons and learning apps to Elementary need daily specific expecta@ons/assignments. We need do. We need the daily expecta@ons/lessons laid out as a childcare that will facilitate online learning while I teacher does with subs@tutes, a specific learning plan for the work. I cant have them at daycare not doing their work day. We also really need the kids to have socializing then somehow find @me off work to facilitate all the opportuni@es in person. online learning expecta@ons while trying to catch up on life, do other essen@als that are put on hold while Im at work.

319 Parent Brookside We need in-person instruc@on at the school, with a Home schooling did not work well for us. Our child needs to Elementary teacher and other students, in a structured classroom be in a structured classroom seyng. Please re-open the seyng. Please re-open the schools! schools! Parent Brookside When we switched to online learning I was able to see Elementary how much my child struggled with certain subjects in school. I was surprised because I had not heard this in the past from any of my child's teachers. So this was a great opportunity for me to help my child. My child struggled with some of the lessons. She had a hard @me from just watching videos and then applying what she learned to the actual lesson. She also has a very short aDen@on span. So this did not help. One of the things that helped was Zoom calls with the teacher where he taught kids that needed extra help on subjects. I was also able to sit off to the side and watch. This helped me to understand some of the techniques being taught in class. Ajer the Zoom lessons each week her school work improved. It was only one lesson a week but it helped a lot! So having a lesson or two taught live on Zoom each week would be very helpful if we con@nue online learning. Parent Brookside While school is important, my child's health is top I am par@cularly concerned about the version of the virus Elementary priority. I would support a combina@on of home/in that aDacks children. school learning if strict safety measures were in place. Parent Brookside who knows. Seriously, i am hesitant to go out into the Elementary world. I do not like being a home school parent, I can't do it because i need to work and my child is absolutely not interested in online learning. a constant baDle. it was terrible. Parent Brookside Keeping these kids out of school is having a huge nega@ve Elementary impact on not only their learning, but also their mental and emo@onal health. Depression an anxiety is increasing. The longer our children are not allowed to aDend school, the worse things are going to get (academics, mental health, inequity, etc.) Parent Brookside Ability of parents to return to work is dependent on Elementary availability of before/ajer care at the school

320 Parent Brookside All students need a district email account that can be used Elementary from their Chromebook. In way too many instances I was required to act as "middleman" with communica@on between teacher and student. My kids need to be able to communicate easier with their teacher without me being involved. Parent Brookside By me, distance learning has shijed the communica@on Elementary between teacher and students that before was happening in the classroom, to teacher and parents that now is happening mosty via email. The teacher sends emails to the parants to make sure that all assignments are well understood. The parants now are the 'man in the middle' that every day I had to go through assignments and explain the student how to work on that. For me, this effort has been very distrac@ng and it affected my daily work day. My kids are not yet autonomous at the point that can use the electronic means by themselves and need constant assistance expecially to make sure that they are using it properly. I cannot really make this effort effec@ve without taking @me from my job. In case of future prolonged distance learning designed in the same way it was these last three month, I expect the District to recognize the parents' effort spent every day to make distance learning effec@ve. By that I mean, the District should provide the parants with enough training and sugges@ons on how to ask for @me off from our jobs, at least for whom s@ll have it. Thanks.

321 Parent Brookside Communica@on (via email) from my son's teacher was Elementary infrequent and ojen ques@ons went unanswered. The Google classroom was not always well-organized and finding informa@on was some@mes difficult. A parent zoom mee@ng during distance learning would have been helpful, so that teachers could orient us to how the Google Classroom was organized and how to turn in assignments, etc. My son is typically a mo@vated, independent learner, and he had a lot of trouble engaging with the distance learning this spring. He would do beDer with structured lessons (for example, live Zoom classes he had to show up for at a given @me) and more frequent due dates. He also could have handled a LOT more work than what he was given.

322 Parent Brookside Create a hybrid plan using a flipped classroom model. Have Elementary smaller classroom size for distancing and have students watch short micro learning video lectures and then come to the classroom for hands on assignments and to get real-@me feedback. Make class @me/office hours op@onal so parents have flexibility to when they can bring their kids into school. Let them Zoom into the live class if they can’t physically make it. Have your instructors create a weekly welcome video recapping the previous week and explaining what is to come. This helps keep parents and kids on the same page. Also have a schedule for the month of what assignment is due each week along with a link to where it should be submiDed and any links to suppor@ng materials. Get your instructors more instruc@on on how to use Google Classroom and create a standard layout template for all online classrooms...it will save you money in support costs and you train to a standard instead of everyone rolling their own. Have your instructors organize their Google Classroom by week and include the dates in the @tle so parents and kids know which week corresponds with which date. When an assignment is due, include a link to where it needs to be submiDed. Younger kids won’t do well with online learning....look at the studies. The older kids for the most part will be able to be more self-directed. This is the nice part about using a hybrid model...best of both worlds. Realize when you teach in an asynchronous online model, you need to allow for more @me for assignments to be completed due to back and forth and asking ques@ons. Virtual office hours can help, but in general, a lot more @me for assignments. Look at Khan Academy, they have a great personalized learning model. I setup online learning programs for a living and teach K-12 teachers how to use technology. I know you guys have had a difficult @me this year. Good job pulling the remainder of the year together. I’m sure everyone had some good learnings opportuni@es this year. :)

323 Parent Brookside I didn't like that lessons were posted on a daily, not weekly Elementary interval. Many videos used to teach the lesson didn't run on the school issued I pad. It was incredibly frustra@ng. Things that ran well we ok. Also, the way lessons were posted, it was hard to follow any scope and sequence. It seemed rather random, which isn't great for early learners who are s@ll learning vital core concepts in reading and math. I feel I will have to supplement over the summer to make sure there is a solid understanding of 1st grade core knowledge. All lessons were completed on Seesaw and it could be difficult to manage the wri@ng tools. Paper might have been beDer. The only good thing I can say is that this was my one child that handed in work on a daily basis and she did get posi@ve feedback on many of the assignments, which helped her keep going, even though she didn't really like the work. Parent Brookside I have a Kindergartner this year, and remote learning is NOT a Elementary great model for this age group. They are learning how to be students, classroom expecta@ons, and socializa@on skills. Siyng and trying to follow a zoom class mee@ng on a computer was really hard for my child. I understand that this year took us all by surprise, but I’m afraid that if we do this for another year my child will fall severely behind. It was a solu@on for this year. I’m not ok with the fact that I am the only person who knows what my child is capable of and where they are academically. I sincerely urge you to make in classroom learning a priority for all kids, but especially they younger grades. Parent Brookside if we con@nue with remote learning next year we need more Elementary than just 1 zoom call per week as well as beDer organiza@on of the google classroom.looking at other classrooms, mee@ngs were well organized and links worked. Our class had link ajer link (not all worked) and it was a headache trying to track down a certain page. We got to the point where we just gave up.

324 Parent Brookside It felt like school was a joke. Assignments were ojen Elementary irrelevant, vague , or best completed with a group discussion (which wasn’t provided). Weekly zoom with teacher was just social, very liDle in the way of educa@on. My child was told that assignments were op@onal, which made geyng him to do them even more difficult. Ojen assignment was things like “Do IXL†Parent Brookside It's been challenging to monitor home schooling since both of Elementary us (Mom and Dad) have full @me jobs. Luckily we are able to work from home. S@ll, being on calls and in mee@ngs all day proves to be a serious constraint to our child's learning and ac@vi@es She is lej on her own much of the day to self- entertain and do her online learning/reading. But we are doing the best we can. We are most concerned about the educa@on that she's lost and hope that everyone will be able to bounce back once things are semi-normal again. Parent Brookside Need the ability to truly social distance in class, low class size Elementary And enough space ! Parent Brookside Remote learning does not work well for children with Elementary significant learning, social and behavioral disabili@es. Having to par@cipate in zoom mee@ngs was especially stressful and unsuccessful. I would hope that the need for in person instruc@on for children with high needs will be a priority. At least in my child's class there was very liDle work turned in. I think there could have been a way to get more feedback and encouragement for doing assignments.

325 Parent Brookside The videos that were provided on home learning site that Elementary were done by other staffs in the district did not seem to get either one of my kids aDen@on. The videos were great however my kids did not feel connected with the instructor and refused to take any of the learning materials given to them serious. If distant learning is implemented in the fall I believe that virtual mee@ngs or emails between student and teacher regarding progress and or feedback from work that were submiDed should be done at least 2-3x per week to help keep kids stay on track and mind busy and help answer ques@ons that may arise. Open classroom @mes may make children feel uncomfortable asking for help. As my child never wanted to speak via zoom. Also The flexibility of due dates or op@onal amount of homework finished may have worked well for some families but with our family it was extremely hard to find something else to keep their minds occupied for at least a good 12 hours that wasn’t electronic related (ie, Video gaming, cell phone use) during quaran@ne. Parent Brookside There was so much missing from the last few months of the Elementary kids being home. I know it was a lot to expect the teachers to quickly pivot to distance learning but I was really surprised at the technology gap. My kids at the elementary level didn't even have school email!! It was also grossly overes@mated what my 4th grade son was able to accomplish on his own. And the assump@on that there was a parent or adult available to help was truly and heartbreakingly misguided. I'm the only parent at home with two kids with the blessing of s@ll being able to work from home full @me. I wasn't able to give my kids the @me they needed to be successful and it was insane that we were put in this posi@on.

326 Parent Brookside You have 2 and half months to figure out how to do home Elementary required home learning .. The technology is there .. Structure it so family's don't feel like they are sending their kids in for The Slaughter !! Been very disappointed in the School districts lack of online Schooling ! Many Parents s@ll had to work .. Some of us lej our kids home with homework to do .. With no help from the School district ... We were forced to try to teach our kids things we didn't understand ...this falls on you the district Fix it ! If I don't seen a structured in home learning plan by August my kid will not be aDending School in the Fall Parent Cascade K-8 Actual instruc@on for the kids. Un@l there is a vaccine or the vast majority have been infected, this pandemic will con@nue to infect people in sporadic and unpredictable ways if there are opportuni@es for contact. Parent Cascade K-8 At home learning went well for us. I would be open to doing it again in the fall. Flexibility is important as I have 2 young children in school- both need lots of help. Parent Cascade K-8 Child needs dialog because he is interverted. Need to prac@ce talking and socializing with other kids. Parent Cascade K-8 -Childcare if they don't go to full days. Flexible childcare that doesn't require me to pay for what I don't use. -Printed learning materials ahead of @me -A brief check in with teachers or an aide on a weekly or every other week basis to report out on progress, work completed, or problem solving discussion -An easy way to demonstrate work was completed (checking a box) -Guidance on how to best support my child while learning during Zoom teaching Parent Cascade K-8 Children to be in school Parent Cascade K-8 Consistent educa@onal growth ( reading wri@ng math) Our children miss the school experience, their teachers and all year round (not just during school season). friends. Friendships maintained Parent Cascade K-8 Curriculum/lessons and assignments.

327 Parent Cascade K-8 Direct teacher support and scheduled individual face to The delay in set up of distance learning was the downfall to face @me, at minimum virtually. 1:1 IEP supported success. Many many emails from school/teachers with learning Virtual lessons/discussions with peers if not login informa@on or codes hidden in paragraphs made finding able to be in classroom. My kids don’t feel the long in informa@on challenging. Mul@ple logins to access lessons are valuable or they are a countable to them. If different pieces of learning created a constant baDle for they were engaged with peers and a schedule of daily finding different log in informa@on. Zoom links only engagement it may help some. And direct teacher provided but not mee@ng iD and passwords meant having to contact expected. have direct access to link source for it to work. The above disorganiza@on was detrimental to the learning experience, and requires significant parent @me and tech support meaning mul@ple caregivers were not able to support learning because of the confusion and access issues. I know the teachers spent a ton of @me crea@ng video lessons. However I think my kids would have been more engaged if it was at least a direct teaching @me with follow up assignment. Could record the zoom for kids who missed it. Parent Cascade K-8 Having a consistent plan that kids can follow. More face Thank you for con@nuing to put kids first. @me with teachers for academic content and follow through on turning in assignments. Parent Cascade K-8 Having all my kids at school at the same @me if there is Good luck! Thank you for all the @me and care you’re puyng a staggered or alterna@ng schedule. Having them at into crajing solu@ons! We know you won’t be able to sa@sfy school at different @mes would be far more stressful everyone and we’ll do our best to be flexible with the plans for managing the household and (parental) work that work best for most. schedules. Parent Cascade K-8 Having school line up with my work schedule, so I won’t have to find childcare if we go to a split schedule in the fall.

328 Parent Cascade K-8 Help to care for my child's social emo@onal health and Would like my child to have regular (daily) virtual zoom need for social interac@on mee@ngs with the instructor. Also, I would rather see the district be more honest with expecta@on seyng than the state is about reopening in the fall. The state's mantra of "we're going to be open" does not take into account the tremendous work that the districts must undertake to get the schools ready for opening (from figuring out transporta@on and food service - to the addi@onal costs associated with extra cleaning and daily health checks (all likely without volunteers). So, I do not presume any sense of normalcy in the 2020-2021 school year, and I hope that there is sufficient planning being done to conduct the year remotely. While I know the burden of this dual planning falls on teachers and administrators equally, I do think that a dual prep strategy is the only sensible op@on moving forward. Parent Cascade K-8 help with transi@oning my incoming kindergartener Parent Cascade K-8 I do a lot of homeschooling with my own curriculum that I modify for my special ed/ 504 child. I am hoping that most of her assignments, given by the school can be done in school because we are doing our own curriculum at home. Parent Cascade K-8 I have to head back to work star@ng in September, based on our current work guidelines and my husband is going into work now. So it won't be very feasible for us to not send our our child to school in the Fall, unless my work expecta@ons change, which is not the current situa@on. Parent Cascade K-8 I need my kids to go to school so I can work. I am unable to school my child and work a full @me job. I also feel like giving the kids a list of stuff to do is not actually teaching them anything. I'm preDy sure my kid learning nothing in the last few months.

329 Parent Cascade K-8 I need my kids to have in-person schooling, even if it is part-@me, so that they can get a beDer quality learning experience. I absolutely understand the need to follow public health guidelines and understand that school sites might be closed again due to a rise in COVID-19 cases. But for my sanity, I need a break from homeschooling and direc@ng their learning. Parent Cascade K-8 I need services and resources to be equitable and I know this is a historical @me, I’m deeply apprecia@ve and accessible. Daily one on one @me with the teacher. grateful for the work that our Shoreline school district is Perhaps the teacher virtually teaching kids one on one puyng forward to help the students. I think there needs to throughout the day. I have two high needs grades be mindfulness that - for instance in our case-we have lost students, it was nearly impossible to go through the and con@nue to lose the majority of our income. Brings a lot curriculum with them as they need a lot of guidance of stress into the home, as well as the inability to get That I am not professionally qualified for. if The technology (headphones from district as well would have expecta@on is on the parents to teach their students, been nice) and resources to teach kids appropriately. I also there needs to be some free educa@on for parents on think remote learning takes a certain type of personality, that how to do new role, free access to cer@fica@on, our family par@cular doesn’t have. I would’ve much rather perhaps even tax relief or a payment plan for work physical books, worksheets, crea@ve plans lessons, etc. then done by parents. i needed personal check ins all through the computer. Maybe there can be a type of tutoring model, or the children meet one on one safely with the teacher. The amount of pressure and expecta@on that was put on us as parents was not equitable and healthy. Parent Cascade K-8 I need to know that our kids and staff will be safe and protected from contrac@ng covid19. We lost a family member to it in March and need to know our mul@ genera@onal family will be safe. Ideally we don't want to lose our spot at our school, so we would prefer to have the op@on to do a more structured online school with SpEd services/reading either online or as a once a week in person in small safe groups. Parent Cascade K-8 I really need teachers to be reviewing work, grading BeDer a hybrid model then no school at all. I think the where appropriate and providing feedback. A lot of the interac@on with teachers, staff and peers is invaluable. online instruc@on was good but it felt like it went into a void. By the end, the kids were very unmo@vated because of the lack of feedback and give and take with teachers.

330 Parent Cascade K-8 I really want there to be alternate days to start. I worry Masks 5 days a week is not healthy. that kids will burn out with masks and at home they can have PE and other elec@ves and a less restric@ve environment Parent Cascade K-8 I think there needs to be a model of in class teaching, The hour to 1.5 hours of work sent out for the last 3 months but that kids from home could learn same thing if they of school was totally ridiculous. I spent hours each night can't go to school because they are sick or don't feel crea@ng up the rest of the curriculum for their days and safe. making sure they covered all they needed to for their grades as well as having a well rounded educa@on. Parent Cascade K-8 I want to feel like the kids can learn in an environment without the risk of exposure or geyng sick! Working in healthcare on the front lines, I have to keep the rest of my family safe. We must follow the CDC and WHO guidelines, and also just use common sense. I worry that my child will not be able to keep a mask on or keep his hands and fingers out of his mouth. At the same @me, he really needs social emo@onal assistance. So many dilemmas.

331 Parent Cascade K-8 I want to know and have access to my children's I recognize that this is a new and evolving situa@on, and curriculum/topics. If I know he needs to learn to appreciate much of what the school district has been able to mul@ply frac@ons,or study glaciers, or write a haiku, do for our kids. However, we had some very tough great. If I can have a link to the lesson plan (in experiences these past couple months that could/should advance), even beDer. We can't afford to be spending have been handled much beDer. It should not have taken @me guessing what they should be learning, and spend two full months (or more) to set up online instruc@on. My even more @me wondering if we're teaching it the right kids, desperate and craving something to do/learn, really way. I want clear communica@on from the teacher struggled for too long. DAILY. 1 or 2 zoom calls a week isn't cuyng it. **Real- @me** class instruc@on is way, way beDer than recorded lessons, and something to strive for whenever possible. And I want to know when my kids are falling behind or not mee@ng expecta@ons, being told directly by their teacher as soon as it happens. My Addi@onally, one of my kids was the vic@m of "hacking" by kids received very liDle feedback about their what was apparently a classmate, as some of his work stored performance and accountability, and we received in the cloud was edited. Clearly someone else had his prac@cally NONE. Also, the free meals for all students password. is WONDERFUL. Would be helpful if teachers didn't schedule zoom calls during the 11:30-12:30 lunch availability window, so that my kids don't have to SSD should have choose between aDending a call and ea@ng lunch. escalated this and priori@zed the fix and not let it go on so long. Parent Cascade K-8 I would ask that the district consider the emo@onal heath of families at this @me. Many do not have the resources to home school, while many families would say home learning has less of an impact on their family. I hope the district will strongly consider giving priority to families who need in person school and provide an op@on for families who would feel more comfortable con@nuing home learning. Parent Cascade K-8 I would like it if more curriculum guidelines were I am concerned that if I did choose to homeschool that I available, a map of where we are and where we are would loose our place at Cascade K8 since it is a loDery headed. I will be doing more research on that this school. summer.

332 Parent Cascade K-8 I would like to know the schedule and format of school My son is au@s@c and his IEP team created an amazing IEP for in the fall at the earliest possible @me. I would like my him a few weeks back, but it was designed for in-class children to be on the same schedule, whatever that learning, not distance learning. I am worried that his services may be. for social/emo@onal support will be difficult to provide through distance educa@on. I hope the district work team will consider how these supports for special educa@on can be adapted to a different learning environment. Parent Cascade K-8 I would prefer to use online learning over in person CK-8 staff were great! Prompt responses, clear instruc@ons. instruc@on, with the assump@ons that in person Could be just because it was a lower grade level but thanks instruc@on may limit access to recess and group play / folks, those weekly assignment lists were great for planning play equipment, that kids may need direct help with out our week. I had to keep high involvement to keep my things that teachers may be afraid to provide due to kids on task since they tend to get distracted on their own, the 6 foot rule, that masks will be difficult / and knowing what was coming / how long it would take was distrac@ng / uncomfortable for the kids to manage, and helpful. that we generally don't really rely on a big chemical load of disinfectant and I'd like to avoid exposing my kids to that in heavy doses. While I don't necessarily thing we are at high risk of complica@ons if we catch the virus, I do know that many people could be in that category so I hope that distance learning will be supported both for them and for people like us who feel they may do beDer at home un@l there is a vaccine that will allow things to return to "normal". Parent Cascade K-8 If home-learning is to occur this fall most helpful would One of the most difficult aspects of home-learning during be daily and weekly schedules. COVID-19 school closure was the lack of parent understanding in regard to the curriculum goals and expecta@ons. If parents and students are going to be responsible for home educa@on learning we need to have more say/involvement in curriculum . Parent Cascade K-8 In person learning at least 2 days a week. Please don’t do an am/pm model. This is not feasible for parents who need to work outside the home. Parent Cascade K-8 In person school, or childcare. I'm a single parent, and I I cannot effec@vely manage home learning. work two jobs, one of which I can bring her with me for, but I can't do schooling with her then because I'm working.

333 Parent Cascade K-8 It has been extremely hard to get my children to reach out socially to peers during this @me. They haven't been interested in tex@ng, e-mailing, calling, etc. Their friendships have suffered. Parent Cascade K-8 It would have been helpful if there were a more structured teacher/student environment provided this past quarter. Having an online mee@ng once a week was just not enough, and I mean that both in terms of actual instruc@on as well as the opportunity for my child to interact with her peers. I think it would have been helpful for my child to have been in a virtual "classroom" for at least 3-4 hours every day. She did fine in regard to self-mo@va@on for the first 2-3 weeks or so, but ajer taking the week of spring break off, her mo@va@on was somewhat diminished. She was not at all inspired to complete the work and we really had to push to make sure that she completed her assignments. Parent Cascade K-8 Keep my student academically engaged and on point. My student would experience technical difficul@es with being able to get into and/or par@cipate in some of the Zoom class mee@ngs. Parent Cascade K-8 Kids need to be around peers. Kids with learning School needs to be on a schedule, even if online. My child disabili@es need help from experts. needs to check in with people and be held accountable. If those two things don’t happen, my child will do bare minimum and will not learn a thing. Parent Cascade K-8 Learning should happen in schools but trained I am surprised shoreline district is asking parents for teachers, not lej up to parents not trained in what feedback. It took over a year DELAY by the district including learning needs to be done. two outside third party evalua@ons for my child to get his IEP. As parents we provided the informa@on at the start, and you did not listen. What the district did do, is stall geyng my child the proper help, including leadership forgeyng about my child. The leadership should be help accountable and needs to work harder to help those in need. I laugh that you claim your going to listen to parents, cause in my experience you don't care.

334 Parent Cascade K-8 More academic lessons I’m not comfortable having my children wear masks for a whole school day. I have concerns that my children or other children will not be “hands-off with one another. I also have concerns with my children being confined indoors. I would feel safer if the kids were outside. Parent Cascade K-8 More structure from school on assignments. Regular There is no possible way that schools can reopen and keep mee@ng @mes daily, firm expecta@ons. Parents the community safe. Temperature screenings only capture aren’t teachers, and kids won’t listen to us. those that are symptoma@c leaving asymptoma@c students to expose other students, teachers and staff. There are needs for some for childcare and the district should find a way to accommodate those families. Parent Cascade K-8 Most important is that the school district priori@ze the health/safety of students and provide op@ons for high- risk families who choose not to par@cipate in in-person learning un@l COVID-19 is well and truly managed (by vaccina@on or zero instances of infec@on). All this without jeopardizing their ability to aDend the school of their choice when in-person schooling resumes - in other words, a pathway for high-risk families to virtually enroll their children and hold their in-person space at the same @me (without being removed from the roles and placed on a waitlist for their classroom). Second, I would like SSD to find a way to provide syncrhonous and asynchronous instruc@on that is as close to in-person instruc@on as tech/staffing resources allow. If there is in-person schooling, can teachers give their lessons via video/zoom at the same @me as the in-person instruc@on? Parent Cascade K-8 My child has a high amount of anxiety about returning to school. He thinks he’s going to get the coronavirus from the other students, we have tried to reassure him but he insists he will get infected. We are seeking out counseling and hope to bring down these fears before school starts. There are probably other students that need help too. Maybe the district psychologist could make a video to help reassure students and their parents.

335 Parent Cascade K-8 My child has regressed socially. She is shy around My 2nd grader was able to manage the Seesaw LMS on her people like in preschool. I just want her back at school own preDy well. I couldn't help much because of working with friends and real human interac@on. from home, and that concerns me. Parent Cascade K-8 My child needs structured learning! Too many distrac@ons at home to be an effec@ve learning space. Parent Cascade K-8 My child really wants to play with children his age. I Thanks for all you are doing. This job must be especially hard want him to have a posi@ve kindergarten year and not right now. Don't forget to take care of yourselves find school disjointed or scary. His social and emo@onal skills are most important to us right now Parent Cascade K-8 My child was very sad about school closing part way I appreciate the amazingly dedicated educators at Cascade through her Kindergarten year. So sad in fact, that K-8. Classlinks was especially helpful for submiyng anything we tried at home that felt too "school like" or documenta@on of what we were doing at home and keeping reminded her too much of what she was missing at in touch with teachers. school, would result refusal to par@cipate and tears. Seeing her teachers and friends over zoom was especially emo@onally triggering. I chose to priori@ze my child's emo@onal health and well-being over par@cipa@ng in the provided at home learning curriculum. We instead created our own super ac@ve and hands on interest-led curriculum full of science, art, math and leDer games, and reading. Parent Cascade K-8 My child working directly with the teacher to get up to grade level. Parent Cascade K-8 My daughter really needs the structure of school and I Im grateful for all the hard work and dedica@on of the don't have the bandwidth to provide that for her while teachers and staff. The cascade teachers went above and working full @me. She also desperately needs beyond and we felt cared for. connec@on with her friends. Parent Cascade K-8 My first grader struggled some with the online learning If we do school at home again, I’d love resources for a pla[orm. It was hard to get him to focus unless it was child who struggles with aDen@on and focus. an online lesson (zoom or recorded). A paper in front of him works beDer for him, with an adult geyng him to stay focused.

336 Parent Cascade K-8 My greatest academic worry for my kids is wri@ng and I would like to see academics con@nue all summer in some @me management. To my knowledge, they had no way with shorter and longer wri@ng assignments and wri@ng assignments that required essays of any length. required Kahn academy lessons. My son is entering high school and I know he is going to really struggle because he’s not had to do any required wri@ng since last year. Suddenly having several classes that require essays on a regular basis is going to be an enormous stress on him. My daughter has struggled migh@ly with @me management during the quaran@ne. She requires hard deadlines and lots of face to face contact to stay mo@vated to produce academically. Mee@ng with teachers once a week has been like waving a cookie under her nose and not giving it to her. What liDle @me management skills she had have been completely eroded by now. I don’t understand why both my kids’ classes only met once a week. Parent Cascade K-8 My kids have fallen behind and I can’t fix it! Mostly This has been really hard and I know that everyone is doing right now I am super worried about their mental health their best, the only think I know right now is school can not and mine. The last 3 months have been tough, the 5 of go on like it did the last 3 months!!! It was way too hard us copped up in a 1000 sq j house. We need skills and breaks from each other Parent Cascade K-8 My son has ADD and I need to get things set up with Kahn academy is SO much beDer than the teacher videos and the school to make things work beDer for him there. I assigned homework. I would much rather forget the school have lots of issues keeping him on track and and s@ck with them over this homeschooling period. My son homeschool is a never-ending series of check-ins to likes to see his own teachers faces, but even he says Kahn keep him on track to get things done. does a beDer job of explaining math especially. Parent Cascade K-8 My son needs in-person, specifically designed instruc@on to learn to read. The longer he is denied this, the more he will fall behind and be unable to "catch-up". Parent Cascade K-8 Need to know with as much advance no@ce what the plan will be. I also would like to know the process for reques@ng online instruc@on if students go back due to family member health condi@ons they put them in the high risk group related to COVID-19.

337 Parent Cascade K-8 One big thing that threw us off this year was that not all assignments were in Canvas. My son was always checking there and not the remote learning webiste as much. We defeintly take ome repsonsability in not checking the website as ojen but it doesn't make a lot of sense to have the Canvas system and not have everything in there. If it is remote learing for the beginning of the school year having more video mee@ngs withteh teacher woudl be benifi@al. What if students and teachers followed their class schedule and just moved around to different zoom mee@ngs throughotu the day, kind of like physical school? For example, if a student had math at 9am, then they would connect to that mee@ng. 10am science, great change to that mee@ng. I know I have not throught through all the logis@cs of this idea. Another issue was teacher availability. I know the teachers had 1 day a week of "IN office" @me but many @mes my son got stuck and I was unable to help ,so we had to emial the teacher and stop work untul we heard back. Parent Cascade K-8 One on one @me with my olde kid. I'm fortunate to have a job but it was very difficult to keep the kids aDending regular mee@ngs and doing the assignments. I don't know how to assess where they are at. We plan to con@nue working through the content throughout the summer so hopefully they will be prepared for fall. Please keep it available online. Parent Cascade K-8 Our greatest need is flexibility from the school district To give a bit more insight, my husband's ability to work is to return to school only when we feel comfortable. dependent on our commitment to isola@on from Covid-19 Our 1st grader aDends Cascade K-8 and we have risk, and I have an underlying health condi@on that puts me thoroughly enjoyed the remote learning this spring. To at risk to severe illness. To send our daughter to school in the be able to con@nue remote learning un@l we feel that fall does not seem like an op@on at this @me. Also, while we the health risk is low enough to return to in person are s@ll just going into first grade, our experience so far with instruc@on is our primary concern. I worry that we will the Shoreline School District, specifically Cascade K-8 and lose our spot in the school if we are not physically Edwin PraD, has been excellent. Thank you for your present. commitment to every child's educa@on needs.

338 Parent Cascade K-8 Our son needs strict structure, social support, regular On-line learning did not work well for our son. He has a breaks, athle@cs, and strong connec@on to his significant screen addic@on. Needing to use a computer to do teachers. He needs more support than we are capable his work gave him access to his addic@on. It was extremely of giving him. He needs a well rounded educa@on. hard for him to stay on task. He has ADHD and is very capable with the subjects he finds interes@ng. He does not have a 504 plan, as he did well in the suppor@ve Cascade K8 environment. ELA, although a cri@cal skill, is NOT a subject he enjoys. In order to complete any ELA assignment that included wri@ng (all of them), my husband or I had to sit with him to keep him on track and off internet games and videos. This is obviously not the case for all students. Our son learns best in a classroom seyng with a teacher who is not his parent, surrounded by peers doing the same work as he. He needs the tac@le aspect of reading and wri@ng and the s@mula@on of a classroom seyng. He tends to live up to the expecta@ons set by a group. He may need extra support with ELA upon aDending Kellogg, especially ajer missing the exquisite in-class instruc@on and support afforded to him at Cascade. It is hard to know since the environment of home learning was not a good measure. Parent Cascade K-8 Regarding educa@on we need more guidance on social studies, reading and science. As family more emo@onal health management. Parent Cascade K-8 Safe return to school even if it is part @me. We are Virtual learning is good in terms of @me management. In our good with introduc@on of new lessons at school and case, it makes our child more anxious knowing there are doing the rest at home. Safe interac@on with other apps on the pla[orm (educa@onal but not follow the classmates. Teachers having good support to help the class goals). Supplemental printed material is also a great kids achieve their goals. Individual snacks from each op@on. students home, to avoid food handling. Parent Cascade K-8 Safety Parent Cascade K-8 School needs to happen inperson. This should be a teachers and district decision not parents. Parent Cascade K-8 Socializa@on

339 Parent Cascade K-8 Socializa@on of all sorts, but definitely with kids her Thank you. The distance learning was so much beDer than I own age. Also, a preview of next year's learning plan was expec@ng. It was a big hit with my child. Receiving and expecta@ons, sooner rather than later, would be District emails at the same moment the phone rings with a very helpful. Knowing the learning goal for her grade message to warn of such emails was very... annoying. would be extremely helpful to me. Parent Cascade K-8 Socializa@on with other kids. Being challenged with school work. Parent Cascade K-8 structure and daily contact. My daughter only had 1 class zoom session all week and it was just a how is everyone doing. There was no live or direct instruc@on. I know it doesn't work for everyone, buy my kid would do best with daily structured live streaming in the morning with flexible assignments in the ajernoon. Parent Cascade K-8 Structure. Accountability to the teachers. Parent Cascade K-8 Structured learning with some understanding built into the lessons and grades that outside forces are in play (IE work schedules) will affect a kid’s ability to par@culate IF in-person school learning is not possible. If there’s a way to make in-person learning work that would be preferable, however we also have a medically fragile parent here so we also really need to be careful about exposure. However home learning has not been very frui[ul. I have to 100% supervise and give my full aDen@on, so we can’t do any school work un@l the evening when I’m done with work. Would be beDer with a schedule and more structure, but again that might leave some kids out. Really not sure what the answer is here.

340 Parent Cascade K-8 Thank you for such a kind ques@on. My middle school Online educa@on this spring was rough for my family. My kids age children need to socialize with peers (not just close were hardly engaged and did the bare minimum. I completely friends). understand I hold some accountability for this, but how do I keep them engaged in school when their assignments come once a week and at the top read: "Top priority If you don’t do any other schoolwork, do these; Then if you have some energy lej, do; If you can do more school at least do parts of these units; Finally, If you have the energy, or want a break from the other work." In my kids' opinion Top Priority was all that was truly due for the week, this turned into a constant debate. There was zero accountability for the kids to par@cipate fully in their learning. Typically they only met online twice a week with teachers and class. This was not enough @me to really maintain any connec@on to school. There was lack of feedback received on assignments. We were told in math we would only hear from the teacher if there was a repe@@ve problem. It felt like what liDle work they did went into a void. As much as I would like to see my kids back in school to learn and socialize, I am worried about what school will look like with strict social distancing, con@nuous cleaning and all day mask wearing if that's what's required. I'm also concerned for teacher and staff safety. Thanks for hearing my out my frustra@ons. I don't envy anyone having to make the decisions about what school should look like next fall. Parent Cascade K-8 That my child can aDend school with a reasonable degree of safety for both my kids and the staff. Parent Cascade K-8 That my family not get sick with COVID because the school reopens too early and cannot keep our children safe!

341 Parent Cascade K-8 The children need to be in school. It’s not right that they are targeted as Covid-19 spreaders. The evidence is simply not there to show they are. Equity issues abound in school and are exponen@al when they are not. Students should be able to opt out if their families do not want them to be in school with lesson plans, etc but everyone who wants to be there should be able to go with basic precau@ons, mask wearing, hand washing, etc. Parent Cascade K-8 The coming school year designed to ameliorate student This survey feels incomplete since I had to consolidate anxiety. answers for all three of my kids who have had very different experiences and very different needs. Emo@onal support is a much more urgent need for one, teacher-led instruc@on of far greater importance for another. One had a great experience with his addi@onal supports at school, the other got completely inadequate support. And, it started with the race ques@on. "What is your race/ethnic origin?" If I answer my own race, I discount my three children; if I answer for one child, I discount the other two. Marking us as more than two mixes us all into a jumble, "other" leaves us feeling en@rely uncounted. I am White. I have two Black children. I have one Na@ve American child. I wish I could have answered many of these ques@ons for child 1, child 2, child 3. Offering this feedback in case another survey is forthcoming. Parent Cascade K-8 The kids need social @me and @me away from a screen. I would rather have my kid at school and risk them\me Math is my biggest concern. geyng sick than do another year of distance learning. It's so hard to work while homeschooling my kid and they love school when it is in person. Not as much at home. She have been regressing behaviorally - thumb sucking, tantrums. Parent Cascade K-8 To be able to have my days to get back to working. And I appreciate everything the school district has done to adapt for my daughter, who is 6, to have a place to engage to the pandemic. with her peers and some more normalcy.

342 Parent Cascade K-8 To have qualified teachers engaged with students. I am not qualified to deliver instruc@on to the level that was necessary this spring. Kids are really missing the social component of school. Even with smaller classes and social distancing they will be able to get some much needed interac@on with peers, It is not replicated by short class mee@ngs. Parent Cascade K-8 To keep my family, safe, happy, and healthy. We are flexible with our work schedules. Though we would be nega@vely impacted by the lack of childcare, we are also very concerned for our health and that takes priority. We would prefer our daughter go to school just a couple days per week in very reduced class sizes. Homeschool has worked preDy well for us, and we are prepared to do it in the fall. Parent Cascade K-8 We need a stable, predictable situa@on as much as I am concerned about the psychological effects and possible. My 6th grader is going to have difficulty with classroom environment with strict masking and social a lot of changes. We are able to do school work at distancing. I have an epidemiology degree and I understand home if needed. The kids really miss their friends and the virus is a serious concern for all of us. However, I am teachers though. worried there is no long term plan for schooling the kids if we do not have a vaccine for several years (or ever). If we maintain control over the number of cases in the community, have widely available tes@ng, and have everyone stay home who has any related symptoms, I am hoping we can keep the school condi@ons a liDle more gentle for the kids. Parent Cascade K-8 We will need a school computer for school work in the The teachers, principal, school and district staff are fall. Managing screen @me and having online school/ incredible, caring, dedicated professionals and learning as fun games/friends on the same device did not work they go as well! Keep up the good work! Thank you for all well and was too temp@ng to do what seemed more that you are doing to help our students succeed during these fun. we printed materials and scanned completed very challenging COVID-19 @mes. worksheets when we were able to get some done. It was piecemeal and very difficult, as we needed our child to work on assignments himself so we could do our own full @me work during the day. Work didn’t really happen without one of us directly supervising him which wasn't really possible too much of the @me.

343 Parent Cascade K-8 While I want school to be safe, I also worry about it We have both parents working from home so we were able being too prison-like and having safety (mask-wearing to help our kids with remote learning this spring. They miss and distancing) become a non-stop distrac@on and their teachers and friends. The teachers have done their best poten@ally a discipline issue. We need to think about in a very difficult situa@on. We can cope with a split schedule what school might look like for the next *several* years in the fall if needed. We can also do distance learning again if since we are all hopeful there will be a vaccine soon we end up back in "stay at home" phase. but this is unlikely. An indeterminate period of school where kids are not allowed to touch things, read each other's facial expressions, have enrichment ac@vi@es (field trips, camps, assemblies, recess) and social interac@on - will be very damaging to students and they will poten@ally have a very nega@ve view of school. My kids like school and I do not want this to be endangered. I'm worried that our school (Cascade K-8) will lose all of the community tradi@ons that bond us together. That being said, I realize the very difficult situa@on that state and school district leaders are in right now. Parent Cascade K-8 As important as I feel it is to have students doing in-person school, I don’t think it’s at all feasible for all the kids to wear masks and socially distance for even a few hours. I know the guidelines are there for good reason, but I think my kids would benefit from distance learning more than in-person with the required PPE/guidelines. Parent Cascade K-8 Differen@ated instruc@on will be challenging in the fall. I would hope that teachers could work together to deliver the core instruc@on so that there would be more @me for teachers to assess and plan for small group learning. Teachers do not have @me to provide differen@ated instruc@on under the current model. Parents who are working from home with young children need to have prerecorded lessons. They need to have the flexibility to work with students outside of the regular workday because the younger students can't navigate SeeSaw by themselves.

344 Parent Cascade K-8 Google classroom was great. Seesaw was not great for our student. The expecta@on of families prin@ng out the assignments was not reasonable and using seesaw to submit caused our child great anxiety. We ended up not par@cipa@ng for the last month of school for our 2nd grade student. Parent Cascade K-8 I am impressed with how well Cascade K-8 staff handled the Covid-19 forced transi@on. Immediate and con@nuous informed communica@on not just from my child's teachers but the principal and staff eased changes and reassured my concerns. Parent Cascade K-8 It was very hard for my child to stay focused and on task with virtual learning. She found the two zoom mee@ngs each week with her teacher somewhat helpful, but they were class wide so she ojen was more interested in catching up with her classmates than focusing on the lessons for the week. I think addi@onal scheduled virtual (semi mandatory?) mee@ngs with smaller groups would have benefited her and helped her stay on task more ojen. Even with both of her parents working from home for most of the spring, it was s@ll difficult to keep her on track because the lesson goals and due dates were ojen vague. Parent Cascade K-8 Regular live instruc@on, even if it's over Zoom or some other video service, is absolutely necessary if we con@nue to do remote learning. There was very liDle feedback provided throughout the past 3 months and it was incumbent on the students or parents to reach out for that feedback. Parent Cascade K-8 The distance learning was not valuable for our student. Providing a list of videos to watch did not engage our student. We chose to supplement with out of district live tutoring mul@ple @mes per day using video conferencing sojware. Suggest the district inves@gate modern learning sojware such as Microsoj Teams: hDps://www.microsoj.com/en-us/ educa@on/remote-learning

345 Parent Cascade K-8 The likelihood I send my children back for in person instruc@on is very low. My dad, who has lived with us since my 10 year old was born, passed away ajer contrac@ng COVID-19. Un@l more is known about this virus, my children will not be allowed back. Please offer a structured online op@on for those families that do not feel comfortable sending their children back to school. Parent Cascade K-8 While I am hoping that kids can go back to school in the fall like normal - I don't believe given the forecasts that is likely. I would like to see either a half day op@on or an every other day op@on mixed in with online work if the kids are going to go back in. This should make it more possible to have smaller class sizes and easier to keep a good social distance. If the kids will be doing online learning - I would like to see kids having a structured schedule where they log into each teacher's class the same way they would if the teacher was teaching a class (like a distance learning class in college) and the class would be taught live. It would be great to have them live for those who can aDend, but also have them recorded so that if a kid is unable to aDend the live class they could listen to the recording and message the teacher with ques@ons. This would give some structure to the day and would most resemble a normal schedule - that way when they return they would be used to the expecta@ons. I would offer flexibility to the deadlines of the assignments either way as this is new for many kids and it is hard to meet the needs of all kids' learning styles.

346 Parent Cascade K-8 With distance learning, parents play a big role in making sure work is actually done. I would like to see a learning goals or assignment checklist for PARENTS if we need to do distance learning going forward. This would be a list of what the student is supposed to complete and submit. Under the current system, I need to watch the videos or presenta@ons with my child to know what is expected and make sure she turns everything in. As parents juggle than own jobs and helping one or more students, this will be cri@cal. I would also appreciate teacher feedback on HOW to help my child (do I make her correct her what's wrong? Will the teacher give help in weak areas, or should I? What's the best way to reinforce how the teacher is teaching it? Etc., etc.). Parent Cascade K-8 You guys are doing great with situa@on and I commend you. Parent Echo Lake I want places for my children to get safe daily This is new territory for everyone involved. Covid 19 is not Elementary exercise outside away from people. going away this fall or winter or even this @me next year. Vaccines takes years, even with all of the world na@ons working on it. I will protect my children and keep them home, I recommend everyone else do the same. This is no ‘just a virus’ or ‘a type of flu’. Ini@al reports were wrong. Young healthy children have died from it. Please do not open up the schools in the fall. Tweak the zoom mee@ngs and assignments as we go along geyng beDer. I’m begging staff to con@nue home instruc@on. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. We will deal with socializa@on and weight gain later. Parent Echo Lake 1. controlling the social distancing 2. managing the Elementary students with any cold/flu symptoms 3. Size of classroom 4. # of days of in person school & online class 5. Academically fulfilled

347 Parent Echo Lake 1.To feel confident that appropriate measures are put Elementary in place to ensure safety at school. 2.One main resource/contact for informa@on. I appreciate the district was trying to cover all bases, but we were inundated with emails and communica@ons and it was overwhelming to slog through. 3.Feedback about assignments. In the online learning environment, work was handed in but never graded/commented on. 4. Access to teacher resources if possible. Students are geyng less instruc@on in the online-learning environment, so they're not picking up concepts as quickly. Meaning parents need to step in and teach more. But there are a lot of subjects that are a bit rusty for parents who haven't been in school for decades. :) 5. Longer virtual classroom sessions. Our student aDended two, 60- to 90-minute classroom sessions per week. That leaves A LOT of @me lej for parents of bored kids to fill. 6. Maybe a scheduled way for parents to check in with teachers. It'd be great if the teachers had weekly or monthly office hours parents could sign up for. Like, one day a month a teacher sets aside three hours for virtual office hours and parents who want to can sign up for a 15-minute slot to ask ques@ons/address concerns about their child's progress. 7. Virtual PE, arts, music. They need crea@ve outlets, not just math and reading. Parent Echo Lake A safe place for my child to be learning and growing 6-8 Thank you for making a conscious effort to provide schooling Elementary hours a day. This would help us to keep working full during these unprecedented @mes. @me as well as provide childcare where she is being challenged socially and academically.

348 Parent Echo Lake A school schedule for the fall so that we can make An@cipa@ng a second wave of covid 19 in the colder months, Elementary adjustments to our work schedules if needed. please encourage teachers to have infrastructure to teach online already established. My oldest child's teacher already had google classroom as a part of her classroom prac@ce making it a seamless transi@on to learn from home this past March. While my kids much prefer to go to school, it was a comfort for her to be able to con@nue to work on the assignments she already had in process. Part of the curriculum planning should include instruc@on on online pla[orms so that students will have the skillset to readily par@cipate from home should schools need to close again. Parent Echo Lake A vaccine Elementary Parent Echo Lake ä¿ å› ä¸ºç—…æƒ…çš„åŽŸå› æ‰€ä»¥å Elementary Parent Echo Lake Access to learning that is flexible. Op@on for mostly Right now given the situa@on, I can’t see myself sending Elementary home learning or occasionally socializing in small my child to school in person. I hope there will be a “home groups. My child is anxious with new situa@ons and her school†ability to learn will likely be hampered by all the requirements to stay healthy during this @me. Parent Echo Lake Actual structured and live online classes. I'm incredibly dissa@sfied with the solu@ons that were Elementary presented. Online learning has been around for years now, and I saw schools across the state and na@on switch to live online classes. When I saw laptops and other tech being handed out I was hopeful but nothing truly came of it. The lack of interac@on, structure and though[ul guidance lej both myself and my daughter lost. I sincerely hope that should we need to con@nue at home learning, that there are vast improvements. Parent Echo Lake Aprender mas el ingles y la lectura Elementary Parent Echo Lake Being at school w other kids for social emo@onal I think the current curriculum will be difficult to do. going to Elementary learning and interac@on. basics.

349 Parent Echo Lake Both my girls (twin 8 year olds who will be in 3rd Elementary grade) so MUCH beDer with in person instruc@on. I feel that the last 3 months they did not get the educa@on they needed as we are both working parents and it’s very difficult to manage having home schooling and work at the same @me. Parents cannot be expected to be the primary teachers - it’s just not feasible for the majority of families where both parents need to work. I feel it will be the children who suffer if the state moves forward with any home schooling plan that expects parents to take on a large por@on of the teaching role. I did not go to school to become a teacher. I don’t have the skills necessary to assure my children get the best possible educa@on they deserve. Parent Echo Lake Both my girls (twin 8 year olds who will be in 3rd Elementary grade) so MUCH beDer with in person instruc@on. I feel that the last 3 months they did not get the educa@on they needed as we are both working parents and it’s very difficult to manage having home schooling and work at the same @me. Parents cannot be expected to be the primary teachers - it’s just not feasible for the majority of families where both parents need to work. I feel it will be the children who suffer if the state moves forward with any home schooling plan that expects parents to take on a large por@on of the teaching role. I did not go to school to become a teacher. I don’t have the skills necessary to assure my children get the best possible educa@on they deserve. Parent Echo Lake Centralized structure and streamlined communica@on. Elementary Parent Echo Lake Child care/before and ajer school care provided along Elementary with in person. Ideally k-5 in person and 6-12 hybrid. Parent Echo Lake Childcare for her when I work. I am EL cert. Elementary

350 Parent Echo Lake Clarity as to specific expecta@ons for my child's Elementary learning Parent Echo Lake Clarity on what will happen in the fall semester so we Virtual or remote learning has been working very well for our Elementary can plan accordingly. family. Our children have actually been able to complete their assignments and we beleive they are doing well. They have actually been able to spend @me learning extracuricular ac@vi@es in addi@on to the schools curriculm which we really feel is valuable also. For example, drajing, cooking, coding etc. There are several concerns we have about having our kids return to in person school... 1. We are very skep@cal about having to give our kids a covid vaccine that is being rushed at break neck speed. We are honestly more afraid of poten@al side effects rather than the covid 19. 2. Children don't have good hygiene prac@ces and its highly probably that even with social distancing, masks, hand sani@zers etc that the spread can be contained. 3. Wearing a mask all day is preDy rough. Basically breathing in the same air all day long probably isn't the greatest for you either. I think it will be hard for the younger kids to stay focused while having to wear masks, social distance, remember not to touch their faces, wash their hands etc. The learning in class might not be as efficient as it was before this covid crisis. I don't know if the students are being given the full/complete curriculum for a typical school year however if the curriculm has been lightened due to covid I think that the kids can handle more. Usually our kids finish their homework early and spend the rest of the day doing other things. It would be good if teachers could give the parents the curriculum in advance for example 6 months in advance. Parents can help their children to complete their homework and also start looking at future lessons to prepare beDer. We are not sure what the right answer is but we wanted to let you folks know that this remove learning has been working well and we would be fine if it con@nued next school year.

351 Parent Echo Lake Clear informa@on, as soon as possible, about I don't agree with the CDC guidelines and am greatly Elementary reopening school in the fall. concerned with the emo@onal and mental well-being of my children. Hospitaliza@ons in our state for ages 19 and under is 1%. There have been 0 (zero) DEATHS in our state for ages 19 and under according to our state website. Therefore, schools must go back to normal ! hDps://www.doh.wa.gov/ Emergencies/Coronavirus? ±clid=IwAR1wHu0mzVXkcgpkHaXPYYsq89bHsOezucVwnQl5 mRM5s4wdMaHcyWWqfxA Parent Echo Lake Daily childcare for parents to go back to work Elementary Parent Echo Lake English speaking prac@ce Elementary Parent Echo Lake First of all, I'm so grateful for all of the thought you are Elementary puyng into such a difficult situa@on to navigate. Right now, our family is most concerned with how to navigate childcare situa@ons if my children aren't in school full @me. This is because I am a teacher in the district. If I'm expected to be in the school each day, but my children are only expected on some days, then my husband would need to alter his work schedule to be home with our three kids on the days they are not in the building. I realize there is no perfect plan or solu@on and that all families will be effected in some capacity. Thank you for all you are doing to meet the learning needs of our students. We appreciate you!

352 Parent Echo Lake First of all, I'm so grateful for all of the thought you are Elementary puyng into such a difficult situa@on to navigate. Right now, our family is most concerned with how to navigate childcare situa@ons if my children aren't in school full @me. This is because I am a teacher in the district. If I'm expected to be in the school each day, but my children are only expected on some days, then my husband would need to alter his work schedule to be home with our three kids on the days they are not in the building. I realize there is no perfect plan or solu@on and that all families will be effected in some capacity. Thank you for all you are doing to meet the learning needs of our students. We appreciate you! Parent Echo Lake First of all, I'm so grateful for all of the thought you are Elementary puyng into such a difficult situa@on to navigate. Right now, our family is most concerned with how to navigate childcare situa@ons if my children aren't in school full @me. This is because I am a teacher in the district. If I'm expected to be in the school each day, but my children are only expected on some days, then my husband would need to alter his work schedule to be home with our three kids on the days they are not in the building. I realize there is no perfect plan or solu@on and that all families will be effected in some capacity. Thank you for all you are doing to meet the learning needs of our students. We appreciate you! Parent Echo Lake Flexibility is most important to me/my family! Should Elementary home learning apply in some form this fall, having flexible due dates/ school days will be very important. I was solely responsible for home teaching. Now that I am required to physically report to work Monday- Friday, the weekend are when we will be able to log in & concentrate on assignments If strict aDendance & structure are required, my kids would not be able to aDend. Parent Echo Lake Flexible schedule if we are learning from home next I would prefer moving to an all year schedule instead of a Elementary year. long summer holiday.

353 Parent Echo Lake For my child to get back to in-person schooling and Distance learning does not work for children with special Elementary make up for all the lost learning opportuni@es of the needs. They should be priori@zed for in-person learning and last 3 months. support. Parent Echo Lake For my kids to go back to school! Elementary Parent Echo Lake For there to be in school instruc@on next year and for Elementary the teachers to go back over a lot of what was missed from last year. Review will be very necessary. Parent Echo Lake Geyng my student back in the class room. Virtual learning for my 1st grader is not an op@on. Elementary Parent Echo Lake Going Back to school Elementary Parent Echo Lake Honestly, it’s equally important that my child be in We love our school district. I have 2 kids in special educa@on, Elementary class, and safe from the virus. It’s a judgment call and we are very impressed with the programs and the for the end of summer, I think. Everyone wants to teachers/therapists. Our teachers really stepped up to a know in advance, but how can you? I think voicing challenge, this spring. They are among this city’s most predic@ons to the parents is helpful, though. Being valuable assets, and should be treated as such. prepared for a mask-wearing, sani@zed, socially- distanced class is a necessity. Parent Echo Lake I have received invita@ons from well meaning, but Please pass along that the second grade team at Echo Lake Elementary misguided fellow parents asking me to join a group to did an incredible job naviga@ng an impossible situa@on. My lobby for fully opening schools in the fall no maDer daughter told me this morning she is sad there aren’t any what. I am a nurse, and while I understand schools daily seesaw assignments to do now that the school year has being closed is incredibly difficult on families, ended. This is our first year in the Shoreline district and I feel prematurely opening fully could be devasta@ng to the very fortunate to be here. I’m so impressed with how health of our community. I would like to see schools everyone handled this awful situa@on. priori@ze SPED students, children qualified for free or reduced lunch, and children who have other addi@onal needs priori@zed for in classroom learning in the fall. We need a system that will keep everyone healthy, but also emphasizes an equitable situa@on over equality. Please priori@ze those with special needs. Families like mine can do things like more distance learning to give those families opportunity to have needs met.

354 Parent Echo Lake I have two children who aDend school(s) in Shoreline I recognize that the pandemic outbreak took everyone by Elementary the School District. One child will be entering the surprise, and I applaud the school district for its ability to fourth grade this fall. My child is very ac@ve, and has provide support and respond to the needs of the families had asthma struggles in his younger years. During the quickly. What I would like to see differently moving forward winter and allergy seasons; he experiences minor is consistency and some form of standard. I do not breathing issues. I consider him to be in the high risk understand how children are able to graduate to the group, and my concern is will he be able to keep his following grade level with missing almost a half of year of mask on his face at all @mes; in addi@on to the other school. I say missing a half year because the tools put in children in elementary school. Furthermore; I’m place to aid in learning during the last half of the 2019-2020 concerned about masks breaking or being school year were not a requirement nor where there compromised during the school day. Will masks be anything put in place to measure performance. That being provided by the school should a kids break, get lost or said, how do we assume children are prepared to move is forgoDen? Finally, what standards will be put in forward in the next grade level. The zoom mee@ngs required place to ensure that the masks being worn by everyone were more social in nature. Course work on the websites at school provides the same level of protec@on to truly progressed as the @me progressed; however, speaking for minimize the spread of the virus? My sixth grader is myself these tools were less than the tools I was using to to start Middle School and he also has special needs. support their learning when there when nothing was in place. Academically, he is behind in his grade level. I’m The requirement levels for course work for each child was working to bridge this gap. When he is overwhelmed inconsistent, meaning one teacher provided more tools than he tends to regress. Before the school closing, he the other crea@ng a hard @me to make standards. It was started to come outside of his shell with regard to class easier for me to create and work from my own curriculum to par@cipa@on. My concern for him is the pressures of maintain @me frames. I would love to see the district come our new normal, i.e. wearing masks, social distancing; up with a sustainable way to ins@tute distance learning while in addi@on to, adap@ng to a new school with a the country/ world gets a hold on this virus. I would also like completely new structure he will struggle to succeed. this plan to be put in place with enough advance so that we Socializa@on is one of the biggest mo@vators for as parents can prepare and make arrangements. If resources children to want to go to school. In both of my such as district transporta@on, social interac@on, isolated kids’ cases, I’m concerned about their ability in lunches, and half days are strong solu@ons as a parent these addi@on to other kids being able to maintain social are things I need to be prepared to handle now, especially distancing with each other. because my children are going to different schools. Parent Echo Lake I need to know precisely what the expecta@ons are for Elementary learning. Outcomes and expecta@ons about what she needs to know to be successful in the next grade, what specific skills she needs to gain.

355 Parent Echo Lake I think the most important thing academically for the Please con@nue to be transparent with the ideas and plans Elementary Fall is for teachers to assess what students know and for the fall, even if it’s just to say, “Nothing has been decided, where there are holes in their knowledge/ but here’s what we’re thinking.” I am also interested in understanding, especially in math. Students are going having some form of grading or assessment to provide to come in with all levels of learning from the spring accountability for students, while balancing that with a and I’m worried that a blanket approach to teaching grading system that takes it easy on students in the Fall who with that wide a gap won’t be effec@ve. haven’t been graded on anything for so many months. Lastly, having one system agreed upon by the staff of a school for communica@on and one common system for assignments in terms of where to find them and how they’re presented will be helpful, especially for families with mul@ple children. Thank you for all of your work with this; I know it can’t be easy! Parent Echo Lake I would love some sort of light learning instruc@on/ My son has sensory/focus issues and I am extremely anxious Elementary resources made available during the summer to keep about the possibility of making kids wear face masks all day up with learning. at school. It seems so unrealis@c and problema@c for my child and most likely many other students. Addi@onal to this is that he wears glasses which makes the whole scenario even more uncomfortable for him. Parent Echo Lake ì¦ ê²½ì œí™œë Elementary Parent Echo Lake If the school needs to do part in-person and part I think a combina@on of socially distanced in-person Elementary remote learning, it would be easier for me if the days instruc@on coupled with some home learning would be great. at school were full days, that alternated with remote I would hope the teacher can rotate the students, so during days. Half days of school would pose a bigger challenge any given week all the kids eventually see one another, even because I wouldn’t be able to pick him up in the if only for a day or two. I wouldn’t want the class split in middle of the work day. half where the kids only see half their classmates the whole year. I also would like clearer expecta@ons on exactly what the kids need to do and when. Some@mes the instruc@ons were partly in an email, partly on Google Classroom, etc. There was so much to navigate. Parent Echo Lake If we have online classes to have 2-3 hours zoom Elementary mee@ngs a dey with the teachers and every day home work. This also to be use when we have snow days so we don't have to get from the summer vaca@on

356 Parent Echo Lake In person educa@on. Learning from home was Elementary challenging because although both parents were home, we seemed to spend the majority of our days on Zoom mee@ngs for work which made it difficult if not impossible to provide the hands-on assistance (mainly with keeping focus, but also with the technology) our second grader needed. It made for a very stressful situa@on for all involved Parent Echo Lake In person teaching if it available. Reading and wri@ng Our child Is @tle 9 for reading however the app on classlink Elementary help. Social @me; Ac@vi@es to run and play with was so difficult to use, not intui@ve for the child and required others. If online, seesaw was a great app constant login As it would kick us out even mid reading... we used it only a handful of @mes then just stopped, preferring to work with him on our own. Parent Echo Lake In-person learning. So much is missed/lost when I’d like to thank my child’s school Echo Lake for puyng Elementary teaching happens through a screen at this age. in so much hard work and effort to finish the school year. I know it was a huge unexpected surprise to have to finish the school year this way, and I am grateful to the district for keeping a posi@ve outlook and hopeful aytude. Parent Echo Lake Just having school and consistency in that school Mul@ple confusing websites with all kinds of different log-ins Elementary schedule, ways for the students to socialize safely, was so confusing for us and unhelpful. We almost gave up more in-person or 1:1 teacher contact if it has to be and a lot of parents did give up. More online ac@vi@es that virtual the kids could of done without parent facilita@on would have been helpful. It was impossible to facilitate the on-line learning while working a job at home in the living room.

357 Parent Echo Lake Keeping everyone safe. I’m not confident that Elementary physically returning to the classroom is the right thing yet. There is more data coming out about this novel virus that is concerning. The people affected by this disease are not just the old or ill there are cases of young adults and children geyng a severe form of the illness. It’s shown to affect mul@ple systems leading to cloyng issues, strokes, heart and lung damage, kidney damage among other things. I don’t feel the advice of the CDC or the WHO has been adequate. I am not willing to expose my child, myself, his father or grandparents to this disease. Home learning has been working well for us. In addi@on to the online resources I have grade appropriate work books for the student. Parent Echo Lake Keeping k students to be safe as it is very likely to make Elementary sure all of them are wash hands frequently and wearing mask. In addi@onal, even with school opens, it would be really important to me that parents have op@ons to keep them at home with distance learning.

358 Parent Echo Lake Kids lost habit of reading when they stay at home 24/7 For this ques@on: "If we have home learning in some form in Elementary because they have more screen @me and they do not the fall, which of the following features do you think would have the instruc@ons from the teacher to encourage help your child be successful? Choose all that apply", I do not them to read. Library closed which does not help agree with any of the listed choices. A "structured school either. They are also losing the social opportuni@es day" (days and @mes you would be expected to logon) is the with a big audience despite the fact that they can play best I can choose compared to the other op@ons. However, with neighborhood kids. I would like to have them two concerns here. First, if logon is just to do some online back to school to develop reading, wri@ng, social skills. work by the kids themselves, it is not delivering the classroom interac@on with other kids and the teacher. So it won't have the most important value. Second, if the schedule is too busy and very strict from Day 1, it will be hard for the parents to follow if the parent works full @me. I would suggest we start with a less frequent structured school day (e.g. 45 mins of online class led by the teacher each Monday morning at 10am) in the first month, then gradually move to a more frequent structured school day format (e.g. one online class in the morning and one in the ajernoon, repeat every day Mon to Fri at the same @me). In this way, parents can spend @me to help the kids to set up and get familiar with the format and rou@ne. Then the kids can handle the online classes by themselves. They will have interac@ons with classmates and teachers. Parent Echo Lake Kids need to be in school and have a rou@ne. Thank you for taking care of our kids. Elementary Parent Echo Lake La educación de mi hijo Elementary Parent Echo Lake Learning assistance from special educators. It took a Our child had great communica@ve teachers which made it a Elementary long @me to get this going but once it did it was good transi@on to online learning. The access to the bridges fantas@c, would love for it to con@nue over the And Newsela apps was a pain. Passwords only save on some summer. sights and not others so it lej mom having to be around to log in to certain pages. A streamlined one place would be beDer sop child can work on their own when parents have to go back to work.

359 Parent Echo Lake Less screen @me, in-person socializa@on, face-to-face Elementary with teacher. A teacher and a school schedule can mo@vate my child much more than I can. I might have to quit my job if there isn't a full school schedule in the fall. Parent Echo Lake Making sure my child is safe from contrac@ng COVID-19 Elementary at school. Geyng him back in class with a teacher and friends. He is starved for friendships:( Parent Echo Lake Making sure my kids are going to get the educa@on Nothing. Elementary that they need. As well of making sure their will be safe. Parent Echo Lake Making sure that the spread of virus can be contained If return to in-person school will be staggered, please Elementary and the health and safety of staff are considered in consider crea@ng a schedule that is consistent for the student making all these decisions. Hopefully the district has so that parents and families can also have a predictable planned how to assess children's competencies before schedule. implemen@ng any learning plans. It would be good if the curriculum can be adjusted to meet children where they are since structured learning was not really possible over the past few months. Parent Echo Lake More structure, live learning during the school day. Elementary Parent Echo Lake Most needed: Teacher based instruc@on for lessons Elementary and structured learning. Parent Echo Lake My child was already slightly behind during this school Elementary year, and I feel that the program in place did not adequately keep him mo@vated to con@nue working and therefore catch up and excel in school. My biggest fear is that he will s@ll be behind next year, at which point it will be even harder to catch up.

360 Parent Echo Lake My kids need to see other children, they need to leave Echo lake is amazing and our teachers have done an amazing Elementary the house , they need the special pa@ence they receive job through this crazy @me ! from our amazing teachers ! They do not want to learn academics from their parents they need their teachers and friends ! They need something to feel normal ! My child with an iep needs to work with his teachers to con@nue to grow and be challenged! My incoming 4th grade needs to work with his teacher and not his mom ! Parent Echo Lake My most important need is to know what the plan is I get this was hard and sudden but parents can’t have the Elementary for the fall so I know what to expect with how hard the burden of teaching, paren@ng and working. That doesn’t school year will be. Distance learning was a constant work well for anyone. Many parents are going to be having fight with my 5th/6th graders some model of going back to work poten@ally and if the kids are too young, they can’t be lej alone, what’s the expecta@on for parents and teaching? And where are these kids going to go? Luckily I have older elementary age kids going in to MS so parts of this was fine just based on their age but the aytude is def there. Please have clear guidelines and expecta@ons set forth for students and parents. Parent Echo Lake My most important needs are providing my kids with Whole class zoom did not work well for my children. Having Elementary stability and certainty. They are suffering from a lack of fewer than 10, preferably around 5, students per teacher in social interac@ons and elec@ve instruc@on so the zoom would have allowed them to contribute more, have increasing that part of their lives would be great as their ques@ons answered, and stay focused on the material at soon as it is safe to do so, but knowing what to expect hand. The @mes that my kids were able to virtually meet with and what is expected of them would be most beneficial their teachers one on one was wonderful! to them. That said, I think Shoreline School DIstrict has done an excellent job keeping students safe, healthy, engaged, and learning.

361 Parent Echo Lake My need for my child is a rigorous educa@on that is Elementary comparable to what was given before the closure. Ajer the closure, our family con@nued school with a curriculum, I prepared based on what she was learning before the closure. We had no problem facilita@ng a learning experience for our child. Once the terribly slow to start eLearning began my childs teacher did an excellent job at preparing lessons every day for her to work on and submit. He was very tech savvy and my daughter was engaged and learning every day. There were other kids in different classes that did not have the same experience we did. We were incredibly lucky to have such an engaged and prepared teacher. Parent Echo Lake My son has special needs and he was not served at all Elementary by the virtual learning offered. He is so behind now. He cannot do distance learning. Special needs kids rely on the services and supports provided by the school district and were completely lej out from the school closure plan. I am an essen@al worker so I HAVE to work. Him not being in school in the fall. Would have a significant nega@ve effect on my family.

362 Parent Echo Lake My son needs to go to school for in-person instruc@on, We've dealt with the distance learning these past months Elementary maybe not full-@me but part-@me would be thanks to his teachers hardwork and diligence. Their zoom significantly beDer than not at all. mtgs were produc@ve and helpful in keeping my son connected. However, nothing can replace the very valuable in-person instruc@on. I'm 100% for keeping kids and staff safe; and I also believe that, if everyone does their part, we can conduct in-person instruc@on at some level. We are seeing new prac@ces and protocols from around the world. We can do this too! These past few months, my son has done his best to complete assignments and engage but I'm concerned that the assignments don't all @e in together. The assignments are a bit random. For science one week he was asked to build a paper bridge. The following week, science pertained to the moon. These seem random, whereas under normal circumstances, an astrology unit may be introduced that covers a broader scope for example. Hope I'm making sense. Overall, I feel my son is ready for the next grade because his distance learning was only for a couple months. I'd be more worried if it was longer. He needs in-person @me. Thank you for taking our input into considera@on. Parent Echo Lake My special needs child would be unable to follow social Elementary distancing guidelines or succeed without assistance delivered in near contact. In addi@on, he could put others at risk due to behavior issues. I have not seen any discussion or plan on how to deal with ILS or SPED kids that already have difficul@es in the school environment. School involvement, socializa@on prac@ce, SLP and SPED assistance are very important to my child's success. Zoom was not successful at all for my child. Could access to special services be provided directly (coming into school by appointments with SLP or small group work facilitated by staff/instructors) while the bulk of other classwork be done through something like Kahn academy?

363 Parent Echo Lake My student needs to be able to socialize and have a Young children without preexis@ng condi@ons like my student Elementary structured school day. My family is healthy (we believe should be back to school this fall. That being said I DO think we might have had this virus earlier in the year) If we the staff are at the highest risk and precau@on for them can't get my student back on track next school year should be followed. I know not everyone can risk being they are going to fall behind educa@onally. I'm exposed so maybe it would be worth it to social distancing worried my student has lost a lot of @me this year and students who are higher risk? I don't think there will be a I'm hoping we can catch up for 2020. lot of success if students are forced to wear masks or be separated from their friends. Parent Echo Lake Needs to make sure that kids will be safe if they need Students need to be in a safe, comfortable environment for a Elementary to aDend school successful learning experience. Families need to be reassured that kids are also in a safe place when they are not at home. Parent Echo Lake Our child will be in kindergarten, and online learning Thank you guys for being flexible and hard-working in this Elementary has not been effec@ve for her. I think she needs the difficult @me structure of an in-person classroom with a formal set of learning objec@ves; and she needs the social aspect of school for her emo@onal and interpersonal development. Parent Echo Lake Our daughter misses social interac@on and in-person Please con@nue to follow the recommenda@ons of public Elementary instruc@on, but we will s@ck with remote learning un@l health experts. I know some folks are pushing for a full-@me it is safe to return. start in the fall, puyng convenience ahead of safety. Thanks for considering crea@ve solu@ons. Parent Echo Lake Our family does best with structure. This year it was As much as possible please provide a clear plan as soon as Elementary hard due to large gap of @me before structured seesaw possible so parents can plan for work schedules and childcare lesson plans started. I was overwhelmed and gave up needs. with the vague you can go to x y z sites to finds learning opportuni@es. Once we had seesaw it was much easier. Quizzes might be nice too to test comprehension and reten@on of materials. Parent Echo Lake Que haya una vacuna. Elementary Parent Echo Lake Que se ponga al corriente con todas las enseñansas Esperemos que inicien las clases regularmente para que los Elementary que pudo haber tenido alumnos no se atrasen mas . Gracias

364 Parent Echo Lake Safe learning. I would not feel comfortable or safe Elementary sending my child to any school or any in person program un@l there is proven effec@ve treatment and/ or a vaccine for the current pandemic. Parent Echo Lake Safety Virtual Learning did help my Kids Elementary Parent Echo Lake Safety and social interac@ons. I simply ask for a well organized system that the teachers buy Elementary into with some enthusiasm. I understand that this was an emergency but it was obvious that the school was not prepared. Parent Echo Lake Safety must be at the forefront Be prepared to make lots of adjustments, don’t assume , Elementary what works for some , will work for all . Must have lot’s of pa@ence, this is new for everyone. Parent Echo Lake Safety. If children return is there protocols in place for I would prefer hybrid of online and in class instruc@on to limit Elementary children who don't or can't keep on masks or socially class size and interac@ons. distance? Is the school faculty regularly being sani@zed? Has the water consistently been tested for lead, per protocol for protec@ng neurological health? Parent Echo Lake School reopened Elementary

365 Parent Echo Lake Sending out the weekly paper packets would have 1) It was stressful to bring my child to school prior to the Elementary greatly supported/assisted my student for home closure announced by Governor Jay Inslee, because I did not learning. If home learning con@nues into the Fall, this feel like there adequate safety precau@ons in place. There would be very helpful/important. This should be must be adequate safety precau@ons for students to return mailed out (not require pick-up at a par@cular to school, including precau@ons for cleaning/bathroom use, loca@on). I think that small group Zoom mee@ngs to lunch @me, recess, and classroom set-up (e.g. individual have discussion regarding the online learning would desks properly spaced), daily face masks, daily temperature have been extremely helpful! The class zoom mee@ngs checks and symptom screening, minimum of 3 days fever-free twice/week were helpful for my student to feel more before return to school, 14-day monitoring and stay home for connected to her teacher and classmates. However, a possible COVID-19 exposure, etc 2) Ajer the school closure, huge missing piece of learning is group discussion. it was several weeks before the communica@on and home learning lessons were really implemented. That first month or so of home closure was very confusing and difficult. I think more communica@on and home learning op@ons/assistance would have been helpful at that @me. Addi@onally, when both parents work, par@cularly for younger students - it is extremely difficult to work full @me at home and then also assist in the home learning. 3) We purchased a chromebook for our child to use at home, rather than to check one out from the school. However, the lesson plans were complicated enough that our child couldn't really do them on her own. This means that parents are responsible to contribute the same amount of @me as the students in order to get the assignments done. 4) We do not have a printer at home. I had requested paper packets, and the ini@al request indicated that there were not enough packets to be sent out. Eventually I requested another packet be mailed. I received the same "week 3" paper packet a total of 3 @mes, and ajer that gave up on geyng the paper packets. Due to a family members health concern, we did not want to drive to pick-up the paper packets. It would have been very helpful if the paper packets could have been sent out, by mail, on a weekly basis to assist with the home learning.

366 Parent Echo Lake Since my child will move on the Middle School a This is not easy, thank you for trying to make it work!! Elementary connec@on to a "room teacher" would be very helpful. Children need feedback from school for the work they do, then they will work hard. We struggle with random assignments, where you have too many choices and no outcome. Parent Echo Lake Single access point for all assignments, lectures, It’s was very difficult to navigate the remote learning Elementary readings, exercises and zoom details. experience in our household. With all the focus on screen- based learning, and we felt overwhelmed with all the informa@on coming at both parents and students as the “growing pains” of this transi@on played out. It was tough to know where to turn for answers, and we struggled to stay on top of the daily structured tasks with our 4th grader. Parent Echo Lake Social emo@onal support, Clear guides in one place We really enjoyed having SeeSaw, knowing that our child Elementary for lessons and supported material, we did not know could access and complete their assignment on their own most of the classes (art/music/PE/support material) was a huge help. I would have appreciated councilor check- were available to us un@l the last week. ins via email. Encouragement from the teacher and more communica@on from councilor for guidance on behavior and emo@onal support. Parent Echo Lake Social interac@on Our teacher, , was amazing! She was pa@ent, Elementary crea@ve, posi@ve, structured, flexible, encouraging, available, accessible. We could not have done it without her! Parent Echo Lake Social interac@on with other kids the same age. Elementary Parent Echo Lake Social skills and outdoor ac@vity Elementary Parent Echo Lake Socializa@on and teacher interac@on. Elementary Parent Echo Lake SPED interven@ons need to be addressed for at home Elementary learning. They were non existent over the past semester. Parent Echo Lake Speech language support I don’t think a child should wear a mask all day. I would Elementary rather have distant learning or homeschooling than having my child wear a mask for the @me he is in school.

367 Parent Echo Lake Speech,socializa@on math It’s really challenging to teach my child at home. Elementary Parent Echo Lake Spend @me with peers, socializa@on, peer learning, We need direc@on from the school so that we can react, Elementary community building. prepare and plan as a family. Right now with everything up in the air, the uncertainty creates anxiety that cascades into other facets of life as we are wai@ng to make decisions on work, finances, personal issues, family planning etc. Parent Echo Lake Structure Elementary Parent Echo Lake Suppor@ng the of emo@onal growth of the kids (in Email to parents without a way to open that email on the Elementary addi@on to the academic growth) kids' school-computer was challenging for them to following assignment links and the email instruc@ons ojen included more than what was available on google classroom. It would be helpful for the kids to have the weekly email into their computers to then be able to click/complete the links without switching b/w pla[orms. We were fortunately to have a full @me nanny to support the kids (as both parents worked over@me in healthcare during COVID-19) and would have really struggled as the kids could not do this independently. Overall-- the material was very well communicated (thank you to their amazing teachers!) but not allowing them to independently manage classroom work. Parent Echo Lake The biggest need is for her not to fall behind given the If distanced learning is going to happen in the fall, I would Elementary conclusion of this most recent school year. expect that the day be more structured and the workload be Transi@oning from elementary school to middle school higher than it was for the remainder of this year. My is huge, but now with the added possibility of some of daughter was done with her school work within 45 minutes the learning being distanced learning, it creates most days which is not acceptable. As a working parents in a another obstacle with mul@ple classes & teachers to single parent household, it was very difficult to manage the deal with next year. day when she was done with school work by 9:30 am and I had 6 more hours of work to accomplish. I was not happy with the delay in geyng started with the online learning either. I think it's beneficial for all parents to have a plan in place as soon as possible regarding next year so we can all make our plans accordingly.

368 Parent Echo Lake The most important need is for a safe and healthy Elementary environment for kids to return to that will keep them protected and out of harms way. Also, with half a year of no structured learning there is a lot they will be missing going into a new year. It’s important that there is some sort of compensa@on for the valuable informa@on lost. How will students be expected to advance to another level with no founda@on of the past basics? Parent Echo Lake This is a very general set of ques@ons for my 4 children. Please make home learning an op@on for everybody, even if Elementary Right now we are desperately lonely. My 9th grader is there are in-person classes available. While I think my depressed. She misses the theater and robo@cs clubs middle/high school students will be fine with masks and at school. We are very grateful that Shoreline SD social distancing at school, my elementary aged child will find decided to be flexible with assignments this spring. it difficult. Thanks for all your hard work making these difficult decisions. Parent Echo Lake To get back in the class rooms for the elementary I’d like to thank all the teachers for everything they did Elementary children. They need to be at school, not home on a online trying to teach the kids the best they could without computer. They need the instruc@on of a teacher in being in the classroom. And to all of us parents and person. And also to be able to socialize with other grandparents Who all of the sudden had to be teachers. It children their age. Their social skills are just as was hard for so many, but we all did our best. important as their academic skills. All of these kids were too isolated. I saw a lot of depression and anxiety especially in my elementary aged grandchildren. Some thing else needs to be done we can’t go on teaching this way. All of a sudden parents have to be teachers? A lot of parents aren’t cut out for that job. That’s why teachers go to school to become teachers. Parent Echo Lake To let my child fully prepared in this summer for the Elementary coming fall school year. Parent Echo Lake Transporte escolar , debido que vivimos, fuera del Las ges@ón de todo el personal de Echo lake Elementary Elementary área del distrito escolar y servicio de alimentación School, ha sido de gran ayuda para nuestra familia , me siento gratuito, ropa. Ú@les escolares. feliz de haber tenido mi hija estudiando en ese colegio , hubo mucho aprendizaje. Parent Echo Lake Wake up America Elementary

369 Parent Echo Lake We are thankfully doing well, although a bit anxious Seesaw was a wonderful tool in part. It allowed for nearly Elementary about the fall. The ques@on of how to manage work immediate feedback from the teachers, which my kids craved while homeschooling the kids looms large on the and loved. It was also a great way for the teacher to horizon. I guess at least we're all in it together. disseminate daily/weekly lessons and to share the burden of crea@ng curriculum and lessons. The one, strong caveat is that the tools embedded within Seesaw itself can be EXTREMELY frustra@ng to use, to the point where the kids would be in tears at @mes. In par@cular, the word processing/ typing feature is almost impossible to use and manipulate. The lessons that required students to move objects on the screen were also a bust. 85% of the @me and 95% of energy and pa@ence was drained by the not-so-simple act of moving objects, whereas the math problem or actual curriculum paled in the shadow of frustra@on. Parent Echo Lake We have a child in special educa@on. He has suffered a Elementary lot from the loss of the school year and the structure that that provides. On-line learning has created significant anxiety for him and our family and I don’t believe he has learned much in the past 3 months. Parent Echo Lake We live in a mul@genera@onal home. Our children’s Elementary exposure puts us at risk. We would like the ability to stay in our district/school without having to physically return un@l there is a vaccine. This means distance learning through the school. Parent Echo Lake We need more in-person or book / paper learning. I Elementary don't want my kids to be on screens the en@re day and they check out ajer watching lots of videos and zooms. We need clear schedules with an understanding of what they need to be learning by specific dates and a way to measure if they are geyng it or not. Parent Echo Lake We would like to see more live interac@ons with his Elementary classmates and teachers wether in the classroom or zoom seyng. We feel that this type of learning works best for him. Also would like for him to con@nue his one on one with a speech pathologist. Parent Echo Lake Elementary

370 Parent Echo Lake Face shields would possibly work beDer for younger kids. Elementary Face shields are quick and easy to clean. First graders need teachers to be able to see and hear students when learning to read. It's difficult to talk, hear, and understand through a mask. More @me will be spent helping kids keep their mask clean and helping them put on and take off. They might not even wear them properly. Face shields can be kept at school, labeled with names, and cleaned daily. Kids could also drink water through a straw and wouldn't have to worry about touching their mask by taking it off. Masks could then be required to and from the classrooms. Parent Echo Lake Keep up the good work!! Elementary Parent Echo Lake Teachers and students wearing masks for hours is not healthy. Elementary Returning to school under these condi@ons is not good. School must con@nue as distance learning under everything can return to normal and is safe. Parent Edwin PraD Early A safe and normal learning experience. Learning Center Parent Edwin PraD Early A safe place for my child to learn to socialize in a Good luck, these are hard choices. Learning Center classroom seyng. Predictably and structure for my preschooler to feel secure. Parent Edwin PraD Early Ability for our child to aDend school in the fall Learning Center Parent Edwin PraD Early Access to childcare so we can work Learning Center

371 Parent Edwin PraD Early As the parent of a preschooler, our experience has Please, please, please take into considera@on our Pre-K Learning Center been very different than students K-12. We receive students!!! Even this survey does not adequately reflect them no@fica@ons of posts from the teacher on SeeSaw, but in the way this survey was designed. They deserve an the content doesn't quite feel like it helps support the adequate educa@on in this @me just as our older learners. social emo@onal needs of my child. There hasn't been Their needs are very specific and they are most vulnerable to an effort to help us parents find a paDern or way to the lack or readiness for Kindergarten and a good start to keep our children learning for a daily or weekly their academic journey. I'm not concerned with my schedule. So much of what we get feels hands off, and preschooler needing to know academics (alphabet, colors, like the teacher is removed. We need more numbers), but what does concern me is the social emo@onal opportuni@es for check ins with the teacher(s) 1:1, development in our 3-5 years olds and with a lack of more Zoom circle @mes, more access to discussion interac@on with other kids, I fear they will be gravely behind among parents to support one another in how to do in this aspect. Also, please don't forget that we need equity long distance learning and social emo@onal for our neurodiverse students, those with special needs. My development with children at home. We need parent student has sensory needs, so please help equip teachers coaching, and opportuni@es for crea@ve ac@vi@es with tools to help us parents and students be successful with prompted by teachers (such as art ac@vi@es or music learning in this context. Lastly, please consider our poorest we can do with children). students whose needs are many and require equity and access. Thank you! Parent Edwin PraD Early Back to normal school rio@ng Home schooling is the most challenging event for me as Learning Center family this year, because I don’t know how much I helped my kids and if m good enough to do so. I have to go to work to make a living and I have to be my kids teacher at the same @me when they need me , that is a liDle bit change. For the kids , no socializing, no ac@vity, I hope things will get beDer and kid should go back to school this coming Fall will be the best for everyone. Parent Edwin PraD Early Balancing our desire for our son to have a community We appreciate the complexity of this situa@on. These are Learning Center and the excellent preschool experience her was geyng truly uncharted waters and we have been so pleased with the at EP with his safety. communica@on from the district. Thank you for all that you are doing. Parent Edwin PraD Early been healthy we have to always protect our family from covid-19. Learning Center Parent Edwin PraD Early Being able to trust the school environment is truly safe On-line school might be an op@on for pre-school kids as well. Learning Center for my child to return in the Fall. Parent Edwin PraD Early Childcare for kids under 5!!!! Learning Center

372 Parent Edwin PraD Early Childcare for my incoming preschooler is cri@cal. He Learning Center has been in daycare which has allowed our family to con@nue working. His sensory needs make having him home while we work impossible. He has many sensory needs and is a danger to himself if not supervised. We chose to apply with EP to access OT and SLP services, support from those providers are necessary for his development and safety. Distance learning is not an op@on for him. Parent Edwin PraD Early Clear safety measures to prevent sickness exposure Learning Center and spread. Parent Edwin PraD Early Consistent/the same day of schooling for my preacher Learning Center and 1st grader so I am able to work. Parent Edwin PraD Early Decision made and communicated on what school will Learning Center look like in the fall for planning purposes. I also hope younger kids are not required to wear masks. Parent Edwin PraD Early Decisions to be made so we have clear idea what I really hope kids don't have to wear masks as this will impact Learning Center school will look like in the fall to be able to plan for their excitement to return and a lot to ask of kids. work. Parent Edwin PraD Early Discipline and educa@on , also emo@onal support It is difficult for me teach her because she is going through a Learning Center because she recently received her baby sister . difficult situa@on trying to accept the new baby and some@mes she just don’t listens to me or ignore me . Parent Edwin PraD Early For my preschoolers, the most important thing is While we won the loDery for full-@me M-F preschool, we can Learning Center having in-person classes. While their learning is be somewhat flexible -- even par@al days, or par@al weeks important, I need child care coverage. Having them would be beDer for my family than all virtual care. home 24/7 is exhaus@ng, even though we love them a ton. Twin 3-year-olds who demand a lot of hands-on aDen@on and a 7-year-old who has some academic challenges, means that I've basically stopped working in order to manage their day-to-day ac@vi@es. We are lucky that I am self-employed and can ramp down and ramp up rela@vely easily, but that's not the situa@on for many families around us. Parent Edwin PraD Early For our child, he needs the socializa@on and interac@on For staff, daily screening would be more important than for Learning Center that kindergarten allows. children. Children bringing their own water boDles could help reduce drinking fountain usage.

373 Parent Edwin PraD Early For school to open in-person in some form this fall Lack of childcare is isola@ng for our child and interfering with Learning Center (whether it be half days or alterna@ng days), but some our ability to work. form. Parent Edwin PraD Early For this child- being with other children and playing. I know everyone was doing their best and appreciate it! This Learning Center (Preschool) Geyng ready for Kindergarten is hard on everyone. Parent Edwin PraD Early Geyng clear access to the specialized services my child Distance learning is very difficult for children with special Learning Center needs. Preferably in the classroom. needs. Especially the very young who mostly need socializing skills. Parent Edwin PraD Early Health and safety of my child and other students. Learning Center Flexible schedule with a balance of students’ need and working parents’ needs. Advance no@ce on decisions made re: transi@on back to school. Parent Edwin PraD Early Honestly, it’s equally important that my child be in We love our school district. I have 2 kids in special educa@on, Learning Center class, and safe from the virus. It’s a judgment call and we are very impressed with the programs and the for the end of summer, I think. Everyone wants to teachers/therapists. Our teachers really stepped up to a know in advance, but how can you? I think voicing challenge, this spring. They are among this city’s most predic@ons to the parents is helpful, though. Being valuable assets, and should be treated as such. prepared for a mask-wearing, sani@zed, socially- distanced class is a necessity. Parent Edwin PraD Early I need flexibility - she's just in preschool and I'd prefer Learning Center she not start un@l at least January, but s@ll get to aDend and have the teacher she needs.

374 Parent Edwin PraD Early I'm very concerned, having an incoming Learning Center kindergartener, about how difficult it will be to teach her school rou@nes and expecta@ons (from home) with her never having been in school before. How do you start those rou@nes from home without it just being a complete baDle all the @me? She won't understand the rou@nes in a normal at school day, so it will be hard to get her to fulfill the requirements since she's never experienced it before if at home. I'm also nervous about how my schedule as a full @me Shoreline teacher will align with her schedule as an incoming kindergartener and how/if we can coordinate @mes that are the same. I really feel like it's important for students to have at least some in person @me weekly with their teacher. I can't imagine, as a teacher and as a student, mee@ng my students/classmates online via Zoom and crea@ng a classroom community and culture from afar. Students and teachers alike need some sort of connec@on, even if it's not full @me, from the beginning. It was easier this year geyng our kids to do online work because we had already built a rela@onship and invested in the kids, but it will be hard to expect the same thing of kids without having met their teacher. There would be no buy in. I guess the top priority for me would be that kids are in person in school at some capacity in the fall. Parent Edwin PraD Early In person instruc@on We look forward to the school reopening! Learning Center Parent Edwin PraD Early In person therapy for special educa@on needs. We really hope we can go back to school!!! Learning Center Interac@on with peers for social skill building.

375 Parent Edwin PraD Early In terms of schools reopening. I would need it to be Learning Center safe and include careful and strict precau@ons, such as frequent hand washing, face masks, reduced class sizes, not allow parents and volunteers inside the building and contained classes. I would need my child to go back to school full @me and in person, to learn, socialize, and to allow me to go back to work. On line learning does not help with my needs. My child is in preschool. I've been spending all day with him and teaching him all I can. I try and limit his screen @me, so I have not taken advantage of the well prepared lessons his teacher arranged for him to view on line. Parent Edwin PraD Early In-person care, development and learning for our This is such a challenging situa@on and it’s hard to answer Learning Center preschooler. a lot of these ques@ons. What we can say without hesita@on is that at this @me we feel that the reward of being at school, socializing and learning outweighs the risk of COVID. Good luck naviga@ng this unique situa@on. We trust in you and wish you all the best in making these very difficult decisions to keep our children safe. Parent Edwin PraD Early Keeping my child safe. I think in person school teaching is very important, but how Learning Center do you expect to 1. to socially distance young kids especially Kindergarten/preschool, 2. How do you expect kids to wear face masks all day, it is extremely uncomfortable. Un@l there is a vaccine I don't think it is smart to send off kids to school. Parent Edwin PraD Early Kids need to be in school for socializa@on and so the Please open schools. The mental/emo@onal health of kids is Learning Center learning gap stops widening. If distance learning bigger than a possibility of becoming sick. con@nues, our most at-risk kids may never recover. Parent Edwin PraD Early My child is in the preschool program. She has done Thank-you!!!! Learning Center well with the program so far and I do not feel a lot of pressure and/or concern over her performance at this @me. I have not done a good job with par@cipa@ng with the emails, online opportuni@es,etc. (have struggled with it actually) but would like to improve on that so if we need to con@nue with the “at home†Parent Edwin PraD Early My child needs school. Distance learning is non Please open up. The kids need you guys and other kids. Learning Center existent. He needs other kids. Distance learning a disaster.

376 Parent Edwin PraD Early My child needs therapy services that can best happen Its impossible to expect parents to work full @me and meet Learning Center in person and in the school seyng. Staying home the full @me learning needs of their young students, longer will result in addi@onal regression. especially when you have more than one child and even more especially when one of those children has special educa@on needs. Parent Edwin PraD Early My child was geyng great support From her teacher The videos my child’s teacher and the ReadyRosie resources Learning Center and was geyng some special learning support as we have been so helpful for us to do at home and we have seen tried to work out if ADHD was a concern. Hoping to her con@nue to improve on key areas she was lagging behind pick up this support up again in the coming year as we on. Thank you for all the effort making and sending these. have not been able to hear any conclusions from learning support to take to her doctor. Parent Edwin PraD Early My child was in the special educa@on program this year I understand that it is difficult to monitor all Teacher/student Learning Center at Edwin PraD - my big concern is that at Edwin PraD an interac@ons - so much of that could not happen apart from a exclusive Special Ed class is only offered at the turning group zoom - but it was very detrimental to have all services 3 level and not beyond - since we missed most of this stop at the preschool age - especially given how important year I think a big challenge will be all the 3-4 year olds early interven@on is. We were lucky enough to be able to s@ll will need much more support to integrate into the connect to our private therapists - but not every family has mainstream classes. I would love to see an addi@onal that set-up or the means to pay for it. Such a huge equity year of a Special ED specific class for the 3-4 year olds issue. The school district needs to priori@ze kids with IEPs, at Edwin PraD. 504s, special ed, etc. These kids need school for them to succeed. Parent Edwin PraD Early my child, a preschooler, missed the social interac@on I know everyone is doing their best, with the health and Learning Center that came with school. and we missed the support for safety of the kids in mind. I appreciate it. his special needs. speech services and the in class experience Parent Edwin PraD Early My daughter is supposed to start preschool next year I would appreciate more communica@on from Edwin-PraD Learning Center at Edwin PraD. We do not have a back up plan if about the plans for next year. All we have heard is that preschool does not start. I am very concerned for her registra@on is on hold. star@ng kindergarten the following year, if she is not able to do some version of preschool. Parent Edwin PraD Early My kid is in special educa@on program. I want her to Learning Center have speech, fine moter and gross moter class. Parent Edwin PraD Early My kids are so liDle that we're doing just fine Learning Center

377 Parent Edwin PraD Early My preschooler really misses social interac@ons with Figuring out a plan is a huge undertaking. Thank you so much Learning Center his peers and teachers. However, the health and safety for all the work and though[ulness. of my son and his teachers are my first priority. I would be willing to con@nue to con@nue remote learning if it is the best op@on to take care of our community. Parent Edwin PraD Early My son is a late talker so I need a Speech Therapy for Learning Center him. Parent Edwin PraD Early My son is in preschool, so socializa@on is key. Learning Learning Center class structure to prepare for kindergarten. Parent Edwin PraD Early My special educa@on preschooler needs in-person Learning Center learning. Phone/video/zoom learning is not effec@ve, and is detrimental. Parent Edwin PraD Early My wife and I work full @me and with mul@ple children Learning Center in the house, we are not able to perform the lessons with our daughter. Parent Edwin PraD Early Need to be able to have speech therapy sessions. No Kids need to learn socializa@on. It is vital for development. Learning Center way my child can meet IEP goals by just checking in Other private preschools are looking at smaller class size with SLP during the week. op@ons and safety measures. Parent Edwin PraD Early Ongoing social/emo@onal guidance. Learning Center Parent Edwin PraD Early Our family NEEDS childcare. Our daughter aDends We love Edwin PraD and hope we don't have to look Learning Center Edwin PraD and was in the 10 hour program. In order elsewhere for childcare. The reason I put "somewhat for parents to go back to work we need to have some concerned" for most of my answers is because PraD already sort of childcare. Fortunately, with our jobs, there is has such great and safe guidelines for cleaning and washing some flexibility with the @mes we can work but we do hands and cleaning the room. Everything is posted on the need childcare throughout the week. classroom walls reminding staff, students and families of expecta@ons. I already feel so safe with my daughter being at PraD, I might not have had these answers if she had aDended another school. Parent Edwin PraD Early Preschool interac@on/childcare with extended care Thank you for all you do especially during this crazy @me. Learning Center op@ons maintained. Parent Edwin PraD Early Preschool is also childcare for us. Also that age group is Learning Center way too young for distance learning to be effec@ve and the social aspect at this age is irreplaceable.

378 Parent Edwin PraD Early Re-opening if proper social distancing and sani@zing Thank you for all your hard work during these unprecedented Learning Center measures are in place. Smaller classes. No adults/ @mes!! We appreciate all that you do! parents allowed to enter the facili@es un@l numbers of COVID cases are very low, I.e., less than 50 per day. Parent Edwin PraD Early Safety and a well thought out plan that is not rushed. Please consider leyng young 5 year olds with summer Learning Center Please don’t over do the technology but make lessons birthdays but who might make the kindergarten cut off stay meaningful. Vet the video lessons before they are for an “extra” year of preschool next year. This coming year posted and be mindful of how many parent emails are will be my June baby’s first full year of preschool (if it going out. Families are overwhelmed right now and happens) -which means we will likely hold him back so he can concerned about job security, health and safety. This is enter kindergarten at 6. It would be nice to have the op@on not the @me to try new apps with new passwords or to stay at Edwin PraD with longer or more days for that year. add extra zoom mee@ngs on to already maxed out families. Parent Edwin PraD Early Safety measures in place in our state/school district. I work in an ICU in SeaDle, WA. I work with Covid pa@ents and Learning Center adequate tes@ng, contact tracing, isola@on of humans I don't even have access to rou@ne tes@ng as a bedside when exposed. We do not have this in place at this caregiver. I don't feel comfortable sending my children into @me in our state and our country. The first wave isn't school with other children (? asymptoma@c transmission) We even over. The second wave will hit hard this fall/ do not have adequate safety measures in place to safely winter. reopen our state. It frightens me that school districts may aDempt in-person schooling next year. We will be keeping our child home. Parent Edwin PraD Early Social and emo@onal support. The idea of dividing the school day to am and pm is not going Learning Center to help me as single mom Who supports her family and it might cost me my job. Thank you for all your efforts! Parent Edwin PraD Early Social interac@on and emo@onal support are important Learning Center needs at this @me. Parent Edwin PraD Early Socializa@on; access to our OT/PT/SLP team Thanks for all you’re doing to make careful decisions in Learning Center this season. It’s an impossible situa@on in so many ways. Parent Edwin PraD Early Strong logic in determining safety. My responses only are determined by my situa@on, I do not Learning Center believe they should be considered for schools other than Preschool. Parent Edwin PraD Early Student health/safety related to COVID Impact of Learning Center irregular schedule on working families Communica@on about the plan ASAP so my family can plan accordingly Parent Edwin PraD Early Terapia de lenguaje. Para los niños de pre-escolar,. No tuvieron tableta. Yo tengo Learning Center 2 niños., uno de kÃ

379 Parent Edwin PraD Early The availability of appropriate cleaning measures. I feel that it is important to have a different process for Learning Center geyng early learning students checked into and out of class, both for health reasons and to be able to avoid the boDleneck if geyng through the hallways and building doors. Would like to see EPELC have parents sign in/out in courtyard like we did as a temporary process before school was out for last year vs. having everyone move throughout the school. Another benefit of this is it will get kids accustomed to lining up outdoors, which they will do in elementary school, so this is both prac@cal from a process standpoint as well as good prac@ce for kids. Parent Edwin PraD Early The most important need for my family and my student We appreciate the opportunity to par@cipate in this survey Learning Center is the ability to receive educa@on in the safest manner and hope that the district is truly inclusive in their planning possible. My student has life threatening health and that smart, scien@fic-based decisions will be made on condi@ons and based on her past health experiences, I behalf of students and staff. While social distancing and do not feel comfortable sending her to school or a disinfec@ng are effec@ve measures, we ask that flexibility and public place un@l a vaccine is available and widely personal choice in regards to safety are taken into used. Our hope is that the district is inclusive in their considera@on, especially considering some safety measures planning and that students and staff who physically are seem unrealis@c for young children to maintain (i.e. mask unable to aDend school will con@nue to have the wearing while at school). op@on to par@cipate safely from home. My child also receives special educa@on services and I feel it is essen@al for her to be able to con@nue to receive those from the safety of her home. I feel that parents and families who are up to the task of assis@ng their child’s learning from home should have the choice to do so and not be forced to withdraw their student from school. Parent Edwin PraD Early The op@on to facilitate learning from home and a With a high-risk household member, it is extremely important Learning Center proven vaccine that is required by the school district to that we have the choice to facilitate learning from home ensure a classroom seyng is safe. supported by the school district. Without it, we would need to find another way to accomplish this. Parent Edwin PraD Early The speech therapy is very important to us. Also there I think with increase hand washing and keeping people out of Learning Center has to be an all day op@on. working parents can’t the building the kids can aDend. I think they should try and shuffle kids around w half days keep them in masks but realize with preschoolers that can be hard. Distance learning for this age does not work

380 Parent Edwin PraD Early There was no virtual classroom offered to students. Or With the monthly cost, if it is virtual this fall, I believe the Learning Center I did not receive anything from his teacher. I know my price will need to be reassessed and/or reduced as they child wanted to sign on with his class like his older aren't physically in the classroom with other students. sibling did with their classroom. If there were flexible worksheets to turn in I believe it would be beneficial. I printed of "homework" because he wanted homework and wanted to learn and do zoom mee@ngs. Parent Edwin PraD Early This survey is for a child who did not aDend preschool Learning Center last year and will (hopefully) start at Edwin PraD in the fall. We are just excited for him to get some socializa@on. Parent Edwin PraD Early to know the plan for next year. My kids need to be in school next year with other kids for Learning Center their educa@onal, social, and emo@onal well-being. Parent Edwin PraD Early To understand that school will be open and help my I think it is beDer to have less classes everyday instead of Learning Center child to develop under normal schedule, otherwise flexible schedule for less days in a week with normal per day they will lose their english skills Parent Edwin PraD Early Understanding the schedule so I can start to plan for I shared this in my other survey, but forgot to add iden@fying Learning Center child care needs. informa@on: I am a private school administrator and have done extensive scheduling using a variety of models in prepara@on for next year. I have done this for my current school, and I am consul@ng with two other schools as well, all of which are PK-8 schools. If you think this experience could be useful, I would be happy to help.

Parent Edwin PraD Early We have an incoming preschooler with au@sm. Our Learning Center most pressing need is having him socialize with peers. We understand, however, that this may not be a reality or priority in a pandemic. Parent Edwin PraD Early Although my child was registered thru Edwin PraD he was Learning Center transported to Madrona K-12 for ASL Preschool. All answers pertain to the school and teachers there. Parent Edwin PraD Early I am more concerned about my preschool aged child going Learning Center back to school. It is harder for them to wash hands and not touch face. My second grader has beDer hygiene and would not be too concerned about her going back to school.

381 Parent Edwin PraD Early I am wondering if the preschool staff have considered Learning Center offering an outdoor preschool type model. It would eliminate a lot of the concerns with close contact. We would love an op@on like that even if it’s part @me. Parent Edwin PraD Early Preschooler definitely wanted to watch all videos sent by her Learning Center teacher, and would frequently ask if there were any "new ones" that we could watch together. The zoom mee@ngs with other students helped her feel less lonely for her classmates. Parent Edwin PraD Early We ended up finding a lot of our own ways to learn and Learning Center didn't engage with the school-provided content as much for that reason. But that was partly due to it being preschool. I have higher expecta@ons of making sure he's learning what's needed in kindergarten so he can progress as needed and be ready for first grade the following year! So we plan to try to follow what the school provides closely if there's home learning next year, as best we can. Though we hope for in- person learning at least part of each day! Parent Einstein Middle - In person learning in a class environment for my - Let's TRY it and see - I think in Washington we lead by School kiddo. Online learning just fell flat for her. example and follow the science. Even if it is on a rota@ng schedule with the core classes like Math and English, would be beDer than nothing, with distancing our kids. If Covid strikes at a higher rate again, we can scale back. I think flexibility and an alternate plan for those that need to stay home or want to for health reasons.... Though I trust in the system and will do whatever you think will work. Thank you for taking great care!

382 Parent Einstein Middle 1. Actual teaching/lectures - even if they are recorded. I am sure school will be tough in the fall. Kids want to learn School My 7th grader is learning math, science and social un@l they don’t. Unfortunately I have a kid like that right studies solely from slides with links to documents/ now. I have heard this from other parents too. Whatever reading. Occasionally there were videos that she had happens / please try to inspire teachers to bring the magic of to only watch for 5minutes per day because that was learning new things and ways of thinking to our students the free link? So, if she didn’t get it, she even when they are over 12! Please tell the teachers that couldn’t view again un@l tomorrow. She spent their nonchalant aytude about engagement only allows shy hours and hours staring at the computer not geyng kids to crawl further into themselves and/or the vapid pop very much. A 15 minute lecture could have saved her culture adored by 13 year olds. If school ends as we know it- so much @me and now she feels like learning is so hard teaching kids how to learn and a love of learning will be more and a tool. It is great she developed this new gij that important than specific skills. Showing interest, requiring everything you ever want to learn is in a book or in the par@cipa@on, providing feedback at minimum weekly for internet... but teaching by a good teacher is magic! 2. each student should be a requirement for any model that My 7th grader did not par@cipate in any zooms, fill out incorporates online learning. a survey (except the very first one), or turn in any homework the first 8 weeks! No one contacted her or me! I checked in at 5 weeks and we made a plan. I saw her ‘working’ and she wasn’t watching tv/gaming/ or sleeping. Ajer another couple weeks she s@ll hadn’t turned in anything and s@ll no one checked in to see what was going on. I finally emailed a couple teachers and asked what we should do? That was s@ll spoDy and felt preDy useless. There needs to be accountability and regular progress made weekly that parents don’t have to verify - because that is also an issue. 3. How can parents verify work? It is so hard to find across mul@ple pla[orms. Did you check canvas - yes. Is it turned in? Well, how can I tell? If is not graded - I can’t tell it is turned in. Then it is even worse via google classroom. Did you share it with your teacher? How do I know you did? Did they see it? Why isn’t it recorded? The quizzes were hard too- did you do it? How can I tell? These were all ques@ons I spent hours asking my angry teen. Please show me how this works - followed by dismissive teen behavior. If parents can’t figure it out EASILY how to check and re check and double recheck - then teachers have to do this follow up. 4. All online classes must follow same basic paDern. My kids classes math, science, 383 Parent Einstein Middle 1. Consistency in where/how middle school teachers Despite the challenges we discovered many benefits to School post assignments and communicate. The lack of schooling my ADHD student from home, namely flexibility in consistency resulted in delay/wasted @me while the schedule and reduced distrac@ons. Many opportuni@es clicking myriad links trying to find assignments (best for improve, but I feel we can be successful con@nuing school case) and tears and a complete emo@onal shut down from home in some way. by my student (worst case). 2. Flexibility in the schedule. 3. Occasional, required 1:1 with teachers. My student does not want to join Zoom calls and won’t admit when he needs help. An occasional required checkin with each teacher might help allow trust and a rela@onship to develop. Parent Einstein Middle 1. In person teacher led instruc@ons. 2. Full day of School teacher led schooling. Parent Einstein Middle 2 kids in two different schools- We need them to be in The delay in star@ng actual instruc@on this Spring was just School school the same days, Syre and Einstein. As a new unacceptable. Similar delays did not occur in districts in middle schooler the social programs will be impera@ve other states. There is just no reasonable excuse. If we need for my child. I know the kids will not socially distance to return to home instruc@on this Fall a delay of more than a themselves unless structure is in place to enforce it- few days would indicate a lack of leadership and foresight. such as scheduling and physically distancing. As a health care provider I feel it is reasonable for my 1st grader to have a bag for his mask in his cubby and to put on a mask whenever he leaves the classroom, but to leave the mask off in the classroom. All adults entering the classroom, except his teacher need to wear a mask. My first grader is just incapable of using a mask correctly for longer than short periods of @me. His behavior would lead to a high level of COVID on surfaces even if he had a mask on, if he had asymptoma@c disease. Middle schoolers are able to wear a mask at all @mes.

384 Parent Einstein Middle A clear guidance on what is expected of the students. Health should be the top priority for the students and staff. If School There was so much material available that my student it isn't safe to send students to school, they shouldn't be became overwhelmed early on, wasn't sure what to penalized for not aDending. If learning needs to be done focus on and in the end did very liDle. Too much from home, the students need a set rou@ne that holds them material leads to very liDle being accomplished. If accountable to do their schoolwork and supports them in distance learning is to be con@nued, the schoolwork their learning. With no set expecta@ons, students are not needs to be assigned in a manner that is manageable mo@vated to par@cipate via Zoom and easily get and that the students can get the support they need to disconnected and fall behind in schoolwork. Parents should learn the material. Middle school students don't want not be relied on to teach middle school and high school their parents teaching them, and learning from a students, as this model just doesn't work well given how computer just doesn't work for my student. She needs independent these students like to be from their parents. someone at the school guiding her through her work, seyng realis@c expecta@ons, and helping make sure she understand the material and what is due. Also, if nothing is graded and everything is op@onal then there is no mo@va@on to do any work. The students need to be held accountable to get work done and they need to be rewarded according to the effort they put in. Parent Einstein Middle A clear plan as soon as possible. 3 children at 3 My son in the past has suffered from terrible anxiety. New School different schools, and two parents that work full @me situa@ons are par@cularly stressful. The sooner we know the means that anything other than full @me in person plan and it is clear, we can prepare him for what his entrance school will take a huge amount of coordina@on for our into highschool will look like. family. Parent Einstein Middle A structured daily schedule for each class even if We are ok with home leaning IF there is more communica@on School it’s connec@ng on a zoom for a short @me with each from the teacher and a more structured school day I would teacher. love to have seen a daily zoom for each class to help students understand what they should be doing for that day. It was so confusing and every class was dons things a different way. So consistency would help a lot across the methods and structure Parent Einstein Middle A vaccine. I cannot imagine going back to school with I really enjoyed the Pride weekly zoom calls. She looked School flu and Coronavirus at the same @me. So many kids got forward to them weekly. Science assignments were a bit the flu last year. much in the beginning. And they must have math! I’m glad she had music because that’s something fun. Parent Einstein Middle Ability to work at own pace School

385 Parent Einstein Middle Accountability and structure School Parent Einstein Middle All assignments etc in same place on canvas. The School videos for math w examples etc were great. Flip teaching if in person. "Homework" watch video lesson, in class ask ques@ons do problems Parent Einstein Middle At least some in-person classroom learning, I feel high school students need on-site learning (at least School engagement from teacher. Social interac@on and par@ally) to help stay engaged, both with teachers and peers. school involvement. Parent Einstein Middle At the middle school I didn't feel like there was much School consistency. Because there were no grades given (except in high school classes) it was very hard for my child to stay mo@vated all quarter. When he didn't see grades go up he got frustrated and didn't want to keep working as hard. Also it was confusing and not clearly understood as to what exact assignments/lessons were due weekly. I felt like the high school had clearer expecta@ons for students than the middle school did. Also the Math department at Einstein seemed disjointed and staff expressed frustra@on with other staff at how modules were used. My child didn't have any required zooms so he never aDended any. I believe He only had a math and science weekly office hours you could aDend if you needed ques@ons answered. He refused because it wasn't expected of him. It was hard to mo@vate him to do work "just because it's good for you" it was a weird @me and I know we were all doing the best we could but as a parent it was definitely hard to mo@vate teenagers during this @me.

386 Parent Einstein Middle At this @me the biggest de-mo@vator for my student is The resources shared for 8th grade learning in March/April School that everyone gets a passing grade whether someone were insufficient for my student's learning. We used Khan tries their very best, or if they put very liDle effort into Academy to try to get my teen to keep up/get ahead with their work. It is difficult to mo@vate my student to math. In general, my student needs more challenge than work to his fullest capacity when he can do very liDle what was offered for the first 1.5 months (which was nothing) to get a passing grade. The pep talks from us and the un@l teachers were required to teach remotely. Even ajer teachers are not enough to overcome the great iner@a teachers began online lessons, I feel that my student was s@ll of geyng a passing grade from doing the minimal not challenged and I am concerned he is missing knowledge amount of work necessary. Same with flexible due that is needed in future years. dates or no scheduled classes (even infrequently). We both (parents) are fortunate that we are employed and that our 14 year old is able to stay at home by himself unsupervised during the day, but it would help to have group lessons at certain @mes (with the ability to catch up if missed) of the day so that there is a reason to get out of bed before 11am. I am not home to ins@ll this, and my partner works from home but is so busy that he cannot micromanage our teen to do this. If school "started" by 9 or 10am, that would at least provide more structure. Parent Einstein Middle Back to school. School Parent Einstein Middle Canvas did not consistently or accurately reflect my Einstein Middle School was a great School child's progress. Canvas was used inconsistently among communicator throughout with email messages and video my child's teachers making it difficult to ascertain how messages. That was so encouraging as well as so helpful to my child was progressing through the semester. It hear the direc@on the school would be taking during home would be helpful just to have an alert when learning academically. assignments are not turned in! I tried in the seyngs to make this happen at the begining of the school year, but couldn't find an op@on to select this. Parent Einstein Middle Challenging instruc@on in a safe environment. School

387 Parent Einstein Middle Child and teacher safety. Our elementary school student at Highland Terrace was easily School able to find and access lessons and there was a wide range of work to do. The video lessons worked well and the class mee@ngs and video check ins with then dean and counselor were great. The work for our 7th grader at Einstein was ojen busy work and was not accompanied by real teaching. The zoom mee@ngs lacked stricture and my child felt like it was up to them to teach themselves. Online class sessions or structured office huts are a must for next year. Parent Einstein Middle Children in the special educa@on need to have School structure expecta@ons. All the teachers need to work together on laying out the homework/classroom work in an easy to follow format.

388 Parent Einstein Middle Clarity on what will happen this coming school year so Virtual or remote learning has been working very well for our School we can plan accordingly. family. Our children have actually been able to complete their assignments and we beleive they are doing well. They have actually been able to spend @me learning extracuricular ac@vi@es in addi@on to the schools curriculm which we really feel is valuable also. For example, drajing, cooking, coding etc. There are several concerns we have about having our kids return to in person school... 1. We are very skep@cal about having to give our kids a covid vaccine that is being rushed at break neck speed. We are honestly more afraid of poten@al side effects rather than the covid 19. 2. Children don't have good hygiene prac@ces and its highly probably that even with social distancing, masks, hand sani@zers etc that the spread can be contained. 3. Wearing a mask all day is preDy rough. Basically breathing in the same air all day long probably isn't the greatest for you either. I think it will be hard for the younger kids to stay focused while having to wear masks, social distance, remember not to touch their faces, wash their hands etc. The learning in class might not be as efficient as it was before this covid crisis. I don't know if the students are being given the full/complete curriculum for a typical school year however if the curriculm has been lightened due to covid I think that the kids can handle more. Usually our kids finish their homework early and spend the rest of the day doing other things. It would be good if teachers could give the parents the curriculum in advance for example 6 months in advance. Parents can help their children to complete their homework and also start looking at future lessons to prepare beDer. We are not sure what the right answer is but we wanted to let you folks know that this remove learning has been working well and we would be fine if it con@nued next school year. Parent Einstein Middle Clear communica@on from teachers. Appropriate School lessons for moving forward w academic learning. Required work to create mo@va@on. In person learning.

389 Parent Einstein Middle Clear communica@on. So far it has been very good My daughter did okay with distance learning— she was not School both from the school district and our specific school. too bothered by the changes in her life and she was able to complete the assignments with reasonable support from me... but without the normal structure of school where new topics are reinforced, I don’t believe she will retain much of the informa@on. Thank you. Parent Einstein Middle Clear informa@on about what to expect in the fall. We opted not to check out a Chromebook in March, but if we School were going to do distance learning again next school year we would definitely want to check out a Chromebook. We had mul@ple students/parents sharing devices and it occasionally caused conflicts and forced someone to miss a Zoom session. Parent Einstein Middle Consistency and structure, no busy work, students can Consistency and structure and some kind of social interac@on School see through busy work. On line videos teaching for middle schoolers. curriculum such as math and science, so the child can understand the topics with some parent support. As a working parent I don’t want to watch every video or “research†Parent Einstein Middle Core classes:Math, Language & Science. Balance Thank you for your hard work. School between the classes is very important. An example is at Shorewood the science department did not follow the guide lines for learning and gave to much work. It was hard for students to keep up and took important @me of learning from their other classes. It’s important for the departments at the high school to standardize the work and work together. It’s important to have structure for the children to exceed. SeaDle Children’s offers good guidelines for how to help children learn during the epidemic. Parent Einstein Middle Daily Teacher assigned work to keep my children I realize this is new for everyone and family situa@ons and School focused and working towards state required goals. scenarios differ significantly, however I believe that kids are required to go to school and need to con@nue learning. Middle school and high school kids need to to be responsible and accountable with their learning and work to the best of their ability. Families who have unique situa@ons should have access to school resources as needed. Parent Einstein Middle Educa@on but being safe from Covid School

390 Parent Einstein Middle El conocimiento espiritual. En las escuelas no se Gracias por los seres maravillosos de luz que son ustedes, al School enseña esto (y no estoy hablando de religión). Si ser los educadores académicos de nuestros hijos. acentuamos esto como necesidad básica, los estudiantes entenderán con el alma lo que actualmente está sucediendo durante esta pandemia y al hacerlo, trabajaremos con los elementos humanos (amor, paz, sabidurà Parent Einstein Middle El estudio de mi hija Serà School Parent Einstein Middle Emo@onal support/socializing academic progress School Parent Einstein Middle Enough income to make sure we can stay in our house, School pay the bills, and buy food. Parent Einstein Middle Ensuring a safe atmosphere for my child to return to We are really hoping for a social distanced phased approach School school to ensure safety for all students and families if Covid stays same as now or increases prior to school star@ng. Parent Einstein Middle ensuring our student con@nues to get the needed for our 6th grader (going into 7th grade) it's been easier to School academic support. help create a daily schedule and curriculum for her to follow. with her progressing at her own pace, she's excelled in some areas, but likely needs help in other areas. Parent Einstein Middle Equity for all students. We need a plan that works for School *all* students, regardless of what their home life is like. We need school to equalize those experiences. The distance learning this semester did not do that. Parents who have to work, for example, are far less able to support their students' learning. We can't expect students to be responsible for the full set of ac@ons required to be ready to learn - and it takes parents hours out of the work day to try to do that. I need a teacher to teach my student - I cannot. I have teaching experience, but my child will not accept schooling from me - it is disastrous for my rela@onship with my child. I tried!

391 Parent Einstein Middle Every year since my kids started kindergarten, two Please have soap in the bathrooms. School weeks into school they get sick. The are generally sick and miss a lot of school. Last year they were par@cularly more sick than before with terrible coughs for almost two months, oct-nov. As soon as they get some @me off the get healthier And then a few weeks later they get sick again. This year they missed so much school that I was geyng complaints from the Einstein office. It is very hard for them to catch up on assignments and missed class especially if there is no online curriculum that is easy to understand, access and is engaging for the students. That was not my experience or their experience over the covid-19 break. I know that everyone was doing their best, but I do not want to set my kids up for failure if this 20-21 year does not plan out as “normal†Parent Einstein Middle Everything from wri@ng, math, speech therapy, OP, PT School Parent Einstein Middle Face to face learning School Parent Einstein Middle Face to face with instructors. Mandatory due dates and Very disappointed that no zoom classes were available for my School grading. Op@onal does not work. child. 3 kids in 3 different schools and expecta@ons, assignments, learning were all different. No consistency whatsoever among subjects. Some classes minimal, watch 1 video per week. Others daily assignments. Parent Einstein Middle fast internet and separate computers for each of my My 5th grader had a difficult @me focusing. Since she knew School kids. that the assignments weren't be graded, she didn't feel the need to finish anything. Some sort of accountability needs to occur next year. My students are extremely different. My 8th grader would finish a week's worth of assignments in one day and then take the rest of the week off. She is self-mo@vated and gets the work done. However, my fijh grader soon to be sixth grader, needs a rou@ne to follow that is provided by the school and not me. She needs to know that her classmates and herself are required to follow a rou@ne and required to turn in assignments. Otherwise, everything will be set aside and a struggle to finish.

392 Parent Einstein Middle Figuring out the best way to get the students back in - Extremely important to get the kids back into school for a School school full @me. full structured school day. - The remote learning didn't work very well since there was almost no teacher instruc@on. There needs to be more of a classroom feel with teacher instruc@on and working class @me where students can ask ques@ons. - There needs to be tests and quizzes so that students have checkpoints and grades, which helps the students focus more on their work. - The workload should be more like the standard workload to keep the students busy with there learning. Remote learning shouldn't feel like vaca@on. - Athle@cs are important to many students and help with geyng the kids together in an environment outside of the classroom. - Many of the students probably missed all the socializing before/ajer school, on the bus and at lunch. This is important so the students don't feel so isolated. Parent Einstein Middle First, I'm looking forward to a consistent in person plan This survey was a liDle difficult to fill out for an 8th grader. School for the fall (just give the parents a heads up). Daily Some teachers were great and others not so much. Some would be ideal but I'm assuming it will be an every teachers had assignments that were easy to find and others other day kind of plan. My child prefers live videos vs not so much. Hopefully my child will address this in their taped videos so maybe the kids at home that day can survey. watch live? Second, I truly hope athle@cs and ac@vi@es are able to happen even if in a reduced capacity. It would be great for the kids. Last, I'm not overly concerned. It looks like the coronavirus is here to stay un@l we get a vaccine so if we can keep it on a slow path through the state we can almost stay ahead of it. I'm not sure on how to handle a posi@ve test in the school besides keeping the child and anyone who came in close contact away for 14 days. Parent Einstein Middle Flexibility on distance learning - meaning parents/ I would like to know more about schools' plan on keeping School guardians have op@ons on selec@ng distance learning students safe with knowingly it is difficult to enforce them to even schools are opened wear mask (not even men@on wearing it properly) and frequent hand wash

393 Parent Einstein Middle Flexible remote learning modules and assignments that Wearing masks in class seems safe but almost impossible to School my student (age 11) can do on her own @me and at her maintain and enforce. I think fixed classes and rota@ng own pace. For an in-person program, her primary teachers might be safer. Students switching classrooms seems needs are #1 math instruc@on and prac@ce; #2 physical risky. I hope the school PTAs can be involved, perhaps they ac@vity (PE / recess); #3 a science program. We need should suspend other PTA programs next year, and focus a “learning loss†solely on providing PPE and whatever else is needed for a safer learning environment. It seems absolutely cri@cal to me to invest in the training and addi@onal medical staff needed for COVID-19 tes@ng for any students and staff that come to school with symptoms aligning with the disease. Asking one teacher to run both a in-person and distance learning program for a split class seems like an impossible task, so remote learning students need to have a dedicated program and instructor. Parent Einstein Middle For my child that is under an IEP, he really needs that I think I about covered everything in the last ques@on. I School one on one @me. It was really hard for my husband and appreciate everything you've done to help us through this I to be able to do this while also working full @me. We strange and trying @me. I know that we will learn from this did carve out 2 hours a day - we each took an hour to and we will grow from this and so if next year has to be help him. The rest of the @me, he had to do things on remote again, we will know what works and what doesn't. his own. Some@mes that was successful but some@mes not. My older two going into 8th grade next year did beDer but slacked off the last couple weeks and we had to push them to finish and I ojen wonder if we pushed too hard. I guess it would be helpful to know what to focus on and what not to for all three of my kids. They just learn beDer in the classroom. I hope that there can be some form of in person teaching in the fall. And the same with socializa@on - my kids, especially, are just beDer with in person socializa@on than through zoom. I think we are all are, honestly! I do have to remark also on the strong need if we have to do this again in the fall is to have some uniformity on where kids need to go for schoolwork and to make it as user friendly as possible. Even the adult had a hard @me trying to figure out what exactly needed to be done.

394 Parent Einstein Middle For my children to return to a regular school day. Middle school students need social interac@on. Their School emo@ons are growing and their bodies are changing. They need to see this is normal. They need a regular school day, including changing classes, @me geyng to classes as this teaches them @me management. They need cafeterias and bus rides. They need sports ac@vi@es and homecoming assemblies. They need the experiences that memories are made of. Being taught to fear that they aren't safe at school is harmful if handled inappropriately. Families need to know that Shoreline School District can teach via video as well as in person and get schools fully running with that video op@on. Parent Einstein Middle For my children to return to school, especially those in School high school Parent Einstein Middle For the District to project manage this. Shoreline has Do not nego@ate over next years calendar, it is a permissive School done terrible job with all this. I’ve aDempted to subject. Do what is best for students, which is to get back into interact with building administrators, central school somehow administra@on & board. Only half of my students teachers even tried. You have all goDen full paychecks & completely abandoned the children of essen@al healthcare workers. Shame on you. Parent Einstein Middle For the fall it would be really helpful to have more My daughter really appreciated the zoom choir classes with School direct connec@on with teachers and other students. If . It was difficult for my child to maintain was difficult for my child to maintain mo@va@on mo@va@on for learning when the district was releasing without the social aspects of school. general resources but there was no connec@on with her teachers. Personal connec@on seems to be a very important aspect of schooling for my child. Parent Einstein Middle Get back in school with a live teacher. School Parent Einstein Middle Get kids back in school with more work. Too many long School emails about how much you miss the kids. Give them lessons and work to do please! Parent Einstein Middle Geyng my child back in school seyng School Parent Einstein Middle Geyng my daughter back to school to learn with School friends

395 Parent Einstein Middle Geyng my kid to be able to do homework and be able School to turn it in Parent Einstein Middle Geyng my kids back in school this fall. Enough is The amount of communica@on I received this spring, for 3 School enough, these kids cannot learn at home with a parent kids in 3 schools was WAY TOO MUCH!! I never got a true who has to work full @me and can barely support understanding from what was requited for my kids to do b/c them. there was way too much communica@on going around with liDle to no guidance. The only teacher that excelled at their job this spring was , she did a great job of supplying the right amount of communica@on and homework for my 2nd grader to work on. And she sent short emails that were comprehensive and stated exactly what was needed. Middle school communica@on was a disaster and Kindergarten was a joke....talk about making a parent feel completely incompetent in suppor@ng their kid. I have never been so frustrated with the schools. I realize this was unprecedented for everyone involved but only 1 of my 3 kids teachers got it right. Feels like the district didn’t support their staff enough and gave them no guidance with the varying amount of communica@on (too much from most) that came from the schools. Parent Einstein Middle geyng the kids back in school to learn in person. Thank you for the dedica@on to the kids. I know it wasnt easy School to get it up and going. We survived, but it definitely required changes to one of our work schedule. I would very much like a set school day even if only half @me. Set days would allow us to work with some consistency. Parent Einstein Middle Geyng the kids out of the house, going back to work. If remote learning is part of the plan for the fall, it would be School great if parents had unfeDered access to homework assignments. My student's 5th grade teacher placed homework assignments in Google Classroom, which I didn't have access to, so it was difficult to monitor how much my student was keeping up (or not). So, I hope Einstein con@nues to use Canvas, and allows parents access. Or, if homework assignments/schedules are sent out via email, it would be great to have parents cc'd (this wouldn't be necessary for my 9th grader, but my 6th grader will need all the supervision he can get.)

396 Parent Einstein Middle Grading criteria School Parent Einstein Middle Having the teachers engage with my child and provide Instead of just providing homework only, need to give School guidance, direc@ons, and teach. lectures and guidance. Also review and grade homework, quizzes, and tests. Make the child accountable so he knows how he did. Parent Einstein Middle Health and safety are probably our top concerns. We are fortunate in that this child has generally done well in School school and that seemed to con@nue with home learning. He was able to ‘socialize’ much more than my younger two kids via things like Discord chayng, etc which helped him feel more connected and less alone. My teenager was also able to sleep in more - which is important for his age group - and start his day a liDle later. As far as distance learning went, it would have been nice to have a liDle more feedback from teachers on what he did turn in. Very clear expecta@ons, due dates, mee@ng @mes (made available to students AND parents) would be very helpful as my child is not the most organized kid - something we are working on that is s@ll a struggle... This was easier with some teachers and a liDle harder with others. I think some flexibility in things like access to lessons, etc is also important as we have three students at home (next fall they will be in 9th, 6th and 3rd grade). District transporta@on sounds like a health risk and yet if our kids are expected to go to school in the fall, I don’t see how we would be able to get them to and from their 3 different schools each day on our own. Parent Einstein Middle Health and safety of my student and the enforcement Home learning didn't work for my student. It wasn't taken as School of wearing masks. The school needs to enforce the seriously as if she had been in class with a teacher. She really mask wearing and hand-washing and other measures needs in person instruc@on, either in class or via Zoom (and to prevent the spread of the virus. If the kids are on Zoom she needs to know she will not pass if she's not supposed to wear masks then the kids need to be present). Having a Chrome notebook from the school was a wearing masks. Kids should be sent home if they are huge benefit, but she didn't know how to access her email or not wearing masks. There needs to be strict guidelines classes ajer it was turned in. and quick enforcement of the health safety rules or I will not be comfortable sending my child to school.

397 Parent Einstein Middle Healthy and safe environment. In-person learning. How about a system where students clean the classroom School Elec@ve class, ac@vi@es, and exercise. Meet with ajer every class? Wipe the desks, use hand sani@zer, etc friends. Wear masks. Parent Einstein Middle Help dealing with stress and anxiety. Social/emo@onal School learning incorporated into curriculum. Parent Einstein Middle Hi, I appreciate you asking these ques@ons. I think if we I like the idea of a staggered school week for my middle School had access to clearer expecta@ons from the teachers school student. I think if there are 2 days of in person contact about the daily schedule, my child would have been with teachers, we could do a lot more with the online able to do more. I had trouble loca@ng the learning materials and self-directed study at home on the other days. tools and was rarely aware of what the content was on It was just too easy for my kid to avoid engaging through any par@cular week. This is not a complaint; actually Zoom while I had to work. But maybe if the parents could be my apprecia@on for how essen@al the daily rou@ne of a in occasional Zoom mee@ngs with the teacher and child, we school day, and the mul@ple, small daily encounters could be beDer partners in the educa@on plan. p.s. When I with teachers was for my child's well being has suggested mandatory quaran@ne for those exposed to increased a lot. I was not able to recreate it at home COVID-19 in an earlier ques@on, I am thinking there would with Canvas. have to be a good reason to suspect exposure, such as contact tracing, or being on a team where par@cipants were in close contact with someone who tested posi@ve. It is more important to me to avoid discrimina@on than manda@ng exclusions from school. Parent Einstein Middle Higher expecta@ons from the teachers to the students. Would like to see videos online so that kids can access it School Grades instead of pass fail, so that kids show when it works for them for learning, and can view it mul@ple accountability and will want to do their best @mes. Then a zoom call a couple days later for ques@ons and issues. Also zoom calls that are consistent or at the same @me as their scheduled class. Different @mes each week is too hard for kids to keep track of. Parent Einstein Middle I appreciated how my elementary age daughters School teacher sent out 1 weekly email that outlined all assignments that included links for the week on the Monday of the week. This helped up determine planning.

398 Parent Einstein Middle I could not be less afraid of this virus. For myself, my Regarding what I think about the educa@on my child received School family or my child. It is a social engineering experiment from the Shoreline School District? I don't know if I could and, in my view, we are failing miserably. Without have been more disappointed with what occurred with this authority needing to, we have willingly given away our shut down. It took 5(?) weeks for the Shoreline School district own civil rights. I expect more for my child’s life to get ANY form of school work to our middle schoolers??? then hiding behind a mask for fear of catching Then we got office hours and NO scheduled classes that our something or, God forbid, because we are too afraid to child had to be a part of. I know that there were other go against the poli@cally correct narra@ve. They are schools that were up and running the week ajer the shut separa@ng us. They are dividing us between mask down and they had classes throughout the day that they had wearers or not. More poli@cal separa@on, more racial to aDend. I cannot believe that never happened for our division. They are making us hide our faces, our smiles, kids at Einstein. It was death by equity. Un@l it was 100% our tears from one another. Social distancing has been equitable, then Shoreline would educate NO CHILDREN a complete disaster for all of us, whether you realize it during lockdown. That is a failure in leadership. That is a or not. The idea of separa@ng our children at school, failure in communica@on. You have completely lost my forcing them to wear masks, keeping them confidence that you ARE A STAND FOR OUR CHILDREN. You “penned†were too busy trying not to offend anyone and cowering in the corner from a virus that has a death rate of .00016 in our state. So I don’t want to see our children in masks. I don't want to see our teachers in masks. I cannot hear people in masks and I am certain it will be hard for our children to learn with someone wearing a mask. I don't want to see you trying to keep our kids 6 feet away from each other. With stupid lines and arrows direc@ng them to walk this way and that. To me, it is 100% absurd. It was already militant enough and now you are going to have someone yelling at the kids all day not to touch each other, wash their hands a 1000 @mes a day and spray down with a toxic bleach cleaner? No thank you. We can do so much beDer than this. However, we need crea@ve leadership in challenging @mes, not tow- the-line poli@cal correctness. I realize the chances of my child not being a mask are slim to none at this point. Just be aware of every consession we/you make. If you think that that will be it, it won’t go any further, you are wrong. It only stops un@l we make up our minds we’ve had enough and decide we want something different then what has been forced on us.

399 Parent Einstein Middle I didn’t know what ‘school’ my student was Shared above. School doing. She was usually done in one hour or less. There was very liDle progress in learning. It felt like busy work mainly with the excep@on of Spanish which was definitely learning. Couldn’t they have been assigned books to read? Research projects? A Zoom with students asked to present? We would be open to any sort of educa@on in the fall that inspires a passion of learning. There are so many great teachers at Einstein. Let’s experience that! Parent Einstein Middle I feel that my child needs real instruc@on. If we have to School con@nue home schooling in the fall the teachers need to at a minimum record weekly video instruc@on for the students that include; a short lesson, homework assignment and how to turn in the assignment. The assignments should also be on a fillable form for kids that don't have access to a printer or scanner. Giving assignments without instruc@on is not teaching. Parent Einstein Middle I feel the socio-emo@onal devasta@on to kids right now I am completely against the wearing of masks. This is School being displaced from their learning communi@es is the another threat to social and emo@onal learning. As well, biggest crisis that children face. The response to simple daily screening of temperatures along with a COVID19 does not match the risk and therefore the symptoms ques@onaire can manage any new incoming cases. collateral damage (with school being one of those) is I own 2 natural health care clinics and this has worked unnecessary and more detrimental. Our kids need successfully for 3 months. to be in school with their peers and learning in person from teachers. On line educa@on will not suffice for an acceptable subs@tute and our students will fall behind not only in academics but social/emo@onal growth. This has been a serious hardship for our family with 2 full @me working parents who could not fully contribute to their learning. Parent Einstein Middle I have to work and cannot support my child during the Some teachers were fantas@c during the closure. Others were School day. While she is capable of connec@ng on zoom prac@cally MIA. I know this fall will be beDer, but a minimum without me, new programs may be more challenging. I expecta@on should be set for teachers. need her teachers to connect with her and make sure she is keeping up, engaging, learning.

400 Parent Einstein Middle I need beDer understanding of what the academic Please have teachers providing more instruc@on and lessons School expecta@ons are for my child. The parent version of than to the lowest common denominator. There should be Canvas is useless. Not only does it give me no opportunity for the students to be challenged. informa@on on what assignments are due, but I am also unable to view the teacher feedback. I only see the overall grade. I want the parent version to reflect the student version, and I am unclear as to why it doesn't. I have a good kid who is trustworthy and responsible, but who is s@ll learning to manage her @me. I understand giving kids room to manage themselves. However, to have no ability to even see what was expected, accomplished, and unfinished, completely hamstrung me and my spouse for helping her to understand how to set her calendar to manage her projects, especially in the distance learning model. This is par@cularly egregious as there are no parent/ teacher conferences for at least a once/semester touching base around helping my child to fully develop as an independent manager of her @me and efforts. And it was much worse in the distance learning model. In addi@on, the @me of the Zoom mee@ngs that teachers hosted seemed to move around from week to week, making it difficult for her and us to keep track of when she should join a class. We have our own mee@ng schedules to manage, and with trying to work our own jobs remotely, it was difficult. Standing mee@ng @mes would be much more manageable.

401 Parent Einstein Middle I need my kids to learn directly from their teachers, I cannot be my child's teacher and parent at the same @me. It School having real-@me interac@on with teachers AND peers. has put immense pressure and stress on me as a single mom Video lessons and regular zoom mee@ngs for each to work full @me, and also navigate home schooling for my class/subject are a MUST. Maybe the zoom mee@ngs kids. I don't have the relevant knowledge to teach them their can be recorded for those who cannot make it to the lessons, so it's adding a lot of @me for me to try to learn the scheduled @mes? I also need to have my kids be able material first before I can help them know what to do. They to find, follow and manage their own school work and are geyng as frustrated as I am, and in the end, liDle deadlines online, just like they would be doing at progress has been made. Both of my kids fell behind. This has school. They need to have a clear understanding of been especially challenging for my son who has an IEP. He what each assignment is, and if not, they need to be needs to have accommoda@ons made for his assignments able to ask their teacher directly for help....maybe somehow...either extended due dates or assignments geared breakout sessions within a zoom for small group work? toward his specific needs and challenges with dyslexia, And if there will be a modified in-person aDendance execu@ve func@on and organiza@on skills. plan, it would be great to have a firm schedule for both at school, and at home. Parent Einstein Middle I need someone to know that finding and accessing School work using canvas was horribly frustra@ng and a major roadblock to turning any work in on @me. Each teacher u@lized canvas in completely different ways which made the process of figuring out daily tasks a literal shot in the dark. I was constantly checking canvas to make sure I wasn't missing anything. It was stressful and anxiety inducing. Parent Einstein Middle I need to make sure that she is where she is supposed This has changed kids in many different ways, as far as mine School to be accademically, She has always been very bright & what I have no@ced the most is the withdrawal & can catch up with work very easily, she tends to excel in disinterested she has been in the school work or even in many subjects (with math being an excep@on) but now things she usually enjoys. I think we need to come up with she does not seem engaged or have the eagerness she a crea@ve way of making it work & you need to have the used to have before the changes that came with the inputs of parents and students in order for you to make the pandemic. I need for her feel comfortable going back decisions that will impact US ALL specially the STUDENTS. to school & for us to be sure she will be safe doing so, but I have NOT seen one ques@on here asking for our preferable on a part @me bases & maybe not opinions on how & what types of implements WE think necessarily in Sept. I need for her to be able to catch would work best. You need to take us in to account when up on everything missed, but most important I NEED deciding so I hope we will see another ques@onnaire Soon HER TO BE SAFE!...If it isn't safe to go back I can't have asking for our opinions & or Ideas on what can work & how her there & will need to figure something out but her to make it work! Thanks...... safety is PRIORITY.

402 Parent Einstein Middle I recognize many are concerned, but many are not School concerned and we keep learning more about the disease and its spread. Those that are more concerned should be able to be limited, but many who are less concerned (not taking care of at-risk people at home, etc.) should be able to par@cipate. Parent Einstein Middle I think if there has to be online learning there should Using one online distance learning pla[orm for our en@re School be actual lessons, provided at a specific @me that are district would make it easier for parents (I.e., canvas, recorded so students can review. This would replicate blackboard). While google classroom was good for group an actual classroom, just virtual. Online learning like projects it does not have the features programs like system line canvas would be more appropriate for canvas have. There really needs to be more con@nuity online learning, as students and parents would be able throughout our district. to see what is due as well as receive feedback from their teachers. Parent Einstein Middle I think it's really important that students are in person, It's really important that ALL students are in school, and School in school from day one. They need to build priori@zing one grade over another just isn't fair. Teens need rela@onships with their teachers and peers (and school, to be in school as much as kindergarteners. All students since my son is star@ng high school in the fall) before need to build rela@onships with their teachers and peers. they can do online learning. The reason online worked We'd love to see sports be able to happen, even if they look at all in the spring was because students and teachers very different than in the past. already had that rela@onship. In the 6 weeks that Shoreline did the district-wide learning, there wasn't much buy-in because my son wasn't being taught by a teacher he knew. Students need a schedule and accountability. They are definitely mo@vated by grades. Teens need a schedule and to know that someone cares about them and are genuine in their belief in what they can do.

403 Parent Einstein Middle I want Shoreline to be a leader in doing right by our I think this has been a massive over-reac@on in our state, School children. The state will be issuing all sorts of driven by the media and our governor. The facts are that regula@ons, most of them not scaled at all to the Covid-19 is SLIGHTLY more deadly than a bad flu season and "problem" of this virus. Just because other school our children have been hardly touched by the virus. Kids districts are making all sorts of new restric@ons does aren’t geyng it and the few that have are ok in a few not mean that we need to. Let’s be leaders in days. I think that puyng kids in masks is ridiculous. I also this, not simply following the herd. I don’t need think having teachers and staff in masks is equally absurd. ANY of these regula@ons to be in place to send him to What does having the en@re school in masks do to our school. In fact, I am much more likely to home school collec@ve psychology? We understand and communicate so should these restric@ons keep piling up. If you want much by using our faces! If you cover them up, how am I to put the well-being and educa@on of our children as supposed to really understand you (or the teachers)? Being paramount, then you will push back on the Governor in a mask inhibits oxygen flow to our brains. There is real about what is really op@mal for our children. I don’t science behind this claim. Keeping kids at a distance from agree that we need to test, vaccinate, or make them one another is not good for them either. There is real science wear masks. This is looking more like social engineering behind this claim as well. They need to be near each other for and less like an intelligent reac@on to a virus that has a myriad of mental health reasons. They are kids, for been blown out of all propor@on by a hysteria-crea@ng God’s sakes! media. Parent Einstein Middle If kids are going to be learning online next fall, please School make it easier for kids and parents to find the instruc@ons for class work, have some technology backing up your teachers and students, and keep your communica@on simple. I found it very difficult to find anything and it could have been much beDer organized with some technology. Parent Einstein Middle If remote learning con@nues in the fall, can it be made School mandatory to aDend zoom, and have graded work? It's extremely difficult to mo@vate a teenager when he knows it's "op@onal" and "doesn't affect his grade" It is also disheartening for him to log in to zoom and only have 4-5 classmates log in. Please, make it mandatory. Parent Einstein Middle If we do some kind of part @me, in-person school I School would prefer the focus to be on athle@cs, ac@vi@es, elec@ves and math. For any remote learning, I would hope for this to be organized and ready day one to minimize confusion and falling behind.

404 Parent Einstein Middle If we have home learning that the teachers put the My children do not do home learning unless we sit next to School homework in the same loca@on. So we don’t have them and walk them through it and we both work. to spend hours looking for it. Parent Einstein Middle If you read my answers about my soon-to-be high I think with a modified schedule (half in person/half at home) School schooler, they are vastly different from this survey. The to keep class sizes low, this can work. My only hope is that main reason is because of my daughter's teacher, kids could send in friend requests so that at least part of the . She was engaged, communica@ve, @me they can be with someone they are connected to in encouraging and organized. She communicated the class. This isola@on has been really hard on the kids and that same informa@on for parents and students so we were friend support is vital, especially for the 6th graders going to all on the same page. She had weekly Zoom mee@ngs a new school in the fall. Lastly, Would it be at all possible and other special @mes they would meet. She actually to provide a Covid test for each student and faculty the day came to each student's house at the end of school before school to make sure everyone is in the clear to start? I (well, front yard/socially distant) to say goodbye. This, understand that is a huge undertaking and expense, but and the fact that my daughter is wired very differently might save $ and @me in the long run. than my son, made all the difference. Parent Einstein Middle In class learning. Being social with his peers. In person School is an important part of childhood and adolescence. School learning with his teachers. The library. My son does not Please open our schools back up this fall. If people are too do well with online learning. He misses school. I fear if scared to send their children back let them home school. We things dont go back to normal our children will suffer need our teachers and our community to start healing greatly and have depression and isola@on issues. Parent Einstein Middle In classroom instruc@on School Parent Einstein Middle In person educa@on School Parent Einstein Middle In person instruc@on, at a bare minimum. School RecordedVideo lessons with actual lesson and instruc@on Parent Einstein Middle In person instruc@on. No instruc@on meant parents School had to become the teachers. Also, sports teams and the social interac@on that provides are cri@cal. Parent Einstein Middle in person school. do your job and educate! your online offerings taught nothing. why not school.every School day at the regular @mes via zoom? the kids learned nothing. Parent Einstein Middle In school learning and emo@onal support which School includes spending @me with friends. Parent Einstein Middle In-person, at-school, teacher instruc@on. School

405 Parent Einstein Middle Internet para que pueda hacer tareas y por supuesto Necesito que mi niño tenga plá@cas con sus maestros por School clases en là là Parent Einstein Middle Is he up to speed in math and other areas? When will we see how he did with the online work? School Parent Einstein Middle It seems that middle schoolers like my daughter most There seemed to be inequitable expecta@ons from various School need socializa@on and sports/ac@vi@es to keep them teachers. Half of the teachers checked in weekly and held healthy and ac@ve. For academics, a hybrid of in zoom mee@ngs, while the other half were very inconsistent in person and at home learning could easily be managed, their communica@ons and work expecta@ons. It's important because she is mo@vated. for all classes and teachers to communicate and make agreements on what the workload and communica@on parameters will be. Not hearing from one teacher for a couple of weeks while have other teachers communicate and assign work mul@ple @mes per week affects the students and their learning. The personal connec@ons that some of the teachers made over zoom and over the phone made the biggest impact on my kids. Parent Einstein Middle Just being able to manage all four of our Shoreline Yes-- my student frequently had to come to my husband and I School school district students. It's a lot to manage. In most about ques@ons regarding his assignments. It would be great respects, our needs are limited. if the teachers would provide more detailed informa@on and address the issue that for some, just a video explaining an assignment may not be detailed enough for some to do the assignment. Please have them provide not only office hours for ques@ons, but also a way for them to *quickly* communicate with the teacher in the event of problems. Also, my child at Einstein had absolutely no Zoom classroom mee@ngs. I think having at least one per week per class (at least most of them) is ideal. Overall, limi@ng the online assignments is best. Parent Einstein Middle Keep the kids safe. Don't cave to the demands of School people who want to open schools/businesses up before it is safe to do so. Parent Einstein Middle Making sure that our school community stays safe and I'd like to see volunteer opportuni@es and ways for families to School connected during this outbreak, and that my son gets help one another, to maintain strong bonds and con@nue the skills he needs to succeed in high school next year. crea@ng opportuni@es for our children. Parent Einstein Middle Matemá@cas y lectura School

406 Parent Einstein Middle More consistent structure across each class ... each School teacher seems to be doing it their own way, using some of the same pla[orms and methods to track progress but mostly different. Some of the teachers were woefully unorganized. Some teachers took a VERY hands off approach. How hard is it to post a 10-15 minute video each day explaining the lesson, pos@ng the assignment and due date? Doesn't seem that difficult. Parent Einstein Middle More educa@on for my children! The leadership of school district and Einstein specifically School should be ashamed of their poor effort to educate the children during the state mandated quaran@ne. While other school districts had clear learning plans, a structured learning organiza@on, technologically capable delivery systems, Einstein failed to meet even the basic standards of educa@onal programs. Supposedly Shoreline has one of the best school districts in the state. Each @me the school district has asked for funding I have voted for it because I support public educa@on. I am so disappointed with the leadership of the district and the school that I believe the en@re administra@on should be replaced. I do not come to the conclusion lightly, but the shear scope of leadership failure must be addressed. I hope my experience this fall at Shorewood will be beDer, but if the district con@nues to deliver substandard learning I will move my children to a different school. Parent Einstein Middle Most important needs is for my child to learn in a Since I have 3 kids at 3 different schools they did not do the School classroom. best with online learning. I never stopped working and it was hard to ensure all three of my children were doing their school work. With having a young child my older children would help him and I just don’t feel he got what was needed to move onto 2nd grade. The teacher was amazing, but him not being in school was hard. You all are doing an amazing job and are truly appreciated!

407 Parent Einstein Middle My child feels very anxious about Zoom classes and School didn't do well during several of them. My child is a much beDer learner in person/in class. I feel more structured class @me would have the best benefit for my child. Parent Einstein Middle My child has medical needs and can’t risk being School exposed to COVID Parent Einstein Middle My child is preDy self mo@vated but it was really hard I also realize the best plans ojen have to turn on a dime and School to keep the mo@va@on level going. Some@mes she that we have to stay nimble and flexible. Thank you for seemed overwhelmed by how much was in weekly teaching our children I'm tremendously grateful! lesson plans but then not sure what to do each day. I want kids, teachers and families to stay healthy but peer interac@on is so important. We've always worked hard to put down devices, get outside, see friends face to face and that all went out the window. Hoping in earnest it will be safe enough for them to be in person, in masks, in the fall. Parent Einstein Middle My child needs some level of in person classes and School opportuni@es for socializa@on, but in the safest manner possible - social distancing with masks. I would support alterna@ve schedules or part of the week in school, part remote. Parent Einstein Middle My child needs structure and an easy guideline to Accessing classroom homework should be easy to find and School follow. Her needs to be held accountable for his work. consistent with all teachers. There shouldn't be so many op@ons to choose from when it comes to homework. Parent Einstein Middle My child needs to learn. There was almost no We moved to Shoreline for the schools. During these very School educa@on provided ajer in person classes were difficult @mes, other districts have been very proac@ve and suspended. No prep for middle school has been innova@ve in educa@ng their students. To say Shoreline has provided. been disappoin@ng is an understatement. My child has had the equivalent of one weeks work in the past 3 months. Mee@ng with her teacher once a week for 30 mins via zoom with 25 other students did NOT meet her (or any of the other students needs). The lack of planning and communica@on by is UNACCEPTABLE. She is ineffec@ve and needs to be replaced.

408 Parent Einstein Middle My child suffered greatly academically during this I appreciate that this is really hard to manage and you are School period. It took a long @me for his dad and I to realize doing your best. And, I think our kids' educa@on is going to that he wasn't really doing his work. Ajer that, we had con@nue to suffer without highly structured days and to do the planner for him every week and hold him teachers actually teaching if they have to be at home. Self- accountable to it. He needs structure! The flexible learning is not working. My children are in a privileged nature of the school day did not work for him. Neither situa@on. I'm even more concerned for those children from did just geyng modules of materials that he had to marginalized communi@es. I can't begin to imagine how their self-learn. The students need their teachers to teach at educa@on is suffering and yet they need the boost more than this level. Using Canvas was incredibly difficult. When anyone. I first went in to figure out what he needed to do, it took me an hour and a half to figure it out. Every teach put their assignments in different places. Some had each assignment individually outlined. I appreciated science being focused for two weeks, but we had to go into a three page presenta@on that was full of links that led to even more links. Despite weeks of going through Canvas with my son, he s@ll couldn't find some of his assignments. The teachers have to standardize their course presenta@on. My son has some execu@ve func@oning challenges, but should s@ll be able to figure out his classes on his own. They should be learning how to rely on themselves at this point, not their parents, and I honestly don't know that they can with the way Canvas was used. I am deeply concerned about how the students can stay safe in a stricty inside school (which is looks like Einstein will be) and having to pass on flights of stairs to get to class. I'm already seeing how liDle care students are taking with social distancing. It won't be long before COVID is spreading around the school. At the same @me, I know these students' educa@on is suffering due to not being in school and ac@vely taught. They are choosing what they want to do and not do, especially because their grades couldn't go down. I would be surprised if my son retained much, if anything. I'm most concerned about math as it is a cumula@ve subject.

409 Parent Einstein Middle My child very much missed in-class learning. He School struggled to do both in-class learning and homework in the @me suggested by the school (20 min per day). Having to do most of the homework on the computer is very distrac@ng to him, as it's easy to drij off subject with the distrac@ons available via the internet. Parent Einstein Middle My children are starved for social contact but I am s@ll I really like the Seesaw format for my younger child. He just School very concerned about the probability of teaching and completed 2nd grade and with seesaw the expecta@ons were maintaining good social distancing, sanita@on, and clear on what he needed to do to be on top of requirements mask use with younger students especially. I am and I could easily augment with Prodigy math games, restaurant manager and I can tell you it is arduous with reading, IXL, etc. This was not as clear with my older son who adults let alone with a class full of children. On the was in 5th grade with 6th grade HC math. Google classroom other hand, I am returning to work full @me and will was preDy clear to him but I never felt I had a real grasp on have a very difficult @me finding childcare that will also what was required. This was further complicated by the 6th accommodate two different ages of school curriculum grade math adding another zoom mee@ng and google as well as their general care not to men@on the high classroom to keep track of. Both my sons teachers cost for such care. Having them in the classroom at were WONDERFUL and I believe they did what least half @me, of course more if it can be done safely, they could under the circumstances but I wish there was would be best for my family. Also with the early start more structure and clear expecta@ons laid out for parents so @me for Einstein, busing is necessary since I work that we could easily track assignments. Perhaps some sort of nights and my other child will s@ll be at Echo Lake. If parents only google doc that could show completed tasks or there are not buses to Einstein from the Echo Lake even just some key points to ensure we are aware if our kids neighborhood drop off will be very difficult for me. are behind and if so where. Thank you. I know this isn't easy and I am grateful to have my kids in one of the very best school districts in the state. Parent Einstein Middle My children need to be in a classroom learning every School day whether it’s full or half days Parent Einstein Middle My daughter needs the structure and schedule of School school. At the same @me I do not want children to expose their parents, grandparents or teachers to this disease. Parent Einstein Middle My daughter thrives in a classroom with a teacher. She School also needs to be ac@ve and in sports ajer school and socializing with her peers!

410 Parent Einstein Middle My kid needs some level of accountability. He My kid really didn’t want to be on zoom- he’s shy and School didn’t do much because he thought it didn’t doesn’t like people looking at him. He struggled with not maDer. thinking these grades maDer and there wasn’t a lot of expecta@ons placed in him by his teachers. There were several teachers he didn’t communicate with during most of home learning. Parent Einstein Middle My kids spend lots of @me on computer watch movies School and yuDube. They started with the inten@on to do their school work but It is very easy for them to be distracted to look on the other sites like youtube. They had no structure, go to bed late and slept in.They refused to go to any zoom mee@ng because they are op@onal. There was no regular meals for them, ea@ng snack all day long. It is like pullling teeth to get them out for exercise or anything. This pandamic really turn them into screen monsters. I really wish school will provide more structures for students. Regularlly check in with teachers. Have dailly schedule. Zoom mee@ngs and homeworks are mandatory not op@onal. Kids knows they can do whatever they wanted because school and teach do not hold them accountable for their ac@on. I tried to help them and work with them to be more structure and spend more @me studying. But it was not efficient so I just had to give up for my own sanity Parent Einstein Middle My kids would Like all classes to use google classrooms School for consistency; they say it’s easier to use than other pla[orms Parent Einstein Middle My Middle School student is a learner with significant Just the above - thank you. School learning differences and has an IEP. He was unable to be an independent learner in the remote seyng. I am concerned how my work schedule, as a teacher at an independent school, will interface with his schedule and my ability to help him and keep up his learning. I am less concerned about grades, but want to con@nue his iden@ty as a learner and keep him from sliding backwards in content as well as maintain his stamina.

411 Parent Einstein Middle My most important needs are for my children to School receive adequate educa@on in person Parent Einstein Middle My most important needs are to ensure the health and I think the learning at home model is not sustainable for the School safety of my student. fall. Parent Einstein Middle My most important needs are to know that the newly School minted 6th grader middle schoolers are given an opportunity to get caught up on the skills prepara@on for actually being in middle school. I have seen my student backslide in organiza@on and generally keeping her life together. Parent Einstein Middle My needs are to have my son taught by professional School instructors. I have worked full at the hospital everyday through COVID restric@ons. I do not have the @me to teach my child, I am not home. I tried so hard, even changing parent custody to have someone with our child more than I could be. I tried wri@ng out assignments and calling on my breaks. I felt like such a failure that I gave up the last two weeks of school. My child needs support services and I felt the expecta@ons were beyond what my child could comprehend and self direct. I appreciate the teachers that really stepped up and reached out to help support both of us. I know this was unexpected and the schools did the best they could. Honestly if things are not structured and explained beDer, I will just not have my child par@cipate un@l school is back in session. Parent Einstein Middle My son has social anxiety in certain situa@ons. Staying School at home has given him a chance to relax the need to to be socially engaged which can, during these middle school years, take a lot of energy out of him. Staying at home has also increased his anxiety a bit as he is worried about contac@ng Covid 19. It may be beneficial for him to re-enter society in a controlled seyng with structured health/safety measures in place (the school) so that he can see that he can func@on in our society safely.

412 Parent Einstein Middle My son is a high-achieving 8th grader. As soon as he There were way too many emails from the district and School realized the work was going to be op@onal and not schools. We have 2 children in 2 different schools and it was affect his grade, he completely lost interest. He did the overwhelming to keep track of the school communica@on assignments only for the classes he enjoyed and felt while having both parents con@nuing to work at the same connected to the teachers (about 50%). Other classes @me, in an environment with uncertainty about employment. he completely ignored and did absolutely nothing. I I do not need any more emails from the school telling me need the school to have a clear plan for instruc@on and they miss my children, videos from the principal, or spirit hold students accountable for actually doing the work. weeks. I never watched or showed them any of these and it I very much appreciate the district's concern with was just extra work to sij through them and figure out what I equity, but there must be a beDer way to move actually needed to DO. forward with instruc@on besides essen@ally depriving the students of almost half a year of learning. Parent Einstein Middle My son is star@ng middle school and would need to School connect with his new school, teachers, and peers. Opportuni@es to socialize with peers and par@cipate in sports would help him. Parent Einstein Middle My son needs a more structured scheduled with strict The school district did as well as could be expected during School due dates. Flexible due dates causes to be lax in his this unexpected online learning but I feel the district could studies. More frequent contact and instruc@on from and should do beDer. My middle school kids didn’t have a his teachers would be more beneficial. lot of schoolwork to work on during this online learning period and not a lot of structured lessons to follow other than in math. Parent Einstein Middle My son needs help improving his social skills and I don't feel comfortable sending my son back to school un@l School increasing his circle of friends. He needs help with his there is a vaccine and would love to see the home studies be social pragma@c communica@on skills. available as an op@on un@l then. Parent Einstein Middle My son needs to be back at school with his friends and We will support being back at school 100%. School learning from his teachers. He needs athle@cs too. Parent Einstein Middle My son needs to go to school. Online stuff makes him School lazy. He doesn’t care his grade. It is frustra@ng to deal with it. I am not sure he is ready for studying at high school academic wise.(gonna be 9th).

413 Parent Einstein Middle My son was accepted to Avid. How will that be In a strange way, our son has been blessed by this @me home. School facilitated? Avid will be a priority for us and him to The one on one teaching has increased his educa@onal allow him to succeed in school. If we distance abili@es, his confidence and his desire. He was struggling in learning is the choice next year, I would hope the 7th grade with no idea on how to succeed. school has a much more robust educa@onal plan. We had to hire a tutor and supplement the coursework with addi@onal paid services to engage our son. Parent Einstein Middle My son will be entering middle school in the fall. He Thank you for everything you've done! School has ADHD and receives classroom/learning accommoda@ons through a 504 plan. He has struggled all school year, and fell even further behind with distance learning. The amount of school work assigned each day (especially in ELA) far exceeded the state guideline of 30 minutes per day. He requires a parent to sit with him all day to stay on task. I think that come fall, all students will need @me to acclimate to geyng "back to normal". My son, even more so. He is behind his peers socially/emo@onally, struggling academically, and about to enter a new school. We will need really clear communica@on about the tasks, expecta@ons, process/procedures, deadlines, and access to grades on a consistent and @mely manner will be cri@cal. Parent Einstein Middle Need beDer support and structure for my child. He School needs the structure of the day and assignments. I found the websites very very hard to navigate. I would prefer the learning site be easier to navigate and find. I have found it really hard to find things some@mes. Parent Einstein Middle Needs to be in school taught in person by teachers, School and around her social group of peers and friends for posi@ve mental health! Parent Einstein Middle One on one support with the teachers by Zoom or School other virtual means if some home schooling will happen.

414 Parent Einstein Middle Our 8th grader did very well in her classes this year and The district and buildings must really get a handle on School mostly adapted to distance learning without issue. Our communica@on, specifically all the emails. Parents working biggest issue with her was geyng her comfortable with full @me have their personal and work inboxes to contend asking ques@ons to clarify things with her teachers. with; the exponen@al explosion of messages that we received She's fiercely independent but not always the best self- between March and June this year honestly made us numb to advocate - she doesn't want us in her business but and the informa@on we were geyng. Emails with overlapping and won't take our advice or guidance readily when she's incomplete informa@on that have to be sijed to find anything struggling. Thankfully, however, with Einstein on - while you're also answering work emails, siyng in countless Canvas, we could see outstanding assignments and work Zooms, arguing with kids about what they are supposed received copies of her teachers' emails describing work to be doing - is crazy-making. When - not if - we are forced and assignments. Countless emails...but at least we to go into distance learning again in the fall, the district had them. Ideally, the LMS would be used as a true should limit its separate emails and coordinate with principals LMS - emails would STOP and all communica@on would to combine messages. Messages should come at regular go there, a daily/weekly rou@ne would be established, intervals (as much as possible), be short, direct, and clear, and everyone could rely on looking in ONE DIRECTION ideally poin@ng to websites (the same website for the same for everything. Our 6th grader has behavioral issues thing, i.e., the district website, the school building website, and a new 504 this spring. At Syre, distance learning the LMS/class learning website, etc.) where pages can be was awful. I understand that distance learning isn't updated as needed and accessed universally. In other words, something the building or even district has invested in if we miss an email, it shouldn't maDer: we should be able to much in the past (I agree there are other priori@es and find the informa@on posted on the website/LMS. And it has done well historically by focusing on those), websites should be well-organized with new informa@on however this caught them - par@cularly the elementary posted to the tops of pages and older informa@on retained schools - fla[ooted in their emergency response to the below. Finally, please assume that we will be forced to go pandemic. The elementary spent countless weeks into distance learning again and invest in your learning impercep@bly progressing from providing some links, management systems. Please learn from 'what worked, what providing the same links with passwords (?!), links + didn't' feedback here and prepare accordingly. As always, you star@ng class Zooms that were mostly social hour, are serving the needs of all students - and now more than recorded instruc@on and finally, ajer lots of urging ever, you will be serving the needs of their families, too. You from parents, a daily list of *suggested* links and will almost be assured success by planning for the worst case ac@vi@es and weekly a checklist. All while we baDled scenario; planning for 'what we always do' is going to be a daily, all day long, to get our 6th grader to DO anything certain route to failure. that wasn't explicitly required. She saw that what they were doing was busy work, that no learning was taking place, that it was all prac@ce and that our explaining things wasn't like the teacher did it. The policy of non- grading was a huge disservice to her commitment to school. We have hope that middle school will be part of the change she needs to reengage with school - that the ability to get out of a one-teacher small, sta@c 415 Parent Einstein Middle Our son needs to be in school every day, even if it is My son struggled with online learning. He has ADHD (and yes School just half day, to get instruc@on and to begin working on on meds) and got frustrated and/or shut down very easily. the assignments. That way if he has ques@ons, he may Lots of "head buyng" with parents over work. Most pressing ask. Then students can finish assignments at home. He is the need for him to be in the classroom at least half day. I needs the structure of aDending school. worry that with him being home while his father and I are away at work, he won't be able to sustain learning. I ended up hiring my older daughter to "tutor" him this spring so he would finish his work while I worked from home. Not many families have this opportunity. Unfortunately for him, she will be away at college in the fall, leaving no one home to hold him accountable for his learning. This will impact his learning in a nega@ve way and will then impact the following year (8th grade). Parent Einstein Middle Para mi hija fue muy difà Como mencione anteriormente para mi hija y para mi fue School muy difà Parent Einstein Middle Para-educator should be able to work to help special The district should Let the teachers do their work! School Ed teacher load and actually provide material that is useful. Teachers worked so hard on special Ed but we could use only 10% Parent Einstein Middle Parent is high risk for Covid-19 so reducing poten@al School exposure of all family members is very important. Parent Einstein Middle Parents need access to Google Classroom No See above. School expecta@ons and grades completely ruined this year. My kid gave up, correctly observing the lack of standards and consequences. When we tried to enforce standards she used her teachers against us to prove that standards and expecta@ons were a myth. Shameful lack of communica@on, assistance, and effort by most of her teachers. We felt abandoned.

416 Parent Einstein Middle Predictability in what the school year is going to look If there is to be remote learning in the fall there needs to be School like. I know that we have no idea what the situa@on is more interac@ve teaching. There may be some students that going to be like in the fall. But there is enough can learn completely through videos and wriDen assignments informa@on to put together plans A, B, and C that will but some student need to be taught. There was very liDle be implemented based on the condi@ons. Do this and interac@ve teaching where students could ask ques@ons and communicate it out to the parents so they have know good teachers could do what they are great at which is craj what to plan around. It's easier now to plan for 3 the delivery and message to the needs of the audience. I different possibili@es than it is to plan for one with only don't know what the answer is but 30 a person zoom mee@ng 3 weeks no@ce. is not it. Also, there was a huge burden put on parents this spring to become teachers. This worked OK for my student where I was an expert in the subject like Math. It failed where I was not like French. This is cri@cal at all levels. At the elementary level, many parents are not prepared to be able to teach basic reading and wri@ng skills with the latest methods. At the higher levels, parents are unlikely to be subject maDer experts in all subjects to effec@ve do the job of teaching. Please do not use age or different grouping like highly capable or special status like IEP's to determine where to priori@ze in person educa@on. I don't think there is any evidence that those groupings are a predictor of ability to remote learn well because of the factors of the individual layered with the availability and capability of the parents which can easily be a larger factor. Lastly, making remote assignments and teaching more uniformly structured would be helpful. Many assignments had teaching, prac@ce, and assignments mingled together. Clearly separa@ng each sec@on makes it easier for the student and the parents to decode how to work through the sheets. This is not an across the board cri@c. Some assignments were very good and easy to follow and some we had to spend 10 minutes going through trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to see back. Parent Einstein Middle Que aprenda el idioma inglés como segunda lengua Gracias por todo el apoyo ! :) School

417 Parent Einstein Middle Remote learning was disorganized and non cohesive. School Very difficult to understand how/where to find assignments and turn them in. Middle school students should only need to go to one website/source to find assignments and materials for ALL classes. More zoom classes are mandatory - kids need structured teacher led classes, not just videos and URL's. Remote learning has been very difficult. Needless to say, we are disappointed in Einstein's remote learning plan (or lack thereof) and execu@on. If remote learning is necessary in the fall, please be more prepared and have the teachers be more engaged. Parent Einstein Middle Required Zoom (Videos are second best but don't feel I know staff and teachers worked really hard to try and make School connected and emails are the 3rd valuable as educa@on and caring available to families. They did fairly well connec@on) from teachers are really important for under the circumstances. It's hard to care for your own mo@va@on families under major stressors and be a crea@ve teacher with technology. It was such a long @me to perservere for both staff and students and families. Well done. I'm sure the fall can be even beDer. :) Parent Einstein Middle Return to in person school in the Fall. My child is My child is at the age where social development is happening School entering 7th grade and needs the professional teachers and its important. When we walk by friends houses I think in her life to give her the educa@on she deserves. I am she has forgoDen how to have a conversa@on. There is a lot not a teacher and not sure what i can do beyond 7th of crucial development at this age. If students are not around grade workbooks to help her learn. their peers, it will have long term effects. Parent Einstein Middle Rou@ne and consistent, weekly teacher-led instruc@on. Thank you for puyng all this @me and energy into a whole School Preferably that can happen in the classroom, but if not, new model of learning! You didn't sign up for this either, and my daughter needs the accountability. If she returns to now COVID-19 has completely changed the way you do your school with flexible assignments and no grades, she jobs. Thank you for trying to keep our kids learning! doesn't push herself. Parent Einstein Middle safety be safe w offering an opening to school School

418 Parent Einstein Middle Safety from the virus in light of the second wave. If online again I think you guys can do a beDer job in making School Accountability in school work. Smaller classes lead by students accountable. Organize cohorts under the guidance one teacher to create a cohort, so rather than of a Pride teacher. I did not like how Canas was not managing 6 different Canvas sites for the student, the standardized, and each teacher did something totally one teacher can manage it for their cohort. different. My saving grace was . His emails helped keep us on track. My daughter needed accountability. All the personal reminders and emails from teachers were helpful! Parent Einstein Middle Safety of students and teachers. The more specific I hope for teacher led required lessons for learning new School structure, the beDer. Lots of math review needed. informa@on. High cap is so fast paced. My son was not good about u@lizing office hours to ask ques@ons. The middle school years need a lot of structure and I was terrible at it! I appreciate you! Parent Einstein Middle Safety. I'm high risk so want to make sure my child isn't School in danger of being exposed as it would be problema@c if I caught Covid. Parent Einstein Middle Same expecta@ons from all teachers. School Parent Einstein Middle School in person, full @me. Kids need socializa@on (!) See above. Strongly suggest in person school 5 days/week! School and structure. They need to be around other peers daily and in a school seyng for posi@ve development. Very important to con@nue as “normal†Parent Einstein Middle Social aspect and in-person learning. He did not engage School well with the online learning or zoom mee@ngs

419 Parent Einstein Middle Social interac@on with other students and with Our family had COVID-19 and based on our personal School teachers - The complete removal of all outside of experience the closure of school in the fall seems excessive. It family socializa@on for a student going through puberty should also be understood that our family was quaran@ned has been a complete disaster for us, and in talking with for 6 weeks in order to meet the 2 week quaran@ne ajer last other families, we are having a compara@vely good exposure to an individual because we had it successively. I experience. Structured plan and expecta@ons for expect this to be a typical situa@on for families. I strongly changes to the schedule - If school, extra events, etc. recommend making small cohorts of students that can need to change there needs to be a no@ce window. We socially interact with each other, but that limit the impact to we on our way to a concert when it was cancelled in the overall school situa@on when a student in a cohort is March, and this uncertainty persisted for over a week diagnosed with COVID-19. Even if the students have virtual as various ac@vi@es were cancelled with liDle warning. contact with their teachers at the middle school and high Consistent expecta@ons to focus on lessons and school level, I believe that the social interac@on and presence complete coursework across classes - The school in a learning environment will be a substan@al improvement district and many teachers expressed that some or all over home learning. I feel that home learning this spring work at home was op@onal. This presented us as was the equivalent of puyng students in a classroom, giving parents with having to exert a lot of pressure on our them laptops with YouTube, telling them that school work child to complete schoolwork that was not engaging was op@onal, then expec@ng them to engage in schoolwork. and was difficult to access. It took me about an hour a week to iden@fy the tasks available for my student to complete during a week ajer I was proficient with where each teacher was pos@ng informa@on on Canvas. The difficulty was in clearly iden@fying the lessons for the week and in verifying that they had accomplished the previous week's work. Consistent summary of lessons, due dates, and student grade / comple@ons of tasks across classes and an electronic calendar with pre-populated mee@ngs, tasks, and due dates. Parent Einstein Middle Socializa@on Learning games assist keeping them engaged. School

420 Parent Einstein Middle Socializa@on In class learning My child is prepared is some subjects but very unprepared in School others and probably unprepared for the transi@on to high school If there is online learning there needs to be support for kids that don’t do well in that arena even if they don’t have an IEP or 504 Plan It has to be some kind of support that is ac@ve, that reaches out to the student not the other way around. It is too easy for kids to disappear in the online learning world. It takes a toll on the parent/child rela@onship at a @me when the kids are trying to push away. Parent Einstein Middle Socializa@on! My younger kid is very ac@vi@es-based School with her friends - zoom mee@ngs don't cut it. She can't even focus on band prac@ce because there's no pay-off of playing with others. If middle-school clubs could get moved to online that would help, too, because at least there'd be a focused subject for the kids to engage around.

421 Parent Einstein Middle Some type of consistency in scheduling for 2020-2021 This was an incredible challenge and some teachers and School school year would help the students and the parents, administrators stepped up and made it work. Some teachers even if a hybrid model. Announcing what to expect by seemed like they mostly gave up and did the minimum the August would really help parents plan and cope. Very district required. More clarity and consistency was needed to concerned about subjects like math and foreign know what was needed and when it was due. Parents language that are cumula@ve and that our child is now couldn't access the Modules sec@on of Canvas. Each not well prepared for high school material. Adequately teacher posted assignments in different loca@ons (their preparing this en@re cohort of students for high school webpage, Canvas, via email) and that was hard to navigate for and college is a real worry. The social isola@on from both students and parents. Only a couple middle school friends is incredibly difficult; middle school is a very teachers made an aDempt to have an online class mee@ng, socially oriented age. Consider an extended school which was disappoin@ng to our student. Most of the year, and reduced week long breaks (par@cularly if 'resources' included in this survey were not offered by our we're back to 'stay at home' by winter and midwinter school. We had only the weekly emails from the Pride breaks). teacher, and Canvas, and emails to specific teachers when problems arose as 'resources'. It seemed en@rely on the kids to teach themselves the material via a list of 'to dos' and links. This was par@cularly difficult for math, science, and foreign language. While certainly not as cri@cal as for kids receiving special educa@on services, Hi-Cap is s@ll a service the district is mandated to provide. If 'home learning' or a hybrid model persists, the needs of Hi-Cap kids will have to be addressed in some manner for all kids to be educated in a manner that supports their learning needs. Parent Einstein Middle Some type of scheduled interac@on with other School students. Clear expecta@on seyng for classroom work, not just a list of things to do but an introduc@on of why and how and then a forum for discussion and accountability. Resources for tackling a reduced schedule or online learning in the fall. What are other parents doing? Are there ways to connect in small groups to alternate oversight across families. Make community pods where kids can interact regularly based on loca@on?

422 Parent Einstein Middle Staying alive. We are high risk and it scares us to I don't see why you cannot provide an online schooling School expose our child. program for students. This could be done in an 80/20 style where there may be one day or par@al day for the students to come to school in person. This would help reduce on-campus class sizes. The work could be clearly organized in weekly chunks with learning videos (Kahn Academy style) and specific homework criteria (which was hit and miss in this year's surprise rush). The in person-days can be to receive specific help, interact with the teachers, present oral reports, and any quizzes or tests required. Parent Einstein Middle Streamlined communica@on. While I selected email as The Canvas app does not allow access to actual submiDed School my preferred method, some@mes there are *so* many assignments, you have to log on to desktop to do that. I get that I do not know what to priori@ze, especially since emails that assignments are graded but cannot easily access this year I had students in two different schools. them from the app on my phone. In general it's just a grade average. Parent Einstein Middle Strict health protec@on @ll the pandemic is under School control. BeDer online learning system while being somewhat flexible with different family needs. Parent Einstein Middle Structure and accountability. School Parent Einstein Middle Structure and an expected regimen. The students need When .pdf files are used for assignments they should be School the structure of school and the ability to establish their fillable pdfs to facilitate electronic learning. own expecta@ons. Parent Einstein Middle Structure and consistency. There needs to be 100% believe the older students (junior high/HS) need in School consistency across the board on how lessons will be person instruc@on. Classes are harder and we need them taught, communicated, graded and basic expecta@ons. prepped for real life/college. Emo@onal well being is at risk at We ojen wouldn't be able to figure out where things older ages. They need to socialize and learn how to self- were posted etc. Most teachers took a different advocated. Class instruc@on will be more complicated and approach. study habits needs to be established. Parent Einstein Middle Structure for my child. Social and physical ac@vi@es. School

423 Parent Einstein Middle Structure. My kid has serious focus and organiza@on Thank you for all you are doing!!! I super appreciate all the School issues. It was too hard to figure out what each class district staff for the hard work they are doing! required in Canvas. Teachers need to be consistent in how they use Canvas -what's going to be under modules and under assignments. My kid struggles with organiza@on so his teachers need to be super organized for him. Due dates need to automa@cally feed over to the Canvas calendar. It has to be extremely clear what is required, by when, how to turn it in, and for what grade. Also an es@mated amount of @me it will take. At the same @me, things can't be so much that it is overwhelming. Lastly, even my child who gets As and does not have ADHD had an extremely difficult @me making himself do homework. My younger child with ADHD and other health issues - his teachers will need to be super structured and organized and yet flexible at the same @me. Some days work for school learning and some just don't and I don't always know what days those are going to be. Parent Einstein Middle structured days, strict deadlines and more structured School lessons

424 Parent Einstein Middle Structured learning goals and expecta@ons with face- Thank you!!!! We know you are trying so hard, and we School to-face @me with peers and teachers (whether it be via appreciate it. You have an impossibly difficult task. Mental zoom on in person at the school). Feedback from health-->I can't say this enough, this is a major concern; as teachers (to parents and students) about whether the much as Covid. It has been very difficult for us to keep up students are mee@ng those expecta@ons. Specifically, with our kids' educa@on. Two full @me demanding jobs (one are they turning in assignments and are the permanently home based, the other will be going back to the assignments complete? (We have a lot of trouble office by the fall) make it hard to be crea@ve and seek out monitoring this). How WELL they did on those relevant educa@onal lessons. (E.g. links to Kahn Academy assignments is of course the next level of feedback! were largely useless). We need direct clear lesson plans. Student mental health has been a big concern; 13 yo Kids felt a bit lost and were reluctant to pursue answers when girl has been very isolated, unwilling to connect with something was unclear--In this case, 'mandatory' zoom calls peers. would have been helpful--maybe a Friday recap so students would have a chance to review what they should have learned and figure out whether something was missed. (They won't call in for office hours because they don't know what ques@ons to ask...) Last: too many emails. I appreciate the informa@on, but it's just too much and we miss a lot (especially with kids at two schools last year; next year will be easier with just one school). Parent Einstein Middle Structured learning, @me managment, instruc@ons for was amazing during Covid. She School learning. There was very liDle assignments from the kept my child on task daily. He does well as long as he knows primary teacher, but the math teacher has daily what to do. He was very bored outside of math assignments. assignments which was great. My child didn’t have The zoom mee@ngs with the class really helped with the lack enough to do so far at home. He needs a full day of of socializing . I would be willing to make monthly assignments . contribu@ons to the PTSA in order to help with the costs of smaller classrooms And the safety of our community. I bet many families would be willing if this was asked of us.

425 Parent Einstein Middle Student interac@ng with other students and teachers There needs to be consistency on how assignments are School posted. They were all over the place. My child says we didn’t need to submit anything or I emailed it but it s@ll shows as missing in canvas. How can a parent be expected to help their kids submit all their work when there is no clear way to see this. If on line learning happens again the school needs to find a way to support all kids. It is easy for kids to fall behind and disappear in the virtual learning world. This includes kids that are not on 504 plans or IEPs. The suppport has to reach out to the child it has to be ac@ve support or kids won’t engage It has to be communicated that all work maDers. The talk that grades don’t maDer in middle school has to change. Too many @mes I have heard, “since it doesn’t count why should I do it”. Parents cannot be teachers nor should they be expected to be teachers. There needs to be ways for in person learning to happen to help students understand the work and what is expected. Maybe make it simpler and give less homework Parent Einstein Middle Students seeing their teachers and friends. School Parent Einstein Middle Students should stay home un@l there is a vaccine for In fall kids will be in danger if they have to go to school. At School Corona Virus and it is fully under control. home learning with internet is required. Parent Einstein Middle Supports for independent learning, with accountability. Interac@ve zoom mee@ngs and some choice built into the School Transparency regarding goals and deadlines to support weekly plan were helpful to keep kiddo on task and engaged. coaching ADHD kiddo in planning, @me management and task comple@on. Parent Einstein Middle Teacher led learning via zoom or in person. The Thanks to all Faculty and staff for your incredible effort this School teachers provide what books and videos can’t. I year. Everyone was so crea@ve and adapted so quickly! Kudos suggest break zoom content into smaller chunks more to all. ojen with focused singular content in each. Students are accustomed to geyng internet content this way. Parent Einstein Middle That everyone is able to follow public health guidelines I'm more worried about the health of teachers and families School (people with underlying health condi@ons) Parent Einstein Middle That my daughter learn subjects appropriate for her The lack of structure and discipline in our household was School age and the @mes. And experience the inspira@on a detrimental to our child's learning. We discovered we are teacher can provide. very dependent on school providing structure and discipline our child needs to advance her educa@on.

426 Parent Einstein Middle That my son has an aid to go to school next year b. School Parent Einstein Middle That the students return in building in a safe format. School Sports should be included for my child's mental health and socializa@on. Parent Einstein Middle The ability for students to stay connected. The one or I'm extremely concerned that my student (entering 6th School two @mes a week to connect with class was too grade) is ill-equipped to start in a virtual environment. I know limi@ng and the students barely interacted with each it's tough, but there needs to be beDer methods for keeping other. We also need beDer expecta@ons on deadlines parents in the loop about the curriculum goals and core on assignments. I felt it was so loose in the beginning rubrics needed for key lessons. that it was hard to get them to treat the weekly assignment bulle@ns (post Spring Break) with respect. Parent Einstein Middle The communica@on was almost non-existent. Communica@on and expecta@ons from the high school was School Assignments were considered "op@onal" which made it infinitely beDer than middle school. If home schooling extremely difficult to balance working from home and con@nues, the middle school needs to overhaul the current home schooling.There was very liDle structure and no methods. clear expecta@ons. In-person learning is cri@cal to the educa@on of our children and there are safety protocols that can be put in place to allow for safe in- person learning. Parent Einstein Middle The economy is not going to recover if we can’t go School back to work. My kid did all the work herself with very liDle input from me but with three of us all on Zoom, it was too difficult for me to monitor her while holding on to my own job. She ended up with a c plus in an elec@ve she wanted to take because the content did not translate well to online. Parent Einstein Middle The most important need for my incoming freshman is School that she is academically ready for Shorewood. We worked hard in the spring and will con@nue in the summer but I feel there is some learning that is done best in a classroom environment. They have missed out on some of that learning I hope my daughter is ready. I am fairly sure that teachers and administrators are just as worried about this one as I am.

427 Parent Einstein Middle The number one need, and most important to our Protec@on and cau@on are okay to a point, but the ac@ons School family, is to know that the kids will be back in the class can also have very detrimental affects long out las@ng any room in the fall and that we are not trying to protect virus. We cannot protect every child and every family as this 100% of everyone from 100% of everything. We is/will be handicap their futures, by not having in class work cannot let "Great" get in the way of "Good". with leaders and peers around them, the students miss out on: consterna@on over deadlines emo@onal challenges personal successes and failures as a single person and/or as a team. These are life building skills that go along with school educa@on, athle@cs, band, and other in school ac@vi@es. The kids need to go back to school. Parent Einstein Middle The safety of our children while this pandemic is s@ll School around the corner. Parent Einstein Middle There con@nue to be many unknowns with Covid-19 We so appreciate the District's transparent communica@on School and how the pandemic will move/grow in the Fall. Our during the Pandemic. We also have to share that our main request as a family is that the District is following and the teachers at Einstein Middle the Department of Health Guidelines to mi@gate School have been extraordinary during this @me of upheaval. spread. Our family believes in the importance of in- We are so fortunate to aDend Shoreline School District, With person learning and connec@on with the student gra@tude, community. We are hopeful that some form of in- person learning and community connec@on happens in the Fall. Should there need to be on-line learning as the primary form of teaching, we would encourage the use of Zoom/online mee@ngs so that the students and teachers may interact with one another. This of course requires access to a computer and to hotspots -- it only works if all have access and there is equity. Parent Einstein Middle Things to do at home, learning equiepment School

428 Parent Einstein Middle This was a total disaster for my middle school child. I am planning to send my daughter out of state to live with School The expecta@ons varied so much from class to class. rela@ves where she can go to school if we don't reopen. The communica@on and expecta@ons were so different. One message was preDy clear--"do what you can" and "it won't impact your grades." How mo@va@ng is that? So she didn't do really any of the work. Why would she? I couldn't bring myself to force her...because I had two other kids at home whose work I needed to help with, and my own full-@me teaching to do. Also, flexible due dates made this extra hard. I couldn't look at canvas and know what had been turned in and what hadn't yet because teachers didn't seem to be grading things right away...anyway, I hated every minute of this for my middle school child. Parent Einstein Middle To be able to do my own job and not have to I think you all did a wonderful job and am confident it will School administer the school day. con@nue to improve. Parent Einstein Middle To do what is best for my child, for their personal We understand the challenge and difficul@es of dealing with School growth, their socializa@on maturity and for their the educa@onal process during this most difficult of @mes. educa@onal needs and progress that will help them in And we know you all are doing the best you can. I just hope their future. we can figure it out so they do not become lost in their educa@onal development and that they get to fully enjoy the experience of their childhood. Parent Einstein Middle To give readings books and other entertainment staff This is my personal view if covid 19 concerns con@nue in the School to my daughter. fall I recommend to prac@ce to arrange a @me to meet students at least once in a week with their teachers to give them one week instruc@on and assignment based on the procedures of social distances , for example if Monday is for k6 Tuesday for k7 ...... this may help this students clear informa@on from the teachers and it helps them to see each other with other students and create mental balance and avoid stress due stay home schooling impacts. Parent Einstein Middle to have the kids go back to school. To have more I understand it has been a challenge for everyone but I felt School structure and accountability - no "Op@onal" homework like it was very disorganized and there was almost no learning for a month at the beginning of Covid and then the communica@on was very confusing as to what was due and when.

429 Parent Einstein Middle To know how the school is going to be in fall as soon as I think kids need to interact with other kids and teachers School possible. everyday basis even though physically they can't go to school. If they go to school a few days a week, other days should be a virtual live class by their own teachers. Self learning on their pace by their PC or watching pre-recorded video by unknown teachers are not effec@ve. Parent Einstein Middle To love one another and be cau@ous about COVID. On line classes don’t do well for my daughter. I hope and School pray that they get back to school in fall. Parent Einstein Middle To the extent possible, school needs to re-open. If it I understand that distance learning creates a burden for School can’t, and distance learning is needed, then teachers families that don’t have their own laptops or wifi networks and administrators need to take that seriously. for their children. At the same @me, the quality and standards ADendance needs to be required, the work load and of distance learning has to mirror what would be received in assignments need to mirror classroom learning as a classroom. Otherwise parents will start looking for a private much as possible, and there needs to be class specific school educa@on that can provide quality, online instruc@on (I or grade specific videos, not generic ones with no know of several families doing that now). accountability as to whether watched them or not, or whether the videos @ed to assignments. Make it school, in other words, and not day care for older kids. Parent Einstein Middle Transporta@on (if school is in person) and flexibility (if Thank you for your hard work on all of this!! School school is online). Both my husband and I are essen@al workers, long days—so we cannot transport. We can help with school, but not every day. Reduced volume of email is key for middle/high school, with so many different teachers and expecta@ons. Posted schedules +/- Canvas reminders of due dates would be ideal. Parent Einstein Middle Trying to work full @me and be a teacher has been very School hard. At @mes I can’t help with a lesson and it’s frustra@ng for us both. We did the best we could but I am not a teacher. Parent Einstein Middle Understanding the schedule is most important. If kids Small group, online learning worked the best for my kids. School will be alterna@ng in home and in school learning, the This structured allowed for more streamlined instruc@on than sooner we can plan our childcare, the beDer. the whole class zoom or requiring us parents to be aDen@ve during school hours. Our work schedules made parental support more challenging. The small group instruc@on seemed to be most effec@ve and takes less @me than independent learning or parental teaching.

430 Parent Einstein Middle Volver a las clases normales!! School Parent Einstein Middle Was hard to find assignments, they were not so in the It is extremely hard as a single mother to work and home School same place for each class school my two children. Parent Einstein Middle We are like most families, with a strong "wait and see" The emo@onal results of this @me are yet to be seen also. School outlook on the fall and beyond. With a second wave of Self-care and mental health need a spotlight. illness predicted, the fall is dicey as best. Nothing is for certain in school, our work, or social plans. Just like the liDle kids, if we can't act right, we'll be "sent to our rooms" again to shelter in place. We need some sort of social outlet for our daughter who is not feeling connected. We need to provide a real summer as much as possible and some fun--in whatever form we can safely have it. Parent Einstein Middle We need our children to be back in school. It was near School impossible to keep my kids mo@vated for homeschooling. I am also an essen@al worker and am trying to work full @me from home. This leaves me liDle to no @me to monitor my kids online learning. Addi@onally, my 3rd grader will be star@ng with shoreline school district for the first @me in the fall as a 3rd grader. I think it will be important for him to have in person learning so that he can socialize and build community with his new school. Thanks! Parent Einstein Middle We need to balance physical and mental health. A lot Online learning was average at best so I think kids need to be School of kids are not doing well emo@onally (they are wired in a classroom with in person learning. Middle schoolers were to be social) and the fear that is being created and the not instructed. They were told to read on their own and write focus purely on physical health is not wise. We are papers. They need to be taught, challenged and interact with whole people - body, mind and spirit. their teacher and one another. Without it, I fear it's not worth the @me or stress. Many don't go to "office hours". It's the rare teen that will proac@vely reach out. My husband and I both work full @me so I can't teach the subjects that the kids need to learn. I'd have to learn everything myself (again, and some@mes in a new way). I am really hoping kids go back to in person instruc@on.

431 Parent Einstein Middle we prefer virtual learning to protect elderly family, - the virtual learning wasn't very helpful for my son during School family with preexis@ng condi@ons, etc. un@l a vaccine is spring 2020; barely any zoom calls, liDle interac@on from ready students when there was instruc@on, very liDle instruc@on - more just handing out homework (leaving my son to struggle and google his way out), very liDle context to where they were in the year for coursework, what's coming next, what's important this week/day, etc. Lacking structure and guidance and interac@on, basically. Was very tough for my son. - I'd suggest forming pods of kids (eg 3 or 4) to go through virtual learning together whether the status quo if quaran@ning happens - this would help the kids to not feel as if they're on an island. - I'd also STRONGLY suggest that the school surveys the kids through the year (each month!) to gauge how they are doing, what's working, what's not, etc. Parent Einstein Middle We will have two kids transi@oning to Einstein in the Please con@nue to communicate. The sooner we have a plan, School fall (6th/7th grade). The most important thing for us is the beDer off we will be to prep our kids and set expecta@ons if there are alternate schedules, please have families (masks full @me, social distancing, etc.). They're very anxious on the same schedule as it impacts our produc@vity of what life holds for them in the fall. and ability to work. Also, it would be great for all kids to have iden@cal equipment (laptops, ipad, etc) for consistency. Our kids simply do beDer in person, distance learning is good for some but my kids are too easily distracted with two parents working from home! Parent Einstein Middle We would like to know what the school year will look My daughter needs the regular social interac@on of school School asap. even if it is in smaller groups and for less @me. Parent Einstein Middle Wearing masks, keeping environment sani@zed School

432 Parent Einstein Middle What worked for our family this season was having a School founda@on of trust between our son and his teachers as things shijed to home learning. He was able to take the home learning assignments seriously as he linked these to the fact that people he knew, his teachers, were asking him to complete them. These teachers also offered flexibility with assignment due dates when we had a family medical emergency. We are concerned that if our son doesn't have in-person access to his teachers at the beginning of the school year any assignments to be completed at home will feel less important to him. Shoreline Schools hires excellent student-centered teaching staff and our priority is for our son to have at least some in-person access to these folks as he begins high school.

433 Parent Einstein Middle Whatever it looks like in the fall, it cannot be what it U@lize larger spaces like the cafeteria and gym for social School was this spring. Period. To say the past few months distancing. Set up tents in outdoor spaces for other have been hell with my teen is to put it mildly. Most of classroom space. Have most classes meet in person 2-3 days his teachers had "office hours" for one, maybe two a week and the rest be remote to minimize the number of hours a week, most ojen early in the morning. There students in the school at a @me. Maybe have each class were no Zoom classes - a few of his teachers had liDle (9th/10th etc) divided into 2-4 "squads" and you only meet in class mee@ngs, but once he figured out these were just person with your squad (Mon/Wed group, Tues/Thurs group, chat sessions, he soon bailed. I had one teacher openly Wed/Frid group, Tues/Friday group etc). Let kids send in 5 dismiss me when we couldn't find the "turn in" buDon friends they want to be with in their squad (like summer for an assignment. I actually sent her a video of our camp) and guarantee to have at least 2 of the friends on their screen to show her it wasn't there. Her only response list in their squad. Use other spaces nearby like the was, "He knows how to do this." She never got that Richmond Highlands center for classroom space. Have PE assignment, nor seemed to no@ce that he stopped completely outside and mostly remote with exercise monitors turning in any work since that date. Addi@onally - and logs. Have elec@ves meet once a week in person, then every single teacher posted homework differently. on zoom 2 other days, the rest as remote project @me. Be Some were in Canvas, some in Google Classroom, some open to shijing the class @mes to later in the ajernoon. I had you make a copy of the work and post it in know you get into issues with Teacher contracts but classroom, some had him upload the file, some posted wondering if high school teachers might be open to a later it in "Modules" - it took us most of the spring to get start. Lastly - if it is largely remote in the fall - how about them all straight. If it has to be remote, why can't small group tutoring available so the kids could work on teachers simply teach their classes on Zoom (or other homework together? I could see a tutor mee@ng with 10 kids pla[orm) at the scheduled class @me? And if it is going at a space - they all bring their laptops and work on whatever to be remote, then can we start school later to be they need to get done. It's the good kind of peer pressure :). more in line with the normal biorhythms of teens, rather than at the mercy of organized sports? (We talk so much about equity, yet anyone who is not a jock has to start school far earlier than is healthy for teens because of sports. How is that equitable for all?) Most important need: My kid needs "live" instruc@on - whether that is actually in person or via zoom or a mix of the two.

434 Parent Einstein Middle With my child entering 9th grade in a new school I am concerned with how social distancing will work in the School where the student body is twice as big as middle schools but I do feel it's important that students are able to school, I believe it's important that there be some aDend school, in some form, at least 1-2 days/week for a few socializa@on amongst the high schoolers. It's an hours each day. I appreciate the school district taking @me en@rely new experience and students need to gain to figure out what's best for our students. I hope that they some familiarity within the school. I also believe there will take into considera@on the input from families. should be some in-person instruc@on and connec@on with teachers and staff. High school counts from day one and I feel that the 9th graders will fall behind quickly if there is only an online learning model and no in-person instruc@on and socializa@on. Parent Einstein Middle Workbooks/textbooks provided for math instruc@on. School Recorded lessons with worksheets child does at home. Worksheets/workbooks provided at child's local school, not satellite school. Parent Einstein Middle Zoom or video classroom instruc@on available for School replay. Parent Einstein Middle My child who is on the au@sm spectrum relies heavily on School peer interac@on and a para educator in the classroom. To understand the materials, boundaries, rules and structure, distance learning has made this impossible. Parent Einstein Middle If only learning occurs, would like a short lecture with break School out @mes to do homework with teachers available to answer ques@ons. Most middle school courses were given weekly, simply listed and minimal interac@on with teachers. Every teacher posted in different areas, crea@ng chaos and therefor poor par@cipa@on. There will be more buy in if you have clear expecta@ons

435 Parent Einstein Middle 1. My child could really have used more structure. He really School took advantage of the lenient school expecta@ons and his parents being busy at work to do as liDle learning as possible. I appreciate the school being flexible in this @me for families/ kids who need it. It would have been helpful for our family though if that informa@on was communicated to the parents rather than to the student. 2. There were too many different ways for teachers to give assignments. It was very difficult to understand what work was assigned, when it was due and whether he had turned it in. Some teachers sent email, some listed in one spot on canvas, some on another, and then there was the district site. It was a lot to check in all those places and then to organize it. Uniformity in distribu@ng materials and in marking them as completed would have been very helpful with clear guidelines to teachers, students and parents. 3. More actual instruc@on, less independent learning overall would have been helpful. There was a lack of example problems for complicated assignments such as balancing equa@ons in science. Parent Einstein Middle Different teachers had different approaches for upda@ng School Canvas, which was confusing for my child. If the teachers would post updates each in the same way and in the same place on Canvas, this should help make communica@on to the students easier and more consistent. Parent Einstein Middle Einstein teachers did the best they could considering the School circumstances. Canvas is a terrible format for schoolwork! The elementary teachers used Google classroom which was way easier for the students. Do not use canvas please! Parent Einstein Middle For high school students and middle school students, a strict School requirements is important to the home learn if it is the situa@on this fall. If the home learning and homework were not counted into grades, students would not deal with them seriously. If it have to be alterna@ve or AM, I think the alterna@ve is much beDer. Thank you.

436 Parent Einstein Middle For middle school we were told that students would be given School 20 minutes of work a day. My son ended up with much more than that. He is a slow careful worker but there were many days he was spending 3 hours per subject. Every day he worked at least 7 hours. He was determined to finish all that was assigned and would not modify. It would have been nice if the teachers actually did zoom lessons and taught the content. VERY LITTLE instruc@on was given. Just assignment. Parent Einstein Middle For middle school, more consistency in how home learning School was structured would be helpful. It seemed that each of my child's teachers took a different approach, which made it challenging to determine whether we were looking in the right place for informa@on about assignments, due dates, etc. Parent Einstein Middle Having been through the current model with two students, it School is structure must change. Teachers did not keep up on canvas and the complete lack or grading and tes@ng disallowed any understanding of whether my students were learning / advancing in key subject maDer (math and science). If this model does not become far more structured with significantly more delivery of appropriate material, teacher par@cipa@on (on actual student success at assignments - homework / grading) and oversight of the instructors this distance model will fail nearly every student forced to par@cipate in it. Parent Einstein Middle I realize that the shij to home learning was very sudden. School Please streamline or commit early to consistency on where lessons and assignments are located on their Canvas sites. Simplifica@on of the steps would be helpful too. Some@mes my student had a dozen or more tabs open trying to follow the steps in an assignment. That's very overwhelming to a not very well organized brain/kid. Also, not all teachers seemed to put in the same amount of effort with lessons. We're hoping for beDer balance. Parent Einstein Middle I think it is very important to open the schools back up! School

437 Parent Einstein Middle I was really disappointed by the district's remote learning at School the middle school level. Since the school did not require anything (nothing counted toward your final grades, zoom "office hours" were op@onal), the parents were lej to be the "bad guys" who required our child to par@cipate in school. This isn't fair, and isn't a posi@on we want to be in. The fact that our principal (who I love) sent out two different videos saying that remote learning should take less than 2.5 hours per day was extremely disappoin@ng. My student did the suggested work, but there simply was not enough of it. And because she wasn't required to par@cipate in the zoom office hours, which seemed to be completely unstructured, she's completely out of touch with her classmates and teachers. I'm par@cularly disappointed that teachers didn't start requiring zoom par@cipa@on as we got further into the quaran@ne, when it is clear that they will be required to do some remote learning in high school. I feel like my student is unprepared for high school, especially remote learning in high school We have had a very good experience with the Shoreline School District--it's the reason we moved here, and we've had a good experience for 9 years. I'm not sure I can convey the depth of my disappointment and anger at how this has been handled. The fact that the district took 6 weeks off in order to prepare for remote learning, and then returned with one lesson per week for middle school students, has lej us seriously considering private school op@ons. I hope the district gets their act together before the fall. Parent Einstein Middle If there is remote learning next year I would like to see School adjustments with Canvas and how classes are taught. Before school was abruptly ended homework was really easy to see and complete at home. It would help if assignments were posted in the same way. Zoom didn't work for us because my boys would get uncomfortable seeing their face on screen for long periods of @me. It was distrac@ng. It would be nice if teachers would teach a class more like how they would in a classroom. Kids can watch them but not themselves.

438 Parent Einstein Middle My daughter had a hard @me finding the mo@va@on to do School online learning when nothing was graded. She also didn't care for the Zoom mee@ngs and didn't aDend any, but I think that has more to do with the classes not being graded and her personality. Is it safe to assume next year's classes, whether virtual or in person, will be graded? If virtual, will it be at the same pace as in-person learning or do you think they'll have fewer lessons to learn? Hopefully, their learning and lesson plans won't lag even if it's done online. Parent Einstein Middle My son is in 7th grade. I felt like the teachers did a good job School ajer the first month or so. At the beginning, the online learning was mostly busy work but I know the teachers tried to offer meaningful learning experiences. My biggest complaint is the INCONSISTENT USAGE OF CANVAS by the teachers. It was VERY confusing to understand how the teachers wanted their assignments turned in because there were so many different ways. One teacher wanted assignments turned into google classroom, another teacher wanted the google document shared with them, another teacher wanted the assignment uploaded to a google form at the end of the week and s@ll another teacher wanted things turned into [email protected], not to men@on teachers that wanted the assignments submiDed through Canvas. It was crazy and difficult for me to manage, much less my seventh grade son! This problem should be fixed even if online learning doesn't have to take place. A district wide, consistent use of Canvas that goes from 6-12 grade would be amazing. One more sugges@on is a consistent naming conven@on for google docs is needed. My son now has about 100 documents that begin with the words "Copy of". A district wide naming conven@on that starts in elementary school would also me amazing. This will help everyone, teachers and students alike. Parent Einstein Middle Not enough assignments during on line learning this Spring. I School have concerns in math and Spanish for next year because I don’t think they were able to get through the curriculum in the depth that was needed to succeed next year without some struggle and a lot of frustra@on.

439 Parent Einstein Middle Online self learning that my son did last a few month School didn’t work for him. It was totally one way, no interact, self learning. Much prefer to have live / zoom class, so feel like he is in a class with a teacher and classmates. Parent Einstein Middle Our family was receiving the free lunch and breakfast meals School offered by the district at Shorewood High School ajer school was closed because of the pandemic. We greatly appreciate that this food service was available! It helps our family so much to know that those resources are available. However, I must let you know that the food was both terrible and insufficient for a teenager. Almost every day it was very gross. My teenage son didn't even want the pizza!! He said that the wrapped lunch offered during the pandemic was even worse than the lunch offered at school because the steam traps inside the wrapping and makes everything wet and soggy. I saw the lunch offering myself and he is right: The entree was cold and the bread was always soggy to the point that it was a gummy mass smashed onto the indis@nguishable meat paDy that was offered. The only thing that my child would eat was the yogurt. My chickens even refused some of it and they usually eat anything!! Even if the en@re offering had been edible and delicious, is was so far from being enough calories for a teenager for lunch or breakfast. My child is ea@ng 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, and 2 dinners this year. Is it adsurd to offer the same lunch to teenager that is offered to k-5 kids. The school is offering a @ny bread-based protein and a vegetable. Not enogh by far and what about those with gluten issues??? I cannot stress how grateful we are that any such food service exists to support families. The idea and the funds are there: Please explore how the food op@ons could more appe@zing, more healthful, and more substan@al for middle and high school teenage students. Please let us as parents know how we could be involved in this transi@on! I am not alone in lamen@ng the terrible food op@ons our school system is offering to people who may have limited op@ons in feeding their VERY hungry teenagers.

440 Parent Einstein Middle The situa@on we all found ourselves in was kind of an eye School opener for me. My child had only 1 teacher who had weekly video calls, she was also my child's Pride Teacher so we had another weekly video call with her. Language class I was really disappointed in the distant learning. Languages need to be heard, doesn't help to get words if the kids don't know how to say the words or if they are saying them correctly. I would have expected at least a weekly video call, I would have rather had an every day video call, just like going to school in normal @mes. I had met with my child's Language Teacher and really liked him so it was especially hard to come to this conclusion. Math classes, were a challenge as I was not good in math and school for me was a very long @me ago. Again, having any video classes would have been nice. Or giving the parents the answers so we can try to help when our child is not sure they are geyng the correct answer. Science classes need more @me with the Teacher also. Lab work is an important part of Science. I'm not sure how this would work going forward but hopefully something can be worked out. Then there are the teachers who do not teach facts but their opinions. I spent a good amount of @me explaining the truth not the slant the teacher was pushing. I don't care if you like apples or hate apples, that is your opinion, and it is very arrogant to believe your opinion is the only right one. My child will develop her own opinion from her experiences. I need her to learn about the past so we do not repeat it with facts. Like journalists use to do years ago. We pay teachers to teach facts not opinions, opinions are cheap, everyone has one. My daughter had 6 classes plus Pride everyday. Teachers con@nue to be paid for a full days yet my daughter had only 1 Zoom style classes per week. Why doesn’t every single teacher have a 45 min Zoom class every day Monday thru Friday, or at least twice a week? With all that said, I believe my child did well with distant learning for some of her classes. She is not necessarily a self starter and can get distracted easily. I was able to keep her focused and make sure her assignments were turned on @me.

441 Parent Einstein Middle This didn’t work School Parent Einstein Middle While I understand and appreciate the though[ulness and School equitable way the Shoreline School District came to develop its Home-Learning plan for this school year, and I also realize it was an ever-changing and evolving, once in a life@me world health crisis, I feel it had some definite shortcomings that could have been beDer mi@gated. Having a more consistent approach to what learning outcomes are expected will certainly assist students and families in naviga@ng @me management and school responsibili@es. Parent Einstein Middle Zoom mee@ngs were stressful for my student. She’s shy School and quiet and dreaded any @me she had one. I don’t think they should go away but maybe one on one check-ins with teacher could be good

442 Parent Highland Terrace 1) While I understand there isn't a plan for this: Even Above all, I'd like to thank the district, teachers, and all others Elementary if only very basic, con@nued structural academic who have worked so hard in the background — those we'll support through a summer without local camps/ likely never know about! — for everything they've done to enrichment ac@vi@es. For example, our instructors handle this crisis with each new development. Beyond that, shared a weekly learning plan with links to relevant there are a couple of messages and related hopes I'd like to content based on his class' academic goals for the year. share. I want to recognize that my ability to manage my In the wake of so much lost class @me this spring, at son's educa@on under the circumstances has been largely least offering that resource to parents would seem one framed by privilege. We do not have significant financial essen@al, for everyone, including the teachers. Even if resources, but my ability manage a work-from-home not monitored, parents would have the op@on of schedule made keeping him on track significantly easier, as looking for rudimentary ways to make it up, and in did our exis@ng tool belt of base-level connec@vity resources: prepara@on for what will surely be a challenging fall computer, printer and sufficient internet service. Even under start for all. 2) Timely updates about the fall start, these condi@ons, however, establishing con@nuity for his no maDer what it looks like. future development has involved great expense in terms of @me and effort — much of it by those who were never trained as instructors. This is clearly no different for the greatest por@on of families across the district, state and country. But as you con@nue to work on how we can all collaborate as a community to take on its future, for and with our children, please include considera@ons of equity and the true effort it will take to do it well. Technology can neither stand in for nor cure the problems we're experiencing, and in many cases can compound the inequi@es involved in this challenge. In terms of direct feedback on this por@on of the journey so far, there were simply too many tools being used at the same @me, and with liDle thought to the expansive consequences. While Google can handily bear most all of the logis@cal weight of crea@ng, managing and sharing core classroom experiences, others were added to the mix, and were ul@mately ones that stand to create increased, inappropriate pressure. Flipgrid is a good example: while fun from the standpoint of playful social interac@on, it also brings the pressures and pi[alls of social media — everything from mastering the tool itself to the drive to feed "produced" and, as ojen happens, accepted and worthy. Simply said, more is not more. Please consider this as we move toward new solu@ons. Overall, my hope is that this crisis can help us beDer understand how valuable our classrooms and teachers really are, and the sacrifices we all have to make to 443 Parent Highland Terrace 1) access to small group instruc@on for reading/math My child has learning disabili@es and distance learning Elementary 2) compliance with 504 plan 3) con@nued clear requires my constant support of her. She is not able to communica@on from district, principal, teachers -- it complete assignments as provided by her classroom teachers has been great! independently. Parent Highland Terrace 1. Clear communica@on of the grade level Elementary requirements from the teacher to us. 2. Project based learning assignments. 3. Differen@a@on. 4. Day-of repor@ng of any behavior issues. 5. Culturally responsive teaching Parent Highland Terrace 1. Please provide teaching resources for parents if We are so very grateful, thank you for trying to figure out the Elementary we’ll be teaching remotely again in the Fall. 2. My best way to try and make this all work!! It’s a hard job to son needs LAP help, and it would be wonderful if he do, I’m sure. could return to just that learning in-person, if there is a need to reduce class sizes! I could then teach him the rest of his class work from home. 3. Please help parents understand the big picture and goals of the curriculum. Parent Highland Terrace 1. To KNOW what the fall will look like as soon as 1. The hardest thing about home learning was chasing down Elementary possible so that we can plan for our family. 2. To be links for assignments. While it was awesome to see what was given weekly learning calendars that include a CLEAR planned for each day, I would click on a video and then have OVERVIEW of the learning/expecta@ons/assignment to toggle over to Classlink, open the work page, scroll down (ie. "This week we will be conduc@ng research on a and search through tens of documents to find the document country using non-fic@on text") for the week AND ALL discussed in the video. Some@mes we weren't able to find NECESSARY LINKS. Any assignment that students need the necessary things or I didn't have @me to work and also to access should be only ONE CLICK away, and not manage student learning. 2. Having to watch lengthy videos three or four. (some@mes MULTIPLE lengthy videos) to have a overview of the lesson(s) for the day or week was an obstacle to my kids being able to par@cipate in the home learning. I spoke with a mom who got up early Monday morning and spent over an hour watching all the videos so that she could be prepared to help her kids work through the learning ac@vi@es. The weekly learning calendar would be MUCH MORE helpful if it had a clear, simple overview of the learning for the week and ALL links for assignments housed in the document.

444 Parent Highland Terrace Ability to plan for fall. If an A/B schedule is used, I am The biggest missing piece this spring in the elementary school Elementary concerned that with kids in 3 differents schools (high was feedback to the students. At least in the case of my 4th school, middle school and elementary) we will be and 6th grader, they were not given any feedback on preDy managing 3 very hec@c school schedules. Not sure on significant projects they were asked to complete. A the remedy to this but maybe clustering families biography paper in 4th grade and presenta@on and a 5 together so that all their kids aDend the same days. paragraph thesis and essay in 6th grade. They would have really benefited from some feedback. Distance learning will not work if the teachers are not engaging with the students and providing feedback on their learning. I also think that the zoom/virtual connec@ons could be more meaningful and that teachers need to be given more direc@on on what those should look like. My 6th graders were excellent and lasted an hour once a week. My 4th grader played emojii games -- it was a waste of 30 minutes and they were only 30 minutes because that must have been the bare minimum required. My 4th grader was fortunate to have a second teacher who provided some op@onal math zoom mee@ngs which were probably the best part of the en@re distance learning experience for him as he actually received instruc@on and feedback. Finally, it would be good for teachers to remember to check their links on their weekly calendars and their video lessons before sending the document. Almost every week, we had missing links, wrong links and we had to wait for the teacher to correct it. Parent Highland Terrace æ 没有 Elementary Parent Highland Terrace Although the emails were very helpful...there were too Elementary many (2 children in the school district that went to 2 different schools). Bombarded with informa@on, hard to track. Both parents working [email protected] childcare became the most pressing issue for our household.

445 Parent Highland Terrace As a single parent my ability to work is limited without I hope the school district takes necessary steps to allow for at Elementary in person learning and my son’s learning is significantly least par@al in person learning for those families who want. If impacted as well. He does not engage with zoom calls there are families that choose to stay virtual, great. But for and finds it hard to focus on videos as well. He also the rest who have children that aren’t learning at home well works to do well for teachers in the classroom, but and/or don’t have a parent on the home that isn’t working with me it’s a very different dynamic. He had been full @me trying to lead home schooling lessons, in person is receiving 504 services in 1st and 2nd grade for reading necessary for success. If the situa@on leads to a state or and tested out. But I’m worried he has regressed and county wide stay at home decree again, of course that’s a lost reading proficiency as he heads into 4th. This different story. But if we are in a phase that allows for would have significant impact on his longer term businesses to be open (even at reduced capacity) then I think learning and success. our schools need to be at the same status. I.e. if a restaurant can be open for 25-50% capacity, then our schools should be too. Otherwise I fear my son will con@nue to fall behind or I will be forced to find part-@me employment and poten@ally lose my housing due to reduced income in order to try to make up for lost schooling. Parent Highland Terrace As much no@ce as possible with how school may look A low number of new COVID-19 cases per week in the school Elementary several weeks prior to the school year star@ng. I know district may be difficult to accomplish because of the number there may be lag in the actual diagnosis of cases, due of nursing, assisted living and family group homes in our area. to the incuba@on period of the virus (2-14 days of I feel like Shoreline's numbers of cases/deaths are slightly displaying symptoms ajer exposure). higher because of the propensity of these types of arrangments, and those individuals having a higher number of co-morbiditys/poorer outcomes if they are diagnosed with COVID-19. Parent Highland Terrace At home learning is difficult for 2nd grader (going into we recognize you're trying to create a model that will work Elementary 3rd). Our child needs more hands on @me which we're for families. thank you! unable to provide while working. She also has more emo@onal tantrums, which would not be the case were she at school. Parent Highland Terrace Before and ajer care. Return to normal school Elementary func@oning. He needs in person teacher learning, socializa@on with other students. Etc.. Parent Highland Terrace Before and ajer school care Elementary Parent Highland Terrace Child to socialize with other children. Elementary

446 Parent Highland Terrace Childcare and safety measures to keep kids safe while Elementary all collected together at school. Parent Highland Terrace Clear guidance the week prior to deadlines, including Elementary zoom mee@ng details. Weekly goals but flexible deadlines. Standardized schedule across students. Parent Highland Terrace Clear target learning and support ac@vi@es provided in For kids who require intensive 1:1 support for learning Elementary advance of the school week. Help with a learning plan/ ac@vi@es, more predictability, support for planning/rou@ne, rou@ne to incorporate academic and social-emo@onal and Weekly guidance for learning goals and available learning. Rou@ne face to face with teachers most days resources would be very helpful. Links were useful but in the at the same @me (or only a couple of @mes). absence of goals or an understanding of how best to approach the ac@vi@es, kids opted for preferred ac@vi@es and avoided non-preferred and it was difficult to know how impac[ul those choices might be in advance of fall. Parent Highland Terrace Consistent use of specific pla[orms that parents Elementary understand and can help student access and problem solve. Correctly dated material and parent resources for learning. Parent Highland Terrace Consolidated, consistent, predictable communica@on Our student's loss of the personal rela@onship with the Elementary from school district and instructors. Individual student- teacher was very difficult . One on one interac@ons were not teacher @me and interac@ons. Clear guidance for allowed which was somewhat understandable but also very curriculum and assignment goals. "Stretch" ac@vi@es frustra@ng given how common and convenient they are for areas that my student enjoys and excels at. School/ during in-person instruc@on. Some specialized art, STEM community resource spaces/@mes for supplies, printer projects required specific supplies. Lack of space (even usage, assignment help, etc. virtual) for classmate interac@ons on tasks/projects. Parent Highland Terrace Con@nua@on of SLP services. Kindergarten socializa@on Thank you. Educators are amazing and valued. Elementary and early reading/ learning skills. I would be greatly disappointed if my kinder could not access some kind of kinder program this fall. We are very flexible in the details. It's been months of isola@on and I'm concerned for this important @me in their development. Parent Highland Terrace Con@nued learning structure. We plan to maintain Yes... we have two children. One of the teachers did a Elementary some academic ac@vi@es through the summer. fabulous job, and the other was horrible. If this model con@nues into the future, all teachers should have clear expecta@ons, schedules and accessibility.

447 Parent Highland Terrace Daily communica@on from a teacher would be The teachers tried but overall the instruc@on seemed like Elementary extremely helpful even if it didn’t involve week to week guidance without long term planning. The instruc@on. Zoom is difficult as our children hate distance between our children and the teachers on an videoing themselves interpersonal level was enormous. Within a month they did not connect at all with the teachers. videos and his coming into class discussions cheered our kids up immensely and we are very grateful for that. Essen@ally if three days a week someone just said “Hi†Parent Highland Terrace Do not rush reopening! If it’s not safe—don’t Elementary do it. Our kids and your staff are too precious to experiment with. Parent Highland Terrace Due to my child’s disability, they are unable to Elementary access online instruc@on. Further, I am not educated to be an adequate subs@tute for instruc@on of a child with special needs. What is more, my husband and I must work to maintain our household. Working full @me, paren@ng, keeping up with therapies as well as teaching is simply not manageable. My child is slipping further behind and may never fully reach their poten@al due to not receiving in person instruc@on and by missing out on social engagement with other children. I understand these are challenging @mes for everyone, but I also believe returning to school can be done safely and responsibly. Parent Highland Terrace Easier access to children's online learning materials. There should be beDer communica@on about curriculum, Elementary Would prefer to be able to easily log in with a "parent grade level expecta@ons, and targets for the grade level. For account" that I manage instead of having to log in as example early sharing of a syllabus would have been helpful. my child or access via their computer. More structured Also, restric@ng teachers to only communicate district assignments and projects instead of just general approved material was incredibly detrimental, especially at referral to programs like Khan Academy, IXL, etc. On- the beginning of the closure. The district materials should be going access to computers for every child. the ground level, not the limit. The situa@on this year was new for everyone, but I was shocked at how slowly the district got plans together and how limited the instruc@on was. For as wonderful as the learning environment is in the schools, the district really fell flat during this situa@on. Parent Highland Terrace Educa@on Elementary

448 Parent Highland Terrace Estoy un poco preocupada para la escuela de Quiero compar@r algo .estoy muy agradecida con todos los Elementary otoño .porq no se sabe si habra escuela..pero tengo maestros de High Land Terrace hicieron buen trabajo con los confianza de que se mejore la situacion.. niños..y les quiero decir Muchas Gracias. Parent Highland Terrace food assistance/grocery or gij card will gladly Elementary appreciated Parent Highland Terrace For Kindergarten entry into the school system, it seems Elementary necessary to have in person teaching/learning and the ability to play and socialize with peers. If these things are not possible then I can’t envision a successful introduc@on to public school, and will be hesitant to send my child. Parent Highland Terrace For my child to learn, effec@vely, efficient and Elementary appropriate content for his grade level. Parent Highland Terrace For my children to see and interact with other children Face shields instead of face masks would allow children to Elementary and their teacher. see each others smiles and perhaps communicate more effec@vely with their teacher (and vice versa). Please suggest face shields instead of masks. thank you. Parent Highland Terrace For my daughter to be in the class with her teacher and I feel the district failed during this @me. There was no Elementary friends. To have a true structure to the day and learning during this @me. Our teacher did the bare minimum, expecta@ons placed on students from the teacher/ and my daughter had zoom mee@ngs that consisted of show school for learning. and tell every single @me. With the teacher flat out saying she had no plan. I feel so disappointed and worried for her academic progress. My daughter loves school and learning and I want to see that shine in her again. Shoreline’s excuse to not have learning or limit what teachers were able to do due to equity, was beyond a poor decision. Instead, it was chosen for all students to fail. Step up the game and teach our kids!!! Our kids need their teachers. If in school, fabulous. If virtual, set up strict @me schedules for class @mes, small mee@ngs for instruc@on @me, due dates for work to be expected to be completed. Feedback from what was turned in!! Hoping for back to school! Parent Highland Terrace For the school district to be prepared. Support the parents. There was nothing in place to support Elementary the parents who took on the main role of educa@ng and had to figure everything out for ourselves. No guidance, no support, no checking in, no offer to help. Nothing. It would be nice to not feel as though the district “checked outâ€

449 Parent Highland Terrace Get them back with teachers for direct instruc@on. If Thanks for a good year. Dedica@on in this crazy @me was Elementary we go online, have one pla[orm. Seesaw and Google evident! classroom were challenging to manage at first. Also, one teacher sent all the work at the beginning of the week which was helpful in case we needed flexibility on what to work on (think meltdowns). The other teacher sent things daily which was more of a challenge. Though it is challenging to plan ahead, it was helpful to have @me on the weekend to preview the work. Some videos were 10-15 minutes about how to complete a T-chart. I rather preview and create for them then have them do the work rather than more screen @me. I realize some families need the direct teaching for more plug and go, but if we have @me to preview it would have helped have our kids off the computer as much. Parent Highland Terrace Geyng kids back to school to stop academic and Distance-learning is not a solu@on. Elementary interpersonal regression, especially for younger kids. My kindergartener/future first-grader barely learns remotely. If she hadn’t aDended school through mid-March, if school had been remote all year, she’d have barely learned anything. I taught middle and high school for years, and younger kids need Far more interpersonal support and aDen@on to facilitate learning. They lack the internal capacity to focus and learn the way a high schooler can. For the needs of the kids, please get elementary-aged students back in school full-@me come fall. Parent Highland Terrace Geyng my child back into school. We both work full Elementary @me jobs and currently have a grandmother living with us. She unfortunately is unable to help our child with her work, and as a result, our child is struggling with school and emo@onally.

450 Parent Highland Terrace Geyng one of my boys caught back up in reading. If we have to have at home learning again I would want them Elementary to have zoom mee@ng every day with their teacher. Ajer siyng in on another district, I feel our distance educa@on was inadequate. Frequently, it was just a check in on their feelings and consistent reminders that it is op@onal, which undermines our ability to enforce study@me. Teachers need to actually work on a lesson in the zoom session, preferably on math and reading. I honestly felt there was no teaching and aside from seeing their friends it was a waste of @me. Parent Highland Terrace Have teachers go to school and conduct class as This was a disaster. Please work with some test subjects Elementary normal just with remote viewing. No reason children before releasing next years online schooling (if we go there), could not follow a standard class environment with the with actual parents, rather than internal groups. Test your online pla[orm if needed. NO MORE SELF PACE theory of opera@on first. Most of the parents were as lost as EDUCATION. Bring the teachers back into the mix. the children. That says a lot. Thank you though for your efforts. Just keep in mind, it was not working. Parent Highland Terrace Having a laptop provided to each student. Free Online Provide an alternate and or reduced schedule In the fall. Elementary access to learning sojware. Provide at home support with hard copy of learning materials. Parent Highland Terrace Having a single login that works across all formats and Having enrichment specialists s@ll able to visit school like Elementary is centralized in a virtual classroom loca@on. music, orchestra and art teachers is a hugely important part of crea@ng a well rounded educa@on plan, and having a few visitors/ volunteers poses minimal risk if they are screened. The risk can be minimized and the benefits far outweigh the downside of having some approved and screened visitors augment the curriculum. Parent Highland Terrace Health & safety As far as transporta@on goes, I will have 3 kids at 3 different Elementary schools in the fall and it will be very difficult to get them all to/from school without transporta@on - especially because carpooling won’t be much of an op@on. I have heard that SeaDle is offering an online op@on for families even if schools open up in the fall - I am really hoping that Shoreline will give families that same op@on!! Parent Highland Terrace High level of communica@on about what is going on/ Elementary what the steps are/what the possibili@es are . . .even if they aren't set in stone.

451 Parent Highland Terrace I am most concerned about being able to meet the Elementary needs of three kids, third grade and under, and give each adequate aDen@on and @me, if they are home again in the fall, especially if things are scheduled at the same @me. Parent Highland Terrace I am most concerned about mee@ng the needs of three Elementary children, third grade and younger, if the kids are home this fall, especially if things are scheduled at the same @me as each other. Parent Highland Terrace I appreciated the op@on to share our thoughts with the Our family appreciates the opportunity to share feedback! Elementary district. Thank you! As the parent of a kindergarten and previously kindergarten teacher, I am very concerned about how realis@c social distancing and other CDC guidelines are for young learners. My family is incredibly privileged in that our work schedules can be flexible and we will be working from home, and I understand that many other families are in a much different situa@on. I am very scared to send my child (who has asthma) to school and worry that he will inevitably be exposed and bring COVID home to his younger sister and us. I understand schools are in such a difficult posi@on in figuring out a plan and that no plan will work for all families. I would be much more comfortable with smaller classes sizes on alterna@ng days/@mes or star@ng in person instruc@on once we have a vaccine. Also curious if pushing instruc@on into the summer of 2021 may be an op@on. Thank you for all you are doing to figure this out.

452 Parent Highland Terrace I do not understand how the kids are supposed to The teacher did not provide enough ac@vi@es to keep my Elementary make up the 6 weeks of @me from Feb-March when daughter busy. My husband and I spent hours and hours of they had no ac@ve instruc@on. They cannot just "catch @me we didn't have trying to find and provide our daughter up in the fall" without more @me. I am incredibly with educa@onal content. My assessment is that my frustrated that the school is just sort of closing for the daughter's learning progress (especially in math) essen@ally summer when there are huge residual learning needs froze as of the @me school stopped. I found the teacher's amongst the en@re student body. How about some engagement to be lackluster at best. The teacher held one summer school op@ons? How about some summer single Zoom mee@ng per week and the rest of the @me she learning resources? If school was closed for snow days only gave us enough material to fill about half of each school you would have extended the year - why is this day with work. Most of the learning ac@vi@es we did receive different? It feels like the district is leaving us parents consisted of links to other teachers' recorded videos. When I to fend for ourselves (again) while the teachers appear tried to get the teacher to call me she told me she was "busy" to be going on vaca@on. My trust in your ability/ with personal ac@vi@es such as doctor's appointments, during willingness to priori@ze my daughter's learning is at an the day! It took about a week for the teacher to get around to all @me low. I have seen zero evidence that you have scheduling a 20 minute call with me. Wow. When I asked for a plan, other than to dump your job (i.e., providing a resources to determine my daughter's learning gaps so we decent educa@on to my kid) back onto the parents. My know what to work on this summer, the teacher said she husband and I are well educated, well-resourced, and didn't have anything like that and told me "they will figure it mo@vated. If we are struggling to figure this out I'm out in the fall because everyone will be in the same boat". sure that most others are, too. This aytude is wholly inadequate! The concept that the teacher doesn't have to bother to try to do her job because "someone will take care of it in the fall" is not remotely acceptable. My husband and I work both work full @me. If I could somehow find @me to educate my daughter, despite 60+ hours of work I put into my own job every week, then the teachers can certainly find the @me to do theirs. Parent Highland Terrace I have three kids that all have very different skills. The All of my kids hated to Zoom mee@ngs with their teachers. Elementary type of online learning that was offered this spring They are not very interac@ve or thought provoking. I believe failed all my kids. I think there needs to be more that it is nearly impossible to teach a class of 30, and trying to direct instruc@on and less logins/ op@ons for kids. If make Zoom meaningful with that many kids is a huge the teacher plays a video during a mee@ng my kids will obstacle. I would like if my kid was on zoom for a few hours watch, if I tell them to go watch a video they will likely each day, listening to, and working while they are “in just move onto something they want to do online, or class†flat out refuse.

453 Parent Highland Terrace I just want to know what I can expect for next year so I The Junior High was much more difficult for me and my kids. Elementary can plan accordingly. Highland Terrace's one teacher giving all the assignments and schedule was more organized and easier to adapt to than the mul@ple teacher set up at Einstein. A centralized more personalized schedule for the Junior high student would be helpful, in regards to the online learning. Ironically, my Jr. High daughter was doing beDer with the mul@ple class set up before the Quaran@ne started. Parent Highland Terrace I need to be able to plan. My job will require me to The pla[orms improved as the months went on, but the Elementary know when my kid is actually in school and when they rollout was such a mess. The ages like kindergarten just will not be. My child really needs access to her SP/ don’t translate to online learning in the same way. This PT/OT. If next year is online in some format the shutdown hurt my kindergartener immeasurably more than therapists need to be able to do telehealth and not the my 4th grader in terms of academic progress. If the do-nothing ‘con@nuous learning plan’ that was schedules are going to be split in the fall, is there any way happening this spring. Parents were so freakin that parents could choose or provide input as to which half overwhelmed with trying to teach the academics that their kid gets put into? I have a uniquely challenging work the endless links of therapy ac@vi@es to do with your schedule and the ability to choose would really help me. child in your “free @me†Parent Highland Terrace I need to know they will go back to school for a full day Elementary so I can plan my work schedule accordingly

454 Parent Highland Terrace I think that it is important for the kids to return to I would like to say that I appreciate the efforts of the teachers Elementary school in a way that facilitates, without heavily relying and school to faciliate distance learning. I realize that these on the parents, and with as much normalcy as possible. circumstances were unexpected and unprecedented. My Kids need to be able to be in an environment where child had a fantas@c teacher and it was nice to share in my they can be relaxed and socialize. I worry that the focus child's learning this year. Many of the learning ac@vi@es were on COVD-19 will detract from learning. I hope that we engaging for my child. They built on each other. There were can find a way to return to school and find ways to wonderful projects the focused on cri@cal thing and problem minimize exposure to the virus in a way that will be solving. I was really very impressed by the curriculum. On conducive to learning and not cause stress and anxiety the other hand, it was a very challenging to support my for the kids. child's learning from home. Like many parents, I had to balance my full-@me job with suppor@ng my child's learning and I had to do this without the support of my partner because I was the only parent working from home. Most of the assignments required my involvement and support. There were complex projects to be completed every week. My child, especially towards the end of the year, struggled to maintain focus. I had to sit with her and watch all of the videos and help her complete her assigned work. And, the technical challenges were many. These were not just due to learning the ini@al set-up and loca@ng passwords. Comple@ng assignments on Seesaw was ojen problema@c. It took up an enormous amount of @me to create textboxes, to make voice recordings, to add pictures, to enter responses. Work was frequently lost or deleted by accident. All of this made distance learning far more @me-consuming and frustra@ng for both me and my child. In the end, we simply couldn't complete all of the assignments. It was not possible to do all of them and meet the demands of my other responsibili@es. If there is to be some form of distance learning in the fall, it would be helpful to have more ac@vi@es that were simple student led exercises and if the work could be completed on paper and uploaded to the learning system as a photo instead. You should be selec@ve about the complex projects that you ask parents to complete with the students. Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback and for all that you do for my child!

455 Parent Highland Terrace I think that we Need to have daily check In with I wish that the speech therapy could have help communicate/ Elementary teacher/students in the future, 30 minutes weekly is engage or check in with my child even just 15 minutes a not enough to check in with students. I prefer daily week. That would have help a lot. mee@ngs as if they are going to school. These help the students more connected with school, students and teachers. These also help the rou@ne of being in school. Also , I like the paper copy of homework that was mailed to us. It help us focus on what needs to be done. Parent Highland Terrace I want to make sure that both student and community No, just a thank you to everyone involved with responding to Elementary health are protected. I am concerned about the social this unprecedented situa@on. needs of my child given the prolonged quaran@ne. In terms of the classroom, I felt like we could’ve used more check in from the teacher other than a weekly email and the weekly zoom mee@ng. Parent Highland Terrace I want to make sure there is clear communica@on The Highland Terrace 6th grade teachers did a great job with Elementary about the fall. Communicate ojen even if it is to say a weekly learning schedule and set expecta@ons. It was tough there isn’t a decision yet. with both parents working full @me. But there were work expecta@ons and semi flexible due dates so we were lucky to be able to make it work for us. My HT kid actually con@nued to learn during all of this. Parent Highland Terrace I want to see that @me and resources are distributed We struggled with the inability to print from a district device Elementary appropriately for all students. I understand that on a home printer. I also struggled with having to individually children with IEPs and special needs ojen need more open every page that needed to be printed. My children support, but with limited resources for everyone, I would have enjoyed more subject related mee@ng vs just want to know that typical learners and hi-cap students “social-emo@onal†won’t be lej to fend for themselves because they are “s@ll aheadâ€

456 Parent Highland Terrace I work from home, even before covid. So having my If we end up doing some days at school and some days not, Elementary child home for remote learning isn't an issue but we I'd prefer reduced days but full day, not mornings every day. I have had to be very involved in her schooling (and my can normally always drive my child, but having say 2 full days high schoolers schooling) in order to keep them going where she is at school would make work easier to be and on track. This took away a lot of my @me working accomplished and more efficient, would mean less the and my hours were reduced significantly. My husband driving, etc. It's easier to schedule around. Also, at the was furloughed and able to help with school but in the beginning of remote learning things felt a liDle chao@c, too fall it will likely just be me. I'd personally really prefer a many separate sites to log into, so many passwords etc. Later more structured system where maybe the kids log in to as @me went on and the further use of Google classroom, meet with the teacher in the morning, lessons for the things seemed to get less cumbersome. day are explained and the kids then know what to do and can go work independently on those items and be able to contact their teacher (like through direct messaging) for ques@ons. Finding a way for the parents to not need to be so needed by their student so we can work too would be amazing. Parent Highland Terrace I would like kids to go back to school full @me with See above. Elementary appropriate measures taken to lessen the chance of contrac@ng the disease. The social-emo@onal health of kids is just as important, if not more so, than the educa@onal impact. Families can choose online learning if it best suits them--otherwise, kids should return to school. Parent Highland Terrace I would love to see 1:1 connects with the teacher Elementary weekly and more small group virtual mee@ngs. We only had 2 all class mee@ngs during at home learning which made it nearly impossible to have any social interac@on between students. For return to school, we would prefer smaller class sizes that always aDend on the same days/@mes, limited ‘sharing’ of teachers between groups, and a mix of at home and in person each week. Kids at home could s@ll par@cipate with kids in class each day via video conferencing for certain lessons.

457 Parent Highland Terrace I’m afraid my child is not understanding content Really hoping for a social distanced experiment if things are Elementary online as well as when the teacher does a zoom and the same as current or if Covid numbers increase. walks through (math) step by step. They are able to ask ques@ons during the applica@on to help understand what they are missing. It also helps if during instruc@on live on zoom for teachers to mute the kids while they are teaching and then ask for ques@ons - instead of having kids interrup@ng and talking over each other - it makes it frustra@ng and confusing. Parent Highland Terrace I’m not a tech person, we need in person learning We had a hard @me keeping up with the learning lessons Elementary during the Covid @me away from school , we are not a online tech savvy family,

458 Parent Highland Terrace Ideally our child needs the in-person socializa@on and The online learning method used was very difficult. It took Elementary school work with her teacher and other kids -- ie: many weeks to get to any sort of rhythm -- I believe it was normal school :). However, obviously that may not early May when things became structured and happen. She would learn best with structured expected understandable. It is very difficult to mo@vate a kindergartner @me outside of the house. We have a newborn child who isn't self-mo@vated when needed to put effort into the and are very weary of sending her to school in a assignments. One parent is working from home and doesn't compromised environment. have all the @me to administer the schoolwork. The other parent is primarily occupied with a newborn which made geyng the six-year old what she needed very difficult. I am hopeful for some sort of safe, modified start to the school year where she can get in-person instruc@on and some socializa@on (same kids all the @me?). If instruc@on is delivered virtually I believe the first graders are in a strong need for more one-on-one or very small instruc@on sizes so that each child feels heard and present with the group. It also will be very important to teach the parents on how to deliver instruc@on and support the learning. The program needs to be highly organized. I thought the district, schools, teachers, admin, etc. did a wonderful job given the situa@on! I hope there is a leap forward for the fall however if the learning will be delivered virtually. Ideas: * 1 home page portal to access all online content -- there were way too many "things" and it was super confusing on what we were supposed to do. It became beDer with SeeSaw. * Content organiza@on needs to be beDer -- think folders (one per week?, by topic ie: math/science/english?), naming conven@ons (Date_Topic_etc), etc. * Daily schedule should be prescribed if possible with room for some flexibility -- too much ambiguity wasn't the best * Individual video call at least once per week (or 30 minutes overall) would be great for my child * Consider mailing printouts instead of requiring prin@ng at home * Separate required vs. op@onal work Parent Highland Terrace Ideally would like a normal environment for my child as No . Elementary she returns to school . Preferably no masks . If that has to be the case I don’t think my child would be able to handle a school day no maDer how short it would be .

459 Parent Highland Terrace If the students are unable to return full-@me to school, Elementary it would be helpful to have more frequent individual communica@on between the children and their teachers related to their progress, whether via email or Google classroom. It was ojen difficult to be in the posi@on to hold my children accountable for their school work, then review it and provide feedback, as my husband and I needed to focus on our own work. Ajer comple@ng assignments, there was not any feedback from teachers about the assignment, so my children were not aware of whether they had met the criteria. And, honestly, it felt a bit fruitless to complete the work without a grade to measure their work or, at the very least, a posi@ve response. Parent Highland Terrace I'm most concerned about public health - how we work I'm not a good teacher for my child - I don't know what the Elementary together to keep each other safe from COVID and other work for a 2nd grader should look like, how to spot problems, diseases. etc.... I'm not a trained teacher. I'm a parent. The rela@onship to the child is very different. Needing to educate my child, and parent them, and work full @me from home is unworkable. I have to work - which means I can only help my child with school a small amount. I'd hope that the learning goals for next year are reachable by everyone. If it doesn't work for everyone, it doesn't work for anyone. We must have equitable prac@ces in the return to school. Parent Highland Terrace In class support Elementary

460 Parent Highland Terrace In person learning. Online learning needs to be done in formats that work for Elementary both types of opera@ng systems (PC and Mac). There should be consistency within the school on what types of online tools are used so parents don't have to learn a ton of different types of programs. If online learning happens, tell me why teachers can't schedule one-on-one video lessons with each kid for 10-15 mins, 2 @mes a week. For a class of 25 that equates to a couple of hrs a day scheduled for these mee@ngs. There doesn't need to be different lesson plans for each student but it does allow for a liDle flexibility. That would be far more beneficial to everyone than a whole zoom classroom meet up where no learning gets done. Online learning is perfectly set up to have one-on-one @me between teacher and student. At least take advantage of that if we are forced to go there again! Parent Highland Terrace In person school aDendance with regular rou@ne It very stressful to work full @me and manage a young child's Elementary educa@on. My student requires one on one aDen@on when not in a structured environment. This is difficult to accomplish why trying to work. Off hours work schedule is only an op@on some of the @me. The op@on for in person learning at the school for either half days or at least 3 days a week would be preferred. This would allow for a stable rou@ne and would reduce stress within our household. Parent Highland Terrace It would be important for me to have both children on Elementary the same school schedule ex: both Am or pm together. And More structure during home learning. Parent Highland Terrace Kids to be back in school - full @me without masks. Home learning was awful, absoulutely terrible. It was a very Elementary Please make masks op@onal. stressful experience for our family. The district absolutley dropped the ball on con@nued learning and the delay really effected our children. We really feel like the district failed our kids. Do not stop teaching for a month wai@ng on there to be enough computers for every child. Con@nue learning and catch the few up who need to wait on computers! Don't hold up the masses for the few. Now everyone is behind! We know SSD can do beDer!

461 Parent Highland Terrace Knowing that the schools are commiDed to in-person Be realis@c, but get the kids BACK IN THE CLASSROOM. The Elementary learning in the Fall - unless there is absolutely, virus is here and not going anywhere by fall; nor will there be posi@vely, no possible way of making it happen. And a proven effec@ve vaccine. Students and staff will likely be the only way that I would feel that would be the case is exposed to this and some are going to get sick. That is okay if the WORLD is SHUT DOWN - none of this "we have a and the school does not need to shut down every @me there phased plan to reopen the schools - and that the is a posi@ve test or case. The responsibility lies with us - the phased plan will be planned in phases" nonsense that parents and individuals - as to if it is the right choice to have we are living through right now. the kids in school. Do not try to "nanny" your way out of this. The schools need to figure out how to get the kids into school and administer instruc@on. The idea that elementary age kids can effec@vely learn via an ineffec@ve distance learning model (which is what happened) is likely to cause significantly more long term damage - mentally, socially, and economically - than to have them in school with an ac@ve contagion. It will not be easy, nor popular; but this is what needs to happen. Parent Highland Terrace Knowing the plan so I can find childcare. Even if ajer This is an incredibly difficult situa@on and I’m sure finding a Elementary care is available I don’t know that I will be comfortable solu@on is daun@ng. I feel that the only way in person sending my child. My schedule is sta@c but my instruc@on can work is if its not only safe for the children buu husbands a nurse and works a varied schedule so also the adult teachers, support staff, administrators, etc. I finding childcare will be difficult. This difficultly will be advocate for sending the districts most vulnerable (free and compounded if my 2 children’s schools are not on the reduced lunch, IEP, etc) but first to severely limit class sizes. same schedule (3rd and 7th). The worst scenario is going back and having to close in 2 weeks or rolling closures. That would be a childcare nightmare. Parent Highland Terrace Knowing what the plan is for next year, so I can In the online learning, it was hard for me to know how well Elementary organize my work schedule/childcare. If we have a my children were doing in classes (without siyng down with part-@me schedule, it would be important to me that them, watching all the videos, and closely supervising all their both my children have the same schedule. homework). There wasn't much feedback from the teachers on how well they were doing or if they were actually learning/doing their homework. I feel like I have failed miserably at teaching my children at home. Parent Highland Terrace Learning how to access online services were Elementary challenging. I hope that access is made easy.

462 Parent Highland Terrace Looking forward to the fall and being a single parent, I I do understand this is a difficult @me for all of us and I do Elementary would like to see a beDer learning format for math and want to work with the school to ensure that educa@on goes English. Assuming we will work remotely, I do not have on safely. I am a single parent but I have the ability to work the @me to spend teaching math and English (beyond remotely if needed. But to ensure I get my work done, I need reading). It would be nice to either have a prerecorded a more structured learning path for my son - meaning I video from the teacher with instruc@on or a specific cannot spend 1-2 hours a day working on math and wri@ng @me a few days a week to log in for virtual class@me. and science. If we need to be virtual in the fall, I would ask Social distancing is a concern. I cannot imagine (at least that we have more availability for instruc@onal lessons from the younger kids) actually keeping their masks on, the teachers whether those be prerecorded sessions or washing hands frequently and keeping a 6 j distance. I virtual ones. also think masks are going to be a huge distrac@on for kids and added frustra@on for teachers. Also, I am concerned that other parents will not take the appropriate steps (maybe because they need to get to work). All too ojen I have seen kids go to school coughing and sneezing (I see this at pick up from ajer care a lot). Parent Highland Terrace More feedback from teachers about individual student Elementary progress and individualized learning goals and needs. While lessons and assignments were clear, my two students received almost no feedback from their teachers about the assignments they turned in. It is hard to know how prepared they are for moving forward when there was no feedback regarding their progress for the year. Parent Highland Terrace More projects and assignments to keep our child busy. Elementary

463 Parent Highland Terrace Most important: If you divide up in person days Elementary amongst children, please consider using their last names to break them up so that my children can go to school on the same day or @me. It would be impossible for me to have my high schooler on a different schedule then my elementary child (differing days of the week) with my work schedule. Second in importance: ajer being lost for a big chunk of @me (on sojware that was hard to sign onto or assignments with unclear expecta@ons) my sugges@on is to break the classrooms up into pods where teachers could even do a parent call with each pod once a month. That would help answer my ques@ons and create a support group that I could reach out when I'm having trouble so the teacher doesn't get 30 parents with the same ques@ons. Also, it would help the children not be on these silly zoom calls where no one gets to talk or someone is always struggling with the tech issues. Parent Highland Terrace My biggest need is for a student led teaching - its very I appreciate all that you've done in geyng the online system Elementary hard for me as his mother to get him to want to do up and running. I will admit - in the beginning it was very school! I think when hes with a someone other than difficult to get it all figured out in terms of links and me, it would be a non-issue. Also, socializa@on - so passwords. It con@nued to get easier and I think we had a much learning happens just by being around other kids good flow going. and their ideas! Parent Highland Terrace My child desperately needs for the world to return to Elementary normal. I wish it were that easy. Parent Highland Terrace My child is au@s@c with an IEP. There was no real help I was extremely disappointed that the school district had no Elementary un@l a resource room group started mee@ng a month addi@onal services to help our kids in the Special ed program ago but even that was minimal. There was offers to - beyond some encouraging emails. I get that this was a crazy help access learning materials - but that is only a few season but as you plan for the fall - kids receiving services small part of the services required. Our most need to be priori@zed. important need is to get our child back in with her teachers and resources so she can be successful at learning.

464 Parent Highland Terrace My child needs the socializa@on (he is on the Au@sm I would love for the district to send out materials over the Elementary spectrum), but he also has severe asthma, so I am both summer that help parents be more effec@ve teachers for torn and very concerned about what the fall will look their kids come fall. like for him and we deal with Covid and approach cold and flu season. My child needs structure with daily assignments, and more @me to connect with friends in small groups. Parent Highland Terrace My child works best in a classroom with a teacher. She Elementary also gets extra reading instruc@on with . She’s so amazing! Parent Highland Terrace My child's health and safety (and preven@on of the Focus in-person teaching for younger kids and split classes Elementary spread of COVID19) while also being able to learn. into smaller sizes to prevent exposure. Parent Highland Terrace My child's social-emo@onal development, a regular Elementary schedule and my return to work. Parent Highland Terrace My daughter is 6 and has 2 younger siblings. My wife The district seems to support BLM protests - which fly in the Elementary and I both work full-@me. Online learning for someone face of social distancing - with the jus@fica@on that police at her age and situa@on is a fallacy. She must be back in brutality against minori@es is a larger health crisis than school with her teacher and classmates in order to COVID-19. It is well documented that poor and minority develop the social habits required to progress her children are suffering the most from school closures and this academic career in the later grades. in itself is a major public health crisis. In my view it would be hypocri@cal for the district to support BLM protests but not school reopening in the face of COVID-19. Please reopen schools, distance learning - especially for younger kids - is a complete fallacy. Parent Highland Terrace My daughter is managing well so far from an academic Elementary and social-emo@onal standpoint. My top concern is for everyone's safety and health.

465 Parent Highland Terrace My daughter needs to be in a physical classroom with Elementary her peers and teachers to learn. Learning from home has been an absolute nightmare because it is a huge struggle to make her do her work. The teachers did a great job making the lessons accessible but it was a fight everyday to make her par@cipate. I tried everything to help her and she just couldn't get mo@vated to do the work at home. She needs a regular classroom structure to ensure she does the work. I know some kids can work independently but this is simply not the case for all children. I pray every night that school will resume in the fall with some semblance of a tradi@onal classroom atmosphere for it is absolutely impera@ve to my child's success. In my opinion everything that can be done to allow elementary school age children to be in the classroom in the fall should be done. Maybe make it op@onal for the kids who can handle working from home but for kids like my daughter there can be an actual class to aDend. Thank you for allowing me to voice my opinion, I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. Thank you. Parent Highland Terrace My daughter needs to be in school full @me. Remotel learning was terrible. SSD did an awful job geyng Elementary Preference is to not wear a mask. Please make this this going. It was so delayed and it was a mess. Our children op@onal. are so far behind in learning. It was so stressful on the children and families. They need to be in school with their peers and teachers learning.

466 Parent Highland Terrace My daughter needs to be in school or at the very least I am extremely disappointed with how Shoreline School Elementary have a regular structure with consistent daily district chose to handle distance learning. In comparison feedback/interac@on from her teacher. She is in first with other districts, it seems the level of instruc@on was grade and is learning to read, so she is not at the place poor/mee@ng the bare minimum of state expecta@on (if yet where she can be independent with her learning. even). The applica@on of resources felt very late and This means that my wife or I need to be consistently disjointed. I understand the logic of equity and not wan@ng with her which is difficult with work expecta@ons. to pass by students with disadvantaged means but it felt a bit Teacher-student contact was roughly an hour a week like Shoreline Schools was willing to allow all students to fail over two zoom calls so the burden of geyng her to do at the risk of disadvantaging a few. work fell primarily on us. There was no sense of accountability from the school about doing work and thus my daughter pushed back constantly, making the whole undertaking more difficult than produc@ve. Parent Highland Terrace My husband and I work full @me, our son needs to be I work in covid research so I understand the risks. But it’s Elementary in school to have interac@on and s@mula@on and insane to keep kids out of school this long. School should socializa@on. Time out of school has been very resume with split classrooms at least part @me and parents detrimental to our en@re family. can choose to send their kids or not. Online learning DOES NOT WORK for kindergarteners. The teachers made heroic efforts and it’s just not a good setup for young kids. Parent Highland Terrace My husband cannot get Covid-19 due to a preexis@ng Please come up with a different pla[orm than using Zoom Elementary condi@on. So we are leaning towards keeping our sons mee@ngs. Zoom is not secure. The week of signing up to at home next school year un@l a safe vaccine is made zoom, I used a sign in name and password unique to Zoom. I or the virus mutates to a safer form. The news report a promptly got lots of phishing emails from folks who knew my week ago about school being open 2020/2021 with a user name and password. So, please, get your IT people in full compliment of children in the classroom for six gear. This is not cool. Also, this pandemic is going to be hours didn't inspire confidence in us. So, our main here for a while. It's crazy to think it's going to magically go need at this @me is advice for online schooling. away. So, prepare for that. If nothing else, pretend you are K12.com has a public online school offering that has preparing for the next one. We have to figure out how to been recommended to me from various people keep doing what we do best within the constraints of social (homeschooling parents and two SeaDle school district distancing. An idea that would work for children that have teachers). Will you be offering something similar or to go to school because both parents must work: Split the beDer? Right now, what has been offered via Highland day in half. Make school efficient. Have half the students Terrace Elementary for our 1st grader has been too in school in the mornings and half in school in the ajernoons. easy for our son and too random. So, we have In Germany, students go to school un@l noon and then go supplemented his learning, especially in math and home to do their homework from 1st grade - 12 grade. Even reading and I have gone through grammar in hopefully while doing this they know more than kids in American a logical manner. We are not teachers, we are readers schools at the same age. (I experienced this personally while and lovers of knowledge. living there un@l I was 15.) Thanks for trying your best.

467 Parent Highland Terrace My kids are really having a hard @me with the social Online learning went ok. Naviga@ng some pla[orms and only Elementary piece. The kids their teachers and friends. They like using text boxes or a wonky mouse/non mouse on chrome instruc@on from their teacher, not mom! book was very challenging at @mes. Prin@ng and uploading was helpful but not always available- either it wasn’t printable or you had to take a screenshot etc

468 Parent Highland Terrace My kids need live learning from their teachers, ideally My high regard and respect for Shoreline School District was Elementary in-person, but if not possible, learning must happen greatly called into ques@on as we lagged behind most other over live, interac@ve video. Schedules, assignments, area district with geyng kids setup with grade specific and links, and learning tools need to be together in one school specific lessons, online learning pla[orm access, and place. Students must be able to have one on one computer distribu@on. Because grading wasn't permiDed interac@on with their teachers with some regularilty (due to equity issues, we were told), every single math and have access to their teachers for ques@ons and assignment my kids did went uncorrected. WriDen work and support. Essen@ally, the kids need a syllabus with all projects that my kids spent countless hours working on informa@on in one place, and the teachers need to received zero feedback about their work. How do kids know if hose open office hours for students and parents too. they are mastering a concept if their math assignments go uncorrected (and no answer key was provided)? To ask elementary age kids to do assignments that require adult support, like making posters or the design and build of video bubble wands, bridges, etc. for a household with a single working parent adds stress. Giving kids assignments and then making it op@onal is a double edge sword. My kids are rule followers and would not accept that assignments could be skipped or turned it late because that is what they have always learned from their teacher and parents. When an assignment required adult support and was due and the parent had to work, this created undue stress and nega@vely affected the emo@onal well-being of the household. We are a household with technology access, college-educated adults, English speakers, with a parent who can work from home. In spite of this immense privilege, the late and limited and confusing remote learning plan adversely affected the mental health of the kids and the parents causing undue stress and hardship and was not effec@ve for any kind of significant learning, even on a maintenance of skills level. I ojen wondered what my kids' incredibly talented and caring teachers were doing to only provide a single, brief video lesson each week. One brief video per teacher? One set of shared 60-minute per day lessons shared by all grade level classrooms? Surely there was addi@onal @me for the teachers to engage with students in small groups or one on one, to correct math and grammar assignments (even without giving a grade), to send a single email or make a call asking how the student was doing with remote learning? (We got one phone call and zero emails from our teachers during the 12 weeks 469 Parent Highland Terrace My kids need to be in school full @me. Distance My family will not be able to maintain any further distance Elementary learning was not successful. While we may have had learning. My kids are falling behind, and we don’t have the access to online resources, this is not a sufficient @me or resources to keep this up. Tutors need to be made replacement for being in school. My kids need to be in available for kids if any kind of distance learning is in place. a school seyng, with other kids, receiving proper instruc@on. With four kids in our household, and two adults that need to work full @me, at home learning is not sustainable and not realis@c in the fall. Parent Highland Terrace My kindergartener being able to go to school and My 2nd grader is fine with distant learning. Elementary interact with other kids and have a rou@ne away from home. Home = play /rest for her. Parent Highland Terrace My needs right now are for my daughter to receive her Elementary speech and OT therapy from school. It’s hard for me to handle her behavior since school has closed. Parent Highland Terrace My son needs face to face interac@on with his teacher Thank you for everything! Elementary and needs socializa@on with his friends. I am extremely concerned about how we will manage the next school year if we aren't able to physically aDend school. I am also concerned about young children wearing masks all day- I think it will be nearly impossible to manage and will have nega@ve health effects- both mental and physical. Parent Highland Terrace My son needs help with social/emo@onal skills and it I don’t feel comfortable sending my son back to school in the Elementary would be helpful if the special educa@on teacher had fall un@l there is a vaccine and hope that online distance personal check ins with him periodically rather than an learning is available as an op@on. op@onal zoom mee@ng. We found this unhelpful with the way the schedule was structured. Parent Highland Terrace My son receives speech services through the school Elementary district and I fear that he will fall behind even more if he doesn't get speech and the social interac@on with other kids.

470 Parent Highland Terrace My son who has dyslexia needs support. We went to a The video lessons that were given were inconsistent between Elementary mee@ng with the special ed teacher and it was not teachers. Some were super long(30min) and some were effec@ve. Not because of the teacher it was the other super short and not much direc@on was given. There were students who were distrac@ng and my son who needs also to may places assignments were placed we had to do a support had to endure schooling that was beneath his lot of clicking around. I wish everything was in google level. So we stopped going to the mee@ngs. classroom and easy to access and turn in. Some assignments were on PDFs that we had to convert into a google classroom doc which took @me away from my kids doing the work. My daughter's teacher did math zooms and that was very helpful. I wish there were more instruc@ons on zooms rather than playing games and connec@ng. While I feel that playing games and connec@ng are important there was never any instruc@on done via zoom other than the one teacher. Parent Highland Terrace My son will transi@on from elementary to middle In general I believe that if we need to move into remote Elementary school in the fall. I believe he (and other students) learning again we should increase teacher/student face @me were not able to completely achieve all the educa@onal (via zoom mee@ngs) and implement a feedback mechanisms gaps due to the pandemic. Therefore, I would love to where the teachers can evaulate the student's work, grade see addi@onal classes so students can catch up to and provide feedback to the students. In the last two successfully transi@on to their name grade. months I think it was hard for my son to stay mo@vated just by going through check lists without any direct feedback from the teacher. Parent Highland Terrace My student is most successful when she can learn by Elementary watching others. She is mo@vated most of all by doing what everyone else is doing and lacks the self- confidence to try it first. So without the teacher-led instruc@on and interac@on with classmates everyday, I am afraid she will fall even further behind both academically and socially. Parent Highland Terrace My student needs instruc@on from the teacher and I am very hopeful that instrumental music instruc@on will be Elementary ability to access the work and help learning. available. Independent learning is fine, but he didn’t receive any subject maDer instruc@on mee@ngs. He would greatly benefit from review and reteach if anything wasn’t understood.

471 Parent Highland Terrace There needs to be a beDer system in regards to delivering Elementary work that needs to be done, beDer tools (or processes) to finish the work (scan in work with phone and send it?), and FEEDBACK from the teacher as to whether the student successfully completed the work in ONE PLACE. The last part is cri@cal. I have no idea if the work my son has done is sa@sfactory. I don’t know how it affects his grades. I don’t know if he’s progressing appropriately. Here’s what I would love to see: Subjects that the student will learn (English, Math, etc). Each subject has a detailed list of concepts. Each concept has assignment(s). The assignment can either be done online or printed out. Leo would either finish it online or I would take a picture of it to upload. The teacher would then provide their feedback (if the system doesn’t automa@cally check the work) and is associated to the assignment. I would also like a day-to-day list of assignments provided weekly. These would link directly to the list described above. As it stands now, I have to jump between systems, etc. and I have no idea if we’re comple@ng the necessary work. I do like the flexibility, but I want to make sure he’s understanding the concept too! I would really like a single page to go to figure out what I need to do. It should include: - Assigned teacher and a way to get in contact with them! This may even lead to a calendar that we can schedule some @me with the teacher via phone or video. - List of classroom events (video events). Story @me, updates on a major assignment, etc. - The current week’s schedule of assignments separated by day. Each assignment would have its respec@ve status next to it, _and_ you could easily jump into the assignment by tapping the assignment’s link. - Master list of subjects, concepts, and assignments. This will help me know where we are in the school year, how fast my child is progressing, but also gives us the flexibility to do extra work if we’re going on a trip, etc. I can feel confident that he’s mee@ng the execta@on. Regarding the file list; it’s essen@ally a single webpage that lists everything in one master list. I don’t need graphics, menus, or any of that. It distracts from the content. It can be best though of like a file list that can be collapsable 472 Parent Highland Terrace Not sure small kids would be able to follow all safety Elementary precau@ons Parent Highland Terrace Our child has special needs and requires structured, in- Elementary person educa@onal instruc@on. Schooling from home just doesn’t work. Parent Highland Terrace Our kids need in person contact with a Qualified Yes back to the expecta@ons of teachers and School district.It Elementary teacher.Expecta@ons from School district were way to was expected that parents do what teachers do with 2hrs high.We need beDer instruc@on in logging into [email protected] it was that easy why do teachers need all the programs. Thanks qualifica@ons. I believe they do need to be highly trained but to expect parents to run with the ball is quite presumptuous. My kids academic learning stopped on 12th March and this is were it has to be started from. Thanks

473 Parent Highland Terrace Our needs at this @me is to have access to some type I have to elementary age children, . I did not Elementary of online games or apps that kids can access over the have someone contact me for a long @me about how to summer so that they can try to catch up to where they support my kids. I needed to reach out to get support. This should be or not fall even further behind. situa@on was very stressful for our family. My second grader would only do work if I was siyng with him. To manage both kids and answer ques@ons at the same @me could get very frustra@ng, especially since they both need addi@onal assistance. There were too many programs to log into and a need to take @me to learn how each applica@on worked. This was very frustra@ng. There were technical issues in the beginning that hindered access and then firguring out how to use each applica@on was very frustra@ng. I would have preferred to have even one or two 30 minute sessions with a small group and teacher during the week then have my kids watch recorded lessons. It is hard for a second grader to sit through mul@ple recorded lessons. If I didn't watch the lesson with him, then I ojen couldn't help him ajerwards. I would have to go back and watch the 20 min video so I could figure out what he needed to be doing. This is very @me consuming. Even though I am a stay at home parent, the amount of work I needed to do for my kids schooling was overwhelming. It was frustra@ng and hard to manage all of it with other commitments, I can no imagine how parents working from home were able to manage or keep up with their kids school work. Recorded lessons just do not take the place of live teaching. If my 4th grader had trouble with a math lesson, rewatching the recording did not help him. He needed a teacher available to help him through it. I was very frustrated that the onus of the teaching was put on the parents. I feel like there was more teaching that could have come from staff. Again, break up the class in to manageable sizes and do live teaching to small groups. Private schools were able to make this happen. We should have been able to have this on some level. Parent Highland Terrace par@al days are not likely to work for us due to work Seesaw was our favorite tool for learning. Having everything Elementary schedules. We need to know way in advance if School in one place is very necessary is not in person next year

474 Parent Highland Terrace protec@on from Covid 19. I am in the high risk category Elementary and need to keep me and my child safe. Parent Highland Terrace Providing a standard rou@ne that includes socializa@on Elementary with other children. Parent Highland Terrace Reopening when safe is the most important. We do not Should it be a borderline reopening families should have Elementary feel a rush to return to school if it is carries significant priority who have special need kids or family need to return risk. to school. Parent Highland Terrace Return of structured instruc@on and expecta@ons as I love a mixed schedule of in school and distance learning Elementary safely as is possible. I prefer some in person Or live that creates smaller in person class sizes but offers in person instruc@on of lessons accompanied by homework for interac@on. valida@on of understanding the concepts. Parent Highland Terrace Returning to in person school. Op@on for ajer school The teachers have been amazing. Elementary athle@cs (where social distancing can be maintained, such as cross country). Parent Highland Terrace Right now we are great. It would be helpful to have I think it's important to have consistency and transparency in Elementary some transi@oning plans in place especially for SPED the fall. We will be as flexible as we need to be, but would kids before the first day of school next year. have trouble with changing schedules from week to week. If it needs to be hybrid it would be nice for my child to be in school the same days of the week every week. My child will not be coopera@ve with distance learning so the in school @me will be very important for him. Parent Highland Terrace schools need to open - whether it be social distancing/ i think you guys did a wonderful job this year with the senior Elementary different schedule, my high schooler and kindergarten students, heartbreaking for them but good job!! students will need some structure and to have some normalcy again. Parent Highland Terrace Schools need to open, at least for the elementary kids. Open schools. And come up with a reasonable online learning Elementary Distant learning was a complete joke for my environment. Anything else is unacceptable. kindergartner and very disappoin@ng. Parent Highland Terrace Services - I have three kids Please priori@ze students who need addi@onal support in the Elementary I need classroom to aDend in the fall. There was a huge loss in more than just support accessing the classroom progress for all those students who need help to be learning requirements - but their actual services of successful. speech, adjusted learning expecta@ons, social groups, counseling groups, etc.

475 Parent Highland Terrace Single resource for accessing tasks/ac@vi@es. Lots of Elementary links to disparate loca@ons was confusing and difficult at @mes. It was par@cularly easy to use the online sojware. Also, flexibility and less work load. Parent Highland Terrace Social needs is my primary concern. I know teachers had to make a lot of adjustments very quickly Elementary this year, but I felt like our teacher was disengaged and it showed. Only the very minimum requirements were met and only by the exact date the government required. The only @me I heard from the teacher was in a once/week en@re class email. If we missed the only 30 minute zoom class for the week - then that email was the only contact we had. I realize teachers have lives too. For our child, we created our own homeschool curriculum despite also caring for our other non- school age children, having 2 full-@me working parents, and losing childcare - because educa@on is important. I wish I would have seen the same passion from our teacher. The last 4 weeks of school, we did not use any of the school provided curriculum as it did not meet the needs of our child. The teacher never reached out to see why we weren’t accessing resources. I would like a distance op@on next year - but teacher engagement is just as important as family engagement in geyng this to be successful. Parent Highland Terrace Social-emo@onal needs. She has experienced anxiety Seesaw was not a great pla[orm for us - I wish I had had the Elementary during this pandemic, and is very nervous about the op@on to download worksheets and print them out to be idea of going back to school and being near other done at home and then photo/upload rather than having to people/possible exposure to coronavirus. spend so much @me on devices doing work. It would be helpful to get a beDer picture of longer term learning goals, rather than just weekly learning plans. We can progress at our own pace then. It felt unfair that teachers for 1st grade were not doing any instruc@on on Zoom calls. My daughter wanted to con@nue learning from her teacher, and it was purely social. Parent Highland Terrace Socializa@on Elementary Parent Highland Terrace Socializa@on with other children is most needed at this Elementary @me.

476 Parent Highland Terrace Socioemo@onal needs of a primary student and rigor to The community of a classroom is important. One zoom Elementary encourage higher learning mee@ng a week where most @me was spent with “sharing” was not the most effect use of @me (even in regards to socioemo@onal needs). The videos lessons that were daily (or at least more than one @me a week) we’re helpful. Parent Highland Terrace Special educa@on services This did not work for our family, especially our son with and Elementary IEP! He had no mo@va@on and seemed confused and unable to keep track of what was going on in his assignment! He had no modifica@ons made to any of his schoolwork! He gets pulled out for the resource room for reading and math and was doing exactly what his classmates were expected to do with a struggle! Parent Highland Terrace Structure Socializa@on with other kids Contact with See Saw was very tedious for my 1st grader. The overall Elementary teachers pla[orm was fine, but the “wri@ng feature” was horrible. Adding boxes to and formayng them to answer every math ques@on was extremely tedious. Parent Highland Terrace Structured instruc@on from professional teachers! As a I’m very hopeful that kids will be back in classrooms in the Elementary parent with no teaching background, working full @me fall. I’m not concerned if they have to wear masks, wash at home with two kids, we need a real teacher for true hands 100x a day or have limited large group ac@vi@es. My learning and growth. Teachers have the magic touch main priority is having grade-level experts teach my son and and exper@se that we miss greatly. Socializa@on with geyng him back into a school rou@ne. peers will also greatly benefit my son. Parent Highland Terrace Support and guidance for adjus@ng to middle school Canvas and teachers' use of it will require more uniformity Elementary rou@nes/expecta@ons/systems (i.e. Canvas). Alignment and clarifica@on for parents to support at home. of school schedule with sibling's school schedule. Flexibility/grace regarding assignments/due dates/ grades due to poten@ally atypical school schedules and family schedules. Parent Highland Terrace Teachers teaching ALL the kids everyday. Not just the Distance learning was a disaster for kids with ADHD and Elementary highly capable ones. au@sm. Models of educa@on during the pandemic catered to neurotypical kids and lej the others struggling. It was three months of frustra@on for kids and parents and minimizing by teachers. The online classroom links were not easy to access and very liDle if any help from teachers on how to get the learning. Very frustra@ng for my child and myself.

477 Parent Highland Terrace Tes@ng of all students/teachers on a daily basis Hand Elementary washing and sani@zer sta@ons Support for the kids More direc@on/content from the teachers Parent Highland Terrace Thank to you all for all that's been done to support The risk of children geyng Covid 19 and it being dangerous Elementary students and families during this @me. We need our to their health is very low. The risks for people to pass Covid children to return to an in-person school schedule, 19 amongst ourselves without symptoms has also been geyng the educa@on and development they need, shown in studies to be low, while it's the high viral load that academically, socially, and emo@onally. Also, this is passes the virus...With screening i.e. temperature checks/ needed to return to regular employment to support ques@on for symptoms together with finding a way for higher our family. risk employees to support students in ways other than in- person, I have no qualms about my children returning to school. In addi@on having students/employees with symptoms quaran@ne sensibly should be required. Wearing masks in school is not realis@c or equitable, masks should be op@onal. Social distancing is unrealis@c and could impede the educa@on and development of students. Thank you~ Parent Highland Terrace The availability of online learning programs. This is not I don't think the virus is quite as bad as the media makes it Elementary new technology. I did an en@re Masters degree online. out, but do you really want to test this on our children? I Get it working! In person learning is archaic. Even don't, and I won't. My child will not be aDending in person without this virus, online learning should be an op@on school un@l a vaccine is available and infec@on rates are for everyone. At least cut in person to part @me. This extremely low. I expect most people feel the same way about will save the district so much money. You can afford to their children. Put all of the districts efforts into geyng con@nue to pay the teachers who will provide the online learning up to speed. online learning, but cut the cost of maintaining so many physical spaces. I get that personal interac@on is important, but we don't need it every day.

478 Parent Highland Terrace The district needs to have con@ngency plans for all The elementary videos were helpful in showing examples of Elementary possible scenarios that could occur BEFORE the school how to complete an assignment, but were way too long. A year starts, as well as a plan of ac@on in case learning 2nd grader does not have the aDen@on span to watch a video moves to all online if schools have to close again in the for 20 minutes (unless it's Lego Ninjago). One idea we had future. while working with our students is that spliyng it would help. This way, students can get started on their assignment at the point the lesson/instruc@on is given. Then, if they get stuck, or need extra help, they can refer to the second half of the video. There is no need to walk through every example when one is necessary. Please provide paper copies from the school or PDFs for parents to print (or both?) for assignments that the kids can write on. A 2nd grader cannot be expected to easily navigate typing a computer keyboard while grasping the English language in a @mely manner. On the Seesaw assignments where there was a request for a text entry AND a recorded reading on the same page, if the microphone was used first, the op@on for entering a text entry was completely removed from the tabs on the side. It's an easy workaround (do the text entry first), but we learned the hard way- probably something simple for teachers to men@on to families. We had problems with Seesaw on our home laptop and had to manipulate it with both my cell phone and the computer (even ajer downloading the most current Chrome browser as recommended). Bouncing back and forth between devices made it difficult to find or access assignments, or to access teacher comments. We loved the library, PE and music lesson videos- please con@nue those. Those teachers were so crea@ve in the way they made their material accessible to us for home use. My child looked forward to those when he saw them on the schedule. We liked the civics lessons- wish there could be some more of those. Is there a way to know in advance the competencies my child will be expected to learn each quarter or semester? It was difficult during this @me to not know how to help or prepare him for what to expect each @me we opened a weekly plan. It would be nice to know in advance so that we are beDer able to support at home and to help guide him while he is working. We are very interested in trying to advance our children's learning as much as we are able to 479 Parent Highland Terrace The hybrid plan as soon as possible so we can Elementary somehow figure out childcare. Even a date when that decision would be coming out would be helpful. Parent Highland Terrace The most important thing that I think my kids will need Elementary for the fall is connec@on with their teacher and classmates for socializa@on (how ever that has to look to maintain standards and guidelines set by the DOH). I am lucky that both my children are decent learners and a few months of curriculum will hopefully not make or break their elementary school educa@on. I think that hardest part was siyng back the first 3-4 weeks we weren't in school and geyng very liDle from our 2nd grade teacher in terms of engagement. There were no coordinated/teacher lead zoom calls un@l ajer Spring Break if I remember correctly which would have been 5 weeks!!! ajer school let out. I understand at the 2nd grade level the teachers were really wan@ng to make sure their math and English was being taught - how was it not a requirement for teachers to get on zoom EVERY DAY and present those lessons to the kids. If a child wasn't able to par@cipate the lesson could have been recorded and uploaded for the child to watch when they were able. At most we got 3-4 lessons taped a week from all 2nd grade teachers at HT. There were 3 teachers. I have nothing but LOVE and respect and admira@on for a teacher's job and heart but it honestly lej like many were puyng in far less hours than what they are contracted and paid to do. The kids deserve 100% from ALL teachers in the district. The bar should be high and I felt like this Spring so many teachers were just surviving the weeks. What more did they need from the district to FLY and carry their students with them!? I am all for grace and pa@ence... but by fall I would hope we have learned a thing or 2.

480 Parent Highland Terrace The online schooling this past year did work at all for Elementary my child. There was no willingness on my child's end to watch a video or read an ar@cle to teach himself how to complete a homework assignment. There was not a single one on one session via video conferencing with his teacher. This was not a successful program for us. Parent Highland Terrace The safety of my children’s health and reducing We think that our son’s instruc@on in 3rd grade became Elementary spread is the most important thing. We have the more effec@ve by the teachers in his grade pooling their flexibility to be able to make decisions for this to resources and coming up with lesson designs and delivery remain our number one goal. If you decide to go back together. He also learned a lot from the supplemental to school in any fashion and our needs of an ongoing material they provided to support the main lessons. We saw reduc@on of cases in our county is not met, we hope a sharp increase in quality of the lessons as @me progressed. that you con@nue to provide an online op@on so we He got a lot out of Khan Academy instruc@on because it was can make the choice to stay home and s@ll have the instructor led, more so than Bridges which seemed to be just structure and guidance from our school and problems to solve and you had to read the explana@on to professional educators. We know many people cannot understand the why. I would like more things “due†make this decision but we can help reduce class sizes elec@vely if the online op@on is provided. Parent Highland Terrace The thing that is most concerning to me is how I will Elementary handle the learning for three kids, 3rd grade and under, if they are home in the fall. I am concerned about being able to give each kid the appropriate aDen@on, especially if things are scheduled at the same @me. Parent Highland Terrace Thoughts: Return to school full @me, keep 4th & 5th Elementary grade class sizes smaller if possible, similar to third grade this year. Eat lunch outside whenever possible or in class room, no large lunch room or assemblies. Use the field at highland terrace to spread out students, run smaller recess groups. No drinking fountains, use water boDle filing sta@ons. Buses not needed if a concern. Thank you for the survey! Parent Highland Terrace To get our kid(s) back into an educa@on program with Elementary teachers in a classroom

481 Parent Highland Terrace To have my child return to in-person school. Online Homeschooling is not sustainable for working parents. We Elementary learning at home is not working with the way it was set received weekly, not daily, updates from our teacher. For this up these past 3 months. My own work is increasing next school year, we need DAILY VIDEO SCHOOLING, NOT next school year, so I cannot monitor my child's WEEKLY, if school will be kept online. We need a daily video learning and well-being as a working parent very schooling @meline with required par@cipa@on for MULTIPLE effec@vely while also geyng in my own exercise and HOURS PER DAY. Also, face masks can really make all the ac@vi@es for well-being. difference in the world if worn properly. However the "cure" will be trifold - through natural involuntary immunity, a vaccine, and other treatments that will be available prior to a vaccine. Parent Highland Terrace To know what to expect in the fall so I can prepare my Highland Terrace teacher did a fabulous job given the Elementary 8 year old. circumstances. I appreciate the weekly schedule sent out with links to learning modules and clear instruc@ons about assignments. Parent Highland Terrace To return to in person classes in the fall! Elementary school students go back full-@me. Smaller class Elementary sizes for fourth and fijh grade as we had this year in third grade. My son was much healthier. Parents and provide an@bacterial wipes and hand sani@zer. No need for drinking fountains students should bring water boDles have water boDle filling sta@ons. Eat lunch outside whenever possible with your class away from other classes. Spread out children during recesses and use the lower field at Highland Terrace to spread out kiddos, smaller batch lunch and recess. Thank you! Parent Highland Terrace Tradi@onal, at school, structured learning for our Through this Covid @me of school out and transi@oning to Elementary students to maintain their trajectory of learning. online/home based learning I was disappointed with the flexibility of the Shoreline School District. It took too long to get setup with the at home learning. I realize this is very unusual but we need the leadership of the district to be decisive. Parent Highland Terrace Transparency, Solidarity, Protec@on from harm We are concerned about all students mental health and need Elementary (selected from Singer’s 10 Key Values). social emo@onal support / coaching in the classrooms

482 Parent Highland Terrace We are in preDy good shape, I'm able to be here and We are worried that this will stunt the growth of our child's Elementary make sure my student is following his plan... I'm not so educa@on. With this covid disrup@on we fear the educa@onal sure others are. arc will be altered and are concerned with how this is being handled. I also think it is important to realize that with the covid restric@ons that if my student is out with a fever he will miss 14 days of school. 14 days is not easily made up. Would is possible to webcast all the classes so students who will miss won't fall further behind. Also expand subs@tute teacher pools in the likely event a teacher gets a fever. Thank you Parent Highland Terrace We are new to having a child in school. Both parents Elementary work full @me and we are anxious about how before and ajer school care is going to work as well as what we will do if he cannot aDend school in person. We do not have family in the area. Parent Highland Terrace We need in person instruc@on to ensure learning and Elementary growth at an age appropriate rate. Parent Highland Terrace We need our kiddo to get instruc@on that meets her Elementary grade level. We don't want to fall behind. We need socializa@on and human interac@on. And we need to be able to return to work, which means we need the kiddo to have safe childcare. However, we understand that this may not be possible... Parent Highland Terrace We need teacher lead classroom learning and I can’t be back at work if I don’t have consistent Elementary childcare. childcare that doesn’t cost me extra money. I would rather her be in a classroom learning with tons of kids then at an expensive daycare with tons of kids. Parent Highland Terrace We need to return to school. My children miss their THANK YOU TO ALL SHORELINE TEACHERS--YOU'RE Elementary teachers, their friends, and a schedule they can count INCREDIBLE AND YOUR HARD WORK IS NOTICED ADN on. APPRECIATED!! Parent Highland Terrace We would like our children back in school in the fall in Elementary some form but support a limited schedule or split @me home/school. Limited numbers in the classrooms seems important. Parent Highland Terrace We would like our children back in school in the fall in Elementary some form but support part @me home/school and smaller class sizes.

483 Parent Highland Terrace We would really need our children to go back to in Both our children were behind in some areas, especially math Elementary person classroom seyng because we found both our and reading. They need the in person support, playing games kids do not learn well from computers. on a computer is them just geyng through the game, they aren’t retaining anything. They just wanted to complete the game because we required them to do so. We also both work full @me. Their grandma is with them while we are at work and is unable to do the schoolwork with them. We have to do schoolwork once we get home from work and we are @red from a long day at work and the kids have no mo@va@on at all to do it when now it’s @me for dinner and close to bed @me! It’s just doesn’t work for our family! Parent Highland Terrace With my son's IEP, he was geyng direct assistance one Having two students at two different schools worries me that Elementary hour a day/4x week. Zoom learning was in a group they may be put on a different schedule. i work for the seyng and was very general. Although he loved seeing district and in order for me to go back to work in the building, his teacher and the students, there wasn't any learning I need BOTH of my kids to go to school on the same day! or growth in regards to his needs. I feel he lost valuable @me. Parent Highland Terrace Younger kids such as kindergarten and first grade need ) was awful at Elementary to go to school. Online learning for them just communica@ng about assignments once things went remote. doesn’t work. For other kids, the teachers must There was no acknowledgement that any assignments were provide feedback on the assignments including basic received nor any feedback to the student whether they got things like “yes, you turned it in successfully†any answers right or wrong. So, my ques@on is... were any guidelines, requirements, or expecta@ons given to the teachers for how they would assign and review work? And, if so, does the school district have a way to review or verify those requirements/guidelines are actually being followed?

484 Parent Highland Terrace Your survey is not structured in a way that allows me to Elementary answer ques@ons regarding all my children. This year I had 5th grade twins at Highland Terrace, an eighth grader at Einstein, and a sophomore at Shorewood High. In all cases, I feel the real learning essen@ally stopped for these children the minute the schools closed. Teachers did eventually reach out with Zoom classes, weekly learning plans etc. although it took Shoreline much longer to start up a virtual learning plan than other school districts. Addi@onally, the quality of the program eventually stood up was very poor. Students school work was no longer graded and most work was geared as extra credit to get currently low grades up. Lastly, teachers varied greatly in their ability to teach effec@vely in a virtual environment. Some did well, while others just gave up. If Shoreline is going to con@nue a virtual school program to any extent, it needs to be robust and promote high quality learning that challenges our students and prepares them for the next grade level and/or college. Our teachers also need to be taught how to teach effec@vely in this environment. Parent Highland Terrace At the onset of school closing, trying to figure out what we, Elementary as parents, needed to do to keep educa@ng our kids was very unclear. Even teachers seemed unable to know how to maneuver through everything. But as @me went on, it was much beDer. I'm hoping if these happens again, the school/ teachers will be beDer prepared to that we can get clear direc@on from the get-go. Also, it would be nice to know what skills they should be 'mastering' to help them feel prepared for the next grade level. Thanks. Parent Highland Terrace Beyond the health concern, we are very concerned about the Elementary emo@onal impacts of requiring masks, 6j distancing, lack of recess or other physical ac@vi@es. I know that my children would not learn well in that type of situa@on.

485 Parent Highland Terrace Even though we were able to get some of the assignments Elementary completed, it was a struggle to keep our student engaged. If e are to teach our students from home again, more class @me would be helpful, or smaller groups so that the students can relate/talk to their teacher without to many students seeking aDen@on at the same @me. Also, reading has been a struggle but we keep encouraging and moving forward. Parent Highland Terrace Helping my kids during the past few months stay focused and Elementary on task has been a full @me job. Literally. I don't know how families do it with parents working, and I know many have given up. Faced with poten@al lay offs in my husbands' company, I am torn between being available for my kids home learning or star@ng a new career. As much as we respect and support our Shoreline teachers, we have been dismayed by the lack of expecta@ons, communica@on, and feedback to my kids. We are considering looking at online school, as much as I hate the idea of that. My kids need to be around other kids, in as much a "normal" way as possible. Parent Highland Terrace I appreciate the sincerity that the school district is taking with Elementary this virus. Some of the video messages from addi@onal staff were well received ( Parent Highland Terrace I don’t think the zoom calls for my 1st grader were Elementary effec@ve. They were great for my 3rd grader. The teacher did not respond to emails. Parent Highland Terrace I took on the teaching of math to my student, because the Elementary online lessons were inadequate to her needs in that subject. She requires in person explana@ons and lots of extra @me to learn some of the material. It created the opportunity to fill in gaps in her knowledge that had made the subject such a struggle for her the past few years. So for math, it was actually beDer for my student not to be in the typical school environment.

486 Parent Highland Terrace If online instruc@on con@nues in the fall, I would like to see Elementary more "live" interac@on between teacher and students, possibly in the form of a live online instruc@on with teacher and a small group of students (even if it is only par@al). Recorded lessons did not work well and neither did a virtual dialog / back and forth on assignments submiDed and returned from teacher with comments on changes / improvements needed. Once a week zoom mee@ngs with en@re class were good to keep in touch with everyone, but more frequent connec@ons with the teacher are required, in my opinion, for ac@ve learning to occur. Parent Highland Terrace If schools move to split schedules, siblings at the same school Elementary should aDend on the same day. Parent Highland Terrace If spliyng scheduled days at school, really need to have Elementary siblings on the same schedule. Parent Highland Terrace It is really quite impossible to meet the academic and social Elementary needs of our student using a remote learning model with two full @me working parents. Our family struggled, even to deliver content at the kindergarten level this spring. In the end, we hope that our student did not lose any skills and he certainly did not gain new skills since March. Moving through curriculum took us about 3 hours each day even with the district goal being only 45 minutes a day. We are anxious about the poten@al for remote first grade- the balance with learning and our jobs is not sustainable for long.

487 Parent Highland Terrace More than a month passed ajer school closed in March for Elementary there to be really any ELearning or formal communica@on with the school. By that @me we had already adopted our own homes school’ educa@on rou@ne. The only way in my opinion that ELearning is going to work is if there is more structure to it in the fall: - Structured coursework - required aDendance - assignments with due dates, tests, etc. Perhaps it could be done in half day sessions. I also realize that some kids will need addi@onal social, physical, or nutri@onal help, but I would suggest making those op@onal for kids in need. I also think it will be really hard to send the kids back for in person educa@on in the fall without at least some advancements on the medical side. Parent Highland Terrace My daughter is in a self-contained classroom for special ed. Elementary Home schooling has been non-existent in our home. Both her parents are working from home and my daughter needs constant instruc@on to follow school tasks. Videos of teachers she would not watch. She didn't recognize them as school. Parent Highland Terrace Obviously, "class" was beDer toward the end of the term Elementary when we all had a beDer grasp of what we needed to do. We like Kahn academy but our math teacher's videos were beDer. In the scenario of home learning next year it would be great if teachers could maybe meet/zoom with a few students at a @me either for a full lesson or to answer ques@ons on assignments. I think my son would have really benefited having some teacher @me instead of mom being the teacher. Parent Highland Terrace Parent support was lacking, It felt like parents were lej out to Elementary dry. Teachers emailed and said to ask ques@ons if needed but there were no group parent zooms to discuss confusion, how to teach a certain thing/topic, no check ins from teachers or staff with how they are coping with full @me teaching. Major problem is no grading was done. No accountability. How do they expect kids to see the point in learning if there are no grades? That made no sense to have kids do a weekly schedule with no benefit of geyng a grade on the effort and work.

488 Parent Highland Terrace Schools/grade levels across the district MUST align in the Elementary amount of lessons and work required. The range of expecta@on for lesson prep provided by the union is too loose. Some schools are mee@ng in with kids in Zooms 5 @mes a week -- others barely once a week. Some schools are allowing teachers to put out a minimal amount of work for students -- while others are producing much more meaningful work. Lots of chaDer among families/parents and comparison going on. It would benefit ALL kids in the district the teachers/grades/buildings to align in their remote learning expecta@ons. Parent Highland Terrace Students need to be at school. They need to be in person Elementary with their teachers and classmates. If "at home school" is necessary in the fall then a daily schedule and teaching @me with teachers is necessary via Zoom. My child's teachers did a fantas@c job - it was challenging for me to have the @me to figure out what my child needed to be doing because there were many links to various ac@vi@es. Parent Highland Terrace Thank you for thinking ahead! The sooner we have Elementary informa@on about next year, the beDer! Parent Highland Terrace Thank you for your efforts. Elementary Parent Home Educa@on Clear communica@on and expecta@ons. Please find a way to open the playgrounds again. Exchange Parent Home Educa@on Clear communica@on and expecta@ons. Please find a way to open playgrounds again. Exchange Parent Home Educa@on Clear communica@on from the school and district. Some of the people handing out lunches were very hos@le to Exchange Understanding from staff. my husband when he picked up lunch for our son. We had previously been told that kids didn’t need to be present to pick up lunch, but on several occasions, they were very rude to him and acted like he was lying when he said he was picking up food for a child. Most of the @me, the people serving lunch were pleasant and respec[ul. But those few @mes were terribly unpleasant and made us feel like garbage for geyng the lunches. I truly hope that no one else had the same experience, because it made an already stressful @me acutely more stressful.

489 Parent Home Educa@on Emo@onal support and pa@ence with child Thank you for the communica@ons via email especially during Exchange this @me Parent Home Educa@on Reading books! Curriculum and books. Exchange Parent Home Educa@on Socializa@on I don't believe the numbers of asymptoma@c carriers is high Exchange enough for concern and my pediatrician (at Richmond Beach Pediatrics) said kids are not major carriers of this. Parent Home Educa@on Socializa@on with other children. We already Exchange homeschooled prior to enrolling in the HEE so learning at home was never a problem. One of the main reasons we joined the HEE was to meet and be around other kids. Parent Home Educa@on Socializa@on with other children. We homeschooled Exchange prior to enrolling in the HEE so learning at home was not an issue. But one of the main reasons we enrolled in the HEE was the opportunity to interact in person with other teachers/parents/students and build community. That's what we've missed the most during the closure. Parent Home Educa@on Student/staff safety, social/emo@onal learning for kids, Announcing plan as early as possible would be super helpful Exchange social interac@on between students, curriculum and so parents can plan accordingly. I realize this may need to lessons that can be modified to challenge learners if change, but having a rough idea of what we think will happen they understand concepts. sooner than later would be nice. Parent Home Educa@on The in-person zoom class mee@ngs were the most Exchange helpful to us. The smaller zoom mee@ngs with kid interac@on were the best (works for up to about 8-9 kids).

490 Parent Home Educa@on The most important thing is that my child will not be My child will not come back to school at the HEE if there is a Exchange part of a mask and social distant situa@on. This will mask and social distancing requirement. You are going to developmentally affect children for the rest of their loose a lot of families - even those of us at the HEE who lives. They need to play. They need to read facial homeschool anyway, if these requirements are in place. My expressions. They need to hug and learn to be friends. kid needs to be at the school socializing and running around They don’t need to stand at a measured space, talk on the playground during down@me, living free and learning through muffles, have a hard @me breathing, feel from adults, older kids and younger kids. He needs to work uncomfortable all day and live in an abnormally with people in person and cul@vate rela@onships. I chose sani@zed environment. Having a zoom class for a all of his classes for 2020/21 based on them being Zoom regular mee@ng (even once a week) would have been dependent. good for my kid to maintain regular contact with peers and teachers since the world is so “off†Parent Home Educa@on I think school should con@nue to be distanced and online in Exchange the Fall. Parent Home Educa@on We have a mul@genera@onal household and have been Exchange following strict isola@on guidelines to protect our elder and higher risk family members. We would appreciate flexibility in whether/when to return to in-person classes. We also understand that others will need school for childcare and services. We trust that the school district will make the decisions necessary to reduce risk as much as is possible. Parent Kellogg Middle - More interac@ve teaching. There was preDy much no School interac@ve teaching this year and the few Zoom mee@ngs were more to just connect again. Connec@on is good, but with middle school students, I would think they could successfully handle classes via Zoom (or other conferencing sojware) where they could do real learning. - More feedback from teachers. No assignments were graded so it was impossible to tell if the assignment was done correctly or if the kids were actually learning the subject. - A more comprehensive learning plan. We got assignments, but as parents, it is basically impossible to know what the teacher's goals are for the assignment and what the students are expected to learn. Having more comprehensive plans for assignments/units would make this easier.

491 Parent Kellogg Middle 1) Health and safety. 2) Actual learning rather than School sustainment. 3) Structure 4) Learning paced to individuals rather than generic Parent Kellogg Middle 1. If the teachers could make sure that the videos they If possible, if the teachers could provide more notes and less/ School make or aDach, func@onal and confirm that the reasonable homeworks, because I no@ced my son spending students get the intended lessons or messages by using more @me to finish one teacher's homework while the other the videos. In most cases the videos did func@on on teachers' were accumula@ng. The gap created between the the chrome book and my son had to skip them. 2. It is teachers and the students, demand the students more @me obvious that the students do not get adequate to understand a lesson than when they interact with their interac@on @me with their teachers and it is not as teachers in person. good as inperson interac@on. Therefore, it will help the students beDer if they get brief notes that summarize each topic they learn so that they can study them. Parent Kellogg Middle 1. Improvement of social life and ac@vi@es at school. 2. First of all, we'd like to thank all the teachers and staff for all School A solid educa@on, especially in math and social study. the efforts and @me they made for our children during this unprecedented @me. Unfortunately, we feel online learning this @me was not great and did not work well for the learning purpose. Most of the zoom mee@ngs were used not for learning but rather for the teachers to check the box. Sadly, we found it was was@ng @me except a few. Also, we had the impression that the amount of HW was excessive for students who are taking all honor classes. We hope that online learning would become more interes@ng and useful if our children have to do it again in the new school year.

492 Parent Kellogg Middle 1. Our child very much needs social interac@on, I watched a group of 6th graders gather in a local School whether that is in-person or online. In addi@on to the neighborhood last month to wish their teacher happy structured class calls, I would love to see op@ons for birthday. NONE of the children who were in the street elec@ve or enrichment opportuni@es online with other together maintained social distance; in fact they were drawn students. 2. As parents, we need reassurance that in- to one another like magnets. This was frightening for me person learning will not be required unless STRICT when I think about how difficult it will be to manage this on a social distancing is maintained. I deeply ques@on the large scale if school returns to in-person learning. None of the ability to make this happen in Shoreline schools given parents of these children thought to intervene and separate how overcrowded they already are. Tiny elementary them; I can't imagine what it would be like for distracted classrooms were packed with 28+ students since we teachers and staff to try to do this all day every day. If the enrolled our child in kindergarten here. I just don't see issue hadn't also become so terribly poli@cized, I'd feel more how a six-foot distance can be established with confident. But knowing that some kids in the district may be anything other than a modified aDendance schedule. geyng mixed messages at home about mask-wearing and the dangers of the virus makes me nervous about a return to school in the fall. Parent Kellogg Middle A safe and educa@onal environment. Remote learning School has been subpar for middle school classes. Parent Kellogg Middle A structure to our day is most important. Even if we School con@nue remote learning, check-ins with the teacher are crucial. Same @me every day or every other day to keep my kid accountable. He does best with in person teaching, but having the accountability in a new distance learning model would help him be successful. Parent Kellogg Middle A way to get my reluctant student to want to I appreciate that the teachers tried. School par@cipate in school ac@vi@es even for classes they don't like, without it being a huge disciplinary issue at home -- I value their mental health and too much pressure at the beginning was causing issues, so I had to back off. Their grades suffered because of this.

493 Parent Kellogg Middle Academically: Maintaining standards for the core Assuming masks will be required; we would like to see a half- School subjects; Math, Science, English. We would day approach that allows for only half the students in school, understand if elec@ve classes were sacrificed to ensure with remote work for the other half of the day. distancing. Medically: Doing what must be done to meet the state of the pandemic in Fall 2020; which is difficult to predict now. We believe that studying in a mask for 7 hours would be more damaging to a child's focus on their educa@on than con@nuing with remote learning. Parent Kellogg Middle Access to all of the expected content for grade level Equity is important, but holding back the kids that do have School curriculum - assignments in the spring felt very light access and support does not benefit ANYONE. We were told (math seemed to be on track, but there were few that teaching could not be conducted via zoom in case there science experiments and essen@ally no wri@ng, social were students who were unable to aDend at a specific @me. studies, etc.) Visibility to all assignments and their If we have issued devices to everyone, then we need to status, including anything incomplete from previous provide the content in the most effec@ve way (record for weeks. Hoping Canvas and other tools will help with others to watch later?). In a vacuum of content from the this as we transi@on to middle school. Concerned district, there is a greater benefit to students whose parents that kids will be at different places based on the are available to teach them and who know the material learning they were able to accomplish remotely. I think themselves--this is a far greater inequity than having to watch there is a risk to charging forward with the assump@on a recorded zoom session! We cannot con@nue to fall behind that everyone is fully at grade level, but I also think we the curriculum and expect not to have huge problems in the did a reasonable job of keeping up and don't want to future. have to sit through reteaching of missed material when we do return and either miss or rush through the 6th grade curriculum. I am guessing this would require teaching the scheduled curriculum and having some sort of progress assessment in order to help the kids catch up where they need to? Parent Kellogg Middle Actual accountability in the form of real grading and School real content. The lessons were so simple, that learning was halted and my child disengaged. Please do not lesson the rigor just to ensure engagement. I feel that does the opposite. My child will learn best at school, in a physical classroom.

494 Parent Kellogg Middle Adults in community to be good role models and School exhibit good behavior that protects public health. Communicate expecta@ons to children about such behaviors in firm and respec[ul way. Help everyone understand that if we all behave respec[ully according to science, we all have a beDer chance of returning to in-person schooling at a greater capacity, sooner. Parent Kellogg Middle All children need to be at school daily for in person in All children need to be at school daily for in person in person School person instruc@on by qualified teachers. If need be, instruc@on by qualified teachers. This is essen@al for their skip all the nonessen@al subjects and focus only on future success! They will have already been out of school for English, math, science, history. Then split the school 6 months by September! And while I know the teachers did day into 2...a morning and ajernoon session. Half kids their best, I think we all know that the home learning was go to the morning the other half go in ajernoon. This NOT sufficient. Kids MUST return to in person instruc@on doubles the capacity. from QUALIFIED teachers. Parent Kellogg Middle As a parent trying to keep her kid on task, the hardest We’d like to thank all teachers and staff for their heroic School thing about home learning was the lack of shij to online learning and the care and support that has standardiza@on. Each teacher had their own way of been so clearly expressed even in a remote environment. conveying informa@on and assignments which was at @mes difficult to follow. My daughter had to email some teachers for clarifica@on regularly, which added to their workload. Consistency and standardiza@on would help both teachers and students reduce these back-and-forth clarifica@ons and minimize late/missed assignments in a remote learning environment. Sugges@ons for standardized use of CANVAS: 1. Agree on the content that all teachers’ front pages will convey. For example, a one-stop-shop list of links to the teacher’s assigned/specific resources in a standard format would be helpful; have a concise, standard format 2. Agree on whether/how these op@ons will be used - Announcements, Assignments, Grades, Discussions, Quizzes, Modules, etc. There are too many choices that are listed in different orders and used by teachers in different ways. 3. Consistent naming conven@ons for all assignments. This was by far the most difficult aspect of trying to keep up with home learning. For example, “June 8: Assignmentâ€

495 Parent Kellogg Middle Balanced workload amongst the teachers. Safety our School children wet Covid19 Parent Kellogg Middle BeDer organiza@on by teachers and beDer adapta@on I am very concerned about my child aDending school this fall School by teachers to distance teaching, e.g., via zoom other if there is no vaccine. I don't know how schools can teaching tools. I feel that teachers completely failed to responsibly open. Schools, like jails, bars, and meat-packing be effec@ve ajer stay-at-home began. This may have plants, are areas of high contact where infec@ons are easily been their fault or they may have been given too few passed on to others and then to families. This is obvious tools or guidance on how to be effec@ve. from the number of colds and flu infec@ons that people get every @me kids go back to school. Schools are incubators for communicable disease. On the other hand, my son has definitely suffered from not being physically present in school. It has affected him socially and academically. There is not much that can be done socially, but the teachers completely failed my son academically ajer stay-at-home orders came out. He needs a structured teaching environment, needs to be required to meet deadlines and to check in with his teachers--and e-mail is not good enough. He needs at least a weekly zoom conversa@on. Incidentally, listening to me nag him about doing his work is not that mo@va@ng to him. Furthermore, teachers never communicated a schedule of learning expecta@ons to me. took a geometry class this semester through the WSU remote learning program where there was minimal contact with the "teacher" (she never actually taught; all lessons were computerized, so she had mostly a secretarial/ bureaucra@c role), but there was a weekly progress report by the "teacher" that at least allowed me to know how far behind my son was and how much I should nag him to catch up. It was stressful, but he did finish on @me with an A average. Even this minimal amount of "teacher" involvement was beDer than what we experienced from his Kellogg Middle School teachers. So I am upset about that, especially, since my son failed algebra even though he is good at math. I didn't have a progress report that I could use to nag him to keep up with expecta@ons. Parent Kellogg Middle Can't think of anything. Thanks! Would love to see sports back. It's something my kids really School look forward to. Let's hope : )

496 Parent Kellogg Middle Clarity and consistency. It was difficult to allocate @me Thank you for your con@nued efforts. School and plan out the week because assignment frequency and length varied from class to class. Some class units took a week, some took 2 weeks. Some classes had 1, 2 or 3 assignments a week. Some@mes the assignments were tracked in Canvas, some@mes they were Google Docs. Some@mes you were given feedback and some classes you never heard anything from, just a check mark on the grades sheet. Parent Kellogg Middle Clarity on the curriculum and required milestones my School student needs to master. To facilitate at home learning. Parent Kellogg Middle Clear assignment and ability to touch base with each School student. Parent Kellogg Middle Clear communica@on from teachers all using the same We were impressed that the teachers were able to get a School format and all on canvas. Informa@on about the school distance learning plan in the short @me they had. That being and its procedures in general from the principal should said, some teachers did a beDer job than others. We need the be included in an email not a link to the blog. teachers to create a "lesson of the day" on video prerecorded so the kids can watch and rewatch if they don't understand and teach their materials just as they would in the classroom, rather than just assigning work to do. The zoom mee@ngs seemed op@onal and not really related to learning the material. Our kids did not want to talk or show up in those mee@ngs. Some teachers had mee@ngs at the same @me as others. Everything felt op@onal and it should not have been. Our child took that literally and did not complete work for weeks. Parent Kellogg Middle Clear communica@on in canvas of assignments and I am concerned that the students receive instruc@on and School expecta@ons and when an assignment has been content . submiDed. We were challenged when our students said they completed an assignment but it did not appear. We did not know if the teacher had not yet graded, if the assignment did not submit, or the child was mistaken. Clear expecta@ons. Good instruc@on and @mes to ask ques@ons. We were not always clear the students were receiving instruc@on vs. needing to go research the answer exclusively. Teachers who have had more @me to prepare for on-line learning.

497 Parent Kellogg Middle Clear communica@ons between teachers and students School about assignments, due dates, expecta@ons. Follow-up from teacher to parent if student behind on assignments on a weekly basis. Parent Kellogg Middle Clear, concise. limited, email communica@on, without School mistakes and retrac@ons. Parent Kellogg Middle Communica@on with my Student School Parent Kellogg Middle Considera@on for access to distance home learning as Same as above School student and family members within household are at higher risk of complica@ons from COVID-19. Parents ability to work not affected by student going to school. Parent Kellogg Middle Consistency between the teachers. Assignments were Teacher training so that they all use canvas the same way. School posted in all sorts of places at random @mes. (Weekly Some seem to get it others don't, and the scavenger hunt to Social Studies assignments some@mes didn't appear find assigments was @ring. More use of online instruc@on. un@l Wednesday and then only ajer I'd send an email None of his teachers used this op@on. Expecta@ons, grades, asking the teacher if there were any assignments.) due dates, and regular feedback would all be helpful. Other teachers had them up promptly Monday morning and in the same place each week. So helpful. A daily schedule would be great. Also, please build in expecta@ons, grade, and other mo@va@ng tools. My student felt like all the work being done was op@onal and didn't maDer-- no feedback, some@mes it wasn't even marked as turned in for weeks. His morale dropped considerably. Live online teaching would be great too. So far all his teachers used the zoom @me as op@onal visi@ng sessions or game @me. He HATED this. Kids are too socially awkward right now for this. If the sessions were required (he said only the nerdy kids showed up, none of his friends) and were specifically for instruc@on with perhaps break out group discussions (with work requirements), that would break the ice and mo@vate more kids to do this I think. Parent Kellogg Middle Consistency in formayng of assignments and how to School turn them in. One on one instruc@on or smaller groups.

498 Parent Kellogg Middle Consistency. It would be helpful if: ~ all Modules were I appreciate the efforts the school and teachers have made School in the same order (some had the newest assignment at this year to con@nue to provide learning to the students. For the top, some had the oldest at the top) ~ assignments the sake of everyone I just hope that a more consistent, were all online by a specific @me of day on Monday engaging and educa@on experience can be put in place for (some teachers didn't have the assignments ready on next year. Monday and they wouldn't appear un@l Tuesday or even Wednesday) ~ assignments that are in Slideshow format with links didn't have mul@ple links inside the first link making it difficult to follow and find all of the pieces to do the work - or at least then have them available as individual links in the Module. ~ if there are due dates, class video calls, or other things that are calendar specific, add them to a calendar in Canvas. A couple teachers did this, but not all or even the ones that did only put some things on the calendar. The video conference calls were mostly not helpful because it was just drop in office hours and my child found it to be a waste of @me. If in-person classes aren't possible in the tradi@onal sense, it would be more beneficial if the teacher had a set schedule to give a lesson to the class LIVE. That way there is interac@on with the students, ques@ons can be asked, similar to a regular in-person class. Then either record that lesson or have a recorded video of the lesson available for students who are unable to aDend the LIVE online class. Two of the 6 teachers my child had made sure to email both the parents and students with the plan for the week and what was expected. It was helpful and appreciated as I was trying to make sure my child showed up to the video office hours or got their homework in on @me. If, as a parent, we are needed to help make sure the work is done then we need to know what's expected and should be able to follow the same process for each teacher.

499 Parent Kellogg Middle Consistent classroom @me and accountability to a I appreciate that Shoreline moved to distance learning with School schedule and coursework. very liDle prepara@on and no@ce. That said, the results were very mixed. There were some teachers/departments who seemed to do it very well. Crea@ng videos on specific topics, weekly class zoom calls, tutorial zoom calls and a clear weekly plan with assignments and due dates (Math). However there were other teachers that appeared to put very liDle effort forth. Assignments appeared to be random re. the topics and more like busy work, they did not hold regular Zoom calls and my student heard from the teacher only a handful of @mes. The Zoom calls were hit or miss with certain kids domina@ng the conversa@on which made them not very effec@ve. I think to be truly effec@ve, the teachers need to be mee@ng/ instruc@ng the students 3 @mes a week at prescheduled @mes similar to a regular school day at Kellogg. The kids need consistency and a regular schedule. (We should be geyng tardy/aDendance no@ces if they are not on the Zoom calls.) There was to much reliance on parents to manage and teach their kids. Thankful I had the @me and background to do so. The teachers need to be teaching and should be expected to put in a full @me effort. Thank you for the opportunity for provide feedback. Parent Kellogg Middle Consistent, easily accessible resources (available on The 4 phased approach to online learning was confusing and School ALL pla[orms, i.e. iOS) that follow a structured and distruprive. I am dissapointed on the quality and quan@ty of cohesive curriculum with clear odjec@ves. Learning the "lessons" pushed out, with the excep@on of the ac@vites should support prac@cal and relevant learning. Compression Math assignments for my 7th frade student. All ac@vi@es should support the state educa@on code and requirements and the value of @me invested must be evident. The purpose of educa@on is to teach subject maDer that creates a well-rounded human being, establishing a founda@on to con@nue to build on. Disjointed, half thought out and disorganized lessons are not acceptable, par@cularly when coming from creden@aled educators. Parent Kellogg Middle Con@nue quality educa@on - online or in-person School

500 Parent Kellogg Middle con@nuing learning that's consistency across all 1) daily screening is the key. In other countries that combat School subjects. Middle school kids need socializing and peers. COVID-19 successfully has temperature readings everyday learning solo is just not working. (some even twice a day) upon students arrive the campus and wearing face covering. 2) face to face learning as much as possible. Kids need interac@on to learn. 3) alterna@ng schedule would be an good op@on if trying to lower student/ staff ra@o. However, childcare might be an issue for working parents. 4) if home e learning is needed, please have a consistency across all subjects. This spring, some middle school teachers has zoom once a week, some doesn't, and some has once a while on random date/@me. Some teachers posted assignment on Canvas under calendar and some teachers posted assignments under "assignments" in subject link. Some teachers email parents and students, some teachers only email parents and some teachers only email students...... It was so hard to keep tracking what/who/ when...... please have middle school teachers be on the same team. 5) Zoom mee@ng should be more efficient. In spring, most zoom mee@ngs are just for connec@on and chit chat. My kids find it boring and unproduc@ve. My friends in CA. The teacher has 45 minutes ~ one hour zoom lesson everyday (actual teaching, not just sharing what you did yesterday) and then, assign homework if needed. If class is held in person on campus, doesn't teacher need to instruct lesson for that period of @me anyway? Also, doing assignment right ajer zoom lesson is more efficient in learning. Thank you all for what you do. We are all in this together and hope we can find a win-win solu@on in the fall. Parent Kellogg Middle Distance learning is very hard for children with ADHD. School Those children - and kids with other services including IEP and 504 - should go to in person learning first.

501 Parent Kellogg Middle Educacion pura basada en ciencia, en hechos, de Otro asunto que me preocupa es el uso de celulares por lso School calidad, sin contaminacion de ideologia poli@ca, sin estudiantes y la pornografia que comparten unos a otros en experimentos. En el ul@mo @empo se han sumado la escuela o la salida. conflictos en forma de Programas escoloares) a la convivencia de nuestros hijos en la escuela como Ideologia de Genero primero, y en las tareas online mi hijo recibio una tarea que consis@a en relacionar Cambio Clima@co y Racismo. Esto no crea tolerancia, crea division, la educacion @ene un contexto. Si siguen avanzando con agenda ideologica (cual se impone en muchos paises del mundo al mismo @empo) sacare a mi hijo de la escuela. Los padres estamos para forjar los valores morales de nuestros hijos, los maestros y la escuela @ene el derecho a poner limites pero no a adoctrinar. Parent Kellogg Middle Educa@on is a priority and needs to be treated that Stability and structure is what students need and are craving. School way. Finding reasonable ways to keep to CDC It is your duty to show that educa@on is truly a priority. In guidelines can be done to allow for in person teaching person classes are needed and there are ways that this can as this has shown to be possible at many factories, be done as safe as other ins@tu@ons are able to do. Please businesses, government jobs etc.. School kids need support our students. the in person instruc@on, the peer experience and the daily structure to make the learning experience meaningful. A classroom can not be subs@tuted by a screen with inconsistent assignments thrown at them to complete and expect them to fully understand the material in a way that they deserve to have as past students have had offered to them.

502 Parent Kellogg Middle Educa@on! The one hour a week that my 6th grader I have had kids in this district for 16 years, and have been a School was given this spring was pathe@c. Lists of links to champion of our programs: academic, athle@c, drama@c, etc. assignments with no guidance, no actual teaching from This year I have felt great disappointment. I want my kids to any teacher he knew, and "op@onal" aDendance meant succeed here, and I want all kids in this district to be told they that the en@rety of his educa@on for three months fell are capable of learning and doing good work. They can do it if to my husband and I. Shoreline completely fell apart the teachers and the district are willing to try. this year, and provided nearly zero guidance for the 6th grade students. This kind of approach is causing affluent families to hire tutors while the rest of us lag behind unless we have able and willing parents to pick up the slack. With another year of this kind of educa@on likely, I worry that the en@re Shoreline school district will be at least a year behind their wealthy peers, greatly affec@ng their ability to compete academically and to con@nue in college, community college, or trade programs. Parent Kellogg Middle Email communica@on from all his teachers at least We had very liDle communica@on from Kellogg, especially in School every other week and at least once per week zoom the beginning. Only 2 of my son's teacher actually contacted mee@ng with each teacher if they will be remote. the parents too, so if I wanted to see what was expected of him, I had to go onto canvas with him to look. There were no scheduled check-ins with his teachers, some he never saw. He could access them through office hours but he missed all the social connec@ons. I suspect they lost several kids by not paying aDen@on to the SEL needs. As he transi@ons to high school, this will be cri@cal for student engagement. Parent Kellogg Middle Encontrar trabajo para poder pagar los gastos del Agradezco que le compar@eran una computadora a mi hija School hogar Parent Kellogg Middle Escritura School Parent Kellogg Middle Finding a way to engage in the learning process that Teachers were not upda@ng Canvas. It appeared that there School makes sense for my student were missing assignments when they were turned in. This created a challenging situa@on for me to navigate with my student.

503 Parent Kellogg Middle Flexibility. Understanding that we must have the peace My children have had a rough start to summer as they have School of mind to know that our children will be truly safe lost their grandfather to COVID-19 and their grandmother is before we will willingly let them aDend school in currently just home from a 3 Week Hospital stay, recovering person. from contrac@ng COVID-19. Our family has had to go through this personally and it has affected us in many ways. We are honestly just not comfortable allowing our children to return back to school un@l we are 100% sure they will be not be exposed to anyone who’s could be infected. Parent Kellogg Middle Follow up from the school if our child is not See above School par@cipa@ng in online learning. We received one email in the last ten days that our child was not par@cipa@ng in spite of our aDempted vigilance. Our child was on Canvas daily, but turned in almost no work. At the elementary level, students who are not par@cipa@ng in Zoom mee@ngs, turning in assignments, or home learning ques@onnaires were contacted by school staff weekly. This should have happened at the middle school level as well and the lack of follow up was unacceptable. Not every parent is tech savvy to interpret and hunt through Canvas. If high school will be distance learning, there will need to be follow up with parents or our children will leave the Shoreline district. Parent Kellogg Middle For all Kellogg teachers to use the same system and School have the same way of using that system. So if everything is on Canvas, then EVERYTHING should be on Canvas. And everything should have dates entered and points and weights established and be as up to date as possible. And for clear expecta@ons that students need to do certain things in order to pass. I understand that we don't want to fail students in the district who might have issues with access or technology or support. But at the same @me, there are many students who have no excuse or limita@on who need firm expecta@ons or otherwise they may not put in the effort.

504 Parent Kellogg Middle For all teachers to engage students at a similar level. For all teachers to engage students at a similar level. Some School Some teachers did almost nothing in providing teachers did almost nothing in providing instruc@on, instruc@on, feedback and check-ins. Some did a feedback and check-ins. Some did a moderate amount and moderate amount and some were very good at this. some were very good at this. My son experienced a very My son experienced a very uneven experience due to uneven experience due to each teacher's level of each teacher's level of engagement. The district and engagement. The district and the union need to figure out the union need to figure out how to hold all teachers how to hold all teachers to certain levels of performance. to certain levels of performance. Parent Kellogg Middle For my child to be given opportuni@es that helps him School grow in all areas, not just academically. HIs passion is music and theatre and although he's been great about geyng his schoolwork done, the lack of involvement in his passion is weighing on his mental/emo@onal wellbeing. Parent Kellogg Middle For my child to normalize as much as possible in terms Perhaps each grade could stagger in when they are in school School of returning to in person classroom learning with all for modified learning @mes? This would minimize large social the public health precau@ons and enforcement‘s in groups in school although it would mean more staffing at the place. Need for structure and consistency that Home school district level to accommodate. cannot give him. Need for school special services program and counseling-absolutely a must. Being able to socialize during the process of learning and receiving educa@on. Of course physical health and safety is at the top priority. Homeschooling was nearly impossible with both parents working and my child living in two separate homes. Trying to follow online assignments for six different subjects or so and then having him move from one home to another and staying on track was quite impossible. With his IEP, staying organized and staying on task to do just a single assignment took Great effort. We need the support of the school district beyond online learning. Thank you for listening. Parent Kellogg Middle For my child to receive a real educa@on that I don’t It is nearly impossible to ensure my children are doing what is School have to manage at the level that was required during required without me going through the lessons with them. the stay home order. We simply do not have @me for that. Our kids need to go back to school.

505 Parent Kellogg Middle For my kids to have the chance for a sense of rou@ne Thanks for all the efforts to rise to the challenge presented! School and normalcy. That includes tradi@onal events that mark various transi@ons even if they need to be held differently. First day of school ac@vi@es etc If there is an online component For school, it would very much help do you have one please are all assignments and direc@ons are located… It felt like somewhere on a teachers homepage others under modules others on a calendar etc. that created a fair amount of frustra@on

506 Parent Kellogg Middle For my son to aDend school and get an actual Get them back to school! only the sick should stay home and School educa@on this online plan is a joke. I was pa@ent and be quaran@ned. I'm fed up with the District’s approach to hopeful in the first month but it just never got any online educa@on and why the students don't actually have beDer and it's not effec@ve. any of their teachers actually teaching them on the regular class @me or at least availability for ques@ons from the students about the material. My son barely has one or two zoom mee@ngs a week that are not mandatory to aDend and are not long enough to even teach anything. Also, I've been told he doesn't have his regular teacher teaching them they get all random teachers from all over the district. Now that just doesn't make sense to me. Why isn’t the district rolling out beDer sojware for the students to learn from home ajer four months of home educa@on? There’s plenty of sojware out there you can purchase to teach online with presenta@on, video, and file sharing capabili@es that would make their educa@on easier and allow for more interac@on. There are also companies that work directly with the school districts to give them tools and technology upgrades to teach more effec@vely yet we resort to sporadic zoom mee@ngs that can be hacked by anyone and we expose the students to explicit content they should not have access to in the first place. If they are not able to go back to school in the fall can we expect more of the same or is the District willing to take measures during the summer to roll out a beDer learning plan and curriculum? Otherwise what’s the point! Maybe we should just think of pulling out of the public schools altogether and find alterna@ve ways of online educa@on for them that we can pay for. It is obvious that our tax money, parent involvement, and fundraising money are doing nothing for our kids. Parent Kellogg Middle For our family to stay healthy. There needs to be clearer communica@on about how ojen School the teachers communicate with the students. The kind and frequency of communica@on should be similar whatever the subject. Some of my son’s teachers were great at keeping him posted on what was expected and also in answering his ques@ons via email. There were others who barely communicated all spring and did not return his emails when he asked ques@ons about expecta@ons and assignments.

507 Parent Kellogg Middle For the summer, we don't need anything from the It's very important that assignments and expecta@ons are School school district. For the upcoming year, we need communicated to students (and made available to parents) in science- and evidence-driven plans, with clear a consistent place — for example, all teachers must post communica@on of those plans and how the plans assignments on Canvas, and do not post assignments in any might need to change. For example, something like the other loca@on. This will go a long way to help our student following would be a good start: "All students will be in understand what's expected of her, and help us support her class two days of the week during stage 3 of reopening, by helping her schedule her @me. and will stay at home during stages 1 and 2 or if there are __ confirmed covid cases in their school." Parent Kellogg Middle For virtual learning, more homework. Teacher Daily learning only took 1 - 2 hours a day. That seems to be School interac@vity, feedback and grading. Chances for not much compared to other curriculums such as private student online discussion/interac@on on assignments. schools. If parents are expected to serve as teachers/guides, please provide them with guidance. Parent Kellogg Middle For you guys to come up with a beDer plan and be School more organized if the kids are going to be learning from home this fall. A system that works beDer and makes more sense. Easy for the kids to follow and understand. If the parents can’t figure it out how do we expect the kids to Parent Kellogg Middle Foreign language assistance and required face-to-face School zoom @me if online school is the only op@on. If you can't require it, then give the students extra credit for aDending zoom calls. I believe they could be helpful if they were encouraged to be a part of it and they were more interac@ve. This spring my kids had no interest in par@cipa@ng b/c they weren't interac@ve nor expected. The few they did connect to, they felt were a waste of their @me b/c they didn't find it helpful with their learning.

508 Parent Kellogg Middle Geyng back to normal as soon as possible as safely as Loved the use of a weekly modules on Canvas. It was very School possible. easy for my son walk himself through the lessons and assignments for the week. He did not like (and neither did I) when a teacher gave him a whole three week unit at once. He got overwhelmed by the work in that one class while trying to juggle the work in his other 5 classes. Not sure I’d give that all to an adult at one @me let alone a 12 year old learning at home by himself. The module format was much easier to use than the “Launch, Explore, Engage” (or whatever it was called) format. It was not conducive for “teaching yourself”. There was just so much content on each slide. It was hard for my son to keep track of what he was suppose to be doing because he had to have like 5 tabs opener once: Canvas, the assignment descrip@on, websites for learning, his assignment for turning in. It seemed like a mess. I vote for modules next year if we are learning online. Parent Kellogg Middle Geyng my child back in school on schedule with School teachers. Parent Kellogg Middle Geyng our daughter back in a structured learning I think the school board has handled the situa@on as well as School environment and school ac@vi@es possible. Parent Kellogg Middle Geyng the kids back in school learning and being with School friends and me being able to work without managing their school schedule and helping with school work. Parent Kellogg Middle having a plan and s@cking to it with consistency. We For childcare access it would be best to have a full day 2 days School need to know ASAP so childcare situa@on can be a week consistently rather than 1/2 day schedules. addresses soon, before we have no access. On-site childcare programs do not make sense as they would be no different than having the kids in school. Parent Kellogg Middle Health and safety Thank you for all of your considera@on. The virtual learning School model worked really well for our 6th grader and for my 1st graders as an educator. Parent Kellogg Middle Health and well being of my child. Construc@ve Structural support for educa@on. Not being inundated with School educa@onal environment. informa@on but rather filtered intelligent informa@on about the content area. Emulate colleges. Syllabus for each course with a clearly defined pathway and assessment. Coherent instruc@on. Pdfs. online textbooks. Tablet. Touch screen. Stylus to encourage wri@ng.

509 Parent Kellogg Middle Health for our children and families Social emo@onal Thank you for working to find a solu@on for out children, School development for our children Class learning modules families and educators! with contact with teachers daily if remote learning is in place Enrichment through ac@vi@es and sports Parent Kellogg Middle Home learning was extremely stressful for student and Videos from teachers were nice, but if every teacher records School parent. The lack of required interac@ons really 20 min videos - that is a lot of @me trying to search out the hampered my student's ability to complete informa@on. A summary (in words) should always accompany assignments in a @mely manner. The amount of work the videos so that parents know exactly what their students also seemed excessive for the suggested 2.5 hours per should be responsible for and what deadlines are coming up. day. There was absolutely no way for him to complete algebra and a language class (required HS grading) and do any of the other assignments for the other classes. In the end, he focused on math and everything else was dropped. I can only imagine how much learning @me was lost, especially as parents have limited @me or ability to monitor student learning.

510 Parent Kellogg Middle Homeschooling was very challenging in some classes, The zoom mee@ngs were very challenging to aDend. The @me School easier in others. My student needs the physical of day they were conducted usually was right in the middle of presence of a teacher (other than myself) at least part my student's engagement in online learning (11am or 1pm of the @me to be successful. He is mo@vated to learn were popular @mes). If he stopped working on his "online and perform well while at school, he lacks that work" to go to a zoom mee@ng, he lost focus and mo@va@on mo@va@on at with at home/on-line learning. My to return, so I usually opted out. If there is an online most important need at this @me is to know the district component, it would be helpful to have only one zoom a day plan for educa@on. If the plan does not include some (two is doable occasionally). Even though each teacher my in-person learning at least 50% of the @me, I need to son had only conduc@on one zoom a week, there was no know now so that I can explore other educa@onal coordina@on - some days there were 3 zoom scheduled. As op@ons. the mee@ngs usually took an hour, taking 2-3 hours to sit in a large zoom mee@ng of students, that mostly consisted of chit chat and games, was not a produc@ve use of @me. Unless of course the teachers are actually providing a lesson over zoom. I would have par@cipated more ojen if we could have preprinted some type of work sheet and the teacher provided the lesson while the students did the work sheet or some other type of engagement ac@vity. Some of the online learning tools used were not very effec@ve in teaching the subject maDer, while others were really great. At least for us we found the materials used for math, social studies, and Spanish very effec@ve. The materials used for English were awful. The materials used for Science were some@mes good and some@mes bad - A few @mes I would have to spend @me researching addi@onal sites to help my student understand the material. Asking students to watch a video or read something and take notes doesn't work when the student has never learned to take notes Parent Kellogg Middle I School Any exposure to Covid, if not fatal, is likely to dras@cally and permanently decrease my quality of life. My children both desire interac@on with other students. My concern is how to support their educa@onal emo@onal and social needs while taking all precau@ons to prevent endangering my health.

511 Parent Kellogg Middle I am concerned with the health risks for the kids School wearing a mask for 7 hours straight without a break. There are clearly health consequences to this. I get they need to wear them but even hospital workers get a break to take them off for a few minutes and breath fresh air throughout the day and I know I am tearing the thing off me as I walk out of the grocery store. I know people who work jobs that they have to wear one most of the day and they say they have respiratory issues, sores, headaches. And good luck trying to keep teens six feet apart. I just don’t know how this will all work. My biggest concern though is geyng the kids a real academic school year. Kellogg teachers generally did a great job, beDer than my other child’s experience at shorecrest. But I think we can all agree they were not covering the amount or depth of study they would normally and there wasn’t much of a challenge involved. I totally get everyone was completely thrown by this and as a public school have certain requirements, but how long it took to get up and running with anything resembling actual school was unacceptable. Other districts did way more in less @me and private schools barely hiccuped. I am dismayed that the quality of academics and educa@ng our kids, which is absolutely the purpose as this is school not daycare or a community center, seems to be the lowest priority and is barely men@oned or addressed in school communica@ons. I would like to be reassured and know a good level of detail about how you plan on educa@ng my children next year to the standard of an actual educa@on. With that said, I absolutely appreciate so much how much you were able to provide to the community during this horrible and very trying @me but it is @me to get back to the business of educa@ng these kids and preparing them for college. I think it is a big sign of a problem that within a week you had social services up and running for the en@re community (very important, very needed, totally appreciate it and get it) but it took over 512 Parent Kellogg Middle I am hopeful that in class learning will happen in the I would be willing to sign a waiver to have my son aDend School fall. It was difficult to ensure that my son was doing his school in the fall. He needs social interac@on and learns best work and to help him when I was working. Also, my when he is in a classroom. son experienced screen fa@gue. Everything involved staring at a computer. It was too much for him some days and made it hard each day to be mo@vated to do work online. Parent Kellogg Middle I am lucky that I don't have a ton of needs. I think School whatever is put in place it needs to be flexible yet structured. It needs to include rela@onship building and SEL support for both teachers and students. Its going to take crea@vity, perseverance and hard work. I worry that the thrust into home learning has led many to feel that it was a complete disaster. Even if it was, it needs to be considered the circumstances under which it happened. No one was prepared for it. I don't think we should count it out. Anything you try something new it feels weird and uncomfortable for the first couple of tries. But once tools are built and we figure out how to manage and deliver it could be amazing. I hope the results and feelings of today and of the survey are taken with a bit of a grain of salt. I don't think there is enough or quality evidence to discount it. Thanks for your hard work. It is @me for systemic and real change in our educa@on system. Parent Kellogg Middle I felt like there was liDle communica@on on what was I felt like there was liDle communica@on on what was School expected of the middle school kids. The elementary expected of the middle school kids. The elementary programs communicated beDer. programs communicated beDer. My son got wind of that the online work was just to increase a grade, but if you were happy with your grade you didn't need to do the work. Its wasn't un@l the week before the last week of school we got no@ce that he hadn't been comple@ng his work. That was too late. As a 14 year old we expected our son to work independently, but that age s@ll isn't mature enough to self discipline.

513 Parent Kellogg Middle I hope the district allows for the op@on for my child to School stay home and do home learning. She has asthma and is high risk. We are not able to unregister our child to do homeschool. I think the op@on to have class in- person onsite vs a path to do at-home learning is key to support families during the pandemic. I am lucky enough to be able to stay at home/work from home. With the classroom videos and online learning I have been able to manage home learning with both of my children. Parent Kellogg Middle I just want to make sure that we have a clean/sani@zed School environment where the students can develop more of a sense of community (even though it will be somewhat distanced) as they work through the 20-21 school year. I know it will look different but having regular login @mes is probably a good idea, especially for those students of thrive with structure and struggle without it. Parent Kellogg Middle I need for my children to stay safe from this virus. They I think to reopen school In the fall to in person is too soon. School have their whole lives to learn, and I want our Covid is spiking as we speak and it’s not fair to put community to stay safe and our ci@zens Safety to not peoples lives in jeopardy because of this. We need to have a be compromised. vaccine and rethink how we are teaching our children. I think you should provide district distances child care for those who must go back to work but everyone else should con@nue to learn at home. Parent Kellogg Middle I need my child to be taught. The stress of keeping my The teacher had one zoom call a week, if a zoom call could at School job to is so overwhelming that it is next to impossible least happen everyday it would help the children feel more to try and be a teacher for my child, which adds even connected to school and feel like they are actually aDending more stress. The stress of having money to pay rent, school. Thank you to the teachers and principals for by food, pay u@li@es is so stressful! And feeling like a scrambling to do their best in these crazy @mes. I appreciate bad parent because I have huge deadlines and have to what they are doing so much! work way to much, to now when the projects are done my job will vaporize because of the loss of income to the nonprofits I do work for. Felling like a bad parent is the worst! I want my child to learn and the learning online is not a subs@tute for learning from teachers.

514 Parent Kellogg Middle I need my kids to return to school to give structure The "online" elementary instruc@on (grade 5, Ridgecrest) was School back to their learning environment. ineffec@ve. It gave my daughter less than one hour of work to do daily. She was not learning, she was not interested. If online learning is meant to be used, it needs to be academically rigorous. There was very liDle rigor in what was presented, and the two hours per week the teacher was online for mee@ng with students was a joke. There should have been hours per day of online instruc@on, as though the kids were in school. I believe my daughter will be far behind in her learning when she returns to school, as will all of the students in her grade level. Parent Kellogg Middle I need there to be ways for IEPs to actually be School supported if we are doing distance learning in the fall. my kid didn't get any of the support they needed during distance learning. Parent Kellogg Middle I think it is helpful to have a math textbook at home (or I think the district did a good job with communica@ng and School an online textbook to use) to support my daughter's keeping our kids safe. Thank you for your flexibility and hard learning. work. I hope you all get some deserved vaca@on! Parent Kellogg Middle I think that my student needs to have consistent There needs to be some parent monitoring of zoom calls in School grading of assignments and tests in order to feel the lower grades. I ojen heard my 4th grader frustrated by mo@vated. Our household would need a second the misbehavior of classmates during their weekly laptop as we have 2 students. Sharing one worked connec@on with the teacher. most of the @me this spring. If we're juggling online with in-person learning in the fall, I worry about balancing the demands of both of their school experiences with just one device.

515 Parent Kellogg Middle I think we're most concerned with a plan. We We appreciate the opportunity to share our POV and needs. School understood the suddenness of our shutdown, but We also appreciate, very much, the amount of work, @me, going into the fall without a defini@ve plan that we can and dedica@on our district has been giving us - thank you. If count on for a significant amount of @me is implemen@ng the Health Guidelines results in the 'in-school' unreassuring and concerning. If the district is seriously experience being full of fear or feeling highly managed and considering a few different plans, giving the community restric@ve, that would be a major barrier in us returning to visibility to those and asking for feedback or input on school and I don't think it was addressed in your survey. A selec@on would be appreciated. Con@ngency final note about having mul@ple students in mul@ple schools - planning is also impera@ve for us. We understand the I filled out 2 surveys with answers specific to each student nature of the informa@on and situa@on changing, so and they have very different needs, academically and socially. having plans A, B, and C ready to implement is what we Thank you, again, for your service, work, and dedica@on. need from the district. The final piece we need is @meliness. Families will need @me to make arrangements, create personal family plans, and prepare our students at least a month in advance of the school year star@ng. Parent Kellogg Middle I understand that each child’s needs are different, but I’m a student at an 100% online university and I believe many School for my son it’s hard to focus on schoolwork while he’s of their learning strategies can be applied to middle and high at home and his friends are online wai@ng to play schools. For example, all lessons and quizzes are online and games together. What my child needs is accountability. self-paced but there are instructors available to meet with He needs structured @mes to meet with teachers and students individually or in groups during pre-scheduled @mes other students, but flexible deadlines and specific for when students have ques@ons. This addresses the requirements to submit work (i.e., write an 800-word learning por@on, but socializa@on is also important so I essay, take the Math quiz and get a passing score, believe that interac@ve class/group Zoom mee@ngs would research about ABC and write a report by X date, etc.). help students con@nue to work together. Once most restric@ons are lijed, there should be opportuni@es for small groups of students to meet with teachers and have discussions about the class content that aren’t addressed through online resources.

516 Parent Kellogg Middle I would like to have in-school learning with teachers As a parent I find more structure and mandatory zoom calls School and peers. Homeschooling didn't work well. My son are helpful. was lethargic and depressed. I am against the school district manda@ng a vaccine for kids to go to school. Unfortunately, the vaccine will never have been tested on large amounts (or any) children. We will learn a lot, in @me, about which vaccines are safest. However ini@ally money, poli@cs, na@onalism and fear may dictate which vaccine we have access to. And it may not be the safest one. Probably not one that is @trated and designed for the needs of children--at least ini@ally. So, there is poten@al it may do more harm than good, especially in a small sub-set of highly sensi@ve children. I hope they are safe for our children, I really do. And I understand herd immunity. But we do not know that a new, rushed vaccine will be safe for all children in our district. And because of that families must have choice.

517 Parent Kellogg Middle I would like to see a hybrid of home learning with one Below is my wish list for next school year: - More organized School (max two days) on-campus @me. Perhaps stagger on- home learning with ALL assignments listed uniformly in campus aDendance days. Class @me could be used to Canvas. Perhaps a standardized naming conven@on take tests, have presenta@ons or to work in small "worksheet," "quiz," "test" or "essay" - Please list the due groups. I expect it would result in much smaller class date on everything. If they are soj due dates and there is sizes and fewer people in the hallway between periods. only a Semester update, then please list that. - It would be Ideally, it would be great to incorporate student really helpful if the assigned date was listed on the preference so they could possibly aDend on the same homework itself (may not be possible but thought I would day with a couple of friends. I expect that the schools throw it in.) It is helpful to have a tool to keep work in order. would perform extra cleaning of high touch areas. I - I love that canvas allows you to insert possible scores to see would expect students can carry their own water how the grade might be affected. - It is helpful to be able to boDles and refill at the no-touch fountains see the grade change as homework is graded. - I think it would be nice to have teachers provide personalized feedback with most (or some) grades. - The weekly PE log is a really good idea and should con@nue. - Group slide shows should be graded by who did the work. - It is nice to have opportuni@es for extra credit. - Perhaps send out occasional boxes of supplies to students to perform experiments such as egg drop. Some students might already have supplies at home so it could just be mailed to students as needed. - Standardized curriculum so that friends taking the same class can study together for tests. Parent Kellogg Middle I would like to see more zoom calls if there is hime It has been hard for our students to be at home during this School learning next year. The kids need that structure and @me but it was absolutely the right decision to close school in FaceTime with their teachers and classmates. My son March. I appreciated the concern for safety and quick had one teacher that did a few of them, and I could tell adjustments the schools had to make. I think for school to go a difference in him ajer each one. He seemed much back in session in fall there has to be strict screening, masks, more connected to his work and class, and happier. I smaller classrooms with distancing built in, and measures out think it would be hard to start off a new year with new in place to con@nue to protect our kids (and us). Thanks for subjects if home learning was done like it was this year. all you did this year and are working towards next year! More structure would be good if possible, but s@ll some flexibility to give the students a liDle cushion of home learning is hard for them.

518 Parent Kellogg Middle IEP is overdue for review. Hoping 6th grade at kellogg School can keep kids in a homeroom classroom situa@on instead of switching teachers 6x/day. Seems prac@cal to place kids in homeroom groups based on transporta@on/bussing groups to limit cross contamina@on. With IEP student, it is difficult to provide appropriate educa@on and individualized approach when comple@ng online assignments. I'm not a teacher. I'm in over my head. Parent Kellogg Middle If home learning occurs flexibility is key as I will be Thinking of teens a tradi@onal schedule with distance School going back to work and my student was a successful learning doesn't take into account that teens would prefer to learner because I am a teacher and would personally be up later and sleep in the morning. teach my student each assignment he did not understand completely, which was about 80% of the work. Parent Kellogg Middle If remote learning is going to be successful we need an Remote learning was a bust for my normally good student. School actual schedule with log in @mes mandatory, or video He could not manage his @me, the expecta@ons were difficult lessons that have to be viewed each day from each to figure out. Learning things like math remotely (he was in actual teacher. The teachers need to give daily compression math) did not work at all. I was extremely assignments from these videos or class mee@ngs and disappointed in this system. I realize it was pulled together then have the due date within a quick turnaround. If quickly but the district really needs to figure out a beDer this type of schooling is going to work we have to have method for the school year. Either contract with an actual to have a rou@ne and clear set expecta@ons. Videos online school or make it much more scheduled and from teachers etc and web links not from Kellogg are predictable. A lot of young teenagers cannot organize not effec@ve and don't hold my students interest. themselves like this and manage their classwork. In our Somehow we have to make the kids feel connected to family we had an extremely trying Covid illness that required the school and to each other during this @me. Maybe hospitaliza@on and my student fell behind during the 6 weeks having small group assignments that they could do we were dealing with that. Ajer that we could never get together via zoom or something - would help them feel back on track. It was overwhelming to both my student and like they are part of an actual class. Teacher contact myself. with each student on a regular basis would be best as well. Actual contact via zoom or some other chat system to check in would be very helpful.

519 Parent Kellogg Middle If school goes online again we need STRUCTURE, we The research is showing that COVID19 spread is primarily School need classes to be held at exact @mes. We need zoom airborne, spreading from person to person sharing the same mee@ngs to be scheduled the same days and @mes breathing airspace. If kids are back in school, design safety each week. We need all students to be required to precau@ons around that guiding principle. If classes have to aDend zoom mee@ngs and be on camera. We need be online, find a way to hold some kind of at least weekly assignments to have strict due dates and we need event in person wearing masks and doing social distancing. teachers to be on top of holding students accountable Teens mental health is important and they need to be able to for that, not the parents trying to figure it out. We socialize outside their family. need teachers to grade assignments in a @mely manner and give feedback in a @mely manner, and we need them to answer emails promptly from students. Teachers need to use Canvas in a uniform manner, not use it differently. We need uniformity across all classes. Administrators and teachers need to understand that probably most students are addicted to screens and devices. Heck for that maDer, so are a lot of parents. What that means is that when students school is online, they have all kinds of distrac@ons on that screen they are supposed to be using to learn from. Whatever you can do to put boundaries around that will help. Hold classes remotely via zoom and keep them on schedule. I realize this spring that everyone did the best they could, including the teachers, the parents, and the students. But I would say if we have an online component, next year it needs to change dras@cally in order to be successful.

520 Parent Kellogg Middle If we go to online in the fall, I hope that teachers align The online learning was very inconsistent for my daughters School on tools and how to address the students to setup for a (7th grader and 9th grader). Some teachers were really good more successful learning experience. at communica@ng and geyng the needed informa@on to my daughters. Others were changing when they posted items, when they where due and how to access them. My 7th grader couldn't track where all the assignments were, some were in canvas, some in google and many other online tools. It was unnecessarily stressful and she wasn't able to learn because she was focused on managing the due dates, inconsistent messaging, and not able to find everything. They both experienced some of the topics to be a waste of their @me since it was stuff that was covered months ago, some teachers kept using COVID as a learning lesson and it was difficult for the kids to deal with the stress of COVID when it was in all of their assignments. Parent Kellogg Middle If we will be learning at home, a single pla[orm for I am concerned about the combina@on of 1/2 days and no School viewing assignments and turning them in is a must. bus system. We can get them to school, but will not be able Each teacher had a different method. This year there to get them home if the district decides on 1/2 day programs. was Sharing a google doc, cu@ng and pas@ng word docs into canvas, emailing in assignments, and there were several others. My son would think he had turned in assignments and find out he didn't do it correctly. Time management was extremely difficult, too. With no deadline, no grade, and liDle to no feedback, there was no mo@va@on to get anything done. It turned in to a constant baDle that was no fun. Reminders for zoom mee@ngs will be essen@al. 13 year old boys (with working parents and who don't have a phone) will not remember to show up to a zoom mee@ng on Thursday if you tell him about it on Monday. But if I can ask for 1 thing, it would be the single program for viewing and comple@ng assignments. Thank you Parent Kellogg Middle In order to go back to school full @me Covid needs to No School be going down not up. I do not expect this to happen. I would rather keep my child home.

521 Parent Kellogg Middle In person instruc@on and being accountable for work. I know the teachers and staff have put in a tremendous School Having someone review the work and give feedback. amount of effort to create a learning experience and The online Zoom glitches and challenges became very although it hasn't all worked smoothly, we are apprecia@ve frustra@ng. My two kids had different experiences with for all the efforts made! We are hoping for in person Zoom too: the one who had her whole class aDending instruc@on but are imagining a scenario where we s@ll have (20+ kids) found it frustra@ng. The one who had classes much of the learning done online. Sigh... I'd also like to say where only 5-7 kids showed up even though the whole that I'm worried about kids geyng lej behind in the learning class was invited found it manageable for learning. If process. It's super hard to mo@vate daily to do school work the challenges of technology could be worked out, I when it's not checked and no feedback. And what about the think some instruc@on over zoom would be ok. different levels of kids as we return to school? Some who have done work, others that haven't? A couple ideas: Have large class Zooms always break out to small project groups for working on assignments with the teacher and volunteer- helper 'floa@ng' in to each one to help. Create in-depth learning projects of a couple weeks in length for groups to work on together. Something that they have to research like history, social impacts, art to accompany it. Something that has them delve in to mul@ple areas to get a well rounded picture, almost like a "social" science project.

522 Parent Kellogg Middle In person learning We have three kids in the Shoreline School District. All three School loved school and were good students prior to March of this year. The last few months have been VERY difficult, to put it mildly, on their academic and social well-being. They now do not like school, have not been mo@vated, are highly frustrated, and have even asked us if we'd move them to another school for the fall, as they are fearful it will con@nue in this same way. Its been very emo@onal in our household to watch our kids struggle with school which they have loved for so many years. We understand the concerns & risk associated with this pandemic, and are extremely empathic to those who are at-risk in this climate. We just ask for some middle ground. I consider school & educa@on ESSENTIAL! It is essen@al to the development of our children, but also to our economy, allowing parents back to work. PLEASE consider ALL op@ons (even those moonshot, out-of-the-box op@ons) before resor@ng to distance learning. AND IF you do HAVE to resort back to distance learning, please can we follow another model -- is there an establish homeschool program we can leverage? THANK YOU for establishing a survey and considering feedback from families. We know this isn't easy for administrators and educators to navigate through either. And we appreciate all of you! Parent Kellogg Middle In person learning this fall. Best effort to give the Home learning that was offered during school closure was School students the educa@on they deserve, and not have extremely disappoin@ng. There were no online teaching, but them lose another year. There should have been rather a list of tasks to complete. If the school district is going enough @me for the district to have a plan for real to call something online learning then there should be educa@on. teaching online. We kept wai@ng one week ajer the other for real classes to take place online, but the school year ended with the school district considering pos@ng a list of homework and some links to Khan academy videos as a form teaching. If any form of online teaching is to happen it has to be real. Abandoning the children educa@on is unacceptable. Also lots of the assignments and work given to the students was just busy work that consumed lots of @me but not real value.

523 Parent Kellogg Middle in person learning. We have three kids in the Shoreline School District. All three School loved school and were good students prior to March of this year. The last few months have been VERY difficult, to put it mildly, on their academic and social well-being. They now do not like school, have not been mo@vated, are highly frustrated, and have even asked us if we'd move them to another school for the fall, as they are fearful it will con@nue in this same way. Its been very emo@onal in our household to watch our kids struggle with school which they have loved for so many years. We understand the concerns & risk associated with this pandemic, and are extremely empathic to those who are at-risk in this climate. We just ask for some middle ground. I consider school & educa@on ESSENTIAL! It is essen@al to the development of our children, but also to our economy, allowing parents back to work. PLEASE consider ALL op@ons (even those moonshot, out-of-the-box op@ons) before resor@ng to distance learning. AND IF you do HAVE to resort back to distance learning, please can we follow another model -- is there an establish homeschool program we can leverage? THANK YOU for establishing a survey and considering feedback from families. We know this isn't easy for administrators and educators to navigate through either. And we appreciate all of you! Parent Kellogg Middle In person teaching Structure to the curriculum School Socializa@on for my child Follow DOH recommenda@ons to prepare to have kids back in class. Parent Kellogg Middle In terms of educa@on, not having a standardized way We understand that the fall might have another surge of School to gauge her understanding of the content the was cases and that school may be cancelled or online for a period provided lej us feeling like maybe she got something of @me. But please focus on connec@on between student, out of 7th grade and maybe she didn’t. She would teacher and parent/home. Their learning is not always done not zoom into classes where she had to speak up or be in isola@on and involving the home might help. Also consider seen on video. There were certain programs such as learning group mee@ngs, not 20 people on a zoom call but “smart music†breakout sessions and smaller group work.

524 Parent Kellogg Middle Increasing structure and doing away with the opt-in / School opt-out menu of op@ons would help us a great seatdeal with mo@va@on. Work habits fell apart and conflict was high with the loose structure Mom is a school district employee-So, scheduling will be key. Parent Kellogg Middle In-person instruc@on is very important. My 8th grader's on-line school work has been really confusing School and frustra@ng. Using Canvas I was unable to figure out what the lessons were, what work needed to be done, what the expecta@ons were, etc. My son couldn't figure out how to turn in some assignments because there wasn't a designated place to turn them in. I gave up trying to figure things out. I e-mailed a teacher once and the answer was s@ll confusing. I asked my son to do his best. He is generally a good student and I trust that if he missed things somehow he'll make it up later. My 9th grader's on-line school work, lessons, assignments were all clear and easy to understand so I was able to help with that. Thanks for all you do. I know we are all learnging as we go during these challenging @mes. Parent Kellogg Middle It's important to me that my children's schedules (2 School elementary, 1 middle schooler) are coordinated to allow me to work in the fall.

525 Parent Kellogg Middle It's very important students get in person instruc@on. Yes, do beDer shoreline school district. You have amazing School It's also very important for mental health they are teachers and staff. Let them do thier jobs. The district geyng socializa@on @me in. So much of what happens administra@on failed it's community (students, teachers and at school is more then ABC's. The roll out of on line parents) this spring. You have an opportunity to truly support learning this spring was severely lacking. Other districts all the children in this community. Open schools in the fall. in the area handled this situa@on in a much more fluid and more @mely manner then Shoreline did. It was very frustra@ng as a parent to have changing exspecta@ons every week. I experienced my child's teacher (who is incredible) be frustrated he could not do more with the students to guide thier learning. This was due to the districts direc@ves. I was incredibly disheartened by the districts lack of communica@on in the early weeks of the shut down. By May things were rolling but it took 6 weeks to get a game plan together. You can do beDer. We need in person instruc@on in the fall. If we don't have that we need live instruc@on and interac@on with the teachers and other students. The video lessons are not sufficient. Our family has figured out how to ballance full @me work and homeschooling. However our son ojen has to come to work with us which is not ideal. I can only think about other working family's esspcially in the service industry who can not bring thier children to work with them. Not having in person school is a massive blow to our community. The long term ramifica@ons for all children mostly under privledged youth will be long las@ng and devesta@ng. My child has been in the shoreline school district for 6 years. We purchased our home in shoreline because of the school district. We have been paying property taxes for a decade and will con@nue to be tax paying ci@zens that support our schools. We support every school levy with the understanding that with our schools fully funded the district will provide a full educa@onal experience. This spring the school district did not hold up thier end of this agreement. I have faith that in the fall Shoreline schools will do the right thing for this community and open schools as normal and provide a FULL educa@on to the children of 526 Parent Kellogg Middle Just keeping our student mo@vated to log in and School complete his work and stay on top of his assignments, about which communica@on appeared sporadic/ disorganized. It was really challenging with both or one parent also having to work from home at the same @me. Parent Kellogg Middle Keeping my child healthy and not in danger from All children need to have their temperature checked prior to School contrac@ng the virus from another student or staff, my entering the building on a daily basis and even if running a child has underlined condi@ons and I would not put slight fever they do not need to enter into the school them in jeopardy just because school is star@ng, we building. need a vaccine for those who are sick so they do not bring it to school and give it to children who are not ill to then take it back home an infect their en@re family. Parent Kellogg Middle Kids s@ll need a challenge and to meet/exceed state School learning requirements. For the upcoming school year, the teachings should be the same as they normally would be regardless if class is on site or at home. Parent Kellogg Middle Knowing that Covid has caused huge "unknowns" for *I think there needs to be consistent & clear structure & School all...students, parents, teachers, etc., I think the thing expecta@ons. (Kids thrive with known boundaries & that I would love to see happen is that the district structure, and feel insecure when things are too loose & would have several plans in place for the all. Possibly unpredictable) *I think it's helpful to have all teachers using even have 3-5 op@ons that parents can vote on (similar the same system. For example: Canvas. Or, all teachers will to how the Senior Gradua@on) ceremony plans were communicate via email (again, consistencies across the dealt with. Parents & students were given some board), or all teacher assignments will be posted on Monday. op@ons to consider how gradua@on could play out, as (So kids don't have to keep up with different teachers doing well as were given a place to voice ideas. Then the different things) *I think there should be definite school district sijed that through the governor's rulings & @mes & definite due dates, so that there is mo@va@on for such, & eventually came up with a crea@ve plan that students to keep up with their daily school work, instead of tried to meet all the various needs. But if that's not feeling like it doesn't really maDer because it may or may not possible, the important thing would be to have a plan get turned in, etc. Many people don't operate well without and a backup plan that are both solid, so that if we are clear boundaries. I appreciate so much the efforts made this once again in a posi@on where we have to stay home, year by the district, principles, staff & teachers to make the we are beDer prepared. I think the one thing that my best out of a crazy unprecedented @me. Hopefully having daughter struggled with was the lack of structure. It been through this, we have some feedback & can con@nue to felt a bit too loose for her (although I know that's the strengthen & improve how school will be in the Fall. A huge way it needed to be,) for various reasons. thank you to all!

527 Parent Kellogg Middle Knowing the plan for next year so my husband and I School can plan accordingly for work / care, etc. Parent Kellogg Middle Knowing what skills are necessary to be on track for Provide some training session or videos to meet expecta@ons. School the grade level or above and how to find that Rou@ne progress reports to parents and students to visually informa@on. I have no access to see anything. There is know if a student is on track or not helps with early no checklist on what needs to be learned. No grading interven@on. on assignment to know what is lacking. Parent Kellogg Middle make student go back to school School Parent Kellogg Middle Making sure she doesn't struggle with core classes next School year due to the interup@on of this year. Parent Kellogg Middle Math tutoring. s behind in this skill and I’m The school system let us down this year. School not very helpful. Parent Kellogg Middle More advanced learning opportuni@es for those kids Please provide more advanced op@ons for students. My kids School who want/need it. Both of my kids were done with the did beDer when they were self-directed with their learning weeks worth of schoolwork by Wednesday at the before the school started sending stuff, because what was latest, and they didn't like the lack of accountability or sent was so paltry and unexci@ng. My kids were very recogni@on for hard work. disappointed by most (not all) of their assignments and workload. Parent Kellogg Middle More consistency in communica@on / grading / A couple of teachers did a great job in having regular School expecta@ons. assignments and due dates on Canvas which allowed us to beDer manage the @me. The rest of the assignments were not as crisp in terms of what needed to be done, when they were due, or what the expecta@on was. A similar scenario played out with grading. marked assignments graded or at least complete in a @mely manner. Other classes did not. That made it more difficult to quickly check on progress. There should also be more structured class interac@on either via Zoom or other methods. My daughter only par@cipated in 30 minutes of calls a week because the others were op@onal or non-existent.

528 Parent Kellogg Middle Most important need for our child is to learn. Please I do not support any other model than kids geyng back to School go back to providing core educa@on requirements school on @me and full @me as soon as possible - with the instead of poor aDempts to solve social issues - which proper healthy ac@ons put in place (masks when necessary, delayed the delivery of much needed online learning hand sani@zer, thorough school cleaning, limi@ng volunteers, when the pandemic hit our community. etc). Online learning has not been effec@ve and has had liDle accountability for students and teachers. If online learning is a considera@on for Fall 2020 (which I do not support), it needs a complete overhaul which means investment - and I don't believe this would be ready or acceptable by September 2020. Parent Kellogg Middle My child does did not do well with online educa@on. If all educa@on cannot be done in person than at least half School Lack of mo@va@on and drive. I have to work and the @me in person would be nice. The kids need the cannot monitor the @me my child spends online. She socializing aspect too. does beDer with a structured regimen requiring her to wake up and go to school. Parent Kellogg Middle My child is going from Middle school, to High School. My son struggled in his classes due to other children being School He is entering "transcript" years. Pass/Fail is not loud, disrup@ve and distrac@ng. He did a great job focusing helping the children learn. Many teachers did not and learning from home...with the NOVA links, Spanish "teach" during the past few months. Many did not quizleDes, etc. he was provided. provide lessons or get in contact with their students.

529 Parent Kellogg Middle My child needs a real educa@onal seyng--physically. I Yes. When our schools re-open, whenever that may be, School understand that this was not a possibility, when Gov. please stop puyng them into groups by color. They ALL need Inslee shut us all down. But the students s@ll needed to be treated as equals; without one being treated "more to feel like schooling was an important, essen@al fairly" than any other. That only breeds contempt on many maDer. They need to know that they are being held levels. Include all. accountable for what they are supposed to be learning--not if they feel like it or not, or whenever. The ini@al lack of enthusiasm for educa@ng was truly disheartening, and the kids could tell. Then the "learning tools" that were coming from so many angles, without any direct route was not helpful at all. (the ini@al pick-up packets were disgraceful, and seemed like busy work for most involved.). Finally, my child's teachers were directly involved, but it was too late--frustra@on and apathy had already set in (and my Child is a GOOD, ambi@ous student--I can only imagine what it was like for others who don't like school to begin with!). Whatever Fall brings, there needs to be clear, high expecta@ons from the start, or it will be another lost learning segment in our kids' lives. Parent Kellogg Middle My child needs social interac@ons. The zoom calls School didn't work for him as he said the other students on the call were a distrac@on. He struggled to submit assignments as he could not figure out the pla[orms or complained that they didn't work. He was very frustrated with the ways in which assignments were assigned and submiDed. Parent Kellogg Middle My child needs socializa@on with others and the ability School to have more back and forth in the teaching environment (ask ques@ons, have things presented a different way when he's confused but not be forced to see all the ways things can be presented). For me to effec@vely work, I need him in school where someone else is responsible for making sure he is on task and accountable to the assignments and material.

530 Parent Kellogg Middle My child needs to go back to school, hopefully on a School regular schedule. I think that parents need to have some input on this, since some are opposed to any germ exposure, and some are more comfortable with it (as we are, since our family has had COVID already). Parent Kellogg Middle My child needs to have a structured school experience Do not make the cure worse than the disease. Our children School as close to "past years normal" as possible. This, as well need a structured school environment. Don't mess with as sports, school programs, music/band, and success. What has worked for so long for so many should not socializa@on are a must. In class, face to face be tossed out because a few have been scared into hiding instruc@on with the teachers and other students needs from the world or are actually at risk and shouldn't socialize. to happen. The haphazard online, pass/fail, an@-social, lack of athle@cs learning scenario is a joke. To subject good kids who want to excel in school to this type of experience they went through from March onwards only turns them apathe@c towards learning and disenchants them from literally caring about school. Parent Kellogg Middle My child needs very clear expecta@ons. They would do School much beDer with mandatory class @me, aDendance being taken and hard deadlines for all assignments. My child never par@cipated in Zoom classroom because it was not mandatory. I believe they would have had much more success with remote learning if they had par@cipated and the teacher used the Zoom classroom @me to instruct on the daily assignments. The open deadlines for assignments caused more anxiety and stress than relief. Parent Kellogg Middle My child to learn English and catch up with her grade School

531 Parent Kellogg Middle My daughter struggled with anxiety and depression I was surprised that only one teacher reached out to us School before the school closure; these challenges increased specifically about work. Any of her teachers could see when she faced on line learning and the array of what she was and was not doing and I don't know if they assignments with due dates --however "soj" the were wri@ng directly to her instead. I am under the presenta@on--essen@ally shut down her capacity to get impression that there were classes for which she simply the work done. She did not want to par@cipate in stopped doing any of the work and I never heard a word from zoom mee@ngs; too much anxiety over the pressure to any of those instructors to check in on her and see how she perform at a given @me when she could barely drag was doing. I suppose I could have wriDen to them myself but herself out of bed. She also watched opportunity ajer insisted that she didn't want me to speak for her and I opportunity lost, the biggest one-- the an@cipated honored her request. If this was high school and she needed event that was her inspira@on to try to go to school the credits, I would have acted differently. I was disappointed every day second semester--the trip to Japan for 8th that it took un@l two weeks before the end of the school year graders in the language programs at Kellogg and for an administrator to reach out and check on her; we had Einstein. It was heartbreaking to watch her crumble many mee@ngs about how to support her during Seventh and under the fears of the virus--her Dad takes immune- well as the fall and early spring of Eighth grade and it seems suppressant drugs so he is in the high risk category if like our family would have been on the radar sooner. I was he catches it--and her disappointment at losing her grateful for the personal inquiry, however late in the game. I cherished hopes of visi@ng Japan ajer two years of can only hope that Shorecrest will be a beDer fit for studying the language and culture. There were other however the days and terms are organized, than the end of plans for our family lost in the past few months and her this year. I do not hold Kellogg responsible for her fragile mental state has barely survived. She is geyng difficul@es; the pandemic made things happen too quickly help via therapy and medica@on but this is not the girl and the shock was too complete for her to handle it. Our we saw start second semester with a sense of family has simply survived to this point, definitely not op@mism and renewal ajer a very rough fall and "thrived" in these crazy @mes. We know the school district January. She isolated herself from even her family and had to create online learning in a hurry and hope that in the it is a relief to hear her talking of looking forward to next few month a beDer system can emerge. I can safely say high school this fall and hoping it will be all day, every that both of my kids did not like the online learning day instead of a hybrid schedule that will make it experience and the one blessing is that I think they will be so difficult to maintain momentum. The lists of online excited to get back to school they will actually get up early assignments that just built up over @me was with good grace if that is how things look in the Fall! debilita@ng to a mind like hers; she was in all honors classes and had all A's before she struggled again with depression and severe anxiety at the end first semester. She is a perfec@onist and does not like to turn in work that is not finished to her standards so it becomes a vicious circle of not turning in work and then guilt over not turning it in and it spirals into paralysis of a sort. We encouraged her to keep up her high school credit courses--Japanese 2 and Geometry-- 532 Parent Kellogg Middle My daughter would benefit from a smoother virtual I recommend that Shoreline Schools has a hybrid op@on for School learning experience with videos and Zoom calls from Fall with smaller classes to maintain social distancing and also the teachers for each subject, and more interac@on instruc@on at home with more planning and guidance than with the teacher. I don't feel she learned enough was possible in the Spring now that there is more @me to during the 3 months of distance learning, so switching plan for the Fall and possibly the whole 2020/2021 school to an online class model like in college would be more year. produc@ve. Parent Kellogg Middle My eighth grade daughter dearly misses her friends misses her friends and her teachers. She is in a student who School and her teachers. She is in a student who has not done has not done as well with unstructured at home school as well with unstructured at home school assignments/ assignments/deadlines. Social connec@on is key. I would deadlines. Social connec@on is key. I would hope that hope that handwashing and social distancing procedures, if handwashing and social distancing procedures, if those those were taken really seriously, work be successful. My were taken really seriously, work be successful. My partner works for Amazon where they do daily temperature partner works for Amazon where they do daily checks and are really strict on social distancing and for them temperature checks and are really strict on social it’s been really important. I realize it is extremely distancing and for them it’s been really important. difficult to honor social distancing standards with so many I realize it is extremely difficult to honor social children involved. If classes were staggered somehow distancing standards with so many children involved. If perhaps that could help a bit. We would strongly ask you to classes were staggered somehow perhaps that could at least try — first — to get the kids back to school. help a bit. We would strongly ask you to at least try — first — to get the kids back to school. Parent Kellogg Middle My log in never worked for canvas. I never knew what Same as above ....need communica@on School was due or if he was doing the assignments. I received a couple emails on orchestra and nothing really else..maybe a couple on math. I dont even know if he passed. He was in honors classes and geyng As. I need access and communica@on. He did the packets handed out at the lunches when i could leave work at take him there. I coukdnt even get in to order a yearbook because i work over 60 hours a week and cannot monitor or help him. Parent Kellogg Middle My most important need right now is a vaccine before My child had a good amount of work each week for some School fall. classes but some had a lot. They had to spend a lot of hours each day on the computer. Parent Kellogg Middle My most important need, is to keep my child from School geyng the virus.

533 Parent Kellogg Middle My son needs much help in math, a consistent My son is in a high-risk category for the virus. He is in good School schedule, and someone else to teach him. He also health, and geyng him the educa@on/social contact he needs needs the social aspect of school. is super important to us, but the risk weighs heavily. Parent Kellogg Middle My student is on an IEP and did not recieve anything Regarding Canvas, every teachers was doing things differently School above or extra than non-IEP students during the home which became difficult to track, for example: Some teachers learning and there was no system to track how he was emailed zoom mee@ng links, another would list the link on doing because assignments were not graded and the Canvas home page, yet another teacher would embed engaging in zoom mee@ngs to request help was too the link within modules tab under an assignment. It would be overwhelming for my student. There was also no state beDer to just post the link on the teacher's home page on tes@ng which happens in May and therefore no overall Canvas to access it there any @me you need to logon. Also, assessment of how my student is doing when re- some teachers would post late on a Sunday for the next evalua@ng the IEP. lesson week, others would post new assignments on the Monday of the lesson week by 10am which was very late par@cularly when the zoom mee@ng was within an hour to logon if you needed help causing my student to have too rush. There were several @mes, I had to email a teacher who repeatedly forgot to click "post" ajer inpuyng assignments. Pos@ng by Friday evening for the next lesson week worked best so enable the parent to help organize the week. Please remember that you have parents who are first responders and don't always have consistent work schedules, so pos@ng things late really causes delay in helping your student who may not be very organized to get organized. Parent Kellogg Middle My student needs to aDend school for the social aspect School of school. If a family is not comfortable sending their student, they should have the op@on not to aDend, but the rest of the students should not be held back from aDending school because of them.

534 Parent Kellogg Middle Need actual teacher taught school, even if it is online,, I was extremely disappointed in our middle school educa@on School should be required that live teacher lessons are avail at the end. I am not sure why there couldn't be online live with lessons that have due dates and expecta@ons. It teaching at their regular @mes and have assignments and should look as much like real school as possible, with tests. It really should have been almost the same structure as schedules and classroom even if by video in person. If the overly flexible non commital learning con@nues into High school I would feel like I needed to pull him and do home school where we could actually feel like he is learning and progressing. It was too uncontrolled and allowed too liDle expecta@ons. These kids need to have structure and schedules and actual expecta@ons. They are falling behind Parent Kellogg Middle I believe a hybrid model of some days with in-person School teaching with social distancing, regular screening, face masks, and reduced class sizes along with online learning is cri@cal un@l a vaccine is available. I am not interested in sending my child to school without these interven@ons in place. We have several family members with co-morbidi@es who are in the high risk category. Parent Kellogg Middle My child's teacher didn't do ANY live nor recorded School video lessons for the en@re dura@on of the closures. He was generally very uncommunica@ve as well. Parent Kellogg Middle No@fying the parents as soon as possible what the start It is our hope that next year the students will get leDer School of the year will look like so we can beDer prepare our grades, A, B, C, D etc. Right before the stay at home children. quaran@ne began had just received straight A marks in all 6 classes. It was devasta@ng for him when it changed to P in some classes. Parent Kellogg Middle Open school for socializing and normalcy of learning Online learning was poor due to no no@ce and liDle School instruc@ons to the teachinf staff. Parent Kellogg Middle opportunity for kids to start high school and School experience the building/teachers in person. Parent Kellogg Middle Our 4th grade student has special needs and cannot The Kellogg teachers' effort ranged from none to okay. School par@cipate well unless an adult is by her side.

535 Parent Kellogg Middle Our most important need with regard to school, is an Our preference is a school system that is based online un@l a School assurance that our children will not become sick with vaccine and/or cure exists. One of our children has an COVID-19 because they aDend school. underlying health issue. During the Stay-Home, Stay-Safe advisory, we have witnessed teachers, staff and students that are not following common-sense health guidelines (e.g., not social distancing nor wearing masks) and fear that this nonchalant aytude may have dire consequences in a return- to-school building seyng. Parent Kellogg Middle Overall, my son's middle school teachers did a great Please thank the middle school teams for me. Their School job of providing distance learning. He was able to stay departments were consistent with assignments and lessons busy during the school day and seemed engaged in all which were interes@ng and engaging. Thank them for all of subjects. The teachers were also really good about their hard work. responding to emails when he reached out to them. The most important thing for my son is to return to the community of school. He is a self directed learner who I think has retained most of the material he went through this spring. However, there is no replacement for all of the social development that happens in middle school with peers and as an individual. This has been very hard to navigate in isola@on for my son at home with just his parents and younger sister. This is my biggest concern for my son.

536 Parent Kellogg Middle People connec@on and in-person instruc@on and I am concerned that students would NOT be in face masks School opportuni@es. This was a challenging transi@on and the en@re @me or 100% online. Either would cause us to very confusing un@l the final few weeks of school. I reconsider op@ons for our children. Also, please roll out an am concerned that students would NOT be in face advance scenario plan, so everyone knows up front what to masks the en@re @me or 100% online. Either would expect should situa@ons require changes. cause us to reconsider op@ons for our children. We love our schools, and we would be fine with an alternate schedule for in-person instruc@on. Perhaps a university model would work: students aDend in person Mon/Wed or Tues/Thurs, with Fridays scheduled off for all to work on assignments, par@cipate in extracurricular events, and for thorough facility cleaning. Having a four-day schedule could save costs as well for the district in busing, facili@es, etc. I would also appreciate an op@on A/B/C plan communicated in advance of the school year so families would know what to expect for educa@on should either scenario be required with COVID (similar to communica@ng inclement weather policies before a weather event occurs). It would prepare parents well for a variety of scenarios. Parent Kellogg Middle Personalized teaching for my student. I was extremely I would like the school district to have educa@onal goals for School disappointed with the lack of teaching by the teachers each grade level which should be met even if the kids can't go with distance learning. At the middle school level, a to school. child should be able to aDend an online course and I fail to understand why in the 6th grade my student's teacher stopped teaching altogether when the schools closed. I feel the elementary school did a very poor job providing any educa@on to the students. My child would also benefit from the ability to interact online with some students on a regular basis if he cannot go to school.

537 Parent Kellogg Middle Really the rou@ne of a day where she gets up and goes School to school sees other adults and socializes and has reinforcement and something to do outside of the house. If there are school expecta@ons and home expecta@ons at the same @me it can be hard and too much and then nothing gets done. So physically going to school and seeing her people are really needed Parent Kellogg Middle Return to school in September. In-person instruc@on is School cru@al to our children. Parent Kellogg Middle Safe school return in the fall. Structure and socializing School with class mates. Parent Kellogg Middle Safety It would be great to be able to access yearlong assignments School from home with flexible due dates. Parent Kellogg Middle Safety first, but my son really needs to go to school in I know you guys have a HUGE task ahead of you.... we trust School order to learn and socialize with his peers that you guys will have the students safety and best interests. Thank you! Parent Kellogg Middle Safety for my child; support of my child using School protec@ve measures like a mask; supported learning versus independent learning.

538 Parent Kellogg Middle Safety is first for us. We want our community safe. So I would rather keep my kids at home for con@nued distance School while it was incredibly frustra@ng at @mes, and I felt ill- learning than have them at school just to have them at equipped to organize all the informa@on coming at me, school. My kids miss their friends terribly. But I take this I would MUCH rather con@nue distance-learning than pandemic very seriously, and considering the reduced staffing force in-person learning that will simply overwhelm abili@es, I'd rather not overwhelm the school system with all and burnout those at our schools. But I hope that the the health requirements, since that makes for frazzled summer will allow @me for some teachers to consider teachers and staff. I also don't want to send my kids to beDer methods for communica@on with the students. I schools if people end up going with "good enough" for was ojen assis@ng my kids with their work, and I was standards. On the otherhand, we felt that contact with confused about instruc@ons. So I don't know how my teachers was inconsistent. My kids would some@mes get kids were supposed to understand. confused by what was required, and then have trouble geyng clarifica@on from teachers. So, I'm not sure what the answer is there, either. I'm sure that our wonderful teachers are feeling overwhelmed with teaching material over a new medium. I also understand that my family is able to access the materials and set study rou@nes in a way that other families cannot. A big thank you for all who are shijing teaching styles and adjus@ng to con@nue to provide the best educa@on for our kids. I am incredibly grateful. Parent Kellogg Middle Safety is the most important need. We are an Teachers also need to vet any assignments that they aren't School immunocompromised family and cannot risk infec@on. wri@ng themselves as we had several experiences with We also can't be penalized for this! The second biased, subpar, or simply incorrect content because teachers biggest need is stability: a clear schedule, without were pushing shared content out. I am absolutely opposed constant changes or updates inside of the school week, to the "choice" model which would privilege certain students' is key for remote learning. abili@es to gain access to in-person learning over other students. Parent Kellogg Middle Safety of the kids. Everyone following the Health School guidelines. All kids wearing masks. If kids are allowed to go to school in the fall, and parents feel uncomfortable, what are the op@ons for the kids to do online learning? Will there be flexibility for some classes to be online learning? Parent Kellogg Middle Safety of the students and staff. School

539 Parent Kellogg Middle Safety! Our struggles were with Canvas. It wasn’t always clear School what the assignments were and wether or not they were complete. Different teachers seemed to be doing/pos@ng/ recording things differently. Parent Kellogg Middle Safety, clean disinfected environment School Parent Kellogg Middle Screening of Covid-19. Face Masks, Washing hands School frequently. Parent Kellogg Middle She had very liDle interac@on with her teacher. Our students need to be taught in person and be held School Wandering the internet is no way to prepare a student accountable for their assignments. Teachers need to checkin for what is to come. My daughter needs an educa@on. with each student and be able to access their progress. She is falling behind other students in other states and districts and it’s not fair to her. Parent Kellogg Middle She needs to be in a classroom. She doesn't learn well School this way and it has been a struggle. Parent Kellogg Middle Should school keep on being online in the fall, please We are very happy to have , he never stopped, he School be ready. Make a plan already now. Have all the kept using Canvas, for kids that need and thrive with a teachers do zoom. Zoom lessons. The kids light up schedule, this was awesome. His zoom was 1 hour long every when they see their teachers! Thank you. tuesday, it was a lesson in math, since that is what he teaches. A lot of teachers could do the same. That way we can work together and not all the weight on the parents. Have a nice summer! Parent Kellogg Middle Social interac@on and actual teacher led educa@on School Parent Kellogg Middle Social interac@on with other students. School Parent Kellogg Middle Socializa@on The quality of the online lessons varied greatly by teacher. School Some were very well organized, others were hard to figure out what was needed. Also, some subjects had a lot of 'busy work' while others were OK. 7th-grade science, in par@cular, was ojen overwhelming in the amount of work that was required. Parent Kellogg Middle Socializa@on- my child is entering Kellogg middle school School and has not aDended elementary school in Shoreline, and does not know anyone. Orienta@on- even if it’s online, this is really important

540 Parent Kellogg Middle Staying safe and healthy. You guys have a tough job. Thank you for all you do. I’d School also like to see more teachers matching the demographics of the kids they teach, and I would like to see curricula that are inclusive and diverse. Parent Kellogg Middle Staying safe from corona virus School Parent Kellogg Middle Structure and guidance. My child was not proac@ve School and with 3 children we ojen @mes could not follow up everyday to ensure he was doing all his work. In the end we found out he had not done significant por@ons of of his assignments, although we are unsure if he could not find them on canvas or just chose to ignore them. Also, teachers were not providing feedback to us that assignments were being missed un@l the very end when we were weeks behind. A rigid schedule of daily assignments would have been much more helpful in keeping my child on pace than a loose set of exercises with no expected due date. Parent Kellogg Middle Structure to the day. Or, one on one daily support for School my student (she has an IEP for ADHD and math) about how to plan her day and what needs to be turned in. More Zoom calls with interac@ve instruc@on. Parent Kellogg Middle Structured learning School Parent Kellogg Middle Students need a connec@on to school. We need to We are faced with a daun@ng challenge and as an educator School provide opportuni@es to create community as best we myself I've observed that is the most vulnerable and at risk can using virtual tools available. kids that are suffering the nega@ve effects of virtual educa@on. We must do beDer. Parent Kellogg Middle Teacher led instruc@on, either in person or via zoom. School

541 Parent Kellogg Middle Teachers to give full instruc@on teaching classes and for School there to be more accountability of the virtual class if going to proceed with this form of educa@on as I feel it was a failure to many and the kids will have the ajermath of it moving forward as it will become more apparent on kids as a whole. Elementary and middle school age kids are not prepared or at the level to make virtual pla[orms work as they are s@ll growing in many ways. Highschool it makes more sense as it is preparing for the workforce and or college. Parents are not equipped to teach in today's learning innova@ve styles and in most cases homes are working parent homes as well adding to the difficulty of homeschooling and ensureing the criteria of learning is met. Parent Kellogg Middle That my child can aDend in person school and have I read where nearly 3/4 of students never accessed their School social interac@on. Addi@onally, his academic ability is online school work throughout the country. I believe this. not jeopardized because of this. It is too difficult for Educa@on and the social part is a human right. many parents to con@nually track what the students are supposed to be doing. Parent Kellogg Middle That my son is able to aDend in person and get what School he needs: his IEP minutes, socializa@on, direct instruc@on, etc. Parent Kellogg Middle That school opens with very clear understanding of Good luck. School how it will implement social distancing. Parent Kellogg Middle The children need to physically be back in school this My other concern with online learning, is I would ojen email School fall. Although my children are smart and well behaved, my children’s teacher a ques@on and not hear back. I trying to get them to focus each day at home to do need a way to be able to phone and have a conversa@on with their online learning is nearly impossible. It ojen leads my children’s teacher so that if I have a ques@on I can get to arguing and very liDle reten@on of content. If I’m it answered so that I can then go teach my own child. I find not literally standing over their shoulder, they ojen get this awfully frustra@ng and I’m very concerned that if distracted or do something other than schoolwork online learning con@nues that my children are going to fall when I’m not looking. way behind despite my daily efforts to teach them what they need to know to be successful.

542 Parent Kellogg Middle The need is to have the teachers actually teach. The I think that if teachers are geyng paid, they should be School teachers could have doin so much more. It was available for students everyday. Not just one hour a day. confusing what when stuff was due, if it was on Google They should follow the same format and show consistency. docs or Canvus. It was a mess. Teachers Should have a faster response @me to ques@ons vs. taking days to get back to a student. Actually do their job, and teach via Zoom. I overall am very disappointed in Kellog. Parent Kellogg Middle The sooner you can give us informa@on about next School year’s model, the beDer. I will have two middle school students next year. Personally I think the priority should be geyng kindergarten through fijh grade on campus. Sixth grade through 12th grade can be in a hybrid or distance-learning model. Parent Kellogg Middle There must be structured learning and teacher driven I understand this was an unprecedented point in @me. I also School interac@ons. My son was so bored and got nothing out understand that the response of the Shoreline District was of the distance learning program. It was very difficult to well below expecta@ons. If distance learning needs to help him find and respond to assignments and there con@nue in to the next school year, then the distance were many, many days of frustra@on on his part when program must improve as our children are falling very far it came to understanding what was expected of him. behind in their educa@ons. Please consider inves@ng in The zoom mee@ngs were just social and ajer he technologies that are easy to use and can help teachers, aDended one he stopped aDending. I did not ask him students, and staff work beDer, such as Microsoj Teams. to con@nue to aDend because the experience was so frustra@ng for him. We will have to leave the Shoreline District if the learning experiences do not improve drama@cally. He did not even have elec@ve class - ceramics - once distance learning so he totally missed out on learning in one area en@rely. Parent Kellogg Middle They need to be in person in school. The distance learning was a joke. The zoom mee@ngs were a School joke. My child is NOT prepared for the next year. There was no help with ADD kids.

543 Parent Kellogg Middle This will be the first year for my child to go to middle School school and we are very concerned going into new environment. Would really need to take @me geyng the hang of leaning the middle school way for many students and there definitely should be a need for learning middle school way before focusing too muchh b on academics and it would be so hard for children to learn that remotely-hoping the transi@on can be slowly Parent Kellogg Middle To watch Shoreline get extremely nimble in how we What was extremely frustra@ng to watch was the difference School educate our children. We are a small district and between schools and districts. My wife works for an should be able to react and change with this. adjoining district. The day that the shutdown was announced her principal called an emergency mee@ng and basically charged the staff to start delivering lessons immediately online, knowing that whatever they did or put together might have to change when the state came up with their direc@ves. Within days they were up and running with all they could get in contact with. They changed stuff constantly for the first month it seemed but they found a rhythm and they were connec@ng with the kids and the kids were able to connect with their peers. Within 48hrs of the shutdown they knew the financial situa@ons of most of the families aDending their school so they could get support to the ones who needed it. With Shoreline it was almost two months before our child had his first online mee@ng with his class. Shoreline seemed like it waited for direc@on from the State Superintendents office. That wait was for what? To let someone else make up what simple logic dictated what needed to happen. It was sad and frustra@ng to watch that stark difference in educa@on in a region as ours just miles apart. Parent Kellogg Middle Two of my children don't like to be led academically. It Two of my children don't like to be led by me, academically School is very much an emo@onal struggle and hardship. We speaking. They are comba@ve and resistant. It is very much stopped an emo@onal struggle and hardship. We stopped our schooling three weeks early because of this. It's hard to know if my children are really even doing what they are supposed to be doing or if they just close tabs (youtube, chat servers) when I check in. I can't physically sit and make sure all of my three kids have are in task all day. I have to work. "Home learning" is a sub par educa@on format.

544 Parent Kellogg Middle Verbal communica@on between student and teacher My students is par@cularly worried about classes/ac@vi@es School without the rest of class observing (Zoom) and such as band, choir, and school plays. I know other's are interac@on between other students while working. worried about sports and other group ac@vi@es. While I know Zoom breakout groups would work for the second part. it may be impossible to begin the year with some of these, In-person would be ideal for many reasons. we would like assurance that none of these experiences will completely fall by the wayside. Parent Kellogg Middle We are fortunate. Both parents s@ll employed. Our I teach in Northshore, at Inglemoor High School. I prefer School needs are few. how Shoreline had all the work on a weekly schedule. could list her work on Monday and work on it all week prior to Friday. I think that was BETTER than Northshore. However, Northshore made a schedule where you got face @me with each class once a week. Period 1-2 Monday morning, 3-4 Wednesday morning, 5-6 Friday morning. I would suggest something like that for Shoreline. I don't think it's do-able to have all 6 classes daily and have students on zoom for 6 hours a day. However, there were some of her classes where my daughter had no interac@on with her Shoreline teacher. I preferred that about Northshore's system. I would suggest combining Shoreline's weekly work chunks with Northshore's "one hour of guaranteed contact @me with kids and teachers" as the best educa@on scenario for middle school and high school learners. I do not claim to have any special insight to what is best for elementary students.

545 Parent Kellogg Middle We feel the most important needs of our family is for Both of our children do OK with some remote learning in School our children to get a good academic educa@on . Both par@cular in mathema@cs and English. However other of our children do OK with some remote learning in courses such as Science, foreign language need more par@cular in mathema@cs and English. However other interac@on with the teacher. They both benefit from some courses such as Science, foreign language need more structure and consequence surrounding their educa@on. interac@on with the teacher. They both benefit from Accountability was somewhat lacking in the spring @me. If some structure and consequence surrounding their possible a short remote one on one zoom interac@on with educa@on. Accountability was somewhat lacking in the the teacher to develop a learning plan would be far superior spring @me. If possible a short remote one on one to a group zoom once a week where in the children are barely zoom interac@on with the teacher to develop a engaged. Facilita@ng one on ones would be highly beneficial. learning plan would be far superior to a group zoom Addi@onally it is helpful when remote learning has an once a week where in the children are barely engaged. increased amount of WriDen feedback from the teachers, our Facilita@ng one on ones would be highly beneficial. daughter's remote English class was successful in part Addi@onally it is helpful when remote learning has an because of this. increased amount of WriDen feedback from the teachers, our daughter's remote English class was successful in part because of this. Parent Kellogg Middle we need more structure with assignments - not School enough work was assigned. Parent Kellogg Middle We want to stay healthy and to help our community School keep the disease to a level that is manageable by our health care system. Our teen also needs to have meaningful connec@ons with other adults besides us. In school or not, it would be great if just one teacher was his mentor and could help him be accountable and stay organized and focused. Teens do not respond well to teachers being in this role and it doesn't work to try to connect with all the different teachers. Also zoom mee@ngs need to be mandatory - at least one per week. Our teen opted out every @me because they were always op@onal. I know that some students can't aDend for some reason, but they should be mandatory and then parents can contact you or you can contact parents to make excep@ons as needed. The baseline should be they are required. Students need to feel accountable (on or offline) and if their circumstances are such that they can't be then that should be considered on a case by case basis.

546 Parent Kellogg Middle We would love for him to have in-person teaching and School regular contact with peers but are worried about risks to both him and his family if safety measures are not strictly enforced. If (for example) a student refuses to wear a mask, will Shoreline be tough enough to evict them from the school un@l they do? Or will Shoreline cave? Parent Kellogg Middle Weekly mail with goals expecta@ons for next week. Men@oned before, SLA for teachers to respond to email School ques@ons. Our house had two students taking the same subject from different teachers. One teacher's responses were very @mely, the other usually required an escala@on. Parent Kellogg Middle What will we expect as our daughter starts high Our daughter is highly sensi@ve and intelligent, but also School school? What kind of orienta@on will she receive? introverted and being locked down has made her even more so. Her only social interac@on is with others at school. She never hung out with her friends even pre Covid so it concerns me that this has impacted her emo@onally. She says she's fine, but I s@ll get concerned. I want her high school experience to be a good one. As Im sure all parents wan the same for their children. It would be good for those students that need more social interac@on or who aDend AP or higher level grade classes to be in class vs. on line. She isn't one to ask for help and we had to really keep on top of her to get her work done while at home. She went from an A in Algebra to a D because there as a lack of mo@va@on. She brought her grade back up, but it suffered and I'm sure it was because she wasn't in class geyng the support she needed. I would suggest a hybrid model and try to get 9th graders in class as high school is a whole new experience and 9th grade is the founda@on to make it through. If possible, main subjects in class and elec@ves (if possible) on-line. Parent Kellogg Middle High school age students also need to be in school at least 2 School days week for social and emo@onal well being.peer & adult interac@ons. Parent Kellogg Middle I am worried if they get enough educa@on? School

547 Parent Kellogg Middle 1. I am wondering why there aren’t more regular live class School sessions. I think it is difficult for kids to learn without interac@ng with teachers. 2. I would also like to see work required and graded. 3. Canvas should be beDer used, The use of Canvas varies so much from teacher to teacher, making it tough to interpret what has been assigned (versus, for example, what is just listed for future use), when it is due, whether or not it has been received and/or graded, etc. 4. In addi@on to standardizing the way Canvas is used, I think it would be very helpful — even essen@al — to provide detailed syllabus-like course guides for home learning (in a standardized loca@on in Canvas) so that both students and parents can more easily find and understand the overall course curriculum and topics, when they should be covered, the expecta@ons of each teacher, how assignments are graded and fit into the overall class grade, and how far the class has progressed in the curriculum. Parent Kellogg Middle Because both of my kids are supposed to aDend a new school School next year (one going to middle school for 6th and one going to high school), I feel that they are completely not prepared mentally and educa@onally to be successful because the school year was cut short. The online components was not enough to get them ready for the next year and not only do I feel my kids are going to struggle adjust to the new environment but they are going to struggle with the next grade level. Parent Kellogg Middle both my students did work when a grade was involved, but School when you tell the students that your grade isn't going to go lower and then change it to' N/A or F' they both stopped working cause "it doesn't change our grade, so why bother" they understand they need to have the knowledge for next year but had no mo@va@on to turn things in on @me or at all, with out the grade or points being given to "show" them they're working. geyng them to do things online now will be increasingly hard as they've now had "this" for the last few months.

548 Parent Kellogg Middle Communica@on from our teacher this year was sporadic and School unpredictable. I think remote learning could work very well for us provided lessons are posted in a @mely manner on a consistent schedule. Some personal follow up from the teacher would also be appreciated. I would like to see expecta@ons communicated from the highest levels at the district and each school with clear expecta@ons for how frequently teachers should be communica@ng and @melines for assignments to be emailed or posted online. It was very difficult to plan and ojen I was already well into my workday before any communica@on was received from my child’s teacher this year. Parent Kellogg Middle Everybody, students and teachers (and parents?) need beDer School training in use of Canvas. Every teacher did things in a different way. Feedback for my kid was great from most teachers, but you had to look in a different place for each class since it was inconsistent. It was also very difficult to determine whether assignments were truly submiDed successfully and graded, due to inconsistency. There needs to be some kind of best prac@ces training for the teachers, and the students need beDer training as well. I have been home this en@re @me with my kids since I am temporarily furloughed and I have been to having to sit with my 7th grader and almost micro-manage him to ensure that he is staying on top of all assignments, teacher feedback, etc.

549 Parent Kellogg Middle First of all thank you for all the hard work the teachers, School administrators and school district did for our students. I am very grateful- I know it was not easy. I would like to provide the feed back that the early weeks of Home Learning was not at all successful for my 8th grade son. Once his teachers were able to engage and be a part of the Home Learning experience and provide the structure that he needed with assignments and quizzes, he was able to engage and par@cipate in a meaningful way. I believe this is because it mimicked a more "normal" student/teacher rela@onship and school day scenario. If we have to con@nue with Home Learning in the fall, I hope that there can be a more structured learning process with virtual teacher and class learning in addi@on to self guided lessons. Our kids have become accustomed to teacher driven learning lessons and it's a lot to ask for the kids to change to only self-guided learning. Hope this is helpful and thank you again! Parent Kellogg Middle Get the kids back to school School Parent Kellogg Middle I do not think the district or my school (Ridgecrest) or my School child's teacher were able to ramp up over @me to manage on line learning. The 6th grade class met only once a week for an hour and there was no teaching, only sharing, and it didn't start un@l late April - May. I think the social @me was important, but why couldn't they have had class @me also several @mes a week? Why couldn't there have been some social studies or math or other topics covered via Zoom? There was no feedback on the weekly work he was required to do. We required more work done at home than the district did. We required reading and science programs and more online math. We had to make up a schedule. And both of us work. This is not sustainable for the future. There has to be a beDer plan. Kids need in person learning, and if it can't be in person, they need to be on line at a certain @me with their class, in class with structure with the same expecta@ons as if they were in school. I fear that he lost significant ground from March onward. No wri@ng. No cri@cal thinking. No feedback. Not adequate teaching.

550 Parent Kellogg Middle I have 2 children who aDended 2 different elementary School schools last year. Their experiences were very different with at home learning. It would be great to see some consistency in the delivery of learning materials, expecta@ons, etc. Parent Kellogg Middle I have kids taking mostly honors or advance classes. One School daughter had mostly 100%s in all her class prior to shutdown, but was dinged in choir because she was sick with a cough for a few days prior. Even though there was email communica@on to parents to keep their kids home if they are sick. She went from an A to a C- because of aDendance for this class and wasn’t able to make it up. So she was penalized. Parent Kellogg Middle I recognize that planning in uncertain @mes is difficult. I hope School that there will be as much in-person, on-site learning as possible. My kids are older and I understand that it would be more important for the younger kids to have the personal contact that on-site learning would allow - but older kids need that, too. These past three months have been difficult and their love of learning has diminished significantly. It will be a rough start at the beginning of next year as they will need to remember how to learn, how to get excited about learning, and how to be accountable. Parent Kellogg Middle I think it is very important that the kids are able to go back to School school. I believe if basic precau@ons are followed then everyone can be safe. These would include face masks, hand sani@zing and allowing @me for students to wipe down their own desks. Parent Kellogg Middle if there would be a remote learning please make sure there is School strict @ming for classes even if it is only few hours keeping the strict @ming helps kids focus on the study as doing any@me in the day is ojen never in the day.

551 Parent Kellogg Middle In person teaching is monumentally beDer than distance School learning. My kids some@mes had a hard @me geyng math concepts or instruc@ons even with demo videos. It takes away their opportunity to ask ques@ons and get them answered while at work on the subject. I believe if return is based on grade, it would be most important to start with the highest grades to the lowest as their academic and social needs are so much higher than K-5 which can be fulfilled at home. Sports and band are very important as well even if they need to be carried on with reduced spectators. Parent Kellogg Middle Kellogg teachers were communica@ng with students through School canvas as well as the k12.shorelineschools email. This was very confusing and frustra@ng. It would be so helpful if all teachers communicate with students In the same pla[orm. Parent Kellogg Middle Many teachers never reached out to us or told us what to do. School There were assignments on the district site that were different than what was on Canvas. There should be more virtual connec@on with teachers and staff. Elec@ves in small groups. Have a choir zoom call with over 50 kids is too much. My child felt very disconnected. Parent Kellogg Middle Math was the only subject we were able to work on. We School clicked once and got a worksheet. All other subjects had to many links and clicks and logins. They hardly ever worked and were so frustra@ng that we quit. We signed up for paper packets to get mailed to us and we got 1 at the very beginning but that was it. Parent Kellogg Middle Mee@ng once a week with was not enough, it School should be at least 3 days a week. Parent Kellogg Middle Most of our son’s teachers at Kellogg were responsive to School distance learning. There was one teacher who barely did anything. He only had “office hoursâ€

552 Parent Kellogg Middle My child is medically fragile and will be transi@oning to School Shorewood this fall. Throughout his en@re school years, he has been in a self-contained classroom with other special ed students. In that environment, it is nearly (en@rely?) impossible for these students to not share germs. Many need full assistance for nearly every task. We very much want him to return to school (and we think he does as well) but are highly concerned the classroom environment will not be safe and that his FAPE and individualized support services will be tossed aside again. Regression is a very big risk for this popula@on. I should also note that the only reason we answered in the posi@ve for any of these ques@ons is because we are blessed to have a 1:1 nurse who comes to our home and who also aDended school with our son pre-pandemic. She took it upon herself to be our son's instructor during this @me and the main conduit to his teacher -- a role she didn't have to take on. If it weren't for her help and care, our son would not have received an "educa@on" these past few months as my husband and I work full-@me and we struggled to find @me to even make sense of the disjointed stuff sent our way. The special educa@on administra@on took way too long to communicate clear informa@on and to act. Our typically developing child began distance learning weeks before our special ed child. Parent Kellogg Middle My child will only be aDending in person schooling provided School proper social distancing in class as well as access to PPE effec@ve at keeping the wearer safe from Covid. Proper social distancing also includes space for the teacher to move around the classroom while keeping proper distance. If the safety of my children can not be ensured then they will not aDend.

553 Parent Kellogg Middle My family struggled with home learning based upon the School class. Canvas was unpredictable and some assignments based upon the pla[orm used would indicate submiDed, while others that were in fact submiDed displayed in canvas they were not submiDed. Teacher expecta@ons were all across the board. Some teachers expecta@on of assignments submiDed were flexible while other were emailing my child telling them it’s @me to wake-up as “school is in session†Parent Kellogg Middle Once my child was accustomed to the online environment, School the largest factor in his success and frustra@on he felt at @mes was not any par@cular technology or method, it was teachers who used the tools in a clear and consistent way. He men@oned that Math did an excellent job of assembling lessons in which the goals were clear, the materials easy to find, and assignments were turned in the same way. His experience in one other class in par@cular was frustra@ng because some assignments were sent via email, others existed in Canvas but were only visible in the Calendar, while yet other assignments were published in Canvas modules. In that same class there were mul@ple ways to turn in assignments, some of them relied on Canvas, others used shared Google docs, and some@mes assignments were turned in via email. As a Canvas user myself I know it’s a very flexible system, but training in best prac@ces and consistency will help reduce frustra@on and help my student focus on the learning, not the technology. Parent Kellogg Middle Online learning was very frustra@ng and very liDle learning School occurred over the last several months for my 8th grader. If this is the plan the district pursues for the fall I will pull my 3 kids from the district and home school them. Kids are at liDle to no risk from this virus and it's beyond @me they start sports and learning again.

554 Parent Kellogg Middle Students need structure and rou@ne in @mes of uncertainty, School something they can count on. Most students will rise to the expecta@ons that are given to them esp. if they are normally engaged at school. They also figure out quickly what they can get away with and only do what is expected and that was a big downfall for most this last part of he year. Parent Kellogg Middle Teachers need to communicate weekly with parents and School grades need to count. Parent Kellogg Middle Thank you for working on this. For distance learning in the School future, it would be great if Kellogg could streamline their protocols on how to access assignments and how to turn them in. We found it somewhat challenging that each teacher had a different expecta@on on how to turn in assignments. There also seemed to be a wide spectrum in the amount of work that each teacher expected. I know these are all wrinkles to iron out and I am grateful for the staff for stepping up and giving distance learning a go this spring. Parent Kellogg Middle The shoreline district was the least prepared and had the School worst plan of any nearby district. Everyone else we know in the nearby districts had a significantly beDer experience. If this con@nues next year we will be looking at private school op@ons. Parent Kellogg Middle The survey included many op@ons that would have been School valuable, if it had been presented. Not having clear expecta@ons of what my child needed to deliver made it difficult to be consistent. Parent Kellogg Middle The work load for students was too great. It was that of School college level. Science was extremely complex and overwhelming. This would be a great class to have in-person instruc@on for the fall as would PE and Arts! There’s enough online resources/tutorials to navigate math assignments. I am thankful I had only one child to manage. All of my other friend had two or more children/students.... simply way too much

555 Parent Kellogg Middle The workload on my 7th grader was too much in some School classes. It was hard for him to navigate Canvas. hoping for some in person learning. Parent Kellogg Middle We asked for hot spot but didn't get one Answers to what is School required to return really depends on where Shoreline is on # cases While quaran@ning for exposure also seems key - those students should then have live-stream access ot class or be able to not have 10 days absences from school.... Parent Kellogg Middle We hope that the school can resume so the children can get School more physical ac@vity and a beDer learning opportunity with the teachers present. Parent Kellogg Middle We would like to have visibility of classroom assignments and School comple@on. Perhaps through a pla[orm/dashboard for parents to go to independently of our child's account to view requirements, progress, and announcements. Emails tend to get lost or overlooked or there are too many sent to keep up with. We would prefer emails only for escala@ons to avoid email fa@gue. Parent Kellogg Middle While my younger child received inadequate teaching during School this @me, my older child seemed to have beDer support, more actual instruc@on, and teachers who gave every effort they were able to. The @me to actually start teaching was extremely poor (4 weeks is ridiculous) but once they got started, the level of instruc@on was rela@vely good (although, my younger student's experience was so poor, it is hard to say what is adequate). The number and difficulty of the assignments was certainly lacking as my student had to work about an hour a day (if that is all he needs to do while at the school building why are they there for 7 hours?) but the assignments seemed to cover the topics he needs. I do worry that next year will be more difficult given I doubt that he covered all the subjects he needed to the degree they needed to be covered. Some actual online instruc@on is definitely warranted if they are unable to return to the building. Most students can not teach themselves even in college so it should not be expected of high school students.

556 Parent Lake Forest Park I’m just not sure how effec@ve recorded lessons Elementary are for kid’s learning outcomes, as It is not interac@ve, dynamic, engaging, nor does it entail coopera@ve learning opportuni@es with peers. I’m a liDle worried about the sustainability and effec@veness of this type of pla[orm from both the lenses of working-parents and educators. What about the social- learning piece, problem-solving, sharing of ideas, learning that there are many perspec@ves and developing empathy? All of which backed by an extensive body of research are predic@ve of beDer outcomes for kids and humans.

557 Parent Lake Forest Park - Understand the goals for my child's educa@on. We - Please make it clear what are the overall goals for my child's Elementary didn't know what the expecta@ons for comple@ng 4th learning and priori@ze her work. What are the most grade were. Therefore, we didn't understand how the important things they need to learn. Parents are now ac@ng lessons fit together with the overarching plan. - Ability as teachers at home, so we NEED to understand this. - Large to clearly see what she is supposed to be working on. zoom calls ineffec@ve. My daughter never wanted to sign on We couldn't log in because parent's can't have access because there are so many people so people are either to Google Classroom. - Ability to use a system that lets silent/scared to talk (understandable - adults hate large our student draw lines and write easily. It felt like they zooms, too!) or some kids were too distrac@ng. Small groups hacked together a way to use Google Classroom that MUCH beDer. - I am incredibly concerned about equity right wasn't originally intended. "Show your work" is hard now. School right now takes a huge amount of tech-savvy. My when you have to type on a computer and you're more husband works in IT and we struggled. I cannot even imagine accustomed to hand wri@ng. You can't take a photo how this is going for families that don't use computers and and send it in. I some@mes would spend an HOUR don't have tech know-how. - The wishy-washy nature of what trying to help navigate the technology to submit on was required was very difficult. If we are priori@zing what to @me. The system was not good. I know teachers are work on with our kids, what should that be?? I work full @me doing the best they can with the tools they have, but it and needed to know what to priori@ze. - Please please was OVERWHELMING. - We need a clear please work district-wide on making emails clear and concise. communica@on method that is consistent across the We some@mes get 10 emails a day from teachers/school, and school, one place to access all the informa@on, and it is so overwhelming. I get hundreds of emails at work. The transparency into what they're working on so that we emails from school are at least 3 to 5 @mes as long and can help. some@mes confusing. - A monthly or bi-monthly short (15 min) check in with a teacher to discuss our child would go a LONG way and be hugely apprecia@ve and effec@ve. - It seemed like there was a lot of busy work. How does each lesson feed into the overall goals????? - Too many programs/ log ins. I couldn't log in to any system. My daughter had to do it all, so I didn't know how to help her. - Please invest in fewer systems that are truly designed for remote learning. Please don't hack together systems that weren't designed for this. - This survey was very poorly designed. Not enough guidance, ques@ons were unclear (example - how many students are in your household - does this mean at the school for which you are comple@ng the survey, or in household in general??) / When you moved the rankable ques@ons they didn't go in the place where you put them. all other survey systems correctly move the ques@ons. / No ques@on about what helped your child learn the best. / Ques@ons of different topics were together in the same sec@on - ques@ons about learning together with child care (which should have 558 Parent Lake Forest Park 1) The kids need to be back in school. Distance Elementary learning was rolled out poorly at best. Students are not able to self manage their work and assignments. They don't care when other teachers are doing the lessons. The sound and video quality of the lessons was subpar. Distance learning forces them to be in front of screens even more than usual. The assignments ojen required supplies that we don't have at home. If distance learning con@nues in the fall, there needs to be a more structured, simpler way for students to follow along on their learnings. We have two working parents at home and it is impossible to guide them in their learnings and work. The Zoom mee@ngs were not produc@ve at all and ojen were set at @mes that we couldn't make due to our work schedules. I'm not even sure why they had them - the students did not receive any benefit from them whatsoever. I realize that this was thrown together last minute but the en@re experience was frustra@ng. Parent Lake Forest Park 1) We cannot replicate a school dynamic at home when If there needs to be a part-@me schedule for school, there Elementary it comes to providing our kids with a learning needs to be before and ajer care provided during those environment. Puyng the burden on (working) parents @mes the kids need to be at home. when implemen@ng a part-@me school schedule will compromise my kids’ learning and development. 2) We are not able to support our kids’ limited schedules with both parents working full-@me (and part-@me on-site). We need day care to cover the @mes our child is not at school due to their part-@me school schedule.

559 Parent Lake Forest Park A clear plan with clearly communicated con@ngencies Elementary in case of another outbreak, and as much warning as possible for fall plans so working parents can plan with employers to be home when needed if children are outside of school. Scheduling so both students are in school on the same days if at all possible, it would be very difficult to have at least one student home on each day during the workweek. Online instruc@on during Zoom that didn't rely on younger students not being able to support tech without parent help. Parent Lake Forest Park A cohesive learning plan with specific dates and @mes Elementary that my child will be in the classroom. Online assignments limited to subjects like art and social studies; and crea@ng extra or follow up assignments for subjects like reading and math and STEM (most of the learning for these assignments should be taught by the teacher) Requiring parents actually TEACH the lesson is too much. Crea@ng parent training and awareness for at home learning would be helpful. We have NOT been trained on the curriculum and have very liDle insight as to what needs to be done. If at home learning is required, crea@ng a schedule where kids are in school for a full day some days a week and home all day other days a week. Keeping the schedule consistent. LESS SCREEN TIME FOR LEARNING. Direct the lesson plans to the parents to execute, esp for younger kids (K, 1st and 2nd). I only want to see my teacher; if that is not possible, all students need to be familiar with all 1st grade teachers. Asking our kindergartners to stay engaged with a stranger was SO WEIRD and impossible.

560 Parent Lake Forest Park A safe (remote) way to connect with friends and a Thank you for listening to everyone during this strange @me. Elementary teacher. We had a fantas@c teacher We’ll be flexible with you as you try to figure out how to from take the @me to send videos where a keep students, teachers, and aging grandparents safe while puppet would talk about feelings in a way our liDle girl educa@ng these youngsters. Thank you!!! You are could relate to. It was awesome. In addi@on to her appreciated!!! videos, she hosted Class Zoom mee@ngs twice a week. These were some of the bigger smiles and silliness we would see. It was nice to see her enjoying her classmates and teacher from the safety of our living room. Parent Lake Forest Park A safe environment to learn with established protocols Way too many emails, consider a pla[orm to disseminate Elementary in place and adhered to. informa@on instead. If an email is a must, keep it short and/ or limit it to reminders and direc@ng to the 'pla[orm'. Too many emails are paragraphs and paragraphs long of...won't get read. Parent Lake Forest Park A safe place for my child to learn. My husband and I work 8-9 hours/ day and we are unable to Elementary provide the level of support required for either of our children. Instruc@ons from the teachers are nearly unintelligible, and impossible to follow. The content is good, I assume, but I'm not equipped to help - and I have a PhD and a master's degree! Keeping up with each kids requirements became a full-@me project (in addi@on to my grueling work schedule). We received 4-6 emails per day per kid with changing instruc@ons, 5 minute warnings for mee@ngs and the digital gatherings made my kids feel unheard and alienated. The need for a structured LMS is impera@ve for effec@ve distance learning.The way Google Classroom was used was nearly impossible to figure out, with several screens, changing loca@ons for assignments, naming conven@ons, and seemingly no paDern, rhyme or reason, and Seasaw is probably the worst online experience I had. I had to give up to maintain my sanity and my rela@onship with my kindergartner. There are organiza@ons that can help provide structure and solu@ons for a digital experience - please engage them, it'll be worth the money and will help the kids in the long run!

561 Parent Lake Forest Park A structured and suppor@ve environment to learn and Speaking only for our own experiences with a younger child I Elementary thrive. We have an only child who's entering would just say we have found it helpful with online learning elementary learning for the first @me. My concern for that our child feels really connected to her teacher, the our child is the loss of human connec@on even in courses and classmates. She has been effec@vely learning and person with face coverings and having to be physically par@cipa@ng in her daily online classes with her Pre-K distant. While health and safety for all is the priority, because she already knows the teachers and class. The we welcome any crea@ve solu@ons to help us connect teachers go above and beyond to let the kids par@cipate and with teachers and new classmates so our child can feel engage not only with the materials but also with one another. secure and confident in her learning journey. I would But on the other hand while par@cipa@ng in an online version also add we are hoping for some pa@ence in of her dance classes with a teacher and class she had only expecta@ons on kids as they try to adjust from liDle to just met in person prior to the lock-down I no@ced quite a bit no contact outside of our homes. I think there will be of struggle for her to par@cipate, focus and feel connected some anxiety from parents as we navigate elementary and commiDed to the process. for the first @me and in this environment making it extremely unique.

562 Parent Lake Forest Park A truly developmentally appropriate understanding of If schools are opened par@ally, preference must be given to Elementary what is reasonable to expect students and teachers to vulnerable and marginalized students first. Priority must be do if they are going to reopen schools. Its not realis@c given families who are most at risk rather than students to expect children in early elementary schools to play whose families prefer for them to be in school. 6+ feet apart and wear masks for 6+ hours per day. Its a great idea but its just not going to work, as much as we all want schools to start. If that is what it would take to ensure the safety of kids and teachers, then it is not safe for schools to open. If the restric@ons and safety do not allow for meaningful interac@ons between kids and staff, then opening schools just does not make sense. I recognize that this may be an unpopular opinion but opening schools just to have a major up@ck in cases, to have kids who cannot play with their friends, or teachers who can't touch a sad or hurt student would be psychologically devasta@ng. For our family specifically, I am concerned about what will be offered for students who may not be able to aDend safely if schools do open. I am immune compromised and my daughter has immune dysregula@on and asthma. We are at high risk for severe COVID complica@ons. I know that we are not the only family in the district who are in this situa@on. Considera@ons must be made to provide these students grade level developmentally appropriate educa@on outside of the classroom, if the classrooms are opened and it is not safe for their families.

563 Parent Lake Forest Park A vaca@on! :) Early and frequent communica@on on This survey applies to the 4th grade (entering 5th grade Elementary what we can expect for the coming year so we can student). Our biggest frustra@on with this whole process is prepare as best we can. Ideally a few scenarios that it seemed there was a lack of acknowledgement that would be great (star@ng with Ҡmany families have two full @me working parents with very demanding jobs. At a @me when we are under so much pressure financially, we could not be pulled away from work mul@ple @me a day to help with virtual learning. We just plead that you please, please, please consider the families who, despite working from home, are s@ll working and cannot help teach on top of those work demands. The lessons and computer systems/programs have to be manageable independently for the most part in order for this to work. The modules used over the past few months simply were not user friendly and were some@mes even hard for mom and dad to figure out. One example is in SeaSaw, where First grade students ojen had to create text boxes and draw pictures using a mouse - this just is not easy to do for all skill levels and ended up being very discouraging for the liDle ones who weren’t geyng the results they were hoping for when doing their work on the computer. Thank you for your considera@on! Parent Lake Forest Park Ability for our child to go to school in the fall Elementary Parent Lake Forest Park Accountability for class assignment comple@on. Social Elementary interac@ons and connec@ons with classmates. Teacher feedback on class assignments. Parent Lake Forest Park Although I understand this is a difficult @me for clarity, Elementary it would be helpful to get more informa@on on ajer- school care. Currently, we don't have a plan for care ajer school, but since everything is so unclear, we don't even know where to begin. Parent Lake Forest Park As a parent to an only child who will be aDending My child was at Edwin PraD last year so my responses to Elementary kindergarten next year: socializa@on! I know social ques@ons about this year’s at home learning were based on skills are the biggest thing kids learn in preschool and I that. hate that we missed out on three months of that. Parent Lake Forest Park As a solo parent I need to be able to determine what Elementary childcare I am going to need in the fall.

564 Parent Lake Forest Park As my child is headed to middle school for the first We heard over and over again that it was ok if our child Elementary @me this year, it would be nice to be able to prepare wasn't super invested in online learning. It would be nice to him for the new environment. So please con@nue to have some clear expecta@ons for the level of effort / @me to provide updates. They have been helpful. be spent on online learning if that model is going to con@nue. Please keep in mind that my answers to the concerns and requirements for my child returning to school are a liDle indefinite. It's so hard to assess risk when the structure that a school day provides is so important to my child. This is tough and as a parent of a school age child, I appreciate the effort that the school system is expending on finding the right balance for all of it's students. Thank you! Parent Lake Forest Park Both my children need special educa@on. Having a Consider seesaw for all grades. A lot easier do pick Elementary teacher that is equipped to teach them (I.e. not their assignments one by one, and do, and not get overwhelmed parents) it would greatly help my children. with a weekly scheduled assignment. Parent Lake Forest Park Child care is the most important. Both parents work in Elementary our home and there is no child care available for summer.

565 Parent Lake Forest Park Child care so both parents can get back to work under The communica@on during this shutdown has been Elementary normal schedules, services for one student that needs frustra@ng. We were inundated with emails right from the support in the LAP program. get go. While I believe the school and/or the district felt that they were helping, ojen it was too much to process. Informa@on was thrown at us from mul@ple sources, we had to dig through email and links to figure out what made sense for our par@cular students and situa@on, and ul@mately choose which informa@on we wanted and which informa@on we were going to delete. Ojen we would get two or even three emails on the same topic. Some@mes they were duplicate and even triplicate of the exact same email. It became so overwhelming that we stopped using district resources altogether un@l the district could get its act together and start providing a more organize online tool for each student. Hearing about experiences from other school districts around our area, I've been saddened and very disappointed with Shoreline. I grew up here, aDended schools in this district, and felt when I had my own family I wanted to return and see to it that my kids were afforded the same quality educa@on that I received. While I never expected perfec@on, this experience has been eye opening. The district leadership has displayed an inability to adapt, lack of foresight or vision, and placed families and our children in a terrible posi@on. I worry about the fall. We worked very hard to keep our children learning throughout the school year so that they won't be "behind" come next year. But where does teaching pick up in the new school year? How do we have some assurances that our kids are progressing and not vic@ms of a process by which the teachers can only teach according to the weakest link in the classroom? This shutdown will have an impact on the rest of my children's educa@on if we choose to stay in Shoreline.

566 Parent Lake Forest Park Child's safety and reducing the chance of my children If learning from home will be part of next year curriculum, Elementary becoming vectors for Covid-19. We have at-risk family the teachers and district need to limit the amount of emails members. and redundant informa@on contained within the same. There needs to be more organized communica@ons from teachers. One email a week in a formulaic format that is delivered at the same @me/day every week would suffice. An@quated online learning tools are a waste of both the children's and parent's @me. Updates needed, or en@rely new systems put in place. Parent Lake Forest Park Concerns about kids ability to keep masks on all day, Appreciate all the district is doing. We understand these are Elementary and teachers ability to enforce use. Would definitely challenging @mes, and it's hard for teachers and staff. Know like in-person instruc@on for kindergarten. We were at that we acknowledge all the work you are doing. Edwin PraD before closure and have done ZERO online instruc@on, even though it's been provided. My preschooler does not do Zoom well and can't sit through online instruc@on or circle @me. Have been hearing more about outside school op@ons, maybe having more classes outside on playground. Would prefer smaller classes, maybe with no distancing required. If kids end up in confined, isolated spaces, will be more likely to consider homeschooling op@ons. Parent Lake Forest Park Consistency and to be clear with instruc@ons on how to Elementary log into online learning websites. I spent a ridiculous amount of @me trying to figure out how to log on to the various websites for both of my kids. It was par@cularly challenging to work with 4 different teachers for my 2 kids (they both do walk to math).

567 Parent Lake Forest Park Cri@cal to ins@tute appropriate risk mi@ga@on The dynamic and challenge situa@on this Spring caused a lot Elementary measures (social distancing, masks, cleaning) and get of chaos in the learning process. There should be significant kids back in school at least half @me If we are forced investment this summer to ensure our students have the best to leverage online learning again, best prac@ces need possible learning experience given the likely constraints we to be ins@tuted across all teachers: - Use the same will face. pla[orm across the district for age groups to enable scale benefits - Kid friendly user interface to ensure they don't miss out on learning because they're too frustrated trying to make the IT work -

568 Parent Lake Forest Park Flexibility and understanding. Homeschooling through While I very much want to be informed, the amount of emails Elementary a pandemic lej me less concerned with my child I received from the district/school staff was at @mes academically and more aware of how she was feeling overwhelming. The most helpful district communica@on (for and doing mentally. me) was when bullet points began being preceded by “new” and “reminder”. I did appreciate how honest and posi@ve many of the emails were (esp from the principal!) Thank you for asking for our input! Parent Lake Forest Park flexibility in scheduling and a schedule that can work I liked the class mee@ngs and project based learning at the Elementary with childcare needs end of the year for my fourth grader. I thought seesaw was very hard to use for my 2nd grader. I would have preferred a packet pickup and drop off for kids at the younger grade level. Thanks for all you've done as a district! Parent Lake Forest Park Flexibility with remote learning and at least some in- I put "not very well" for special educa@on not because we Elementary classroom learning. don't love our teachers but because they just weren't able to do their job because of the circumstances. I thought the teacher led videos/lessons worked well to give flexibility to different home life and schedules but perhaps "live" teacher led instruc@on for Special Ed would work beDer if there is online learning in some way in the 2020-2021 school year. Parent Lake Forest Park Flexible online learning if kids not returning to school Too many online resources were provided to kindergarteners. Elementary in @me. My partner just lost his job and I am primary I would love to know what percentage of families were earner. This is a @me of major stress. actually able to complete all that was assigned Parent Lake Forest Park For all of our kids to be able to go back to normal, or as Elementary close to it as possible. Parent Lake Forest Park For my children to have socializa@on with other Is there a way to collect data for Covid in Shoreline and LFP Elementary students and in-person learning versus busywork. versus using all of King County data? It seems like a more localized picture of prevelance would be helpful. Parent Lake Forest Park For my son to be in school. That is where he will learn Elementary the best. He needs the social aspect of school as well. Kids are meant to be in school on so many levels, not to be taught by their parents. Parent Lake Forest Park Full @me in-person class for social-emo@onal Please see current announcements from UW Medicine. Elementary development and so that we can return to work. Children are likely not transmiyng COVID-19.

569 Parent Lake Forest Park Geyng caught up for all the educa@on that was lost. Online learning did not work for us. I’m worried if our Elementary We had a very difficult @me geyng our kid to log in child can’t go back to school in the fall, he will con@nue to and do assignments. not learn much and he was already barely at grade level in most subjects. It was a baDle to get him to sit down to do the work. We also found submiyng the work to be frustra@ng even for the adults at @mes. These past few months have been very hard and I really hope there is a way to return to school in the fall. Thank you. Parent Lake Forest Park Geyng kids back to school in person. Elementary Parent Lake Forest Park Guidance in how to teach subjects that are difficult to Elementary our kids Parent Lake Forest Park House Elementary Parent Lake Forest Park How will our kids make up the lost learning @me, if If home learning is necessary again, I think it would be a lot Elementary we’re already an@cipa@ng a half-@me return to beDer to have a teacher split the classroom into 5 groups of school? We can’t be expected to full @me school 4-5 and meet with them every day for an hour on zoom to go our own kids competently by watching videos and through lessons. It is too disjointed to have a bunch of helping them through all their assignments, it is teachers the kids don’t know making videos, using literally a full @me job. We need our kids to have different pla[orms, etc. Also some of the interfaces are daily face @me with their teachers, even just an hour, clunky, for example when my 1st grader was comple@ng to go over lessons and homework. Then they can do assignments that needed her to draw lines, it was nearly another hour of homework. It is not realis@c for us to impossible on a Chromebook we had bought. So we ended have 2-3 self directed lessons per day, with videos by up giving her a $500 ipad and apple pencil too, teachers our kids don’t know, and get the learning across and complete assignments.

570 Parent Lake Forest Park I am lucky that I don't have a ton of needs. I think Elementary whatever is put in place it needs to be flexible yet structured. It needs to include rela@onship building and SEL support for both teachers and students. Its going to take crea@vity, perseverance and hard work. I worry that the thrust into home learning has led many to feel that it was a complete disaster. Even if it was, it needs to be considered the circumstances under which it happened. No one was prepared for it. I don't think we should count it out. Anything you try something new it feels weird and uncomfortable for the first couple of tries. But once tools are built and we figure out how to manage and deliver it could be amazing. I hope the results and feelings of today and of the survey are taken with a bit of a grain of salt. I don't think there is enough or quality evidence to discount it. Thanks for your hard work. It is @me for systemic and real change in our educa@on system. Parent Lake Forest Park I just want my kids to be able to properly learn. Home Elementary learning was a failure in our home due to inconsistent packet learning and inability to access many online classes. Parent Lake Forest Park I need my child to have normalcy and go to school. My Remote learning at home does not work. My wife and I both Elementary student needs structure and to be a in a suppor@ve work full @me and do not have the @me or the exper@se to place of learning. educate our child adequately or fairly. All Shoreline students deserve beDer educa@on and is, in fact, a reason so many families moved to the Shoreline District. The remote learning that took place from mid-March to the end of the school year was extremely disappoin@ng. Having to wait over a MONTH to get direc@on from the our teachers was unacceptable. While the remote learning program may be improved (if online learning is what we are forced to do next year), I'm afraid that you have already lost so many parents, students and families due to district's ini@al response. Unfortunately, our kids' love for school has been lost. They are begging to move to a school (or state!) that is holding regular, in-person classroom instruc@on. In person learning is essen@al and cannot be subs@tuted.

571 Parent Lake Forest Park I need to be able to work and I could not if we had half Thank you for assessing the parents thoughts on next fall as Elementary days. I also have kids in two schools which would also you try to make these challenging decisions. be challenging if they were on different schedules. Parent Lake Forest Park I think the concern with us is the distancing issue with You guys are doing great in a nearly impenetrable situa@on. Elementary a bunch of 7 year olds. How do you enforce that I’m glad I’m not in your shoes making these decisions without scaring or scarring them? We’ve been but you all are doing what’s in the best interest for all and preDy isolated so she misses her friends like crazy but we appreciate that. thankfully technology helps so much. She has learned a lot this year before and during the quaran@ne so my concern in our situa@on isn’t the lack of educa@on it’s the social/emo@onal impact Parent Lake Forest Park I think the kids need daily zoom @me with the teacher Just supplying all the informa@on (videos, assignments) s@ll Elementary in small groups, if not in person. Maybe have small leaves parents in a very difficult posi@on. Are we supposed to groups of 6 kids for an hour each day. sit with our kids and make sure they understand the videos? Make sure they can access the info? Make sure they can complete each ac@vity? (For example, for drawing/wri@ng assignments, either we have to print and photograph assignments, or use an iPad & stylus and save the work; that is a lot of physical and technical checking that parents have to do). The way things were structured, I felt like there was no way for my kid to complete everything unless I put in 4-6 hours a day at their side, which I was never able to do. Parent Lake Forest Park I want my kids to be healthy, learning and growing Google Classroom and See-Saw were amazing. Keep those! Elementary emo@onally. While I'm happy to be involved, I don't But can we condense it to one program? They were just feel qualified to provide this for my kids. With no different enough that it would get tricky switching back and strings aDached, I'd love the school to be in-person forth between the two. Thank you for all you are doing heavy. But I'm not sure I'm ready to do that just yet. It's aDemp@ng to balance all the factors! Kids with special needs hard with things changing so ojen and fall being so far and environmental needs worry me the most. I want them away safe and cared for. But also healthy. It's hard! Parent Lake Forest Park I would like in school or more direct individual contact Elementary with my student

572 Parent Lake Forest Park I would like the important learning to be taken away Distance learning was hard and we were a family set up to do Elementary from parents and put back on teachers. It was hard to it well. I was home with kids and we have kids who are smart mo@vate students who were already geyng A's to and able to do it well. It was hard because every kid's keep doing work. It was hard to teach kids things they teachers had different expecta@ons and it was hard to keep couldn't understand from videos or from teacher track of who was supposed to do what. I wished there were responses. clear ways for teachers to give feedback on how students were doing. I do not feel like students can learn the same with distance learning as they can in person - and I feel like lots more work needs to be done to get everyone ready. We did fine but it was not ideal and not sustainable for another year. We need more feedback from teachers. More assignments and classwork - we need learning to be happening with teachers. More work. Way too liDle assigned. More quizzes and ways to see if kids are on track. Flexibility but also expecta@ons. That's hard to do but I feel like we need to find a balance. Way too liDle expected. Parent Lake Forest Park I would like to see my kids back in school in the Fall Elementary without the mandate that they wear masks. Masks are not approved by the FDA for children and no studies have been done to verify their safety. I also will not be vaccina@ng my children, as again the safety and efficacy are not proven. Online learning should be required and teacher videos and/or live zoom classes that can be recorded would be my preference if in person school is not an op@on. Kindergarten support is a huge concern of mine and I find it very important to maintain some style of learning for these kids. My older son did very well with online learning this year, would just like to see more live op@ons with teacher instruc@on rather than using zoom to catch up and chat as a class. Parent Lake Forest Park I would love for elementary to be priori@zed for in- Thank you. This is so hard and I appreciate how challenging Elementary person learning. this will be to figure out. I would be okay if only 1/2 day were academic and the other 1/2 "child card". I'd be okay sending my kids and not having masks/social distancing if the kids were in a "bubble" (small group that they are with the whole @me)/

573 Parent Lake Forest Park I would love my children to be back at school. However, Obviously, I am strongly for the public school system. Elementary I am hesitant to commit to sending my kids back to However, we have seriously contemplated homeschooling school seeing as it's probably all going to look very next year, not out of fear that our kids will contract the virus different. It's not about fear of the virus, but simply or give it to someone, but simply out of what school will disinterest in my kids wearing masks and being forced actually look like for our kids. I acknowledge that the district to social distance, which feels incredibly impossible for is just wan@ng to keep our kids safe, but my kids are so the children and the teacher. It will be a strange young. And Recess and the moving around from one place to learning environment for everyone. the next is so important to their emo@onal wellbeing. Parent Lake Forest Park I’d like to see the detailed protocols to handle many Online teaching is good for situa@on we are facing. I don’t Elementary kids at once: such as max number of kids allowed in mind mixing online and in-person classes. But teachers have one classroom; during recess or lunch the procedures to go thru some forms of online teaching training, so the to keep them socially distant, facility readiness, and content can be more lively and dense, instead just chayng or other risk scenario. Also, are teachers and staff on playing games. board for such rigorous steps? How do they demonstrate their readiness? Parent Lake Forest Park If there is going to be distance learning in the fall my My son really struggled with the lack of structure in distance Elementary son needs more visual instruc@on from teachers (ie learning. His teacher did one Zoom call per week and for him more frequent Zoom calls where teaching happens). that was not enough interac@on. While assignments were Watching a video, unable to ask clarifying ques@ons provided each Monday the expecta@on to finish them was and being expected to work through assignments on not communicated by his teacher, thus having that fall to us his own did not work. As two working parents as parents. For him, not being in school was a mental, managing school work for a child that did not handle emo@onal and physical struggle each day to complete any distance learning well, this has bee a daily baDle and work. emo@onal struggle for our family.

574 Parent Lake Forest Park In person lesson. 1) if home e learning is needed, please consider a different Elementary homework management tools (Google classroom is terrible). My 3rd grader has assignment posted on Google classroom but it's so hard to use. It is a long running list of all assignments. Once you go through all the different links and slide show to finish assignments, you click turn in. Next day, the assignments are s@ll there with a "resubmit". Because new assignments keep coming in, all the assignments are being buried in this even longer list. I prefer Seesaw or Canvas for homework management. 2) daily screening is the key. In other countries that combat COVID-19 successfully has temperature readings everyday (some even twice a day) upon students arrive the campus and wearing face covering. 3) face to face learning as much as possible. Kids need interac@on to learn. 4) alterna@ng schedule would be an good op@on if trying to lower student/staff ra@o. However, childcare might be an issue for working parents. 5) Zoom mee@ng should be more efficient. In spring, most zoom mee@ngs are just for connec@on and chit chat. My kids find it boring and unproduc@ve. My friends in CA. The teacher has 45 minutes ~ one hour zoom lesson everyday (actual teaching, not just sharing what you did yesterday) and then, assign homework if needed. If class is held in person on campus, doesn't teacher need to instruct lesson for that period of @me anyway? Also, doing assignment right ajer zoom lesson is more efficient in learning. Thank you all for what you do. We are all in this together and hope we can find a win-win solu@on in the fall. Parent Lake Forest Park In school instruc@on Both parents work and do not have @me to instruct and Elementary navigate online difficul@es. Wish teachers could have offered video zoom instruc@on to teach new concepts, par@cularly in math. I worry my 8th grader will struggle next year in math. My 6th grader did not have enough work.

575 Parent Lake Forest Park In-person instruc@on, and learning that is not just My child only had 1 weekly class zoom call and he didn't even Elementary screen @me is crucial. I think distance learning was a look forward to it, even though we knew that he should be on disaster, and it was always a struggle for my child to it to stay connected to his classmates and teacher. I have stay focused and posi@ve. Honestly, I think my child heard other teachers checking in individually or in small was learning more, staying on task, and had an groups but our teacher did not do that. I'm not sure it would improved outlook when I was "winging it" before have helped, but it is troubling to hear such inconsistency google classroom assignments rolled out. Once they even happening within the same grade group. In addi@on, rolled out, we stayed on top of it, and took it at our our teacher was not "technical". I understand in the own schedule, but it was such a downturn for him and beginning a couple of weeks, but it only got worse as @me he hated every minute of it. Before google went on. Our assignments were full of mistakes, accidental classroom, I was doing a mix of math assignments, repeats, broken links, restricted videos, and more. When my cursive prac@ce, map and capital quizzes, podcasts, child was already frustrated and it takes an effort just to get worksheets, crea@ve games, and more. Our day was him focused, this would completely set us back to square 1. fun and produc@ve and did not revolve around a The last week of school when the workload should have screen. Really nothing can replace in-person learning. ostensibly lighter, we had EXTRA assignments because she forgot some in previous weeks. When the teacher would say things like "some@mes technology is on my side and some@mes it isn't", I found that discouraging to hear from a teacher for 2 reasons: 1. Google classroom and technology, in general, is not a Magic 8-ball. I wanted to ask that they please put some effort in to figure this out. The kids would not be able to say this if the shoe was on the other foot. 2. Please take ownership, and ask for help. The kids should not suffer because you did not put in the @me and effort to edit and test. The problem isn't necessarily with the teacher, perhaps the district and school were not doing enough to train them on these new tools. I imagine this was really trying on a few levels but compared to other classrooms, even within the same grade I know we had a dras@cally different experience. We had a wonderful teacher, and she probably wasn't expec@ng to get thrust into a technology-based classroom. But she is seriously lacking in technology skills. Parent Lake Forest Park In-person, teacher led instruc@ons. But only as long as The staff and teachers at all schools are put into a tough Elementary it is able to be done in a safe manner. situa@on this year and our family greatly appreciates everything they’re doing for our students. We will get through this! Parent Lake Forest Park It is very important that the children return to school I can’t work if the kids don’t return to school. In person Elementary full @me. schooling does not compare to online learning.

576 Parent Lake Forest Park It’s important to get back to school. For me, daily Sigh. You have a difficult job. I don’t envy that at all. You Elementary health screenings and mandatory quaran@ne for those aren’t going to make everyone happy and there are a lot of who are exposed to COVID should be mandatory. No alterna@ves for people who refuse to get on board. Generally, more sending kids to school who are sick with “cold the loudest ones in these cases are the ones with the most symptoms.” That said, I’m very indifferent about the means and flexibility. If they don’t like it, they can effec@veness of masks. Par@cularly on young children homeschool or private school. I think most people are and those who cannot, for whatever reason, wear reasonable. I see that when I take my kids to the beach and them for 6+ hours straight (I personally don’t have any everyone is leyng their children interact and play in close health issues and I cannot wear a mask for 1 hour proximity, without masks. I see that in our neighborhood straight without feeling overheated, short of breath where kids have been playing (mask-free) for months outside and claustrophobic). I absolutely do not expect together. So please think of that when construc@ng a mask students or staff to have to do that either. As someone requirement. A VAST majority have already allowed kids to who talks regularly for work, talking/teaching in a mask play with others (outdoors) without masks for months. is torture long term. I support staff members who feel There’s a social/emo@onal balance that must be struck. the need to remove their mask to breathe or be heard. Masks inside during group ac@vi@es or other situa@ons that require close contact? Sure. Masks when siyng at a desk that is rela@vely spaced from a neighbor? No. Masks outside or during physical ac@vity? Absolutely no. Parent Lake Forest Park Just get the kids back to school. Structure Ac@vi@es Elementary Parent Lake Forest Park Keep everyone safe and don't rush into anything, for I hybrid schedule seems to make the most sense, where work Elementary both the students and teacher sake is online and split the school into groups to reduce people in building at once Parent Lake Forest Park Keep my kids and family safe! Online school for third graders works just fine to me. We Elementary don't want to take risks by sending kid to school when we don't have vaccine yet. Parent Lake Forest Park Keeping our child challenged and engaged. The Elementary workload was way to easy during the online stay at home period. Parent Lake Forest Park Live, instructor-led learning through Zoom or other Elementary pla[orm, especially for students just star@ng to learn how to read Parent Lake Forest Park Mailing packet, daily virtual mee@ng Elementary

577 Parent Lake Forest Park Making sure my child has the opportunity to learn and Elementary grow both mentally and socially, preferably in the more tradi@onal school seyng, while minimizing health risk to students and teachers. Teachers are much beDer suited to teach our children than parents, especially when parents are trying to manage many things including younger children and work. Parent Lake Forest Park Making sure my student is with his new sibling at A way to measure where and what my child should be able to Elementary school on the same schedule. know. A way to test to see what needs work etc. Parent Lake Forest Park Making sure she is helped as much as possible with she has asthma and has a hard @me wearing a mask all day Elementary math when she comes back to school. Parent Lake Forest Park Making sure the kids get the socializa@on that comes If distance learning is part of the Fall, maybe consider small Elementary from the classroom experience and seeing friends. group zooms for classmates to work together on projects and BeDer accountability and expecta@ons for comple@ng assignments together. Online learning lacks the ability to assignments. Distance learning alone lacked the bounce ideas off each other which can be a mo@vator for urgency to meet deadlines and complete work. some kids. Also, it fosters social support amongst peers. Parent Lake Forest Park Masks all day are tough. My kids are more resilient Elementary than I thought, they do not complain about masks (summer camp required masks inside, but not outside). However, when i pick them up, there is a paleness and lots of red patches on their faces for about an hour ajer they remove their masks in the car. I’m not a health professional, but common sense leads me to believe this is not healthy to do every single day, all day. For us, I would appreciate a reduced in-person schedule to reduce the days my kids are in masks all day (ex. Half the class aDends Monday/Tuesday. Having a cleaning day Wednesday/online for all. Then the other half the class can go Thursday/Friday). I know that may not be prac@cal for many families but having gone through the all day masks thing with kids, this is what seems most balanced. I appreciate the work you’re doing. It cannot be easy! Parent Lake Forest Park Masks on indoors (if required). Masks off outdoors or Please be reasonable with the requirements for children. Elementary during PE or if siyng far enough away from others. Especially the liDle ones who will inevitably touch their face Teachers can do whatever works best for them - masks way more ojen with a mask on. Common sense and on or off. reasonableness are very important.

578 Parent Lake Forest Park Members in our household have health issues that put Elementary them more at risk with COVID so we are unsure if we will feel comfortable sending our child. We would love the op@on to do school from home. Zoom really didn’t work for our child but she did enjoy videos from her teacher she could watch. A weekly plan with learning goals would be perfect for us as I feel comfortable teaching her at home. Parent Lake Forest Park More consistent interac@on and direc@on from child's Elementary teacher and clear expecta@ons of comple@ng assignments/firm due dates would be helpful for my child. Also less required screen @me for learning. The paper packets were not a good replacement for on-line learning this spring. Material was not as challenging and was a repeat of on-line lessons already done. So we did all of it on-line and was way too much screen @me for my child. Affected behavior. Parent Lake Forest Park My 2nd grade daughter would benefit most from My 2nd grader had a largely posi@ve experience with her Elementary returning to some in-person teaching, and con@nued, virtual learning. Her subs@tute teacher used Seesaw for the structured, virtual learning if needed. learning pla[orm. As a parent, I found Seesaw to be intui@ve, interes@ng for my daughter, easy to see "completed" and "new" assignments, and the teacher provided clear feedback on the pla[orm once assignments were completed. We could also submit assignments by comple@ng them electronically on the pla[orm, or by taking a photo or recording easily from the pla[orm of a paper assignment if it was easier for my daughter to complete it that way. I felt that the zoom mee@ngs should have been more frequent during the week, and should actually provide a lesson from the curriculum taught by the teacher. My daughter began to be un- mo@vated to join the zoom mee@ngs because all they would do is read a book or do "check-ins" with everyone. I think it would actually build a classroom/community feel to have more zoom lessons per week that were actually instruc@ve.

579 Parent Lake Forest Park My biggest concern is for the teachers. I know this My kids are doing summer camp at Brighton School and I Elementary must be a really tough spot to be put in. With that said, appreciate their balanced approach to masks. Masks on my next biggest concern is the requirement of masks inside. Masks off during lunch, snack and all right physical for kids without a break to breathe fresh air. I and outdoor ac@vity. It would be nice to see a similar understand and support masks if they’re required approach at public schools. indoors or siyng closely in groups but I do not support a requirement to wear them outside during recess or any physical ac@vity (PE). Reasonableness and common sense should prevail. I support teachers doing whatever is comfortable for them - mask or no mask. This is all under the assump@on that people will use common sense and stay home or keep children home if they are feeling ill. Health screenings should play a big role if possible. Parent Lake Forest Park My child is ready to learn math, science, reading, etc - I would like to know when they will reschedule the Elementary and I do not have the tools I need to teach her. She is kindergarten assessments. - we are very eager to start star@ng kindergarten in the fall and I do not want her school as long as there are strict rules set in place, of the to loose interest in her academics. highest precau@ons. Masks are a must and as long as all the children wear them, I will send my child to school. I understand that some changes will take place and I am more then understanding of these circumstances. - I would prefer if kids were siloed to the same group of students - thank you! We appreciate all the teachers! Parent Lake Forest Park My child most misses seeing others and the rhythm of Students are anxious and my own student will need support Elementary school. what that said, she likely would be nervous to feel safe and confident at school again. The message about going from strict isola@on to full school days full closing school sent to the students- that COVID is contagious, of contact and uncertainty (especially at a new school). dangerous and to help others we must stay home- is s@ll I think a hybrid model would be a good fix- some there. We do not want them to disregard our previous shortened school days with small classes and social messages, but rather help the students see we are trying to distance/masks/hygiene protocols with the ability to get them back to school by working together to be safe. switch to online learning if quaran@ne/exposure occurs. I think that perhaps having some classes online and some in person would allow for shorter days- perhaps two classes in person and three at home online? For us, bussing is very important. We are not within walking distance and I am a single parent who works at a school elsewhere- so the ability to get back and forth to school maDers.

580 Parent Lake Forest Park My child will be aDending Kindergarten so most of this Is Preschool Available? Elementary is new or N/A. Is Preschool Available? Parent Lake Forest Park My child would benefit from an in-school learning We appreciate all your efforts. We understand everyone is Elementary experience. We believe he has missed in-person learning and char@ng a new path forward. interac@ons with other kids in his class. While we try to do learning each day, our inten@ons are never aligned with what actually occurs. We are not able to give him the aDen@on that he needs to learn effec@vely. Although we appreciate all the informa@on and lessons from Google Classroom, the organiza@on feels very ad hoc and too much. There are too many links, so we end up overwhelmed and basically s@cking to the 1 or 2 online learning sites like ixcel. We think it may be beDer, if learning has to be remote, to focus on 1 or 2 learning ac@vi@es each week. The learning ac@vi@es can then change each week for variety. Parent Lake Forest Park My daughter is an extremely social learner. On her own I greatly appreciate the effort put forth by all of the teachers Elementary (without peers) in front of a computer is a real and administrators during this very confusing and challenging struggle, and has caused alot of frustra@on and @me. I have the feeling that our kids best interest is at the discouragment for her. Her reten@on and ability to heart of the decision making process. focus has suffered. I hope the district is doing everything possible to ensure in-person teaching gets underway in the fall. If not, I'm worried about this prolonged distancing stun@ng my daughter's educa@onal and social development. Parent Lake Forest Park My daughter is entering the sixth grade so she's old My above comments do not detract from my gra@tude for Elementary enough for more strenuous expecta@ons. If we need what was on offer this spring. I know it wasn't easy to to stay distant in the fall she'll need to be required to redesign on the fly and I do think that we did the best we check in assignments daily and interact with at least could, but if my child will be learning from home she'll need one teacher daily. Anything less and she feels that she to be required to have daily teacher interac@ons and due can kick back and put things off... dates for assignments. Thanks.

581 Parent Lake Forest Park My daughter will be entering Kindergarten so it's Elementary important to us that she is in school at least part @me. Being her first year in school, online learning would be tough to manage and she really would benefit from social interac@ons. I'm not as concerned about the acedemics. Parent Lake Forest Park My husband and I are essen@al workers. My son Elementary (kindergartener) has aDended a daycare for essen@al workers (through ECC) throughout the school closure. We cannot work from home, we cannot easily support a learn from home environment. Luckily for us, he had already met his year end goals back in November at the first parent/ teacher conference and we con@nue to read together and play math games. However, I imagine that first grade will be a different story as other kids catch up to his reading and math abili@es. I don't know how my family will cope with con@nuing his educa@on in the fall without full@me school available. I don't know if there will be a daycare for essen@al workers available and if there is, how they would support his learning. Daycare is ending for the summer and though he will aDend a summer camp, we are nervous about what new challenges the fall will bring. Parent Lake Forest Park My kids are younger and opera@ng more or less at Elementary grade level. To be honest I'm more concerned about health than them losing academic ground - they have @me to catch up. Parent Lake Forest Park My kids interac@ng with classmates and learning Elementary resources

582 Parent Lake Forest Park My kids need social interac@on with other kids. They Online school is not sustainable for young kids. It was Elementary also need to be learning the same content as the kids emo@onally taxing on the en@re household to do school this around them. My son would ojen get emo@onally way. The beginning of the roll out was very messy and caused deflated because his younger sister had less work than a lot of unnecessary stress. We received way too many emails him. She was the only one he could “compare†from too many different sources. It was hard to keep track of what informa@on we actually needed. For working parents, it’s impossible to focus on work and teaching your young child. The younger they are, the more hand holding they need to log on, pay aDen@on, turn things in, etc. I am fully suppor@ve of kids going back to in-person school full @me and wearing masks if that’s necessary. But they should also have the opportunity to take the masks off if we can get them in large circles in the classroom where they are 4-6 feet apart from each other (when/if possible). Social distancing with kids is very challenging to maintain so I don’t think it should be an expecta@on teachers have on their plates. I think we should give it a try and hope for the best with kids washing hands as ojen as possible and being required to do online learning from home if they have any cold symptoms. Good luck! Parent Lake Forest Park My kids need their in-person school experience with An important considera@on for selec@ng students for in- Elementary school staff and friends. We are willing to endure person learning is aDemp@ng to schedule siblings on the some risk to enable that so long as face masks are a same days to minimize conflicts with parent work schedules. requirement, reasonable social distancing is enforced, and surfaces are cleaned on a rou@ne basis.

583 Parent Lake Forest Park My needs are dependent on my child's needs. If I am I believe that manda@ng that children wear face masks is a Elementary going to be the instructor as I have been, then give us a trauma@zing and dehumanizing pretense. Viruses are curriculum and grade level expecta@ons to fullfill and submicroscopic. Surely if you are symtoma@c wear one as not complete with a schedule. We will learn, then test to spread and If you are an adult who deems this necessary periodically. Send home a workbook. The problem with that is your right. In certain public situa@ons this is not a bad Seesaw is that if I wanted my child to spend @me thing, but if a child is free of symptoms I don't see a need to learning sojware interface and media produc@on I force them to wear one while at school, possibly causing would just have him write, film and edit videos using a hypoxia and harming their immune systems. Humans require media tutorial sojware. The grade appropriate math social interac@on for many reasons, one being a quizzes on the district website, where the teacher had microbacterial exchange which strengthens our immune starred(suggested) the expected curriculum worked systems and helps to build an@bodies and bacterial well as my child filled in the grid at his own rate built resistance. By not interac@ng with other humans in person, on rewards/accomplishments system. In many ways my you are actually weakening and destroying the immune child learned much faster through this than the teacher system, making the host more suscep@ble to assigned lessons. I'm sure a mix of the two would work infec@on(possibly serious). I have travelled through S.E. Asia best as a curriculum. - That said, my child needs and many people, but not all, wear face masks(actual par@cle socializa@on from human to human interac@on with & N95 masks not self fabricated face coverings) in a mostly other students and school teachers and staff, fun@oning society while face mask wearing was not con@nuity not disrup@on. Emo@onally my child has mandatory. I will feel very uncomfortable asking my child to regressed due to the disrup@on and severing of wear a mask for these health/mental health related reasons. community interac@on/contact, the absense of a My child just wants to be a child, go to school, learn and concrete/dependable schedule and the nebulous make friends. nature of an uncertain future which is replete with numerous dubious agendas(virtual schooling being only one), all of which are deleterious to the children, families and humanity. I know you guys are trying, I greatly appreciate and understand this, but yes here it is, if you think you are building this as a feature of permanency instead of con@ngency then you need to consider the fragmented psyches and the substan@al educa@onal failures which will result from these policies and the tenuous future lives which will be created through their implementa@ons. Parent Lake Forest Park My son is on the Au@sm spectrum and will not Elementary par@cipate in home learning. He also thrives with rou@ne, and has been struggling with boredom and loneliness.

584 Parent Lake Forest Park My son needs to be social with other kids and aDend He would be willing to wear a mask and aDend school. Elementary in-person school, even if it's for a shorter day. He is Please let school reopen for in-person school. ojen shy and needs to be with other kids and a teacher to prompt him to interact and join in with the group in a confident way. His handwri@ng is declining because everything has been online. He needs opportuni@es for paper and pencil ac@vi@es. We did not have a printer at home so unable to print anything for paper/pencil ac@vi@es. Seemed like the teacher preferred online par@cipa@on, so that is what he did, but his hand muscles are not as strong as they were. Watching video lessons was not engaging, and they were ojen choppy and poor video quality. His teacher did hour-long zooms twice a week but that seems too long for one siyng. He would get really @red siyng and watching an hour zoom mee@ng. Shorter, but more ojen would be beDer. Also, his teacher really got mad during a zoom mee@ng when the kids were using the chat func@on. He got off the zoom and cried for about 10 minutes. It was really trauma@c to be berated on zoom by his teacher with all his peers. He didn't know how to react during the stern talking from the teacher. He keeps saying he would just really like to be back at school. Parent Lake Forest Park My son was having problems with the special services Elementary before the shut down then ajer not much to nothing. He was already behind before and now he might be really far behind. Parent Lake Forest Park My son would benefit from clear instruc@ons and Making schoolwork non-mandatory made it hard to keep my Elementary personal follow-up. Being shy, he did not like to be on kids on track. Maybe fewer whole-class, on-screen mee@ngs, screen for zoom mee@ngs and would probably prefer but more small group learning groups who work on specific to be anonymously logged in. Breakout rooms would projects, would be a good way to go. More crea@ve be a different story. He would be more comfortable in assignments. I say that but of course math was the easiest a small learning group. As much as possible I think it class to follow. It might be harder to design English and would be nice if there were small learning groups Social Studies classes to be interes@ng. I think these classes working together. Maybe “lecture†should rely less on “making presenta@onsâ€

585 Parent Lake Forest Park My student performs best in a structure environment. Virtual class mee@ngs are difficult, especially if you don't Elementary We developed our own schedule to supplement what have a very dynamic teacher. If they aren't very engaging in was provided by the school. School assignments were person, their lack of enthusiasm is even more amplified on completed extremely quickly and weren't challenging Zoom. You need a big personality to keep kids engaged or engaging. virtually. Parent Lake Forest Park Online school felt like a waste of energy, @me, sanity, One thing I no@ced from the learning videos, was that the Elementary and resources. I know the teachers did their best and longer the video the higher chance my kids would disengage. so did we. Looking back though, i don't think my kids Their aDen@on spans would last about 5 minutes and then actually learned anything. I know there is no way to we would lose them. Most of the videos lasted 10 minutes or assess them and am feeling let down by the district. I longer. Especially with Math. We would struggle to watch a honestly feel that if school had just "ended" during the 15 minute video on a math lesson. We would then do the pandemic my kids would have the same ap@tude as assignment which would take 1 or 2 minutes and could have they do now ajer all the frustra@ng long hours of been easily completed WITHOUT the long arduous video online learning. where I am constantly redirec@ng my child's aDen@on Parent Lake Forest Park Opportuni@es to socialize with other students We are moving districts during this break (into Shoreline from Elementary outside). We're in need of building a social community in any form for our 2 kiddos. Parent Lake Forest Park Organized educa@on for my children. They are spinning Elementary their wheels at home. Parent Lake Forest Park Our most important need, with regard to school, is an Our preference is a school system that is based online un@l a Elementary assurance that our children will not become sick with vaccine and/or cure exists. One of our children has an COVID-19 because they aDend school. underlying health issue. During the Stay-Home, Stay-Safe advisory, we have witnessed teachers, staff and students that are not following common-sense health guidelines (e.g., not social distancing nor wearing masks) and fear that this nonchalant aytude may have dire consequences in a return- to-school building seyng.

586 Parent Lake Forest Park Our twin girls are really missing being part of a school We think the girls' 6th grade teachers did an excellent job Elementary community, which includes seeing teachers and pivo@ng to online learning this spring. That said, with more students/friends in-person, and playing sports and @me to plan (or backup plan) for next school year, we expect engaging in other ac@vi@es they enjoy with friends. As more structure, lessons/learning and accountability for the they head to 7th grade, and enter middle school, they kids. My understanding is assignments will be due and grades would benefit greatly from in-person support and will count, so they can't skate by and get a "P" on their report camaraderie of the school community. I can't imagine card like they could this spring. I would hope this shij would them star@ng middle school over Zoom, without first be clearly communicated to the kids and families. It's clear establishing the rhythm of middle school, and mee@ng that some teachers are more comfortable on camera/Zoom, new kids/friends. Our girls are always nervous for new and that does impact the interest and engagement level of things, and that is the case with middle school. If they the kids. It would be great for teachers to have some aren't able to go in person in the fall, I worry their flexibility to teach/engage with kids in the way they can most anxiety about star@ng middle school will con@nue to effec@vely impact them. Maybe some teachers that are more hang over their head while they would be aDemp@ng comfortable on camera teach the lessons, and teachers who to tackle online school. We are all in favor of puyng aren't s@ck to general class mee@ngs, and student phone calls protocols in place to keep all students and staff healthy 1:1. and safe. And if COVID-19 cases should spike, we would support online learning if needed. But we feel it is important for the kids to go back to school in person in September. We also support staggered schedule op@ons. If we can get them back at least some of the week, that would help. And a staggered schedule could also be a nice transi@on back ajer so much @me at home. I think it's going to be exhaus@ng for all.

587 Parent Lake Forest Park parent training on a classroom level - what are the 1. my kid complains ajer 15 minutes of wearing a mask. I Elementary tools, how do we use them, what are the expecta@ons tried to navigate costco with a mask and nearly for onsite/remote class par@cipa@on, what is the hyperven@lated. I don't know how kids could be expected to communica@ons policy/strategy, what happens in the wear masks a full day at school. a couple of hours at best. so event of technical failure (on our side? on the teacher's what, do you have the morning sec@on and the ajernoon side?), what skills should i be giving my child over the sec@on and cleaning 2x a day? i don't see how that works summer to navigate all the different school portals and either. 2. maybe older kids could take responsibility for online tools you're using for remote learning, what are staying 6' apart, but I don't see first-graders doing that. 3. the privacy policies and data storage/handling with it's a given that everyone was thrown for a loop in march and regard to my child's image and other content. what on everyone did their best - on the school side and the home earth you see as logis@cs for onsite educa@on given the side - to deal with this completely unprecedented and reali@es of first-graders. unforeseen situa@on. i, for one, had a rough @me with the transi@on to being a single working parent trying to keep up at work, do emo@onal support for my kid, figure out how to manage him during the day, learn new online learning systems without any training/walkthrough from the school district, AND keep up with the absolute deluge of email/ phone/text no@fica@ons from SSD AND mul@ple outreach mails from iep coordinators AND the flurry of daily/weekly mails from our teacher - or lack thereof when she had trouble with internet access and had to cancel zoom classes without no@ce. honestly, i reached burnout very quickly because of how absolutely chao@c the communica@ons were. some things that would have been helpful: a session of parent training on "here's what we're doing and here's how it's going to work and if it doesn't work here's what to do" that covers tool training (e.g. seesaw, class tools on the district website), the daily or weekly bulle@n mails - what day of the week can we expect them? what is the permanent link to the zoom class? how do you indicate hard deadlines vs. soj deadlines? I had ques@ons that uDerly shut me down because there was no parent training. there was a video of a man I didn't recognize invi@ng my child to upload art that he said he would share with first responders. turned out to be content from somewhere else (where? another district?) and OUR teacher said no, the content would not be shared beyond our class. i had ques@ons about how my kid's file submissions will be used/stored/shared because i am concerned about security and privacy of my child's image and content. 588 Parent Lake Forest Park Please invest in a beDer online learning pla[orm than The lessons, work, and instruc@on were fine, but both Elementary Seesaw and Google Classroom. Seesaw and Google classroom were INCREDIBLY cumbersome and @me consuming for the kids to use. You did the best you could with the tools you had - but these systems are clearly designed to be just a supplemental classroom technology. They are not designed to be the sole mechanism to facilitate remote learning of all subjects. I am sure when the district purchased these tools, they did not have this scope of a problem in mind. Please, please, please! Do the research and invest in an actual REMOTE LEARNING PLATFORM for this fall! Your teachers, students, and parents will thank you. Parent Lake Forest Park Please open up as normal. If teachers are older, then Elementary they should stay home. Younger teachers shouldn’t have contact With anyone over 55 years old. This is a risk to seniors and not to children or middle aged adults. Parent Lake Forest Park Progressing my child's learning in a safe environment. Elementary Missing part of pre school to prepare her for moving forward... and possibly now missing Kindergarten at this early age will have an impact. Parent Lake Forest Park Provide a structure which would enable my child to Elementary progress in her educa@on as well as access the social aspect of a school, connect with teachers and students on daily basis, perhaps through daily live but online class if in person is not available. Parent Lake Forest Park Safe environment for in-person school that adheres to It would have been helpful to have the weekly lesson plans Elementary health/science recommenda@ons - not poli@cal the Friday before so we could plan for the following week - influences. rather than receiving them 9ish on Mondays when we are already working. I was surprised the first month there was no out-reach by the teachers. The last 4 weeks we at least had weekly lesson plans, that was very helpful

589 Parent Lake Forest Park Safety is the most important, which I do not see the Elementary school being able to create. If my children have not lej the house in over three months, returning to school in a few months seems like a huge leap. I would prefer a moderately structured homeschooling with zoom mee@ng several @mes per week, and possible small group zoom mee@ngs added into that. There needs to be more interac@on with students and teachers, but I think it is a safer and cheaper op@on than what is needed to get kids in school and do so safely. Half day classes create enormous child care issues, and will likely cost families what it would be if they were in full@me care. Parent Lake Forest Park I am really disapointed in the lack of contact and how long it Elementary took to get zoom classes set up. these kids had thier social contacts taken away from them over night. I know my group of friends were able to set up zoom "happy hours" on a regular basis basically in the first week. If you say my childs emo@onal health is a top priority, it was not demonstated. The first "packet" of informa@on (3 weeks ajer the doors were closed) was not class specific and it felt like 60-70% of the informa@on pointed us to online tools. Heck I could have googled 80% of what you provided. It was around 4-6 weeks before zoom classes were held and the first @me that happened was the happiest I have seen my son during all of this. He was so exicited to see his buddies and be goofy with them. I am not sure how hard it would have been to set up op@onal 1 hour zoom mee@ngs daily so there could be some emo@onal support by his teacher and his peers. You could have had seperate @mes on seperate days. The teacher could have just read stories, fun online games, really anything. I understand that my child is not going to grow from an educa@on stand point during this @me frame but the lack of emo@onal support and dirrect teach communiac@on is very dissapoin@ng.

590 Parent Lake Forest Park Sense of normalcy even if we end up doing home I have some concern that when the school has reopened for Elementary learning. physical aDendance, that my child's enrollment status will be used to force her back to school even if we don't feel that it is safe yet. Parent Lake Forest Park Social connec@on, classroom learning Online was scaDered and the different phases created chaos Elementary and mul@ple transi@ons in our home with 2 full @me working parents. It was hard to navigate emails from teachers, zoom calls, counselor emails, librarian emails, principal emails, School district emails, IXL, seesaw, super kids portal, class link, etc, etc, etc. It was a full @me job naviga@ng all the things!! Parent Lake Forest Park Socializa@on and in-person school. The on-line I would like to see a focus on social and emo@onal health Elementary schooling was not enough of a challenge and did not especially ajer this difficult year. emphasize learning new skills. Parent Lake Forest Park Socializing with peers. 1. The Weekly Learning Bulle@n provided by teachers was Elementary most helpful to us when it was provided on Friday. This gave us @me during the weekend to schedule schoolwork and adult work. 2. Emails to parents need to be more concise. My na@ve language is english and I ojen had to read an email several @mes. I can't imagine what it is like for people with english as a 2nd language. 3. Google folder contained 'Stream', 'classwork' and another category I forget. 'Classwork' was only used so simplify the folders by removing the other op@ons. 4. In the fall, we'd prefer an op@on that permiDed our child do most (>50%) of their schoolwork on paper instead of via a computer. For this to be an op@on we need to figure an easy way to a) transmit the worksheets (email/upload an image) and b) for the teachers to grade and return the documents. 5. We are concerned about the possible transmission from children to teachers and admin. We do not want you to rush this decision. 6. We feel that teachers and admin are well deserving of a raise, especially given all the work they have done (and will do) bc of covid. Parent Lake Forest Park Structure & absence of normalcy Socializa@on I was not impressed with the online learning pla[orm. Elementary

591 Parent Lake Forest Park Structure and interac@ve real teaching, not just videos My son's teacher worked so hard to be crea@ve with Elementary and not on our own. My 4th grader recognized quickly assignments on google classroom but it was challenging to that there really was no content to the zoom calls so he figure out where to go and follow some of the assignments. muted himself and had no video. The one @me where The best assignment was a slideshow that had prac@ce and there was a kahootz game that related to the repe@@on on how to choose the correct word to go in the assignment he had just one, he fully par@cipated and sentence. The videos with more open ended assignments got recogni@on for how much he knew. Socializa@on were tough. It was really tough all the way around. My son issues have always been tough for my son and this @me ended up doing very few assignments independently which I has really not helped. That's why we really want him know was not ideal, but we wanted him to feel like he got back on school, as long as it's considered safe. something done. Unfortunately he came to rely on us too much. Parent Lake Forest Park Structure @mes lessons and expecta@ons Elementary Parent Lake Forest Park Structured ac@vi@es. Both parents are working Elementary (primarily from home) so things the children can do independently would be grand. Parent Lake Forest Park Structured learning program and teacher involvement. Elementary Parent Lake Forest Park Structured program with clear expecta@ons Elementary Parent Lake Forest Park Structured school days with Teacher interac@on Elementary Parent Lake Forest Park Surviving. IMO, there was WAY too much communica@on with remote Elementary learning. From too many sources. I am (was) not familiar with google classroom so it was REALLY hard to help my 4th grader navigate through it to find assignments. There should have been an ini@al zoom mee@ng for the parents- with the teacher- to lay out expecta@ons, guidance, etc for the assignments through the pla[orm. It was very confusing and overwhelming to my 4th grader, all of the assignments for the week. It would have been helpful to have had it daily, that way we could have created a rou@ne for the day. Overall, i was disappointed with the teacher/child/partner connec@on. And the learning pla[orm.

592 Parent Lake Forest Park That my child aDends school in person in the fall. If school is online, my child will not benefit without live Elementary interac@on/lessons with a teacher. Logging in and watching videos and turning in assignments at any @me with no accountability is a waste of @me for her. When school closed we had very liDle contact with our teacher, and none at all for the first few weeks out of school. Parent Lake Forest Park That my kids are able to get taught by professionals Really hoping our kids have the opportunity to learn together Elementary who know their subjects and can work with the kids at a school in the fall! So important for their emo@onal, and not just parents trying to teach everything who physical, educa@onal, and psychological growth! Thank you may or may not have the @me, energy and exper@se to for your hard work! P.S. If there is any online learning next teach them. Also, social interac@on with other kids is year, it might be good for all teachers to have the same very important! Overall, online learning was not guidelines for what is expected as I no@ced teachers were challenging and very boring for my kids. They feel not quite different in their communica@on with students and really ready for next year and just want to be at school parents and the work given. Some went above and beyond to learn and be with friends. I think that if the what was expected, some did an average amount and others classrooms are set up differently, some changes made, the bare minimum. Definitely good and frequent etc. kids should be able to go back to school. In most communica@on with parents and kids is very important and countries they have already done this. If we don't, our essen@al! kids may have a huge learning gap in their educa@on and it isn't equitable for all kids. I know many kids who watched TV a lot of the day or played video games to keep them busy because parents needed to work. They really didn't know what their kids did all day. Those kids that had parents who could help them had the advantage over kids who didn't have this. By everyone going to school, it works out beDer for ALL kids! Parent Lake Forest Park That my student can go back to school in the fall It is nearly impossible for me to work from home and help a 7 Elementary year old with his online learning. I tried really hard at first then gave up the last month or more because I have to work, and him mom works out of the house. A 7 year old simply can’t do the see-saw lessons without an adult helping constantly. I implore anyone who can influence decision making to allow students to return to school in the fall. If the hand-wringers are too scared to let their kids aDend, then they can keep their students home and home-school them and let the rest of the kids return.

593 Parent Lake Forest Park The district to put our special educa@on students Elementary learning at the top as I feel that the district did not make this subgroup a priority in their academic, social- emo@onal planning. Staff are well trained in suppor@ng our students of color, by examining their own biases, micro aggressions, and differen@ated instruc@ons to serve students beDer. District and school need to do a beDer job listening and with being inclusive. Parent Lake Forest Park The isola@on has been so difficult and created anxie@es Elementary with our 2nd grader. His age and gender has socializing virtually deemed irrelevant for his developmental stage. We need him back with peers in any capacity this fall. Parent Lake Forest Park The mental health of kids is most important. Being Elementary isolated hurts their overall development. Parent Lake Forest Park The most important need for my 5th grade daughter is I think for virtual learning, finding a pla[orm that is simple, Elementary to return to some in-person teaching/learning. If yet appealing to children, and makes assignments easy to see virtual learning will be part of the year, she needs "new" and "completed" would be helpful. I liked Seesaw for something more interes@ng, structured, and regular my 2nd grader. It was far easier to maneuver than boring/ than what was provided by her subs@tute teacher the confusing Google classroom was for my 4th grader. In past few months on Google Classroom. The virtual addi@on, I think it would be great for the zoom classes to be learning was very un-mo@va@ng and difficult for my held more ojen during the week and be used for actual daughter. The subs@tute teacher provided inadequate lessons, rather than just a check-in, reading a book to the direc@on. The assignments and Google Classroom kids, etc. My kids were very un-mo@vated and didn't want to online teaching pla[orm was very confusing, un- do their zoom classes anymore because nothing was even interes@ng, and lacked direc@on. My daughter disliked happening at the mee@ngs. the zoom classroom mee@ngs because "they never do anything on them anyways", and having them only once per week lacked con@nuity, a community feeling, and lesson structure.

594 Parent Lake Forest Park There is no subs@tute for in person learning. The I will not be sending my child to school with a Condi@oning Elementary "distance learning" por@on of this year was useless. I Mask. Children are the least impacted demographic and the get it you may have new covid mandates you need to world will have been open for months. This is a Placebo. It legally adhere to. But if the solu@on is 2 days a week also restricts my child's breathing along with his ability to and distance learning I will pull my child from school as communicate. Any one can have a mask if they want but I would preDy much be home schooling anyway. denying a child a in person teaching because they don't confirm to your poli@cs is a whole other can of worms. Liberty: the state of being free within society from oppressive restric@ons imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or poli@cal views. #defundshorelineschools #civilrightslawsui@ncoming Parent Lake Forest Park There were no direct instruc@onal zoom classes. This I cannot imagine my kids wearing a mask for 6+ hours a day. Elementary was frustra@ng since my child did not get much My sugges@on would be to have 1/2 the kids in the morning support for the areas she needed. You cannot have a and 1/2 in the ajernoon with some take home homework/ video and then just expect them to do it without the online work. I am also very concerned that the younger kids ability to ask ques@ons. do not wash hands regularly and always grabbing and touching each other. While at the same @me I want them to be social and play.

595 Parent Lake Forest Park There were WAY too many emails from different folks I understand that this is such a challenging @me and I know Elementary at our school (teacher, dean, counselor, librarian, that all district staff are doing the very best they can. Thank principal, PTA, Registrar weekly bulle@n) and also from you for your support! the district (updates, peach jar, etc) this spring. I really feel that one email from the teacher with all info for the week and ONE addi@onal email with all info/links in it would make the most sense and save our sanity. It was really overwhelming to get all of that communica@on. The apps were so hard to deal with- each required a separate log in and mangaing all of the log ins, passwords and what to use when was exhaus@ng. We ended up only using SeeSaw as a result. With both of us working full-@me it was all we could do. I think there needs to be more structure than we had in the fall even if we're at home. MORE FREQUENT zooms with the teacher and the class are cri@cal. Is there a way to streamline the apps, or have us get set up on each one in advance and then clearly communicate when we'd use each one and for what. For my 1st grader this year, she was completely unable to do the SeeSaw assignments on her own. It's totally unrealis@c for a 6 or 7 year old to be able to create text boxes, type in them, resize them or draw with a mouse without it being illegible. There has to be a beDer way! We were never able to use SeeSaw on a tablet because the app kept promp@ng us to log in with our creden@als directly as opposed to through classlink. But using a tablet and a stylus may have worked beDer. We ended up prin@ng out documents, which doesn't work great on SeeSaw because you have to take screenshots. If we could get a zipped file with all of the worksheets for the week in the teacher's email so that we can print them and then scan and upload them to SeeSaw that would be AMAZING for next year. I got the at-home packets a couple of @mes but there were ojen random worksheets in them that did not align with what the teacher was assigning on SeeSaw so that was totally confusing. I think that there has to be a more organized, systema@c way. Could there be 596 Parent Lake Forest Park To have in-person learning. Star@ng kindergarten on- Kindergarten is one of the most important years in a childs Elementary line is not a developmentally appropriate subsi@tue for life. I hope that we will be able to find a way for them to go to school. school safely. Parent Lake Forest Park To have in-person teacher-lead learning in a school At home learning "screen @me" is far too much. Tons of Elementary environment. To have a daily school rou@ne. To hours are spent watching videos, playing learning games, socialize with other students and to learn and work as taking tests, uploading work, zoom calls, seesaw, etc. The a group. To work on communica@on skills both teachers have done their best at providing learning material listening and talking face-to-face. and support, but in-person teacher-lead learning is crucial. Our family struggles to keep up with the learning, assignments, and to help our child through each lesson/ assignment at home. Our family needs our kids back in school to learn effec@vely and efficiently in a social environment. Parent Lake Forest Park To see someway of enforcing daily screenings and mask Elementary wearing for all persons who enter the school site. Parent Lake Forest Park We need more communica@on from the teacher than Elementary we received this year. It was one email a week and only contained the zoom call informa@on. Zoom calls need to be beDer run with more teacher control. We would love for the distance learning to be consistent over grade levels and not be rolled out in phases. A clear expecta@on needs to be set by the teachers of what the students are expected to do. Parent Lake Forest Park We need our child to go back to school in the Fall. He Elementary misses his friends and the rou@ne of school. It is so taxing on family rela@onships to have to both parent and teach. Virtual learning does not effec@vely replace in person instruc@on. Our son is clearly not learning at the rate he was while going to school. Ojen, our most effec@ve learning resources were materials that we researched, paid for and implemented ourselves. My husband and I work in law enforcement and healthcare, and do not have the op@on of working from home.

597 Parent Lake Forest Park We need our student to be able to have in-person I have watched as students from other families gather Elementary instruc@on in a classroom seyng this fall. We need to without social distancing. Many families have different trust that our students and staff will wash their hands comfort levels when it comes to the virus. We are trying to be and wear masks. If a family is not comfortable sending safe but allow for the fact that our child's mental health is their student to school, then on-line learning can be an affected by the fact that she needs to see her peers, op@on. On-line learning did not work for our family. If especially her friends. This is vital for a preteen. It would be casinos are allowed to be open, so should schools. extremely detrimental to our students and our community if the opening of school is dependent on the opinion of the families that hold the most conserva@ve view. If a handful of families are not comfortable with sending their student to school, then they should have the op@on of not sending their student to school or par@cipa@ng. However, if families such as ours, trust that our child is intelligent and has the presence of mind to protect herself by wearing a mask and washing her hands, then we as a family should not be held back from going to school. In other words, as with many things happening in the school district, we can't cater to a few who may not have the means or the desire to go to school. We have to teach and accept the middle if not the higher level of the community, not the few that don't engage and don't desire to par@cipate. Don't teach to the boDom and in turn lower the rest of the class that wishes to rise higher. For instance, my student was asking her teacher for more learning opportuni@es and assignments, but the teacher and the school itself, was focused on the few students who weren't engaging or not doing the work. My student's needs were not as important as the student who never logged on to Zoom and only turned in one assignment. Another example of this thinking is: You have a mee@ng to aDend. You plan ahead, check the traffic before you leave, and arrive on @me, ready to start the mee@ng with a sharpened pencil and notebook. Is it fair for you to have to sit and wait to start the mee@ng, as others who didn't prepare, didn't priori@ze the mee@ng and don't respect other people's @me, arrive late? No, it isn't, but this is increasingly the direc@on the school district is taking. More priority is placed on the students who come late to the mee@ng, or don't feel like the mee@ng is important enough to even aDend.

598 Parent Lake Forest Park We need to have/know structure so I can plan for and There were WAY too many duplicate communica@ons from Elementary do my fairly demanding job. I will need to resume School District/Superintendent/principal/School Dean/ going in to the office (when it reopens) eventually. Teacher/Librarian/Counselor/PTA. It was stressful and Thankfully my boss is understanding, but it is quite overwhelming and impossible to keep up with. I had to focus difficult to be effec@ve in some aspects of my job, if I on my job, so I had to just not read many school look ahead to needing to stay virtual to facilitate my communica@ons. When it came to geyng my child set up on child schooling at home, if all my colleagues are back in the distance learning applica@ons, he was upset and the office. frustrated with it not allowing him access/and neither of us knowing where within a given applica@on we were supposed to find things, and that took me away from work obliga@ons a great deal, too. He was spending more that 4 hours a day on the computer and that isn’t what I want for him. It isn’t healthy. He also wasn’t ok with just not doing the assignments that were too difficult to access. That stressed him out even more. Parent Lake Forest Park We really hope to have the kids back in the classroom Our family was disappointed and underwhelmed by the Elementary since we feel such a benefit to in-class learning. remote programming in our district. We have friends in the Remote learning does not work well for my child or our northshore and Bellevue districts where parents sounded family. We need involvement from the teacher on a much more sa@sfied with the remote learning there more personalized level and felt that individualized (however, parents in the SeaDle district where unhappy aDen@on and help was absolutely lacking. We would similar to the parents in the shoreline school district). Please request weekly one-on-ones with our student’s look to other models/ideas for this coming school year. We teacher if we go to remote this Fall. Our student has an also felt the level of aDen@on may depend on the par@cular IEP and also needs these services - that is a priority. In teacher or school (so perhaps more standardiza@on of what is addi@on to IEP help, the academic and social needs being delivered). We were also unhappy with the amount of met in a school environment are cri@cal. sources communica@ng what to do - classlink, class dojo, seesaw, this log in, that password - just frustra@ng and overwhelming. I really would expect more if remote learning becomes a norm. A much more streamlined effort. Thank you for hearing our grievances. Parent Lake Forest Park We would like our kids to be able to return to school in I am a pediatrician and can see how challenging crea@ng an Elementary some form but it is important to us that their exposure equitable and safe environment for in person school is. I risk for illness is minimized as much as possible. The would an@cipate that “going back to how it was†adults in our household are high risk and we are concerned about them bringing illness home.

599 Parent Lake Forest Park We're willing and able to be flexible, I don't feel our It is very hard to know how comfortable we will be at this Elementary family has specific needs at this @me. point with sending our son to in-person school in the fall. Overall, I feel like our response at this @me is "maybe". I understand that many families feel more strongly one way or the other and have different needs from ours. If in-person school is back in session in the fall and we are comfortable with the precau@ons taken and where our town is at the @me, we will most likely go. If not, then we will most likely opt to homeschool. Homeschooling is definitely not our first choice. I don't think anything for a child can replace the in- person experience with a teacher and their peers and overall value inherent in public educa@on, but it will be a ques@on of health and safety in the fall.

600 Parent Lake Forest Park When my daughter would access google classroom, at In-person school needs to happen! Elementary least 50% of the @me the links the teacher put in the weekly bulle@n didn't work, or needed permission to access. This was VERY frustra@ng. I know her teacher was trying her best, but if the links aren't uploaded correctly, it's hard to do the work in a @mely manner. This happened a lot. Also, the teacher recorded videos were ojen grainy and poor quality. I don't quite know how the various subject lessons were decided on. It was my understanding that sixth graders were going to learn about Greek mythology and history in the spring but there were never any online lessons about that topic. The zoom class mee@ngs were really boring to my daughter. The teacher didn't do much except discuss the upcoming lessons or projects on their weekly bulle@n. I think it should have been used to either teach some actual academics or do some team building zoom games. There are a lot of zoom team games that are available. My daughter cried about once a week regarding how confusing her math assignments were or how overwhelmingly disappointed she was not to be par@cipa@ng in classroom ac@vi@es. Usually every Monday, when she'd log in to the bulle@n, she'd cry, either because she was sad, or because the links didn't work right, or because she was confused. Parent Lake Forest Park Would love clear expecta@ons regarding grade level Our challenge with SeeSaw assignments were twofold: 1) Elementary competencies. What do we need to make sure our the technology itself was detrac@ng from the content/ kiddos know fully by the end of a grade? learning for our student. Therefore, we defaulted to paper packets. 2) the assignments (as we know they had to be) were one-size-fits all. Our kiddo, though, was bored by the level of content so we ojen dipped into higher grade content for his learning. This worked well, and we appreciated the "open-source" nature of class content. Parent Lake Forest Park I am worried if they get enough educa@on? Elementary

601 Parent Lake Forest Park As parents, it's challenging to understand if he's losing ground Elementary academically by not being in a "normal," classroom environment. How do we, as parents, assess whether or not we've successfully prepared our child for the next grade level? It would also be helpful for schools/teachers to provide a how to teach guide for parents. There are new ways of teaching concepts to students, and my husband and I relied on how we were taught in school and not the current concepts our son was learning and building on while ac@vely in school. Addi@onally, if our student needed addi@onal help/ aDen@on with a specific assignment or subject, it would've been helpful to have his teacher work through a lesson (or two) with him personally to maintain their rela@onship and build on their shared classroom knowledge of a specific subject. Parent Lake Forest Park Both of my children do well in school. Distance learning was Elementary not at all effec@ve at first. When it became more structured I saw a huge improvement. I understand the need for distance learning was not an@cipated or prepared for. As such, I think LFP and the teachers did a great job. The sincere concern for students was evident. I am grateful for that. The biggest thing my kids missed was just being at school. I, very much underes@mated the importance of the social interac@on that takes place while at school. Contact with fellow students and teachers is what makes school fun! My kids' social development has been stunted. For kids school is where they learn to have friends and be part of a community. They learn how to handle situa@ons with other students and teachers in a safe environment while away from their parents/guardians. I think this is where small steps towards independence and confidence are taken. This is very important! School is where friendships are forged. Parent Lake Forest Park Daily and weekly emails from teachers were my go to Elementary resource.

602 Parent Lake Forest Park I already stated it is not safe for children to or anyone who is Elementary not sick to wear a face mask all day. It has long las@ng serious affects. I will not put my children in school if that is the requirement. I also don’t think that deviders separa@ng children is an environment I’ll be willing to put my children in. Thank you everyone for all your hard work through this @me. Parent Lake Forest Park I hope as a community we can provide the opportunity for Elementary elementary students to opt in to in person classes. The elementary years are such a cri@cal @me for the development of children; I feel like we are doing a risky experiment if we con@nue to try to educate them online. And especially for disadvantaged families, having children stay at home risks leaving a whole genera@on behind. As we fight this pandemic, we have to tolerate a few compromises in the epidemiological system for the greater good—I believe that leyng younger children aDend school in person with masks and other measures is just such a compromise. The risk associated with in person school is outweighed by the damage online school could cause. Parent Lake Forest Park I really would feel a LOT safer with half of the class coming to Elementary school at a @me. I see no way school could operate at full capacity. It will be nearly impossible to social distance young children. Thank you Parent Lake Forest Park I think the distance learning that was held in the spring did Elementary not have enough teacher/student interac@on and instruc@ons provided were in a lot of cases not clear enough for students to follow. For the fall semester these are areas in which we would like to see addressed and improved upon. Teachers should have daily check ins with the students to ensure any ques@ons and direc@ons can be reviewed. Having once a week zoom call with the en@re class was not helpful for our daughter as the only interac@on with her teacher. Parent Lake Forest Park I think the District did a good job managing distance learning, Elementary considering the circumstances (and based on our family needs).

603 Parent Lake Forest Park if we do virtual classrooms come Fall, there needs to be done Elementary on a more regularly basis, i,e, daily if not every other day. Its hard for us parents to work from home and get the children to stay engaged and glued to a computer for such a long period of @me. Parent Lake Forest Park It's hard to expect that parents who are working full-@me also Elementary educate children full @me. Teachers should provide interac@ve zoom mee@ngs more than one @me per week Pos@ng Youtube videos and worksheets to an app is not what I would call educa@on. Parent Lake Forest Park My 6th grader had almost no learning occur over the last Elementary several months. If home learning is what the district decides on for the fall, I will pull my 3 kids from the district and home school them. This has been very frustra@ng. Kids are at higher risk of dying from influenza than from coronavirus. It's @me to let them learn and play again, this over reac@ve response is crushing their spirits. Parent Lake Forest Park Online learning was very disappoin@ng and not very effec@ve. Elementary Subject maDer was not very challenging and did liDle to prepare for the next grade Parent Lake Forest Park Really hope we can get started and get kids in school where Elementary they need to be. Online learning just isn’t effec@ve Especially for this age group 7 th grade.

604 Parent Lake Forest Park Remote learning and interac@on with my child's teacher was Elementary basically non-existent. During the en@re learning from home dura@on interac@ons with my child's teacher were limited to 1 zoom call 1x / week. What was especially galling was ajer voicing concerns to our building principal, raising the issue that teachers in the school were providing wildly different amounts of interac@on with their students, nothing changed. Ajer 3 months, it was incredibly disheartening to have my child tell me "I guess doesn't want us doing anything". Other classes were receiving direct emails, phone calls, mul@ple zooms for their students. In talking with other parents, the only take away is that there is zero accountability for professional standards at LFP. I can understand that some teachers have varying degrees of experience or exper@se with the new systems and tech based resources - I would also expect a strong and effec@ve leadership structure to prop up those teachers with beDer support, training, or at-elbow support for the use of these tools. Instead, I feel that LFP abandoned my child when the schools closed to in-person learning. We voiced our concerns, were answered, then ignored. Nothing changed. My 2nd grader wanted desperately to hear from her teacher, we reached out, and heard nothing. I'm ashamed that leadership at LFP has tacitly endorsed this. Parent Lake Forest Park Seesaw worked really well, I would have liked to see more Elementary assignments but I also understand that for some parents it might be hard to help their child with assignments everyday. Parent Lake Forest Park Since we have a 1st and 3rd grader this year we used Seesaw Elementary and Google Classroom. Both worked preDy well but I prefered Google Classroom. Also, I preferred geyng a daily schedule from our teacher compared to a weekly drop of assignments. This may be just my style. I liked being fed the bite sized daily tasks. And you are all amazing!! Parent Lake Forest Park Teachers should be required to wear masks at all @me. Elementary Children should be encouraged to, but if they are not able they should not be punished for it since mask wearing can cause stress for the child.

605 Parent Lake Forest Park Thank you for your work on this. Elementary

606 Parent Lake Forest Park This ques@on: [If not all students are able to aDend school Elementary during the ini@al reopening, what criteria should be used to select students for in-person learning? Please Rank 1-4 with 1 being the most important criteria] made sense, but the choices for selec@on did not make sense. And I even asked my student if she understood, and she didn't. Well, we did know what "age" meant. (But even there, "grade level" may have been more appropriate and less confusing.) I am sure everyone was trying hard, but honestly I was very disappointed with what I saw from the district once the schools closed. I really wanted more transparency from the top (superintendent) and from the principal about what was going on. I wanted to be understanding to the challenges but there was no informa@on on what exactly the challenges were. (And by transparency I wanted intelligent informa@on (such as the email from Superintendent Miner about probably budget shor[alls and the need to lay off some teachers), not more emails about virtual school spirit week, or how proud everyone was of the students, or where to pick up free meals. I was especially disappointed that there was no accountability for finishing assigned work or aDending zoom classroom mee@ngs. I understand some kids couldn't aDend a zoom mee@ng but I don't think it is okay to simply stop everything for that popula@on. I would have much preferred to have seen my student's teacher teach to the majority and then assign another teacher to work with the students who needed something different. Maybe this would look like all the 6th graders now have teacher A while teachers B and C work exclusively to help the computer-less kids, i.e. calling them individually, dropping off handouts at their house our mailing, etc. There was TOO MUCH communica@on regarding social service support. Obviously this is important for a popula@on within our district but to bombard all the families with weekly informa@on about where to pick up free food is annoying. Is there some way to communicate with families in need? or a single line on regular communica@on that says "If you need help, click here"? Something so that the district isn't bothering all families with what is only needed for a percentage of 607 Parent Lake Forest Park We are preDy agreeable to returning to school in the fall and Elementary are very suppor@ve of whichever op@on the district moves forward with. My greatest concern is for my first grader who has an IEP- if we must, I would be in favor of remote learning AND would love to explore if there could be an arrangement for special educa@on services to s@ll be administered in person/small group. Parent Lake Forest Park We asked for hotspot but never got one 4th grade work load Elementary seemed very high Having to make text boxes to put answers on slides increases @me the assignment takes by alot Answers to what is required to return really depends on where Shoreline is on # cases While quaran@ning for exposure also seems key - those students should then have live-stream access ot class or be able to not have 10 days absences from school.... Parent Lake Forest Park When in-school learning takes place I think it's important for Elementary the lower grade level students to use technology in some capacity throughout the year. Our first grader did not have a log-in, didn't know how to navigate any of the online tools and resources so we were required to be 100% hands on with her learning. Having two working parents this was difficult at @mes. Expec@ng a younger student to watch a video and be able to do an assignment on their own might work for some students but it was a struggle for our family. Having mul@ple zoom calls per week with actual teaching taking place during those would have been beneficial to our children's remote learning experience. Parent Lake Forest Park When seyng up lessons in SeeSaw whenever possible load Elementary the original PDF. Makes it easy to print. While the "paint" interface was fun for the kids at first it was not an effec@ve way for them into interact with the lessons over the long run. One of the assignments, and I don't remember how they set it up, was a interac@ve picture with hidden ac@vi@es. May kid spent by far the most independent @me with that ac@vity. Don't know how long it took to create, but it was very effec@ve it geyng him engaged. Thanks for everyone's hard work I know this is challenging for everyone.

608 Parent Meridian Park 1) safety for COVID 19 2) cummunca@on Elementary Parent Meridian Park 1. Clear, reasonable communica@on- Being able to Our teacher did an excep@onal job. It was clearly much more Elementary support our child without being overwhelmed by work for her than a tradi@onal school year. If you lack for mul@ple communica@ons from different people at the space to accommodate all the kids with social distancing, school, different types of communica@on(email, class could local companies offer office space they are not using? dojo, google classroom). We just need a top level Employees are working from home so space is vacant. Also understanding of what is expected of him companies benefit when kids are at school so employees can (assignments, due dates) and the ability to help him be more produc@ve. Large companies have big conference when/if he needs it. 2. Socializa@on- we have an only rooms and open floor plans. Or can kids learn outside child who has been observing social distancing. He under tents? Lastly, can volunteers help prepare spaces or needs @me with other kids while respec@vely the CDC support in other ways, rather than work with kids to ease the guidance. burden? Think big! There’s always an answer. Parent Meridian Park 1. Feedback from teacher to students on completed Thank you for your support, and for asking these ques@ons!! Elementary assignments - students cannot effec@vely learn without it. (E.g. providing specific comments on wri@ng assignments, correc@ng math assignments and having students redo the ones they missed, etc) 2. Regular communica@on between teacher and parents- A) it is challenging to co-teach without regular communica@on regarding what the parents vs teacher should be covering and B) Parents need to Know how the student is doing - either direct communica@on from the teacher or the ability to access this info on line - so they can provide support/intervene as needed 3. If remote learning is in place, kids need “office hours†Parent Meridian Park 1. Kids need social @me. 2. My kid passed high cap test Elementary last Nov. She was about to start the program this March. But it didn't happen since school work turned into a weekly Zoom checkin. Parent Meridian Park A return to full or part-@me in-class instruc@on. We don't envy the district's decision making responsiblity for Elementary next year. We understand that the health and safety of staff and faculty is also an important considera@on. We implore you to find inven@ve ways to minimize risk while allowing all students to return to class beginning on the first scheduled day of school in the fall.

609 Parent Meridian Park A safe learning environment for our children. Thank The ques@on "What is the most pressing need for your child Elementary you. this Fall? Please Rank 1-5 with 1 being the most pressing need" was confusing and not able to answer since the main concern is to have a safe learning environment where our children can learn and grow. The op@ons listed are not as pressing as a safe learning environment. Thank you. Parent Meridian Park A safe place for the kids to aDend school out of our We need flexibility more than anything else. The home school Elementary house. We’re both working parents, so managing felt like far more effort than it was worth in terms of what the kids’ school days just doesn’t happen @ll the they learned. We just aren’t teachers. And certainly weekend. can’t do a decent job of it while working full @me. Parent Meridian Park A schedule of what school will look like in the fall so Elementary that we can plan childcare Parent Meridian Park A strict weekly schedule. Frequent/daily updates on Thank you for all that you do!!! Elementary improvements. Learning tools at home. Parent Meridian Park A weekly learning / homework plan that is posted Appreciate all the teachers and school staffs work hard to Elementary before the 1st day of the week is very helpful to my help kids to keep learning at home. Thank You!!! kids to plan and manage his @me. Parent Meridian Park Ability to work full @me. Kids need to be in school. I Please get the kids back to school and back to learning. Elementary cannot be their teacher while working full @me. Parent Meridian Park About covid 19 Elementary Parent Meridian Park Advance lesson planning would be helpful so parents Elementary and kids can find @me to work together on assignments. Parent Meridian Park Anything would be a help. It is embarrassing how ill Elementary prepared the Meridian Park was, and how miserable the response to on line teaching. My child got nothing from her teachers at MP. We had a couple random assignments and a few “mee@ngsâ€

610 Parent Meridian Park As a parent of three students in the school district I The distance learning model was very challenging for my 10th Elementary hope that ALL students in grades K-12 will have some grader who is on a 504 for anxiety/ADHD. It was much harder in-person instruc@on. High school students also need for him to learn without those daily interac@ons from SW the socializa@on and in-person instruc@on (science teachers. He is really hoping for at least in-person instruc@on labs!!!) just as much as elementary students. It would in the fall. Has the district considered having some not be equitable for only elementary students to have classrooms ea@ng lunch outside? I think it is disgus@ng to in-person instruc@on. Don't leave out the high school have students eat in the classrooms and then expect them to students! Many families would need child care if also use their math/reading materials in the same space. students were in school part @me. I hope that if this is What about having students eat lunch outside under play the case, efforts are made to aDempt to align families courts or covered tents? on similar schedules. For example, if my 4th grader were home W-F, I would hope that one of my older children would also be home W - F to do childcare. Parent Meridian Park Athle@c ac@vi@es, socializa@on, structured life. My My 5th grader started okay this closure. We used to have a Elementary 5th grader started online learning as "nice and relax" daily walk everyday with scooters and bikes. And around un@l May. He started showing changes, he misses May, my 5th grader stopped wan@ng to go outside at all. His interac@on with other kids, he does not work well with sleeping schedule gets messed up because of lack of exercise. parents to finish projects, he is a type of kid who learns He could not get out the bed, he does not go outside at all, more from talking, interac@ng with peers and teachers. he tried finish his work and struggled, took hours and hours All the assignments were super great which made by to finish, staring at his computer. He was a super ac@ve, his teachers, they were fun and challenging. But I (his athle@c kid now he does not want to do anything. I am a bit mother whose first language is not English) cannot take worried about my son. I asked him how he feels, he is happy place of teachers and peers, yes, his dad is na@ve but sad that he could not see his friends. He wants to play speakers but he has to work and not always available video game a lot but I know that will not make things beDer for siyng down and go through the whole project. so we keep them in a normal amount (2hours). We changed They were very challenging. My 2nd grader did great. it to "If you get up early like 6:30am, you can play video game She enjoyed online work, she could finish work un@l parents wake up. Then he started geyng up early, but independently. She is not sad at all. he stays inside the rest of the day. Now the online learning is over, I am hoping he can relax more and get back to ac@ve kid again:-)

611 Parent Meridian Park balancing the social and crea@ve parts of school with We need to feel like there is some hope that there will be Elementary geyng some structured @me each week devoted to some form of return to school in the fall. Some form of core academic subject areas to progress in this something school-like to look forward to for the summer. My founda@on @me of learning. child's mental health has taken a toll from the lack of a daily structure with interac@ons with other children, the teacher, and having liDle pockets of ac@vity that spark the joy of learning. Online learning worked okay for this stretch of weeks because there has been a sense that it will only be temporary. I do not believe I will achieve the same compliance once summer break has passed and there is no endgame. The joy of learning, the crea@vity is slowly fading away and I am watching as my child is becoming very irritable, labile, and has an ongoing low grade misery that is just not alieviated by other family ac@vi@es. My child is feeling a sense of loss. Some form of school is vital - it just cannot be replaced by a computer screen, especially for elementary students. Parent Meridian Park Bus availability to get my child to and from school. It would be essen@al for parents to be able to see Elementary My child needs to be in a social learning environment assignments and schedules to help keep students on track. with peers. Teachers need to post when assignments have been turned in.

612 Parent Meridian Park Childcare. But, can't really happen so whatcha gonna The teachers really need to get on the same page in terms of Elementary do. sojware being used and how to use it. We have 2 kids and each teacher had wildly different setups. Importantly each lesson needs all of its resources within the lesson, linked up and ready to go with an "assignment" ques@onnaire or something to turn in at the end. They need wriDen instruc@ons, links, embedded resources, and a checklist so that kids can self manage beDer and parents can figure out what the hell needs done at a glance. Helping with schooling can only take place during our lunch breaks, ajer dinner, and on weekends. So we need to have the lessons be so well structured we can sit the 9yr old in front of a computer and they can just complete the lesson on their own or with minimal support. This year it was hours of frustra@ngly hun@ng around for youtube videos, random books on Epic, spelling lessons in a horrific piece of sojware, etc. Just a Where's Waldo hunt for resources and pieces of a lesson that sucks up way to much of my @me. Also, I can not spend hours of my @me prin@ng out and assembling "math games" and "ac@vi@es" for kids. It's one thing to send actual assignments to complete and it's a whole other to send homework for me. I'm working 10+ hours a day here to survive while trapped in a house with bored kids. I don't need homework. I need someone on a zoom call entertaining them. Parent Meridian Park Children in young age needs a lot of guidance and please enforcing strict mask policy and send sick kids home. Elementary supervision. Parents have to juggle between working If any distance learning is involved, we need to have an from home and homeschooling their kids at the same assigned teacher for a small group of students and teachers @me. We really need to find solu@ons to brind kids should be available for standard class room hours ( for back to school so that they can have a full learning example 9am - 2pm) to help kids to understand their experience. assignments/homework. My kids don't understand what to do with their assignments in SeeSaw. There's no way for them to chat with their teachers when they need to ask spontaneous ques@ons.

613 Parent Meridian Park Clear informa@on coming from the district about If online schooling happens again, we need ONE online Elementary schooling, not daily update emails with more pla[orm to use that the teachers have been exposed to. uncertain@es. Students need handouts distributed and less screen @me. Teachers showing videos of other teachers showing videos was not a helpful teaching mechanism. As far as opening in the fall, all we want is for you to follow state health department guidelines and we will be happy. Our concerns will be if this school district is making rules different than the state guidelines. Parent Meridian Park Clear informa@on on student learning foals, so I can I hope this is the catalyst for reimagining the purpose of Elementary find alterna@ve ways for my child to meet them. school. Parent Meridian Park Confidence that our children are not going to be part Thanks for doing the best you could given all the challenging Elementary of a lost genera@on of learners due to a public school circumstances. We understand that the district and school system that cannot adapt quickly enough to meet the administra@on made some difficult decisions, but some of remote-learning needs of the present day. the teacher-student interac@ons and lessons are woefully underserving our children. Our fourth grader finished her en@re weeks worth of lessons by lunch@me on Monday. Our second grader could barely read the instruc@ons to her assignments and make the technology work for her. If the teachers for our children are unable to skill up to meet the technology needs of remote learning in the fall (poten@ally), then we will be forced to look into spending thousands of dollars per year to get access to private school teachers who are being held responsible for ensuring their students learn and meet high educa@on standards when compared to the rest of the world. Parent Meridian Park Consistency, so that we're able to know when we can Elementary work. Socializa@on with friends Parent Meridian Park Daily required schoolwork provided to students in While I appreciate the need for care, leniency and flexibility, I Elementary middle school and higher. Graded assignments. wish the message to students was focused on the importance to con@nue learning to your best ability. I would prefer kids weren't given the op@on. If there are special needs, parents, teachers and care-givers should be able to communicate aand come up with alterna@ve solu@ons.

614 Parent Meridian Park Effec@ve instruc@on - Neither parent has any Distance learning is a hard sell for a 6 year old. They don't Elementary experience teaching kindergartners and frankly, we have the aDen@on or self-discipline to manage it. sucked at it, never mind the fact that we didn't have the @me/bandwidth to do that job in addi@on to the ones we already have. Parent Meridian Park El aprendizaje Elementary Parent Meridian Park Estar al pendiente de lo que pasa alrededor con el Elementary covid 19 y no arriesgarse a contraelo Parent Meridian Park Estar en un salón de clases. Comunicación. A mi en lo personal se me ha hecho un poco diãcil por los Elementary programas que vienen sólo en inglés . Fue un reto también para mí eso de la computadora portá@l.

615 Parent Meridian Park Even if my child cannot aDend school all day, every day. Having students of different ages with different learning Elementary We really need our children to be in school in person at structures was very hard for us to manage. I'd like to call least some of the @me. We can do a lot as a family to aDen@on to the 2nd grade team at Meridian Park Elementary supplement their learning, to try and fill gaps and to be for doing an EXCELLENT job. My 2nd grader was able to flexible with learning plans and requirements, but the u@lize SeeSaw and the instruc@onal videos made by the three mental weight of learning being 100% online has been teachers in various subjects provided the perfect balance of very hard for us and parents and for our kids. School structure and variety to facilitate online learning. My 2nd has become a burden and something that they dread. grader knew what was expected of her and the teachers also It's had a high cost on their emo@onal health. expressed that there was flexibility which allowed us to make changes as needed or take a break if that's what our mental health required. are especially adept at teaching online and I'd recommend that their approach be u@lized and modeled by others. Content was consistently provided, my child had posi@ve interac@ons with her teacher and fellow students, and it just worked. On the other hand, Google Classroom and the slideshows u@lized by were a lot harder to manage. There was a lot of frustra@on because it was difficult to know what the assignments actually were, when they were due. There was a lot of repe@@on and my child felt her @me was not being well used. The student-led learning in hi- cap honestly worked beDer when we were "homeschooling." Once we started connec@ng with the teacher's curriculum there was a lot more frustra@on and uncertainty. This did get beDer ajer a couple phone calls with her teacher, and I really appreciate the @me took to contact us and troubleshoot some issues. She let us know that she was available to help and to support - that took some of the weight off. It was just a rockier experience over all than what my 2nd grader had.

616 Parent Meridian Park Everybody needs to go back to work. Kids need to go Rather than half days, every other day or some sort of switch Elementary back to school. We are all going crazy and this is not up would be much more convenient for almost everyone I emo@onally healthy. The upmost care and cau@on know. Cuyng your day and half is almost always ineffec@ve. needs to be taken. But life needs to move on! Regarding home study, rigor, schedule and flexibility, there needs to be a more thought out weekly and daily schedules with some flexibility and some rigor planned into it. Not just all one or the other. If homestudy, teachers definitely need to have more one on one check on @me with students. At least once a week. This was nonexistent. Parent Meridian Park Everything is changing every day, so I don't want the I am extremely disappointed by Shoreline's approach to Elementary district to make the decision about return to school remote learning. We'd had a very good experience with the prematurely. I'm also hoping the school will look at district for 8 years before this, but the way it handled data regarding the nega@ve consequences to kids from quaran@ne was inexcusable. My 5th grade son had one not being at school (including lack of social interac@on, OPTIONAL zoom mee@ng a week, and this was ajer the physical ac@vity, etc.) district took 6 weeks off before beginning online learning. I literally do not understand the problem. Teachers would have been required to do lessons in March, April and May-- why would it have required 6 weeks to prepare to record those same lessons? Or to do them over zoom? I have friends in SeaDle and in mul@ple states, and I can say unequivocally that Shoreline did the absolute least when it came to online learning. I feel fortunate to be able to spend hours to direct my kids, but most parents don't have that luxury. I really hope that the district looks at this feedback and gets its act together before fall. If they do not, we will be exploring private schools--something i never thought I would do. We moved here for the schools!! Parent Meridian Park Flexibility and clear dis@nc@ons between what is nice Elementary for them to learn vs what is a must. It got to be too hard and overwhelming to work and teach the kids. Parent Meridian Park For middle school and high school, I'd like to see all Elementary teachers using Canvas in the same way for pos@ng assignments. There was some confusion for our older child about where his high school teachers were pos@ng their assignments and communica@ng. If this is standard across MS and HS and all teachers, it will help students and parents.

617 Parent Meridian Park For my child to study social and academic skills with Videos were par@ally effec@ve. Zoom mee@ngs were horrible Elementary others without constant distrac@ons from a toddler to keep aDen@on. Any videos not from staff that my child sibling and parents working from home. normally interacted with were ineffec@ve. Hard copy based ac@vi@es worked best, so the packets sent by the teacher specifically was the most effec@ve, not the first packets that were not grade specific. We had no printer and electronic ac@vi@es were not the best. I am worried that with a new year with a new teacher, my child will not be aDen@ve because there is no established rela@onship. Parent Meridian Park For the Fall, I want the teachers to be more involved on Look around the world and find what worked well and Elementary a daily basis. It should be similar to a standard school replicate it. A majority of the world has some experience day. Set a schedule, including recess, for each learning with at home school work. Implement those learnings. Find sec@on. Log onto a virtual class room (zoom like) and out who needs a computer and who doesn't, then provide set up the learning, then have the children do the work computers to those who don't have them. I can afford to at their work area at home, and make it easy to submit provide my children computers. My high school student can and return with comments. return his chromebook and give it to someone who doesn't have access to the ability to buy a computer for their child. Parent Meridian Park Get my kids back in school. This has been a nightmare. Elementary Parent Meridian Park Get the kids in school full @me and make everyone If you do Zoom calls - doing 2 a week for 40 minutes Elementary wear masks and wash their hands. doesn’t cut it. They should be on there all day and on strict schedules. Parent Meridian Park Geyng my kids in school with face to face learning and Elementary social interac@ons with other children. Parent Meridian Park Geyng my son back in school and learning with friends Elementary and teachers

618 Parent Meridian Park Having a child with Special Needs, he really needs face Why did the Shoreline School District change the Elementary to face instruc@on with his classroom teacher and Meridian Park Elementary in the middle of a special needs teacher. Since the Meridian Park pandemic when school will most likely not be face-to-face full was changed (see below), he needs the @me? How is a new teacher going to learn the ins and outs of opportunity to bond face-to-face and the opportunity how my son learns as well as his social/emo@onal issues over for her to understand specifically how he learns best. I zoom and part @me school? Why was such a decision made fear this is impossible over zoom. and how come parents were not made aware un@l ajer the decision was made? Please don't tell me "kids need to be resilient." Special Needs kids HAVE to be resilient every single day to get through each day. They are having a hard enough @me with limited ability to understand the pandemic and the life changes it brings. Why would you add this extra level of complica@on and upheaval to their lives? Parent Meridian Park Having a vaccine is the most important thing as of now. I am happy for my child to aDend school online. One thing Elementary Not sure how we can handle this reopening without a my child is missing is seeing other children and social vaccine. ac@vi@es. Parent Meridian Park He needs one on one @me with a teacher or tutor and I’m concerned that the children will not be supervised Elementary clear instruc@ons on what he should be learning for his closely and that will leave room for close contact/ age/grade. contamina@on. Parent Meridian Park Health & safety. I have a lot of health & safety concerns regarding sending my Elementary children to school in the fall with covid s@ll being what it is; however, with this child (my youngest), distance learning was VERY challenging (it was much easier with my older two)! He has always done very well in the classroom - both with teachers and peers, but was preDy difficult to mo@vate at home. He ended up doing almost all his work but with many ‘behind the scene’ baDles... Ideally he definitely would do best in school, but I can’t quite imagine what school with covid will look like - wearing masks and lots of restric@ons... As far as transporta@on goes, I will have 3 kids at 3 different schools in the fall and it will be very difficult to get them all to/from school without transporta@on - especially because carpooling won’t be much of an op@on. I have heard that SeaDle is offering an online op@on for families even if schools open up in the fall - I am really hoping that Shoreline will give families that same op@on!!

619 Parent Meridian Park Help for my kids to manage their anxiety around Online leading was really hard on my kids and they didn’t Elementary socializing. They are really scared. like it. If there is a split am/pm or block days, I’ll need all 3 of my kids on the same schedule! Parent Meridian Park Highly structured and engaged online learning Younger kids should be priori@zed in person. Many tasks for Elementary environment. For younger kids, in class assignments fourth grader seemed to be handled well online. For can be focused on bigger and long term assignments. kindergarten, seemed to do well when teacher prepared Math and reading worksheets seem to be beDer fit for something- like a read a long story with workbook to engage online. Difficulty when online content also required and he was more engaged in zoom mee@ngs. materials outside of interface. Also, more specific feedback from teachers would be helpful. Parent Meridian Park Home schooling actually worked beDer for him (he Elementary needs one on one support for reading) so I think I may keep him home anyway for part day. I’m hoping there are online resources so I don’t have to find my own curriculum. Parent Meridian Park Honestly, we will most likely be homeschooling in the Elementary fall. Parent Meridian Park Hoping students are able to return to in-person Thank you tremendously to all the teachers and Elementary classroom teaching in the fall but with safety and administra@ve leaders who put together an online curriculum precau@on measures in place. A mix of both in-person in such a short @meframe. The teachers worked really hard to and online curriculum is acceptable with the need for help the kids get acclimated to the new system. social distancing and socializa@on. Parent Meridian Park I am a single mother with no family here. I am a social Elementary worker so I'm an essen@al worker. My son was unable to do any school work because I work full @me and he was in childcare. I cannot emo@onally then teach my son who struggles ajer my day as an oncology social worker and keep my sanity. I need him to be in school so I can go to work and he can learn. He was behind in the first place so I am concerned about how behind he is now.

620 Parent Meridian Park i am glad we can borrow laptops over the summer. Zoom was uninteres@ng for my 1st grader. I required Elementary aDendance 1x per week, for at least 15 minutes. My student completed 2 sides of a math worksheet and 2 sides of a reading/wri@ng type worksheet provided by the school in a packet. My student couldn't stand looking at assignments in Seesaw. He used a small laptop. I asked if we could switch for an iPad but never heard back. I think he could have beDer navigated the assignments with an iPad. What we ended up doing worked ok (worksheets, @me listening to audiobooks, Epic, Mystery science) and some home learning. I imagine there are issues, but even if there was a small amount of @me to meet with a small class group for OUTSIDE only learning with the same small group, year round, this would be acceptable. I realize this is probably not realis@c. As far as the ques@on above about home learning in the fall, I think that some connec@on once per week or twice for brief live lessons with "required" aDendance (but this has to be flexible because there could be things out of the students control impac@ng their ability to aDend). We "aDended" PTSA Facebook live art lessons which were great, but some@mes @ming didn't work. Parent Meridian Park I am very concerned about my child's educa@on. She Elementary has regressed from what was possibly emerging 1st grade level ability back to kindergarten, and she's about to be in 2nd grade. She has an IEP for adhd, speech, ot, and pt. Parent Meridian Park I believe that the guidelines that the cdc recommends Elementary for students this fall are absolutely arbitrary. First off most children are not affected by coronavirus at all. Masks are not going to be used properly and I believe are detrimental to learning. Also, my child is supposed to be entering kindergarten and it is most important for these youngsters to interact with their peers. Social distancing will be bad for our children's spirits and mental health. If school looks like an isola@on ward in the fall we will be homeschooling.

621 Parent Meridian Park I didn't put comments on my survey so I just wanted to We understand that students in our community have Elementary add a few thoughts here. My wife and I will likely be different needs and will support the school district trea@ng mostly working from home for the foreseeable future, children with special needs or whose parents lack child care so it's not going to be a problem to help the children op@ons differently than other students. Our primary concern learn from home, aDend zoom mee@ngs, or have an is for the school to do its best to support the teachers and altered school schedule. It would be important to us to students in providing an educa@on as safe and effec@ve as have siblings be on the same schedule (if, for instance, possible given the extraordinary circumstances. half the kids come in the morning, half in the ajernoon, or on alternate days, for instance). Other than that, our main concern is the safety of our community in controlling the spread of Covid 19. We expect the school district will follow all health guidelines, including 14-day quaran@nes, maintaining social distancing as much as possible, frequent handwashing/sanita@on, wearing of masks while indoors, and limi@ng cross-classroom exposure. Parent Meridian Park I feel as if we cant do 100% at school learning then we Elementary should all con@nue to stay at home. It will be difficult to know what my child is learning at school for only two days and then expect us parents to know what and where they are at on learning for the other days also keep in mind some parents have mul@ple kids so trying to be a teacher and mom to other kids seems almost impossible at @mes. Also what would happen if my childs school is exposed would that mean all students quaran@ne for 14 days because then that would cause even more confusion if our kids had to con@nue to do that each @me a student is exposed.

622 Parent Meridian Park I hope that masks are required for all students, staff, Elementary and teachers. I hope that schedules for siblings aDending the same school are taken into account so that they are on campus at the same @me. I hope that air purifiers are in each classroom. I hope that parents/caretakers are encouraged to keep their kids home if anyone in the family is/has recently been sick. Last year (right around the @me of the covid outbreak), the Meridian Park nurse included in our monthly school newsleDer a plea for parents to send their kids to school even if they aren't feeling well (it specifically listed the following ailments, among several others: stomachache, headache, sore throat), sta@ng that students ojen feel beDer once they are at school. I couldn't believe what I was reading! Plenty of sick kids are sent to school sick as it is because parent can't take paid @me off. I hope that going forward, schools are stricter about who can aDend school. I hope that distance learning for kindergartners can be engaging. When my student was in Pre-K this spring, class Zoom mee@ngs were held for one hour each morning M-F and the sessions were not engaging for my student (and others, judging by the empty chairs and kids running around in the background). One hour is a long @me to hold the aDen@on of a five-year-old via a screen. I hope that screen @me can be used judiciously for this age group -- perhaps mostly in small groups of 2-3 students (with the teacher) on one-on-one sessions with the teacher so that the @me is valuable for both student and teacher and targeted to learning new concepts and assessment of progress. I know that this is a difficult age to engage with via the screen, but it is also a cri@cal age for social development and also the founda@ons of reading and wri@ng. I hope that the school district and teachers are crea@ve and think way outside the box when designing daily schedules and curriculum for these young, energe@c, inately curious students. I hope their love for learning and curiosity can be encouraged and harnessed during this tenuous 623 Parent Meridian Park I really need for her to go to school full @me so I can go Elementary back to work. Parent Meridian Park I strongly feel that there should be some sort of in Elementary person schooling next year, even if it's part @me. I'll have a kid in Kindergarten and one in 2nd grade and I think it's really important that they are in school learning and socializing with kids their own age. I think smaller class sizes and kids going part @me with some remote learning would be the best op@on for the fall un@l there's a vaccine available. Parent Meridian Park I think academically my child is fine but young children Elementary need socializa@on with other children. I support young children being a priority to return to school in the fall. We received great weekly schedules from my child’s teacher but what some of the assignments lacked were the “teachers notes”; i.e. what’s the main point of the lesson or ways to describe why something happened the way it did. For example in some of the science experiments I wasn’t sure what exactly the lesson goal was and we didn’t have a lesson guide just the student instruc@ons. Zoom mee@ngs did not contain lessons. They were just a sharing @me with maybe a story being read. I think only once did we actually have what I would consider a lesson. Us parents became the teachers the past 3 months while working full @me.

624 Parent Meridian Park I think it is impera@ve that all people in the school It is disappoin@ng that no personal feedback is being Elementary building (teachers, all students, staff) wear masks. provided on report cards. I understand not failing anyone Science backs this up and the OSPI is requiring it. I and perhaps not assigning leDer grades, but it seems like hope all Shoreline schools require and enforce it as teachers could have provided, at a minimum, a though[ul well. My students (entering K and 2nd grade) don't paragraph about what they observed about the student enjoy wearing masks, but they understand the during the second semester and what areas they suggest importance of it and wear them when they have to. working on over the summer. My student was fortunately We are preparing both of them so that they expect to able to par@cipate in two Zoom mee@ngs as well as one office wear them to and at school along with their peers and hour each week, so I do think the teacher probably had some teachers. My student (a first grader) did very well sense of her abili@es during the past three and a half months. with the emergency online learning, but there is room This is another reason I think it would be helpful to have for improvement on the part of the school/school more frequent required Zoom mee@ngs for students (full district. I think classes should be required to meet via class, small group, and one-on-one with teacher). This would Zoom at least three @mes/week. I also think that one- enable teachers to get a much beDer sense of where each on-one Zoom sessions between the teacher and the student is academically and perhaps also socio-emo@onally. student should happen a couple of @mes/semester. I Also, my student had just begun an IEP for speech therapy also think that rota@ng (or not?) small groups of 3-4 when the schools closed. I contacted the MP speech student (plus the teacher) could meet via Zoom once/ therapist in March to ask whether my student would receive week to work on certain skills. This would give any services for this during the shutdown and she eventually opportuni@es for socializa@on and ques@ons/ replied saying that they were "building the plane while flying interac@ons with the teacher throughout the week and it" and she would be in touch. We haven't heard from her the semester. My student liked the teaching videos since. This actually worked out fine for my student as we that the teachers created more than the general videos were able to start private speech therapy via Zoom and have sourced by teachers/the district. My student quickly con@nued it for three months. My student has made a lot of learned to use Seesaw, though there were some progress with her speech and the therapist was able to technical difficul@es at @mes. We liked the Seesaw diagnose a tongue-@e (confirmed by two den@sts) that needs pla[orm as a way to keep track of her assignments to be surgically released, which the school therapist missed. I (assigned and completed) and the teacher feedback. men@on this for two reasons. 1) A lot of students wouldn't Any@me we had to leave Seesaw to access general be able to go to private therapy and therefore wouldn't have videos or other apps or websites for an assignment, made any progress during the closure. 2) Using Zoom for there were ojen technical problems that resulted in speech therapy was valuable and should be pursued (or at lost drajs of work/having to log in again. It would be the very least considered) by the school district. Hopefully it nice and efficient if everything/most assignments and was for other students. ac@vi@es were kept within Seesaw and didn't require other apps. Of course, a training video at the start of the year would be extremely helpful for students and parents.

625 Parent Meridian Park I think it is very important for both parents and kids My children had 11 teachers between them and three Elementary that the kids go back to school in person at least some different grades. The most effec@ve home learning occurred of the @me in the fall. We have an elementary age when the teachers gave clear assignments with deadlines, student, junior high age, and high school student. I provided videos of themselves teaching the material and/or think its important for kids of all ages to have some in explaining the assignment, and provided feedback on the person learning @me with their peers and teachers, student’s work. All of these pieces were extremely although perhaps the older kids could have more at important for the home learning to work even remotely well. home online learning than the younger kids if that Only a few teachers out of the 11 did a good job with this, so were necessary but it’s very important that older clearly more training, resources, and/or mo@va@on is kids (6th and up) have at least some @me at school in needed. My children did not find office hours to be at all person and that they can be grouped with their same helpful. It is the rare child that will be able to aDend those age peers and friends if possible. My children have and/or feel comfortable asking ques@ons in that forum taken steps backwards academically and socially especially since the ques@ons come up at a @me not during because of the @me at home and not having this @me office hours and one would have to wait un@l the office hours with peers and teachers. Thank you! to go ask the ques@ons. Thank you for providing this survey! Parent Meridian Park I think some form of in-person learning from their I worry about my son loosing the mo@va@on to take it Elementary teacher is very important. Feeling like they are part of seriously. We have another (younger) child at home and have something and accountable to someone is essen@al. found it difficult to do "quality control" on all of his work / They need to know there is something more than just assignments - given we are both trying to do our jobs. He's their parents looking out for them. fairly self-sufficient, but will "half-ass" it, if he can. What winds up happening is we feel like we're failing as parents. Lots of guilt. But not enough @me to deal with it as we'd like / should. We know they will most likely not be able to be in school full @me - but SOME @me is essen@al. And we appreciate all of the effort you all, from administra@on to teachers, have put into this. We are very impressed with how it's been handled. The teachers are heroes. Parent Meridian Park I think wearing masks effec@vely is not possible for Elementary most kids under 12, for more than an hour or two. I think the best scenario is to split young kids into AM and PM. Keep it consistent so parents and employers can plan. Half size classes will make distancing easier. Both AM and PM would have access to school lunch @me if needed. Parent Meridian Park I want my student to stay on track with his educa@on, I'm flexible when it comes to the structure of the school year, Elementary but I'm very worried about his safety and the safety of like some in school learning and some distance learning. our family.

626 Parent Meridian Park I want to ensure my children and the staff are safe and Elementary remain healthy. I also want a sense of normalcy for my kids, although I’m not sure how this can be accomplished given the restric@ons of covid 19. Parent Meridian Park I was really disappointed with the work load assigned Elementary to my child. The work expecta@ons were very minimal and ojen lacking in challenge. All his assignments were fed through Google Classroom, meaning I was not able to see the material. While I liked that my child was expected to be responsible for his work, I would have appreciated the ability to also see the material. While I asked his teacher for this access I was not provided it. If distance learning con@nues in the fall, I hope to be able to see all work. Further, I hope it is expected that students will be assigned daily reading, wri@ng, math, social studies, and science ac@vi@es. Parent Meridian Park I work full @me at a healthcare seyng & a single Elementary mother. It is extremely hard for me to manage home schooling 3 kids without well- wriDen out guidelines/ lesson plans. Also, I am not a teacher so of course I am not doing a great job at teaching... Children needs to return to school in the fall. Parent Meridian Park I would like help educa@ng my child this summer. She’s I was hoping that there was a way to con@nue my daughter’s Elementary currently in kindergarten and has a difficult @me in educa@on virtually this summer (summer programs). reading. It would be helpful if I can get extra assignments/ ac@vi@es that would help her during these few months off. Parent Meridian Park I would like to have a sense of structure and purpose Elementary for the kids. There are a lot of resources, but not a good deal of focus. The most successful exchanges were the ones that had high expecta@ons and were explained via video and allowed the kids to work con@nuously on something independently or with me as a parent. We need help focusing the kids - not more work, but more directed work. The shorter assignments are fine and necessary.

627 Parent Meridian Park I would put under the MOST desired category that Please con@nue to limit the online educa@on to as few as Elementary teachers have 1 on 1 @me with each student as well as possible sites whenever possible. Links within SeeSaw are Zoom lessons/mee@ngs. Speaking to parents across the fine to external sources, as long as it’s a one stop shop per se country the 1:1 help was instrumental in kids feeling to go to SeeSaw to find out where to go. When this started it like they were heard, knowing their teachers were felt like there were 7-10 different places to try and learn what aware of their learning and gave them a @me to really was going on. Any sort of monthly lesson plan would be huge connect. Our daughter loves her teachers and I was too!!! It gives the parents a way to check in on their child’s highly disappointed that there was truly no 1:1 @me. learning if in person is not available. I think it’s cri@cal to get That is the biggest miss of this en@re situa@on in my more check-in on their learning than just “here’s an mind. assignment, submit it”. Parent Meridian Park Elementary Parent Meridian Park If online learning has to been done then parents need Elementary a portal and lessons on how to view work and tools to assist children. Very overwhelming to understand Parent Meridian Park If schools are open: *Keep staffs and students healthy Will school provide masks for staffs and students during Elementary *Could track the case who is exposed to the COVID-19, school @me? It would be fine for free or payable, at least the and inform persons who have close contacts with. mask would be available all the @me. Parent Meridian Park If the school returns to a hybrid model or con@nues to Elementary the online I think it is important to be flexible and show grace. I am currently able to work remote, but maintaining my full @me job Mon-Fri and being present for work means that some of my child's learning must shij to alterna@ve hours (late ajernoon and most importantly weekends)- this was the one challenge experienced where I did not feel supported.

628 Parent Meridian Park In classroom learning. Our family feels our schools can Our 2nd grader had challenges with doing some of the Elementary get to some level of in-classroom experience for schoolwork on a keyboard. The different pla[orms had 2020-21, and that it will be safe. challenges/hiccups for both kid and us parents. We experienced challenges w/ passwords, different logins, liDle things that tripped us up a lot which led to frustra@ons. (please know we think you guys did a great job geyng lessons and materials up an running. We SO appreciate that. But the home schooling was challenging for us) At @mes we had not enough bandwidth or physical space in our home to do our online learning and work. Users in our house include: one working parent from home, a 2nd grader, a preschooler. In September, it will be the same three, only the kids in 3rd grade and kindergarten. Parent Meridian Park In person learning op@ons. The distance learning Elementary videos received this spring were too few and frequently referenced URLs that didn’t work. Parent Meridian Park In person school as much as safely possible, for Elementary academics, socializa@on, and childcare! We both work jobs that cannot be converted to working from home. Parent Meridian Park in person school!!! do not cave to pressure from parents scared of covid. if they Elementary don't want their kids to go to school, let them stay home and homeschool. but the vast silent majority of usneed our children to go to in person school instead of being lej behind by online learning. Parent Meridian Park In person teaching Elementary Parent Meridian Park In person @me with teachers and other kids for my It is important that we follow scien@fic leaders advice on this Elementary daughter. Social @me with other kids for my son. maDer and not do too liDle or too much. Don't let reac@onary nonsense guide policy. Parent Meridian Park Informa@on about the specific curriculum needs of Elementary learners in my child’s grade, so I can be sure to cover those during at-home learning. Parent Meridian Park Informa@on and op@ons. Although distance learning Elementary didn't work as well as in-person, it is safer at this point. I'm not sure I believe kids will keep masks on all day for in-person learning.

629 Parent Meridian Park Informa@on by fall to show us the evidence of safety N/a Elementary and prepara@ons to be safe if schools reopen. Parent Meridian Park In-person instruc@on; interac@on with teachers & I admire and am deeply thankful for the heroic efforts by our Elementary classmates; childcare during school hours (ideally teachers to shij to at-home learning this year. I have no during working hours, e.g. via ajercare). cri@cism whatsoever of the teachers or administrators' amazing work. That said, online learning has not worked well at all for my child (2nd grader in 2019-20). The lack of interac@on and socializa@on has been emo@onally damaging and we have no@ced an increase in nega@ve moods and behaviors. The format of online learning has been met with anything between extreme frustra@on and outright refusal. Unfortunately I don't have good sugges@ons for how to improve that, but siyng s@ll to watch a video lecture followed by aDemp@ng to complete a worksheet was not a good fit. Zoom mee@ngs were also a challenge. The lack of structure and variety in the day did not work well, and we are not equipped to provide that as well as the school can, as we are not trained educators and are also trying to work our own jobs at the same @me. Overall I do not feel that my child benefiDed academically, and worse, this @me has been damaging to her mental health. I truly hope that we will return to full @me in-person school. Safety is of course an important concern, but I believe the risks can be managed to an acceptable level using some of the procedures highlighted in this survey. We can always shij back to distance learning if needed but I hope we will try to avoid it to the extent possible.

630 Parent Meridian Park In-person teaching, reasonable expecta@ons when it I was extremely disappointed in how the school handled Elementary comes to health protocols (expec@ng 6-year-olds to distance learning. It was disorganized and complicated, partly wear masks all day long is just...stupid, and would be due to having various resources scaDered around the web, completely ineffec@ve.) with links buried deep in the countless e-mails we received. Complicated logins and lack of support when the logins failed were also frustra@ng. Assignments were sparse and some@mes were just a dump of rubrics and “here’s an idea of how you can come up with a lesson plan for your class” (I am not a teacher and do not have the experience or desire to come up with lesson plans). Mostly I was disappointed in how teacher contact was handled in our district. It is my understanding that teachers were told not to communicate with students beyond one weekly Zoom mee@ng. In contrast, a teacher I know in Lakewood held daily mee@ngs with small groups of students (Kindergarteners!) and actually taught them. If this is how learning will be handled in the fall, we will not be enrolling. Parent Meridian Park It would be helpful for our family to have a consistent I hope we are giving school staff a lot of support and Elementary schedule each school day, rather than alterna@ng days/ recogni@on through this. I’m sure it’s been a lot of @mes. If we are to do home learning, it would be work on their part to navigate this, and we all need to helpful to have teachers explain to us parents what the support each other to come through as best we can. Thank main objec@ves are to focus on, and how to help you for everyone’s hard work, and for looking out for the explain new concepts to our students. It would also be students that are historically marginalized. I can only imagine helpful to maybe have a @me to check in one-on-one how difficult it was to create a structure that meets most each elderly with our teacher, so that our kid can ask people’s needs, and hope you will con@nue to work to ques@ons and have some face @me without the help every student through this difficult @me. distrac@ons of a class Zoom. Our class this year had flexible scheduling and deadlines, which was very helpful. It alleviates stress to have that flexibility and take each day as it comes, rather than be on a rigid schedule. Parent Meridian Park Job, sense of normality, ideas of what to do at home Elementary

631 Parent Meridian Park Just geyng the emo@onal support for the classroom. The virtual learning isn’t properly set up for students who Elementary My son needs his resource room teacher and her typically get pull out assistance from the resource room. It assistance so much, mrs. Hageland makes finishing the assignments hard since my son doesn’t all the same assignments the rest of the class does making it look like we are always behind. Parent Meridian Park Keeping my children safe and con@nuing intellectual Ojen lessons posted for my student had links to external Elementary and social learning. resources required that he was not granted access to. Parent Meridian Park Kids back in school for structure and so we can work. Elementary Parent Meridian Park Knowing that my kids will be safe going to school. I want to thank you all for the support and effort to con@nue Elementary Guidance from school staff to make the right decision the educa@on of our children in these @mes. I hasn't been during this @mes. easy. We appreciate you commitment and love for this kids. Thank you, thank you, thank you Parent Meridian Park Knowing what the op@ons/scheduling for the fall as Elementary soon as possible, once we know state department of health requirements and incidence of COVID-19 in the community. I realize much is s@ll up in the air right now! Parent Meridian Park Learning in person/ teacher lead learning @mes instead Elementary of watching pre recorded videos or following wriDen instruc@on for a lesson. More ways for students to engage and interact with teachers and peers. Same expecta@on of learning as before and for materials not be op@onal (it’s really hard to mo@vate a student to push thru and complete assignments when things are op@onal) Structured school day instead of flexible shortened 2.5hours a day. Parent Meridian Park learning materials like books and lessons that can help Elementary my child to be ready for 6th grade. Parent Meridian Park Learning plan, contact with a teacher, and lesson plans. I know everyone is doing the best they can with remote Elementary Online if needed and more teacher interac@on. scenarios. I think if we are not at school we need some greatly expanded online learning. Thanks for all that you do.

632 Parent Meridian Park LEARNING. BEING AROUND OTHER KIDS. DEALING Elementary WITH LIFE SITUATIONS. IT WOULD BE NICE FOR MY CHILD TO LEARN SOMETHING, ANYTHING, SERIOUSLY ...

Parent Meridian Park Let teachers teach! In the high cap program, can we get Elementary them reading big amounts now that they have the @me? Also, if assignments and communica@on is done in a single pla[orm, that would be helpful. Parent Meridian Park Logis@cs if students go to school on different days... Elementary Parent Meridian Park Making sure that my children are coming @n@ng to Elementary learn and are not falling significantly behind. And to do so in a safe manner to limit exposure and illness. I would need to know that there is a strict sick policy, that any cough or runny nose is not permiDed to be at school, not just having a temperature. Parent Meridian Park Managing my child's educa@on with my work schedule. Elementary

633 Parent Meridian Park Many parents are trying to juggle working from home The Seesaw learning pla[orm was problema@c. The students Elementary and home schooling at the same @me. It would be were not familiar with it as they just started training on it the helpful if the virtual assignment were geared more week before schools were shut down. Addi@onally, many towards the students working independently. It was students don't know how to use a laptop (most are used to difficult when the ac@vi@es required assistance from interfacing via tablets of some kind). Many of the ac@vi@es me or par@cipa@on from me as I had to focus on my assigned were not consistent with the age level. For example, work. expec@ng 8-year-olds to build a structurally sound bridge and explain the engineering and math behind it, is a liDle much. Many of the links that were sent in ac@vi@es did not work. There was an assump@on that all of the links worked and that students would be able to access the addi@onal learning tools. This was not true for many of the assignments and created a lot of frustra@on for my son. For example, he was not able to use the Brain Bop app un@l I created an account. His teacher was unaware that students were not able to access the app un@l I men@oned it. I found that the worksheets I was able to print out from online resources were much less stressful for my son as he could work on them independently and not have to worry about computer issues. Addi@onally, expec@ng an 8-year-old to type on a keyboard when they are just learning spelling is problema@c. Parent Meridian Park More hours of learning More kid social interac@on really did her best with the online learning. She Elementary Music class To be safe and not bring Covid home to is a fantas@c teacher. If school does not happen in the fall older parents that are ages 55 and 57. A safe start to then online @me needs to be increased to 3-4 hours. 40 school with social distancing, shields not masks, a safe mins-1hour each session was not, is not enough. You could place for backpacks, a safe lunchroom, @med access to mix in music and PE and art. I think the kids are adap@ng to halls not full of children passing each other - more online and require more @me and variety though. If school outdoor play area @me - strict hand washing - maybe happens in the fall I would like to hear the results of this schools days or even online that are a min 3-4 hours survey and if people are like minded. I think school could take long. place with alternate days, limited class size and @mes, temperature checks, strict hand washing. Good luck. Parent Meridian Park More structured learning & socializa@on Elementary

634 Parent Meridian Park Mostly, my son misses being with his friends - I was really disappointed with the home learning system put Elementary unfortunately the most difficult thing to accomplish in place by the district. Providing online links to third party remotely. sites so that I (someone who is not a teacher, and was trying to work full-@me from home) could craj a curriculum felt like a complete abdica@on of responsibility by the district. Unfortunately, things did not improve once home learning switched back to the individual teacher. My son's teacher was fantas@c for in-person learning, but failed to no@fy parents directly of mee@ngs, assignments, and other expecta@ons in the home-learning model. The whole thing was frankly a hot mess and we gave up on school-designed home learning well before the end of the school year. I hope the district will develop a more structured, less screen-focused curriculum for home learning in case parents are unwilling to send their kids to in-person school this fall. It should be up to individual families, and their specific needs, to evaluate the risks associated with returning to in-person school and that decision should not mean giving up access to an actual educa@on. Parent Meridian Park My 8th grader needs more support and expecta@ons. I work in the district. My 8thgrader is not safe to be home Elementary I’m not sure he learned much at all this spring. My alone. Sending him part @me when I am working would be 5th grader needs more support And was some@mes very challenging and a poten@ally unsafe situa@on overwhelmed with work. My 10 th grader is self sufficient and doesn’t need anything else to make her successful. Parent Meridian Park My child cried trying to do his math while I was on a The iPads do not have all the SeeSaw func@ons (hyperlinks Elementary work conference call and could not help him. It is very don't work) and made it hard for my 1st grader to use it on a hard and demoralizing experience for our family. regular basis, especially without a keyboard. Parent Meridian Park My child has a 504 for ADHD. He needs to be taught by Elementary teachers. Their role as a educa@onal leader is respected by him. Home learning was a challenge due to the fact that, althought his mother is a teacher, he sees her as a mom, not educator. He needs a learning environment that is structured and has a posi@ve peer role model input.

635 Parent Meridian Park My child much prefers live video learning vs taped I'm concerned about how to handle a posi@ve COVID-19 case. Elementary videos. I realize that can be difficult at this age (6th Do you quaran@ne everyone they came in contact with for 14 grade this fall) with some kids constantly chayng and days? That seems like the right thing to do but it could make interrup@ng the learning process. I'm sure we'll have a it difficult for learning. If the posi@ve case moved around to non-normal schedule in the fall, which is fine by me, different classrooms for different subjects, that would be but just give us parents as far out of an announcement hard to not just have half the school quaran@ne! Tough as you can so we can adjust our schedules with our decisions for you to make with your plan. Good luck. employers. I'd prefer daily in person (like half days) so our kids stay more connected but I realize that would be difficult to clean in between sessions of kids showing up. Maybe it would be a good thing to wipe down the classrooms twice a day so half day in person sessions could work. I don't feel that a week in person and a week virtual would work that well so Mon/Wed and Tues/Fri and maybe alternate Fridays would be good. As you can tell, I'm a strong believer in having the kids in the classroom for instruc@on in some form this fall. I do hope that athle@cs move forward as planned for middle school and high school. I feel it's important to keep the kids ac@ve, let's hope we move to Phase 3 soon so most athle@cs can prac@ce and play games. Parent Meridian Park My child needs in person instruc@on at least every Elementary week. Please do NOT adopt a "one week on, one week off" schedule, this would not work well for our family. I think she could do home learning a couple days per week as long as there was consistent classroom instruc@on on the other days. I desperately need the schools and district to reduce the quan@ty of emails sent to parents. It was truly overwhelming. A lot was either redundant or directed to my child. I had to interrupt my work day to ensure she had the informa@on (which she almost always did) then delete. The many, many emails from staff telling me how much they miss my child just added to the noise and were completely unnecessary. Same for the weekly videos - we never watched a single one.

636 Parent Meridian Park My child needs Social exposure, some individual I think strict due dates and requirements would be a problem Elementary aDen@on/assessment with teacher, IEP assessment. for my second grader. Parent Meridian Park My child’s teacher provided materials and ac@vi@es for If remote learning were to con@nue in the fall, I expect much Elementary my child. However, I felt the quality of the materials more thought to go into my child’s educa@on. He missed out provided were very poor, were not robust, and were an authen@c online learning experience and his en@re academically disengaging. I know innova@ve materials educa@on was provided by me. A few canned lessons with were available elsewhere as I was able to provide them very liDle academic value, overly enthusias@c (read: for my own students. I was very disappointed with the unauthen@c and disingenuous) weekly videos from his ac@vi@es, lessons, and amount of contact from the principals, and zoom calls without any academic or social teacher and school. connec@on cannot con@nue. His teacher and school need to put effort into their students’ educa@on. Parent Meridian Park My children being able to receive proper learning. I would like to see the teachers being present with the Elementary students on the daily. I would like more structure with online learning. The liDle videos are not good enough for my kids learning

637 Parent Meridian Park My children did not do well with the home learning If you do home learning in the fall, you have to provide real Elementary situa@on. Partly because both parents work, but mostly training for the 'home teachers' so that they know how to because there was liDle to no informa@on from the navigate the systems. Even if it just each teacher hos@ng a teachers to their parents/caregivers. We had the zoom mee@ng for parents to understand how to navigate advantage of a grandparent with them full @me during their system. To know what the expecta@ons are. Require the school hours 3 days a week to act as a home teacher. teachers to stay in communica@on with the students AND There was so liDle informa@on given to us about what their home care teachers. Training on how to use the systems was expected of them that it was hard to know about is of the utmost importance. Virtual mee@ngs should be assignments, projects, tests, etc. They exclusively used lessons not just 'check ins.' Give the parents the ability to Google Classroom and communicated directly with the see what assignments/projects/tests are due apart from students which leaves the 'home teacher' out of the having to log in to their child's Google Classroom account. We loop. It would have been great to have had virtual need to be able to have access to that informa@on directly. mee@ngs with the teachers and the parents as a group. We are their home teachers and it's unrealis@c to be able to Training sessions if you will with each teacher so that do that job without having direct access to the informa@on. they could explain to the 'home teachers' what was This was an incredibly hard situa@on under hard expected of the students, how could help them, how circumstances. I sincerely hope that the school district learns we navigate Google Classroom. I have 2 children in that children require structure for learning at home. I felt that school and some teachers were beDer than others, but both of my children's educa@ons suffered because there was there was no really clear communica@on from any of no real informa@on from any of the teachers directly to the them, especially at the beginning to know what to do. parents about how their virtual class system was going to We had to figure it out ourselves as we went. Some work. It was fine to get all the emails from the district about teachers were more communica@ve than others in on line learning opportuni@es, help, etc. however, when it helping but there was no follow up from anyone to came to each class, it was very unstructured and loose. Most make sure things were on track. One of my children fell children at this age need much more than what was far behind and he didn't even realize he had because provided. there was no direct communica@on to let my child know. Parent Meridian Park My child's mental and emo@onal well being, making Elementary sure we have food and money to make it through the next several months

638 Parent Meridian Park My daughters kindergarten teacher basically did no Covid sucks. Geyng sick sucks. But schools are the Elementary work for the second half of the year. She vomited a cornerstone of our society. They need to reopen and be a whole bunch of links with no direc@on that were nearly place for students in the coming year. Full stop. impossible to access. Ajer several weeks she started a once a week 30 minute zoom mee@ng. And several weeks later she started emailing out a list of things to focus on for the week. In talking with other parents at other schools in the district this doesn’t sound like it was the norm. Other teachers would connect 1:1 with each student, provide lesson plans, check in with parents and provide general support. I will be disappointed next year if we have distance learning similar to our experience this year. There needs to be more teacher accountability because ours shouldn’t be allowed to teach like that anymore. Parent Meridian Park My son needs to have in person school this fall, in We would be happy if there was at least 2-3 days of in person Elementary some capacity. It would be great if classes were schooling this fall. A full @me online/remote learning structured where there was an am session and a pm experience is too much of a challenge and I feel there isn't as session but I understand it may be difficult to clean the much learning when students are required to watch videos or classrooms in between. Full @me online is too read material to learn content. My son is not mo@vated to challenging for my son and he is not as mo@vated to learn using those methods. I also feel it would be difficult complete school work or engage in the classroom. He to require students to have masks full @me in school. It really needs to have connec@on with his teacher and would be difficult for my child to focus on school work and his resource room teacher as part of his rou@ne. He is engage fully in instruc@on. As long as there is some distance successful when expecta@ons are clearly stated and he between students in the classroom, I feel that would be has a normal daily/weekly rou@ne. He also needs to sufficient. Taking hourly breaks to wash hands/use sani@zer have outdoor recess where he can socialize and would also be appropriate and teaching students to wash connect with peers or other adults. In addi@on, before and ajer lunch/recess would also be helpful to since he will be in 5th grade, he should s@ll have the minimize exposure. I feel this would be beDer than the use opportunity to learn an instrument so he would need of masks. to be able to aDend the band/orchestra class to be successful in learning the instrument. Parent Meridian Park My son to return to school Elementary

639 Parent Meridian Park My student did a preDy good job of doing her work Please open schools. Elementary without much help from me. That's who she is. But the teacher provided only about an hour of work each day...that's not really enough. Parent Meridian Park My student needs interac@on with his teacher and At most, my student was occupied with the provided school Elementary other students. I am not qualified to teach him and I 60 minutes per day, most days is was closer to 30 minutes. have a full @me job, so am not able to give him the That is not sa@sfactory to me. I had to enroll my student in @me/interac@on he needs. My most important need is an online K-12 school to supplement his learning as he was that he is able to go full @me to school for these not s@mulated enough with the distance learning provided. reasons. This virus is not going away any @me soon, so And though this s@mulated him more academically, he did we all have to find a way to live through it and not not get any social development from it, which, with my make our kids suffer any more social, emo@onal and student, is just as important to me as academic development. academic setbacks. Parent Meridian Park If there is a way to structure the "font size, edit answers on Elementary chrome it would eliminate 95% of the frustra@on lining up the answers in the box. Parent Meridian Park Online educa@on needs to improve significantly. I'm Elementary very disappointed that Shoreline School District has decided NOT TO OFFER any academic educa@on through online during this pandemic. "Equity" is a lame excuse and a majority of the kids have not received proper educa@on through online since the teachers do not do any academic teaching through Zoom. This is very different from other school districts and Shoreline school district did a poor job on this. I am concerned about the safety of the kids at school due to covid-19 and support online educa@on to minimize the risk to the kids, teachers, and staff. However, the teachers should properly "teach" through Zoom and the kids should "learn". There cannot be an excep@on to this mission, the purpose of the schools.

640 Parent Meridian Park Our family has homeschooled in years past. For the Elementary days we were at home, and for this en@re crisis homeschooling elementary aged kiddos, our schedule was academics in the morning, lunch all together, then @me to explore passions / zoom friends / get outside / help me make dinner / etc un@l dinner@me. It would help immensely if zoom mee@ngs were scheduled for the morning hours. I feel for elementary-aged brains, this is the best @me to learn. I acknowledge this schedule is not the reality for a lot of families, but if there is a way to encourage teachers not to schedule zooms ajer Noon, that would be helpful. I would also appreciate answer keys. I managed to Google my kid's Bridges lesson and stumbled upon the pdf answer key (!) which I immediately bookmarked. This really helped us. Having a clearer set of assignments assigned would be helpful too. For one of my kids, we spent each day trying to figure out what new things the teacher assigned and what things were from a previous day. A clear set of expecta@ons for the school year would be great too. I would also appreciate flexible (or no) due dates. I am only one person and was trying to crisis homeschool three kids with three different learning styles and three different teachers and teaching styles and sojware. I don't think it is fair if there are due dates, and the kids are unable to complete the task because parents are unavailable. I would also like to request that if a teacher is expec@ng kids to work together in zoom in small groups, those calls are not scheduled ajer noon either, and the teacher should be expected to aDend. Or, a para or some other paid teacher should be leading the group. For teachers pos@ng new content daily, I would like to request that the days work is all up by 9am. Some teachers were s@ll adding assignments and edi@ng the to-do lists as my kiddo and I were online trying to start our day, so things were actually changing before our eyes. For the younger side of elementary school, I would appreciate actual physical math books the kids 641 Parent Meridian Park our household is high risk. Knowing that we are Elementary allowing our child to interact in a situa@on that does not have strict protocols is highly unlikely. Parent Meridian Park Our needs are being met. I need to know that my child Opening schools is a bad idea with poten@al serious health Elementary won't have contact with covid-19. risks. I'm not willing to risk my child's wellbeing. Parent Meridian Park Outdoor @me w small playgroups and more non- This year was a bit heavy on the Oregon Trail stuff, three Elementary academic @me from teachers for the kids weeks was a lot. We recognize the hard work of the teachers and appreciate them Parent Meridian Park Please don’t reopen. We are in the middle of a Thanks for being there for our kids. You’re all doing a Elementary global pandemic. Instead of opening schools, then great job! closing them later when the Coronavirus spikes in the fall, why not just use distance learning un@l the danger is gone. Why open, then close, then open again, then (maybe) close yet again. What a waste of @me and energy and resources. Changing direc@ons and focus will only make things more complicated - educa@on will only suffer. Look at the news. Things are going to get worse. Why experiment with our kids and teachers health? Why take the chance? Parent Meridian Park Please just open. No masks on children They will be Elementary trauma@zed. Please just let them be kids Parent Meridian Park Please let kids return to school for in-person learning Do not require students or teachers to wear masks. Go back Elementary where they can socialize and be kids. to normal teaching! Parent Meridian Park Please require that all people (teacher, staff, and Elementary students) wear masks the en@re @me at school, except while ea@ng. Please priori@ze similar in-person schedules for siblings aDending the same school. Please provide training for both parents and students for any and all online learning pla[orms. Parent Meridian Park Predictable schedule for my student and myself. As Thanks for all your hard work to figure this out. It’s a very Elementary much in person @me at school as possible. A structured tricky situa@on. environment to keep my student accountable and learning.

642 Parent Meridian Park Providing an educa@on that is on pace and on track as If students are involved in distance learning next school year I Elementary possible. The district needs to be prepared to move would like to see the amount of work to be similar if not the between home learning and in class learning as same as "in person school". I understand that not all families seamlessly as possible. have the ability to help their child and thus variances on due dates and expecta@ons may need to be differen@ated but students should be given the opportunity to have a similar workload, especially those who can meet those expecta@ons. Parent Meridian Park Pues mis nesesidDes son tener un ogar para mis hijas y Elementary su sustento diario Parent Meridian Park Que todos estemos saludables Elementary Parent Meridian Park Reducing the spread of the novel coronavirus Elementary Parent Meridian Park Regular interac@on with the teacher. High quality Shoreline needs to step up its game. Other districts required Elementary teacher-led instruc@on. Opportuni@es to interact with regular interac@on between teacher and students. Other peers. districts conducted regular teacher-led instruc@on (with asynchronous opportuni@es as well). Other districts had other school adults engaging remotely with students, such as the counselor, PE teacher, music teacher, etc. Shoreline appears to have let schools or even individual teachers at their own discre@on sort through these possibili@es. This has translated into an extremely substandard educa@on when it could've done much beDer. Parent Meridian Park Return to regular schooling. Elementary Parent Meridian Park Safe environment for my kids to have in person No one is going to be happy with any plan that is proposed. Elementary instruc@on. They need the structure of school to gain Keep reminding parents of the big picture. Happy, healthy the knowledge and skills with direct aDen@on. Our kids who gain the learning needed to be successful later in experience with online instruc@on was that it allowed life. for too many distrac@ons that the teacher could not control. Parent Meridian Park Safe plan for return to school in the Fall. It may be helpful to have curriculum guides on what students Elementary should be mastering per grade level so we know what grade level standards to work on. Parent Meridian Park Safety Elementary

643 Parent Meridian Park Safety is definitely number one, but socializing is so Elementary important. Parent Meridian Park Safety of my child and community Elementary Parent Meridian Park Safety of staff is just as important as the kids. Elementary Parent Meridian Park Safety of students and staff. BeDer safe than sorry. BeDer safe than sorry. Thank you. Elementary Parent Meridian Park Safety. Elementary

644 Parent Meridian Park Safety. I feel that the state of Washington is opening is transferring from the HEE to Meridian Park's HiCap Elementary too soon. There is no cure for this world-wide Magnet program (2nd grade). The HEE did not do their pandemic. The only thing that has worked for our state distance learning the same way that the rest of the district is social isola@on (we don't do proper tes@ng or did, so we didn't really get a chance to experience Meridian contact tracing). This is the only way we have flaDened Park's distance learning methods. The HEE mostly just used the curve. Everywhere that has opened too soon is email and Gmail Classroom. They provided weekly videos seeing drama@c spikes in infec@on, hospitaliza@on and from each coach/teacher, weekly assignments and weekly death rates. I believe that schools should not reopen due dates. It worked out very nicely. un@l there is either a cure or there is a super-@ght control on COVID-19 - as completely isolated as possible, with few cases and immediate isola@on when it does resurface. Opening the schools before the second spike, in the fall/winter flu/cold season is asking for trouble. Kids will be kids. They will not be able to isolate properly for long - especially the younger ones. Also, how fair is it to the teachers to now have to play the role of the health police with all of the other du@es they all ready have? So much @me will be wasted with social distancing instruc@on, reminders and rou@nes. The teachers @me would be beDer served concentrated on teaching - albeit, online. Ajer a few weeks/months both the teachers and the students will become blasé to all of the restric@ons. Eventually the kids will interact more and more - sharing, playing, just being kids. Reopening too soon has the poten@al of going very badly. I don't envy the posi@on that you are all in and the life-and-death decisions that you're being called upon to make. Good luck - sincerely. Parent Meridian Park Serving kindergarten families as they learn basic but Elementary vital social/emo@onal learning tools and academic lessons. We don’t want them to fall behind as it’s a crucial @me for their learning and development and parents teaching them is ojen a challenge or having them learn on a computer will not work as well for older kids (who can read). It would place a huge burden on families with kindergarten kids I believe. They definitely need to be in the classroom and I hope you priori@ze them to be so. Thank you.

645 Parent Meridian Park Social distancing and cleaning procedures, only Elementary children who have no illness symptoms aDending school. Parent Meridian Park Socializa@on and physical ac@vity Elementary Parent Meridian Park Socializing with friends. Elementary Parent Meridian Park Some in-person instruc@on would be really helpful. Seesaw worked very well for my child. At @mes, in SeeSaw it Elementary Library book access would be really helpful too. I'd also was difficult to see a list of what was assigned and like help pulling together specific reading lists and completed. I'd like to acknowledge physical books for my child. We're trying to watch for their team-teaching and videos. The work screen @me and this would help. It would be great to they put into each lesson, and their aytude toward learning have some in-person ac@vi@es (art, music, outdoor and coaching was so appreciated. games, science). It would go a long way to balance math, reading, wri@ng that can happen at home. want an overall view of learning goals for the quarter and year. this will help me as a parent keep up. we can't always finish everything every week, but knowing overall milestones helps us plan ahead for what's important. Parent Meridian Park Some in-person @me with their teacher is VERY We appreciate the efforts and care that have been put into Elementary important. The students need to feel connected to and this issue. The teachers need to recognized for their heroic a part of something. They need to accountable to efforts. Their presence and calm has been so valuable. someone other than their parents. Parent Meridian Park Something to compete with with entertainment Small study groups worked much beDer for my kids than the Elementary content. large zoom classes. My 6th grader had a couple of different 2-3 person zoom mee@ngs that worked well for geyng homework done and keeping up social connec@ons. I didn't see that kind of group work being pushed for my high school student. And, I think it would have been helpful for him as well. Thank you all for the work you are doing to keep our kids safe and educated. Parent Meridian Park Stay connect Elementary

646 Parent Meridian Park Structure and ideally daily contact with the teacher via This last quarter felt like very liDle new learning was Elementary virtual (if full in-school par@cipa@on is not possible). accomplished given the limited structure and slow Need more structure to the assignments and teaching implementa@on. Worried about my student's preparedness environment. Daily interac@on with the teacher feels for next year and concerned if school is not prepared well for cri@cal to learning and replica@ng a 'classroom' if the disrup@ons in the fall/winter he will fall further behind real classroom is not possible. cohorts in beDer prepared/structured districts or schools. Parent Meridian Park Structured learning for my kids I realize nothing is certain right now, but as much prepara@on Elementary and communica@on early on would be appreciated. My partner and I have to adjust our work schedules to accommodate the kids when school is not opera@ng. I am hopeful Extended care will s@ll be available. I am also concerned social distancing of kids is going to be challenging and I hope we can do something safely that does not hurt their socializa@on or put unreasonable burden on them to keep distant. Parent Meridian Park Structured learning in the fall. Managing two students Elementary at home with different teachers/schools and expecta@ons while also doing my own job which is currently allowing me to work at home has been very difficult. Even if they say the work is being done, I do not have the experience with the online classroom management to see that's the case, and found out from my son's teacher he was actually behind but not for a few weeks. Parent Meridian Park Structured learning method Hope and pray this will pass, And effec@ve vaccine will be Elementary available in the near future Parent Meridian Park Student and teacher safety The do what you can when you can moDo was perfect Elementary Parent Meridian Park Support for socializa@on and more structure in the day. We appreciate all the work done to make materials available Elementary We both work full @me and trying to make space to and the dedica@on of the teachers and staff in what was an provide enough interac@on and oversight has been extremely challenging situa@on. There is no playbook for this extremely challenging. Our son is not a self-learner and and we understand that much of response is being figured is not self-mo@vated to engage with online learning. out in real-@me. Thank you. Parent Meridian Park Teach our kids! In person school! Elementary

647 Parent Meridian Park Teachers actually teaching our kids. Provide actual The ONLY reason my child is well prepared academically for Elementary academic learning. Keeping kids on tract of academic the next school year is because we home schooled and hired learning. Provide clear learning objec@ves/topics for a tutor to teach my child, NOT because the teachers provided each month/@me frame. Communicate with parents on any academic teaching. Shoreline school district decided to their teaching objec@ves and subject topics. hold the majority of the student hostage from con@nue learning because they want to provide “equitable access†Parent Meridian Park Thank you for the survey! We want to know what our Thank you for being awesome! Elementary kids need to know before next year so they can be ready for next year! We need some kind of check list for each grade level. Thank you! Parent Meridian Park Thanks to you for all that's been done to support The risk of children geyng Covid 19 and it being dangerous Elementary students and families during this @me. We need our to their health is very low. The risks for people to pass Covid children to return to an in-person school schedule, 19 amongst themselves without symptoms has also been geyng the educa@on and development they need, shown in studies to be low, while it's the high viral load that academically, socially, and emo@onally. Also, this is passes the virus...With screening i.e. temperature checks/ needed to return to regular employment to support ques@on for symptoms together with finding a way for higher our family. risk employees to support students in ways other than in- person, I have no qualms about my children returning to school. In addi@on having students/employees with symptoms quaran@ne sensibly should be required. Wearing masks in school is not realis@c or equitable, masks should be op@onal. Social distancing is unrealis@c and could impede the educa@on and development of students. Thank you~ Parent Meridian Park That the school district: get prepared, have a clear and Just that clear communica@on is required and necessary and Elementary decisive plan and vision, and that the ADHERE to ALL anything less than deters from performance and PROPER scien@fic recommenda@ons. Having structure is a must learning so families know how to prepare and move forward. Communica@on is also very key and pivotal to success. Parent Meridian Park That when my son aDends school that he will be safe Elementary and that my family will be safe. Parent Meridian Park The most important need for my family is to create safe I believe Shoreline school district is doing great job with Elementary and healthy environment where my child can learn distance learning under current circumstances and I’m worry free from geyng infected with COVID-19. very happy about that. I would like to thank all shoreline school district employees for doing great job. Parent Meridian Park The most important need is for the school district to do Elementary their job, which is to educate students.

648 Parent Meridian Park The safety of my child and family. We are high risk. I The Zoom calls were hard for my child because the other Elementary would like to have the choice of whether or not to send children would yell during game/play @me. He also my child for in-person instruc@on next school year if complained that there wasn't enough instruc@on in class there isn't a vaccine available. during Zoom calls. I think a structured video learning model would work if there were two adults on the call - the teacher and another who would handle mu@ng/unmu@ng kids for ques@ons & comments. This would allow the teacher to teach. This model is being used by a local arts organiza@on for their classes and it works really well. Parent Meridian Park To feel my kid is safe and to make sure she is Elementary con@nuing to learn and grow academically Parent Meridian Park To keep my family healthy Elementary Parent Meridian Park To keep the social support of the peer group You are doing an incredible job $ % ❤ Elementary community. Parent Meridian Park To know my kids are safe. To be able to socialize with Thanks for your efforts. I can’t imagine the scrambling Elementary peers. Have beDer access to teachers for guidance. that must have taken place on mul@ple levels. I appreciate Further refinement of online learning tools and what you’ve done and the complexity that you navigated. resources to beDer enable younger students more And, there is great opportunity for improving the resources, autonomy and empowerment. Fewer barriers to students interface with them, and communica@on and access accessing online tools (logins, registra@ons, difficult to teachers, especially for the students themselves. Thanks transi@ons between apps/sites; and beDer aDen@on to again! ease of use in task workflow for students’ age. Parent Meridian Park to know the plan for next year kids need to be in school with other kids and teachers. Elementary Parents cannot expect to work and be teachers all day. I do not homeschool my kids because they need to be with other kids and with other adults. Special educa@on does not work remotely. Even for my typical kid, remote educa@on did not really work. It's stressful for all of us and they did not learn what they needed to be successful. Make it happen that the kids are in school.

649 Parent Meridian Park To know what the 2020-21 year will be like. My work My sons did a great job on prepara@on for Elementary schedule is sta@c but my husband has a variable Algebra and long range end of the year projects. I was schedule so our needs will be varied. I am anxious to surprised at my sons ability to self manage and complete his create a plan. work and also seek out passion projects. I am very concerned that if we return to face to face instruc@on there will be unpredictable closures making childcare needs a nightmare. My son is old enough to be home by himself but my younger child is not. Although the evidence seems to show that children less likely to get COVID and even less likely to have a severe case the same is not true for many of our educators, support staff and administra@on. I think everyone’s health and safety needs to be considered, Parent Meridian Park Transporta@on, if school is in person. Our kids can do home learning, in-person or a combo—but Elementary if in-person, they need transporta@on because Steve and I are both essen@al workers with early check-in. Parent Meridian Park vaccine to restore normal life. I do not believe that wearing masks in class will work for any Elementary age student, but especially not the younger. The best to hope for would be reduced class size, strict cleanliness habits, and tes@ng of temp or any signs of disease. I will home school if masks are required, and wait for the vaccine. Parent Meridian Park Very important to get my boys back in school. My older Elementary boy has an IEP and needs that teacher led one on one instruc@on. My kindergartner has a hard @me focusing at home. It was always a struggle to get him to do the work the teacher was sending. He hasn't learned to read or write and he needs to be IN school for this to happen. We are both full @me working parents. When the boy's needed to be online we needed to be there to assist them. I don't see this as being an op@on for us next year. Schools need to reopen! Parent Meridian Park Wai@ng guides how the next school year going to be. I Elementary support children's physical being in school to intract and socialize with other children and thier school staffs.

650 Parent Meridian Park We had a very hard @me geyng our grandaughter to We feel she did great when she was at school and around the Elementary do her assignments. We are afraid that she will be other students but she would not work on her own. behind next year. We would gladly enroll her in a refresher course this Summer. We would pay for a tudor if one was available. Parent Meridian Park We need academic learning. The school/or just our Make the teachers teach our kids. Shoreline school district is Elementary teacher? has not been teaching our kids any academic falling behind other school districts and certainly falling material. All the assignments have been simple behind school districts in other states. We cannot hold meaningless busy work. My daughter said the ac@vi@es majority of the students hostage from learning because few are so boring she doesn’t even want to waste her students does not have equitable access. Those who does not @me to do it. She said she learned nothing. I sat with have “equitable access†her on couple of her zoom mee@ngs and realized what a waste of @me those once a week 20 minute mee@ng was. It’s pathe@c. Parent Meridian Park We need beDer tools. Please use google classroom as Please priori@ze our kids health. If the school district can not Elementary one centralized source. Seesaw is terrible. Google meet provide soap, sani@zer, proper distance and masks for all kids is free and much beDer than zoom without the security - you should not put everyone’s health at risk. Please risk. Having to track mul@ple links and mul@ple emails priori@ze the greater good for all, not just the group in need. was awful. Our teachers did their best, and we are so Thank you. grateful for them. It was a chao@c mess, because our teachers had to pull it together overnight. One centralized loca@on and centralized communica@ons work best. Please keep in mind working parents who are in mee@ngs, I can’t juggle my mee@ngs and my kids overlapping mee@ngs at the same @me. Thank you.

651 Parent Meridian Park With my child being in the highly capable program, We were thinking what we would do if we were school Elementary we’ve really missed more vigorous and complex district. This is skewed by the fact that we can work from assignments, deeper learning, and explanatory wri@ng. home, but also seems safer. We would reduce class size by The wri@ng in par@cular has been hard to do at home half each day by having a staggered in person schedule. and really needs a teachers feedback. He misses Monday and Thursday for half of the class, Tuesday and socializa@on with classmates, having a rou@ne, regular Friday for the other half. Wednesday would be either half day access to a greater variety of books (not online). in person or half day virtual for the whole class- not one hour virtual, but a true half day of instruc@on. On the virtual learning days, have a strong and varied schedule for kids and parents to follow, with recommenda@ons for free learning ou@ngs- the library, parks, or just outside their home. Also, ideas for physical ac@vi@es. Parent Meridian Park Would like to ensure that appropriate sanita@on Mostly just the 1-1 availability of students to meet with Elementary measures are put into place. Also, I feel like if there is teachers occasionally but on a regular schedule s@ll a par@al remote learning component as a part of the curriculum, that students really need to be able to have some one-on-one teaching. This was something that was unfortunately not part of the curriculum for the past few months and even a 15 minute Zoom call every other week with each individual student or so would go a long way: Parent Meridian Park -- all students, teachers, and staff should wear masks at all Elementary @mes -- teachers should have Zoom mee@ngs for: whole class (2-3 @mes/week), small groups of 3-4 students + teacher (1-2/week for instruc@onal lessons), one-on-one with teacher (1-2/semester) -- siblings at the same school should be on the same in-person schedule -- teachers should establish higher learning expecta@ons for students. Parent Meridian Park At this point I'm wondering how far behind in curriculum we Elementary are, if at all, and how that might affect student confidence going into a new school year. I really don't want to see my child stress over academic expecta@ons that are out of line with what COVID has lej them with in the 2020 school year. Parent Meridian Park Distance learning provided by the teacher at school was well Elementary organized, thought out and executed. My child learned well and thrived in the given environment.

652 Parent Meridian Park I hope the school opens this Fall , one to one teacher will help Elementary beDer to the kids geyng enough knowledge they deserve . Parent Meridian Park I will almost certainly be home schooling in the fall. I can't see Elementary anything other than a vaccine making the risk of transmission acceptably low enough for my family and digital distance learning, despite the best efforts of the teachers, just isn't effec@ve for my student. I realize this is a privilege and appreciate the efforts you are making for others in our community. Parent Meridian Park If there is at home learning, I would love to have more Elementary informa@on about the learning goals for each month, allowing us to personalize and beDer structure our learning. Without have the teacher to lead, using workbooks and other ac@vi@es to help teach the concepts (and avoiding the need for the kids to be on the screen all day) would be helpful. Parent Meridian Park If we go the route of what we ended the school year with. I Elementary think the work load should be less on amount, and more on making learning as enjoyable as possible. In the grand scheme of things, it is most important to develop in a child the love of learning rather than shaping them towards route memoriza@on; or deadline focuses. I see this @me as an opportunity to reevaluate the educa@on system, and evolve it towards a method that goes beyond making children drones of the workforce. Rather, help kids find the joy in learning and con@nue to cul@vate that. Obviously I'm asking for much here, but this idea definitely involves teachers to be focused on mee@ng children where they're at, rather than focus on test results that do not measure learning, but test taking skills. The idea that I would rather have a surgeon who enjoys his job working on my surgery, rather than a surgeon who just passed muster to become a doctor because they "did the minimum required".

653 Parent Meridian Park It is hard to say because there are so many things, and those Elementary things depend on what the covid situa@on is in the fall, and how I feel about it at that @me. Please please please think about how engagement will be defined. It has to be flexible and it will most certainly be individual. Structure is very helpful, but flexibility is a must whether for an all home learning or a hybrid model. My student is eager to learn, to try new things. He had team teachers at Meridian Park that did a great job. They worked so hard, responded to so many emails, made themselves available to help teach students how to use the tools to submit assignments in Google Classroom if help was needed. They adapted their teaching plans to accommodate the home learning model. It was far from perfect, but it was good. I know I learned a lot. My student learned a lot and so did the teachers. I imagine there are issues with what I am going to suggest, but my student, and I think many students, could adapt to small group all outdoor learning year round if properly dressed with some cover. I think this would be beDer than being in an enclosed room. It will be easier to keep space from another person. Parent Meridian Park Just please be aware that some families, like ours, have more Elementary than two kids, so if you all plan to do online learning again next fall, please structure things so that parents can manage their children's educa@onal needs with limited stress. Parent Meridian Park My child is already really behind in school and is not prepared Elementary for 5th grade. I’m afraid he won’t be close enough ready for middle school. Parent Meridian Park My daughter’s first grade teacher was very structured, Elementary recep@ve, and posi@ve. The son’s third grade teacher was not as organized or suppor@ve, and my son struggled. Parent Meridian Park My son did best when he had his assignments at the Elementary beginning of the week and could work through them at his pace. We found it most difficult when assignments had short turn-around @mes. I am par@cularly concerned about the risks of exposure during lunch @mes, when large numbers of students would gather in one place for extended periods.

654 Parent Meridian Park My son will be in 6th grade this fall. He will be aDending Elementary Einstein. He did well working with a single teacher and understanding how to navigate the systems she put in place to communicate lessons, classwork, and expecta@ons. I am nervous about how he will manage 6 teachers systems. I strongly would like to request that teachers all use the same pla[orm and systems for their classes. Thank you. Parent Meridian Park One of my kids has a health history that puts them at Elementary increased risk so I recognize that we need to be more cau@ous than some families. We are also willing to volunteer to do more online school to give students who can & need to be on campus that space if this is needed. Thank you for all of the hard work that has gone into school this year and will con@nue to be done next year. Your work is appreciated! Parent Meridian Park Online learning was more abstract and therefor difficult to Elementary maintain interest in assignments, follow them to comple@on, do them accurately. Our students thrive in the classroom with an instructor and their peers. Parent Meridian Park Online learning worked very well for us this year overall. I Elementary think though that due dates should be flexible or stretched further apart. There were @mes my child felt overwhelmed by the amount of work assigned versus the amount of @me allowed for comple@on - par@cularly when it came to wriDen/wri@ng assignments. Parent Meridian Park Some concerns about geyng my child to school in the fall Elementary with flexible schedules. She has an older sibling that could get her to and from school if their schedules don’t overlap. We can do morning /ajer care if that is offered as an op@on as well. Just need tome to plan once details are provided. Parent Meridian Park The online learning is hard because he has two full @me Elementary working parents. Daycare during the day doesn’t have access to computer/internet. So when he comes home it’s rush rush to get 24 assignments done that his teacher has uploaded. It’s very overwhelming for a second grader.

655 Parent Meridian Park The school district was totally unequipped to handle the Elementary situa@on, with 5+ weeks of the district in essence expec@ng parents to just figure learning out with basic online resources that weren't even grade level specific. When 'classes' finally resumed, it was limited teacher interac@on at best. Compared to other school districts we know about Shoreline failed in effec@vely suppor@ng students. Other schools and school districts had mul@ple daily video interac@ons with teachers, structured lessons and a well-planned lesson calendar, and did so from very early on. Despite the fact that my son has , the support and educa@on that he received was very limited. I believe his teacher did the best she could, but she wasn't set up for success by the administra@on or the school district. If this is structured the same way in the fall it will be a disaster for students - there has to be more direct interac@on between students and teachers and more structure and support if remote learning is required. Parents aren't equipped to be teachers while trying to work. Parent Meridian Park There is NO feasible way to maintain the guidelines stated by Elementary OSPI for elementary school children. Without taking away from the school experience (socializa@on, recess, lunches or “breakout†Parent Meridian Park There needs to be op@ons for families that feel it is unsafe for Elementary their children to aDend in classroom learning.

656 Parent Meridian Park We have three children working with four teachers at MP. Elementary Some teachers were great and one was horrible and that one teacher blamed the district for a lack of guidance and zooms, meanwhile my other kids were having zoom sessions and assignments for almost three weeks. It's a good thing that teachers were paid during this chaos but having one 40 minute zoom a week is ridiculous. Zooms were also not staggered by grade and so we had weekly zooms at the same @me. The fact that we are not con@nuing through the summer, in some form or fashion, is also ridiculous. If we missed two months for snow days, we would make those days up. Luckily, there are many online tools to use so we will con@nue on our own. Home schooling is also a considera@on for this fall. Parent Meridian Park We will not send our child to school without these in place: Elementary 1. Masks are required 2. Smaller class sizes / children kept in isolated groups throughout day 3. Temperature checks 4. Mandatory 14 day home quaran@ne for exposed students / staff 5. Frequent hand washing / sanita@on plan in place 6. Social distancing enforced for students and staff Parent Meridian Park While I greatly appreciate the informa@on that was provided Elementary by our teacher and all the effort that went in to switching to online learning, it really did not work for my child. We ended up doing almost en@rely assignments that were researched and planned by myself. I received an excess of emails from the school in general but never heard directly from our teacher detailing how informa@on would be provided. Eventually we figured out that things were being posted in Google Drive, but were frustrated that there was not communica@on with the parents about this. Also, it was very difficult to determine what was due and when (or if it was due at all). There were no learning videos provided (or I did not know where they were) so if a child could not aDend the scheduled Zoom mee@ng they missed out on that learning. I actually preferred when things were posted on a district-wide basis because the assignments were more structured and easy for my child to figure out how to work through on their own.

657 Parent Meridian Park With a second grader - it was difficult to impose and maintain Elementary good structure, focus and rou@ne at home. Typically, distrac@ons from from a younger sibling who didn't have similar school work or distrac@ons found online (like cartoon videos on the Epic reading pla[orm or coding games on Code.org) would derail our student's mo@va@on to apply himself to the actual assignments on Seesaw unless there was a parent checking in quite frequently. If government regula@ons allow for students to meet safely in schools in the fall - I hope it's possible to keep students safe and return to a more typical format while we wait for a vaccine to become available. We are grateful for all the difficult work you're doing to navigate this crisis for the good of our children and community. Parent Meridian Park You're doing your best with a horrible situa@on: thank you - Elementary most of us get that. =) Parent Meridian Park Child care My daughter has aDended Hutch Kids child care center Kindergarten throughout the pandemic and they have managed to Program introduce procedures that have allowed them to offer full- @me care for students. I think there may be learnings from child care centers such as these that can be leveraged for school to open to in-person learning, and I hope that my daughter will be able to aDend in-person in the fall. Parent Meridian Park Childcare Childcare. Not kidding. Kindergarten Program Parent Meridian Park Childcare. Childcare. Childcare. I'm lucky in that I can Individual checkins with our daughter's teacher were valuable Kindergarten work from home, but I can't get anything done with my to us. Much more useful to my daughter than the group Program daughter home. Especially if I also have to manage her Zoom calls where she was largely on mute. online learning. Parent Meridian Park Consistent and the same day schooling for my first Kindergarten grader and preschooler so I can return to work. Program Teacher led learning and social Interac@on with classmates would be top of the list for both.

658 Parent Meridian Park -Con@nued academic resources through the summer to Would like the district to consider hybrid models so those Kindergarten catchup on things we weren't able to cover during the students and families who have a need to access in-person Program final parts of the school year. -As much no@ce as school services or feel comfortable choosing to send their possible on what to expect for the fall to prepare children to school can do so but those who have immune childcare drop off/pickup if necessary. -Piece of mind compromised/vulnerable kids and family members can s@ll knowing that I won't be required to send my child in- access learning via online classes. person if we are not comfortable due to immune compromised family members but s@ll get the learning required for my child to succeed academically. Parent Meridian Park Educa@on, socializa@on, emo@onal support Distance working did not work for my kindergarten student. Kindergarten The online lessons were hard to access for most of the Program shutdown. When were able to access them, they did not engage my student. I'm very worried about him falling behind. He also had social and emo@onal problems and ended up watching a lot of TV and playing video games because his mom and I needed to work during the "school day." We need something different next year. Please reopen in-person learning. Parent Meridian Park Get back to a reasonable normal. Cdc guidelines are Kindergarten arbitrary. Kids will not be able to follow them nor will Program staff. Kids are generally unaffected by covid. No masks, in person learning, no isola@on. I will not send my child to school that looks like an isola@on unit. A huge part of pub ed is socializa@on. These measures are detrimental to our children's mental health. Par@cularly the kids entering school for the first @me.

659 Parent Meridian Park Get these kids back in school. Masks should NOT be Most of these ques@ons were focused on distance learning. Kindergarten required for the kids. It causes my child to touch his The focus should be geyng kids back in school. Nothing can Program face more than normal and would significantly disrupt replace in school learning especially for kindergarten and learning. Plus, we tried a mask and it fogs up his elementary aged students. While the school district finally glasses so he cannot wear one anyway. got a distance learning plan rolled out in their “Phase 4” that wasn’t un@l May - almost two months ajer the school closure. It was crazy that teachers were not allowed to provide lesson plans un@l that @me. I can’t even describe the stress of working parents the last couple months on top of trying to figure out our own lesson plans. Please do not rely on distance learning as a sign of solidarity. Risk cannot be completely eliminated so parents and staff will need to decide the level of risk they are willing to accept. Keeping kids home and forcing parents to juggle too much is a higher risk for kids. Parent Meridian Park I cannot be a full-@me teacher and work, it is Kindergarten impossible. None of the learning materials that were Program provided by the school/teacher were materials that my child could do independently. If the schools do not open in the fall, my children will not be receiving a complete educa@on. And, that is just the academic por@on of it. The kids need the social interac@on, both with their peers and the adults in the school community. The idea that an elementary student can engage in school learning without a full-@me stay-at- home parent who has chosen to home school is not feasible. Families with more than one elementary school child also complicates maDers. Parent Meridian Park I do not want my children to return to school unless I Kindergarten feel that the emphasis can be on learning rather than Program on maintaining safety precau@ons necessary for everyone's health. Given that King County is currently s@ll in phase 1, it is hard to see how 1st grade students could feasibly be in a classroom in the fall in a way that would allow for learning rather than teachers spending all their @me maintaining social distancing/dealing with mask wearing/cleaning surfaces, etc...

660 Parent Meridian Park I found that my kindergartener was not able to pay Kindergarten aDen@on as well via a Zoom class versus in person Program classes. Most of his learning came from myself and his father who both also work full @me. Due to this, the quality of his educa@on was significantly lower than what he should have bene receiving. Our most important need is to ensure that he is learning the necessary skills for him to con@nue to be able to progress through the school system.

661 Parent Meridian Park I need my child to be back in school full @me with as I am curious whether there will be separate guidelines and Kindergarten close to normal as we can accomplish for physical and expecta@ons for younger children. My daughter will be going Program mental health. We don't have family or a network or into first grade and I find it very hard to believe that she (and people here yet since we moved in September so we many of her peers) will be comfortable wearing a mask all don't have anyone to step in and help with childcare. I day long. We wear them when we go out, but even ajer can't work full @me unless my child has op@ons for in short periods she gets frustrated and talks about how she person school and ajercare, and without a confirmed can't breathe well or feels uncomfortable with a mask. My date or scenario of when things will be back to normal almost four year old also has a lot of trouble keeping a mask that is really difficult. I also feel very strongly that on for more than 30+ minutes. I'm also curious what that will along with whatever school districts decide there look like. Will masks be provided from school? Will parents needs to be communica@on with government officials be rehired to supply kids with a mask, or mul@ple masks and to ensure that employers across all fields con@nue to wash them? If that's the case I would want to know that as be flexible with parents working from home/having soon as possible to allow @me to either make them or order altered schedules. For example, in a normal year if a them, and based on what has happened over the past couple kid has a cold that isn't awful a parent would likely of months I imagine there is a good chance there will be send them to school. We all live with a liDle coughing shortages online again as we move into the fall and school or conges@on from @me to @me and func@on just fine. star@ng. I also don't think it is realis@c to ask young kids to However, with all of the Covid fear and challenges, socially distance themselves from each other. I fully things that like sending your child to school with a cold appreciate the importance of it but it's challenging enough or before they are 100% well (which let's be honest as for adults to keep up with let alone kids. I think it's a nice working parents we've all done at least once) won't be idea and will work to a point, but I don't think it is a realis@c acceptable. Kids aren't going to be allowed to come if expecta@on on a daily basis. I also worry about the impact they have a cough of the sniffles. So what that means social and mentally if it is a firm requirement and is is that a cold which might have taken a child out of something kids are frequently corrected on. As parents and school for two days, might mean 7-9 days instead. educators we spend a lot of @me teaching our children to That will have an impact on school aDendance and develop vital social emo@onal skills and the hardest thing to funding as well as sick days and payments for watch out of this en@re pandemic is children who are employees. However, nobody is talking about that side programmed to want to be friendly and play with other kids, of things which I find so outrageous because it impacts then have to get pulled apart or be reminded to walk away a vast amount of our country. I'm also really because you can't really play or interact with other kids. It's concerned about what all of this could mean for very unnatural and I worry that it could have long term ajercare. Ajercare can already be challenging to get genera@onal damage depending on how long all of things into and if it ends up going the route of summer goes on. Another concern is as a parent I want to be camps, then capacity will be significantly reduced (my involved in my child's classroom. I enjoyed being daughter had camps that went from 25 kids to 10). and may be helping to run the Meridian Park program Does that mean it will be harder to get kids into a with next fall. I'd hate to not be allowed to visit or program? What other alterna@ves will there be for help with my child's class in person especially because my working parents who simply can't pick their kids up at daughter is so young. I am excited to send my child to first the end of school? grade and she loved her kindergarten class with 662 Parent Meridian Park I understand we were in a unique situa@on this spring, If alternate days or half days are done, it would be important Kindergarten however with the ability to plan ahead for fall it would to know if child service will also be offered through the Program be a much appreciated effort for single parent families, school and what the priority criteria would be for u@lizing especially those with mul@ple kids if the remote lesson services. It would also be helpful for parents of muil@ples if plans take into considera@on the amount of @me somehow the childrens' schedules could be coordinated so parents are needing to spend preparing for and that both kids are aDending in person on the same days/ assis@ng with the lesson (this is especially important @mes. Thank you for doing all you are to accommodate for young learners). Ojen there is no extra @me to be everyone's needs and working through this trying @me. You found without taking a leave from work to assist with are all appreciated!!! the addi@onal schooling. It is overwhelming to have to search for the correct papers to correspond to which online lesson and some@mes there has been liDle ease in sor@ng the online lessons as well. The easier it can be made for parents to help the beDer chance the kids will have to complete their lessons and con@nue moving their child's educa@on forward.

663 Parent Meridian Park In person learning. With two full @me working adults I do not see a workable solu@on for kids under 7th or 8th Kindergarten we need the school district to figure out in-person grade beside full-@me in-person school to make educa@on Program learning for the fall. We are unable to support learning actually happen. Everything else fails at educa@on and likely at home - now while working at home and will be fails at making anyone any safer in the long run because completely unable when we start going into our offices parents of younger kids must s@ll work so kids will be again. The only way home learning is going to work, is exposed other places. Figure out whatever way the schools for one of us to quit our job and financially that is not can make it as safe as possible. Make each classroom as an op@on so the choice is either our kids get basically independent as possible with no contact with other classes. no educa@on which is what happened this year since How that works in how the schools are built will take some school closed or we get our kids an educa@on but are work. No bussing? Staggered start @mes? Single class recess? financially insecure and possibly loose house, have not All kids eat lunch in there classroom and only one class walks food, etc. In the short term we must pick we both to lunch room to get food and walks back at a @me? How do work and our kids get no educa@on because not being you do that and s@ll get the teachers there needed down@me able to have house, food, etc is worse then them not without a floater moving between all classrooms which then being educated currently. Currently our kids are 2-3 defeats the independent classroom setup? months behind from where they should be school wise. Which I assume means they are on par with a large por@on of the kids because parents couldn't make distance learning work as we couldn't with the demands of just mee@ng the daily needs. Which also means they are 3 months behind any kids who had parents who had the @me and availability and skills to make distance learning work for their kids. Basically to stay afloat and get our kids educated in-person full school days is what is needed. For us and the vast majority of people I know and have talked with with kids below 7th or 8th grades the only real workable solu@on is full in-person school days. Everything else either fails at the educa@on part and in most cases the safety part because having a stay at home parent/ friend/etc. who can run the educa@on and watch the kids is not a feasible op@on. Parent Meridian Park In person school in the fall. Kindergarten Program Parent Meridian Park In school learning with classmates, distance learning Please open schools and allow kids to have fun, we are willing Kindergarten isn’t working for our young children they miss their to accept the physical risk of Covid as a trade for our Program teachers and friends terribly. children’s emo@onal and mental health.

664 Parent Meridian Park Individual check ins for my student with her teacher Please consider health and safety in your planning for next Kindergarten instead of mul@ple zoom mee@ngs with the en@re class year and not rush to open the schools. Also consider the “less Program which were distrac@ng and tended to be long. I think a is more” when it comes to online classroom technology. quick math and reading check for understanding every Please don’t over do the technology and overload us with other week is a beDer use of @me. Parents also need apps to sign into to, but make lessons meaningful and to be looped into the curriculum goals of lessons. streamlined. Vet the video lessons before they are posted Sharing the teaching guide that comes with the lessons and be mindful of how many parent emails are going out. We would be great if online learning con@nues. Let us are exhausted. Families are overwhelmed right now and know cri@cal landmarks our student should be mee@ng concerned about job security, health and safety. This is not and when we should be seeking support services. the @me to try new apps with new passwords or add extra FaceTime or one on one mee@ngs would be a beDer zoom mee@ngs on to already maxed out families. Links to use of @me to make sure students are thriving during YouTube videos that featured people speaking way too fast the pandemic. and subs@tute teachers pos@ng lessons which lacked focus and had the camera pointed away from what they were wri@ng merely frustrated the parents and students. While I’m apprecia@ve of all the work that went into the planning so quickly, these things were pain points that are hopefully being considered for next year. Parent Meridian Park In-person instruc@on, ajercare, socializa@on. A reliably We both work. And in this economy we can’t risk our Kindergarten structured day that considers dual working parents. livelihoods by taking @me off to be at home trying to teach Program our kids. In the midst of working and mee@ng household needs and trying to teach I found it nearly impossible to keep track of email updates from all the different sources and to navigate the endless list of links for learning resources. The schedules from the teachers helped a liDle, but only if we had the bandwidth to prepare and lead class. The modern family has not evolved to func@on this way and my kids educa@on is suffering severely. I understand this is due to circumstances outside all our control, but this is the reality of our situa@on at home and I honestly don’t know what to do. Parent Meridian Park In-person school for elementary! Online learning was Kindergarten very difficult for my elementary aged kids. Also we Program work outside the home, so we need childcare. Parent Meridian Park Kindergarten is super important for socializa@on. Kindergarten Learning how to create good habits to be successful in Program school and form produc@ve rela@onships. I worry about missing this cri@cal stage in development.

665 Parent Meridian Park More organized online lessons with clearer instruc@ons Kindergarten and clearer objec@ves that are in ONE PLACE. Seesaw is Program terrible to use. There are too many usernames/logins. Lessons are ojen scaDered and the work seems to be unnecessary. Would like to see a focus on what’s most important for learning Parent Meridian Park My son is entering Kindergarten and he has asthma so Please be mindful that working parents will need flexibility on Kindergarten he's high risk for COVID. I am concerned about the arranging their schedule and child care around whatever Program feasibility of all children at this age wearing masks for model the school district decides to adopt. If we are given a the en@re school day and the ability to maintain a mixed model with in person aDendance and e learning, it clean environment. However, I want nothing more than would be ideal to have a few op@ons (or at least the ability to for him to have some social interac@on with other express preferences) based on what days work best for in children and con@nue building on the learning journey person learning vs. e learning. I have the ability to work from he was on at Edwin PraD. I do not think it is realis@c for home but will have to manage my schedule around whatever parents to support a Kindergarten student at home for model is adopted if my son is going to be home doing e 100% e-learning (we did our best with the online learning on a regular frequency. Overall, you are asking us to resources Edwin PraD provided us, but it was very be flexible with the district, so please also keep in mind challenging at this age), so I would hope that his age parents will need equal flexibility regarding scheduling group is priori@zed for some level of on site teaching. op@ons if we have a model that involves e-learning. Parent Meridian Park Open school and let my child the help he can get from My son doesn't eat normal food. He eats very limited food so Kindergarten his teacher. I need someone in the school help him to thrive like other Program kids. I asked the school make schedule to meet with ea@ng therapist so my child won't be hungry when he go full @me Parent Meridian Park Restore structure with school and home through in- This kindergarten year was extremely difficult. Mid year, Kindergarten person classroom rou@ne and home schedule. before Covid-19 we couldn't see a lot of learning and Program Restore mental and emo@onal health for my husband progress being made for our student. It seemed the teacher and I. We've been working over@me under high stress was having to deal with behavior issues and the kids who and emo@onally taxing condi@ons and the pressure is were trying to learn and not disrup@ve suffered. Then when past the @pping point. A knowing that my kids are school was closed we had no emails or communica@on from being taught in person by a trained teacher skilled at the teacher which lej us high and dry to figure it out on our providing guidance and direc@on on projects and own. Once we got into a rhythm that's when we started assignments. receiving communica@on from MP. It felt like we went 0 to 60mph overnight. It was hard to keep up and our class was not setup with the online tools which took hours upon hours of wasted @me to figure out. The zoom classes for our kindergarten class were not fun or engaging. The kids had a hard @me siyng s@ll and there was a ton of disrup@on.

666 Parent Meridian Park Safety for my kids. Kindergarten Program Parent Meridian Park Safety protocols and appropriate sanita@on measures, Would like to have limita@ons on visitors to the school. Kindergarten like very frequent cleanings. Program Parent Meridian Park Specialized instruc@on and assignments. Kindergarten Program Parent Meridian Park We have a hard @me with at home school for my Kindergarten kindergartener (going into first grade). I work night Program shij so zoom classes are hard to make. He is resistant to learning with us. We are not great teachers. I really am concerned about the social aspect he is missing out on— rela@ng to peers. Parent Meridian Park We have both maintained full @me work while keeping The discon@nua@on of school due to COVID could have been Kindergarten our child home (no childcare) for the dura@on of the beDer planned out. I don't know that the 48 hours between Program school year. We are looking at part day summer camps March 11 and March 13th would have made that much to fulfill our childcare needs, and consequently our difference in the spread of COVID, but it would have made a work needs. A reliable schedule from school is world of difference in how this transi@on felt. needed (e.g. even if it is Mon, Wed only).

667 Parent Meridian Park I am very very worried about my child having to go to school Kindergarten full @me with strict guidelines and having to wear a mask all Program day. I know that this is one op@on that is being considered. I do not see how this is logical and developmentally appropriate for kindergartners to do for a WHOLE day. He can't breath with a mask on, he touches it and pulls on it, and gets very upset and frustrated about it. Social distancing and not sharing items with his peers also seems unrealis@c for a 5 year old. While I understand that wearing a mask is supposed to be safer for the students, I don't see how their emo@onal state would be considered healthy. This all seems like it would be very stressful for such young children.Especially those that are adjus@ng AGAIN to a new seyng. I would rather my son be comfortable and enjoy learning remotely than be at school extremely uncomfortable and with unrealis@c guidelines for children so young. I do feel like at the most he could do half the day under these condi@ons. Parent Meridian Park I couldn't enter numbers for ques@ons where you rank the Kindergarten answer 1-5. The answers provided are not my answers. I Program couldn't enter numbers properly from my smart phone. Parent Meridian Park My children’s health comes before their educa@on, I Kindergarten wouldn’t send my kids to school for longer than 3 hours a Program day un@l a vaccine and more informa@on is available on Covid19.

668 Parent North City - Clear ability for me to understand what is expected of - This survey was poorly designed. Some ques@ons didn't Kindergarten my child and a PRIORITIZED list of what should be make sense, or were groups together oddly. It didn't feel like Program accomplished. - Clear outline of what are the goals it was user tested. - Large zoom calls do not work well. for my child's school year and what they should be able Smaller groups are beDer. - Complete inconsistency to do at different @me points. As a parent at home between methods between teachers within school and trying to help, I never understood the goal of all of between schools. This is not their fault, but it makes it I N C R these assignments. It ojen felt like busywork because E D I B L Y hard for parents to track what is happening, we didn't understand the overarching goal. - A CLEAR especially when they are working. - 1:1 calls with teachers way for me to track what is due, what has been would have been helpful to strategize for our child would be accomplished. I felt I had to read so many different been incredibly helpful. Not ojen, just once every other things and log into so many different systems it was month or so, even 15 minutes. I would have really completely overwhelming. Especially working full @me appreciated this. - Please invest in FEWER online systems with two students on two completely different that are BETTER. - See Saw takes a LOT of parent systems. The huge emails from teachers was involvement. Not always possible for parents who are overwhelming, especially when you had them from working. - I cannot imagine how difficult these past few different schools/systems. It is impossible for parents months would have been for parents who are not tech-savvy. to track it all. It needs to be consistent and simple. Wow. - The North City school emails were confusing, especially at the beginning. Parents are geyng up to ten emails a day from a variety of individuals at the school/ district. They some@mes conflicted or were not clear or were redundant. This wastes a huge amount of @me. I became SO frustrated, especially at the beginning. - I think it would be helpful for teachers and districts to receiving training on making emails as clear as possible. Parents are SOOOO busy right now balancing, and school emails are HUGE. I receive hundreds of emails a day I have to read. Please try to streamline them and make as easy to read as possible. Parent North City A structured school day that is constant throughout the While it is nice to be informed by different sources (i.e. Kindergarten week. It is much easier to plan child-care if needed. teacher, principal, counselors, etc.), much of the informa@on Program is very repe@@ve. For instance, each person will e-mail about a certain due date for some item. Is it possible to streamline where we get the informa@on so we don't have to sij through 3 different e-mails about the same topic? I find myself keeping all the e-mails because I might want to save a small bit of informa@on for later and now I am overloaded with them.

669 Parent North City As a prospec@ve first grader, my child needs to do The maze of apps, web pages, passwords, mul@- format Kindergarten actual wriDen work instead of tablet submissions. He submissions, etc were confusion for me as an adult. If there Program needs to build hand strength and get used to wri@ng. is going to be elearning it should be simple to understand The tablet or computer assignments are just what the daily assignments are and simple to submit them. inadequate for the skills he needs to learn at this grade. Parent North City As a single child some form of socializa@on with his There are many great programs out there that my child Kindergarten classmates as well as play. From an educa@onal enjoys. He loves Reading Eggs and ABC Mouse. SeeSaw is Program standpoint, more teacher lead instruc@on and tricky to use and requires adult supervision for a 6 year old, occasional one-on-one interac@on if we cannot have so it was very frustra@ng. Prior to star@ng a quarter, if we are face-to-face instruc@on. to complete assignments in SeeSaw a list of necessary supplies would be appreciated. If distance learning con@nues, maybe have some parent lead reading that the kiddos can watch to alleviate some of the pressure on teachers to fill all content. Finally, the messages must be streamlined. One place for anything that is intended for the student, if it is in SeeSaw, so be it. No "one-off" messages to play for the children. We have had messages from the counselor, Dean, superintendednt and teacher. It is too much. Some of the video messages we received, I wouldn't play for my son as they were too depressing. He is happy and well adjusted and should not have to listen to someone sounding sad consistently. Parent North City At this age online learning is just too difficult. My child Please let the children return to school this fall. Have them Kindergarten needs to learn in person and with her peers. She does wear masks and wash regularly but allow school to return to Program not have the aDen@on span for online learning. Also as normal as possible. We as humans are social creatures and social development is so important at this age and they need to be around others in as safe a manner as possible. If have lost that completely this year. everyone doesn't have access to masks enlist the communites help to volunteer to make makes for those in need. Have recess. Let the kids have brain breaks and get their wiggles out. A sterile sit in your seat and stay away from your friends school seyng is no beDer than online learning. Parent North City Child care is most important. Both parents are working Kindergarten full @me with no available resources for child care. Program

670 Parent North City Child care so that parents work. Socializa@on for kids. Emails from the schools need to be clear and concise. With Kindergarten the most important informa@on listed first and then Program suppor@ng informa@on to follow. Parent North City Childcare, consistently and follow through from If school cannot be at least 3 days a week, we probably will Kindergarten teachers. Social/emo@onal support for child. need to do a private school that can do more in person Program learning, both for our children’s mental health and our ability to work. It is very cri@cal that the district’s plan is communicated ASAP so that we can make those decisions. We are already paying for daycare for our 2 year old so that we can work, and if we have to hire a nanny for our other kids to support their online learning so that we can work, the cost would be close to $5,000 per month, which exceeds the cost of private school. Parent North City Contact me through email for this ques@on Thanks a lot for your hard work Kindergarten Program Parent North City Daily childcare for parents to go back to work Kindergarten Program

671 Parent North City Geyng kids to in person, teacher lead instruc@on. Kids 1) daily screening is the key. In other countries that combat Kindergarten need interac@on to learn. COVID-19 successfully has temperature readings everyday Program (some even twice a day) upon students arrive the campus and wearing face covering. 2) face to face learning as much as possible. Kids need interac@on to learn. 3) alterna@ng schedule would be an good op@on if trying to lower student/ staff ra@o. However, childcare might be an issue for working parents. 4) if home e learning is needed, please reconsider the amount of school work for kindergarten. This spring, my kindergartner's homework is about 15 assignments each week. Although school district communicate that 3 each for Literacy, Math, and Science, there are also library, school counselor, art/music, EXTRA literacy/math. Seesaw is a very good pla[orm. It's clear and easy to use. We have good experience with Superkids lessons crated by teachers. They are short and clear with hands on prac@ce (ex. pause to write Superkids workbook or spelling). Math is somewhat easy to handle. However, science and other subjects are so long and require a lot of adult assistance. For example, the lesson starts with a slide show and then links to external ar@cles or You tube videos. Then it circles back to Seesaw with a project to do or crate or a journal to write. They are all wonderful and educa@onal lessons. But it is just too long. My kindergarten cannot read independently so she cannot do it without me or doesn't know where to click to go to external resources. Ojen we can spent one hour or two on just one assignment. It's very overwhelming for the families. During the last 2 weeks of school year, my kindergarten preDy much gave up. She said I don't want to do it anymore. I don't blame her. 5) Zoom mee@ng should be more efficient. In spring, most zoom mee@ngs are just for connec@on and chit chat. My kids find it boring and unproduc@ve. My friends in CA. The teacher has 45 minutes ~ one hour zoom lesson everyday (actual teaching, not just sharing what you did yesterday) and then, assign homework if needed. If class is held in person on campus, doesn't teacher need to instruct lesson for that period of @me anyway? Also, doing assignment right ajer zoom lesson is more efficient in learning. Thank you all for what you do. We are all in this 672 Parent North City Having my two children on the same “reduced Kindergarten schedule†Program Parent North City I am most worried about the loss of academic @me this For us, the Zoom mee@ngs with the teacher were hugely Kindergarten year and the regression in skill that will happen over important and major hats off to the excellent kindergarten Program the summer, and that my child who is honestly teachers at North City Elementary for preparing lessons probably at or above grade level expecta@on will fall online and doing the weekly Zoom mee@ngs. It was clear to behind with con@nued online learning / lack of an me observing these that the teachers created such a strong actual school year over the next year. I am also worried community with these students, and while it was sad to see about the loss of the social interac@on and community this format played out online, it was also quite telling to see building and learning about being a good ci@zen that how great the Shoreline teachers are because you could tell these young elementary school students are missing they had created such a respec[ul and strong rapport with out in in their forma@ve years of schooling. these students earlier in the year and commanded the students con@nued aDen@on and par@cipa@on. The Zoom mee@ngs were the glue that held this together for the kids to feel connected to the school and the classroom. My child got more out of the 45 minute zoom instruc@on than she did out of doing the workbooks on her own. Great job to these excellent teachers!! Parent North City I am not concerned about academics, but Kindergarten during Program kindergarten and I want to make sure that he is able to experience the classroom environment, interac@on with other kids for social-emo@onal development etc., as long as it won’t threaten his or our health doing so. Parent North City I am totally unable to help my child with online Please see above — the situa@on is impossible for our Kindergarten learning as I work full @me. My greatest need is for him family. We are not able to support our young child’s Program to be AT SCHOOL in a full schedule. I cannot give up my learning at home, nor do we have the ability to manage a job, as it is our only income. I have no way to support part-@me schedule. his learning in a remote or blended model. If the school does either of these, PLEASE provide a learning support op@on that does not require parents to run it. Parent North City I need before and ajer care to accommodate my I am a healthcare worker, I know this is a serious @me, but I Kindergarten husband and I's work schedule. I could do less days a am really hoping my son can get some in person instruc@on Program week,but only if they are full days. and socializa@on with his peers, at least some days!

673 Parent North City I want to be sure all safety factors are in place to Kindergarten ensure 1) students /staff are safe 2) that the Program expecta@ons of in person class are reasonable. For example, I do not believe having children wear face masks 6 plus hours per day is reasonable. And, if 6 feet social distancing is required, I am not sure that being in the classroom seyng will be very beneficial as interac@on with peers is very important especially for my incoming 1st grader, Parent North City If students don't go to school full-@me, I need access to I know how salary schedules work and all, but if you could Kindergarten full-@me daycare for my first-grader. I also love the somehow give She was my Program virtual resources like Epic! If we could keep using that, daughter's kindergarten teacher, and we were so grateful for it would be great. her amazing work. Parent North City In-person learning at school in a social environment. Have kids keep their own school supplies - pens, scissors, glue Kindergarten Increase the amount of cleaning/sanita@on on s@cks, etc to help minimize transferring of germs. Add more Program surfaces, restrooms, desks, play areas & gym cleaning/janitorial services. Access to more @ssue boxes, equipment. trash cans and hand sani@zer and have a few lessons/ reminders about general hygiene/coughing/sneezing. Parent North City It would be great for my son to be in school in the fall. Thank you for your work and efforts. Kindergarten If covid does not allow this then a distance learning Program model will work, or some mixture of in-person/online ac@vi@es. Con@nuing to have him engaged with children his own age and reading/math are most important. Parent North City Kindergarten students and into grade 1-2 cannot be A hybrid day would be incredibly difficult to find childcare for, Kindergarten successful with home learning independently. I had to especially for a single full-@me working mom like myself. Program schedule @me to sit down and tutor my child every day. This was challenging as I was working from home and had three kids in elementary school to support. Our youngest kids should probably be going back to school first as home learning is so difficult for them and they really need contact with their teacher. Parent North City Most important is for my children to con@nue to I really appreciated the live ZOOM mee@ngs provided to my Kindergarten receive educa@on in a safe and nurturing environment, kindergarten child by his enthusias@c and hard-working Program with as much in person learning as possible. They teacher. I was very disappointed that my middle school thrive on structure and a rich and diverse learning daughter had almost no live ZOOM lessons and that the environment. curriculum was not more crea@ve.

674 Parent North City My child did very well with home learning, but really Kindergarten thrives on rou@ne and peer pressured learning. We are Program reques@ng that he be placed in the same class as his twin sister next year, to limit our family's poten@al exposure and to ensure that our children are on the same schedule (should there be a split shij or staggered days at school). We also have a third child, and it is essen@al for our sanity that he also be on the same schedule as his siblings. So I implore you to consider the importance of placing all students in one household on the same schedule, whenever possible. Parent North City My child needs a very structured learning Kindergarten environment, and works harder for her teacher than Program her parents. My husband and I also have demanding full-@me jobs that have not stopped during this pandemic. Thus, we would gratefully support a return to school at least part @me, with appropriate PPE in place. That being said, we have three children in two different grade levels, and it would be a nightmare for us if they were placed in different @me slots for at- school learning (in the event that there are staggered schedules). Please make every effort to ensure that all students in each family are on the same schedule. Parent North City My child received LAP services for the first part of the I was preDy disappointed in the quality of what the school Kindergarten year which was extremely helpful. She would also have district provided this year. My daughter is falling behind and Program qualified for the summer school program. I am hasn’t had the resources/ addi@onal support she needs. devastated that she did not receive the addi@onal She maDers. Her educa@on maDers. Please do beDer next individual support she needs through distance learning year. and will not receive help from a specialist this summer. I am doing my best to help her, but my partner and I work long hours and are not trained teachers or learning specialists. She needs a learning specialist. Has the possibility of having virtual sessions with Lap teachers been explored? I understand this has been a tough year and everyone has had to adjust, but I expect the school to be thinking through ways to meaningfully support students like my daughter.

675 Parent North City My husband and I both work outside of the home and Kindergarten are unable to homeschool 100% of the @me. Our most Program important need, if possible, would be some in- classroom learning. I'm happy to work with my child as much as needed, but I also recognize my shortcomings due to balancing work/homeschooling and caring for a younger child in the home. Parent North City My son is behind. He has special needs and refuses to Thank you for all of your hard work. Big kudos to Kindergarten use seesaw, it is too overwhelming. He really needs at North City for being wonderful this whole Program 1:1 instruc@on from a teacher in person to catch up year. and be successful. Parent North City Need for my child to be in school. To be with his friends Kindergarten and be with a teacher who can help him academically Program and emo@onally Parent North City Our children need to be back in school. If a parent is Stop fearing everything! Kindergarten required to go back to work what are they do do with Program their kids?? My kindergarten failed miserably at adjust to homeschooling, he hated Online learning, he hated doing zoom calls, and his teacher was very unorganized on what assignments he needed to accomplish. My kids need to be in school, Iall kids need to be in school! Online learning is for college students who have the socia skills, @me and capability to do that!! A kindergarten does not!!!!! Send them back to school! Or you are playing a part in dooming them all to feeling unaccomplished and uneducated!! Parent North City Our daughter did fine with online learning. I would Kindergarten prefer that less op@onal assignments be posted to Program Seesaw because some@mes there was a LOT to sij through. She just misses her friends, so I know she would love to go back for that reason.

676 Parent North City Our family has health issues that make us high risk for My other concern is that if the schools open at par@al Kindergarten contrac@ng and having serious life threatening capacity, considera@ons need to be made for the most Program complica@ons from COVID-19. I recognize that our vulnerable and marginalized students to be the ones who are family situa@on is unique. But at the same @me my selected to aDend. children s@ll deserve appropriate educa@on that does not put them or our family at risk of serious illness or even death. The biggest need for our family is access to grade level, appropriate educa@on without having to expose our family to poten@al infec@on. If schools are reopened for in person learning, the must be an online op@on available for for families/students who have special health considera@ons. Even though the state has moved to phase 2 in our household we have been told by our medical team that it is not safe for our family to start increasing our exposure. My concern is that when September comes that schools will open but that for us it s@ll will not be safe for my kids to aDend and we will be lej with no op@ons for our kids to receive educa@on. Parent North City Our son does well academically, but he struggled with Seesaw has been great for keeping up with educa@on, and Kindergarten the structure of school and the social aspect of it. specifically our teacher has been very accessible and reaching Program Missing the second half of kindergarten not only out to students in his class. But we've heard other teachers robbed him of further developing those social skills, have not been as good at connec@ng with their students, and but has also set him back as he's been isolated from that is a real fear for us going in to the next year. other kids at home outside of Zoom mee@ngs. He really needs more school @me in a classroom with other kids to develop more and operate beDer with other people. Parent North City Priori@zing in-person learning, access to full-@me care, Distance learning will not reach all students sufficiently and Kindergarten flexibility and longer availability of distance learning they will be lej behind, it is preferable to have schools open Program lessons if they are used, more personal interac@ons assuming precau@ons are taken, we support making up lost with teachers and kids instruc@on @me with summer school for however long is needed to make up days, both mask-wearing AND social distancing are not necessarily both needed based on public health guidance, clearer and more common informa@on from teachers would be useful in terms of instruc@ons plans

677 Parent North City Safety and well being. Don't like the idea of forced mask use. Kindergarten Program Parent North City She needs in person instruc@on Kindergarten Program Parent North City Socializa@on for my child and childcare so I can return Kindergarten to work. Our household cannot financially maintain Program this current setup of full-@me home schooling. We barely have one income at the moment to sustain a household of four people. We need to pay for childcare for our toddler to return to full @me daycare, but currently cannot afford that due to one parent not working; we aren’t sure how we can get childcare for our toddler so both parents can return to work. Parent North City Socializa@on for my daughter. Kindergarten Program Parent North City Student specific guidance on how best to help my child Not all of the distance educa@on lessons created were as Kindergarten succeed. beneficial for my child. Some@mes it felt like the teachers Program were just checking a box off on their list by giving us something they quickly threw together. We were most successful when we were given the materials/ lesson plan and I was able to play the roll of the teacher. This style of teaching was much more produc@ve than having her watch a prerecorded zoom video. Some of the ques@ons were very broad and I think I would like to give more specific opinions on each topic. For instance social distancing/ interac@ng with other classes. I think it would be ok to have the children in a well spaced communal lunch room with tables 6+ feet apart. Especially due to my child's age I don't see 6 feet spacing being realis@c during class @me. But I think it would be best to avoid large gatherings like PTA events or assembles un@l we're approved to do so. Parent North City Thanks to those teaches who handled the kids all day Kindergarten long. Expect to leave kids with them again soon. Program

678 Parent North City The ability for our youngest child to return to an in- As a family with two elementary age students and two Kindergarten person school format for at least a par@al day. Clear parents working full-@me, the COVID-19 closure has been Program and realis@c learning goals for families where both very challenging. Limi@ng the amount of informa@on sent parents are working full-@me if home instruc@on is to one email per student per week and having clear needed. Interac@on with other students for at least guidelines for learning goals and which subjects are most part of the day (daily) or several days a week (at least important (i.e. - Reading & Math) and which are op@onal (i.e. 2). - Science, PE, Music) would be helpful. Parent North City The biggest challenge for our family is not having (safe We are grateful for the school's transparent communica@on Kindergarten and isolated) childcare for our children. My husband and for our teacher, aDen@on and focus on the Program and I have limited @me and aDen@on to devote to our wellbeing of her students--as a group and individually. Thank children's academics. Both parents work from home you! full @me (or longer!), and our two children have different academic needs. We struggle to focus on our jobs (our days are heavy with mee@ngs), while also having @me to instruct our kids. Our kids are too young to manage school apps and assignments independently, which places a heavy burden on us to juggle childcare, home instruc@on, and work. Parent North City The kids need to interact, collaborate, exchange It is quite unfortunate we were denied geyng contact info Kindergarten opinions, laugh together. My kids miss that very much. from classmates to connect outside the class zoom mee@ngs. Program They also need art classes; we were assigned none all I understand the privacy issue but we could have at least this @me! We didn't even learn a new song! And the been asked if we are willing to share our info with any problem with distance learning is that the teacher sees families. That isolated the kids even further, when we could the final product, not the way the kid was challenged. have at least been exchanging video messages with our So us parents do not have the right tools to help them school friends during this @me and even during summer@me! get beDer, neither do we recognize what could really is That was a very sad thing and my kiddo felt quite lonely. a weakness or what kind of struggle is normal. We Please consider that as an op@on and help families connect, need teaching guidance if we are going to con@nue while s@ll protec@ng their personal informa@on. distant learning.

679 Parent North City There were some difficul@es star@ng distance learning Kindergarten ini@ally, but centralizing everything into a single Program pla[orm with links was very helpful, and allowed for easier access. We would poten@ally be interested in sending our child to in person school one day a week if measures could be put in place. A day of learning, rather than half days, seems like it would allow for beDer cleaning to occur and be less disrup@ve, with distance learning op@ons. We appreciate consistency, and I think teachers did a great job with recording their lessons. I’ve been impressed by this. I am concerned If we go back, even part @me, there will be further COVID scares and further disrup@on to rou@ne, which is more difficult than just star@ng distance learning. We would lean toward taking a distance learning op@on at this @me. Parent North City We are a high risk household with Covid and want to Seesaw was so great for so many things but the math on Kindergarten send our kids back to school in a safe way but also seesaw was super tedious most of the @me and our son who Program want to keep our household safe. loved math in school started to hate it. We loved the videos that teachers posted before seesaw started for K and our son was able to interact with those more independently. Superkids assignments were great for home. I would love to see online curriculum next years that u@lizes physical materials more than the pages on seesaw. The workbooks we were given were so nice I wish we could have used them more fully. We appreciate all the @me and energy teachers and administrators put in to quickly set up an online curriculum, thank you. Parent North City I’m preDy freaked out that there will be in-person school in Kindergarten the fall. However, For my kindergartener, online learning was Program a struggle because he didn’t understand why he had to do “school” at home- especially when his teacher was Mom.

680 Parent North City Remote learning for N. City K was terrible and a mess! My Kindergarten son's private school had a Google classroom and it was so Program easy. I gave up trying to track the mul@ple emails from N.City K and various pla[orms. Very disappoin@ng and frustra@ng experience. I am surprised as Shoreline is supposed to be a good school district. Our daughter will move to private school in the fall but I wanted to share this feedback. Parent North City The biggest challange for us with online learning was that Kindergarten some@mes the way in which had to "show his work" was Program very distrac@ng for him. He was in kindergarten and using seesaw, which was fine except for when he had to draw, type or mess around within the app. He would get VERY distracted with the controls and not be paying aDen@on to the tasks. It would be great if the teachers can be flexible with how you show your work. For us it worked beDer to have him work with pencil and paper etc and then take a picture and post it. Parent Parkwood I feel that the lack of personal connec@on and Elementary engagement created challenges in his learning. His teacher did not have individual mee@ngs with him to create the engagement in his work. It was ojen difficult to get him started on his “school work†Parent Parkwood 1) my children benefit very much from the structure of I’m concerned about transparency from the district and the Elementary aDending school (rou@ne is more valuable than leadership at our school (parkwood) regarding @mely sharing academics at this point in their development 2) if an of informa@on about things like covid cases in the school. I alterna@ve school schedule is offered in the fall, I will would be frustrated for example if I heard of cases in another strongly desire that my kindergarten student and 2nd classroom second hand or a week ajer the fact. If there’s a grader aDend school on the same days to make case, I hope the school/district is thinking of ways to make figuring out academics and childcare on non in-person sure we all hear about it as soon as possible so we can gauge days more logis@cally friendly the risk our individual families take in sending our kids to school and seeking out addi@onal tes@ng or screening as needed.

681 Parent Parkwood A clear outline of what school will look like for various The discrepency between how teachers impemented learning Elementary scenarios in the Fall that priori@zes in person learning was very challenging. The @me spent with teachers learning for all students 3rd grade and younger. how to use technology during Zoom classes was painful and unnecessary. The repeta@ve occurance of my child’s teacher expressing her personal loss and sadness about seeing students and being at school was detremental to my child’s emo@onal wellbeing. If student-lead discussions arose, it would be different but this was teacher provoked and feedback was not incorporated. Parent Parkwood A clear plan of what will happen in the fall, and We had two very different experiences with our children's Elementary guidance on how to support our children's educa@on teachers. One teacher communicated regularly, provided and well being. clear lesson plans, and answered ques@ons in a @mely manner. This teacher seemed very involved in trying to make the new environment effec@ve. Our other child's teacher was barely there, didn't provide much in the way of educa@onal content, and didn't communicate regularly with our student or us. This led to one of our children having a rela@vely good remote learning experience, while the other felt neglected and ignored. Parent Parkwood A consistent safe school experience with scheduled Please ensure the department of health is involved in this Elementary instruc@on. Social interac@on with peers and friends. criteria created for our children, what I want may not be what's best for their health. Parent Parkwood A more defined learning program, if it’s remote The Parkwood principal and teachers have been wonderful in Elementary learning. More face to face instruc@on from the communica@on, kindness and support during what is a teacher even if via remotely. Defined understanding of difficult @me for everyone. Their dedica@on to our children is the lesson/end goal of lesson. Structure and to evident in their @me and messaging. To come up with an somehow make it feel like they are aDending school alterna@ve to learning and put it in ac@on must be very not alone. If remote learning is the only way, I feel like difficult. The online learning Pla[orm needs more. I’m not it needs to have more substance. I worry they are not sure what that even looks like but I just feel my children geyng all of what they need for educa@onal growth. aren’t geyng all they need in their educa@on. I feel like How can they develop a love of school and learning they can be expected to do more. I no@ced in my daughter with 2 lessons a day and a couple of worksheets. There who loves school, experiencing the lack of mo@va@on to has to be more? con@nue her 2 lessons a day. Which is unusual for her. She thrives in structure and expecta@ons from teachers. My kindergarten will especially need structure and rou@ne to gain confidence in growing in his educa@on.

682 Parent Parkwood A more detailed syllabus is needed at the beginning of Parents only get feedback twice a year regarding a child's Elementary the school year so I am less "in the dark" and more progress at school. Teacher's checking in with parents 4 @mes prepared to support my child during distance learning next year would be helpful in the uncertain covid- should we have to return to that. environment so teachers and parents could work together beDer to meet student's needs. Parent Parkwood å å¸Œæœ›è€ Elementary Parent Parkwood As a parent of three young kids and a professional Overall we were very pleased with Shoreline school response. Elementary working 50+ hours per week, home schooling was Thank you for having chrome books and hot spots available! extremely challenging. If we need to do online Our personal devices were being used for work. assignments in the fall, a flexible schedule is a necessity. My kids also missed the social interac@ons with peers and staff. Zoom twice a week with the class and teacher was the only thing that kept my 2nd grader engaged. She wanted to be able to report things learned from assignments and earn being a 'super kid.' However, in the last two weeks of school it took all of my energy to get her to complete 2 assignments per day. Neither 2nd or pre-k could work independently. Parent Parkwood Both of my children struggle with math, the video's are I hope this all gets worked out. As a parent with an Elementary ok, but if mom doesn't understand them, how can I Autoimmune disease, I feel that if it is not sa@sfactorily help them? I need clearer instruc@ons for the parents solved, I may not be able to send them to school out of fear. in order to help my child. My children feel isolated, But also, I don't feel like I am a great teacher, so I feel like we however, my son is High Func@oning ASD and zoom are in a weak posi@on. I know my kids need help with calls drive him crazy! I think small group zooms would certain studies, but I also can't afford to get sick. Sigh. help immensely or one on one zooms with the teacher in area's of struggle. Parent Parkwood Childcare Social opportuni@es for child to make friends Elementary Exercise Rou@ne Parent Parkwood Children NEED to learn. The requirement for students to wear masks at all @mes in Elementary school in the fall is unreasonable and unsafe. Elementary school aged children cannot keep masks on correctly for extended periods of @me. Forcing them to rebreathe their own expelled air is unsafe as it makes it much harder for them to get enough oxygen and makes the inside of the mask a breeding ground for viruses, bacteria, and mold.

683 Parent Parkwood Clear communica@on from the school as to how they Elementary plan to keep students safe and maintain social distancing/masks etc. Parent Parkwood Clear communica@on from the school regarding how Only that I hope that we are ul@mately guided by science and Elementary they plan on maintaining a safe environment for our the concern for our community’s health over pressure students. A very specific plan on what each grade’s around equity. There is no perfect solu@on and we fully learning goals are month to month. support the work around equity - just not at the expense of people’s lives. Parent Parkwood Clear communica@on from the schools as to how they Elementary plan to maintain safety for the students. Parent Parkwood Communica@on! Would love to know as soon as Elementary possible how to plan our fall so that it is the safest choice for student needs Parent Parkwood Con tôi có thể trở lại trường để được học tập một cách Tôi biết vì dịch bệnh nên con tôi không tới trường, nhưng học Elementary hiệu quả hơn. tập tại nhà không hiểu quả. Con tôi thường có thái độ không muốn làm bài tập, không hiểu bài mấy. Tôi rất mong muốn con tôi có thể trở lại trường vào mùa thu với bán thời gian biểu cũng hiệu quả hơn là học tập tại nhà. Tôi cũng chân thành cảm ơn các giáo viên và trường Parkwood, đã làm việc cật lực để kết nối và hỗ trợ cho con tôi. Parent Parkwood Con@nued access to Seesaw for ac@vi@es we can go The online learning and work the staff have put into the Elementary over during the summer to make sure my son doesn't lessons have been wonderful. I would not have been able to fall too far behind. do home learning without them. Parent Parkwood Crea@ng a healthy environment for my children during Thank you to everyone at Shoreline schools. Great Elementary this @me. I want them to educated about what is going community suppor@ng all! on but also protect them at the same @me. Parent Parkwood Curriculum and socializa@on. I have concerns about childrens ability to wear masks Elementary effec@vely all day long. Parent Parkwood EIP for emo@onal support zooms not nearly as effec@ve If there is no in person school and before ajer care childcare Elementary as in person Available this coming school year I will likely loose my job which is essen@al. I don’t have family help or child care to bridge a year long gap. I would suggest offering in person school to those who are considered essen@al workers and without childcare resources first considera@on for in person school and childcare. Those that can provide a leDer from their employer.

684 Parent Parkwood Emo@onal support Elementary Parent Parkwood Flexibility, pa@ence, and understanding of individual Our family is going to have another baby right when school is Elementary situa@ons are probably my biggest needs. star@ng again. Since I have been pregnant during this whole pandemic we have taken all the precau@ons we can to keep everyone safe and healthy. I am concerned that with school star@ng my kids will be exposed to more germs in general. (My kids always get sick the beginning of the year anyway.) I am concerned that I have no control over the contact my family will have with the outside world. We are planning to send our kids back to school if schools open in the fall, but I'd also love to have the flexibility to possibly do home learning with them un@l my new baby has had some vaccines/built up more immunity (un@l ajer winter break). I definitely miss my kids socializing and having face to face @me with their teachers and peers and I like the idea of small class sizes part @me. (Especially if siblings are on the same schedule!) But I am concerned what it will be like having a newborn as well. What if my child had to stay home for 2 weeks if they got sick? Could they do online learning during that @me? I don't want them to fall behind, but I love encouraging sick people to stay home. Even if schools are in person in the fall having an online op@on available for sickness, or if parents feel concerned for other family members health would be really helpful and would hopefully encourage people to stay home of they are sick. Parent Parkwood Flexibility. Resource for parents on how to best handle Communica@on from the Principal/School (not teachers) Elementary home educa@on. regarding school news needs serious improvement. I want news/communica@on from my child's school leadership, not the superintendent/district.

685 Parent Parkwood Following what the virus is doing as September Elementary approaches. As well as what the health department, coun@es and school districts intend to do as things may change. I want my child to be safe and be able to go to school and socialize and have so.e structure. Kindergarten is an important year. I believe it sets a child up to know how a school is run as well as what expecta@ons are for them in the coming years. Parent Parkwood For my 2nd grader, he felt very connected to teacher Elementary and classroom during Zoom visits. He really, really struggled with online learning. If we do not go back to school, I feel strongly that teachers need to do small classroom live Zoom learning (maybe can be recorded for kids who can't par@cipate live). My 2nd grader really needs a group environment for learning, especially some of the more complicated lessons, i.e. themes, opinion wri@ng, etc. My 5th grader got NO feedback about his assignments. Unsure if anyone even looked at them. The video instruc@ons were somewhat confusing. The way kids learned was VERY confusing - having to toggle back and forth between tabs constantly. The structure was also very confusing, with lessons going back and forth from opinion wri@ng to literacy. My 5th grader felt very disconnected and Zoom sessions did not help. Parent Parkwood For my child to be safe and healthy at school so they Elementary can con@nue to get their therapies and interven@ons that they have been unable to access since March.

686 Parent Parkwood For my first grader to be in school for a few hours, a Please let the young kids go to school for at least a short @me Elementary few days a week, so that I can he can socialize, have a couple of days a week. It's hur@ng his social/emo@onal teacher @me face-to-face, be away from home to build learning to not be with other kids. He misses school so badly independence, have a teacher other than his mother. - it's palpable. I think he will manage if it is hybrid, but all This will also allow me to be more successful at my online will be very difficult. I fear he'll end up ha@ng school work, as I can do focused work on my job while he's at work, where during school pre-virus he was really loving it. school, even just a few hours, a few days a week. Also, he'll get beDer assessments from his teacher than from me - and he's more excited about learning if he has a teacher at the school building. He always complained about home school with his mother (me). I really like Seesaw for the young grades - once Seesaw was in place, things went much more smoothly. I feel if there had to be a combina@on of efforts, maybe some @me in the building plus some @me on Seesaw would be a good balance. Our kindergarten team at Parkwood on Seesaw was GREAT! Parent Parkwood For my student to be back in his classroom under If we are not allowed to start school in the classrooms come Elementary normal circumstances, back to the way it was “pre- fall, daily lessons with embedded links to videos and COVID†assignments for a more “one click†Parent Parkwood Geyng my child into a structured school seyng. Elementary Parent Parkwood Grades Assignments that count Required assignments Elementary Parent Parkwood Having my child be taught in person. She needs 1 on 1 The last 3 months is proof that my child does not learn Elementary or small group instruc@on at the learning level that anything at home when it comes to school work. We learned helps her. When she had expecta@ons from in person lots of life/home skills, which we could teach, while during teachers she was very successful in her learning. Not at the stay at home @me. Now we are back to work full @me all from her parents at home. My husband and I both with my child coming to the childcare center I work at. If she work full @me too. There would be no way to stay couldn't come there, i don't know what we would do. home! Parent Parkwood Having my kids be able to do their homework in a way Elementary that they can understand like doing homework packets instead of online

687 Parent Parkwood Health and safety of my child and other students. Elementary Flexible schedule with a balance of students’ need and working parents’ needs. Advance no@ce on decisions made re: transi@on back to school. Parent Parkwood Health protec@on Elementary Parent Parkwood His being personally with teachers and other kids I believe that the best for my child's learning is to be with Elementary teachers and other children in person. It's a difficult situa@on and we have a high risk in doing so. But, seeing the child stuck at home all day is not easy. Parent Parkwood I can't do my job from home and provide adequate Virtual classroom @me with small group support on Elementary instruc@on/assistance/emo@onal support to my own assignments will be CRITICAL to my child's academic success child at this @me. A virtual classroom, at least, where and all of our emo@onal well being if we have to con@nue small groups of students are working with the teacher, with virtual learning next year. would be really helpful. Even if it were a paraeducator working with a few students on an assignment in a virtual classroom, that would be WAY beDer than zero actual support. I have to con@nue teaching in the fall as well, and I don't know what my district's schedule is going to look like. I need a school schedule for my child that works with my personal work schedule. Parent Parkwood I can't imaging my liDle kids wearing a mask all day. Again very concerned about them having to wear a mask all Elementary I'm very concerned for the social and emo@onal well day. I think it will just be such a distrac@on, the teachers will being. spend so much @me telling them to wear a mask, not to men@on my daughter star@ng Kindergarten this way. Parent Parkwood I feel like either I wasn't no@fied or the school did not Our household has members in the highest risk group for Elementary provide homework or lessons for first grade. We did covid-19 complica@ons so unless the school can guarantee our best following reading and math lessons from sanita@on, screen, etc, it might be too risk for us to allow our youtube but I have no idea if we missed assignments or children to return in the fall. If a vaccine becomes available not. I haven't heard anything from our teacher or we will definitely take it and I would like it to be required by school district about it. I need engagement from our the school district. teachers, a strict schedule and assignments. Parent Parkwood I have 3 at risk people in my household/family circle, Elementary including a high risk infant. I’m very reluctant to send my big kids back into an in-person school environment un@l a vaccine is widely available.

688 Parent Parkwood I just only have a concerned about the situa@on at the Elementary moment. And as amother off course, I just wanna know about the safy of my child @ school. We know that we can’t see our enemy (Covid-19) I just wanna know (if incase this fall classes will be open) the assurance of how safety my child at school? Thank you. Parent Parkwood I need for my child to be in school. I can not work full Elementary @me and be a teacher next school year. When the kids are in kindergarten and 1st grade it is hands on teaching. Even seesaw videos and lessons a parent needs to be guiding them, reading and teaching each lesson. It is overwhelming. If there are not regular classroom days, there needs to be alterna@ve/ ajercare care as an op@on for parents. This can include homework and addi@onal learning @me. Parent Parkwood I need her to understand what she is being taught I would like beDer structure Elementary Parent Parkwood I need my child to experience a normal school School should be considered a safe place by our children. Elementary schedule. They need classroom instruc@on, structured Families need to communicate their personal distance schedule, aDendance requirements, classmates, and learning needs, and all schools should prepare each they are willing to do whatever is recommended by the classroom teacher to teach via video as well as in person school district to make this happen. students. The school district needs to return to full opera@on. Including bus, assemblies, recess, cafeteria, etc., these experiences are needed by most students because I believe that our future depends upon their socializa@on. Ajer school, families should, by now, know what we need to do to keep family members and others outside of school protected and safe un@l a vaccine is available. Parent Parkwood I strongly believe in the connec@on between my son Both parents are "essen@al workers" so staying home was not Elementary and his teachers. In-person classes in structured an op@on for us. It was challenging, but we were able to flex learning environments is the ideal meliu in wihic to our schedule to accomodate the real @me Xoom mee@ngs. I achieve this. However, on-line learning models are would ask to consider offering diferrent @mes within the day doable in seyng of COVID-19/pandemic risk. to offer xoom mee@ngs. For example my son had xoom Decreasing his risks for serious illness such as COVID mee@ng every Mondays and Tuesdays at 10am. I would takes precedence given the circumstance. suggest offering a xoom mee@ng at 10am and also at 3pm to accomodate parents who are s@ll required to work.

689 Parent Parkwood I think my child could most benefit from socializa@on You’re all doing fantas@c! I’m sure none of this was easy! Elementary and counseling. What a wild @me for all of us! Parent Parkwood I think social interac@on with other peers is a strong Elementary must. Parent Parkwood I want my daughter to be able to be social and play I am concerned about the health and sanita@on expecta@ons Elementary with friends and to enjoy school. in the fall. I do not feel it is healthy for young children to wear masks all day or to not be able to play with friends. I feel that if mask wearing is an expecta@on I may not want to send her. Also I was concerned with the amount of social emo@onal learning lessons being done on zoom. I feel like it was the only thing my daughters teachers focused on and not academics or just being connected to her classmates. It seemed like the school was making my daughter focus on the nega@ves and feel like she should be scared/ worried and having big emo@ons at this @me. I feel like it had the opposite of the intended effect on her and was crea@ng more of a problem than helping. I hope that is not the main focus if distance learning con@nues. Parent Parkwood I would like for my daughter to be able to aDend Humidifiers in the classroom might be beneficial as there Elementary Parkwood in the fall for in-person instruc@on. As long have been studies that it prevents some transmission of the as everyone is required to wear face masks and wash/ virus. disinfect their hands, I have no problem with my child aDending school. At-home instruc@on IS possible for us, but it is not preferred as it is not the most conducive to my child learning the curriculum. Parent Parkwood I would like students to return to school at least part- Elementary @me if possible. It is very difficult for my kindergartener to learn through Zoom. Parent Parkwood I would vote for par@al in person classes for all Elementary students. I know my kids and all grades need contact and connec@on with their teachers and peers but could do that half @me. If there is a rota@ng schedule, please make all kids in one family able to par@cipate on the same days/schedules.

690 Parent Parkwood If kids are learning remotely, a structured day will help. I felt like their was too much resource given at the start. Lots Elementary So they know they need to do schoolwork at a given gamesy type of ac@vi@es. Thanks for the hardwork!!!! We @me, be on breaks, recess etc and then if possible have appreciate it all. the teachers be available at certain @mes for the day if kids hace any ques@ons. Sending a week's worth of homework every friday or monday can help as well Parent Parkwood If school is not in person, the online learning needs to I appreciate all the work that school staff and teachers put in Elementary be able to be completed by my soon to be 3rd grader to trying to make this situa@on as workable as possible, but in completely independently. With both my husband and reality I wish school had just ended. The stress of trying to I working full @me from home, juggling the needs for work from home while also simultaneously homeschooling online school was impossible. I was fortunate to be was too much. It is not something to be overcome, it is just able to use vaca@on hours to reduce my schedule but it impossible. Every day, I was forced to make the choice is not feasible for this to occur for any extended period between my job and suppor@ng my son. I realize every family of @me. My son is bright but he was not able to is different, but for us, we do not have the ability to support complete the work without me being there with him home learning, so our kids will lose out greatly to their peers the en@re @me. If I was in mee@ngs, no work got done. who have someone at home that can work with them. There Kids need to be able to have some version of in person is no way to make home learning equitable, some students interac@on. I am much more concerned for their will do fine, but many will not. mental health with not being able to interact with any other people, than I am about the academics. I think they can catch up with the school work, but forcing them to con@nue with the academics, without any of the joy they get from interac@ng with their teachers in person is a problem. Parent Parkwood In general, child care. Otherwise, someone needs to We are more concerned about teachers and staff/volunteers Elementary lead in-home schooling and only one parent can work. contrac@ng the virus, esp. the more vulnerable. This fall, in-school teaching would be ideal, including the offering of before and ajer care. Parent Parkwood In person clases for younger age groups. Remote learning for kindergarten seems very limited. I Elementary understand there would be take home ac@vites but the effec@veness of the parents plays too larhe of a role for equitable educa@on. I do not like the idea of pushing screen @me for kids at this young of an age. Parent Parkwood In Person instruc@on Elementary

691 Parent Parkwood In three months I have seen an impact of no Elementary socializa@on. It is so so cri@cal to child brain development, I need my kids to have safe access to kids their ages. Parent Parkwood In-person instruc@on is the most important. As a This year was very challenging as we welcomed a new baby Elementary kindergartener headed to first grade, our child had a at exactly the @me in-person instruc@on ended. I'm sure this lot of challenges interac@ng with the online learning was challenging for the teachers as well, but I would like to pla[orm and geyng mo@vated to complete see more than one hour per week of teacher-student assignments. The online pla[orms were very difficult instruc@on. I think that put too much onus on parents to to interact with, they didn't print easily to fill out and carry the load of teaching. I hope you can find a balance next required a lot of dexterity to interact with. These year of in-person instruc@on with reduced class sizes and online learning tools are likely beDer suited to older paper-based exercises for students to fill out. I'm sure e- children. Addi@onally, each assignment required some learning works beDer for older students who can read and level of reading and constant parent aDen@on. This type, but the online pla[orm was so clunky that we couldn't was nearly impossible with one working parent and even print ac@vi@es to fill out by hand. I'm glad the school another taking care of an infant to put the @me in to district erred on the side of student safety, which is most work with our kindergartener to complete important, but I hope there is space for safe, socially assignments. distanced in-person learning supplemented with a more streamlined user-friendly online interface that is designed with young children and working parents in mind. Parent Parkwood In-person socializa@on with the class and in-person We have strong concerns that distance learning for our son at Elementary integra@on with the daily rou@ne/schedule are the 5 years old (and newly in Kindergarten) will be not very most important needs we recognize for our son newly sustainable given his age/developmental level and that he entering Kindergarten and a new school. He is coming has two homes with single parents both working full @me from preschool. from home. In-person learning and socializa@on in Kindergarten seems cri@cal to his success during the school year. Parent Parkwood In-person teaching would be ideal. And childcare like We are more concerned with teachers and staff contrac@ng Elementary before and ajer care would great. the virus, esp. those who are vulnerable. Parent Parkwood It is most important to me that my student's IEP goals Elementary are worked towards and he has the support and structure of his self contained classroom in a safe environment.

692 Parent Parkwood It's hard for me to imagine sending my children back to Elementary school if they can't easily play and relate to other children and have to be so careful about everything they touch. In that case I'd almost rather keep them at home if learning resources are available and not return back to work. In that case access to food and computer dedicated to my student. Parent Parkwood Lectura, y matemá@cas Las clases a distancia podrà Elementary Parent Parkwood Lo más importante es la salud y que todos estemos Quiero dar gracias a todos los maestros por la ayuda prestada Elementary bien y que a nadie le falte comida con mi hija y los demás alumnos.porfavor cualquier comunicación que necesite con migo que sea en español. Bendiciones Parent Parkwood Maintain academics to insure that the students do not 1) The Seesaw program had limited good points but was Elementary fall behind. If online learning is needed then there extremely difficult for the student to do her assignments. My needs to be actual instruc@on by Zoom or some other student who was in 1st grade could not work independently means. Ideally, I would like to have beDer unless the lesson was printed which took knowledge of text communica@on with the teacher, if the student is boxes to be able to print the lesson. 2) We as parents are not having a hard @me understanding a lesson. I felt that teachers and were expected to teach without guidance on the lessons were limited, and there was liDle support how to teach. 3) A child should not be expected to learn from the teacher. from a video. We watched one video and it was apparent nothing was going to be learnt from watching the videos. There is Zoom and various other programs that could have been used for at least some teaching. Parent Parkwood Matemá@cas y escritura Me gustarà Elementary Parent Parkwood More connec@on with teachers and classmates. One It would be great if all the students could have the same Elementary half-hour Zoom call for emo@onal support seemed very study book to work from, rather than printouts each week inadequate. I know it's hard to teach lessons on a that needed to be picked up, and online resources. Maybe a Zoom call but at least trying and then maybe having homeschool curriculum or books that are currently used in the videos available for parents to re-watch with the school at home so everyone is on the same page and the kids students would be great. My daughter missed her are not staring at a computer screen all day, ruining their friends and teacher the en@re quaran@ne period - future eyesight. there was almost nothing that seemed "normal" for her when the school could have definitely provided interac@on, albeit virtually.

693 Parent Parkwood More Small group lessons. Zoom with 24 kids for 30 Elementary min once a week is not effec@ve or useful. More relevant work. 90 min of work as an expecta@on is bogus when they are at school normally for 6 hrs. I think the district is too lax in their expecta@ons for kids period. The reduc@on in the homework policies and other loose programming makes me worried for my child’s ability to compete later in life. Parent Parkwood My child can go back school. Thank you for everyone for your best efforts in support Elementary students. For my family, I don't see my children are learning enough for this school year, not because teachers don't give enough works. It is more about them, can't focus and learning the same like when they are in class. They tend to resist and don't want to do the work online, and I am working from home FT as well. I think it is beDer for elementary students should get back to school in person, when the high school and middle school students can have hybrid class. Parent Parkwood My child definitely needs social interac@ons with other Elementary students. Even if that means doing it from home- regular zoom mee@ngs weekly, even a few days a week, that would be wonderful. Parent Parkwood My child enjoyed online zoom calls but had difficul@es We appreciate how hard the teachers and staff work to help Elementary siyng through them. He also had difficul@es siyng to our children. It is very difficult for me to teach my child at do the work at home. He works beDer in the classroom home. He doesn’t listen to me as well as he does at school with structure and a teacher. Home schooling has been and he really needs some social interac@on with children his very difficult for us to stay on track. age. Parent Parkwood My child has ADHD and requires a level of structure Elementary that was nearly impossible to establish with home learning. Both my child and I also had a very difficult @me figuring our how to priori@ze assignments but we did get help from his teacher for this. Finally, my child was unable to ini@ate or complete any school work unless I was home, which made it impossible for me to return to work full @me.

694 Parent Parkwood My child needs direct, one on one or small group The distance learning is a fine pla[orm, but the personal Elementary ac@vi@es to learn best. interac@on, whether by video, email, or other messaging was severely lacking. It does not need to be constant, but I feel it should gave been more than twice weekly large class zoom mee@ngs. There also did not feel like much learning advancement in lessons, with many of the projects feeling very similar every week. Parent Parkwood My child needs peer interac@ons and teacher Elementary connec@on. Parent Parkwood My kids to socialize with friends and have academic Elementary s@mula@on. Parent Parkwood My main concern/need is to keep my child healthy I would prefer to limit his @me in enclosed spaces with groups Elementary un@l a vaccine is available. of people if possible. While my youngest child is only currently in 2nd grade, he thrived in the online environment. (I had to supervise/monitor his school work/progress less during the day than my 5th grader) Parent Parkwood My son cannot learn remotely, he will not pay astrein I cannot ask anyone to jeopardize their own health to teach Elementary to a screen unless it is a preferred ac@vity. He requires my son, but my son has intensive learning needs so a remote one on one support to learn (special needs). op@on is not an op@on that works for him. Flat out. Parent Parkwood No se puede comparar la instrucción virtual con lo Muchà Elementary que uno capta y en@ende cuando está presente con los demas alumnos en un salón, hay varias respuestas y maneras de entender para ampliar la manera de aprendizaje que la computadora no provee, a la vez no hay las distracciones de la TV o juguetes del dormitorio. Para nosotros aquà Parent Parkwood Open back up in the fall. Consider going year-round Online learning for young children is an abject failure. I do not Elementary star@ng this summer. agree with the opinion of being 'equitable' for all children is why we cannot have 1:1 zoom sessions with our children. I am extremely frustrated and disappointed in our school district direc@on here. You have failed our younger students and the dedicated teachers who have decided to make this their career. Parent Parkwood Open school with standard precau@on per CDC guide Hire more school nurse and screening students daily base . Elementary line The students those have symptoms need to stay home .

695 Parent Parkwood Our 2yo was diagnosed with leukemia in April and he is I feel scared and uncertain how to balance the safety of my Elementary deeply immunocompromised. Our family's risk son with cancer against the very real need of my other two tolerance levels are very low and we would need a lot daughters to rejoin their communi@es of friends when school of informa@on about safety measures to be able to reopens. share with our oncology team when the @me comes. My family needs a *lot* of flexibility right now with regard to due dates and things as we are ojen in the hospital; I hope that this will not be the case for long. Parent Parkwood Our biggest challenge is the ability to work while We appreciate all your work! We were a bit lost at first with Elementary helping our child with online school work. If remote the ini@al online learning op@ons , however, once seesaw was school is needed for the next school year, I feel a made available with learning videos from my child’s teacher, structured schedule would be best for my child but it along with more guidance from her on the best apps on could make it more challenging to fit with our work classlink to use, and more structure around weekly and daily schedule. If at all possible to priori@ze the younger ac@vi@es, we were in a much beDer place. We felt lost at first grades for in-person where they need more oversight in a sea of content with no idea where to start, and no @me that would be ideal. We previously used before and to figure it out. ajer care, which would be helpful as well although as long as one of us is working from home (which is likely) we can make it work with no extended care. Parent Parkwood Our child desperately needs to be able to par@cipate in Elementary his special educa@on courses in person as he is back sliding due to lack of in presence teaching from professionals. I really hope the school considers the kids with ieps who really need the extra help @p be allowed to go back first.

696 Parent Parkwood Our most important needs are to stay isolated from I was shocked to learn that the state superintendent made a Elementary others un@l there is a vaccine or cure in order to feel careless decision to direct all kids go back to school in person safe for my kids to be at "in person" schooling. I am a when the numbers of deaths and virus contrac@ons in WA single parent and we have a protec@on order against state are on the rise again. Then you got the other states their father that involves both my kids and I. I have where people are being careless and ignorant to stay home, two serious underlying condi@ons that if I get exposed stay safe distancing, to wear a mask and are causing 2nd and contract Covid-19 and don't survive, there isn't waves of high virus contrac@ons all across the U.S. and you anyone that I can give my kids to raise. My children want us to bring our kids back to school?!!! I hear the will end up in adop@on or an orphanage. I want to see parents whom are @red of being at home with their kids, or my children grow up. I don't want to risk them the parents who want to go back to work and need someone bringing that virus home and giving it to me. I also to watch their kids. But to me that is reckless, selfish, and not don't want my children to be put at risk of contrac@ng being safe. My kids did very well transi@oning to online that virus or the mystery virus that is aDacking kids. schooling and really liked it very much and wanted to focus My children are my life source and with out them I on their school work more than playing. I was very proud to have no purpose in life. I am also saving as much see they made that choice on their own. I will refuse to money as I can to keep us afloat because my employer send my kids back to school if that is what is directed this is expec@ng me to go back to in work (in person) at the coming Fall and their is no vaccine nor a cure. I will figure out end of August and again without a vaccine or a cure, how to "Home School" my kids and remove them from public there is no job in the world more valuable than my life. schooling. I will quit my job and learn to be a teacher to my I will risk losing our vehicle that I'm paying on and kids, we will be extremely economically poor but that is much poten@al homelessness than being forced to go back to safer than taking a risk of kids touching eachother on work so people can spend money again or keep their accident while in line, or contrac@ng the virus from kids business alive. I'm replaceable at work but not as a coughing in the classrooms, or not washing their hands, or on parent to my children. I'm concerned there will be a the school bus, or touching a library book, or being in PE or shortage of food and me having to be forced to take music class or in the bathrooms. There are just too many risks every @me I go to the store because there is no places for that virus to land on and rooms for it to float one to go to the store for me. The food boxes really around un@l someone swallows it or goes up their noses or in don't help because its mostly canned beans, mixed their eyes. If it can survive on surfaces as long as 3 hours in vegetables, rice, tuna, peanut buDer. My kids don't the air and 3 days on specific surfaces...you tell me how you really eat any except some@mes rice and peanut buDer. are going to keep everything sani@zed with 400+ kids all We need fresh fruit and vegetables than canned goods, touching this, talking, coughing, sneezing, breathing~ while or cheese or lactose milk. real bags of beans. they are in school "EVER DAY"...? I hope there is enough people who are in the same lines of thinking as I am to voice this up to the state decision level to denounce and reverse the decision made by the state superintendent. SHAME ON YOU SUPERINTENDENT REYKDEL!! Parent Parkwood please do a hybrid schedule so kids can have some in Elementary person @me and socializa@on.

697 Parent Parkwood Reading and wri@ng support along with interac@on Would have liked a beDer ability to get help with online log in Elementary with other children for social emo@onal growth. informa@on or ability to know where to reach out for log in help. Parent Parkwood Really concerned with my upcoming Kindergartner Really concerned with my upcoming Kindergartner wearing a Elementary wearing a mask all day & social distancing. mask all day & social distancing. And then making her overall first impression of school nega@ve. Parent Parkwood Safety More aDen@on for special educa@on students Elementary Parent Parkwood Safety and the ability for my son to interact with kids Kindergartners need to learn how to socialize. It's the Elementary his age. I am a teacher so I can teach him the founda@on for all their academic futures. To be able to learn academics, but I can't give him social interac@ons to problem solve and interact with their peers is so much especially when we've had to quaren@ne since March more important than any other academic subject he can be and up un@l then he had been having daily social exposed to in his academic school year and that is what I interac@ons since he was 6 weeks old. believe will be most beneficial at this point in his school career. Let the older kids do online learning, but those kindergartners need to explore, play, and interact in person with their peers! Parent Parkwood Safety of the students. ADending in person class for Thank you for finding ways to reach out and make school a Elementary socializa@on and learning. success for this coming school year. Parent Parkwood Safety, flexibility, and social interac@on Elementary Parent Parkwood Safety, I am worried about cold and flu season right at Elementary the start of the school year. I'm not sure I feel comfortable having my child aDend school in person but worry about the missed socializa@on with other kids. Parent Parkwood Safety. I'm very concerned about sending my child back From my perspec@ve, school administrators and teachers Elementary to school and risking another wave of infec@ons. have gone above and beyond in a super difficult situa@on with hardly any no@ce. That said, remote learning for my kindergartner was largely ineffec@ve. With all parents working from home, we were unable to give her the aDen@on needed to get through assignments and ensure learning objec@ves were met. For that maDer, I don't actually know what the objec@ves were. Even if we'd had the @me to devote, the learning environment at home is not nearly as effec@ve as the one that school can provide.

698 Parent Parkwood SLP office hours or small groups so my child can get I encourage frequent and open/honest communica@on from Elementary their speech minutes! the district to parents. I know that many of these decisions will be hard and you can't please everyone. I also know some decisions are going to be made by the health department or above the district level. I am willing to accept and roll with any news/changes if the district communicates with me proac@vely and honestly. If we are wai@ng for King County health department to decide something, please tell parents that is why we are wai@ng. I do not expect the district to have figured this all out by August, but I DO expect the district to be transparent and keep parents in the loop. Many of these decisions (alterna@ng schedules, some form of online learning) have an immediate impact on my and my partner's work schedules. Please keep us informed! Parent Parkwood So much of the value of early elementary educa@on Elementary comes from teaching kids how to interact with each other and helping them understand how they fit into a broader society. There are online resources for things like reading and math, but there's no subs@tute for developing the social skills that will enable children to peacefully coexist with each other. We've really loved Principal Torres's focus at Parkwood on kindness and responsibility, and it would be great to be able to help kids con@nue to make progress in those areas. If we raise @ny humans to become good people, they can catch up on the other pieces a liDle later down the road. Parent Parkwood social with friends and teachers for new school year Many thanks for teaching and taking care of students. This Elementary more systema@c on-line school evalua@on of their situa@on is hard, but we can choose best senario for students work If they go to School, social distancing is most and teachers and staffs. If we can prepare on-line system difficult one well, we can stay at home un@l next year. Pandemic will not go away for a year at least. So, best idea is to use on-line system for student for a next coming year.

699 Parent Parkwood Speech Therapy. This was not really doable virtually We think you're doing an amazing job, and I can only imagine Elementary and this is my biggest concern for my student. how hard you're working. I know you won't be able to please everyone, but know that we'll be pleased with whatever you do because we know you have our kids' best interests at heart. Your work is so important. We appreciate you so much. Parent Parkwood Syllabus Checklist for Content Required To Accomplish Need for tes@ng materials Elementary Parent Parkwood That my child is able to aDend school beginning fall, I am comfortable sending her to school as long as there are Elementary has social @me with other kids-she is an only child and health and safety precau@ons met. it is very needed, she receives teacher instruc@on to meet her kindergarten academic learning, able to get physical ac@vity as well. Having her aDend kindergarten also helps with childcare so I am able to work. Parent Parkwood The ability to choose online learning, if mask needed to I’m really not sure how my child will be able to wear mask Elementary be able to aDend the school. for the whole day and prac@ce social distancing. I know the importance of wearing the mask and social distancing, but I know it won’t work well with everyone at his age. Parent Parkwood The most important need for our family is knowing that We are hoping for some sort of hybrid model to start with for Elementary the safety and health of children and staff will be the the next school year and then re-assess every semester/ guide to deciding what next school year will look like. quarter and then go from there. Thank you for all the hard In-person instruc@on and socializa@on is of very high work during these unprecedented @mes. We know these are importance as well as long as it is possible and the hard decisions to make so we appreciate all of you. school is able to accommodate all the guidelines. With a child coming into 2nd grade in the fall, social distancing and hand hygiene is s@ll a constant baDle in our household.

700 Parent Parkwood The social and emo@onal health of my children. I think the most difficult and confusing part of our online Elementary learning was the "phases." All the different logins and virtual links were difficult. I know it was a learning curve but it look so long for the district to hand over a key to the teachers. Once we got informa@on from our own school and teachers we seDled in a bit and communica@on became easier. Have an easier system for students to log in. If there is alternate learning days or staggered hours in our future please make it mandatory for twins to be in the same classrooms with one curriculum. I would also hope siblings would also aDend school on the same day. Minimizing the informa@on for parents coming in from different direc@ons is a huge weight lijed along with scheduling work hours for parents. Parent Parkwood Today and for the summer we're good. I worry about If my child does not go back full @me I will have to take a Elementary my child falling behind in math but I'm sure there will par@al leave from my job unless there's other on or off site be lots of review next year anyway. childcare. However childcare also brings up concerns due to exposure to more kids and more adults and possibly another site other than his school. I'm sure that's similar for lots of other families as well. I know the district is taking all things into account and we will roll with whatever ends up being the best schedule to keep people supported, well and safe. Thanks so much for surveying and working above and beyond this past spring! Parent Parkwood We could use some summer help to make sure we do t I applaud the teachers for making this transi@on despite Elementary fam behind by the @me school begins again. Our son never having to deal with this. It did, however, take quite a had some extra help in school that he did not get in long @me to get it started. I feel as though my kindergartener remote learning. We were fortunate enough to both be might not be ready for 1st grade due to all the lessons he able to help with remote learning but I will be missed out on. returning to work soon and with a toddler running around, it’s hard to get him to focus.

701 Parent Parkwood We need our children to be involved with learning and My daughter benefited very much from mee@ng with the Elementary physical ac@vi@es from 8am - 6pm, 5 days a week. This speech therapist, I would like my son to also. I is so we can have both parents working. This area is feel that the younger students will benefit more form being becoming unaffordable. We need a not-for-profit IN school. The older students may have the skills to learn Healthcare System that will enable us to get tested from home, but the younger ones need personal contact and when we need to and provide treatment that won’t hands-on development. If classes are split every other day, bankrupt us. Contact tracing is a MUST! I have a the classes should be con@guous and live streamed Everyday problem with children using only hand sani@zers. They for several hours each day. May need to send materials home should be taught/able to wash their hands regularly, the day before. More Music More Art More Exercise especially before ea@ng. More “Home Economics†Parent Parkwood We u@lize the district's extended care, and having that Elementary be available when school reopens is cri@cal. If more distance learning is going to be required, we need con@nued flexibility in terms of when kids can watch videos and do online work, as I have a full@me job and cannot always arrange my schedule around their schoolwork. Parent Parkwood While I appreciate having a voice in the decision First off, the teachers, administrators, and cer@fied staff did a Elementary process, I want for the school district to use data and commendable job! As a parent, this was an awful direc@on from local public health experts when making experience. I struggled to access the learning tools because decisions about school policy. I am scared to send my of the privacy requirements established by the schools. Each kids, this is a scary @me, but I trust our public health different learning pla[orm required its own authen@ca@on experts and their recommenda@ons for social and when a single computer is used for the parent's work distancing / preventa@ve measures. AND two different elementary school aged kids, it was miserable. Some tools were posted through class link, others through google classroom, and yet others through canvas - this is ridiculous! Of the tools posted in class link many of them required a subscrip@on, a download, or required a membership (sign-up where personal data needed to be disclosed). This was extremely frustra@ng. Toward the end of the year, all assignments were on google class and that made life easier, but the level of stress it caused trying to simply access their course work is a major barrier to my kids educa@on. I use canvas professionally, I do not understand why this wasn't used as their primary pla[orm.

702 Parent Parkwood Working on my child's IEP. With special needs children, my biggest concern is having in- Elementary person teaching with my children. Video conferencing sessions did absolutely nothing progressive for my child's special needs. Parent Parkwood Would love a hybrid schedule. Some instruc@on @me in Thank you for taking into considera@on all the students! This Elementary class, 2 days a week. Would prefer full days instead of is a difficult @me for all. Thank you! am/pm. ᵱᥝᘌ૵ጱྯ෭ර਍޾֢ӱ҅ᘒӧݝฎӞԶ೰੕ᦏ Parent Parkwood Elementary ਍ኞᛔ਍ Parent Parkwood Access to real library books to read at home would be greatly Elementary appreciated in the fall. Parent Parkwood As a parent and district employee I think it will be important Elementary to take into considera@on that employee hours may need to be flexible if an employee is also the primary care childcare provider Parent Parkwood As parents have had a greater responsibility for their Elementary children's learning during remote learning, I would have appreciated more communica@ons from the teachers directly to the parents. Perhaps having a zoom mee@ng where the parents get to "meet" with the teacher to learn how we could support our students as well as what the expecta@ons are. Having a young child retell what the expecta@ons are can be challenging. Emails are good but direct "face-to face" is beDer.

703 Parent Parkwood As soon as schooling shijed to home, at that point, especially Elementary as a parent of a younger elem student, the parent became the primary teacher. Even with the volume of videos, papers, learning apps, and calendars that were pushed out, the parent was key in the role to teach a) how to login, how to follow a schedule, how to learn how to use all the apps, etc etc. And yet all of the communica@on was wriDen in the same way it had tradi@onally been wriDen- to the parent as a spectator. As an FYI- this is what your child is learning. What was needed more than ANYTHING was 2x weekly zoom calls with parents to talk about learning objec@ves, show concepts, talk through strategies for learning, etc. If the at home learning plan is going to require 1:1 parent/child interac@on as it did these past months, then the parents need the support. Parent Parkwood Having the ability to support my children at home with any Elementary online/distance learning. I am an elementary teacher and am concerned I will be asked to put my students learning before my own children's learning. I understand teaching is my job and I love my job. At the same @me, my own children's educa@on is very important to me. I desperately want the district to remember that many of it's employees are also parents. Please keep expecta@ons reasonable for teachers while understanding that although we have learned much this spring we s@ll have lots to learn and that will take @me out of our day. Parent Parkwood I am concerned that because of the wide range of learning / Elementary support / parental involvement over the last few months, kids will be at a wide range of levels for reading, math within the same class; and that this will be a problem for all kids. I would greatly like to see kids be placed in groups based on the level they are at. If it seems that our kids are not being challenged or not learning at the level that they are at, I'll have to consider alterna@ves like home schooling (although this is not something I want to do because the kids love their school, teachers, staff and friends). This survey is for all three kids. It's 11pm on a Monday and I don't have the energy to fill it out 2 more @mes - sorry!

704 Parent Parkwood I have one student who was ini@ally overwhelmed by all the Elementary work and what the expecta@ons were of her. The fluid due dates were helpful, and having a very personable teacher who really reached out to her helped. I had another student who’s teacher didn’t respond to his emails (from his personal account, he’s in 3rd grade) and that was difficult as he didn’t feel personally cared for. I believe that during this, the personal connec@on from the teachers is really important for the kids to engage. I know the teachers were working SO hard, so it was ok....just thought I’d men@on it. This same student for most of the COVID learning plan didn’t have access to his classmates for any social opportuni@es. I also think that is really important. That the kids s@ll have a space to “play†Parent Parkwood I think it would be helpful to have weekly parent/teacher Elementary virtual mee@ngs if we are having at home educa@on next year. Our child has handled everything herself up to this point, but a weekly update and Q and A session would be nice. Moving forward I can foresee schoolwork being hard for parents to help with. Having a general background informa@onal, purpose and goals session would help keep parents up to speed. Parent Parkwood I would love to have more live class mee@ngs using Elementary something like Zoom so my child can learn in real @me. While accessing SeeSaw for assignments has definitely been useful once it finally became available, I think the ability to have a teacher responding and interac@ng in the moment would be really helpful. Whether that means individually or as a class, any sort of interac@on with the teacher would be good. Parent Parkwood My child’s home room teacher was wonderful and very Elementary organized. However she is in the highly capable program and had a long term subs@tute for her reading and math instruc@on. We received no instruc@onal materials or assignments from that teacher un@l I contacted her at almost the end of the year. There needs to be more accountability for the highly capable program.

705 Parent Parkwood My children did not like videos of random adults they had Elementary never met. They liked videos of their teachers and other teachers they know from their school. Parent Parkwood Need to find a way to have in-person school for at least Elementary elementary and middle schools. Distance learning especially for elementary school children requires a parent to adjust work/take @me off work which is not sustainable. Parent Parkwood Our older child (12) is very structured and can schedule Elementary herself without parental overview. So a flexible schedule with somewhat fixed due dates is perhaps best. Mostly due to her personality, but par@ally an age and educa@onal level reasons. Our younger child (8) needs structure with specific daily schedule to follow. I have to think most younger kids need structure and a more fixed schedule with slightly flexible due dates. Also, interac@ve educa@onal tools were obviously much beDer at keeping our 8 year old engaged. Parent Parkwood Please provide more instruc@ons for parents and students for Elementary remote learning next year. My 1st grader really wanted to do the ac@vi@es on SeeSaw, but none of us had been trained in using that pla[orm. He knew the content of the lessons, but couldn't execute the ac@vi@es due to his unfamiliarity with SeeSaw, which was really frustra@ng. The packets worked beDer for him. We would have really benefited from: 1. Training on how to use online learning pla[orms 2. Some indica@on of how much of the day should be spent on schoolwork vs. other ac@vi@es If parents are going to be made into de facto educators, they need some support from the district and teachers. Thank you. Parent Parkwood Thank you for all you are doing! Elementary

706 Parent Ridgecrest - An engaged teacher - A teacher that provides grade - It’s not fair that such disparity between teachers is Elementary appropriate instruc@on/work (it felt like our 2nd grader allowed. Our 5th grader had a very engaged teacher who sent was doing work fit for kindergarten) - Feedback on daily emails, set up reading groups, planned fun assignments, schoolwork and sent out weekly lesson plans. Our 2nd grader had a teacher that was minimally engaged: inconsistent with emails, made liDle effort to mo@vate or challenge her students, and she didn’t even review the work our 2nd grader did for the last month of school. - I think it’s important for there to be expecta@ons and accountability for teachers just as there should be for students Parent Ridgecrest 1) Equitable access for all students in the district. 2) Thank you to at Ridgecrest for doing the best she Elementary Having a plan early enough to set up childcare for two could and stepping up during this @me. working parents. Parent Ridgecrest 1) Following Health and Safety guidelines. 2) Ensuring Speech applica@ons and computer programs need to be Elementary our district is equitable in access for all students. available for any student receiving speech services. Parent Ridgecrest A clear plan for the upcoming school year. Are we I don’t agree with the district restric@on for limi@ng online Elementary mixing in remote learning? If so, I would need a VERY learning. I understand you don’t want to create greater clear curriculum on what my child is expected to learn disparity between the haves and have nots, and that you for her grade level. don’t want to be at the end of a lawsuit when that happens. However, I would have strongly appreciated at least a curriculum of what my children were expected to know by the end of the school year. With that I could have crajed our own lesson plans and ensured my daughters would not fall behind. And why can’t tes@ng/evalua@on be done remotely and online? It’s already performed that way while they are in school. Parent Ridgecrest A quality educa@on Math and Science most important , Elementary Adherence to my child’s learning plan or IEP. A Teacher with previous experience working with ADHD kids and knows the do’s and don’t s of how to handle a child with this disorder. It would also be reassuring to know your building maintenance personnel had received trainI got on proper cleaning technique for COVID what works and doesn’t and thus have been given the proper tools and extra manpower to clean the campus every night thoroughly.

707 Parent Ridgecrest a structured school @me the students spend too much "screen @me" due to " on-line" Elementary work and other things like game, music, you tube... Parent Ridgecrest A well designed easy to use online teaching/learning Elementary system. We do not want to send our hold for in person learning while so much is s@ll unknown about this virus. Please look at Connec@ons Academy or K-12 online schools. They are free, public, online schools. We did connec@ons in Oregon and it was AMAZING! If the school district doesn't have something like this in place, with trained teachers, we will use one of those online op@ons instead. Parent Ridgecrest Ability for my children to socialize and engage with Elementary other students. Parent Ridgecrest Ability to have some form of before and ajercare so I Elementary can work. Parent Ridgecrest Academic learning Elementary Parent Ridgecrest Access to sani@zed paper books and library resources. Parents should be able to choose to keep their children home Elementary depending on the health needs of the individual family, such as immunocompromrised, newborn babies, elderly in the home, etc. The school should be able to record when a student progresses faster through 3rd party resources and educa@on websites versus the curriculum provided by teachers. The school should be able to provide the parents with quarterly ways for parents to test their child's progress at home. Parent Ridgecrest Access to speech therapy/compensatory services, Elementary social interac@on for the kids, clear daily learning plans Parent Ridgecrest Alimentos,renta del apartamento en pagos de bills eso Quiero que todo termine ya! Esta desestabilidad nos esta Elementary me @ene preocupada angus@ado mucho!& Parent Ridgecrest As a small child entering kindergarten, socializa@on and Elementary the ability to interact and learn in person is extremely important to me, not having this I fear would set her and other young children up for failure.

708 Parent Ridgecrest As an only child, I would love for my student to have It was a rough 2 months or so right ajer schools closed. I Elementary the opportunity to collaborate with others while wish it hadn't taken so long to get home educa@on organized learning. I would also like for someone, anyone in into one place... and delivered by our actual teacher. addi@on to myself... to help hold her accountable for Seesaw worked great once we got there. I had a really hard geyng work done. We've had some rough days while @me (understatement) managing logins, accounts, google homeschooling. access, etc. I hope this process is simplified in the future. Parent Ridgecrest ADending school my child learns best when physically Elementary taught Parent Ridgecrest Being able to plan for next fall. Elementary Parent Ridgecrest Biggest concern is my child being behind, not just due Elementary to recent distance learning. A big need is to know what the year will look like as soon as possible. Our iep is in behavior which I imagine will be more challenging, among all kids, when they return. Parent Ridgecrest Both my children receive and rely on special programs Both my children receive and rely on special programs to be Elementary to be successful at school one in LAP and one with a successful at school one in LAP and one with a 504 plan. In 504 plan. In person learning is Vital for both of them to person learning is Vital for both of them to ensure they can ensure they can engaged and successful in their engaged and successful in their learning and not fall behind. learning and not fall behind. Parent Ridgecrest Child health and safety Update and refine the distance learning structure. Take the Elementary @me this summer to refine the protocols and make sure teachers are following "best prac@ces". Parent Ridgecrest Child needs discussing to like learning mode. She is Elementary bored learn by herself. Parent Ridgecrest Childcare while working. Both during school hours and I do hope that for at least the youngest of them, they’re able Elementary before and ajer. to aDend in person. Parent Ridgecrest Clear communica@on about plans for the fall, which "Is your ability to return to work dependent on your child Elementary very well may take right up un@l Sept 2 to figure out. aDending school full-@me?" -- this ques@on is deceiving. My One parent is a school district employee and I will need husband and I can work from home, so theore@cally the to know before school starts if I need to find childcare answer is No; however, we answered Yes since we know we for the weeks in August of staff back to work days. aren't able to truly work FT with the kids at home. Seems like Then, will need to figure out what to do if kids don't this could have been put into two ques@ons -- deciphering aDend FT. which families truly can't go to work with kids at home and those that are working from home.

709 Parent Ridgecrest Clear guidance in remote learning goals, and more Elementary classroom contact, as well as ways to connect with teacher(s) and classmates. Parent Ridgecrest Con@nued opportuni@es for online learning this Educa@on support: for online learning there needs to be Elementary summer. Feedback from the teacher about HOW our more direct teacher student contact and feedback on daughter did. Was she geyng/understanding the math assignments and learning goals with checking for parents. and other lessons? I have no idea. One zoom call a week was not enough. As we, her parents, were working we relied on our daughter to complete assignments and learn on her own. We had no ability to do more than ask her what she was doing. I have no idea if and what she learned while working in online learning. She does not feel confident about what she was learning. I have no idea for example how she was doing on math assignments. Parent Ridgecrest Distance learning at my house wasn't well received by Elementary my kids. While my oldest, the child for this summary, did an okay job of doing the work. I worry about his ability to truly show if he learned or not. And the opportunity for re-teaching is limited. Parent Ridgecrest Distant learning has been very hard for my children and Elementary our family of two working parents. My wife has even considered quiyng her job to support our kids during the day. Such an ac@on would drama@cally impact our family's finances and overall well being. I understand the immediate public health concerns and tradeoffs of kids returning to in-person classes, however I honestly don't think exclusive distant learning benefits the health and wellbeing of our kids and our community in the long run.

710 Parent Ridgecrest Due to asthma, allergies and a history of serious Distance learning was not an ideal set-up, not due to effort Elementary reac@ons to respiratory illness - we will not be on the teacher’s part, but due to the needs of young children. returning to school unless a vaccine is available and the While we were happy to par@cipate due to an exis@ng number of cases has reduced vastly. rela@onship with her teacher, we wouldn’t again (though, I imagine many children may feel more comfortable if they could con@nue distant learning with the same teacher). We really appreciate everything her teacher did before and ajer the pandemic - and were incredibly impressed with how much she was able to balance (and sympathe@c that she had to). We had previously homeschooled due to nega@ve experiences in two different school districts - and are disappointed to lose what was such a posi@ve school experience. Ms. Jensen is truly a spectacular teacher. Parent Ridgecrest Emo@onal support, Elementary Parent Ridgecrest Except the regular assignments from teachers, please Elementary provide more validated or cer@fied resources for advance materials of learning. Parent Ridgecrest Expecta@ons. We were told a number of different The school system did a bad job going into this. Though I do Elementary things this year about what we should or should not be know that this is an unprecedented situa@on it felt like ajer a doing. Most of it came ajer we had already found a month of figuring out things on our own, that to suddenly be rou@ne and a structure that worked for our son. given a system we were expected to follow, was unfair and confusing for parents and child. In the end we used some of those resources but kept mostly to what we had already been doing. There need to be clear expecta@ons from the beginning about what needs to happen. That is of course subject to change over @me but, for the sake of all, should stay as stable as possible. I say this because we are considering homeschooling in the fall and will be relying on resources outside of our house to do that.

711 Parent Ridgecrest Feedback from assignments. Seems like the online I think the interac@on of submiyng something to the internet Elementary assignments were submiDed and from what i could should be made into a more important task than simply doing witness there was liDle to no feedback or cri@que on a few things and hit submit. Introduce language or my kids work. I caught my child just going through the instruc@on, Error checking, guardian review, or feedback steps and submiyng garbage just so they could say before submiyng are some steps that could prevent a child they were done. My bad, I put a stop to that behavior, to just pos@ng something so they can go onto something else however, not being the only parent i am not sure if they want to do. Pos@ng garbage should be strongly there were other slips. discouraged. It's always important to learn the possible consequences of mindlessly submiyng something to the internets. Yes, i know their age is young, but there is value to the saying, "what goes onto the internet stays on the internet." Parent Ridgecrest Feedback from the teachers regarding the assignments Synchronous class mee@ngs should have been conducted, Elementary that the children submit. This has been basically non- and perhaps twice a week at least. existent. This was the case even before this remote learning set up was established. Students's work really need to be graded and returned. If necessary, they should be redone. Otherwise, students cannot improve their performance. We made requests regarding this, but nothing fundamental has been done. Parent Ridgecrest For any distant learning in the future: - Clear due dates - When the links were all over the place, it was very difficult Elementary from the moment an assignment is posted - ONE for my sixth grader to find out and keep track what is being centralized place for lessons and assignments - Ability assigned and when the due date is. Thankfully that situa@on to edit an assignment ajer the due date without did get beDer later on. - My sixth-grader is unlikely to having the assignment marked as 'late' - We prefer aDend Zoom office hours even if/when he has [email protected] is Zoom mee@ngs to stay once a week instead of being more likely to come to "office hours" if it's a text-based more ojen - Weekly summary e-mails of a student's chatroom or a forum. - A clear separate page for students' assignments (completed/late/missing) is helpful - A FAQ would be helpful. My sixth-grader asked his teacher a text-based chatroom or a forum for students' FAQ to ques@on on an assignment, and his teacher answered his supplement office hours. (With sound occasionally ques@on somewhere else (not in an e-mail). He didn't find his cuyng in and out, we don't like dealing with Zoom teacher's answer un@l a week later. more than necessary.) We need schools to be very transparent and clear about what measures are being taken for Covid-19. Parent Ridgecrest For Kindergarten to be in person and start in the Fall. Elementary

712 Parent Ridgecrest For my child to return to school. The online school was If you are going to make school online, have the teachers Elementary not working at all. teach over Zoom DAILY. I found myself having to do all the teacher's work and work at the same @me. Also, any of the assignments that my child had, never got corrected, or commented on. My child did not feel supported by the teacher. Parent Ridgecrest For the summer, we don't need anything from the It's very important that assignments and expecta@ons are Elementary school district. For the upcoming year, we need communicated to students (and made available to parents) in science- and evidence-driven plans, with clear a consistent place — for example, all teachers must post communica@on of those plans and how the plans assignments on Canvas, and do not post assignments in any might need to change. For example, something like the other loca@on. This will go a long way to help our student following would be a good start: "All students will be in understand what's expected of her, and help us support her class two days of the week during stage 3 of reopening, by helping her schedule her @me. and will stay at home during stages 1 and 2 or if there are __ confirmed covid cases in their school." Parent Ridgecrest For this child, he needs to back at school in person. Elementary Geyng him to engage with school work while at home has been a daily baDle of wills the en@re @me. When he does the work, he does an acceptable and adequate job. Parent Ridgecrest For this survey, my upcoming 2nd grader, he did Elementary okay(ish) with his work. He usually did most of his assignments. Parent Ridgecrest Geyng my kids back to their normal rou@ne Elementary Parent Ridgecrest Geyng our students back in school on a regular school Anything less than a regular bell schedule from fall to spring Elementary schedule in the fall! is doing an injus@ce to our students! I would think that by now you would have it figured out how to make that happen! If this cannot be accomplished by the fall my student will not be returning to the Shoreline school District classroom! She will start Online learning in the fall un@l the school district can and will accomplish regular school schedule

713 Parent Ridgecrest Greater teacher involvement in grading and providing There seemed to be an overall assump@on that parents all Elementary feedback on subjects other than math (which provided quit their jobs to become full @me teachers for their children. computer-based feedback). From reviewing my This in fact was/is not the case for nearly all the parents we student's work for this survey, there appeared no had contact with. Having to work, we did not have @me nor construc@ve feedback in reading/wri@ng and science. energy to set up individualized at-home schooling programs For math, the daily homework assignment sheets were for each child and then oversee there execu@on. With an not assigned therefore prac@ce of math concepts were hour or two of live contact @me a week with a teacher, and minimal. Improved internet access and speed is canned district-provided curriculum, we were lej wondering needed. The hotspot only marginally worked for sta@c what teachers were doing all week. In short, there needs to informa@on only and did not work for all the daily be a lot of improvement in the online program. videos and streaming. Tailor instruc@on to each class Unfortunately, we believe students fell behind and regressed and grade. It was a joke to receive the same science during the online por@on of the school year. homework as the first graders every week and/or asking too much of a 1st grader. Parent Ridgecrest Having both siblings on the same “reduced Elementary schedule†Parent Ridgecrest High quality learning Shoreline School district took 2 Months to figure out an Elementary effec@ve online learning system ajer the COVID outbreak. That was unacceptable. I hope the district has learned from that experience and is prepared for the fall. The teachers and administrators would be doing a disservice if this summer is not being u@lized to plan for for the fall. Parent Ridgecrest highly capable classes Accountability for students to learn and do homework. Elementary School packets and learning took 2 months to development when other school districts in other states could pivot faster. Parent Ridgecrest I am most concerned about the transi@on to middle I hope that there are suppor@ve adult-facilitated discussions Elementary school, including new environment, more students, for middle-schoolers covering the Covid pandemic, Black having different teachers, all in a brand new building. Lives MaDer and other social issues. In my opinion, it would be OK to 'ease' into the school year if needed, even if this meant extending the school year. This could include stay at home days vs. in person days (I actually think having to stay at home an en@re day, vs. mul@ple half days is easier to manage from a parent-perspec@ve). Parent Ridgecrest I cannot monitor my child’s school day as I work. I need If full @me in person is absolutely not possible, I would like at Elementary him to go to school and be accountable. least part @me in person

714 Parent Ridgecrest I have two kiddos aDending Ridgecrest next year. One Some feedback: Communica@on from the school, district, Elementary has an IEP, and his needs have not been met AT ALL and even teachers has been extremely difficult to keep track during the break. Making sure he gets the support and of. There were LONG emails from mul@ple senders, with links learning he needs are my #1 concern. to mul@ple tools, lessons, and conflic@ng informa@on. It was IMPOSSIBLE to keep track of. A streamlined system or plan is absolutely necessary for parent sanity. Give us the facts, briefly, when we need them, and put it all in once place so if we miss it, we can come back and reference it later. Endless links to online resources are just overwhelming, not helpful. More is not necessarily beDer. Ac@vi@es that were workbook-based (e.g. SuperKids), paired with instruc@onal videos by teachers they know, were most helpful for my liDle kids. Distance learning is not the @me for elaborate science and art projects that require a lot of parent @me and supervision to complete. The district website was not compa@ble with the old iPad we had for our son, and eventually SeeSaw stopped working on it as well. It was a huge pain, we ended up purchasing a new device. Please choose your systems and technology carefully. Parent Ridgecrest I have two kids in school! I need them to be back to I need both my kids to go back to school in the fall at least Elementary school in the fall full @me so I can work! I am a single part-@me so I can work! I am worried I will be fired if I can’t mother and I cannot afford to stay home and supervise work full-@me. I can’t afford to lose my job over this. I can’t this home learning. I need to go back to work Full-@me afford to pay our rent or our u@li@es without working full- so I can afford to pay for our rent and u@li@es. I don’t @me. Online learning didn’t work out fire neither of my two have the luxury of having a dual income household. I kids. They both require more structure in their day. need both my kids in school full-@me. My daughter learns beDer in a physical school or classroom. Online didn’t work for her or our household.

715 Parent Ridgecrest I need a school program that gives my child a love of My child engaged very successfully with the live Zoom circle Elementary school and learning that will carry on through the next @me ac@vi@es that were hosted by his preschool, but he did 13 years of educa@on. An experience that makes him not engage at all with recorded videos or at-home want to be at school is more valuable than anything paperwork. For younger, ac@ve kiddos, there is absolutely else he could learn in kindergarten. In addi@on, we nothing that can replace live, hands-on instruc@on. Please be will be welcoming a new baby this fall. In-person cau@ous about requiring home paper work that will turn classes will give him space and independence while we educa@on into a baDleground. I don’t want to kill his love for adjust to the new way of life. However, this needs to school before it starts. be balanced with school health prac@ces that focus on not bringing home any shared germs, COVID or otherwise. Parent Ridgecrest I need to be able to have a virtual, real @me classroom I want my child to be able to learn and be taught the same, Elementary experience, along with the students that are going in- virtually, along with the in-person students, real @me. I want person. to be able to print the same worksheets that the in person students are using and complete them along side them. Kids who need extra support, lunch, don’t have internet or childcare can be in person in class and kids who need to stay home, can zoom in during class @me. If my kids dad gets COVID 19, he will die. We cannot send our kid to school un@l there is a vaccine because of this. Parent Ridgecrest I person learning with a rou@ne and expecta@ons. Elementary Parent Ridgecrest I think its impera@ve that the seyngs be taken into Elementary account. I will hold true that my main priority is having my kids mental health in tack. Educa@on can come later if needed. I worry what a rigid socially distant classroom might do to that. Its stressful. I also know that kids need social interac@on as well as outside @me. Parent Ridgecrest I think it's important that the school district takes it As above I think it's important that the school district takes Elementary slow and does very soj opening if they start in the fall reopening very slow and classroom sizes are small staggered at all. To me that means if there is in person classroom and If there is any in person class @me that it is short / @me the classroom size is limited staggered and days limited. are short.

716 Parent Ridgecrest I think the most important thing is to find a way to I could go on and on here, but we need a solid plan and not a Elementary allow students in person class @me even if it's not 5 phased plan. I can think of many op@ons, with staggered days a week. If there are days that classes are virtual, start @mes and/or days, the middle schools are s@ll being teachers need to present lessons to class live so built so perhaps clear cubicles of some sort to allow teachers students can ask ques@ons. We made the video to see students, but allow for social distancing. I think finding lessons work, but it was very difficult at @mes and my volunteers or hired groups to do class and surface sani@zing daughter (and I) didn't feel like it was equivelant to live mul@ple @mes a day would be huge. Or clorox wipe sta@ons lesson provided by a teacher. We have friends in other at entrances so as kids enter a classroom that they take a schools that successfully did Zoom classes for the wipe and clean their work surface before siyng down. dura@on of a school day (8:45-3:00). Hand and Required face masks, temperature screening as students classroom/surface sani@zing is also very important, as enter school or bus. We need to get crea@ve and let our kids well as mask wearing. have school again. Parent Ridgecrest I think we're most concerned with a plan. We We appreciate the opportunity to share our POV and needs. Elementary understood the suddenness of our shutdown, but We also appreciate, very much, the amount of work, @me, going into the fall without a defini@ve plan that we can and dedica@on our district has been giving us - thank you. If count on for a significant amount of @me is implemen@ng the Health Guidelines results in the 'in-school' unreassuring and concerning. If the district is seriously experience being full of fear or feeling highly managed and considering a few different plans, giving the community restric@ve, that would be a major barrier in us returning to visibility to those and asking for feedback or input on school and I don't think it was addressed in your survey. selec@on would be appreciated. Con@ngency Thank you, again, for your service, work, and dedica@on. planning is also impera@ve for us. We understand the nature of the informa@on and situa@on changing, so having plans A, B, and C ready to implement is what we need from the district. The final piece we need is @meliness. Families will need @me to make arrangements, create personal family plans, and prepare our students at least a month in advance of the school year star@ng. Parent Ridgecrest I want everyone involved to be as safe as probable, and Thank you for all your hard work. I really appreciate Elementary I want to support my child's educa@on to the fullest. everyone. The past few months had informed me that I and my child are not great at home-learning and in-person teaching with a qualified teacher will be able to cater to each individual children's needs and is more flexible than online classes.

717 Parent Ridgecrest I want my kids to get a good educa@on. They learn Projects are fun for teachers and work when parents are Elementary more and are more mo@vated with teachers and other home. When I come home from work and I have to help my kids s@mula@ng them. Social interac@on is important. kid with a project it is not easy when I have to watch an hour of video on what to do then mo@vate my kid to do it!! Once in a while is fine but only one project a month and it needs to be clear on what needs to be done and expecta@ons!! I think videos on how to do something are great and then a zoom call to follow with 5 kids is appropriate. A whole class zoom call is a waste of @me for 50% of the kids. Parent Ridgecrest I want to feel safe about my child returning to school. I feel like it is too soon to be returning to in-person schooling Elementary This would require personal protec@ve equipment and safely, even though these past few months were difficult. I hand-washing being used effec@vely. It is important felt that schooling at home was especially difficult for my 8- that the adults support, teach and model this all the year-old, because she needed more screen-free learning than @me. When I go out in our area, I do not see this being what was expected. Learning ac@vi@es and demonstra@ng done by the general public on a regular basis. I ojen learning was way too dependent on screens for her to feel find myself being one of only a few people wearing a successful. She did many educa@onal things that were not on mask when we go to outdoor ac@vi@es - walks, the learning schedule, and these were communicated to her beaches, hikes. It is very important for me that my teacher, however, it would have been nice for this op@on to child has social experiences and more opportuni@es for have been built-in to the experience. Also, as a younger physical ac@vity. These are the two things we miss student, it was difficult for her to be fully independent with most about in-person schooling. If we return to in- her learning, which was difficult to manage while both my person schooling, these need to be priori@zed. Though spouse and I were working full-@me (from home) during the I know the inclina@on will be to focus on academics, I day. believe it will be a mistake to limit these important parts of the school day. Another thing that is really difficult for us at this @me is figuring out how we will manage childcare if we are not at school full @me, as both parents work full-@me. I am a teacher in Shoreline, and I have another child star@ng middle school in the fall, so I am worried that all of our different schedules will be conflic@ng and we will not be able to be at home at the same @mes. And, if I can avoid out-of-home childcare, I would prefer that.

718 Parent Ridgecrest I work in Healthcare and my hours were extended, so I PLEASE OPEN THE SCHOOLS UP!!!!! Elementary had no @me to help my kids with school, therefore, having my kids not in school with no real structure is not ideal for our family they have not thrived at all from at-home learning, and I feel like they will be behind this fall! Parent Ridgecrest I would like to see some at school work but there are If there is no bus transporta@on you will put my family at a Elementary just too many kids at Kellogg to have everyone there all disadvantage. I work in the medical field and shijs start early the @me and be social distanced, among other state and run 10 to 12 hours. Geyng to school could be done but mandated covid-19 regula@ons. Be smart and realis@c picking up in the ajernoon would be impossible. Think about with return plans. Don't promise something you can the fact carpooling with other families is not really a smart not deliver. idea in the age of covid. My son would have to walk home through Hamlin park across the busy 15th ave crosswalks and then another 1.5 miles to get to the Rigdecrest neighborhood from Kellogg. Parent Ridgecrest I’m a school teacher in the Edmonds school district Elementary so I am very concerned about how I will manage the classroom expecta@ons for mul@ple districts. It is cri@cal that districts have plans that work Together. Parent Ridgecrest I’m very concerned about at home learning for my Elementary kindergartener- in that I don’t see how that would even be possible for that age group, especially with two working parents- so in-person, in-school instruc@on is very important to me. Her preschool has not closed since the start of the pandemic and has done an incredible job of keeping the kids safe, the classrooms clean and the building secure while s@ll maintaining a fun and interes@ng learning environment for the kids, so I’m hopeful that Shoreline schools can do the same. Parent Ridgecrest If deemed safe to have the children in class with in Elementary person instruc@on and needed the support systems of school

719 Parent Ridgecrest If the district does part home learning and part in class I think everyone's doing their best. I appreciate all the work Elementary learning, please please don't do half days 5 days per the teachers put. They went above and beyond the week. I think it's most logical to do some full days in expecta@ons. I hope they all will be told as much. I very much person and full days at home. Then we can schedule appreciate Shoreline teachers! As far as learning, I don't whether to be home or at work for the whole day. know how the kindergarten kids will wear masks for a while day. I just don't see it realis@c to have that expecta@on. They will be messing with the mask all day and put themselves more at risk having it and touching their face than not. I'm not sure how to fix that, but it's a concern of mine with an incoming kinder. I also didn't like that the elementary kids were on screens all day long trying to get their work done. It seems like way too much screen @me. There needs to be more wri@ng on paper and stuff that doesn't involve screens for the younger kids. One idea I had (which is more hands on but s@ll screens) is to live stream the classroom seyng for distance learning. They could be taught by their teacher like a regular day, but it's over the screen. Parent Ridgecrest If the students are learning remotely, inthink they Elementary should have zoom mee@ngs with the teachers more frequently and may be some 1 on 1 zoom mee@ngs. 39 minutes a week did not seem like it had an impact on my childs learning. Parent Ridgecrest if we have to do remote learning next fall, a more Elementary structured remote learning is preferred. There should be at least 2 or 3 zoom mee@ngs everyday with the math, english, and specialty teachers. Parent Ridgecrest In person learning and my child's social interac@on with Elementary his peers. Parent Ridgecrest In person learning and support for areas of struggle. Elementary The ability for areas of concern to be iden@fied by professionals and then addressed to avoid further regression in competence.

720 Parent Ridgecrest in person learning. IEP support. - I have two kids at Ridgecrest - One has an IEP for severe Elementary ADHD. He received NO substan@ve special educa@on / IEP hours since the pandemic started. One-on-one in person aDen@on is vastly superior to group video chats for him. We were pa@ent with a lack of IEP services because the pandemic was unprecedented, but if distance learning con@nue in the fall we expect legi@mate IEP services. - Distance educa@on may be effec@ve for older students, but is not effec@ve for young kids like ours. - Distance educa@on is also highly burdensome on parents. Every technical task on a laptop/ iPad, needs to be assisted with because they s@ll can't read. They also need constant monitoring. This means that supervising distance learning precludes our family keeping 2 jobs. - Keeping masks on 1st graders will be very difficult. Jokingly - will there be a mask lost and found? Parent Ridgecrest In person learning. Peer interac@on and collabora@on. Elementary Parent Ridgecrest In school instruc@on led by qualified teachers who Elementary know the curriculum is very important to us. Parent Ridgecrest In-person teaching along with socializing with other I understand that this was a challenging year with the Elementary students and staff. Our son is shy, so the more @me he Coronavirus, but I also feel the Shoreline School District did a has interac@ng in person with others helps him poor job of moving quickly with Online classes. I heard of become more comfortable and open up more, become many Private schools and other school districts that had daily more vocal. The Zoom classes we experienced were interac@ons with their teachers for longer than an hour or so. terrible for shy students. Our Teacher allowed the If the Teachers aren't going to teach, then perhaps some of vocal students to speak regularly without trying to get their pay should be redirected to the parents who have had the quiet ones to speak up and become involved. to quit their job, stay home and become Teachers themselves. We are also not happy that the Shoreline School District has made the decision not to offer any child care this Summer. I know it's not en@rely up to you, the state government has a lot to do with it, but if Daycare centers can stay open, why not Summer child care?

721 Parent Ridgecrest Isola@on and connec@on. Both of my kids would My 2nd grader had a very very difficult @me with Seesaw and Elementary benefit tremendously from teacher-scheduled that actually damaged his rela@onship with online learning UNSTRUCTURED zoom socializa@on @me, when the more than anything else. Would be very much prefer Google kids just get to talk to each other. This could be Classroom or Canvas. administered in small groups, kids could make requests. The key is that the teacher schedules it- otherwise it can be difficult for parents to get kids onto zoom. We are feeling very overwhelmed by the amount of digital work. My kids thrive with paper- based work, which is also more tangible and manageable for them.

722 Parent Ridgecrest It is most important to me that safety is ensured. I am Over the past year, and witnessing how some decisions have Elementary concerned that even with rules and guidelines in place, been made at Shoreline School District, I am very concerned students will not follow these rules - wearing masks, about our district crea@ng a plan that is based on a vision for distancing and hand-washing. And if only some people, long-term success. For example, with the move of the high- rather than everyone, follows the rules, the risk of cap program from Ridgecrest to Meridian Park, and the poor exposure is increased. It will be really important that way that this process was handled, it was evident that this rou@nes are established that support the ability to stay decision was not based on a plan, but rather a reac@on to safe and clean. And that will mean reduced @me funding/staffing concerns. It was not a decision that was available for learning. Also, the adults need to be good made with what is best for children at the top of the priority. models and follow guidelines 100% as well. I am not And it was not well communicated about what the long-term sure being in-person is worth it, if it is so difficult to plan was, if any. Similarly, the handling of the school closure, stay safe. Wearing masks is inconvenient and and the unclear communica@on was frustra@ng as a parent. uncomfortable for many children. I think that the most There were so many emails, and so many communica@ons important thing that my student missed out on during that were very wordy and unclear. If the district moves the school closures was social access to peers and forward with a part in-person, part remote learning model, it opportuni@es for physical movement. I would like should be clearly based on student need and a vision. Please these to be a priority. If school returns to in-person, it take the @me to envision what will work best, and work from should definitely have those elements in place, not just that vision. Be crea@ve and think first about what students a strict focus on academics. I am also concerned need most. And, be clear and concise when communica@ng about the logis@cs of scheduling - if I can no longer to families. Thank you for asking for parent input! work from home, but my children are expected to be learning from home part of the @me, how will this work? I work full-@me, and may or may not return to in-person work, and so I am concerned that my schedule will conflict with my children's school schedule. With all of the unknowns right now, it is hard to envision what it will be like, and how we can manage childcare for our younger child. It doesn't make sense to have part-@me in-person schooling, and then send her to childcare with a different set of kids - that is just more exposure. Parent Ridgecrest It would be helpful to know what the range of Given that the primary purpose of kindergarten is Elementary possibili@es for how school will look next year. It would socializa@on, we are trying to figure out the benefits of also be helpful to know what would happen if we sending our child to kindergarten next year. We are grateful decided to start our child in kindergarten when she is for all the work you all are doing in this really challenging six, what that might mean for her and us. And, if we @me. decided to have her skip kindergarten and go straight into first grade, what that might mean for her and us.

723 Parent Ridgecrest Keeping my child busy now that school is out. It took a lot of @me to get distance learning up and running, Elementary understandably I would add. I liked the format of each lesson toward the end. I would say that my child would need more structured responses from his teacher regarding assignments, and they would want more than once weekly video check ins from their teacher, if distance learning is going to be the future. Also, thank you for making the best of an unprecedented situa@on. Parent Ridgecrest Keeping the kids healthy, but also the social Elementary interac@ons and preparedness for the upcoming school year. Parent Ridgecrest Kids physically being in the same space as other kids, 1. Thank you so much for a) adap@ng to distance learning, Elementary even if for just a couple of hours per week! and b) taking care to make sure equity issues were addressed in our district. 2. If we do distance learning next year, the kids absolutely need to have "face to face" (ie. zoom) mee@ngs with their teacher and classmates more than once per week. I feel like there should be a daily check in, at a minimum. Twice per day would be welcome. This will keep the kids focussed, connected, and engaged. Please try to do this! 3. Also, if con@nuing with distance learning, can you provide shoreline students (even elementary schoolers) with email addresses that parents can email? Otherwise, the process was that my kids' teacher emailed me, and I had to get the schedule/info/zoom login info from that email and write it down to give to my child. It would be so much easier to just email it to my child. Or, if the teacher could use email (or use seesaw) to send a message directly to the students every single day, that would be sooooo much easier! 4. I feel strongly that the teachers need to check in with students once per day, not once per week. This can be a quick email in the morning reminding them of their work for the day, and to watch the morning announcement video, etc. 5. Please do not convey important informa@on for parents in the morning announcement videos! I do not watch these videos! These videos are for the students. Please send parents important informa@on directly to their email.

724 Parent Ridgecrest Knowing the base line of learning expected for each Crea@ng @me for parents to interact with teachers would be Elementary child, and how to facilitate that at home. I found it helpful. I was ojen confused on how to facilitate extremely challenging to mo@vate the kids to tackle assignments. I think mee@ng as a class on zoom is important assignments. It was impossible to know if assignments to run through assignments in real @me w teachers and were done correctly (especially in math), because there peers. I would like to see classes mee@ng on zoom as an was zero feedback. interac@ve classroom, working through educa@onal content. Parent Ridgecrest Knowing what my student needs to learn to catch up Provide immersion of online learning to have kids adjust to Elementary with the missed work. Use the summer to gain access online learning and expecta@ons. to learning resources online to advance educa@on. Geyng use to comple@ng assignment online and knowing how to navigate through the system without parents help. Parent Ridgecrest Knowing what to teach my son to get him ready for 1st I have a baby at home with us too, so doing school work at Elementary grade home is challenging. Having clear assignments (daily and weekly to do list) and clear video instruc@ons from teachers for my son to follow were both very helpful. Having more opportuni@es for parents to connect with teachers one on one to ask ques@ons about how to support my child’s learning would have been very helpful. I’m s@ll not clear if my son is at the level he should be in the different areas of learning. Parent Ridgecrest Main concerns are for my daughter to be able to Seesaw has been a really helpful tool. I also appreciate the Elementary interact with kids her age and build social skills while workbooks so we can limit screen @me and she gets hands on staying safe. prac@ce.

725 Parent Ridgecrest Making sure my child stays healthy and gets access to I thought the district did a poor job with distance learning. Elementary the educa@on she needs. There was a ton of communica@on about COVID-19, and about how to get meals if you needed them. This was great. There was no explana@on about why students could only have very limited access to teachers during the week. And when they had one class mee@ng per week, there was no instruc@on at all, just checking in about their feelings (not unimportant, but not teaching either). There were assignments, but they were random and unrelated. Many of the links did not work. Nothing was expected to be turned in, and there was no accountability for it. What is the point of this? Why was there restricted access? If my child had ques@ons about anything, she would ask on the class board, but ojen got no answer. There was math support, but only 30 minutes per week at a set @me that she could not make. There was no effec@ve teaching going on, and I'm sure she didn't learn anything new from March. And then all the elementary students just got P's on the report card. That seems senseless to me. What were they measured on? How can they advance if they haven't met standards of their grade level? I have to say that I loved my daughter's teacher and that she did everything she could for her class, but her hands were @ed. I just don't understand why, and there was no explana@on from the district. Parent Ridgecrest Making sure my daughter stays safe. Elementary Parent Ridgecrest Mask, half day, daily screen, smaller classroom size and Thank you for working so hard. We will be fine. Elementary more outdoor ac@vi@es, please. Thank you 😊 Parent Ridgecrest Masks to be required, keeping same kids together in This year for my 1st grader I appreciated the teachers seesaw Elementary school to track covid outbreak, hand washing, and weekly assignments and zoom mee@ngs while home learning. cleanliness of classrooms. If home learning as parents I The tablet worked best for these assignments in order to take need to be able to track my child assignments being pictures or video. As for my 5th grader I had a hard @me done and progress. being able to see or know his progress on assignments for home learning. Parent Ridgecrest more face @me with the teacher. Maybe face shield could be an op@on in some cases. Elementary

726 Parent Ridgecrest More face @me with the teacher. Maybe face shield could be an op@on in some cases. Elementary Parent Ridgecrest More realis@c expecta@ons for the @me a student Not every student learns at the same level and parents are Elementary should work in school work. We were told 3ed graders not teachers. Parents need to par@cipate in their students should work for an hour a day but my child needed 3-4 educa@on but teachers are the best resource for the hours in order to understand lessons. I also feel explana@on of lessons. Online learning is not always effec@ve teachers should be more available. Office hours once a especially when the goal seems to be for student to work week is not enough, they should be available in real independently but they so not understand and do not have a @me during the school day. teacher available that they can ask ques@ons. Parent Ridgecrest My child HATED distance learning. I could get him to HiCap is an interven@on service for the children that qualify, Elementary engage in things if I guided him through each ac@vity and their learning needs were not considered or met in the or assignment, but that did not allow me to work. It is recent distance learning model. Depending on the teacher, uDerly unsustainable in this manner. This child happily advanced content may have been available, but it did not engages in an appropriately challenging classroom appear systema@c. Availability of extended care is a factor seyng. for us and made it hard for me to answer ques@ons regarding my ability to get my child to school if there is no bussing. I am not dependent on the buses for this child (we are in the walk zone) but I am dependent on extended care to enable me to work. Parent Ridgecrest My child is not able to focus and work independently. I sympathize with you, trying to make plans when so much is Elementary Therefore in order to get her to do any school work I unknown. Thank you. need to be her teacher and give her 100% of my aDen@on. Not only does this cause conflicts in our rela@onship, it also does not allow me the sufficient amount of @me I need work from home. As a single parent, I am simply not able to do all that is expected of me and when we try our mental and emo@onal health suffers. At some point this Spring we had to simply let school work slide for both of our well being.

727 Parent Ridgecrest My child needs real @me learning. This does NOT need Elementary to be in person in a school building. But the @mes when he was most engaged were in the class zoom mee@ngs. Yet these weren't really focused on learning and only happened 1 @me per week. This was really not enough. The lessons in Seesaw weren't something he could do by himself. He needed the support of a teacher to learn and do these ac@vi@es. My child did not receive ANY special educa@on services during the school closure. Emails I sent about this went unanswered. Parent Ridgecrest My child, and the other children, need to be physically The online lessons were minimal, and not at all challenging Elementary back in school learning, with their teacher and for my daughter. I felt that I had to take on full @me lesson classmates. The social aspect of in school learning planning and instruc@on to ensure my daughter learned and cannot be overes@mated, and my daughter really was ready for 3rd grade. It is a full @me job that I muddled needs the interac@on. through the best I could. My daughter needs to be back physically in school with professional and experienced teachers. Parent Ridgecrest My child’s mental health. She is lonely, misses I appreciated the see-saw learning and all the teacher’s Elementary school, friends, teachers and ac@vi@es. I think our efforts, although it resulted in my (8 yr old) child spending a children’s physical ac@vity levels are important too. lot of @me in front of the computer screen. Also, there were With playgrounds, pools, gyms, etc closed it is hard to assignments that seemed to require a lot of parental @me get them moving enough. (Especially if they don’t and guidance to complete and were a bit confusing. A clear have other kids to play with). Physical ac@vity also @es outline of the curriculum and what concepts my child was into mental health. I hope this is taken into account in supposed to be learning would be helpful. I am very hopeful the fall. the students can return to school this fall in some form, for those who are willing. Now that tes@ng for covid can be done more easily with a nasal swab, will there be any tes@ng of students and staff? Would rota@ng tes@ng of different classrooms (for those who volunteer) help catch an outbreak early? I am an RN and I’m willing to volunteer my @me on days off to help in any way. Thank you for all the hard work you are doing. This is an extremely difficult task figuring out how to get students back in school.

728 Parent Ridgecrest My children are desperate for social interac@on from Having communica@ons consolidated into fewer emails/ Elementary peers. phone calls/etc would be helpful. Having more feedback from teachers about how my child is doing would be helpful. Also more face @me with teachers is needed. A once a week zoom was definitely not sufficient. Parent Ridgecrest My family's health; my child's preparedness for the While it doesn't offer the social aspect, I think online Elementary coming year. I want my child to be able to socialize with curriculum has the poten@al to be effec@ve. I wish there was other kids again, but my main concern is the safety of another way to implement it that felt more organized. We my children and the rest of the community. used Google Classroom and I felt it was all over the place and hard to keep track of. When curriculum went online, I was hoping the district would use Canvas. I use Canvas regularly and feel it is much more straigh[orward and easy to navigate. All in all, I think it seemed like everyone did the best they could to manage this unprecedented situa@on, but it didn't feel like real online classes. I hope if there are some home learning elements incorporated into the school year, that is feels more like a real online classroom experience. Parent Ridgecrest My husband and I are essen@al workers and are not Please do not take away in-person instruc@on in the fall Elementary able to home school. If the school decides not to have in-person instruc@on the teachers should be directed to have calls with each student at least 2 @mes a week one on one. I am not a teacher for a reason, it is not my skill set to teach frac@ons for example, and my child is now even further behind than she had been. The school is also not giving an op@on to repeat the grade they were in this past year. The childcare cost was also a huge impact on our family. Parent Ridgecrest My husband and I are essen@al workers in the medical Elementary field and don’t have a lot of @me to be assis@ng with facilita@ng the bulk of the learning at home, so teacher-led instruc@on is the most important aspect for me. I’m fine if it’s not all in person but would like majority in person and would be fine with some from home.

729 Parent Ridgecrest My kid will need excellent online schooling, where he is Elementary actually taught subjects, in real @me, by a teacher. It should never be up to the parents to teach their kids math and English. Especially today’s math. Parent Ridgecrest My son's teacher did not provide any direct instruc@on My son's teacher did not provide any direct instruc@on via Elementary via videos. She only did weekly zoom mee@ngs which videos. She only did weekly zoom mee@ngs which were only were only occasionally about learning. We did not occasionally about learning. We did not receive any receive any indica@on of progress from the teacher. indica@on of progress from the teacher. The weekly schedule The weekly schedule did provide good tools and did provide good tools and resources and a clear outline of resources and a clear outline of learning for the week. learning for the week. Parent Ridgecrest My soon to be 1st grader need to be caught up with The kids are in dire need of structured, in-school learning. No Elementary speech (just started working with a LSP before school maDer what, home learning just isn't the same at being at closed) and general academics. He did not take well to school. They need the social aspect just as much as the the distance learning. learning aspect that isn't from a parent or other caretaker. Parent Ridgecrest My wife and I work full @me, but even when we are Elementary home we find it hard to keep our child on task, learning, and doing their best work. Parent Ridgecrest No forced vaccina@on, measures for the classrooms to Elementary prac@ce realis@c social distancing, socializa@on for the kids, days for in-person/teacher lead instruc@on. Parent Ridgecrest One on one contact for 504 would’ve been helpful. I would prefer daily Zoom conferences if doing school from Elementary I felt like accommoda@ons were tossed out the home. Follow up with each teacher at least once a week. window. My middle school needed more support from teachers. He had almost no Zoom conferences or accountability for missed work. Parent Ridgecrest Opportuni@es for socializa@on with peers. We are very thankful for the efforts from staff and teachers Elementary from both schools. They showed are kids that they really care and we feel pivoted quickly to meet the needs of our kids during this stressful @me. they made adjustments along the way as we were learning and geyng beDer at distance learning. We are grateful. Parent Ridgecrest Our 3rd grader seemed to do well with his lessons amd Elementary it really helped to have one weekly plan sent out with lessons/work due for the week, as opposed to several emails/pos@ngs from mul@ple teachers (received by our middle school student).

730 Parent Ridgecrest Our kiddo is going to enter kindergarten and this will Thank you for your efforts- coordina@ng children in school is Elementary be a transi@on from her pre-school with the need to hard enough without pandemic. In addi@on to engage with new peers in a tradi@onal school seyng. considera@ons to school format, I hope Shoreline schools is Stability has been a helpful anchor is her success to planning academics to educate students about systemic navigate the day to day. I would appreciate gradual racism and how to consciously shij culture toward the right transi@ons if processes are to be modified throughout direc@on of a truly equal country. the school year. Parent Ridgecrest Our most important need is for in-person classroom Home schooling did not work well for us. Our child needs to Elementary @me with a teacher and other students. Please re- be in a structured classroom seyng. Please re-open the open the schools! schools! Parent Ridgecrest Our most important needs are student socializa@on Elementary and in person learning. The screen @me was counterproduc@ve and very hard for my young child to engage with. Parent Ridgecrest Rou@ne Elementary Parent Ridgecrest Safety and what would happen if there was a Covid-19 Elementary exposure. Would there be any supports for families who would like to transi@on to homeschooling over the next year? Parent Ridgecrest Safety for all children and teachers are the most Our son was working on seesaw our teacher provided, but we Elementary important. We are working parents, and need childcare are not sure if he has done well or is missing something if school opens. because of no feedback or answer sheet. We would like to have more instruc@on. It is easier to teach math or vocabulary at home, but it is harder to teach science or wri@ng. We need more supports for some specific subjects.

731 Parent Ridgecrest Safety for our community is my number one concern: While weighing all the acceptable risks that surround this Elementary for Teachers and students alike. If home-learning is pandemic, these decisions are so very difficult--and we what works best to help that happen, we are very open appreciate the ways you are carefully considering them. I to having that con@nue in the fall. For my admit I am having a hard @me imagining a scenario in which it preschooler, who receives special ed services, I would is safe for us to put our kids and teachers in enclosed spaces appreciate the opportunity for tele-therapy to happen, together for mul@ple hours a day while numbers con@nue to if possible. That is our most important need at this rise...and the weather gets colder/weDer, elimina@ng the @me. op@on of outdoor classrooms. As much as I want my 3rd grader to be back with her friends and teachers at school, I have witnessed her thrive at home as well (surprisingly)...and home learning for the upcoming year would be welcomed by our family. Parent Ridgecrest Safety from Covid. Please put student safety first. Elementary Parent Ridgecrest Safety is my first priority. I would like to make sure that I do not think the current system is a good one for online Elementary measures are in place for my child to aDend school and learning. In our household, I felt that if I was not present and be safe. The second one would be a beDer school available to help there would have been no effec@ve learning learning system in case there is no in person teaching. I at all. Some@mes my child did not understood the videos did not like the system currently used this spring. well, other @mes the program did not work, and un@l May there was no clear learning path or requirements other then here are some downloads... In addi@on having just one class mee@ng a week... with scavenger hunt games and one word feelings for the day is nothing. Half an hour a week teacher @me for ques@ons is again not enough. I would have appreciated that the teacher mee@ng @me was spend for learning and subjects which children are working on that week other then "how do you feel today". I felt like my child felt bad just by hearing how his friends day was not as good. I have heard other school district have daily school learning @me with their teachers and I am not sure why Shoreline does not. I beDer have the teacher sped @me and teach directly online rather then spend that @me making a video. All online mee@ngs can be recorded for kids who miss classes. I am really hoping for a safe and beDer learning system next year. Thanks!

732 Parent Ridgecrest Safety is top of mind for us as one of our kids is a high You guys have done an amazing job and thank you for Elementary risk cardiology pa@ent. We are prepared to con@nue everything this year. distance learning in the fall and intend to whether you offer it or not. Parent Ridgecrest Safety of students and staff provide in school We understand this is a very fluid situa@on, and likely to Elementary instruc@on/ac@vi@es as able change. Parent Ridgecrest Safety. We will struggle with a decision to send him Elementary back to school if school is open but there are s@ll new cases and no vaccine. Parent Ridgecrest Social interac@on and exercise but we are s@ll isola@ng It’s been difficult balancing WFH and homeschooling. Elementary We’d love to “reopen†Parent Ridgecrest Social/emo@onal well being, a sense of belonging for Everyone working in our schools has done an amazing job Elementary students with a tough situa@on. Parent Ridgecrest Socializa@on for my 7-year-old, while also staying safe Seesaw was terrible, despite amazing work by the teachers - Elementary from COVID since I am immunocompromised. Ojen would not work well on any device we tried, and my child would constantly say that they preferred to do offline work with me (read, write, prac@ce math) rather than click through and do videos and ac@vi@es on a screen. I desperately hope there is a beDer virtual pla[orm or beDer offline op@ons for at-home learning next school year. Our teachers were AMAZING but virtual learning was horrible - I would rather make other family sacrifices and homeschool. Top top priority however will be having safe @me with other kids and I am trus@ng school to be the safest op@on for that - but like many households, we have someone who is immunocompromised and will need to trust that the en@re school community is following strict guidelines. Parent Ridgecrest Someone to teach my child, I work full @me and can't Elementary oversee my childrens learning.

733 Parent Ridgecrest Strong parent communica@on from ALL teachers as she We had great communica@on from Ridgecrest, but not much Elementary goes into middle school for the first @me. This was from Kellogg, especially in the beginning. Only 2 of my son's severely lacking for my middle school child. teacher actually contacted the parents too, so if I wanted to see what was expected of him, I had to go onto canvas with him to look. There were no scheduled check-ins with his teachers, some he never saw. He could access them through office hours but he missed all the social connec@ons. I suspect they lost several kids by not paying aDen@on to the SEL needs. Parent Ridgecrest Structure Our child’s teacher was extremely suppor@ve and Elementary responsive - and did the best job possible with the guidelines that were provided. It was clear direc@ves were given about what could not be done and that equitability trumped everything. This was frustra@ng and I fear my child suffered as a result. Addi@onally, having friends whose kids aDend schools in other districts and seeing what was being “delivered†Parent Ridgecrest Structure More structure Elementary Parent Ridgecrest Structure and a more deliberate con@nuum in terms of We honor the science behind this pandemic, and hope the Elementary learning goals and expecta@ons. Our child needs to be school district will as well in terms of decision making about engaged on a higher level than she was during this the health and well being of children. We hope there will be crisis. Face to face, regular mee@ngs, either virtual or support for teachers in new learnings if online school is the actual, would work best. A regular schedule is best. model we start the year with. In terms of equity and concrete feedback, we hope that the district takes a new look at the value of "grades" and works towards a more impac[ul system of feedback that fosters a growth mindset and accounts for the fact that all kids are in a different place in terms of ability and support. Now is your chance to try something new. If the UW can drop SAT requirements, certainly we can look at new ways to grade.

734 Parent Ridgecrest Structure. A weekly learning plan is almost useless. The handling of the distance learning by the school district Elementary My kids need a regimented learning with interac@on was absolutely shameful. You should be ashamed and I hope with teachers and students. One of my children need you feel bad. My children had no structure and no learning speech therapy and the support was abysmal when and the parents were lej to shoulder all of the tasks which school was in session and was completely non-existent were not defined. Also the stance to keep the teachers from during quaran@ne. interac@ng with the students unless under district rules was absolutely horrible. I am looking to either move out of Shoreline or enroll my kids in private school if this health event con@nues. At this rate my children have regressed in their learning and the school has completely failed them and their family. Parent Ridgecrest structured ac@vity - we're having trouble geyng our It was difficult to find assignments, and we frequently felt Elementary student to do unstructured, distance ac@vi@es. We overwhelmed with informa@on. As a result, we mostly just need teachers to keep her accountable because she par@cipated in class zoom mee@ngs and did our own learning isn't as mo@vated by us at home. Our child is an only ac@vi@es at home that were paper based instead of on the child who is extroverted - she needs social ac@vi@es. computer. Parent Ridgecrest Structured lessons. Not Seesaw or once a week 1 hr We need structured distance learning! My child did not Elementary social check-ins. Maybe the zoom sessions could be in connect well in the social zoom check-ins. He needs to learn small groups instead of the whole class. It’s so hard directly from his teacher. He is not engaged with videos in for the teacher to connect to every student during the Seesaw every @me and especially the Shoreline SD videos short 1 hr zooms if the child only has 30 seconds for from people he didn’t know. He just couldn’t focus talk. 10 students per zoom session, scheduling at least with those. 1 session a day would be nice. Since scheduling and equity is an issue, then parents can take some kind of poll or sign up for a specific @me frame that works for them. Online learning would be feasible if there were structured and hands on, distance learning. I would choose that over my child wearing a mask to school every day and just contamina@ng it on a daily basis. My 2nd grader can barely keep it on for 5 minutes without asking to take it off. Parent Ridgecrest Students being safe and healthy. Thank Elementary Parent Ridgecrest Students need live teaching, in person or online fir core Elementary content. We need more focus on math and ELA. We need feedback on assignments and assessments.

735 Parent Ridgecrest Summer programs and availability of schools in the fall. The online learning did not work for my 2nd grader. The Elementary assignments were not meaningful. It was confusing what needed to be accessed and through what systems. The amount of emails I received as a parent was overwhelming and s@ll did not explain the process well. Not all zoom mee@ngs felt organized, some felt like a check-in about nothing. It was not clear as to what extent the patents needed to be involved. It would have been nice to have some Zoom mee@ngs for parents to explain the process or give chance to ask ques@ons. Please please please figure out how to open the schools in the fall. With whatever accommoda@ons and modifica@ons even for a few hours kids need to see other children and their teachers to feel connected. Besides academics, I’m worried about the socio- emo@onal impact this isola@on will have on all students especially the underprivileged families within our community who already needed support. Parent Ridgecrest Teachers are not teaching each class the same. Some See above. Elementary classes have robust engagement with teacher phone calls, visits, etc. I'm preDy dussapointed in my son's kindergarten experience compared to what I hear from other mother's. We do not get weekly assignments, their isn't a weekly plan, and it's beyond frustra@ng to figure out where all the info is (see saw, emails, etc). Third grade is much more organized even though the teacher needed to take a leave of absence for family reasons. Parent Ridgecrest The ability to have a regular, predictable schedule for I'm really hoping that the schools will approach any new rules Elementary my children so I can work. I loved the idea of the or policies that will be reasonable, and allow kids to also get remote school work but during the closure I had to find physical ac@vity and social interac@on with their peers. day@me childcare for my kids so I could con@nue to work. They went to the Y, but were so exhausted at the end of each day it was a challenge to get logged into Seesaw more than 1-2x weekly.

736 Parent Ridgecrest The kids desperately need to aDend in person school Elementary next Fall. Most parents I've talked to are not prepared or trained to take on teaching. It adds great stress and anxiety for us during an already difficult @me. Let families have the freedom to choose an acceptable risk level for themselves. Parent Ridgecrest The kids need to socialize with each other, to keep up Elementary their mental health. We need to find a way for them to do this safely. The kids also need to be academically challenged. Parent Ridgecrest The most important needs at this @me is that if this fall Elementary the school is re-opening, school can come out some regula@on to make sure students, teachers and staff will strictly follow social distancing and other related health safety rules. School will ac@vely be doing the health monitor, such as daily screening, increase the frequency of sani@zing public area, limit the amount of people present in a enclosed space etc. Parent Ridgecrest The most important thing is understanding that each I tried to fill this out as best I could for 1 child who is ADHD Elementary kid is different. Having support for (in my case) 3 (my and has a learning plan to help with his comprehension, a youngest is pre school) different grade levels was second child who really just wants to sing and play with his amazing. And communica@on from both teachers was friends, and a third child that is only 3 years old but because probably the most important thing that I needed this of home school knows a bit more about wri@ng than my year and failed to get consistently from one of them. It other 2 did at their age. I hope that what ever plan you go made it a bit difficult during an already difficult @me. with there is consistency. If you have to consider an AM/PM My boys really just need consistency. split type program to get the class sizes down I hope that you are able to keep families together at the same @me. Thank you. Parent Ridgecrest The safety of my children. I also want to make sure Elementary they are learning what they need to learn for their grade level and not falling behind. Social interac@on is also important.

737 Parent Ridgecrest The two greatest needs are compe@ng with each other Seesaw was remarkable for our 3rd grader- we're so grateful Elementary for priority- safety/wellness/educa@on of our child and for the ability to receive instruc@ons that were both wriDen gaining a second income again. and verbal (and some@mes role-played on video). This offered equity with regard to learning styles. The ability for our child to interact with her teacher and other students was a cri@cal feature that led to success. Finally, the ability for our child to make her work her own by adding individualized/ ar@s@c features made it a format she looked forward to returning to. Thank you to everyone who transi@oned to online learning- this has been difficult for so many reasons. Finding community in teacher apprecia@on week, PE teacher- led field day and in Zoom has made a difference in our lives. TYFAYD! Parent Ridgecrest To just have him stay home next year for at home We would like not a specific teacher but more so a learning Elementary learning un@l Covid is completely under control. We plan or program to be able to navigate at home without live in a high risk home and need to make sure different teachers doing different lessons. everyone stays safe. Parent Ridgecrest To make sure everyone stays healthy and we all There is a dire need for beDer online educators. I understand Elementary succeed as human beings. Making sure those who it is a different tac@c to teachers but at it's core it is very need flexibility can get it so they can s@ll work or do similar. Maybe teaming up with K-12 or connec@ons academy what they need. Being able to hold every student would be a helpful opportunity for both sides to start accountable with some sort of aDendance would help collabora@ng with one another. There are s@ll lots of way to with those who feel like their students are working have study groups and get togethers when warranted. Our harder than others and are being cheated. Having student actually did connec@ons academy for kindergarten more interac@on with the teacher would be great as and if I was as prepared as I am today, he would s@ll be doing well, maybe even more online classrooms where the online school. Lastly, there is no need to risk everyone's students work in front of the teacher and peers. Really health for something that our world of technology can help though, our most important need in our family is to solve with online educa@on. keep our student safe and healthy and be able to provide him the ability to learn in a respectable online environment. At least un@l there is a vaccine or a miracle. Parent Ridgecrest Understaning the developmental and educa@onal goals We look forwarf to having our child aDend. We understand Elementary for our child (1st grader), consistent communica@on that all op@ons, in work, school or life, involve some level of from school/teacher about the game plan for the year. risk. Our feeling is that the benefits of increased normalcy As much consistency as possible. outweigh the risks so long as the "curve" has been adequately "bent".

738 Parent Ridgecrest Vaccine Elementary Parent Ridgecrest We are a working single parent household. Between Elementary trying to coordinate child care, working full @me, and trying to be the best home teacher possible there is just an overwhelming feeling that I am not doing enough for my child. It is ojen difficult amd frustra@ng for me as I feel I am failing amd leyng my child fall behind. Perhaps more considera@on about these types of working families would help. Parent Ridgecrest We just want our child to stay on track with her Elementary reading, wri@ng and math skills Parent Ridgecrest we need educa@onal supplies and hardship support. I thank you for leyng us explain our concern for the fall. Elementary

739 Parent Ridgecrest We need our kids to be able accountable to a teacher We are grateful for the hard work you're doing to get this Elementary directly for doing work. I totally understand that right. Thank you! We feel strongly that expec@ng teachers equity/access issues can make manda@ng assignments to manage social distancing, face masks, and avoiding the for all students a challenge. That being said, in the playground, etc. with very young children is unreasonable - absence of expecta@ons and structure set by the even if it wasn't puyng their own health at risk (which of teacher, the power struggles of doing work at home course it might be). If returning to school involves many of are one of the biggest challenges in our house. I would the social distancing steps we're all becoming familiar with, LOVE it if we could work within a Montessori-type I'd strongly prefer kids return for half-days only. I understand model with individual work plans that children have to there is a complicated price to pay regarding parents report back to the teacher about directly on a weekly returning to work, however classroom teachers should not basis. It strikes me as a great way to incorporate the carry the weight of geyng the economy up and running again unique needs of each family. It can also help with on their shoulders. That would be what is asked of them in differen@a@on. I appreciate the compassion for aDemp@ng to manage kids who are not built to comply with parents, and the understanding that the challenges are these restric@ons. Infrequent/random Zoom mee@ngs have real and different for every household right now. IF become a big struggle in our house (kids are @ring of it and school is en@rely distance learning next year, we will figh@ng a lot) and the different @mes on different days for most likely use a home school model, although we will different family members has become so overwhelming we NOT un-enroll in school. We will most likely have to accidentally miss about half the mee@ngs at this point. If con@nue making use of simple resources that we can there is a Zoom component, I would deeply appreciate a navigate (chapter books & workbooks). It's boring and structure - daily for half an hour at the same, @me for far inferior to tradi@onal in-school learning, but we do example. Once a week for 30 minutes was easy to forget, and not have the capacity in our house to do new and was valuable exclusively for social connec@on to peers in our exci@ng projects, or access different resources each house. We are SO grateful to have been able to make use of week while we both work full @me and navigate my the meal program. While we do not have income insecurity in husband's health issues. I know teachers are hard at our household, we were dealing with major health issues that work figuring out how to deliver content, but in our made the logis@cs of geyng to the grocery store and house that has largely gone to waste because plugging preparing food challenging at @mes. Being able to fall back on into it was too cumbersome. My kids are largely school lunches saved us on many occasions, and made the expected to work independently and we check for kids happy to feel connected to school. There are so many accuracy, or listen to them read aloud when we can fit resources in so many different places, (email, Seesaw, district it in. It makes me sad, but it's where we're at. Any website, google docs, workbooks we've purchased). My assignments that rely on a parent's supervision are favorite was the district resource website. It was always right almost en@rely out of reach for us right now. where I could find it and we could check it any @me and find something appropriate to work on. We were not able to stay plugged in to much school directed learning when it switched ajer spring break. I just didn't have @me to navigate the different sites, apps, docs, etc. so we moved to workbooks.

740 Parent Ridgecrest We really value in-person, teacher instruc@on. If Elementary instruc@on is not able to be in-person, then we would hope for more virtual contact with the teacher. My daughter only had a video class once per week for less than an hour. I also would have appreciated knowing if the teacher was available for some one-on-one support for my student. We struggled with the online assignments because my husband and I both work full @me, so I needed my daughter to be preDy independent with the learning ac@vi@es. While I appreciated the online, video lessons (and the work that went into crea@ng them), I think it also would have been helpful to have a regular one-on-one check in with each student regarding the work, any help required, and general encouragement. Parent Ridgecrest We're both working adults and we have to pay for Just open up. No kids are at risk of dying from covid. Stop Elementary private childcare and ajercare while the school is pretending they are in danger. closed. Our kids are not learning during this @me. My son was in kindergarten this year. He can't read. He can't teach himself, and we don't have @me to teach him ourselves. Parent Ridgecrest What I think this survey misses is the difficulty to find Elementary the @me and energy to actually pursue all the resources and follow through with assignments. We had a two person full-@me working environment with a babysiDer some of the @me and we just didn't have the capacity to sit down and guide them through their assignments. Our kids really need someone to sit with them and help them through their assignments. Overall, the teachers did a great job of organizing content, crea@ng links, videos etc, but we just were never able to make it happen. And unfortunately, I don't know what the solu@on is...we mostly worked out of workbooks or made up games around math, reading etc.

741 Parent Ridgecrest 1. Thank you so much for a) adap@ng to distance learning, Elementary and b) taking care to make sure equity issues were addressed in our district. 2. If we do distance learning next year, the kids absolutely need to have "face to face" (ie. zoom) mee@ngs with their teacher and classmates more than once per week. I feel like there should be a daily check in, at a minimum. Twice per day would be welcome. This will keep the kids focussed, connected, and engaged. Please try to do this! 3. Also, if con@nuing with distance learning, can you provide shoreline students (even elementary schoolers) with email addresses that parents can email? Otherwise, the process was that my kids' teacher emailed me, and I had to get the schedule/info/zoom login info from that email and write it down to give to my child. It would be so much easier to just email it to my child. Or, if the teacher could use email (or use seesaw) to send a message directly to the students every single day, that would be sooooo much easier! 4. I feel strongly that the teachers need to check in with students once per day, not once per week. This can be a quick email in the morning reminding them of their work for the day, and to watch the morning announcement video, etc. 5. Please do not convey important informa@on for parents in the morning announcement videos! I do not watch these videos! These videos are for the students. Please send parents important informa@on directly to their email. 6. Please provide the teachers with training on how to best do distance learning! 7. Please require all kids to do lessons with the school counselor. Ridgecrest) did a fabulous job!

742 Parent Ridgecrest Although I certainly appreciate that this must have been an Elementary extremely challenging semester, the response of the Shoreline School District has seemed extremely scaDershot and not especially coordinated. The central problem seems to be that the overwhelming majority of teachers have no experience delivering instruc@on online, which is of course fairly understandable. However, the district responded in a variety of ways that weren't especially helpful, such as having teachers aDempt to create their own video content and lessons online. Those lessons tended to be in the nature of enrichment ac@vi@es, and they ojen featured confusing and incomplete instruc@ons. As someone who does a fair bit of online instruc@on in higher ed for a living, I think teachers' very limited @me might have been spent if they had 1) worked to become skilled users of OER (open educa@onal resources) rather trying to become content creators; 2) pursued structured professional development around how to use their learning management systems (Seesaw/Canvas). I strongly recommend that the district consider PD and resources offered by organiza@ons such as hDps:// www.qualitymaDers.org. The use of Zoom mee@ngs to provide social/emo@onal connec@ons did seem to work well. I would encourage your instructors to begin using Zoom more extensively to deliver instruc@on. Our on-ground faculty have found that the transi@on from on-ground courses to online synchronous is much easier than the aDemp@ng to deliver instruc@on asynchronously. Zoom could also be used for 1:1 or small-group check-ins and individualiza@on. (Of course, trying to deliver an en@re 6-hour elementary school day on Zoom is probably not a good idea, but a hybrid model that delivers a couple of 1-2 hour lessons per day seems fairly doable.). And Zoom, especially breakout rooms where students are engaging in small-group ac@vi@es and learning from one another, could work fairly well for most secondary courses. I do realize that @me spent preparing teachers for online instruc@on is probably @me not spent planning for the challenging logis@cs of in-person instruc@on and enforcing social distancing. That said, it's fairly clear that the bigger growth area for your teachers is online instruc@on. Modified 743 Parent Ridgecrest I absolutely love Google classroom in many respects (I am Elementary also a teacher in another district) but it is not helpful for parents to keep track of student's assignments. Also I strongly dislike Seesaw (used by my Kindergartener). It is extremely disorganized. Canvas seemed okay for my high schooler but 3 pla[orms was not okay for me! If we are online next year: Since it is my job to support student mo@va@on/work comple@on at home, I need this to be much more straigh[orward. The long weekly plans did not par@cularly help me. I just want to know if the kids did or did not do what they were supposed to do. Parent Ridgecrest I am very very disappointed in the efforts at on-line learning Elementary presented by the Shoreline school district. Not only did they take 4 weeks to even start on-line learning when it did start it was not instruc@on in any sense of the word. For my student, there was no 'teaching' at all. They met once a week for an hour to play games. They met for 1/2 hour a week if students had any ques@ons (That is not even enough @me for one student, let alone a class of 23). The assignments they were given were extremely simple, took maybe an hour a day, and then were not graded. They did not represent the level of instruc@on I expect. On top of that there was no feedback at all from the teachers. No grades, no comments and barely an acknowledgement that assignments were even received. I know other teachers actually met with their students (online) and presented material so I know it was possible and yet they did the absolute minimum. My student is in the highly capable program so he is able to learn quite a bit on his own but I can't imagine what happened to students who were not so lucky. The school district and especially my student's teacher dumped the learning on to me and my wife while we were both working full-@me. I pay taxes so they can actually instruct my kids, not scrape together on-line lessons of dubious quality and then not grade them. It was pathe@c and if they or the school district believe it was adequate they had beDer re-think what they are doing. It did not represent teaching or instruc@on as I understand the term. All it did was fill @me.

744 Parent Ridgecrest I think the communica@on from the school district around Elementary @meline of each stage of this crisis and where our district was at each milestone was completely inadequate and non- transparent. For MONTHS parents had no clue where we were in the stages as a district - and that is for those of us who knew there actually were stages and were trying to follow along. I can't imagine how lost those people were unable to be plugged in enough to know there were stages. I am all for giving "grace" but its June and as off a week and half ago teacher s@ll had no idea how my elementary school child would be graded. I have talked to moms from other districts (big to small) through this and each @me they are shocked at how behind my district is in figuring this stuff out. The fact that our superintendent was so excited to share she was part of the OSPI subcommiDee but there was never a decision or communica@on to parents about grading for elementary level children made me feel like she is completely out of touch or did not care about the students in her district. I don't know why they would have anyone on that commiDee, someone that s@ll hadn't made such important decisions in their own city. It would have been great if the school district had been transparent and made decisions quicker. We have a preDy small district compared to other districts who seem much more nimble and transparent in this @me. I look forward to the next elec@on cycle to ask school board members how they think Superintendent Miner and other administrators did during this @me or would love to hear from them and why they would s@ll support her to be the superintendent of our schools. Thank goodness I had an amazing IEP teacher, gen ed teacher, dean of students, and principal who seemed to be leading the charge of making sure our students and parents felt supported. Our school district at an administra@ve level failed. Parent Ridgecrest I used an app called IXL for my son's home schooling. This Elementary worked best for us. Parent Ridgecrest I wish there was more access to work sheets for my student. Elementary She learns best this way. I had to purchase 8 work books on my own. That was frustra@ng to me.

745 Parent Ridgecrest Instead of wearing masks all day, why can’t each Elementary individual class ‘quaran@ne’ together. eat lunch, recess together? then if one person falls ill, it is just that class taken out. I’m very concerned about the ability to learn with expec@ng elementary aged children to wear masks for 6 whole hours. Parent Ridgecrest Juggling three children, grades k, 1 and 3 this fall, has been Elementary challenging. They are all too young to work independently. We started our own rou@ne in March with workbooks I purchased, journal wri@ng, reading, and Khan Academy. When SeeSaw was launched, we par@cipated in some class lessons too. I like the pla[orm but it was challenging for us on our family laptop as we needed to keep logging out of Google for each child, so we used individual iPads but some@mes we spent more @me trying to figure out how to submit the work than necessary. I think if we do some degree of remote learning in the fall, I would need school laptops for each child in order to be successful. I also think some work needs to be pencil/paper.

746 Parent Ridgecrest My biggest concern is that my oldest son is on a behavioral Elementary plan (not an official 504 or IEP). The school has worked hard to define and put this in place. It was determined my son needs to be able to earn mul@ple breaks during the day, I'm concerned about isolated classrooms (no leaving, lunch in room, same adults and students all day, no library). My son was geyng up to 3 breaks a day, and it was working well. If he's stuck in the same room, with the same adults and children all day, this will be problema@c and cause major behavioral issues. My youngest son was supposed to have speech therapy through pre-school and that didn't happen. I believe his language is improving, but wish his one-on-one therapy could have con@nued. I struggled the most trying to juggle 3 schedules and curriculums. Keeping all 3 engaged at the same @me. Plus increased screen @mes caused unintended consequences. Paper packets didn't keep their aDen@on, but the rushed through their school work on computers to get games and do "fun things". The way we had to log in via Google profile made it so it was impossible to u@lize the child protec@ons offered via Familylink on Chromebook, so my oldest struggled with geyng side tracked and geyng side tracked on YouTube and other apps that I could have locked down, if I didn't need the addi@onal Google profile. Parent Ridgecrest Parents should be able to choose to keep their children home Elementary depending on the health needs of the individual family, such as immunocompromrised, newborn babies, elderly in the home, etc. The school should be able to record when a student progresses faster through 3rd party resources and educa@on websites versus the curriculum provided by teachers. The school should be able to provide the parents with quarterly ways for parents to test their child's progress at home Parent Ridgecrest Please add more zoom instruc@on with students. Once per Elementary week was insufficient. Thank you.

747 Parent Ridgecrest There was a huge gap in the methods that different teachers Elementary used when pos@ng lessons online this Spring. My expecta@on for teachers pos@ng online lessons is that they would be somewhat uniform in the material presented and the methods by which students should complete lessons. Furthermore, teachers were mostly unavailable or unreachable during this Spring. I expect that the teachers are available every day to interact with students, not just once a week. Parent Ridgecrest This survey was difficult to answer as my two children Elementary responded very differently to online learning. For one it was preDy easy. She enjoyed the flexibility to to the work when she wanted and s@ll was mo@vated. For the other doing everything online was horrible! Parent Ridgecrest We used the school lunch services as a solid structure for our Elementary day, and had our our home learning Times structured around that. It helped us stay on schedule and created expecta@ons for our kids. With liDle kids who don’t know how to use computers, the online learning was difficult to navigate. Many fights and meltdowns were experienced. We purchased Work books on Amazon with graded curriculum and had success u@lizing those. It might be useful to look into some of those op@ons to integrate into ongoing curriculum. The printed packets from the school just lacked the pizzaz that the colorful workbooks have. As parents who work from home, having flexibility with expecta@ons is necessary. There are weeks where we can wholeheartedly dive in and sit with our kids at home to help them learn, but then there are weeks where we are super busy and just can’t sit with them to guide them through everything. Parent Ridgecrest We would like to have visibility of classroom assignments and Elementary comple@on. Perhaps through a pla[orm/dashboard for parents to go to independently of our child's account to view requirements, progress, and announcements. Emails tend to get lost or overlooked or there are too many sent to keep up with. We would prefer emails only for escala@ons to avoid email fa@gue.

748 Parent Shorecrest High A consistent message of expecta@ons. A plan for For Spring 2020, there was no clear criteria for expecta@ons. School essen@al courses for moving on a level... mathema@cs We recognize that it's almost impossible to be equitable. It primarily and perhaps World Language where the was stressful to know what should be done by our student. It founda@on is important to progress to next level. was never clear what was expected or required and our student never knew. As a suppor@ve parent it was very unclear what she should be doing. There was so much material pushed out that our student gave up and felt overwhelmed. There is no fault, there are so many emails that are so long and detailed that there is way too much informa@on to process. It should be streamlined and broken down so we don't feel overwhelmed that we are missing cri@cal informa@on. We get several emails per day from up to 6-10 different sources. We can't process that much info when it's not clear if it's an essen@al learning or not. We support you 100% and recognize that there is no manual for this situa@on and appreciate all that you do!!!!!! Parent Shorecrest High 1) Reestablishing a support network. 2) Social and School emo@onal needs due to lack of peer contact.

749 Parent Shorecrest High 1. Remove Superintendent 2. Have school back in This en@re experience was poor. Not the teachers’ fault, this School session 3. Treat people like they can make decisions came from poor leadership, first at the state level then the for themself. 4. Again, remove superintendent and district. Luckily the State Superintendent of Public Instruc@on get a strong leader. is an elected posi@on and this person can be voted out of office. Unfortunately, our district superintendent posi@on is not elected and we cannot vote her out. She should resign immediately. The lack luster requirements for grades was ridiculous, there was no reason students should do assignments. The fact that there was no school at all for 3 weeks shows the superintendent is not capable of making quick decisions to move the district forward. It is disgraceful that the district is so unprepared for classroom disrup@ons considering how many @mes school is cancelled due to inclement weather. Why isn’t the district ever prepared? If this was a private business no one would put up with the poor management. What the superintendent did to the gradua@ng seniors was deplorable. Student names were not even said at the walk through. It was cheap and undignified. The district saved thousands of dollars not having this event at the chosen arena. As long as she remains in a leadership posi@on in this district I will vote “NO” on any levy the district proposes. Parent Shorecrest High 1. Geyng college prep content that will help our School student qualify for college. (Grading standards are an important aspect of this.) 2. Clear and stable expecta@ons for coursework and grading (follow a teaching plan that is laid out in advance). 3. Regular 1 on 1 office hour @me for teachers to help students or answer ques@ons (par@cularly important for online learning). Parent Shorecrest High 1. Safety 2. Deep educa@on School Parent Shorecrest High A "structured school day" as @mes when student is School expected to be logged in but NOT dicta@ng the @mes but saying "2 hours each day" or child can choose @mes or parent can choose @mes but must be logged in X # of hours per day.

750 Parent Shorecrest High A clear plan and a fully flushed out con@ngency plan School that the students are prepared for. Parent Shorecrest High A reliable return to school schedule School Parent Shorecrest High A school laptop, consistent communica@on with School students. Parent Shorecrest High A single process for teachers to make assignments, Given that our district already uses Google for student School clear assignment and due dates - preferably on a accounts, I feel like we needlessly lost @me and opportunity calendaring system, all documents needed for by not immediately switching to Google Hangouts for assignments and class handouts to be available on mee@ngs, instead of Zoom. Teachers holding a 15-30 Canvas (not always the case for all teachers), flexibility minute synchronous class at the regular class @mes would in due dates by semester. Individual check-in have been less disrup@ve to my child’s educa@on than the ins@gated by teachers to really emphasize that they random check-ins and any pre-recorded lectures. care. Parent Shorecrest High A vaccine to fight this virus! I am extremely afraid of my child being exposed to this virus School at school and unknowingly bringing it home and infec@ng me. I am 77 years old and I have every condi@on that they say will make it worse if I come down with this disease. Parent Shorecrest High • Teachers checking in with parents if their students School are not keeping up with their assignments (ex: student hasn’t done homework for weeks) • Teachers not puyng out too much homework that students will most likely never do in the end Parent Shorecrest High Access to the gym, opportuni@es to play/prac@ce In case you could not tell from our answers above, we would School sports, volleyball in par@cular. Some certainty for very much like to see the students, high schoolers at least, plans in the fall. back to school in the fall. At a minimum the students who choose should be allowed to aDend. If you just can't get there, then on-line learning must be structured. Other high schools had their students aDending class on line "full @me" as if they were aDending class this spring. I see no reason why that would not be the case for every high school and high school class and teacher in the state.

751 Parent Shorecrest High Accountability and expecta@ons. Our child did what Children learning independently, self paced does not seem School was minimally expected of him this past year and we reasonable for high school students. Many freshman (our would like the same expecta@ons to be set as if he was son) have not yet developed good study habits, thus they are aDending school in person. S@ll having stuck due dates, not able to manage their @me well, stay organized, or have an lecture, etc. opportunity to exceed expecta@ons. Although we are working from home, we are s@ll working and it is challenging for the onus to be placed solely on students and parents. Parent Shorecrest High Accountability is the only thing that would mo@vate my School student to engage. Once the grades were locked, he required outside mo@va@on to do any work and it was a struggle. If there is no aDendance requirement or grading requirements, there will be very liDle learning. The school was way too soj this year once we went to online learning. He was able to chose easy things like filling out a survey or one sentence answers to ques@ons and that was enough to raise his grade to an A in most classes. PE was a great example. All he had to do was fill out an exercise log once a week. There was absolutely no teaching con@nua@on in that class and the engagement was very limited. Teachers need to be able to hold students to rigorous learning or they will fall even further behind during the upcoming school year. Parent Shorecrest High Actual class instruc@on live zoom lectures. Fully use canvas ( like online college) to reduce too many School emails. Maybe tap in to k-12 curriculum if online is needed in the fall. The structure was too loose Parent Shorecrest High Actual lessons and lectures developed by teachers and School some in class/zoom @me. He quickly sped through Khan Academy, etc and was bored. He didn’t engage much with generic websites or content. Specific assignments, quizzes, etc were most helpful. Parent Shorecrest High Allowing students to see each other - socializa@on. School Parent Shorecrest High An actual curriculum. There was zero online video School learning for my son. All work was “suggested” review. Very liDle informa@on or structure what’s so ever.

752 Parent Shorecrest High As a new student transferred from other country, my School child needs more in-person class/ ac@vity to get used to new school life. Parent Shorecrest High As a Shorecrest high school student my child was rarely We are extremely disappointed that Shorecrest teachers School if ever contacted by the teacher in any mode… Not were not asked to provide ANY instruc@on for our high school email not phone calls not zoom mee@ngs etc. etc. One student. We know that elementary age students received teacher she was only able to connect with via email much more instruc@on and contact from their teachers. We one @me ajer my child sent mul@ple emails. My wonder exactly what were high school teachers doing these student received zero instruc@on from her high school past few months? Especially since any student that had an A teachers. Assignments were posted and she was was told by the teacher to not do any work. This is expected to do them without any instruc@on. When inexcusable. We personally are less concerned about any she asked her teachers about the assignments or details for a plan In or out of the building and more geyng instruc@on she was told by mul@ple teachers to concerned about our child having daily instruc@on either live not do the assignments because she already had an A. or in person. Teachers need to teach. We personally hired an online tutor for math and for science so that our child could have some instruc@on and not be behind for these past three months.High school students need daily instruc@on via live zoom class or in person. High school teachers should be required to have Mul@ple weekly interac@ons with their students. Parent Shorecrest High Assistance for food How will the kids be safe when school begins in the fall? School Parent Shorecrest High At this @me, the children being able to go back to Regarding online learning: I had two highly capable children School school, even with the new restric@on, and developing (7th grader and 9th grader) this past school year. Our rou@nes again is absolutely needed for our children experience with online learning is that it could improve and families. While online learning was a necessary tremendously if there are more uniform approach from each thing this past school year, if at all possible, in person of the teachers. It was really hard for our children to stay on- classrooms are essen@al for our children's learning and task since different teachers were sending assignments all development. different ways (email, Zoom, Canvas) for all different classes. I know that everyone was doing the best they can but I would recommend having a uniform way that the children can access their lessons and assignments to streamline the process. Parent Shorecrest High Athle@cs and school resume as normal as possible. School

753 Parent Shorecrest High Be back to in person learning At the high school level there was liDle to no contact daily/ School weekly with any consistency. A couple of teachers were excellent & some were never heard from. There were not enough videos or Zoom mtgs except for math! Terribly disappoin@ng to hear that other students had weekly interac@ons. Needs to be consistent & record the class lecture or do it live at their regularly scheduled @mes! Parent Shorecrest High Being able to see the teachers face presen@ng an School actual lesson is most important. Whatever zooms happened this year were short and pointless with no actual instruc@on. And only offered on occasion by only one or two of my child’s teachers. What would be most useful are prerecorded videos by the teacher that are teaching skills and/ or lessons that goes with the assignments, that way student can access this when needed and go back for review if needed as well. Parent Shorecrest High Being healthy while learning. School Parent Shorecrest High BeDer communica@on between teacher and parents if School online schooling is to con@nue. It was extremely unfair that certain kids would actually do the homework while others just sated by without trying or puyng in effort. My child never went to the zoom mee@ngs because the teachers never TAUGHT anything. It was basically a discussion between kids who had ques@ons on a assignment - there was never any learning or teaching in the zoom mee@ngs. My child would get her assignments at the beginning of the week and basically taught herself.

754 Parent Shorecrest High BeDer online learning op@ons, especially for classes Previously one of my children did online learning through K12 School like math and science which typically require real Schools and they had an excellent program, great teacher instruc@on to learn (versus classes where independent contact and @mely response to ques@ons, including Skype reading can provide much of the informa@on). sessions and interac@ve LIVE group sessions where students could ask ques@ons and teacher could ask students to write answers on the "board". The classes included audio/visual aspects, independent reading & research to keep them varied. I would like to see the Shoreline School District work with an online provider who has the experience and technology to provide a more varied and structured online curriculum. The school work my student was given from end of March through end of school year was minimal and provided liDle s@mula@on. There was really no teaching involved, simply the handing out of homework assignments. I hope that by the @me the 2020-2021 school year begins the school will have developed much further in order for students to flourish even if all or part of the school year is spent doing distance learning. If there is a ques@on about some students not having internet access or needing extra assistance, funds should be made available so that those students can get access to these. In Shoreline, we consistently vote for school levies and pay a higher tax rate as a result so that our children can get a higher quality educa@on, and the lack of any online learning program prior to the COVID-19 outbreak has shown us a weakness in our system that needs to be shored up quickly. Parent Shorecrest High BeDer tes@ng and contact tracing to bring the spread Athle@cs and the arts are very important. The district needs School of the coronavirus under control. We need federal to find ways to conduct these ac@vi@es in whatever forms are support for this. safe. Blanket cancella@ons should not be an op@on. Parent Shorecrest High Children should be required to wear masks if in person Assignments should be required to be finished and effect School school occurs un@l a vaccine is available to all. grades in the fall in order to keep kids mo@vated to learn and stay on track otherwise, they will fall behind in learning. We do like flexibility in due dates but, all assignments should be required to be completed when online instruc@on is occurring. Parent Shorecrest High Clarity of a plan It cant be a moving target. It needs to have a plan that makes School sense and can be followed.

755 Parent Shorecrest High Classes should not be any less structured than actual It didn't even seem like teachers were doing anything! We School class @me! The district completely failed to provide only had 1 zoom session a week... What the hell... so these adequate teacher-led instruc@on during the free-loading teachers are only working for one hour a week. quaran@ne. Days should be full days of instruc@on, YOU HAVE A JOB! YOU FAILED OUR COMMUNITY! We need with down@me for only normal breaks (ie: Lunch, higher standards for our teachers and the district. There is no Recess, etc). High schoolers should have their normal 6 reason the district couldn't have done more with less... think classes a day.. It is not hard to schedule recurring zoom of all the virtual tutoring that could be done. No child should sessions to start on the hour! It didn't even seem like have fallen behind for any reason. YOU HAVE A teachers were doing anything! We only had 1 zoom RESPONSIBILITY! Tons of schools across the world can figure session a week... What the hell... so these free-loading this out every day, yet you seem to think that this is a hard teachers are only working for one hour a week. YOU mission. No No it's absolutely not, these kids all know how to HAVE A JOB! YOU FAILED OUR COMMUNITY! surf YouTube for 10 hours a day, they are not challenged by this! You as terrible union based poli@cians have taken your eyes off the kids that maDer and care more about YOUR challenges to see that this is simple and easy! GET REAL LEADERSHIP! Parent Shorecrest High Classes taught by teachers. If distance learning, then Wasted half a year of school. Need to be teaching these kids School regular school day schedule via zoom. not being flexible with assignments Teaching by teachers not videos. Parent Shorecrest High Clear assignments and weekly schedule. I review my Thank you for your con@nued efforts School studentʻs assignments by going to the grades page and looking at the due dates and whether the assignments have been submiDed. This is difficult if not all assignments are captured on the grades page or if there are assignments listed on the grades page that are not assignments. Parent Shorecrest High Clear communica@on (communica@on from Kellogg School was not very good in Spring, compared to what we were geyng from Shorecrest) Parent Shorecrest High clear communica@on from the district/school, science- School based response to covid Parent Shorecrest High Clear content lessons and expecta@ons for work that School needs to be done in response to the lesson, such as complete curriculum outlines- like a syllabus with lessons and assignments for the en@re semester for both parents and students to track progress and make sure it is a complete picture.

756 Parent Shorecrest High Clear expecta@ons of required work. Clear provision of This semester was hard. Hw was provided as a learning School educa@onal material prior to giving assignments- and ac@vity - without provision of learning material. There were referenced in hw to refer back to. no daily/weekly check ins. Assignments were op@onal. It was very hard to mo@vate, educate, and complete work without adequate support/teaching. Parent Shorecrest High Clear instruc@ons for student with subject maDer The last few months made me appreciate even more how School resources, assignment expecta@ons and clear due hard it is to teach today’s kids with compe@ng dates. distrac@ons. So thank you to all the hard working teachers. Parent Shorecrest High Clear learning expecta@ons, due dates and graded Learning expecta@ons or lack of was more than frustra@ng. School assignments that maDer to overall grade. Parent Shorecrest High College readiness Con@nuing with rigorous academics Thank you for all you've done!! School socializa@on Parent Shorecrest High Communica@on re the model for school in the fall as School soon as possible Parent Shorecrest High Communica@on was a bit overwhelming especially I would be willing to sign a waiver to assume the risk of School when you have more than one child in the district and exposure if she can aDend in person classes in the fall. She get mul@ple calls and emails. My daughter did not needs to be taught in the classroom. Thank you! have regular Zoom mee@ngs, or Zoom mee@ngs at all for some classes. It was very hard for she to feel connected and mo@vated. Parent Shorecrest High Concrete info regarding how school will be conducted School in the 2020/2021 school year. Parent Shorecrest High Consistent use of the online learning pla[orm to This situa@on sucks. It's hard. I understand. That said, my School deliver curriculum, provide due dates, evaluate work, kids are going to get educated one way or another. If the and provide grades / performance feedback. That's it. school district opts to check out again and just do nothing for Please don't just check out again like you did at the a month, my kids will s@ll get educated. I'll do it myself if I beginning of the pandemic. I'm s@ll furious that the have to (I already did when school support disappeared last ini@al mandate to all the teachers was "Do nothing." @me). That said, given the depth of resources the Shoreline School District has, my expecta@on is that you should be able to deliver curriculum and structure remotely. Parent Shorecrest High Con@nued communica@on. Resend canvas sign on Keep the kids accountable. Should be working for at least 4 School info. hours per day! Parent Shorecrest High Daily classes virtual or in person. School Parent Shorecrest High Daily screening. Kis wear mask all the @me. Daily School cleaning, sani@zing.

757 Parent Shorecrest High Direct interac@on / lessons from their actual teacher - My children and I appreciate the flexible due dates. The School classroom interac@on, not "watch this video - answer policy that grades during this @me couldn't hurt you, only these ques@ons" (especially when it's not created by help, altered their mo@va@on to complete new work and I the teacher). worry affected their understanding of the material. Parent Shorecrest High Educa@on is a priority and needs to be treated that Please make in person classes a priority. The students School way. Finding reasonable ways to keep to CDC deserve the care and aDen@on to their needs during this guidelines can be done to allow for in person teaching uncertain @me. School gives students stability and structure as this has shown to be possible at many factories, which is needed the most right now. businesses, government jobs etc.. school kids need the in person instruc@on, the peer experience and the daily structure to make the learning experience meaningful. A classroom can not be subs@tuted by a screen with inconsistent assignments thrown at them to complete and expect them to fully understand the material in a way that they deserve to have as past students have had offered to them. Parent Shorecrest High Excellent instruc@on. Trained teachers in online We felt did a wonderful job! She’s exemplary School learning. Clear communica@on. and could serve as a mentor and example for other teachers. Due dates are helpful as a mix of strict and flexible. Parent Shorecrest High Extracurricular ac@vi@es and sports to keep my child School engaged in the school and the social outlet needed. Parent Shorecrest High Figuring out how to make things work. One of my kids I appreciate all you do. We were really the first state to face School is lost with remote learning, the other manages just the virus, and our school district took ac@on before the State fine. Clarity in the process would be really vital, did. That certainly saved lives, even if we will never know whatever it is. The teachers/administra@on did not all whose. So thank you very much. always seem to be on the same page, which caused stress for the kids and parents. Believe me, I understand you were facing an impossible challenge thrown at you with no warning. In the fall improved coordina@on and communica@on would be really helpful. Parent Shorecrest High For district-based transi@on program to go forward in School person five days a week.

758 Parent Shorecrest High For my children to have an engaging, structured I found it overwhelming, as an adult, the quan@ty of emails School learning environment that is safe from COVID-19. I fear and informa@on flooding in about home learning. Frankly, I they will pick it up at school and even though I'm couldn't keep up. So I wouldn't dream that my child could. "only" 53, I'm no spring chicken and could be at risk. And the rules kept changing so it was hard to know what was Even worse, we are usually in frequent contact with my what. I'd go back to look at an email to confirm for my child a mom who is 83. My other concern is that due date or rule for home learning, and it was completely neighboring school districts will make completely impossible to find anything due to the sheer quan@ty of different decisions. So with one kid in SPS and on in emails. I strongly suggest that if there is any home learning SSD, I'm actually hoping they are both online for the happening for Shorecrest next year that they get more fall just to be safe. But if one of them is in person and organized about the emails sent home. BeDer than a bunch the other online - then I'm going to be very frustrated of emails, it would be great to have one place on the website because in person provides beDer learning and if one to go for all per@nent informa@on - any rules or due dates. of my kids is going to get exposed to a school full of And maybe even a log showing the date it's posted and what people, much as I don't want it for health reasons, I'd the informa@on is ... then if it gets changed we can scroll back feel like the other district might as well do it too, as the and see that "oh ya, that's what I thought I heard about that one that's in person will just be bringing home germs rule or date, but I see it's been changed now". Addi@onally, from all the kids at that school anyway. Might as well having one child in SPS (Ingraham HS) and one at Shorecrest, both be in person at that point. the difference was extreme in how much and how liDle they connected with their classrooms. My child at SCHS never once had a Zoom class with her classmates and teacher. She never had a conference call with a teacher. The most she had was the op@on to aDend math Zoom calls twice a week (with students from all over the school - different years - but at the same math level) or recorded informa@on from her Spanish teacher. These were good but not enough. I had to take so much @me out of my work day to make sure she was on task, aware of what needed to be done, and how to access it. Whereas my other child at IHS had a completely different experience. In great contrast to SCHS, she was having Zoom classes with her peers she'd been in class with pre-pandemic, was geyng Zoom calls from her teachers checking in on her, and had structure to her day based on when she needed to be in a Zoom class. I also liked seeing her do a Kahoot with the class on Zoom and the teacher engaging them ... so when the answer came up he discussed why the right answer was the right answer and why some people may have chosen the wrong answer - and then he'd go on to the next ques@on and he'd again go through the explana@ons ajer people submiDed their answers. Contrast that to my SCHS child 759 Parent Shorecrest High For my daughter it's important for her to have social School interac@on, if for high school you're looking at remote learning there needs to be virtual classrooms/ lessons that foster interac@on with teachers and in small breakout groups. Parent Shorecrest High For my kids to have the chance for a sense of rou@ne School and normalcy. That includes tradi@onal events that mark various transi@ons even if they need to be held differently. First day of school ac@vi@es etc Very important for incoming freshman class In par@cular, and acknowledgment that they did not get the sense of closure from middle school Parent Shorecrest High for my rising Senior to be able to meet all gradua@on School requirements and get real support and instruc@on from his AP teachers. Parent Shorecrest High For my soon to be 5th grader to have a clear Our soon to be freshman daughter did not like, nor did she School understanding of how to find, access and submit work. have much success with, distance learning. She succeeds To be able to log into zoom mee@ngs without trouble. when in the classroom, while, for the most part, our soon to My son would log in and no one would be in the virtual be junior was successful at distance learning. It was not wai@ng room. He missed a lot of the zoom mee@ngs. easy for us to find the online work for our 4th grader. He would log into Zoom mee@ngs and wait for the teacher and no one would be there. Its frustra@ng when he already struggles with school and we are worried about how far behind this puts him. There needs to be a structured schedule as if they were in a classroom. And clear instruc@ons for parents to access work and help submit completed work. Parent Shorecrest High For our kids and all of you to enjoy your summer! Thank you for everything you are doing to help our kiddos be School successful! It was a challenging few months and we appreciated so much all of the extra @me and work you all did!

760 Parent Shorecrest High For the children to.have challenging work, that requires For distance learning to work it has to have a posi@ve and School them to learn, think, and be present. There was liDle nega@ve affect it the kids do not care. The district needs to challenge in the work given, no new topics covered in hold parents accountable for geyng their kids to do their some classes, and the idea that the work could never work. I also don't think kids will.leave masks on, if they return harm their grades made it all a joke. My children to school nor do I think it's healthy for them to wear a mask par@cipated and learned because I made them. If there for 6 plus hours a day. If masks are required then maybe it's is distance learning again I will supplement the not as safe as we think to return to school. district's work, because it is just not enough and makes me worried about my children being prepared for life ajer school. Parent Shorecrest High For the students to be able to get back on track and Structure is extremely important for most kids, with more School not get further behind or set back their poten@al flexibility as they get to/through high school and prepare for movement through high school and ul@mately, their college, trade school, military, workforce etc. Having and gradua@on. mee@ng requirements not only helps them in the process of learning for the academic part of their life ( doctor, teacher, astronaut, construc@on, service industry etc.) but also in the development of their work ethic and ability to establish, build and maintain rela@onships. This has the added benefit in helping them with personal rela@onships as they learn to coexist and work for themselves and poten@ally a family and understanding the responsibili@es that go hand in hand with being a part of the common goals and good in being part of a family, workplace, neighborhood etc. They need to learn that they will have the ability to choose/control their des@ny or des@na@on, but also that they are responsible for the choices they make and all choices have consequences, not all of them good. Parent Shorecrest High For the virus to be gone. Ha. Short of no more virus, School all the things that are important to my student are difficult to implement given the virus. We hope for fall athle@cs (football), music classes (band), and some normalcy with peers.

761 Parent Shorecrest High Friends and ac@vi@es are vital to my child's success. Super concerned about how these strange learning School Even if they are modified, we need to be crea@ve and environments and reduced progress will effect my child's figure out ways to con@nue to offer as many ability to be compe@@ve in college applica@ons in a couple of opportuni@es for students outside of the classroom. years. We are going to need some crea@ve ideas for community service as well. I am especially concerned how home learning during a poten@al second wave would be even harder on the students during the dead of winter. The lack of physical connec@on and physical ac@vity could be devasta@ng. Mental health check and mental health support for parents will be vital. Parent Shorecrest High Get back to school in some way.... create protocol GET BACK TO SCHOOL IN SOME WAY! School where we can live with this virus instead of shuyng down; it's not going anywhere. Not being considered is the mental health impact of isola@on and online schooling: Mul@ple @mes in the past three months I've had to scrape my child off the sofa with severe depression. Distance learning: Ideally some but not ALL instruc@on. Even with distance learning: CONSISTENCY! Leadership needs to create a plan of consistency wrt this. It's a mess. Some teachers email; some use classroom, some teachers are on top of things and we hear from them all the @me, some we never hear from. Parent Shorecrest High Get back to school, structure for the kids I feel like the shoreline school district is being very School conscien@ous and appreciate their though[ul approach. Parent Shorecrest High GET THE KIDS BACK TO SCHOOL MY SON HAS A 504 PLAN, HOME LEARNING DOES NOT WORK School VERY WELL FOR IT. ALSO HOME LEARNING IS GLITCHY, ASSIGNMENTS CANNOT ALWAYS BE SUBMITTED THE FIRST TIME, ETC Parent Shorecrest High Geyng back to school in person and everything that Overall, I appreciate how the district handled this @me. If School comes with it- rou@ne, interac@ons with peers, quality we can't be together full @me in the fall, I strongly support instruc@on. some kind of modified in person schedule/ hybrid. Being home en@rely is really not good for the students in so many ways.

762 Parent Shorecrest High Geyng my kids out of the house. My daughter is very very delayed. Nothing about the home School learning model applied to her. Nothing. She/we have managed nothing during this @me off. Students with IEP's need an actual Individual learning plan. I understand why that didn't happen but we should not be expected to try to get kids with individual needs to par@cipate in the cookie cuDer/one size fits all plan.

763 Parent Shorecrest High Geyng the kids back in High School is the most School important thing. Let's try to make life (somewhat) normal again. For High School, Social Distancing is not possible in a real classroom, so the issue is, HOW do students go back to school.... The KEY is MASKS, with Hand Washing and Sani@zer as a close second and third. The students in the school must wear masks at all @mes. Teachers lecturing should have audio systems to make their voices heard so they can wear masks, modeling behavior that they expect from the students. My wife is a physician and treated many COVID Pa@ents. Masks, gowns, and face shields worked. If the students comply with mask wearing and constant hand washing / sani@zer, they should be OK. If they are following these guidelines, they should not have to be quaran@ned if someone they have had "passing" contact with does test posi@ve. While surfaces are not thought to be a big spreader, I recommend each student have the ability to wipe down a desk prior to class. Meals will be an issue, and that will have to be figured out. Social Distancing may indeed play a role in ea@ng safely. Adding a large tent (or two) outside the cafeteria at Shorecrest could help. Limited meal service may be needed. Screening at the door for fever is not super useful, since exposures on busses will already have happened, but there has to be an acknowledgement that students NEED TO REPORT any symptoms, BEFORE they come to school. When in doubt, stay home, and get tested. A list of clinics providing rapid tes@ng (like The EvereD Clinic) should be provided to all students. Tes@ng has not been men@oned. I think all students and staff should be tested to COVID and An@bodies before the school year. Staff should be re-tested every one to two weeks. Students should have a weekly random sampling done to monitor spread. The School District should have a plan if an "emergency approval" is issued for a vaccine. I feel there is a dis@nct possibility that poli@cal exigencies might lead to such an 764 Parent Shorecrest High Geyng the students back into a social environment for School their emo@onal health. Parent Shorecrest High Having deadlines with consequences, but some If school is not in-person in fall, then please have some zoom School flexibility when a student has a hardship. There need to mee@ngs or videos created by the teacher. My daughter be clear expecta@ons, with compassion. needs to be taught by the teacher, not from reading and online videos. Parent Shorecrest High He needs structure and more regular contact with You need to get them back into the building. At least for a School teachers and peers. Busy work isn’t worth his @me or por@on of the week. effort. If he could at least be there part of the week I think the remote learning might be more meaningful. But remote learning without instruc@on is not worth much. He will just be checking boxes to graduate. And he needs his peers to stay engaged. I do not fault how it happened this spring but if next year is a repeat it will be a big disappointment and frankly, a waste of @me. Parent Shorecrest High Health and safety. Increase efforts to end racism. Please refrain from calling remote learning and remote School schoolwork op@onal. It should be required. That is what we struggled with the most. My kids knew they didn’t have to do anything. As a parent, I understand that every family has different needs, but what ended up being communicated was so unclear and vague that it nega@vely impacted many. If families need flexibility and/or support that can be offered and communicated, while s@ll providing clear guidance for all students to engage and be required. Thanks. Parent Shorecrest High Health Safety Poten@al Hybrid situa@on where if Would prefer an online op@on for this fall, and poten@ally School student prefers to do 100 percent online, then that will beyond. be available for the en@re school year (high school level) Parent Shorecrest High Helping make sure that my daughter graduates from I want to thank the teachers who really tried with my School high school. daughter. She wasn’t super recep@ve, partly because there were no scheduled class @mes. Those would really help. Parent Shorecrest High Her's are socializa@on. Our are knowing a plan for next It would be great to find a way to support classes that have School year. hands on things like engineering, art, etc. to have plans for being able to distribute things to do projects. Our daughter missed out on the last two projects in engineering and some essen@al learning/skill building.

765 Parent Shorecrest High High level academic challenge We will follow Health Department guidelines School Parent Shorecrest High High school learners need to have more flexibility in If distance learning occurs again, strict "vaca@ons" need to be School terms of due dates. Having all teachers push out enforced (with no assignments) to allow students and parents assignments every Monday with a short turnaround to actually take a break. caused a lot of stress (due at the end of the week). During regular school, the assignments weren't always stacked by week, but staggered depending on the class. As classes become more challenging in high school, it would be appropriate if these students have access to teachers. Understandably, though, parents with younger children have a greater need for their kids to be in physical school to allow them to work. Parent Shorecrest High High schooler that needs to prepare for college, and My children have very different needs, so this survey was School special needs student who is best taught by the hard to answer for them both. experts. Parent Shorecrest High Higher expecta@ons and accountability to learning. School More live teacher interac@on - either virtually or in person. Parent Shorecrest High I am concerned because my husband is in the high-risk School group for COVID. Our family is very safe, but I'm worried that sending my kids to school that they'll bring home something. On the other-hand, the mental health aspect of kids not being able to interact with friends is huge.

766 Parent Shorecrest High I am very concerned about my child's learning and I School feel that he got very liDle out of the online learning that occurred this past semester. It was difficult to find out where the lessons and assignments were located as different teachers used different methods. It was confusing and disorganized. The homework should be required and it should be graded and students should be help accountable if they don't complete the work. We are very hopeful that my son will be able to return to school in the fall as the online experience was very disappoin@ng. We understand the health concerns but there are major costs in terms of these children's educa@on with cancelling school. Please make every effort to resume in person school in the fall. Parent Shorecrest High I believe it is important that all teachers teach, not just Very disappointed that all the teachers could not deliver School assign work which was more the norm. I understand video lectures on the topics they were being taught. This that perhaps not everyone can have access to all the does not mean they had to be LIVE video lectures. Recorded technology, but that should not dictate how classroom video lectures are just as good. Then provide office hours for educa@on is conducted for all. students to follow up with addi@onal ques@ons for clarifica@on. I understand that there are external circumstances but I feel this is VERY important. Just providing assignments and asking the students to read books, ar@cles, etc is not the solu@on. I expect the teachers to teach, not just assign. Parent Shorecrest High I believe most important needs at this @me are School structure and interac@on with classmates.

767 Parent Shorecrest High I believe that most kids - including my child - need the My daughter had a really hard @me mo@va@ng herself to do School structure of in-person schooling. I would like to see schoolwork during the shutdown. She went into it with strict safety measures put in place and students straight As and was not mo@vated to do the assignments aDending school as regularly as possible. A split or because not doing them would not affect her grade. If there modified schedule would work for us as well. If home- is a home component in the Fall, we definitely need structure based learning is required, I would like to see and accountability from the teachers and school in order for mandatory aDendance for Zoom classes. My daughter her to con@nue to be a successful student. will be a senior and wants her senior year experiences to be as normal as possible. She is a drama/musical theatre student, and the loss of that community and ajer-school ac@vity has been so sad; it would be great if the district could find a way to make such ajer- school ac@vi@es possible as well. Parent Shorecrest High I don't feel my daughter received enough school work School during this @me. Her classes should have been done via zoom. Parent Shorecrest High I feel like this is an opportunity to rethink educa@on. Bless you all, this is crazy!! School Less teaching for the test and more home learning. As a working parent, I have concerns about geyng my kids to par@cipate but if it is an expecta@on, they’ll just have to do it

768 Parent Shorecrest High I have two students aDending Shorecrest next year. My Since I do have a student who will be a junior next year I School oldest son, who will be a junior next year, thrived in the wonder if the Running Start program might be a good op@on distance learning environment. His stress levels and for him in case we are not able to go back to school in anxiety decreased significantly from where they had person? been during the school year and his grades went up. I could see a combina@on of distance and at home learning working really well for him. I also think his being able to get more sleep was very helpful to his mental health. So for him I would like to see a liDle more flexibility in his school schedule, maybe a later start to his day. I would also like to see less academic pressure, while s@ll providing some form of in person learning and opportunity to connect with other students. My other son will be a Freshman next year. He learns and does his work beDer in a classroom seyng with other people around. He had a very hard @me working on his own so I would ojen have to work with him. I think he would prefer and do much beDer with in person learning, but I could also see a combina@on working for him. Maybe a shorter in person school day and class / homework being completed on line from home? Since both of my students are high school level they do not require as much supervision from me, so at home learning is a viable op@on for us. However I do think both of them need socializa@on and to connect with both students and staff in person at least a few @mes a week. Parent Shorecrest High I hope school will resume in the fall. School

769 Parent Shorecrest High I hope we can find a way for students to both be in- It felt like teachers figured out what was a reasonable School person with teachers at least once a week, and for amount of work to ask students to do ajer a few weeks. The students to be together in a safe way, even if it is in first 3-4 weeks we saw a wide range of assignments and @me small groups. Teenagers need social @me, and that has needed to complete them, from 15 minutes to over an hour. been difficult, of course. I also think my son needs to If we are s@ll online, I hope that teachers will calibrate with see teachers in-person. He did not stay on top of his each other, understanding that students are geyng mul@ple work at home very well without interven@on from assignments from mul@ple teachers and try to balance it all parents. Having a regular in-person check-in with a out. Overall I think the Shorecrest teachers did an amazing teacher would give him that accountability and job puyng together meaningful lessons that kept my son connec@on that is so important. He needs some in- learning, but the @me spent varied widely from class to class. person contact with friends and teachers to do well in The Zoom class @mes, mostly for open-ended office hours, school. Having lessons posted at the beginning of the were not very successful with him. He didn't see the point, week with some flexibility of due dates was helpful this though he was missing the connec@on with teachers and spring, but my son needs more instruc@on and support students, he didn't want to go if he didn't have a purpose. I in how to plan out his at-home work @mes. So if we would love if there was a purpose so that students felt the are beginning the year at home, or expect to go to need to meet online, because I think they need that home learning at some point in the year, I would love connec@on, even if it is just online. organized for some @me to be spent at the beginning of the year master classes, and that was one Zoom session my son teaching students how to organize and plan how to do aDended because he was learning about his instrument from work at home. There is a big difference when this is an expert. The elementary Zoom classes ojen had a theme, taught by teachers rather than parents! or a game they would play, or a special visitor, to encourage students to aDend, beyond talking about schoolwork. Maybe high school teachers could think about what would encourage kids to aDend and connect? Thank you for all the work that was done this spring, so far beyond what anyone an@cipated, to keep our kids learning and connected. Parent Shorecrest High I need my son to go back to school. Home learning was I think there should be a half day model for elementary - half School a struggle, and I believe kids learn best in the the kids in the a.m. and half in the p.m. every day. I think classroom. there should be a rota@ng schedule for middle school and high school (group A goes to school Monday and Thursday, and group B goes on Tuesday and Friday), leaving Wednesday as a day for teachers to produce home-learning or tradi@onal homework assignments.

770 Parent Shorecrest High I need to know he's actually doing work. I didn't get I appreciated the on line/in person courses but there were School much feedback from his teachers about what classes only 2. There were no daily @me frames to help him keep a were doing which I would expect in a normal that. But schedule. I realize that was probably a huge hassle for im concerned he didn't do the majority of his work teachers but even a check in once a week would have been because I didn't know what it was and many of his preferable to nothing. teachers did not communicate with me, just him. Not that I need to be in constant contact with teachers but a schedule of what was happening for the week would have helped me make sure he was geyng everything done and turned in. In the case of one teacher, I didn't get an email re: assignment due date un@l AFTER the date assignments were due. Literally nothing I could do to help there. Parent Shorecrest High I need to know the public health guidelines are being School followed strictly and without excep@on in order for me to feel safe. Beyond safety, my high schooler needs her friends on some level. It wouldn't need to be going to school every day, all day. But some kind of social interac@on and ability to be out of the house on a regular basis with friends is the most important need.

771 Parent Shorecrest High I recognize this @me is unprecedented and there is no I feel like the principal, , has done a great job of School manual about how to go about doing this. However, I communica@ng with the parents and community. She has would have expected the Shoreline school district to be had the HARDEST year possible for a principal and she has far beDer prepared for this for as much of a focus the handled herself with grace, humor, and compassion for her district has placed on technology investment over the students. The performance of her teacher's this year ajer last 10+ years. I felt the overall communica@on was COVID is frustra@ng as I don't think they did her leadership poor from the outset about what to do - it took the jus@ce. I hope the summer will give everyone @me to district a very long @me to create a formal plan with reflect and plan accordingly to allow students the best and materials and even then - it was not great. Of my son's safest opportunity to further their growth and learning. seven classes he had this year - very few of them put Also, it would be helpful if teachers email a week plan at the forth consistent effort to ensure the students had start of the week to families and students so that way we are meaningful work and the availability to interact with able to keep track of what is occurring and allow for their teacher in a scholas@c way. In general, the lack of checking-in, rather than some pos@ng assignments on teacher engagement during this was appalling. I do Canvas, some emailing, and some emailing through canvas - appreciate the restric@ons the district had as not all there has to be consistency for parents and students. students have equitable access to resources to support Thank you for offering this survey. their learning, however, I feel like more could have been done in the ways of acquiring those resources through the community as there was an abundance of companies and community members willing to help. I say this because what is important to me is that my son's high school educa@on is able to con@nue in some format in a consistent and meaningful way. If students are unable to aDend in person - then the teacher's should have teacher led instruc@on on a set schedule. Perhaps divide the students up into groups no larger than 10 or 15 so that the teacher is able to feel like they have some sort of connec@on with the students. Maybe the schedule looks like this: Mondays and Wednesdays AM: Math and English Teachers hold 60 Min instruc@on with their students online Mondays and Wednesdays PM: Science and Social Studies teachers hold 45 Min break-out sessions to focus on ques@ons/work that has been assigned Tuesdays and Thursday AM: Math and Science teachers hold 45 min break-out sessions to focus on ques@ons/work that has been assigned. Tuesday and Thursday PM: Science and Social Studies teachers hold 60 min instruc@on with their students online. Friday mornings: Arts and music 772 Parent Shorecrest High I think all students need to go back to in-person School learning, in some form or another, ie, alternate days, shortened days, altered schedule, etc. I do not think that only elementary aged students need in-person learning. In addi@on, students need structure and consistency as well as accountability. Parent Shorecrest High I think athle@cs and extracurricular ac@vi@es are I think the Shoreline district has done a very good job of School important for both emo@onal and physical health, so providing support for students and families in this crazy new hopefully there can be some sort of athle@cs for world. Thanks for caring about all of us! students in the next school year. Parent Shorecrest High I think for home learning there needed to be more live Ul@mately if students go back to school in the fall I hope all School zoom type calls as a classroom with the teacher. The precau@ons are made. Masks, beDer ability to wash hands, flexibility of due dates and not allowing grades to go distancing, etc. I know this is so hard for them to be home lower was nice, but the lack of structure around instead of with their friends and with the normalcy of school. learning sessions was hard for my student. He needs a I do think closing schools in March was absolutely the right liDle more forced face@me with teachers (and choice and similar decisions should be made in fall with classmates) to keep him going down the right path. If it safety as the top priority. was the beginning of the year and he was learning a new subject it would have been a lot harder for him. I think a mix of scheduling and flexibility would be good. I know that is a tall order though. I did appreciate the focus on support our students through this year though. It was nice to see how much the teachers wanted to make sure everyone was doing well and able to get their grades up.

773 Parent Shorecrest High I think in-person teaching is essen@al to achieve Please go back to in-person learning. My kid did virtually School significant learning. NOTHING ajer in-person classes stopped. My kid is privileged and will do fine over the long term. But kids who are less privileged are losing out and I fear that without in-person teaching many kids will fall behind and never catch up. For classes, I think you can keep kids in smallish groups for several weeks at a @me, and limit mixing between groups. Passing someone in the hall won't pass Covid unless the sick person coughs in the face of other people. Being in a classroom with a sick person for 6 hours has a good chance of transmiyng the disease. See the current literature on the dose required to make someone sick. For references to actual scien@fic studies see this link to a post by a professor at U Mass Amherst, Erin Bromage: hDps:// www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid- them Consider having kids do required classes this fall so that one classroom of kids can be together all day for several weeks, so they don't mix with other kids. Instead of doing 6 classes at a @me a @me for a semester, consider having each student do only two classes for then number of weeks that equals 1/3 of a regular semester, and have those two classes be with the same other kids. With this method, you can have kids take a variety of classes, and at the same limit mixing and transmission of disease. When someone in a group gets sick (and some people WILL get sick) then you only need to move that group to on-line classes for 10-14 days (personally, I think 10 days is enough to catch almost all cases and you don't need 14 days). If you can keep groups of kids 15' apart in classrooms, consider having students in social groups of 4-6 students, and in the classroom keep these small groups at least 15' apart. If you can only keep the groups 6' apart, skip it. 6' won't maDer if the kids are in the same room for several hours at a @me, with limited ven@la@on! For evidence on why 6' is not enough for hours of contact indoors see hDps:// wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/ar@cle/26/7/20-0764_ar@cle Do whatever you can to increase ven@la@on, even if it drama@cally increases your hea@ng bill! Open the windows and run fans!!! Have kids wear coats! Outdoor ac@vi@es are low risk. Feel free to do outdoor ac@vi@es. 774 Parent Shorecrest High I think we did the best we could but neither of my I hope we can figure something out to get the kids back in School children enjoyed or were engaged in the lessons. I class. think we need to get them back in a classroom to make it work whether is be half students one day, half the other but I think the kids need the structure. Parent Shorecrest High I want my child in school everyday. Learning about life, What are the sta@s@cs surrounding kids passing the virus to School being a kid, interac@ng with other adults and peers, one another- or bringing it home to their families? Are playing sports, and geyng prepared for college/adult Students tes@ng posi@ve, geyng sick, passing it to their life. family members? Where are the numbers on that to support kids NOT returning to school. What will be the long term effects of kids not being at school? Is being in school more harmful/dangerous than kids gathering outside of school in groups because they want to see each other and will naturally gravitate towards one another? But yet without the adult supervision reminding them to wash hands/distance/ wear masks. As we “open upâ€

775 Parent Shorecrest High I want my son to be safe if he returns to school in- School person. I don’t feel that will be possible at this @me though, so is it worth it to send kids back when we really don’t know if it will be safe? Online learning would run smoother if the teachers sent emails to the parents as well as the students instead of just the students so we can be beDer included in their at home studies. Parents can support their students beDer when the communica@on is good throughout the school year. Also it helps parents who are going back to work or are back at work to receive an email or a phone call from a teacher if an assignment or quiz is coming up as a reminder. I am saddened that some teachers ) thought it would be a good idea to assign more than enough homework during the shut down. That causes not only students stress but parents as well. What happened was my son lost interest in that class because he was overwhelmed. My sons teacher had great communica@on with students and made learning run smoothly and kept my son interested. The inconsistency in grading over the shut down also caused myself as a parent unnecessary stress. The school needs to be straight forward at the beginning because it is confusing to everyone if it is not. I thought it was odd that my sons academic counselor showed up at our house over the shut down with no phone call or email to myself or my son asking if she could come by to give a gij to my son. We were not home at the @me. It blows my mind that she did that, it was out of line on so many levels. came to other students houses as well. We will accept the gij at school or she can mail it but showing up unannounced during a pandemic, absolutely not! Actually, no teacher or counselor should be showing up at students houses unless they are invited, it is weird and intrusive. I prefer my son to have a different and she caused me unnecessary stress many @mes by calling and emailing me. For example; on the day of 776 Parent Shorecrest High I want to make sure the School Districts makes My child is older and self mo@vated but she learnt very well School decisions based on science and data and not pressure in the last few months and the only things that are lacking are from societal factors. (A) face to face social interac@ons with her peers, (B) classes that require in person learning such as language and music, and (C) extracurricular ac@vi@es, such as drama Parent Shorecrest High I will have a new middle schooler; my biggest concern Please consider having kids show up to class every day, even School is how she will be oriented and supported to make this if it is half the student body in the AM, and a half in the PM. transi@on. All kids need structure and this was absent They need to have structure imposed on them because they for the most part during the last school year. My older are not really capable of imposing it on themselves. And kids both mentally checked out of at least one class many families rely on those school meals so no student and it took some pressure to get them to re-engage. should have to miss out. If the bus system is crowded, and I My oldest is a senior next year so I am worried that we have to drive my kids to school at least they are going to be at won't have support in applying for colleges and wri@ng Kellogg and Shorecrest and I would be willing to give up their essays. I think the middle two are most worried about seats on the bus. sports and friends. All four need social interac@on as I can see their mental health suffering. I am trying to arrange some outside/socially distanced ac@vity for them because their suffering is quiet but real. To me, some risk of contagion is okay if they can see friends and make meaningful connec@ons with teachers. I really struggle with the school-issued Chromebooks because our internet filter (Circle) does not allow them onto some of the websites that teachers link to. When I turned off the filter, my youngest accessed pornography. I feel so frustrated like I can't win with technology. They need supervision all the @me and I am a single parent who needs to work full @me. The biggest frustra@on I have is that the district s@ll wants to proceed with shorter days on Wednesdays. This does not lend to structure and predictability, especially now. I feel like my kids are not geyng a complete public educa@on because their class @me is so minimal. I feel a lot of anger.

777 Parent Shorecrest High I wonder if the district or high school has considered I have a middle school student in the SPS system in addi@on School offering organiza@on and @me management resources to a high school student. Communica@on from the district for students and families in this new virtual learning and Shorecrest High School has been excellent. I hesitate environment. Staying on track and managing Zoom saying this, but Shoreline district provided more direct, @mes and homework with a clear, structured program succinct, and clear (and ac@onable) communica@on than the and calendaring system has been a challenge for my SPS district. Thank you! Also, while teachers have individual student. Before home learning began, students' @me teaching styles, which I think is important, I do think and schedules were clearly outlined for and provided Shorecrest should provide clear expecta@ons and guidelines to them. They knew where to go and at what @me, for tools teachers are to be using, and they should be used whether school bell @mes (including when to eat), ajer across all instruc@on - consistency in delivery so students also school ac@vi@es, and possibly work start and end know what to expect and there isn't a lot of variance across @mes. It took me years into adulthood to learn to their classes. Essen@ally, a school-wide delivery system (use manage my professional workload and juggle of Zooms, videos, etc.) could be implemented. mee@ngs, as well as learn to organize my family's schedules and commitments. I think learning how to organize @me that is not as structured is valuable, and necessary and needed tool for students success today and in the future. If Home Learning con@nues in the fall, I'd like to see more required Zooms from all the teachers. Some of my students teachers offered regular Zooms (especially in the beginning of Home Learning) while I know one Honors class with rigorous instruc@on did not. My child is a strong student and par@cipated in only one of the Zooms offered. Personally, I believe all students, including mine, would have gained from par@cipa@ng in more. This will most likely only happen if Zooms are required. I believe teacher instruc@on is vitally important to students understanding of the course materials. A student can read an ar@cle or instruc@ons, but learning comes primarily through interac@ons and interpersonal peer and teacher rela@onships, Parent Shorecrest High I would like students to aDend shorecrest high school Thanks for your efforts this year! Appreciate all the staff! I School in the fall in person. Masks required to move to and did want to share I felt teachers were not on the same page from class and then social distancing in classrooms. when it came to assignments and grades. The administra@on Somedays on line as well as needed. Change was sending reassuring emails that said do not worry about schedule to have students u@lize the commons and grades.. while some teachers, emailed and sent canvas other areas like the gym for instruc@on. no@ces about turning in work and please turn it in..

778 Parent Shorecrest High I would like the next school year to have more regularly School scheduled class instruc@on for my student. I understand that this year was a total new experience for everyone and that it wasn’t possible to arrange for class instruc@on on such short no@ce. And while I appreciated the leniency that was given to the students to in regard to turning in assignments, but I’d like that to be not the case going forward. If the students need to con@nue home learning, it would be great if there were weekly schedule virtual Classrooms where at a minimum the students could ask ques@ons about the learning assignments. I had to set up zoom mee@ngs with my student’s math teacher so she could get an understanding of what was being taught. This was extremely helpful and alleviated a lot of the stress and confusion my student had over math. But that was the only virtual learning she received. Everything else was via e-mail and while it was ok, there was definitely added stress and confusion around what they were supposed to be doing. If each class was able to provide some sort of virtual learning period or at the very least an “open office hours” where students could meet to ask ques@ons on a weekly basis, that would help a great deal Parent Shorecrest High I would like to have social distancing, wearing masks, School open sani@zing, and weekly update informa@on. Parent Shorecrest High I would like to know if my son will need to pursue The school is doing great sharing informa@on about school School running start, anxious about requirements. Counselor learning. had not reach out to him. Parent Shorecrest High I would like to know what the plan is for different Thank you for all of your hard work! School scenarios that we may find ourselves in because of Covid.

779 Parent Shorecrest High I would like to see a hybrid of home learning with one My daughter will be a senior next year. She handled the School (or max two) day on-campus. Perhaps stagger the on- home learning preDy well. Please con@nue to have the campus aDendance days. Class @me could be used to assignments be clear - All assignments listed clearly in answer ques@ons, have presenta@ons or to work in Canvas. - All assignments show a clear due date. - Con@nue small groups. Tests should be taken at home because to provide teacher feedback. - Con@nue with the weekly PE the kids are beDer able to focus at home and tes@ng log - it is a great way to keep kids moving. I would like to see should not take away from the valuable learning from the annual addressed early so that everyone can be teacher @me. I expect it would result in smaller class represented. As a first @me parent of a senior, I would like sizes and fewer people in the hallways between to be included so that we don't miss out on any of the periods. Ideally, it would be great to incorporate fes@vi@es. student preference so they could possibly aDend on the same day with a couple of friends. I expect that the schools would perform extra cleaning of high touch areas. I would expect students will be able to carry their own water boDles and refill at the no-touch fountains. Parent Shorecrest High IEP support. In class learning, ability to par@cipate in Let not the governor/ OSPI dictate our children’s School sport, specifically girls swim in fall. Assist with college educa@on we are tax payers let us decide if we want to risk applica@ons Be prepared to graduate our child going to school without a vaccine. Last spring was a nightmare very unfair. Sport was robbed from our kids. We were meant to slow spread not stop it but buy @me fir hospitals to prepare. They’re prepared! Give them Masks try to distance, wash and hand sani@zer. Move on! If parents are not ready to send their kids to school, Provide alterna@ve. Protect our vulnerable by having alterna@ves in place that exceed last springs assignments through canvas. Set up zoom to include at home op@ons to par@cipate with class in real @me. Might need to have a 2nd teacher or para educator/ asst to adapt to alternate issues ie extra support for asst with live zoom classes to answer ques@ons and

780 Parent Shorecrest High If home learning is necessary for the fall I believe a I believe the school district and the teachers did the best that School comprehensive district-wide home learning strategy they could under the circumstances, but it was extremely should occur, rather than leaving it up to the individual difficult to determine what was being taught, what teachers. assignments were due, and when and just the overall schedule. Every teacher had their own formula for using canvas and it was extremely confusing for children and parents to figure out. Comprehensive guidelines for teachers on how to use canvas would probably be very helpful for them as well as us! Parent Shorecrest High If school opens this fall my child will need TOO MUCH HOMEWORK... With online learning I some of School transporta@on, I will not be able to take her to school. the class assignments required too much @me to review the Keep the "do no harm" policy where the grade can only materials and then do the assignment. With 6 classes she is go up if schools don't open. Online learning is too doing school work all day just to keep up, and skipping challenging for the workload my child had, she was assignments in classes she had high grades in to do the lower only able to keep up by priori@zing assignments. If the grade assignments. Recorded video lectures that they can grades can go down there needs to be less work or a access any @me or Zoom are beDer than asking a child to beDer delivery system with instructors actually teach material to themselves. teaching, not just giving work and expec@ng the students to teach themselves. Parent Shorecrest High If there is distance learning again then set @mes for live School classes or pre-recorded classes with an online ques@on period where teachers actually respond directly to ques@ons kids have. Parent Shorecrest High If there is distance learning this fall- I think the most I think it's important that the district applies as much funding School important piece is that we try to recreate the school as possible to making sure we can easily distance learn and day as closely as possible. What if the teachers all make the digital transforma@on. I know this is difficult, I remain in their classrooms and teach their scheduled appreciate you sending out the survey and all of your efforts. classes at the same @me and day as normal via Zoom. ADendance is taken Exams are taken via Zoom in class homework @me is given via Zoom essen@ally everything is the same so the kids have a structured day Maybe the kids that do not have laptops are allowed to aDend somehow or those are the kids that are issued computers/hot spots

781 Parent Shorecrest High If there is going to be on-line learning in the fall, which Extremely important to invest and prepare for on-line School is highly likely, then planning needs to be done in learning for fall 2020! Please make it excellent! advance to make it excellent. My child considered the on-line work for this past year a "joke" for most classes. I know in the long term that my child will be OK. However, I am extremely concerned for other children that may never catch up or recover from the Corona Year. Parent Shorecrest High If we are doing it online learning next year, there needs I have an intense amount if respect and u am very grateful for School to be more instruc@on. It felt like this year it was online all you did you make this year work. Thank you! homework, and it was assigned and you just had to do it. Not a lot of discussion or directIon. Parent Shorecrest High In general, like most parents I think, I'm hoping that When my son entered Shorecrest, he ini@ally had a few School whatever form school takes in the fall, there's a lot challenges with the high school coursework so we really more structure and organiza@on. I completely focused on Canvas, comple@ng assignments, etc. And it was understand that we weren't prepared for this but going great un@l the shutdown. The more structure and hopefully the summer gives the district enough @me to expecta@ons we can have next fall, no maDer if the kids are come up with some plans to cover various @ school or @ home, the beDer IMO. It's just really con@ngencies and do our best to reconnect our kids impossible to mo@vate your kid to do his best when there's with their teachers, friends, and classes. no grade associated with it. I tried for a while to get him to focus on "doing well for its own sake," but I guess that makes more sense to a parent than a high-schooler. And thanks for all the hard work you all did over the past few months. Your jobs are tough on the best of days and I really appreciated how teachers poured their hearts and souls into making the best of a really dark @me. Thank you!!! Parent Shorecrest High In look person, appropriate high school educa@on for Distance learning was poor. I do not feel the district did an School my child. adequate or appropriate job in any way. I pay a high amount of rent to live in this school district and I expected beDer. If there is no in person school, I will find a beDer online op@on and disenroll him from the district. Parent Shorecrest High In person instruc@on and social @me with friends. I appreciate your seeking input and know we are all working School Clear structure and guidance for any at-home work. together to do the best for our kids! Teacher-parent communica@on for student not performing as expected.

782 Parent Shorecrest High In -person instruc@on for math and languages has to be My student really learned nothing and like others, will be School a minimum. Teachers need to teach their students behind. In-person instruc@on and in-person interac@on to ask with zoom or video but having one teacher do a video ques@ons and get help is essen@al. but each teacher doing a different assignment is crazy. Need every teacher to use one method of tracking what is due when: i.e all use calendar etc. Make it so it is clear where to find things, too much frustra@on on where to find things, how to turn them in etc. Parent Shorecrest High In person instruc@on on campus with other students Yes, there are mul@ple learning, social and financial School including ac@vi@es within and ajer school. This is the opportuni@es offered for students of color (black and brown), model that we pay for and expect and what sta@s@cally but other colored kids are excluded from these ac@vi@es and works. Text books and lessons in analog format-not op@ons. When will the segrega@on stop within our schools? just digital learning resources. Also, there is not an equal offering of ac@vi@es and opportuni@es for boys. The discrimina@on is alarming and does not represent equality in any way. Parent Shorecrest High In person instruc@on. We struggled to help him and School keep up. He worked from 8 am - 8pm most days to complete work Parent Shorecrest High In person learning Child is on IEp School Parent Shorecrest High In person learning. The teachers made great effort. But School they are not trained or equipped for online teaching. Also, many elec@ves cannot be taught remotely. Elec@ves are very important especially in high school. Parent Shorecrest High In person with small classes and half @me aDendance School would work well for us Zoom classes would be a second choice. Assignments but no class (not even virtual) did not work.

783 Parent Shorecrest High In-person instruc@on for: math, science & band. Most How will the school counseling & career center change their School other classes can be done online. Would like to see a approach to SAT/ACT test prep now that a major state school college lecture/sec@on style of course done online, is no longer asking for such exam scores? What does Running with 2 days of lecture, 2 days of sec@on, and a day Start now look like for those who want to plan for that track? dedicated to comple@ng assignments. Or, have T/Th as heavier load of in-person classes at 50% school capacity (students at school 1 day per week) and M/W/ F as online lecture/learning days. My student is also planning classes for Running Start the following year, and her counselor hasn't reached out to help support or engage them. Parent Shorecrest High Instruc@on and professional support for academic School progress Social interac@on with peers Parent Shorecrest High Insuring a safe inperson learning. Educa@on should be Home learning that was offered during school closure was School more essen@al than business. extremely disappoin@ng. There were no online teaching, but rather a list of tasks to complete. If the school district is going to call something online learning then there should be teaching online. We kept wai@ng one week ajer the other for real classes to take place online, but the school ended with the school district considering pos@ng a list of homework and some links to Khan academy videos as a teaching. If any form of online teaching is to happen it has to be real. Abandoning the children educa@on is unacceptable. Parent Shorecrest High It feels like the kids really did not get any real School educa@on the second half of the school year. Parent Shorecrest High It is difficult to determine. So much uncertainty. A The best of luck. Everyone tried so hard to make this work. As School structured plan is crucial. parents, we want to help as much as possible. Children thrive on structure and schedule. That is super important; however, the safety of staff and students is paramount. Let’s hope for the best. Thank you for all your efforts!

784 Parent Shorecrest High It is improbable that students will be able to return to Plan for the worst case. Communicate the plan. School school this fall. The district should be planning for full- @me remote learning next year. Efforts at remote learning this spring were inadequate both in terms of the amount of virtual student-teacher interac@on and academic content. That was understandable given the lack of @me to prepare for a different learning context. However, there is plenty of @me to adequately prepare for a remote learning environment next year. It is not apparent that the district is sufficiently focused on improving the quality of remote academic content delivery. I need to hear what the district is doing to ensure that a high quality academic program will be offered remotely next year. Parent Shorecrest High Just communicate with us ojen and keep us updated. Please take @me and be cau@ous. BeDer safe than sorry. School Even if nothing is happening, it's nice to hear from the Since no one knows how things will go in fall. district leyng us know nothing is happening. Uncertainty is what gets us. Parent Shorecrest High Just informa@on for the plan for the next year for my School kids. Parent Shorecrest High Keeping my child safe and healthy though he wants to Having a staggered schedule may help limit the size of each School be around his friends in person class. Flexible schedule by having some in school classes and some homeschooling/distance learning may help with social distancing among kids Parent Shorecrest High Keeping people safe and heathy. Con@nued Apprecia@on and gra@tude for how much work this has been School informa@on/support as our student will be a senior for staff and students! Thank you! Thank you for making applying to colleges this Fall. hard decisions when needed and communica@ng well with students and families. We hope everyone gets @me to enjoy a break this summer! Parent Shorecrest High Keeping the educa@on process moving forward. I want to express my gra@tude for all the work put into School Staying on college bound track. Ability for child to making this past year successful. Covid-19 has thrown manage & priori@ze their own schedule. everything and everyone for a loop. Given the very, very difficult circumstances, Shorecrest HS did a great job making lemonade out of lemons. Thank you. Tim Grieb Parent Shorecrest High kids need to go back to school so i can go to work and School not worry about what they are doing at home when i am not there...

785 Parent Shorecrest High Knowing children are at the lowest level of risk, a There is more concern about food and LGBTQ issues than in School return to normalcy is urgently needed. HL was a joke the children learning and advancing in their knowledge. when the district said and teachers kept saying that a Neither of these should be at the core of district concerns. child's grade will not be harmed if they did not due the They should be on the radar, but not at the level they are. work. I hate that the lowest expecta@on was given and that concerns me and makes me wonder greatly about the district leadership being accep@ng of the lowest level of expecta@on. We are looking at other educa@onal experiences for next year. Our need is to get our children educated. Parent Shorecrest High Knowing now what's gonna be in next years courses so School he can get an extra jump. Parent Shorecrest High Knowing that parents who rely on school as childcare School won't send their sick child to school just so they can get to work. Parent Shorecrest High Laptop/internet School Parent Shorecrest High Maintaining the safety of the students, staff and At the high school level, most of the teachers u@lized Canvas School families. to establish their home learning coursework and communica@on. However, each teacher communicated or organized their materials in different ways by using announcements vs email vs calendars vs their canvas homepage. It took a while to figure out each teacher's different system. It would be helpful if teachers used a consistent method as much as possible. Parent Shorecrest High Making sure my student can succeed/ be prepared for School next year's learning with the considera@on of the end of this school year. Parent Shorecrest High Mee@ng gradua@on requirements School

786 Parent Shorecrest High More accountability from my student. He got his While I would love to have in class learning it seems naive to School grades up to what he considered acceptable and then think that the schools are any safer now than they were in slacked off. If we have to do distance learning again he March. We do not have a handle on this as the spikes from needs to have his buD in a chair regularly learning with Memorial Day show. And discipline levels as my son describes actual due dates and assignments that are graded on them does not give me confidence in teachers' abili@es to merit and not on mere par@cipa@on. While this quarter enforce either mask wearing or distancing. One student has been great for his GPA it has not been great for his imita@ng Rudy Gobert and away we go. How about lunch? learning. There's just too many ques@on marks. Parent Shorecrest High More interac@on with the teachers AND the students. Only 1 out of 6 of my child's teachers consistently held Zoom School More challenging lessons. More scheduled learning classes semester at Shorecrest! One other teacher did one @me. Actual Zoom classes and/or taped lectures. class, but when most kids didn't show up, she stopped...My CONSISTENCY. Even with home learning, I want my kid showed up! Yes all of the kids were given a "pass..." But, kid to get an educa@on. I am VERY worried that, what about students who want, actually need the work, who having an honors/AP student, my kid will not get the are lost with out it? There are kids who are scholars, who quality of educa@on that was promised. need/want to be challenged. Others were also NOT available for zoom "office hours." Some face @me with her teachers and other students would have been helpful. As a high school student who needs to be challenged, she also needs interac@ons with her teachers AND other students. There should be a way for students to reach out to each other. They help each other at this level. As a parents I CANNOT teach my child high level work. A weekly "home room" check in would have been nice as well as an end of semester check in via Zoom. It seemed like some of my kids' teachers disappeared completely. We were very disappointed. Many of the lessons seemed like busy work. For more challenging classes, my kid was lej to learn on her own. Though she was given grades for assignments in Canvas, she was given NO feedback on her work. If you want our students to thrive, keep them engaged. Parent Shorecrest High More structure. The covid learning was too late and School too liDle. Way too loosy goosy for a teenager that is smart but does the minimum to get by.

787 Parent Shorecrest High More work with accountability. My student is an A My daughter has severe asthma and wearing a mask for School student and did all her work but felt like most of her prolonged @mes causes aDacks, so we are unsure how she peers did not. She got done with it quickly and had no could aDend school wearing one. She also is in the process of zoom sessions which she would’ve liked maybe once a being diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder (and we have week per class. She liked online work and would be family members at home that are at risk). So that’s a factor as happy to con@nue doing so. well. As much as she would like in person instruc@on, she also is frightened of exposure (as am I). Parent Shorecrest High Most important ajer keeping everyone safe and If students can't return to school, I wish there would be School healthy is to have more direct contact (includes something set up for students to socialize/interact with each virtually if needed) with other students and with other virtually. teachers. I think it's important to have real-@me lessons with teachers and for students to be able to socialize. Some teachers only provided links to outside websites with a couple of short assignments a week. It didn't feel like my child was actually being taught for these classes. Parent Shorecrest High Mo@va@on and more involvement from school. I felt He needs to hear from teachers he is expected to do more School isolated when I reached out for help. and beDer Parent Shorecrest High Mo@va@on for my student School Parent Shorecrest High Mo@va@on to do any school work. My children do I believe, while focusing on equity, is a good thing. (We are School beDer when They are surrounded by their peers and minority, so we truly appreciate how SSD is inclusive) SSD is they can brainstorm concepts. It is very hard to not addressing how this is effec@ng social and mental health mo@vate teenagers when there are no deadlines, the of students. grades don’t maDer. Online learning has brought my children on the verge of depression. And when everything is op@onal, a depressed person would choose to not do it and go more into their shell. Parent Shorecrest High Mr. Caruso did live videos with prac@ce challenges and The school district did a great job handling this difficult School updates that we would watch together. Loved those. situa@on. Thank you for all you do. He can also play trombone while riding a hoverboard, impressive! Parent Shorecrest High Much of this didn't apply as my child is doing running School start at Shoreline. I an@cipate that will be the case for her senior year as well, but responded in the event there's something she needs to wrap up the year with.

788 Parent Shorecrest High My 10th graders did very well with online learning, but The district has done an excellent job throughout this crisis, School mostly because they are self mo@vated. If they don't and I commend every one on the Board and all staff members return to class this fall, I would like more virtual and coaches for helping our students get through this difficult classroom experiences for them so they can interact @me. more with the teachers. Parent Shorecrest High My biggest concern is being legally forced to send my School kid to school when I don't feel she will be safe, either because not enough procedures or protec@ons are in place or more likely, lack of trust or likelihood that those protec@ons will be able to maintained no maDer how diligent the aDempt. Parent Shorecrest High My biggest concern is that my child is on an IEP and Please take into considera@on the number of emails that we School may struggle with adjus@ng to being back in school. My receive as parents. My child is in high school. I would get 5-6 child lives with severe social anxiety and the change to emails ojen in one day. Please keep email short and to the being in school could be very hard to them. Many point and take into considera@on that parents are geyng people assume that all kids want to be back, he mul@ple emails from other teachers. I work from home full doesn't. @me, it is nearly impossible to support my child in doing their school work while trying to do my work. I know you are hearing this. You asked if we can get our kids to school, that is easier than picking them up. I can drop my son off on the way to work but I would have to leave work early each day to pick him up if there were no bus. Or he would have to take the public bus and I am not sure if would qualify as an essen@al rider. Thanks for all that you are doing to try to make this work for all of us. It must be incredibly hard. I see the kind words and messages of encouragement from teachers and administra@on and it makes such a huge difference. It makes this easier.Thank you.

789 Parent Shorecrest High My biggest frustra@on is with my student, when she see comments above. School was engaged the work was done well and most if not all assignments were completed. In classed that she did not care for she did not do the work and trying to get her to do it resulted in confronta@on. Which is not pleasant or produc@ve for anyone. It felt like there was no accountability for the work assigned. If we do home learning again, accountability needs to be a big push. My daughter will be a senior and what happened with her work ethic for the school work was disappoin@ng. During this pandemic both my husband and I were fortunate enough to s@ll be working but that lej us out of the loop for geyng our daughter to do the school work. It was very inconvenient to try to find all the assignments in canvas for all the classes. Only 1 teacher email out the syllabus for the week and it was a class she hated go figure. Personally home/on- line learning was a flop for my daughter. I do not think home learning is for every student. It requires self discipline and self mo@va@on. I want my child to succeed but I cannot sit on her to make her do it. Even when she aDended in person, geyng her to be accountable was a challenge. HELP a frustrated parent with home learning. Parent Shorecrest High My child does not do well with distance learning. For I don't see how you are going to be able to make effec@ve School effec@ve learning, in person instruc@on is required. decisions with the informa@on provided in the ques@on: what Personally, the long classes don't work very well for his is needed for your child to return to in person school? (Note: par@cular learning style. As considera@ons are made I'm a qualita@ve researcher and I work in the field of public to reducing class sizes etc., going to shorter length in health.) The answers to the ques@ons of what is strongly person classes seems like a poten@ally effec@ve op@on needed or required will be highly dependent on the current to allow for in-person teaching but with fewer students status of the epidemic as well as the evidence base for some in a classroom. Would require more work out of class, of the measures men@oned. For me, what would be but that seems like it is going to happen anyway. required for opening is that we have met the standards for relaxed social distancing guidelines, and that the protec@ons put in place for students and staff are evidence-based. This needs to be communicated clearly. Also, it would be helpful to indicate what data would lead to a shij to either stricter or more relaxed guidelines.

790 Parent Shorecrest High My child does not perform well with out the structure The only class my child has had any real excitement for is School of regular school! If there is home learning the most band. She would be really heart broken if she could not be important thing for her success would be aDendance involved with band class. It is the only thing she is mo@vated requirements, and @mes she must be logged on and to work on on her own. Please do your best to keep band engage. "When she has @me" does not work for her at and the other classes like it available. Thank you for all your all. Also, weekly, even bi weekly, check-ins on the hard work. It has been such a tough year, but know we really phone would help. appreciate how much you have done for our students! Parent Shorecrest High My child doesn't necessarily need in-person instruc@on The 4th quarter of 2020 was despicable. If I hadn't taken 3-4 School but she does need instructor-led interac@on and more weeks to do full @me one-on-one work with her, my structure to a school day overall. The teachers need to freshman would have failed three classes that she was more be coordinated about how and when communica@ons than capable of passing. Every teacher assigned work on will go out or work will be assigned. There should be a different days, at different rates, with different turn in clear, structured plan in place for online learning in the requirements, due dates, point values, and supplemental fall. Without one, I'm considering applying to get her learning ac@vi@es. NOT ONE of her teachers had regular, into Shorewood (whose students apparently at least online mee@ngs with the students. We basically had to watch had weekly online check-in mee@ngs with each Canvas for new assignments and organize them in a teacher), or an online school with a more structured spreadsheet to help figure out which things were due when curriculum. and to make sure she completed at least 50% of her assignments in each subject. Canvas wasn't made to handle this kind of communica@on. It was impossible to view her grades by custom date range so we had a hard @me figuring out the best ways to bring her grades up. When she fell extremely behind, we didn't receive any messages from any of her teachers, only generic messages from the school telling us about homework club. By then, I was already working with her daily. It makes me angry that there was so liDle support for the high school students. Op@onal online office hours don't cut it.

791 Parent Shorecrest High My child has a 504 but we did not hear from the Interven@ons that seemed to work best included, videos from School counseling services During this stay home order. My teachers, phone calls, small group mee@ngs rather than the child struggled with mo@va@on. It was not enough whole class. As a parent trying to see what has been that we had expecta@ons for his learning. Without completed and what assignments are missing was a struggle. face to face @me or team mee@ngs, or group work, or Please come up with a consistent system. Have parent, ways to demonstrate understanding it was near student and teacher mee@ngs. impossible to get him to engage. He needs hands on learning and connec@on. Team building and rela@onships should take priority at the beginning of the school year incase we go into another surge and online learning returns Parent Shorecrest High My child has an IEP, this district refused to give SDI or School do any other support he needed in order to succeed. I ended up bing the person who reviewed work, broke it down so it was accessible all the accommoda@ons he was supposed to receive - that could have been achieved if there was more communica@on between the SPED staff and teachers was not done. The school did the bare minimum for the sped kids. They could have done a lot more. Parent Shorecrest High My child has significant issues around his ADHD and Please consider the needs of neuro-atypical kids, disabili@es, School emo@onal capacity and was completely unable to do and other equity issues. I know we’re already having to school work from home. I am concerned about COVID operate with a lower budget and a lot of moving parts, but and he has a father with significant health issues that my kid is already struggling hard and I hate for this to ruin his can’t be exposed, but at the same @me I don’t know high school educa@on. what we’ll do if 10th grade starts and all school work is done at home. He would Just immediately break down no maDer what I tried, plus I was s@ll trying to work a full @me job and not able to supervise much of the @me. I finally put mental health over school work and stopped pushing because nothing was working and he was completely shuyng down. He needs the structure of school that I am unable to replicate from home. If there was possibly an opt-In or needs based at-school op@on we would probably have to take advantage of that for any learning to occur. Though at the same @me I am s@ll concerned about exposure due to his father, but we would take precau@ons to mi@gate that.

792 Parent Shorecrest High My child need the structure of a school day and needs I really will be extremely disappointed if kids are not able to School to be held accountable for aDendance and aDend classes in the fall (-in person) and if sports and school assignments. I think that having sports and ac@vi@es ac@vi@es are cancelled. are also extremely important for kids that are middle to high school age. Parent Shorecrest High My child needs the services designated in her IEP and Teachers should be able to ac@vely teach students remotely School she did not receive them thru home learning. similarly to in class vs pos@ng assignments and having no instruc@onal @me. 1x a week office hours are not adequate to consider that produc@ve instruc@onal @me. Parent Shorecrest High My child needs to be around other teens. He is an Parents need to work, kids need other kids. If we are to live School introvert who is uncomfortable reaching out and needs with Covid, then we need to be smart enough to arrange our to be in an environment where people are just around lives so we can live with it, not run away from it and shut so interac@ons are organic. Secondly, he needs specific down the world. If much of the world can go back to expecta@ons and @me expecta@ons: if my kid thinks it func@oning with it, so can the richest country in the world. doesn't count for a grade, he will NOT do the Teens and parents need school back in for both mental health assignment, flat out refusal "why bother". Without and for the ability of parents to work. Have the kids wear Zoom or other in-person mee@ngs, he will get away masks, alcohol/hand sani@zer everywhere, and the with the least amount of work considered acceptable. encouragement for people to keep their kids home when He would prefer the flexible schedule, but I think it's they are a liDle sick, versus the push to have people aDend healthier to have places and @mes to be present. Also school at all @mes even if showing symptoms of illness. need real school so that he doesn't sit around on electronics at all @mes, needs the physical ac@vity of school and PE. Parent Shorecrest High My child needs to go to regular school. Please do everything you can to open as normal our School children’s future depend on it. Parent Shorecrest High My child's mental health. She's been struggling with School mild anxiety and lack of mo@va@on, but she was trying her best at the beginning of the school year. However, the distance-learning made her condi@on worse. She needs to see her friends and has a set daily schedule. Since she had a good grade before the distance- learning, she totally lost her mo@va@on (because her grades were not supposed to go down), and she hardly par@cipated in her assignments. In fall, I hope she can physically go to school at least the part of a week so she can see her friends, and get set weekly study schedules instead of "do-whatever-you-can" methods.

793 Parent Shorecrest High My daughter aDended a small, private middle school School so she doesn’t know anyone. I’m hoping there will be in-person instruc@on at least a few days a week or a few hours a day so she can in next with peers. Parent Shorecrest High My daughter is au@s@c and her social skills have been Although my child has an IEP, she is in all gen-ed classes (co- School improving - un@l the Stay Home order. I really want her taught English) so I wasn't sure how to categorize it when to be safe, so I'm glad we've been staying home, but asked at the beginning of the ques@onnaire. Change the her social skills have really taken a hit. She's now shy answer if needed. about talking even to known friends again. Even going to school once or twice a week - in safe condi@ons - would be helpful. Parent Shorecrest High My daughter needs for each of her teachers to have School their expecta@ons laid out clearly. I understand Covid-19 was unexpected; however she had several teachers who were clear and concise in expecta@ons and others who were obtuse. My daughter is very "black & white" and if parameters are not given she will not do the work. She thrives on structure. However this shapes out for the fall, all teachers need to be structured and unified in how they approach their classes. Otherwise, she will "give up" like she did this semester and do the bare minimum to pass. I was disheartened coming home from my health care job to find her stressed to complete assignments last week. She was trying to catch up. She is a person (with sensory processing disorder) who thrives on structure, this pandemic has caused my honor roll child to deteriorate. Parent Shorecrest High My daughter suffers from asthma. Therefore, she is at School higher risk than other kids. For me the risk/benefit analysis of having her aDend in person or having home learning is s@ll skewing clearly towards the laDer.

794 Parent Shorecrest High My kid (and all kids) need way more engagement, to be The home learning for our child during this COVID period was School held accountable, and academic challenge at whatever very unders@mula@ng. There were very liDle and few level they are at. See below. expecta@ons set upon her. There were very few mandatory mee@ngs and there was liDle accountability. Her science teacher made huge weekly efforts, and that was impressive. Her geometry assignments were seriously minimal (thank God she wasn't in Algebra I or II so that she didn't miss such important curriculum to carry her forward). The only teacher that I received emails from for shared awareness of what was happening and expected of the students was the band teacher (appreciated this). I don't necessarily think or know if the lack of expecta@ons was a teaching issue. I'm posi@ve that no one wants the district to teach all to the lowest common denominator. We must elevate the expecta@ons for the kids, and support those who don't have the means to raise the bar (with internet, equipment, etc.). I'm disappointed and concerned about the impact of this on her (and other's) progress and mo@va@on for school. If school doesn't start this fall then I'm hopeful that Shoreline School District will do a stronger job of expec@ng more of the students, holding them accountable, ensuring they are engaged and challenged. Parent Shorecrest High My kiddo is struggling with mental health and chronic I don’t know how you do it, but made respect!! School illness issues. Unable to seek counseling due to phobias of phone calls and zoom mee@ngs made this ridiculous. That’s our issue, not the school’s. We’ve debated home educa@on anyway, due to illness but he insists on being with other kids and misses teachers. Parent Shorecrest High My kid's and my family's safety. School Parent Shorecrest High My kids are missing the socializa@on at school, but Structure. My kids need structure. Expected log ins, expected School mostly missing the theater, orchestra, band, and choir. zooms, expected due dates are all necessary for my kids for Finding a way to safely do these classes would be ideal. follow through. This quarter they did nothing all quarter, I think they were expec@ng this to be over soon so they were just wai@ng to return to class, but when that didn’t happen they did all their work in about 2 weeks @me.

795 Parent Shorecrest High My kids need in-person instruc@on and more structure One of my kids said he would rather drop out than do high School to actually learn. school online. I would not let him do that but that’s how bad it was compared to going to school in-person. And it’s not the teachers’ fault- they did their best and tried a lot of different things. It’s just very hard to get them to focus and spend @me on it. And they were self conscious about the zoom mee@ngs so just went to a couple of them. In summary, please re-open the schools for students that want the in- person instruc@on and social interac@on. Parent Shorecrest High My most important needs at this @me are to social School distance and for doctors to find a vaccine. Parent Shorecrest High My most important needs right now are to social My child received some good amount of work for someone School distance and for the doctors to find a vaccine. classes but for some it was a lot. Parent Shorecrest High My senior will be fine and just needs support finishing School classes and preparing for gradua@on expecta@ons. My 9th grader needs structure and more @me spent on class lessons. He is not a good independent learner and will not openly acknowledge when he isn't understanding something believing he will "figure it out" eventually. Having teacher check ins on learning is crucial for him to stay on top of his subjects. Parent Shorecrest High My son does full-@me running start. I don't want him My son does full-@me running start and was already doing School to miss out on any important senior events or dates. I 100% remote learning. I didn't answer ques@ons that didn't understand some ac@vi@es will be virtual, but I'd like to apply to his needs. However, I did answer ques@ons about know when he needs to turn in his senior photo for the returning to school. At @mes, he's at the high school to meet yearbook, and those types of things. with his counselor or to par@cipate in assemblies and other school ac@vi@es. As an incoming senior, I an@cipate him going to the school for more of those events.

796 Parent Shorecrest High My son finished grade 13 and is moving on to job Thank you for your hard work and tough decisions. PLEASE School training at the produc@on center. It is very important KEEP WINDOWS OPEN IN ALL CLASSROOMS!!! Airflow to that he be able to go to that site during the week and the outside plus masks will make indoor learning have physical distancing from all but his assigned aide. environments safe. PLEASE ERECT BIG CIRCUS TENTS OUTSIDE FOR EATING LUNCH. The dilu@on of any contagion (ajer keeping exposed and sick people home) will keep people healthy. WEAR MASKS hDps:// www.adn.com/na@on-world/2020/06/12/two-infected- missouri-hairstylists-were-wearing-masks-none-of-their-140- customers-also-masked-contracted-coronavirus/ Thank you.

797 Parent Shorecrest High My son has an IEP for dyslexia and dysgraphia and I'm sure there are some people who are grumpy and School online might be the worst learning format possible. I nega@ve, and things were tough in the beginning and it felt won't lie, the first 5 or 6 weeks (haha! I just like there was a bit of lack of support from school accidentally typed years!) were incredibly long and (UNDERSTANDABLY!! there was so much for the school/ difficult. Once I mustered the nerve to email his IEP teachers to figure out!). But I just wanted to share that I am teacher (I just didn't want to add to the already wacky very grateful to be in the Shoreline School District. I know load they were taking on with reformayng school for some other people in other areas of WA and other states that everyone!), I reached out and she was very responsive. did NOT have as good of an experience as us. Even if there They set up a plan together (with me for the first was an early lack of direct communica@on, I appreciate every mee@ng) then they shijed his assignments to fit his @me a teacher reached out or an IEP teacher helped make a ability and set up zoom @me with his math teacher a specific plan for him. They were all kind and understanding few @mes. It was an amazing shij in things. He s@ll and I know this year couldn't have been easy for them. I just wasn't thrilled with the learning process, but it's always really want the teachers, the admin and all the other people been a struggle. He started the year off with a who work for the school to know how much they are shaDered leg and ended in a pandemic soooo, the appreciated and how empathe@c our family is to this whole year was a bit of an uggg. I think what he would situa@on they had no control over. I know learning a new way need next year (if things looked similarly to the last few of teaching would be crazy daun@ng and then to be crea@ng months) is someone seyng up a plan for him and it, learning it, teaching it and then taking feedback about it reaching out to him (and me). There was limited direct within a few short months must be - I can't find the right contact from teachers (as in zoom calls or phone calls - words - but it must be just nuts. So whomever reads this, his home room teacher called me once). It was an please do be sure to share that we are grateful for the overwhelming amount of info coming from 6 teachers teachers and staff and their effort and endless determina@on and I know he was overwhlemed - it wasn't just his to take something unexpected and profoundly daun@ng and learning disability, I even thought it was a ton of info turn it into an educa@onal experience. I could never do that (homework/assignments/inconsistent expecta@ons) in a million years and I have been blown away and moved by being sent out (and I don't have a learning disability). I the impact these teachers and admin employees of Shoreline don't think there is a remedy for that being so have had on my kids and family these last few months. Thank overwhlemed, I think every kid (and adult!) is different you for all that you do! and I'm sure there were some kids that didn't have enough work to do. I don't envy the posi@on the teachers and admin are in and the amount of planning and various strategic plans that will have to be created and chosen over the next year. I think my only sugges@on if even possible, would be to find/seek/ create consistency anywhere possible (as in if their grades count, aDendance expecta@ons, etc). I'm not sure how that would be done with everything so up in the air, but just a hope for next year.

798 Parent Shorecrest High My son is now a senior. He is not good with online Some mentors (not parents) leading my son down a path of School learning and needs the experience of being in class and his passions would be WIN-win. 1. Can there be a short fall with his friends. He also missed his baseball season baseball season? 2. Can automo@ve classes be done in a which is his passion. He was very disappointed. He controlled fashion? 3. In high school, can the academic has signed up for auto mechanics. This may be his students stay home and do online so the kids who need to be future, online classes do not seem possible but he in a classroom seyng con@nue to aDend? 4. Can needs this ....PLEASE make them work! It can be a volunteer kids disinfect the rooms everyday! controlled group! Parent Shorecrest High My son needs 1:1 help with school. He doesn't like School group zoom calls. He can't focus. But, we also take care of my father and need to social distance. He's good with 1:1 zoom calls. Parent Shorecrest High My son needs social interac@on with kids and teachers Our biggest problem this semester was managing the School for a feeling of connec@on and community. The human learning when there was nobody to lead the way. Self-guided connec@on was the hardest piece to lose. learning does not work for teenagers unless they've chosen independently to learn the informa@on. Live leadership and teaching is far more effec@ve. When teachers set up a live Zoom mee@ng - or even called and/or emailed, it was far more likely to move my kids into ac@on because they didn't want to disappoint the teacher. If they had been required to log in every day, they would have felt compelled to do assignments so they could stay in the teacher's good graces. They would also see the other kids par@cipa@ng and doing the work. My kids ojen felt like they were the only ones doing homework or checking in on Canvas because they couldn't see what others were doing. I feel the real-@me piece is crucial to students' success, and I hope to see it return. Parent Shorecrest High My son needs to be prepared for college, as this will be Thank you for solici@ng student and parent input! School his senior year. He needs the normal rigor of courses, but with flexible scheduling.

799 Parent Shorecrest High My son really misses socializa@on with his teachers and Some of the ques@ons are confusing because they depend on School classmates. The flexible due dates did not work well -- whether a vaccine is available. We decided to answer the too easy to procras@nate. He has some concern that if ques@ons as if there was no vaccine. the school separates students (e.g., so that some come to class in the morning and others in the ajernoon), that he will be able to see his closest friends. I recognize that is probably an administra@ve's nightmare to hear :) Parent Shorecrest High My son will be a senior this fall and the most important We are hoping to know the plan for Fall as soon as possible, School needs are clear and concise expecta@ons for being as well as if Fall Tennis will be taking place. engaged in school. He is a 4.0 student but I found him completely uninterested in the way the online school was managed. He didn't seem to have a lot of mo@va@on to turn in assignments as there were not clear guidelines on when they were due. Also some sort of interac@on with a teacher is incredibly important for the advanced classes he will be taking. I am comfortable with him aDending in person classes as long as COVID precau@ons are in place. If there is some type of "split" schedule I would prefer it would be consecu@ve days in a row and not spread out through the week (example: in person Mondays/ Tuesdays, online Weds/Thurs/Friday versus every other day in person. Parent Shorecrest High My soon to be 10th grade had no issues with remote School learning. They are very self-driven and task orientated and were able to complete all assignments. They did not want to par@cipate in Zoom mee@ngs. Parent Shorecrest High My sophomore needs accountability. It did not help Please do what you can to keep sports and extracurricular School him that assignments were not required and that he ac@vi@es going. The outlet is much needed and n many ways. could just pick and choose which were the easier assignments to do in order to get a good grade and always get full credit as long as he met the minimum. It was great for his GPA, but not so great on learning new material.

800 Parent Shorecrest High My student had very liDle interest or mo@va@on in School home-learning. The determina@on that grades couldn't go down meant that she had virtually no reason to even par@cipate in classes where she already had an A. The classes that she was doing badly in--it turned out that at the @me school closed, she had three As and three Fs--she really struggled with 1. mo@va@on to do the work that had been incomplete and 2. actually learning the concepts that she didn't understand. She was horrified by the idea of teachers' office hours, and couldn't fathom asking for help in front of other students so publicly. At one point, when was struggling with a math test that she could retake in order to improve her grade, she explained that she'd been encouraged to watch math videos (Kahn Academy?) or ask her family or friends to explain the concepts. I was surprised by that. She wasn't helped by videos--she needed to be able to ask ques@ons and work on problems directly with a teacher. I'm unfortunately not going to be able to teach anyone quadra@c equa@ons, and while she had a good friend who got the math, my student would just badger her friend to essen@ally do the work for her rather than teach her to do it. Fair, since they're just teenagers, not teachers. We did finally work out a Zoom call with the teacher, my student and me, to "chaperone," that was a huge help. I understand the need not to have students and teachers on 1:1 Zoom calls, but maybe some kind of buddy system with a handful of students and a teacher? Parent Shorecrest High My student needs structure, daily contact with Expecta@ons were too low for my student and none of her School teachers, contact with other students. She was teachers had required mee@ngs or zoom classes. She went 3 completely on her own for 3 months. She is a good months with no real contact from them other than emailed student and her academics have not suffered as much, assignments. We have to do beDer if distance learning is but she can’t be expected to teach herself 6 classes. con@nued.

801 Parent Shorecrest High My student will be a senior this fall and needs School resources to prepare for what comes ajer high school. The concern is that missing junior year has compromised her ability to adequately prepare. Thanks for your thoughts. Parent Shorecrest High My student will need appropriate, high-level academic School s@mula@on and guidance next year. Obviously, the pandemic is having a huge effect, and the schools have been doing their best under very difficult circumstances. Nevertheless, a much less rigorous program this year has come at a cost for all students. I would like to see the schools focus more on restoring and improving the quality of instruc@on, assignments and academic support. I have no expecta@on of perfec@on, but a concerted push in that direc@on would be good for students. Among other things, the feeling that they are engaged in meaningful work and making real progress is good for their morale. Parent Shorecrest High My student's need is primarily social. He is introverted, Shoreline schools have had a huge impact on my children's School but has found a home on the football team. All of his well-being. The Shorecrest suppor@ve culture is amazing. classes are at Shoreline Community College through running start. Football is his only social outlet. He also needs college counseling. This would be best offered through proac@ve reach out. He doesn't tend to ask for help. Parent Shorecrest High I think it is important to have regular assignments and strict School due dates. When things are flexible, kids aren't as mo@vated to complete tasks and when other kids aren't doing it because of the flexilbity, it makes it harder to tell your kid they should s@ll do it. If remote learning con@nues, I'd also like a beDer understanding of weekly assignments. I'm fortunate that my daughter is very self-mo@vated, which was good because I was extremely busy and could not "monitor" her work. But, it felt as though she did not have enough work and certainly not enough daily expecta@ons, but rather a few big projects (which was hard for me to keep a handle on). Thanks for all you're doing to plan for next Fall.

802 Parent Shorecrest High School Parent Shorecrest High School Parent Shorecrest High Needs Structure Needs Requirements and due dates The teenagers feel invincible so there are limited precau@ons School and grading. My son did not Interact once with any happening. I can’t imagine how masks and social teacher besides a single email. He got the message distancing will work on school but staff and students will do that whatever he did would not affect his grade and what has to be done. essen@ally gave up early on. He refused to pick up a book and buries himself in his YouTube videos. This has been especially hard on him un@l he started mee@ng friends to play basketball again. We know it’s not the safest but his mental health is cri@cal too. I’m glad there were no penal@es since March but this can’t con@nue In the fall if these kids want to go to college. Parent Shorecrest High My freshman works independently so I was not really School involved in the day to day assignments and mee@ng. He was quite organized during the shut down and worked hard to complete all assignments but eventually burned out. I recommended that he focus on Art, English, Math and French to limit his sense of being overwhelmed and that seemed to help for a while, eventually though, he gave up all except for Art.... According to him, he did not have regular virtual mee@ngs with his teachers. He was some@mes overwhelmed over the amount of materials on some of the slide shows (that's when he eventually gave up). He did appreciate the comments on the assignments. Overall home-learning worked ok for him because he is organized and in general mo@vated to do the best work possible (to a fault some@mes). For my senior who is not organized and self- mo@vated, home-learning was a disaster. It was a struggle to get him to do anything! Parent Shorecrest High Normal in class instruc@on. Strict homework due Please make the children accountable for work. Do not make School dates. Accountability to teachers and classmates. assignments op@onal that just sets them up for failure. No Normal busing and transporta@on. Normal schedule. late work! Life doesn't work that way.

803 Parent Shorecrest High On ques@on above where we are asked to rank student thanks for your hard work on this!!! i know this isn't easy. School need, content, age, and choice/volunteers, it is very unclear what you are asking. personally I think there should be a big focus on 11th and 12th graders and their finishing high school well, with all of their ac@vi@es, sports, music, theater, whatever is feasible. So for age, preference should be for the older kids. for the elementary, there could be possible summer programs in the future, to help them catch up, emo@onally, and academically. Many kids drop out between 8th and 12th, so i think it is important to consider them first, and the needs of the teachers, that they are happy with the situa@on. if there are masks in the Fall, and no ac@vi@es, like sports and music, I am considering switching my kids to homeschooling. Parent Shorecrest High Open school safely next year with athle@cs and Kids need to be in school to learn. Staying home might be School ac@vi@es. good for public health but it is terrible for learning and social development. At home learning is not a subs@tute for in person instruc@on.

804 Parent Shorecrest High Our daughter needs structured @me and expecta@ons The ques@ons in this survey are really difficult to answer School from school, along with interes@ng ac@vi@es that because for the most part, the answers aren't as simple as provide social interac@on with other kids. Her innate the survey makes them seem. My kids were not interested op@mism has given way to loneliness and pessimism in par@cipa@ng in home learning at all. Trying to self-manage over this school closure. Even if school must be and self-teach did not work for my kids at all, and I was not "virtual", she needs the daily rou@ne of aDending a able to play the role of the teacher - especially not for classes daily ac@vity. like pre-calculus and Japanese. It didn't really maDer what kind of lessons the teachers created; the kids saw it as punishment. We made a deal in our family that required them to earn all A's, so they would at least do something, but I have to say even with the minimal work they needed to do for their grades, it was a major project to get it done. Un@l this semester, I've never heard my kids wish out loud that they could go to school. Our experience would have been much more posi@ve if the kids were required to be present for a video conference at a par@cular @me every day, sit for a lesson like they would during school, and work on tasks alongside their fellow students. They need the rou@ne and the social interac@on. The flexible @ming just triggered their tendency to procras@nate and complain about being made to do things they weren't interested in. School is worth doing because of the rela@onships that are established among students, teachers, and peers. Without the real-@me connec@on, there's no value. The "facts" won't s@ck in their mind for the long term, but the experiences will. Parent Shorecrest High Our daughter needs to be given high expecta@ons. She School did the least amount of work acceptable. She’s a minimalist. If the minimum expecta@on is raised, she will be much beDer prepared. She is capable but not very self-mo@vated. Structure and high expecta@ons are most important for her and her highly capable yet very scaDered ADHD brain.

805 Parent Shorecrest High Our main need is for the children to return to school in I am a childcare director and we have been opened since May School the Fall. and fortunately had 0 cases of Covid -19 among almost 40 families and 20 staff. I understand early childhood centers are smaller, cleaner and easier to control versus k-12 environment. The children really need to have socializa@on, in-person experiences and no amount of online learning will fulfill this need. I am sure parents would be willing to take children to school to eliminate bus exposure or have shortened/ @ered school hours to accommodate for smaller class numbers. Parent Shorecrest High Our most important need with regard to school, is an Our preference is a school system that is based online un@l a School assurance that our children will not become sick with vaccine and/or cure exists. One of our children has an COVID-19 because they aDend school. underlying health issue. During the Stay-Home, Stay-Safe advisory, we have witnessed teachers, staff and students that are not following common-sense health guidelines (e.g., not social distancing nor wearing masks) and fear that this nonchalant aytude may have dire consequences in a return- to-school building seyng. Parent Shorecrest High Our students needs to have structure to his day. Hold Of the 6 teachers our son had this past semester, only one of School class online, he would be expected to aDend zoom them sent out consistant emails about zoom mee@ngs, mee@ngs for each class and par@cipate, if that is projects due or other general informa@on. This informa@on possible. was very helpful and help us to keep him on track.

806 Parent Shorecrest High People connec@on and in-person instruc@on and I am concerned that students would NOT be in face masks School opportuni@es. This was a challenging transi@on and the en@re @me or 100% online. Either would cause us to very confusing un@l the final few weeks of school. I reconsider op@ons for our children. Also, please am concerned that students would NOT be in face communicate the educa@on op@ons at the beginning of the masks the en@re @me or 100% online. Either would year (non-crisis season) should a Covid situa@on arise. It cause us to reconsider op@ons for our children. We would be good to know in advance what to expect and much love our schools, and we would be fine with an easier to know we’re moving to op@on a or b or c, etc alternate schedule for in-person instruc@on. Perhaps a rather than having so much to communicate during a crisis. university model would work: students aDend in Now that families have experienced a range of situa@ons over person Mon/Wed or Tues/Thurs, with Fridays this past spring, it would be helpful to have a clearly- scheduled off for all to work on assignments, communicated plan set forth from the beginning to bring par@cipate in extracurricular events, and for thorough peace of mind. Much of this was out of our district’s facility cleaning. Having a four-day schedule could save control this spring, but moving forward, once a decision is costs as well for the district in busing, facili@es, etc. I made and communicated to families, we should s@ck with it. would also appreciate an op@on A/B/C plan Thank you to all who worked on behalf of our students this communicated in advance of the school year so year! families would know what to expect for educa@on should either scenario be required with COVID (similar to communica@ng inclement weather policies before a weather event occurs). It would prepare parents well for a variety of scenarios. Parent Shorecrest High Personal Interac@ons with others Teachers and Mo@va@on to par@cipate in school and assignments was low School classmates due to knowing his grades would not suffer Parent Shorecrest High Physical ac@vity School Parent Shorecrest High Physical ac@vity (like sports or recrea@on). School

807 Parent Shorecrest High Providing her a structure when she has to login to In the ideal situa@on, she'd go to school 2-3 late mornings/ School par@cipate. There was really no expecta@on for ajernoons/week for a couple of classes that really can't be logging in for students - and I think this would have done remotely (choir and biology, for instance, this been really good for her, especially emo@onally. semester). As a teen, her schedule has slipped quite a bit. Assistance managing projects/due dates - she struggles If they are doing a hybrid plan, having a late morning/ with procras@na@on and anxiety. Needs more ajernoon op@on is ideal. I think it would be too hard to get accountability, but s@ll flexible due dates. her to get to school just two days a week at 7:50am (which was a huge challenge for a teen even when 5 days/week.) I'd love them to have half the school aDend even classes on Mondays, the other half on Thursdays. Odd classes on Tuesdays, the other half on Fridays. Then Wednesdays would either be no one, ac@vi@es or elec@ves, or would alternate every other week between groups. This plan would have kids in school two full days a week (each class at least once/ week.) Maybe students to 3 classes as hybrid and 3 as remote-only? You'll need a remote only op@on for those with household members who are health-compromised. Parent Shorecrest High Real school if it has to be online the kids all log in class Not having structured school was hard I am worried about my School with the teacher for instruc@on not learn on your own . kids next year star@ng middle and high school Parent Shorecrest High Reassurance that colleges will have appropriate The Shorecrest teachers were amazing. They put so much School standards for admission given that the world has work into their lesson plans and in doing the best they could. turned upside-down. My kid's Hi Ho teacher started calling him towards the end of the year and that was very helpful, as he has an IEP that wasn't being supported. Parent Shorecrest High Reduced workload and ability to show mastery with School quizzes and tests. Parent Shorecrest High Regular consistent class @me with clear expecta@ons School on homework and assignments Parent Shorecrest High Reliable, consistent, teacher contact with students School virtually so that they are aDending school even though it is virtual. Lectures, assignments with objec@ves, and curriculum that is required and a part of daily, weekly and semester schedules. A structured at home school day where students log in at a specific @me, aDend classes virtually and stay ac@ve in "school" for the dura@on of the school day (with lunch breaks).

808 Parent Shorecrest High Remote learning does not work for my child in terms of School all aspects. Parent Shorecrest High Required school aDendance Supervision & monitoring My son found it easy to ignore school, he did not par@cipate School of his progress in group anything. He barely did any homework at all. However he was connected with his friends playing video games. He felt it the online learning was all op@onal and there was no consequence for not doing the work. I felt the wording of the assignments gave him an "out" If you can't , grades will not be affected. Anything that was not mandatory he did not do. Parent Shorecrest High Returning to in person school in the fall. Thank you to the teachers! School Parent Shorecrest High Running start enrollment Gradua@on 2021 I was disappointed with how long it took to provide online School instruc@on during the shutdown this spring. I did not feel the school closure was necessary since children don’t really get sick from covid nor do they spread it to others. I hope school can go back to normal in the fall. The only thing I would do is have students wear masks and use hand sani@zer ojen. I think having the school closed does more harm than good. People can’t work if they have small children at home during the day. Parent Shorecrest High Safety for all that would be on school Grounds! Very apprecia@ve of all the hard work! School Parent Shorecrest High Safety of staff and students is #1 priority, but the kids School need to get back to school as well. It’s not healthy mentally for them to be home all the @me. And many kids need in person instruc@on for success. Parent Shorecrest High safety of the kids. If school is open in the fall for kids, and parents feel School uncomfortable, what are the op@ons? Parent Shorecrest High Safety, ability for my child to return to in-person school Do not cut choir and band. There are ways to safely do BOTH School but within safe guidelines that are strictly enforced. My of these kinds of ensembles, even keeping in mind concerns son is 15 and needs @me with his friends as well as a about aerosols, ets. Choir and band teachers are willing to do high quality educa@on that is not possible using a hybrid approach to teaching with some online ac@vi@es and exclusively online. I suggest a hybrid approach could be some in class ac@vi@es. I also hope that tennis can resume. It useful as needed. is considered one of the safest sports in the era of Covid.

809 Parent Shorecrest High Safety, home learning opportuni@es If physical aDendance is required, I dont have confidence that School students will adhere to the rules. This will need structural changes to properly enforce. Parent Shorecrest High Safety. School Parent Shorecrest High School can provide somewhat safe in-person School environment for my teenager boys to socialize with his classmates and mo@vate his learning. Parent Shorecrest High She learned beDer in a class room environment School Parent Shorecrest High Since school services are something we pay for with Email updates from the School and District are constantly School our taxes, etc., we ought to be actually receiving what highligh@ng special seminars, programs and opportuni@es for we are paying for: School campuses and in-person “kids of color†teachers and ac@vi@es. Parent Shorecrest High social interac@on with peers and teachers thank you for all of your @me and energy with figuring out School what is best for our kids. Parent Shorecrest High Socializa@on School Parent Shorecrest High Socializing with peers is very important for my child. Thank you for all that you do. I know these have been School He does not have any friends outside of school, no challenging @mes for everyone. friends to talk to on the phone or virtually, so the only socializa@on with peers he experiences is in school. Having school closed has been tough. Counseling would be very helpful with self-esteem and self- confidance. My child has been missing valuable services, such as speech and language support, and learning on-line is very challenging. I feel that he is academically falling further behind. Parent Shorecrest High Some informa@on around ac@vi@es and sports would School be very helpful. The uncertainty is very difficult for my daughter. Parent Shorecrest High Some sort of "normalcy" academically. School

810 Parent Shorecrest High (who has ADHD and is on the spectrum as well It was interes@ng to see the way chose to work on School as having a gene@c anomaly that caused many assignments; he would ojen go to the top of the new list and developmental delays physically and academically) has forget all other work that he had not completed. I think it lost his most important learning experience--the social would be beDer to have daily--or as ojen as the given class interac@ons which are his weakness, his achilles heel-- would meet on a block schedule--assignments that are due and he will really struggle without it this summer as by the end of that day or the next instead of the week laid well. This is a large part of his IEP because he has out on Monday and due over a longer period of @me. That never been skilled at social distancing for appropriate really doesn't work for someone with disabili@es and expecta@ons from his peers and others; this will be it is not helping him develop independence to have me incredibly difficult for him and is also vital to his organize everything for him. That is our priority: geyng him success in the future to learn how to manage himself in to be able to figure out what needs doing and get it done. public. Just going to the school building gives him a I'm sure that many students liked the format of having all the change of venue and a beDer aytude than when he is work laid out and choosing when to complete it; for , it at home all day, every day. We are not supposed to be is nearly impossible to choose what to do in those his peers or his teachers and it has been insanely circumstances, let alone circle back and complete whatever stressful on all of us to have this enforced, prolonged he chose not to do first. I know it is all on the screen as tension every day when he just wants to play video posted by a given teacher; the recep@on in his brain of that games (one click away on his computer, the only source informa@on is not the same as other students. I was for his learning while school is shut down) because gravely concerned with one teachers' response to my request they are easier for his brain to latch on to as an to modify assignment --a very long and difficult interes@ng task. He has an IEP that simply did not ques@on about the importance of a huge historical event-- happen for the past three months; we finally had a and the response was simply "no." It is not suppor@ng a couple of zoom mee@ngs with individual teachers ajer student to let him/her flounder through inappropriate our IEP review mee@ng in May revealed just how liDle assignments, par@cularly when that student is on an IEP that support was receiving through the regular requires by law he/she gets unique and suitable support to posted Canvas system. It was too liDle too late but it succeed in school. Every student's success is defined did show that if he had that kind of regular contact differently--whether or not an IEP is in the mix--and with teachers who have experience suppor@ng his needs to have less required of him in terms of length of unique needs, he might have a more successful answers and depth of thought required. He does not have academic experience next year. When he is just the analy@cal skills or execu@ve func@on to actually answer lumped into the system of posted assignments for a ques@ons the way his peers might; when faced with such week, he cannot plan out and execute all the work for ques@ons )he tries and ojen fails to answer them in a any one class, let alone six. When he has individual meaningful way. For example, among the ques@ons I plans and clear, modified expecta@ons that are suited watched him grapple with were: "what is the most to his actual abili@es, he will actually have a chance at important thing to learn from studying World War I?" a learning in a meaningful way. We were dismayed to wonderful ques@on that cannot be answered by ANY learn that teachers had actually received instruc@ons professor at the finest colleges in the world and "come up NOT to modify assignments ajer they were posted. with your own theory of evolu@on"). Those are extreme That was shocking and disappoin@ng; needs examples of those "reach for it" tasks that do make students 811 Parent Shorecrest High Structure and a regular block of learning @me each day. Some private schools have blocks of @me each day that the School kids are expected to be logged in from home. Unless there is a specific concern (childcare, sickness) keeping kids from being at "virtual school" each day at a certain @me, I don't know why they are free to study/work whenever they want during a 24 hour period. Kids can waste a lot of @me not doing school work. Also, I have heard that virtual tests make it too easy to cheat - "everybody does it." Maybe less reliance on tes@ng would be beDer, so we know they are really learning. Parent Shorecrest High structure and teacher interac@on--I'd like to see more we need more structure and consistency. My daughter got School zoom type environments where ideally kids can get a assignments all over the place--weekends, night @me, etc. lesson, ask ques@ons, and interact with each other, as Crea@ng a smaller co-hort of learners who work together on well as get feedback on their ques@ons. Zoom allows assignments and then have a small group @me with the for small groups to pull out and then re-join. Math teacher would also be great. really needs a teacher to explain and go over the learning to make sure they got it. Small and large group discussion for English/Science/History seems necessary. Parent Shorecrest High Structure with strong expecta@ons and required School teaching interac@on Parent Shorecrest High Structure, accountability Tes@ng needs to be looked at. My kids are telling me that School chea@ng is too easy. We need to find a beDer way to make sure that they are actually learning. Parent Shorecrest High Structured approach to school that incorporates Appreciate all of the effort to make things easy to follow at School instruc@on and work @me with others- even if this is Shorecrest- Not TOO much email, the weekly update, online. The social isola@on is turning out to be a really knowing that all things could be found in the modules on significant factor. Canvas, preDy clear grading prac@ces even if they had to change at various points.

812 Parent Shorecrest High Structured learning for the high school students. Implemen@ng a structured online and in person combina@on. School Teaching them important skills as the economy and I think our school systems need a severe overhaul anyway. I environment change. I feel all students should have an think we need to teach our high school students important equitable opportunity to learn with a online/ and in day to day things like balancing a checkbook, making a person experience. We need beDer support, budget, how to meet the real worlds expecta@ons with the mandatory logging into the computer during learning ever changing world with the changes due to Covid and sessions so their hours meet with the gradua@on making resources finally equitable to all students in the en@re requirements. I think the volunteering this for a district. These are things that really apply. There needs to be requirement is something that definitely needs reform. an emphasis on real world learning and applica@ons, more There is absolutely no way at this @me it is equitable skills like mandatory typing, accoun@ng, hands on skills that for all students to volunteer safely to meet the criteria are going to actually show them how to func@on and be for gradua@on. responsible. With the changes in our world there will be less students able to seek out college educa@ons. Teaching them prac@cal skills, management, team work, and other types of voca@onal skills would be very beneficial. Parent Shorecrest High Stuctured class @me, and have mandatory log on with On line Zoom classroom @me and subsequent test taking School the en@re class of students on Zoom or alternate at during zoom should be a must. This is working for my kids in specified days and @mes, just like the flow of regular their on line driver's ed class so why not at SCHS? A foriegn classes. Just like classes at school if they don't aDend, language should be taught through speaking and the kids in they might miss something that will be on a quiz or class should be doing that via zoom, all logged test. Have quizzes/tests and make the students take insimultaneously. My children had too much flexibility on due them on zoom. My kids only had tests in Geometery dates as well as A LOT less due this second semester and were allowed to have help. I found that took away compared to the first and therefore learned a lot less the most of their learning. Have lecture notes available as second semester Wi@hout rigid due dates and expecta@on to well as vidoes and slides for review, especially for aDend zoom classes, you make more room for parent-student students with IEPs. Less flexibility on due dates, higher tug of war to get the work done. expecta@on from the student on single due dates and penalty for turning it in late Parent Shorecrest High Students in class with masks required. My child had no contact with teachers. The teachers never School engaged in teaching my child. My child had no instruc@on from Shorecrest teachers. My child was told by teachers to not do the work because my child had A’s and B’s. I think this is ridiculous. I don’t understand why teachers didn’t teach.

813 Parent Shorecrest High Students should be able to aDend classes if they want School to, and families should have the op@on of not aDending if they don't feel comfortable. School opening should not hinge on the opinion and comfort of a minority, but a majority. Parent Shorecrest High Synchronous learning combined with asynchronous Thanks Shoreline and Shorecrest! Best of luck! A hybrid School learning is important. Having a regular schedule, schedule will probably work best- both for academics and conversa@ons with others is important for social athle@cs so students can rotate to school and ac@vi@es in connec@ons and helps with accountability. smaller groups, taking turns with par@cipa@on. Parent Shorecrest High Teachers should not be crea@ng lesson plans or School lessons, this is re-inven@ng the wheel needlessly. Students should be provided YouTube style lessons from the best available instructors on each topic, teachers that are demonstrated to be able to get results. For the past decades, teachers fail to instruct, but, rather, baby sit. Teachers spend their @me geyng students to grade each others home work and tests, and working in groups such that Shoreline does not have to teach the slower students. Slower students are passed through the system even if they do not achieve. Shoreline School district government school provides fake teaching. Why is Shoreline s@ll taking all of our property taxes? Parent Shorecrest High Teachers that actually read, understand and follow an School IEP

814 Parent Shorecrest High Thank you for doing this survey! In Middle school and High school, the kids are in a bunch of School classes some worked beDer than others. I think it would work beDer if the students had virtual class @mes like they would if they were physically at school. This would help with zoom mee@ngs that overlapped or were at the same @me for different classes. The teachers need to set up weekly assignments and virtual or in-person class @me 2x/week. My student heard from one of her AP teachers a couple @mes to check-in during the transi@on and then 1 day before their AP test. And then nothing else. It was ridiculous. Overall the workload was much higher than when they went to school. And overall there was too much independent learning. I was con@nually scrambling to find outside sources to help with a couple classes. It was really stressful for both of us. And I realize for the teachers too. I hope there's @me over the summer to help the teachers learn how to do this beDer. I realize everyone was thrown into this crazy situa@on and everyone was just trying their best. The counselors did the best job with the seminar for the juniors on geyng ready to apply to college. I listened in and they did an amazing job. They presented clear informa@on and lej a good amount of @me for ques@ons (through chat) from the juniors. A lot of kids asked really good ques@ons and seemed very engaged. We learned a lot from the seminar. (And most of the kids kept their cameras off to help with zoom fa@gue.) The counselors used chat to get clear follow-up informa@on to the students and it seemed very natural for the students to use chat to ask the ques@ons. A couple counselors ran the mee@ng and then there were a couple counselors that added other informa@on. I think that worked really well too. It must be exhaus@ng if you have to run all these online mee@ngs/ classrooms by yourself- another type of zoom exhaus@on. The counselors seemed to enjoy playing off each other's knowledge. Parent Shorecrest High Thank you so much to the school district teachers, staff School and all employees for making it through this difficult @me! We applaud you all!

815 Parent Shorecrest High That my (nearly adult) child returns to school. Mental Thank you for the @me and space you are providing with this School health is impacted. survey. It is appreciated! Parent Shorecrest High That my child feels supported by the school and her Virtual learning is not ideal and does not replace in person School teachers. learning. Also . masks are important but having one all day would be hard on students. Parent Shorecrest High That my child is able to receive an educa@on and stay I appreciate the districts efforts and feel confident in what School safe along with his peers and teachers ever is chosen as the best steps for safety and educa@on Parent Shorecrest High That my son return to school in the fall on a typical School schedule. Parent Shorecrest High That Shoreline School District put @me, energy and We are older parents, with one of us over 60 and the other School training for teachers to do online school well in the Fall, close to 60 and thereby in higher risk category for Çovid 19. including good tech support for students and their Will we have choices if the risk of our child bringing the virus parents, so that zoom classes or the like operate well. home is too great? Parent Shorecrest High The academic rigor is lost with online learning. The No two kids are the same, even in this family! I think a hybrid School dynamic of interac@on with the teacher and peers approach to back to school is needed, but maintain the rigor provides a learning environment that is not replicated around grading, mee@ng deadlines, etc. so that the kids are with zoom or through wriDen interac@ons. For true not only learning the subject maDer, but how to operate in an understanding and interest in the material, in-person accountable way. learning is of the highest importance. This can be achieved by offering some form of in-person (ideally smaller group) classes to accompany online assignments. I also think having work be project based may be useful and instruc@ve to achieving the learning goals of each grade, rather than daily assignments.

816 Parent Shorecrest High The current climate of fear generated by the media is Anyone with a district laptop or home computer should be School disturbing and dangerous. The poli@cal management of encouraged to inves@gate the science and the mathema@cs the science and of the people has been abysmal. That of the supposed crises. Where is the leadership? To the school district is unable to act in a manner in inves@gate scien@fically-- I should not need to inform you-- accordance with scien@fic discovery and inquiry shows does not mean watching the mainstream news. What history lack of leadership at the local, state and na@onal levels. or science teacher would allow the media to determine the What has occurred is a travesty. That the school district validity of scien@fic inves@ga@on? The district teaches follows the unlawful and unscien@fic dictates of the compliance. Is this why you became educators? Currently, it state should make the district open to civil law suits fails; for it does not educate young people to be learned related to its failure to conduct its mission to truly adults and competent members of society. educate and socialize its children. It is denying the rights of the people. Sorry to say, the district is culpable at best and worthy of scorn. At worst, it is complicit and subject to legal remedy. Parent Shorecrest High The health of my children I think Home Learning Classes is effec@ve with my children School and I am most comfortable if they are at home in the beginning of school year or un@l Covid-19 cases massively decreases and vaccines are available. Parent Shorecrest High The main thing for us is to have a structured learning. School Clearly define goals for the kids. I honestly don’t think we should have the schools full of kids using masks when surfaces will be touch by hundreds of kids every minute. Without a vaccine they is no way I will send my kid to a place to gamble with their health. Parent Shorecrest High The most important need for my student would be to I think one silver lining to this shut down was the chance for School connect with other students and teachers as much as high school students to sleep later. If students are allowed to possible even if we are in a shut down this fall and can aDend school part @me, I hope that there is considera@on to only connect online. experiment with a later start @me for high school. If capacity for in person classes is very limited, I hope that student need is priori@zed. Parent Shorecrest High The need for my student to aDend school in person in If on-line learning will occur, to make sure that ALL teachers School some capacity. have the same expecta@ons with due dates, grades and criteria. Some teachers were NOT following the guidelines set by the district.

817 Parent Shorecrest High the need of a vaccine. My kid has asthma and NO way he will be going to school School where his health will be at risk every day. Doesn't maDer about how well prepare the school might be, his best, ideal and only op@on will be staying home. Home learning has been awesome and is the safest way for everybody with health issues. Every one has a different situa@on and different needs but kids with respiratory issues are at risk every day un@l a vaccine is available. thank you for all you do to make home schooling happen, at least, un@l we have a vaccine available. Appreciated. Parent Shorecrest High The way it was set up since Covid-19 did not work. If Just the way this year ended did not work. School you brought your grade up you were not penalized for not doing anymore assignments. Very frustra@ng and not very mo@va@onal for students. He has 3 A’s and a B- and a D but quit doing the work even with at home incen@ves. Parent Shorecrest High There must be structure and expecta@ons and no easy I think you all did a great job naviga@ng something we have School outs. I get why the aDendance and handing in never seen before. I appreciate everyone’s @me and assignments were done the way they were, but not efforts. I am hopeful that now that you have some @me you having to login each day and do specific things created can come up with a way to keep everyone safe AND teach. a cavalier aytude with regards to schoolwork. Zoom check ins by phone or video should be mandatory for Didn’t take long for them to figure out that they every class to keep them accountable for showing up. didn’t have to do anything and would s@ll get an A. Parent Shorecrest High There NEEDS to be more teacher instruc@on, not just I know these are hard @mes but I have heard from other School assignments given and possibly a link to help them out. parents and were told that their children's teacher(s) were My child is intelligent and can work well on her own holding on line classes and mee@ng with their students but she was bored and anxious that there was so liDle regularly. Sadly there was only ONE teacher that met with the work done and very low expecta@ons. my daughter regularly and that was in a class that there was no actual instruc@on, it was just social/ emo@onal- Thank You Mr Caruso!

818 Parent Shorecrest High There needs to be some incen@ve Or mo@va@on for Communica@on coming from Shorecrest was great. Very School students to complete their work. It needs to have a @mely and helpful. Communica@on coming from Kellogg was deadline and be graded or the students won’t do Less frequent, sporadic and hard to find. Canvas is a great the work. It would be great if there were some easy system and communica@on tool for students and the majority way for them to work as a group for study sessions or seem to use it effec@vely. Every teacher uses it a liDle projects so they can help each other and get some differently and post assignments in a different loca@on. A socializa@on. Possibly preset study groups and virtual unified approach/loca@on would be helpful to students. It mee@ng @mes that would work to engage all students. was a crazy year and I appreciate all that the district administra@on and teachers went through to quickly adapt. Thank you for your efforts. Parent Shorecrest High There was too much email. I would prefer that each Ojen @mes one child would email a teacher with a ques@on, School class sends an email with the expecta@ons for the and get a @mely response. Other teachers were not as week. We had emails from teachers, emails from responsive and there would be no reply unless I added the canvas saying there was a message from teacher in principle to the cc line on the email. A service level canvas. agreement for responsiveness needs to be defined and teachers/staff held to the standard. Prior to the pandemic, I was fortunate that my two kids at Kellogg seldom needed assistance. They would usually get ques@ons answered at school and complete their homework without my help. There were @mes when I became overwhelmed with work and also trying to be a tutor. Parent Shorecrest High They go to school and all work be counted School

819 Parent Shorecrest High This past year I felt my child's Kindergarten teacher did If there is an "online component" in the Fall ... what Shoreline School an excellent job. Twice weekly live zoom chats, did in the Spring is not acceptable. There needs to be a vision recorded lectures that we could watch at any @me, from the School district that this is now the new normal and email communica@ons. For my child in Middle not just a @me-killer un@l things are "back to normal." School ... I felt that the teachers could have done A LOT more in terms of recorded lectures and online teaching. I understand that not everyone can make it to a zoom class at the same @me, internet access, etc ... but a single lecture can be recorded and archived for all sec@ons of a class to watch. I teach in higher educa@on. Our campus went online as well. I record my lectures and then set an online window for live Q&A. There is no subs@tute for seeing your teacher explain something. That can be recreated virtually (either live or recorded). In speaking with my Middle School child, she had ONE teacher that held zoom classes. I find this completely unacceptable. I understand that this is an unprecedented @me in history, but I expect our ins@tu@ons to rise to the challenge. I felt that my kindergarten-aged child's teacher rose to the challenge. I felt that my middle school child's teachers, with the excep@on of one teacher, gave up on teaching and just provided "busy work."

820 Parent Shorecrest High This was a very challenging spring. I was expec@ng a Thank you for asking for some feedback with this survey. I School mirrored school day where the students logged in and am a physician in the area and have worked the front line in aDended zoom instruc@on by the teacher at the Urgent Care at The EvereD Clinic. I have been on the front designated @me when they would have had the class. line since the end of Feb when our very first COVID-19 cases Breaks and lunch etc when they were to have lunch. happened in this country. I have a lot to say and contribute None of that happened. Neither of my students, both to the return to school process. I am available by phone to at Shorecrest, had a single zoom instruc@on. discuss further - . I Everything was on their own schedule. I guess there emailed ideas to and the superintendent might have been some op@onal zoom mee@ngs but we back in March but only got generic emails back. I know were never aware of any. Our (now) senior did quite a everyone is inundated but wanted to share my thoughts in bit of study as he was taking 5 AP exams. But the tests par@cular. With nearly 3 months on the front line (knock on were very frustra@ng and minimal at tes@ng core wood), I have not goDen COVID-19 yet, and my serology test knowledge. ONe of the tests he couldn't get the photo is neg. I aDribute that MAINLY to mask wearing for ALL uploaded so had to do it again. But regardless of that workers ALL the @me. Handwashing and handsani@zer next. challenge, I think he learned a modest amount this And social distancing third. Implicit in that is not going to spring due to self-study and discipline. Our other son work ill. Plus daily temp screenings at the start of the day and is a (now) sophomore and I'm not sure he learned end of the day. Rou@ne surveillance would have been a good much of anything. Somedays he'd be fully done with idea early on but we didn't have as much tes@ng capabili@es. his school work in an hour. NO zoom mee@ngs or We now have improved tes@ng (EvereD CLinic can test 2500 tutorials. He had an IEP and ajer an ini@al outreach, people PER DAY, fyi), so we may move to tes@ng. I'm we heard nothing more about that. Very disappoin@ng convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that facial coverings/ and I'm not sure why his academic rigor was so poor. masks are the essen@al piece if you had to pick ONE thing The most disappoin@ng aspect was that we fully that can help with a return to school and reduce spread of expected a M-F schedule that mirrored their school infec@on. All people, all the @me, and real discipline if not day, with teachers being filmed giving instruc@on in a (one warning, then sent home that day). Being strict will zoom format and students logging in to get instruc@on. teach people FAST (this includes adults). But here's how I As men@oned, none of that happened and basically it envision a return to in-classroom school. First and foremost, was a huge disappointment. I suspect they'll need a in-class learning MUST be OPTIONAL and by family choice month or two of catch up work in the Fall to get closer only. Some families for health reasons (high risk) or other to speed with what they are missing. (fears - real or imagined) will want to pursue home learning. They must be allowed to do this and be supported with as much improved home learning tools. FOR in-class learning, these requirements should exist: 1. FACE masks/facial coverings by all, all the @me 2. Strict discipline for those not wearing facial coverings. 3. School must supply masks for all students since some may not be able to afford them. 4. Excep@on to facial covering might be the teacher if more than 6 feet away, but prefer to keep wearing a face mask (ideal) for safety and for seyng an example 5. Teachers supplied with 821 Parent Shorecrest High To get my house full of special needs kids back in the Zoom isn't helpful for everyone. Only some of the classes School classroom. helped, others caused more anxiety and stress. Parent Shorecrest High To know which days & @mes School Parent Shorecrest High To obtain summer work assignments if any to prepare We appreciate the communica@on in frequency and format. School for 11th grade. My son actually did beDer Please con@nue to keep us updated on how things go and the academically when working from home, although it reasoning behind the decisions made. More communica@on was difficult at @mes due to social isola@on and missing during these @mes is beDer than less. We appreciate how out on things that are important to him (i.e. play). difficult it was to readjust to a home learning/schooling Star@ng the next school year, if working remotely, I environment and how quickly that was expedited considering would like to be assured that my child is receiving and virtual learning was a new pla[orm for our teachers and our doing as much work at home as he would in-person; school. Some teachers were amazingly proac@ve and created that there is rigor around assignments and tes@ng; and excellent teaching videos (i.e. ) very soon ajer group and individual mee@ngs offered. quaran@ne and that was a gij given the difficult subject maDer/course work. Regardless of whether school begins in- person in September, please make every effort to provide teachers with the training they need to conduct effec@ve classes virtually. Please con@nue to organize food drives for students/families and ask for anything else that is needed to help during these @mes, and let us know if there is anything we can do to help support our students and our teachers. As you may know, depression, anxiety and substance use are on the rise, as is domes@c and family violence during these @mes due to job loss, isola@on and financial stressors. Please con@nue to send informa@on to families --- and students DIRECTLY - of resources available to help address these things on a regular basis. Thank you for asking!

822 Parent Shorecrest High Too keep my kids engaged and learning during the I would love it if teachers received more training on Canvas School school year with both parents working from home. If features and how to be successful in online schooling. At the this con@nues, there has to be more accountability on high school & even middle school level it can be effec@ve but the students part when it comes to staying on track. teachers need more resources/training. They are not using The current situa@on made it difficult for parents when Canvas effec@vely. Look to higher ed for how they run a we needed to working from home yet had to keep our successful online class plus con@nue to incorporate zoom kids on track during the day. Being so wishy-washy in sessions, etc for some F2F interac@on. deadlines and requirements made students disengage and feel like they didn't really need to do much. I know poor quality work came out of my kids with no consequences since the schools let them get away with it. For the most part, kids rise to expecta@ons. Parent Shorecrest High Visibility (which none of us have) rocks! Not all of my son's teachers were in School contact over the C19 period (at least I didn't know about it if they were). It seemed like the remote learning work load was about 20% of the regular work load. Parent Shorecrest High We are doing fine, we hope that we will be able to I think the district did a good job in general, we would have School have in person classes this fall. appreciated more structure. It was hard for my student to mo@vate herself with flexible due dates and no required interac@on with her teachers. Parent Shorecrest High We are doing OK. Would like to see a school bussing plan. Please plan to hire School more subs@tute staff so teachers and others do not need to come to work when sick. Have home learning op@on for students required to be on home quaran@ne for 14 days. Have full @me nurses in all schools to be involved in school covid plan. Parent Shorecrest High We are very fortunate so our most important need is If in-person learning is not possible in the fall, I would like to School ensuring our student con@nues to learn and be see weekly or twice weekly “required†successful academically and socially.

823 Parent Shorecrest High We have a high risk person in our household and so The online learning went well, it seems she had plenty of School because of this I am hesitant to send her to school @me to get her work done so the homework was not too unless a vaccine is in place or there is sufficient tes@ng much. When she had ques@ons she was answered in a @mely and tracing. My daughter has said that she would not manner by her teachers. She aDended Zoom classes and the want to wear a mask at school (even though we have report is that some teachers had meaningful classes been wearing one out, I imagine many teenagers will pertaining to the work at hand and even if they were games feel this way at school) I need my child to be able to they had to do with the subject. My daughter liked these learn as much as she can in her first year of high school best. There were other Zoom classes that were just (un@l there is a vaccine) without anyone in our family socializing, these were not as appealing to her. I know this geyng Covid-19. This would mean online learning with will develop further with more prepara@on but that is our virtual teacher par@cipa@on and a somewhat input. structured schedule with meaningful zoom classes. Parent Shorecrest High We have a very high-achieving, highly-mo@vated Opening school buildings should only happen when it is School daughter, who will be in 10th grade next item. I worry considered safe scien@fically, and not be driven by poli@cs. If about content been dumbed down, and even about masks are deemed required/expected, then I expect the classes she needs being unavailable. school to enforce that, even though some parents will be uncoopera@ve. Good luck making the right decisions. We will be suppor@ve.

824 Parent Shorecrest High We need not only to target those with food School insecuri@es. We need to makes sure all children are geyng educa@on. THe content and format of the online learning was a joke. Our students spent 16 hours a day online gaming-- they can spend 6 learning to be compe@@ve for college and jobs. The special ed services were abysmal, All of the middle school and HS kids knew everything was op@onal. So, as parents, if you didn't want their brains to rot-- you became the en@re judge, jury and proba@on officer. Very difficult paren@ng dynamic in a very difficult @me. And for those of us with special educa@on teams-- we went from full support to geyng an email to see how we were doing managing our jobs, and all of their jobs! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE figure out a beDer system for the fall. North Shore kids had much greater programming. I don't want to leave to go to private school-- but when you don't also consider the needs of those who aren't the poverty or achievement gap-- you are missing the needs of the majority and that is hard. No easy answers, im sure. Don't leave shoreline kids behind. Parent Shorecrest High WE NEED STRUCTURE! Structured learning and School expecta@ons with milestone due dates Some sort of personal and individual interac@on and accountability through one on one communica@on. We know that school reopening may look different, with some physical challenges, but with strict monitoring and proac@ve, not reac@ve measures, we are confident that our child will have the opportunity to meet or exceed her grade level expecta@ons. Parent Shorecrest High Welahanit Yelen School

825 Parent Shorecrest High well balanced/rounded way of learning for emo@onal School stability. My child did not do much of the school work- he suffered greatly mentally and could not handle the stress of not being able to go to school and he lost his mo@va@on. Though we appreciated the flexibility of not being penalized for not doing his work, that prevented him from doing his work and it was a daily struggle to remind him of assignments daily. Our rela@onship suffered as well because of this. I understand the possible necessity to con@nue the remote learning but I would really appreciate more accountability on students such as taking aDendance, having live classes few @mes a week, so parents do not have to micromanage students progress. Some teachers reached out to parents and I truly appreciated that and hoping it is easier for us parents to communicate with teachers. I reached out to the counselor @me to @me which was helpful but if they can create more regular check in rou@ne with children, that would help. Parent Shorecrest High What to expect next year. School Parent Shorecrest High From what I am hearing most of the kids are not responding School well to online school, I am worried that my daughter is losing interest in school...she has always been a good student. Her grades are s@ll good but I am seeing indica@on that she is not picking up on everything/ is not learning sufficient informa@on Parent Shorecrest High High school students need to be in person at least 2 days to School ensure socializa@on with peers and adults out side the home. Parent Shorecrest High I hope school opens next fall in a safe way. School

826 Parent Shorecrest High 1. A beDer structure of the day, a few of us parents of teens School expressed in our group the need for structure in their day. That structure helps parents not be the only ones trying to create the structure, and it reenforces a schedule with an expecta@on, goals, and accountability. 2. Canvas is not always helpful, I can see what assignments were given for math, but I can't see what's coming up. For example, I'd like to know there is a test or a project coming up in order to help support the proac@ve work. Instead, I find myself chasing my child for late or missing work. Maybe a beDer calendaring system for the future work, or someway to communicate to parents what's coming up. 3. An idea if we are home learning again, for example, plan a zoom mee@ng with maybe 10 kids who are all in algebra 1 with a teacher and have round robin discussion on the lessons, and areas needing help. My niece at her school was required to have these zoom @mes, even if it was to listen, or took turns on examples. Thank you for all your work on helping make our schools a great place. Parent Shorecrest High 1. If there is no vaccine for COVID 19 by the @me school School starts, we may ask to have our kids be home schooled instead. 2. As much as they enjoyed autonomy with their school work and doing well with school work, i think they can use structure in their day. That way they will feel that they are truly in school with certain @me for each class or period. 3. Some teachers had a hard @me maneuvering zoom. 4. Some teachers assigned homework that they have not learned yet. 5. 1-3 homework per week for each class sounded fair. But if all teachers assigned 3 HW a week, our child could get up to 18 HW total per week--which is a lot. 6. Our kids enjoyed the home schooling and being independent. But they miss the socializa@on aspect of school. 7. They both said that if home school started from the beginning of the school year, it would have been beDer than halfway through. They felt that they were just trying to catch up all the @me and get their grades up. And some@mes they felt drowning with homework.

827 Parent Shorecrest High Assurance that school is well prepared to welcome our School students this fall in terms of security given the lock down and COVID 19. Extremely concerned about academic preparedness of our students Parent Shorecrest High Canvas is highly confusing and the informa@on I get does not School align with what my child is telling me. She is a straight A student, but ojen I received no@fica@ons that assignments were late or missing. It was very hard for me to stay involved and support her school work without any trusted source of informa@on. Parent Shorecrest High Decisions should be data driven with viable op@ons for School students/staff with exposure to immunocompromised or high risk popula@ons. The student aged popula@on is the lowest incidence of COVID-19 and least at risk (lowest hospi@liza@on and death rates), though they may be carriers. In my opinion, the students are not at unreasonable risk but the teachers and staff need to be comfortable in the environment and should be allowed to take the precau@ons they feel are necessary - such as masks or alternate work environments (remote teaching), etc. It would be reasonable to modify how assemblies at the beginning of the school year occur, i.e. televised into classrooms & online or outside instead of in cafeteria or gym. It would be reasonable to put more strict restric@ons in place for students who are sick such as unless a nega@ve coronavirus test is obtained, students exhibi@ng cold/flu like symptoms need to remain out of school for X days. However, they would then need to be able to u@lize remote learning to reduce the risk of failing due to absences. Communica@ons from the school district and OSPI should be very clear and include accessible references to the data used to drive decisions. Communica@on should be clear and frequent. Parent Shorecrest High For high school - preferred reading assignments to learn from School instead of videos.

828 Parent Shorecrest High i absolutely appreciate the work that the administra@on and School teachers did to wrap up the 19/20 school year. What a strange @me indeed! Thank you to everyone for all their hard work. Please know that you are all appreciated!!! Parent Shorecrest High I believe high school is a priority over elementary due to School content and importance of classes for success. Elementary content can be taught at home easier. Remote learning took away my children’s mo@va@on. Face to face teaching cannot be subs@tuted. What worked best was pos@ng the full week’s assignments on Monday morning and working at their own pace. My children saw it as unfair that SeaDle SD received automa@c A’s. There was not sufficient opportuni@es to raise grades with quizzes/tests in AP World Hx (mostly homework assignments which were weighted differently). I see no reason why there cannot s@ll be “honors†Parent Shorecrest High I believe that educa@on is very important, but the School socializa@on that school offers is just as important. Too many kids are struggling right now, I know mine grew depressed, being shut away in a house alone all day. They need to be around other students if at all possible. I know my daughter’s biggest concern is not being able to par@cipate in her senior year; something she has looked forward to - we know the 2020 seniors took a huge blow, not being able to finish out their senior year, and lots of tears were shed over that. While, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not that big of a deal, to our students, this is a milestone, the biggest one in their lives yet. I know this is one they really hope to be able to experience.

829 Parent Shorecrest High I don't think that the on line learning went too well Middle School school expecta@ons were beDer than my other son in Elementary school. He did have specific assignments and communica@ons from each teacher. Work load was light. No video / zoom classes. Expecta@ons for work were not high - he wasn't pushed for cri@cal thinking or analysis. We had to make up a schedule. And both of us work. This is not sustainable for the future. There has to be a beDer plan. Kids need in person learning, and if it can't be in person, they need to be on line at a certain @me with their class, in class with structure with the same expecta@ons as if they were in school. Parent Shorecrest High I know how hard this will be to balance all the needs, so School thank you for your efforts! Parent Shorecrest High I know my child will be okay. I am more concerned for the School kids who will struggle most and suffer more long-term detriment. Parent Shorecrest High I recognize that planning in uncertain @mes is difficult. I hope School that there will be as much in-person, on-site learning as possible. My kids are older and I understand that it would be more important for the younger kids to have the personal contact that on-site learning would allow - but older kids need that, too. These past three months have been difficult and their love of learning has diminished significantly. It will be a rough start at the beginning of next year as they will need to remember how to learn, how to get excited about learning, and how to be accountable. Parent Shorecrest High I think parents with young children need their kids to go back School to school so they can go to work. My boys are in high school and while they missed their friends, they did fine on their own.

830 Parent Shorecrest High I work in healthcare (long term care facili@es). I'm not very School concerned about my kids geyng covid-19 as kids seem to be doing preDy well. My concern is them bringing it home to me and me bringing it to work. I've been through two outbreaks in two different buildings. It spreads like wildfire. I've experienced a lot of deaths recently as a result. Also, due to the fact that I'm con@nuing to be able to work outside of the home, I'm not around during school hours to support remote learning as much as I could. It's been REALLY hard this spring to mo@vate my kids to fully engage. My work and frequent exposure to covid-19 also results in some physical distancing between me and my kids at home. (Sadly) My son (going into 9th) needs structure and deadlines. My daughter (going into 12th) needs college prep support and socializa@on along with con@nuing rigorous academics with adequate support from staff. Thank you for all you have done and con@nue to do!!!! Parent Shorecrest High I would highly prefer online learning for my child. I hope you School will consider those students who are not in need of special services who can volunteer to learn remotely. My child interacted beDer with teachers in an online format and the flexibility of a non-structured school day greatly improved my child’s aytude towards school and academic performance. Parent Shorecrest High I would like to see the schools open this fall! School Parent Shorecrest High I’m sure my child is not alone in having a tough @me with School online learning and the lack of structure. Fortunately the school was generous in carrying his grades forward. As a family we will flex with whatever Shorecrest decides to do this fall. Parent Shorecrest High If school will not open for in person instruc@on, beDer School organized learning plan is needed. Students should be expected to complete assignment and graded based on performance. Lowering the standard leads to poor learning. Parent Shorecrest High If students go back to school, they should wear mask. School

831 Parent Shorecrest High If the school is going to be 1 or 2 day per week in class and School the rest of the @me online learning and desks 6 feet apart and masks all day we are going to home school or find a private school that will not make the kids feel like they are about to die from Covid. We feel this has been and is about to con@nue to be an overreac@on. Keep this up and you will destroy the public schools because parents who are able are going to either home school or opt for private schools. Keep in mind that there will be many on line school op@ons coming online as private ventures and the school district is going to have to compete with that. They will not be able to come up with a robust a program as a private business does so my recommenda@on is to get your schools back to normal ASAP. Parent Shorecrest High If we have remote learning again next year, it will need to be School much more rigorous and actually teach students. Some classes taught no new material. Others had 30 minutes of work a week. Others had actual assignments and new material. Video calls were op@onal so my child did not aDend any (which increased her feeling of isola@on). It would have been beDer for my child to be in a home-schooling program than Shorecrest for the end of the year. I realize this was the best that could be done given the situa@on. My hope is that the summer is spent planning for how to do it beDer in the fall - there needs to be more consistency between teachers, how they use technology (please provide more training to teachers!!), and their expecta@ons for classwork (expecta@ons cut both ways - expecta@ons for teachers to teach, provide assignments and use technology as well as expecta@ons for the kids).

832 Parent Shorecrest High In the event that we need to con@nue online learning, I School would appreciate more teachers doing zoom mee@ngs with their classes. Only about 3 out of my children's 6 teachers chose to do zooms, and they didn't start doing them un@l preDy late into the closure, well past when the elementary teachers started doing them. Addi@onally, the online lessons they were assigned involved videos that were done by other teachers, or involved being sent to other sites like Kahn Academy where they watched a video by an anonymous person. The home learning situa@on, and the lack of teacher connec@on and school connec@on made it very difficult to keep my kids mo@vated and engaged. I would have appreciated more efforts to keep my kids connected to their schools. Opportuni@es for social connec@on of some kind would have been nice, too. I know this is a tall ask, but I work in two elementary schools in Shoreline and I saw those schools do a lot to keep kids connected to school, like spirit weeks, invita@ons to send in videos and pictures, weekly zooms by all teachers, postcards sent home to students, counselors doing weekly announcements, etc. It seemed to me that the middle and high school fell short in these efforts. I would like to compliment the principal at Shorecrest for frequent, empathe@c, and informa@ve messaging to parents. More messaging in this vain from the principal at Kellogg, and from the Superintendent would have been good. Parent Shorecrest High It would be helpful if assignments were sent out on the same School days each week by the teachers. Also, if they were posted the same way via canvas. My daughters issues were not being able to find assignments in the same place consistently. Some teachers would do it one way other teachers would do it a different way. Consistency would be good. Parent Shorecrest High Many of the ques@ons do not apply to me so i was not sure School how to answer. Ques@ons on accessing my students assignments and being no@fied of assignments. I don't monitor or manage my daughters work. I don't check on canvas or need to communicate directly with teachers.

833 Parent Shorecrest High My child has always done well academically. I was School disappointed with the liDle to no expecta@on to complete assignments on @me or at all. He had no more than 1 hour of work a day if at all in any given week. I would prefer a more rigorous schedule in the fall should we con@nue at home learning. Parent Shorecrest High My child is a running start student. School Parent Shorecrest High My child is very on the ball when it comes to taking care of School his schoolwork. We didn't need to check on him at all. However, it didn't seem like he had that much to do. I can also imagine it was very difficult for kids who aren't as self mo@vated. Parent Shorecrest High My child prefers to do assignments/homework’s with a School teacher more easily available for ques@ons versus online learning. Parent Shorecrest High My son graduated last week. I would like to School give feedback. would that be helpful even if he goes off to college in the fall? Parent Shorecrest High My students felt that the interac@ve zoom mee@ngs and School instruc@on with their own instructors were the best part of home learning, but when they became op@onal and many students did not show, my students didn't want to be one of the only 1 or 2 students in the "room". All-day online learning is too much screen@me for a balanced life, but perhaps only half-day classes un@l "normal" resumes. Perhaps the school building can be opened up for those students who find that online learning from their homes or non-homes is a hardship and they can do their virtual school from the school-building with appropriate social distancing. Then everyone can s@ll aDend the "same" class. Whatever happens, I applaud Shoreline schools for managing this unprecedented @me by scrambling together as best as possible some type of learning for the kids. My kids love their school and miss being in class in person, but understand that they need to con@nue their studies to not fall behind and be ready for school in-person when that eventually happens.

834 Parent Shorecrest High Our child was not mo@vated to keep up with distance School learning this spring. The flexible due dates and do no harm grading allowed him to avoid doing most of the work in the two classes that he didn't find interes@ng without any real consequence. even though both of his parents are home, we are also working and we found it very difficult to try and enforce our expecta@ons of him academically when there did not seem to be a similar requirement coming from some of his teachers. If distance learning con@nues in the fall, he would do beDer with a set schedule for his classes, either with mandatory @me logged in each day, or mandatory virtual classes, and set deadlines for the assignments. This spring it was too easy for him to procras@nate on everything. Parent Shorecrest High Please keep parents informed on what schedule you are School giving to kids. I understand this kids are in high school but without a structured plan all we hear from kids is all homework an assignment is done. That too only doing it few hours in a week. so either not enough work is given or they are good at it. We want to know that proper educa@on is imparted. We don't mind doing remotely as long as they are prepared for their future. Parent Shorecrest High Schools should have remained open for the remainder of School Winter Quarter and Spring 2020. ADendance by students on a voluntary basis. Par@cipa@on in in-person teaching by teachers and staff also on a voluntary basis. Some students and teachers would have fallen ill with Covd19 ; sta@s@cally most of them would have had a very mild illness with subsequent immunity. Parents, teachers and students should have been given a choice . That's what happens in a democra@c society. The restric@ve measures that were imposed will have dire economic and academic consequences and s@ll don't protect anybody from geyng exposed to Covid19 . Parent Shorecrest High Social distancing and management of class sizes are School important aspects of returning to in-person school. School sanita@on / cleaning is important as well.

835 Parent Shorecrest High Some of the answers above are based on teachers telling my School child that they did not need to turn in any assignments or par@cipate in the class if they were sa@sfied with their current grade (before school closed). My child had been par@cipa@ng in the homework and assignments un@l then and then was completely unmo@vated ajer that. I wish that teachers were more encouraging of the kids con@nuing with their lessons instead of "adver@sing" that they were not required to do anything more. I am not opposed to online classes in the fall but I am hoping they are more thought out and it will be easier to have contact with the teachers if help needed. Zoom help sessions that require more than one child be in the session can be prohibi@ve. Parent Shorecrest High Thank you all for the hardwork. Despite what's going on, I School believe children need structure which can only be provided if they go to school in person. Socializing with friends and interac@ng with teachers in person is different than virtual. Parent Shorecrest High Thank you for all you are doing!! School Parent Shorecrest High The Canvas apps don't work well in that we get an email with School no@fica@on of communica@on from Canvas but we cannot open that communica@on in the canvas app. I have and use computers but my phone is how I do checking through the day. Parent Shorecrest High The flexible work load was not helpful for my high school School students this spring. They had no mo@va@on to do school. There seemed to be no due dates and nothing really seemed to count! I feel like my kids barely did any school work!

836 Parent Shorecrest High The school environment must be safe in order for children to School return - students bring home viruses and also can infect staff. Class sizes need to be small enough to allow for distances between students - hallways need to be direc@onal so as not to crowd spaces. Meal @me is worrisome- Could they be sent home at lunch? If remote learning is to take place at the high school level there must be schedules set and that they meet virtually for class periods where instruc@on takes place. One teacher out of 6 in our child’s class reached out with video or conference instruc@on this past semester. Teachers This next school year have to have teach virtually 2 @mes a week in a video format either pretaped or through video conferencing. They should adhere to a schedule much like the typical the Odd and Even class schedule. There can be home learning but this needs to be clearly communicated and laid out for students with criteria and due dates. Student should start at a set @me, aDend classes where they par@cipate in lectures or discussions, do assignments and do addi@onal home learning (I.e. Kahn academy) as a supplement. Group work could also happen to maintain social contact with peers. Parent Shorecrest High The system of learning the past few months resulted in School almost no learning occurring for my 9th grade. We can't do it again and I will pull my 3 kids from the district and home school them if that ends up being the plan.

837 Parent Shorecrest High There has never been a 100% effec@ve vaccine for a School coronavirus, and there probably never will be. We have to stop trying to shelter everyone from something that is impossible to avoid and let the kids, and the rest of us, move on with our lives. A very small frac@on of the popula@on will become significantly sick from COVID. There are 50,000 - 70,000 people who die every year from the seasonal flu, another type of coronavirus, which there is a vaccine for, and we've never gone to the extreme of closing down the en@re country in an impossible aDempt to avoid it. There have also been many studies done on masks and coronaviruses. All of them have shown masks to not be effec@ve in stopping transmission unless you use an N95 mask. We need to stop geyng caught up in the poli@cs that we are allowing to influence our ability to use our common sense. It's @me to look at the true science, not what has become science made to fit an agenda. Parent Shorecrest High There was no mo@va@on for the Jr high students to really School engage in their studies. It wasn’t because of the teachers, but more to the thought of keeping everything equitable. Grades should have been issued with the do no harm procedure adopted by Shorecrest. However, moving forward neither system that was used this past term is a true reflec@on of students’ ap@tude. “Not Mandatory†Parent Shorecrest High Wasn't enough homework. Teachers told my son that really School didn't need to do the homework. So he didn't want to un@l i made him.

838 Parent Shorecrest High We are privileged and fortunate that we have access to all School learning online without difficul@es. IF there is some kind of reopening of physical school next school year I would prefer those students get to go that have the most need and benefit most from in-person school and let other students either con@nue home-learning or go once a week (a long A day) to catch up with peers and teachers. I don't believe 100% physical distancing and mask-wearing is possible in most schools (my kid is at Shorecrest) and I hope there are scheduling solu@ons for some of the kids to aDend some of the @me. For health reasons I would prefer con@nued full- @me home learning and depending on the solu@on brought forth by the school district I might choose to transfer my child to online learning. As long as there is no vaccine the virus is just as contagious and deadly and there is no reason to be less cau@ous. Thank you for asking our input. Parent Shorecrest High We have got to get back to in-person lessons. If that is not School possible, then the school day should be run virtually, just like a regular day. With check in, zoom classes, regular assignments---as close to possible as a normal day. It was impossible to mo@vate my older kids to do work. Finally, our 9th grader started doing something when she understood she'd get a grade. But the 7th grader didn't do anything for weeks. Not worth the arguing and I can't and don't want to manage her en@re school day. Please work out a more engaged method of instruc@on. Parent Shorecrest High We need to get normalcy back for our students. Knowing School children and young adults are at VERY low risks, having smart hygiene requirements and a strict “stay home if your sick†Parent Shorecrest High Whatever happens in the fall, please don’t do “no School impact grading†Parent Shorecrest High You are all extraordinary and are doing an amazing job during School a very tough @me - thank you! :-) We feel so fortunate to be part of the Shoreline School District family.

839 Parent Shorewood High Higher learning expecta@ons. My son was more Thank you for all of your hard work! School stressed when he wasn’t sure if he was supposed to do an assignment or not when things were op@onal. It’s beDer for him/us if it is clear that the assignments are required. Parent Shorewood High I am lucky in that I have teenagers and am working I have two kids that had preDy different experiences with School from home for the foreseeable future so I don't really online learning but a lot of the ques@ons I could only answer have any needs at the moment. from one kids point of view, for example, what worked and what didn't work for your child. These answers were very different for my kids but I couldn't express that. Both of my kids REALLY want there to be some sort of on-campus @me in the fall. The social interac@on over screens is not cuyng it for them. They have both said that school was so much harder not having a teacher there to ask when they had a ques@on. Some@mes it was something about an assignment that just needed to be clarified but having to wait for an email response would disrupt the flow of geyng something done. I hope that the district will do what it can for sports and extracurricular clubs, my kids par@cipate in both and this is the ques@on I get the most ajer "do we get to go back to school?" They are @red of being locked up and the thought that they may not get to go back in the fall has them both very worried. They understand the situa@on and will deal with whatever the decision is, but I think if they do not get to go back in the fall (even for half days) it will really start to affect them nega@vely.

840 Parent Shorewood High - Knowing that my children are safe - Knowing that my The answers to many of these ques@ons depends largely on School children are learning - Knowing that my children have the student. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to segment ways to interact with peers - Knowing that my children answers according to child. For instance, one of my have PHYSICAL educa@on opportuni@es - Having children thrived in an online environment and would likely do access to some free/reduced meals With strong well. His teachers were quite communica@ve and had teacher training, I believe the middle and high school expecta@ons of Zoom mee@ngs, etc. He is also more self- classes can be held online substan@ally more than at directed. Another child couldn't be bothered, as his the elementary level. This wouldn't impact most teacher's correspondence was extremely limited; the parents' ability to work as the kids can ojen be home expecta@ons were unclear and there were no class mee@ngs. alone or without direct supervision; the kids can access Likewise, there was no way he understood to ask for help content and learning on their own; and the learning is when he became confused, so once he fell behind at all, he more self-guided. That said, the teachers MUST have was behind for the rest of the year. For my incoming strategies in place to engage the students, to hold Kindergarten teacher, I don't foresee any success with an them accountable, to actually teach, and to faciliate online program. She went to her preschool classes the 4 or so social interac@ons (pla[orms, for instance). Sending @mes it was offered and lasted about 20 minutes. Not sure them to outside videos will not be effec@ve. With how Kindergarten can be successful online without real that model, it seems like we can separate some of the teacher training. In most disciplines, teachers can s@ll elementary classrooms by puyng the kids into unused conduct class live, yet I didn't see this happening at all. Some high school and middle school classrooms temporarily. teachers made a real effort, while others literally didn't Being able to make learning accessible, fun, interac@ve, communicate one single @me for any of my three high school and meaningful is really important. I will not bring my children (in par@cular, none of the math teachers sent a child to Kindergarten next year unless there is a clear single email). plan in place to make school enjoyable and meaningful. I am terrified to have her first year back be scary. Play needs to be evident.

841 Parent Shorewood High 1) Structured in person instruc@on @me. Even if it is It is important for all grades k-12 to have some in person School only part @me, absolutely cri@cal to the success of our structured @me, I don't think any one age group should be kids. If we need to reduce physical occupancy of given priority over another, teenagers and adolescents have classrooms to be safe, we can do this by having only a many challenges, and to help them navigate the environment certain percentage of kids aDend physically at one it is cri@cal for them to have in person @me as much as for he @me, while the other por@on is online then switch back lower grades. and forth throughout the school year. For example, at our work we have split physical/online shijs were about half staff is in office at any one @me, while the other half is online, then the next week it is switched. This reduces physical office occupancy by 50% while s@ll allowing 100% of staff to be produc@ve. The same concept could be applied to school district, have 1, 2, 3 or 4 groups of students with only one group aDending physically while the other groups are online. Then, each week rotate which group is physically aDending. This could reduce physical occupancy of schools to either 50%, 33%, or 25% of normal, which would allow for social distances and smaller class sizes. 2) Very important to have concrete, fixed, required due dates and class @mes like normal school. The flexible dates @mes were a disaster and our kids floundered. Flexible @melines got treated as op@onal due dates. Require both physical and online aDendance and presence at same @me, so online students would be listening to class live. Parent Shorewood High A clear message concerning the logis@cs of next school It might be beneficial for my son’s emo@onal and social School year expecta@ons. wellbeing for him to aDend at least 2 days/week as part of a in-person,at school, instruc@on.

842 Parent Shorewood High A consistent strategy: *schedule for aDendance and My son men@oned that the Khan learning modules were School par@cipa@on *schedule for comple@ng work *quizzes beDer than (some of) the teacher sessions. Maybe consider or short assignments to confirm learning *consistent using those types of resources for lecture, and the Shoreline delivery method - teachers (per school) should do the Teacher takes on the roll of facilita@ng group discussions and same thing such as use they same sojware to make suppor@ng the students. I have confidence in our school the experience consistent for the students. The district and staff! We've got this! worst thing for my VERY capable, straight-A junior was the inconsistencies and lackluster requirements. I totally understand, it was confusing and messy for all of us - the teachers weren't prepared to go online. BUT, now that the district can prepare, the teaching methodology needs to be consistent. They should all produce, quality, planned out, short video lectures. They should all have regularly scheduled class mee@ng @mes where aDendance is taken - maybe even group work sessions where students are provided a link where they can log in to work in their small teams w/o teacher. seem to totally have it together and even had drop in sessions. AND the teachers should be given instruc@on on how to produce a video-type lecture. It is NOT the same as in the classroom. BIG risk of students not listening when they can play games and text their friends. Short, to the point, content rich lectures (10-15 min) will likely be the most effec@ve - but I'm not an expert. Ambiguity and inconsistency is the enemy. Students have not be prepped to completely self-manage their educa@on so leyng them par@cipate when they like will not get the results we all want. Parent Shorewood High A con@nual and quality educa@on for my high schooler. School Consistent expecta@ons of what schools/teachers are expected to offer all students. There has seemed to be a great difference in the amount of teaching and connec@on with students given depending upon who the teacher is. Accountability for teachers to be teaching students as daily as possible. Accountability and expecta@ons for student aDendance and comple@on of assignments.

843 Parent Shorewood High A full remote op@on for students who would like to do Teachers don’t use canvas consistently. Having a School it. consistent way to use it will help students not have to learn each teacher. For example, pos@ng content, assigning work, etc. some teachers don’t post it in assignments and it doesn’t show up on the students calendar un@l ajer it’s due. Parent Shorewood High A plan and some structure that is flexible but keeps the The teachers were very accommoda@ng and flexible. They School students accountable. Mo@va@on may be a stretch at obviously cared about students’ well being and their this @me... learning.. We received weekly emails that “one or more of your students is not in touch with their teachers†Parent Shorewood High A printable schedule/calendar for each class showing Everything seemed very hard to manage as a parent at home. School what is due, weight of assignment (10 hour project/ We get emails from teachers saying they have NOT checked report or 10 minutes), and recommended @me to be in, but my kids say they have and that their up to date and spent each day or week for comple@ng assignments. their projects aren’t due for another week etc. It always I say printable because we like to have it on the fridge seem like conflic@ng info. I check their grades and they have to see where they are at, what is due, highlight, notate, an “A†and cross off what is done. Parent Shorewood High A structured day Being challenged I had him reading novels, prac@cing Japanese, and math and School then when school started he did very liDle. Assignments were not challenging or very interes@ng Parent Shorewood High 希望å School Parent Shorewood High Ability to find the homework (Google Classroom, My kids struggle to find ways to socialize with friends. Fight School please). Unified use of apps, each teacher does things doing schoolwork. Avoid chores. Refuse physical ac@vity. the same way. Teacher follow up with parents when These @mes are preDy frustra@ng. student not comple@ng work. Parent Shorewood High Academic learning for kids Kids did not learn much through online learning. Some School teachers are good to have zoom session one or two @mes per week while other teachers never had zoom mee@ngs with kids. I hope every teacher will put academic learning as the most important thing for students and keep teaching and checking on them even it’s challenging through online learning.

844 Parent Shorewood High Academically: Allowing students to focus on the Assuming masks will be required; we would like to see a School subjects that will be most valuable for their further roughly half-day approach that focused on the content that educa@on goals. We'd rather drop an elec@ve required in-school more (for example science labs), with half unrelated to post high-school educa@on, than see the a day outside of school for content that will be rela@vely the core subjects for a child's plans suffer. Medically: We same via remote learning. are concerned that wearing a mask for 7 hours a day will hurt a child's focus on all their classes. Even though in-school learning is a more valuable educa@onal environment, the value will be lost if students are unable to focus. Parent Shorewood High Academics are actually taught. Teachers just giving School assignments such as read 13 chapters of history and write two pages on each chapter and then upload the homework is not teaching. Students need teacher and student engagement and discussions for learning to occur. Parent Shorewood High Access to school athle@c facili@es outdoors! Sojball Common sense measures should help with the high schools. School and baseball players should have access to prac@ce on Take temperatures daily. Mandatory masks, social distancing the turf fields in the Fall and the bayng cages! They when possible. Give the students cleaning breaks to wash missed an en@re season! This is essen@al for those hands or use sani@zers. They can be much more responsible student athletes trying to get athle@c scholarships in than young kids. Allow them to go back to school! college! Figure out how to allow qualified volunteer parents to be supervisors on these facili@es. It is a waste not to use them and outside is much safer than inside! Please figure out how to help our sojball and baseball players!!!!! Parent Shorewood High Addressing all the above issues ... Sports ac@vi@es School

845 Parent Shorewood High All high school teachers need to use a the same means School of scheduling and assignments with the canvas calendar. My son is a freshman. His expecta@on was that there were zero expecta@ons for learning and that school in this format not really maDer. I finally downloaded the Student version of canvas so I can keep up with what was going on. The adult version definitely needs to have assignment access w distance learning! He’s very comfortable with online “learning.†Parent Shorewood High An environment that affords our kids the ability to School learn and interact with teachers to be prepared as much as possible for college. we dont think email instruc@on format would suffice. It has to be live streaming/interac@on, if not in classroom. Parent Shorewood High As a parent of a high school student, my top concern is I understand that the elementary students need to be in the School to make sure they are learning the material that is class as parents have to work, but strongly feel that it is unfair needed to build on for for the next level of classes and to our high/middle school students if you send back for college prep. I'm not confident that the distance elementary but make high/middle school distance learn. The learning that happened this year resulted in them classroom experience is also very important for them as it learning all of the content from those courses and that allows them to share different viewpoints on subject and concerns me for future class work. In addi@on, not provides socializa@on opportuni@es that teens need. And having a structured school day allows the kids to not there are many classes that can't be fully experienced put focus on their work and in the end results in them without having in class @me (science labs, foreign languages, not spending the @me they should on it. As a parent, I art, etc). Please focus on finding a way to get all levels back tried to encourage a schedule, but it's difficult to to the classroom at least on a part @me basis. manage when I'm also working. I don't think the distance learning this spring was structured enough and had enough expecta@ons (and I understand why, but can't be long term). I think that if we are distance learning, they need to have at least twice weekly mandatory zooms for each class where they interact and learn together, just like in the classroom.

846 Parent Shorewood High As a parent of a rising senior my hope is my student The state or federal government should shoulder some of the School will have rigorous coursework to prepare him for responsibility for meals and such. Unfortunately there is no college. I think he is learning independence and some one at the top willing to provide clear leadership which has a responsibility but it is VERY important that assignments trickle down effect on funding and support and guidelines. are graded and expecta@ons set early on for Not something Shoreline can solve on our own, so vote in aDendance and performance. No wishy washy November, friends. expecta@ons but clear virtual learning guidelines. ADendance should be expected. Perhaps lessons can be recorded while being taught live (as some colleges are doing.) Students could choose to aDend live class/ lesson virtually or watch recorded lesson at on their own later. Not saying lessons should be interac@ve so much (like zoom) but aDended live, maybe with breakout rooms following ajer. Classes with labs that require in person teaching should get priority at the high school level. Addi@onally it would be helpful if work, assignments are posted in the same way by most teachers (through same pla[orm) so we don't have to search for assignments. Parent Shorewood High Assurance that students and staff will be safe from Remote instruc@on did not work for my high school student. School contrac@ng Covid-19 when schools re-open. He is at risk to not graduate next spring. Zoom mee@ngs held early in the morning were ridiculous. The number of Emails from the school was overwhelming. My son is not engaged in school when it’s taught remotely. Parent Shorewood High At home learning will con@nue for us if there isn't a School vaccine. If the SD can't supply distance learning, with in person class @me, then I'll have to home school my student. That's a burden for someone working full @me. If distance learning IS offered in the Fall, I expect more required mee@ngs/interac@ons. Parent Shorewood High Back to schools. School

847 Parent Shorewood High Being that my children are in high school, it is very 1. If home learning is to happen (which I hope is not the School important they are in class socializing and learning case) all teachers should be on the same page with grading from teachers, especially when the subject maDer is and have specific rules in place for home learning. Work difficult (i.e. math, science) should have point values so students understand the work to be done is important and counts. Giving assignments with 0 point values gives the student the idea that it doesn't need to be completed (this was the case in a few classes this year). 2. Neither of my students liked zoom calls so therefore didn't do them because they were not "required". In the beginning of the quaran@ne, online learning was difficult because it felt like one week the work wasn't required then the next week it was. I felt there were mixed signals about grading policies. 3. We had one HS teacher who wouldn't respond for 2-4 days when my student emailed asking ques@ons. When the teacher did respond, the ques@on was never answered. It was frustra@ng. 4. Rou@ne and schedules with deadlines are very important for our household. 5. Extra curricular ac@vi@es are also very important, especially athle@cs and school dances! These kids need these opportuni@es to socialize and develop friendships before entering the big world. Not all kids are social and so 3 months of not seeing kids is extremely hard. 6. The school district needs to think outside the box when it comes to having school dances, spor@ng events, etc. Ask for parent ideas and volunteers if they need help seyng up these events safely. Social and emo@onal learning is also affected when kids can't par@cipate in these events! Parent Shorewood High BeDer organiza@on/communica@on from school as There needs to be more uniformity in how teachers display School regards assignments and grades. More/con@nued and communicate assignments, missing assignments, grades flexibility and grace for students as regards assignment and handouts. For instance, various teachers may use due dates and grades. Regular zoom or email check- "assignments", "calendar" or "grades" on Canvas or "google ins, individually or in small groups. docs" to communicate missing assignments. This makes it extremely difficult for students (especially those with organiza@onal challenges) and for their parents to support them. If all teachers were following the same procedures, it would be MUCH easier to support students at home.

848 Parent Shorewood High Centralized structure. The blizzard of emails is School overwhelming, par@cularly from many teachers plus administra@on. Parent Shorewood High Child care for our younger child who aDended E PraD It would be nice to have older kids at school even if only in a School preschool. limited basis. Parent Shorewood High Clarity around grading and expecta@ons from the get This was a huge undertaking for the school district. And I School go next year. The uncertainty of whether the grades know teachers had a lot on their plate to figure out in this. could drop or whether something was manditory or Thank you for all you did to finish the year under these not was stressful for my student. A con@nuity on circumstances. In addi@on, would there ever be a thought where assignments are posted and how they are of trying to build a social pla[orm like a Facebook but not submiDed would be a big burden lijed. My student felt Facebook?? One that is specific to the Shorline School District there was a different system for every teacher and he where you could have courses posted within learning groups spent a lot of energy each day figuring out which for each class, a @meline for a class to post discuss to, your system he was trying to navigate for which class he was own video conferencing abili@es, etc? It just seems there working on. More interac@ve learning even through must be an easier way than Canvas to do this. I am seeing this the zoom pla[orm so there is expecta@on of develop more and more as people see the need to move engagement and not just listening in. away from Facebook and create their own social pla[orms and I can see how a school might be able to benefit from this technology. Just a brainstorm idea.

849 Parent Shorewood High Clarity on what will happen this coming school year so Virtual or remote learning has been working very well for our School we can plan accordingly family. Our children have actually been able to complete their assignments and we beleive they are doing well. They have actually been able to spend @me learning extracuricular ac@vi@es in addi@on to the schools curriculm which we really feel is valuable also. For example, drajing, cooking, coding etc. There are several concerns we have about having our kids return to in person school... 1. We are very skep@cal about having to give our kids a covid vaccine that is being rushed at break neck speed. We are honestly more afraid of poten@al side effects rather than the covid 19. 2. Children don't have good hygiene prac@ces and its highly probably that even with social distancing, masks, hand sani@zers etc that the spread can be contained. 3. Wearing a mask all day is preDy rough. Basically breathing in the same air all day long probably isn't the greatest for you either. I think it will be hard for the younger kids to stay focused while having to wear masks, social distance, remember not to touch their faces, wash their hands etc. The learning in class might not be as efficient as it was before this covid crisis. I don't know if the students are being given the full/complete curriculum for a typical school year however if the curriculm has been lightened due to covid I think that the kids can handle more. Usually our kids finish their homework early and spend the rest of the day doing other things. It would be good if teachers could give the parents the curriculum in advance for example 6 months in advance. Parents can help their children to complete their homework and also start looking at future lessons to prepare beDer. We are not sure what the right answer is but we wanted to let you folks know that this remove learning has been working well and we would be fine if it con@nued next school year.

850 Parent Shorewood High Clarity. Con@nue messaging from school and district Some feedback... The district or at least individual schools School leadership. Consistency. Regular messaging need to run teachers through Zoom training. Everything from throughout the summer would be appreciated. how to send/post a link to a specific mee@ng, to keeping the Legi@macy. There are too many helicopter parents in conversa@on going through the awkward conversa@onal this district using social media to arrange 'school' down-beats. Mee@ng links then need to be taken down ajer associated ac@vi@es - based on their children's peer the mee@ng has taken place. For every scheduled Zoom groups. These ac@vi@es don't consider state-mandated mee@ng, a FRESH link needs to be posted at least 24 hours in quaran@ne rules, and in the confusion on whether or advance. Not sent in an email mind you, but POSTED on not they are legi@mate school ac@vi@es, they put our Canvas. Day-of emails can be missed too easily. Zoom children at risk. They need to tamp mee@ngs are not necessary to 'check in' with students. Just like in the business world, any in-person mee@ng whose main agenda item is 'How is everyone doing?'... is not a mee@ng. It's an email. I truly appreciate the efforts of my son's teachers/administra@on to keep learning material coming through on Canvas. At home learning has provided reliable structure to help combat quaran@ne boredom. Parent Shorewood High clear communica@on School Parent Shorewood High Clear communica@on and expecta@ons. For single The high school communica@on from teachers was much School parents that are home schooling and working from beDer than middle school, however it was inconsistent from home it is difficult to plan work arrangements without teachers. Grading was also unclear - why is SeaDle School knowing plans for school in the fall. District grading format (A Grade or Incomplete) different from Shoreline School District? How will this impact universal GPA standards?

851 Parent Shorewood High Clear communica@on is essen@al. With several The Zoom mee@ngs that teachers held seemed to be more School students in the SSD this year (one has just graduated for social purposes, as opposed to learning and lecturing. I do from high school, the other was in middle school), I think that the social @me and interac@ons were helpful to found that communica@on from teachers varied keep the students connected, but I also think there are more greatly. Some teachers seemed much more learning opportuni@es teachers could take advantage of via comfortable with online learning than others, u@lizing Zoom and/or video pos@ngs--at least for the high school the tools they had available very crea@vely. Others students since they all have school-provided technology seemed to struggle, and had difficulty with the online (Chrome books). On a separate note, my family and I really tools. So support and training for the teachers to appreciated the efforts that SWHS staff and student communicate clearly and effec@vely, as well as teach leadership made at the end of the year to help make things crea@vely (to keep the students focused & interested), special for the gradua@ng Seniors. The missed ac@vi@es and seems essen@al. Canvas con@nues to have severe events (Prom, Spree, etc.) are heartbreaking, but the tassel limita@ons from my perspec@ve as a parent. Each toss filmed at the textbook/chromebook drop off, the car teacher uses it differently, and the parent access/view decora@ons, and the cheerful gree@ngs from staff and has its challenges. I cannot always get a clear picture of teachers were much appreciated! The "drive up gradua@on", how my students are doing, especially since some complete with "red carpet" was a great thing, and so much teachers give equal weight to all assignments, while beDer than simply a video of yearbook photos. I cannot wait others have tests/quizzes more heavily weighted than to see the final video on 6/27--many thanks! daily assignments, etc. Also, "home learning" was treated differently by each class--some allowed for points to be earned, while for others it didn't maDer if you completed the home learning or not. That definitely led to some challenging discussions among family members as we tried to clarify what assignments were s@ll outstanding, what was turned in but not yet graded, what was required vs. op@onal, etc.

852 Parent Shorewood High Clear communica@on to families so we understand why We understand this is an unprecedented @me for all school School decisions are being made. We understand the situa@on districts and family situa@ons have changed. That being said may/will change throughout the summer. But please we feel as if the district took a wait and see approach as keep us informed throughout the summer and not just conversa@ons began for the need to leave the building. Ajer provide a final decision in August. students lej the building teachers were not allowed to engage with students and provide learning op@ons for mul@ple weeks. Unless a family was working with their student there was no learning going on during this @me. Once teachers were allowed to engage the direc@on of providing 1-2 lessons a week does not fit what should be the expecta@on at the high school level for con@nued success for students. There is always a range of ability in the classroom and accommoda@ons are given to students who need them. This allows staff to teach to all levels. We are disappointed teachers/students were not allowed that con@nua@on with online/remote learning. We felt all students were brought down to the bare minimum level of learning. The leadership of the district who provided the direc@on for this learning model was a big part in this minimal learning approach. Again this has been a trying @me for all but we hope the district will be beDer prepared this fall if direc@on turns to online/remote learning. Parent Shorewood High Clear expecta@ons that are enforced. It was ridiculous School how loose the educa@on and assignments were. One of the teachers actually said, in email, “I don’t want to do it either. I don’t blame you if you don’t.” A couple others didn’t blatantly say it but the message was clearly the same. It’s preDy hard to enforce assignments and engagement as a parent when that’s the message from the teacher. Except for AP calc and AP physics, all learning stopped in March. Parent Shorewood High Clear informa@on about what to expect in the fall. Our student had very different amounts of 'Home Learning' School assignments in different classes. If home learning con@nues in the fall I think it would be good for the classes to be a bit more uniform in their expecta@ons and work loads.

853 Parent Shorewood High Clearer guidelines from the administra@on, and then School follow through with teachers, on grading, help when addi@onal support is needed to understand the topic, and flexible due dates. Also simplified turn in ways - too many teachers asking for work in too many ways. Parent Shorewood High College prepara@on in classes There was inconsistent method and tools used in Canvas to School communicate assignments my my students teachers. One teacher used an unusual method of communica@on and my daughter had to make up 3 weeks of work. That did not happen with the other 5 teachers. Consistency with how/ where assignments are made would be helpful. Parent Shorewood High College readiness School Parent Shorewood High Communica@on School Parent Shorewood High Concern as my child with a 504 plan enters high school While I am hoping that kids can go back to school in the fall School and how his learning during this @me will affect his like normal - I don't believe given the forecasts that is likely. I grades/transcripts for college admission would like to see either a half day op@on or an every other day op@on mixed in with online work if the kids are going to go back in. This should make it more possible to have smaller class sizes and easier to keep a good social distance. If the kids will be doing online learning - I would like to see kids having a structured schedule where they log into each teacher's class the same way they would if the teacher was teaching a class (like a distance learning class in college) and the class would be taught live. It would be great to have them live for those who can aDend, but also have them recorded so that if a kid is unable to aDend the live class they could listen to the recording and message the teacher with ques@ons. This would give some structure to the day and would most resemble a normal schedule - that way when they return they would be used to the expecta@ons. I would offer flexibility to the deadlines of the assignments either way as this is new for many kids and it is hard to meet the needs of all kids' learning styles.

854 Parent Shorewood High Confidence that my student will remain healthy and School safe from COVID 19. My mother is high risk and I don’t want her exposed to the virus by him aDending school. We all live together. Parent Shorewood High Connec@ng with teachers via zoom helped keep my kid School mo@vated and on track Parent Shorewood High Consistantly in grading at the highschool and School middleschool level Parent Shorewood High Consistency of teacher contact across classrooms. My Teachers and school did a great job. Thank you! School freshman (rising sophomore) would complete assignments, but then forget to check in and then would get marked absent. Things got smoothed out, but star@ng the year with a teacher standard would be best. Parent Shorewood High CONSISTENT policies across the school district. School Middle School students should go to school at Sw & SC. Elementary students should u@lize the new Middle Schools. Parent Shorewood High Con@nue being challenged intellectually, be prepared Shared above School for college, have structured @me during the day. Support use of video for zoom calls - make it required. Need to have a full academic program on line if not back at school. COVID will be with us for several years- we need to learn how to resume life with Reasonable adjustments. Businesses have shown the ability to move to remote work. Schools should be able to do the same, consider par@al in person and remote schedule Parent Shorewood High Con@nue online educa@on. Being consistant in the communica@ons to parents. My child School received a 4.0 GPA. All their school work was complete. I was not impressed with emails saying their online classes/ aDendance were missing/missed. The parents were not aware which classes had online/zoom classes and which ones didn't. If 3 classes were missed, I had no idea which ones, what day of the week they were and at what @me. Not having police officers onsite next year would be another reason I don't want my kid in school.

855 Parent Shorewood High Counseling support, in-person to engage with other Thank you for this survey and asking these very important School students. Being an only child at home and we have to ques@ons. Hope in person schooling can resume this Fall! work being in healthcare is difficult for her not having student interac@on. Parent Shorewood High current, accurate informa@on regarding plans for the School fall as soon as available Parent Shorewood High Daughter accesses many of her therapies through the Safety is the number one priority. Don't rush to reopen if it School school. Those are unavailable right now. isn't safe. Parent Shorewood High Distance learning really didn't work well for my School teenager. He knew that things were "op@onal" and that his grades were not going to suffer if he didn't do the work. I no@ced with the Shorewood H.S. teachers, some of them (math) were very organized and we knew exactly what needed to be done each week. All of the other classes were more vague and not clear. My child lacked confidence in knowing what he needed to do each day. He found canvas confusing during this @me. Parent Shorewood High Do what you can to get them back into school. School Distance learning did not work! While I recognize face masks are necessary for going out in public, and my family always does wear them in public, I would strongly recommend the kiddos NOT wear them, as they are a complete hindrance to the learning environment.

856 Parent Shorewood High During remote learning, I really had to be on my I understand this is uncharted territory but expecta@ons were School student with a schedule and reminders at home. I also not really clear or consistent during remote learning. Some had to physically sit with her and do every lesson. I set teachers followed the official covid rules for assignments and up a screen to show her the lesson videos and went grading that were communicated to us and others did not. through the homework with her. It was very @me My child was never sure if she was doing enough or if it was consuming and took away a lot of my @me working. It all a waste of @me. For instance, in classes she already had an was also really unclear about what was required and A in, she wasn't sure if it maDered if she did anything. In what wasnt. She didn't really things she thought were other classes, it wasn't clear how to increase her grade. Due not required. I think for my kid, we need it to be a dates were ambiguous at @mes and some@mes the bit more structured but s@ll allow a liDle flexibility for assignment direc@ons and expecta@ons were not clear. teens. For instance, a mandatory zoom mee@ng once Also, some teachers did a great job of making remote per week minimum per class that includes instruc@ons learning interes@ng, applicable to what was going on during for assignments, and a par@al quick summary lesson our @me and others did not. Recordings of teachers just (big picture) with clear expecta@ons and deadlines for talking and wri@ng on a board are so incredibly boring. While assignments that they can then go work on crea@ve videos or interac@ve lessons were so much more independently. And the ability to speak with their engaging and interes@ng. I'm hoping more teachers can think teacher quickly for ques@ons, like through direct outside the box a bit next year. Also, there really needs to messaging. But give them maybe some op@ons and be more regular involvent with a school coach or counselor flexibility with @mes and assigment choices. Maybe for my child. Someone to help mo@vate her and keep her on there is a morning class mtg @me and an ajernoon one track, besides just me. They need to be able to correspond for instance so they get a choice. In general I need with my student directly and regularly, as a mentor to her. for her to be able to work more independently on the school work so that I can work. Parent Shorewood High Emo@onal and mental support most especially for all School middle school and high school. This has been a tough @me for them emo@onally and lots of unanswered ques@ons. Having a class discussion about current events will keep them engaged and informed. Parent Shorewood High emo@onal support from friends per my child I have not been recieving certain emails from the school, such School as the link for this survey my email is

Parent Shorewood High Ensuring if we have virtual learning I dont have to School follow 7 different teach instruc@ons, emails, schedules, ext. The teachers for children that have mul@ple classes need to produce ONE cohesive email, schedule, ext so it's easy to see what the student's actual responsibility is that week.

857 Parent Shorewood High Ensuring my son can con@nue to get support services The logis@cs are going to be a challenge and we need to take School and work towards his IEP. I can’t physically assistant this seriously but school needs to open for upperclassmen. his schooling plus work. He I s overwhelmed by online Some are feeling like they will be lej behind as a micro and there were two many communica@ons from so genera@on if school isn’t in some capacity in person. many teachers. It wasn’t un@l Hazard helped us make sense of the week with a google doc that I finally felt a bit more organized. Parent Shorewood High Environment that is safe from COVID 19. School Parent Shorewood High Es el estudio de mi hijo. Si muchà School Parent Shorewood High Everybody doing their best to get public school in Everyone just needs to do their best. Make sure teachers are School person 100% supported and taken care of as well as students Parent Shorewood High Expecta@ons should be outlined per class, how School assignments will be graded, and how the class will be graded overall, and this should be communicated up front. Outline of assignments and what is expected to be due should be outlined and sent out at the beginning of each week. Teachers should check in ojen with students. For children that need extra help with reading, make sure that ALL of the learnings come to them in a form that can be read to them. This was a struggle in some areas during home schooling @me, and ended up taking longer to get started on assignments, which wasted valuable @me.

858 Parent Shorewood High Expecta@ons! We went the school to have high Please have the teachers expect quality work from the School academic expecta@ons, for fear of loss of learning that students, I felt the expecta@ons were too low when it came she will not be able to get back later. She has a lot of to working remotely. I would like to see my daughter be held @me on her hands and can be asked to do a lot more more accountable for learning the material. Also I have no than what they expected. More feedback! I would problem with her being expected to be at virtual school like to see more feedback on the work she turned in, during normal school hours. That is when I would like her to and the chance o resubmit with edits. Especially true complete the school work anyways. with research papers. Some sort of replacement for classroom discussions, could be classroom chatroom or some online format, but a discourse about school topics seems like a huge part of learning about things at this age. It is totally missing. If in person schooling can be focused on ONLY the things they need to do while together with peers and teachers, they can have all "work @me" at home. Meaning, shorter classes, with all paperwork type stuff completed at home and not at school. Parent Shorewood High fast internet and separate computers for each kid I'm concerned about this being her first year of high school School and missing out on that transi@on. Einstein middle school had no school dances and the kids are so excited about high school dances and ac@vi@es. I'm sure dances are out of the ques@on, but other small group ac@vi@es to give them the feeling and excitement of being in high school. The kids also need exercise and sports. She is usually extremely ac@ve and in several sports, but she's been doing nothing this spring. It's very hard to self-mo@vate without the compe@@ve aspect of sports and teammates. How can we get that back?

859 Parent Shorewood High Flexibility of all aspects is most important to me. This My Shorewood High School student had a few really great School not only applies to assignments, due dates and teachers. They showed humanity in their teaching and were schedule, but also the overall delivery of learning. It is incredibly suppor@ve. I feel that they provided the best important to remember that we are not doing this all learning opportunity for her. Teachers that communicated for nothing. We are doing this all because we are very liDle and acted like nothing out of the ordinary were not experiencing unprecedented events. Students need to helpful ( feel like they are seeing and heard in the context of what is going on around them. My daughter found the most success during this @me with teachers that were flexible in their thinking and approach to learning and learning goals. Please take this opportunity to rethink all aspects of our educa@on system to truly meet the needs of students now. Standardiza@on must be a thing of the past (and hopefully for good). Parent Shorewood High Flexible schedule, online weekly assignments Distance learning with some teacher involvement in the School building would work well for my student Parent Shorewood High For kids to return to school. Distance learning is not effec@ve. Also, it would not be School realis@c for our family to have adults at home, especially if childcare is unavailable. The kids need to be back in school. Parent Shorewood High For my son to successfully receive all of his school Too much flexibility all of a sudden is awful for many School district emails. I got some emails from his counselor, students. My son normally has great study habits when he and he found that he wasn't geyng them in his inbox has more of a structured day/schedule. Without a school on Canvas. He could only find emails from his schedule, sports, and music, my son is definitely not being teachers. Messages from his counselor as well as pushed to anywhere near his full poten@al. messages from Marianne Stephens were nowhere to be found, even though the same messages that came into my inbox were clearly addressed to students. Are there seyngs that are prohibi@ng his email account from receiving certain messages? Parent Shorewood High For my students to socialize with their classmates. Thanks for all that you are doing to keep everyone safe! School Parent Shorewood High For our kids to go back to school to LEARN and STAY Virtual learning was a complete failure and incredibly School ENGAGED!! stressful for parents. There was no consistency. Some teachers emailed way TOO MUCH and some teachers did NOTHING AT ALL! The Zoom class @mes kept changing so it was impossible to keep track. No consistency in due dates or “aDendanceâ€

860 Parent Shorewood High For school to not resume in person unless it is really School safe. If school resumes remotely more zoom classes to discuss learning. Maybe these aren't required for all, but students could earn points by par@cipa@ng in that or an online discussion forum for students who aren't able to aDend the zoom mee@ngs. It was helpful for my son to have these in his day/week. Also, it would be extremely helpful if teachers could use canvas and grading in the same way, with assignments and zooms always listed in the calendar and with the weekly schedule laid out in the same place for each class. Parent Shorewood High Forcing masks is not supported by good science and School will nega@vely impact the health of the children. We do not support this. Parent Shorewood High From the educa@on system: online learning has been Under the current condi@ons with the virus s@ll up@cking in School mostly perfected by scores of ins@tu@ons across the numbers of confirmed cases, I don’t see how, school can country. I don’t think public school systems have safely reopen in the fall. That will open the district to huge this figured out very well. If you want to really help our liabili@es for the health of families across the district and students, you need to spend the summer improving state. Which will lead to any number of lawsuits that would the virtual approach instead of trying to open schools inevitably bankrupt state educa@on. As a family, we’ve back up. Trying to replicate the schedule, classroom adhered to quaran@ne very strictly because we have that and instruc@onal techniques used for at-school is not ability. I have respiratory issues that make me especially the approach we need. It needs to be adapted so it vulnerable to becoming sick with just a cold. And if opening clear that it’s a combina@on of self teaching, schools led directly to me becoming exposed to COVID and parental assistance and oversight by teachers. This is becoming ill, I can’t imagine what would happen to my the wrong place and @me for rigidity and inflexibility. family. As I said above, your @me and effort is best Especially for younger children. You’re not teaching expended on improving virtual learning, thinking outside the a class full of kids. You’re teaching a class of 1, even box, addressing the needs of kids not the system. Redirect if everyone is online at once. savings from u@li@es and transporta@on to helping with childcare, expand counseling staff, and inves@ng in a more robust and innova@ve virtual learning experience. Parent Shorewood High From the school - consistent way to find and turn in Thanks for asking! We value health and safety above all else School homework. Six subjects, six teachers, six different ways and will make due with whatever is planned. to find assignments and turn things in - very confusing! Op@onal but added bonus - social @me with other kids and posi@ve support from teachers

861 Parent Shorewood High Get back to a normal school schedule. School Parent Shorewood High Get my kids back to in-school learning when it's safe to School do so. Although, with a 2nd wave of COVID-19 & working parents or single parents I personally feel as if we need to take precau@onary measures - cancel school for next year. I don't think it's feasible to have all of our children wear masks during their school day Parent Shorewood High Get students back into synchronous, structured classes Thanks for asking. School facilitated by live teachers, either in person or online with expecta@ons to do work, meet deadlines, and that they will be graded. Otherwise, my kids won't really do much work. If safety guidelines are met in the school (masks, social distancing, hand washing, etc.), then I would gladly send my students back to face-to-face, in person instruc@on on the school site. Parent Shorewood High Get these kids back in school! School Parent Shorewood High Geyng back to school in person, so that social/ The most difficult part of remote learning was that teachers School emo@onal connec@ons can be restarted. Geyng the placed assignments in different places, so that from week to kids out of the house, so I can have some @me to week it wasn't consistent where to look for homework (in myself. Geyng a vaccine, so that I can go back to work. Canvas it could be in Assignments, Modules, Announcements, etc.) So, having some universal/consistent policies about where homework is placed would help to reduce stress for our kid. Parent Shorewood High Geyng back to school with in person teaching and School hands on learning. The teachers worked very hard, but remote learning wasn’t very beneficial. There really was no actual teaching or instruc@on. Parent Shorewood High Geyng enough instruc@on and guidance on Having modules on Canvas and one place to get assignments School assignments. is the easiest and least confusing format. If there is addi@onal instruc@on or dialog needed then an email is ok. No assignments through email. Parent Shorewood High Go back to in person school School

862 Parent Shorewood High Go to school at least in the morning so I could possibly Your opinion and management of masks because one is School go back to work, too. breathing the carbon dioxide by wearing masks for many hours a day. I am assuming no sports and at least short recess to get fresh air in an organized way? Parent Shorewood High Going back to school. The format of working from Thanks for being open-minded and doing all you can. School home requires too much self-mo@va@on for my son. I am not worries about him geyng Covid at all. He is tough but his brain needs aDen@on. Plus the missing social element is a tragedy. Parent Shorewood High Good communica@on Access to teachers if there is Some teachers were beDer at others in engaging this Spring. School remote learning in the fall Those who were consistent, reliable, and well communicated expecta@ons had the most success. I work from home. I am not equipped or able to homeschool at the same @me, or be expected to. Fortunately, my student is in high school, so I did not have the burden that those with younger children did. Teachers should be more available (during school hours) to help. I got the impression, many were not available, maybe because of their own family's needs during this unprecedented @me. However, if we have remote learning in the fall, this should be addressed. Parent Shorewood High Have a plan place!!! Have a plan in place! School Parent Shorewood High Having the school district create a plan for fall where Thanks, this pandemic has been hard for everyone involved! School my Shorewood student could aDend school at least How about 9th and 10th graders MWF of one week, 11th and part-@me or every other day with at-home instruc@on 12th graders TTh and then keep switching? Hall commo@on included. He did not do well to read assignments and would be limited. Masks, and cleaning of surfaces.....Kids tackle them. He almost always got frustrated. Being could bring their own water boDles and lunches or receive a with teachers at least some of the @me would be bagged lunch if on school lunch program. My kid really beDer for him. Some social contact with a group of needs to get back to school even with these kinds of limits. kids would be best. He has an IEP and I bet if he had (will be10th grader) three classes to tackle that would've been beDer for him. But that probably is not possible. He currently does not have the organiza@onal skills to tackle six classes on line. With parent help, he was able to get grades in beDer shape. I think keeping hands and surfaces clean, wearing masks would work. Every other day would be great!

863 Parent Shorewood High Health and safety for all. Google classroom is beDer than Canvas for submiyng School assignments. Parent Shorewood High Health safety for all School Parent Shorewood High Health, safety and support for what works best for my My child loved home learning and did very well with being School child able to have teacher contact when needed, knowing "due dates" well ahead of @me and the school issues chromebook at home. It really took the away the social pressure of large classrooms, she could get the sleep she needed instead of waking up early and the op@on of Zoom contact with her teachers was helpful. She really thrived and enjoyed learning much more. Parent Shorewood High Home learning is not really learning for my child. Hr School needs school aDendance with home assistance Parent Shorewood High Hot spot, I requested a hotspot at the very beginning School and was offered a laptop. I emailed a reply that I needed a hotspot and a laptop did absolutely no good if my student connect to the internet. The reply I recieved was no hotspots were available which made the online learning almost impossible for my student

864 Parent Shorewood High I am apprecia@ve of the observance and integra@on of I know that this is hard work with big decisions to be made. School recommended health guidelines in order to keep our You will not be able to please everyone. Many people are students safe and produc@ve at school. At the @me of voicing the issues of personal liber@es and rights at this @me, this wri@ng (June 23), COVID-19 cases across the U.S. and I get those concerns - but the reality is that we are in a are s@ll increasing. We need to assume that to some middle of a global pandemic. Please con@nue to move forth degree, if not up to 100%, of distance learning will be on that basis (global pandemic). Thank you for reaching out needed in the 2020-21 academic year; therefore, I do to us in the community for our feedback. We look forward to expect the district to offer flexible choices among our hearing of the next steps. students and their families to integrate into their schedules and home environments. I would really like to see, on behalf of my son, who will be a new freshman at SW this fall: 1) synchronous ("live") teaching/learning ac@vi@es between teachers and students at least twice a week across the core subjects (ELA, math, social sciences, science) 2) alterna@ve op@ons for science labs that would normally be part of the curriculum (or the removal of this as a course requirement, if possible, but that would be a last resort) 3) the use of open spaces (such as the outdoors) in early fall and late spring to accommodate choir, P.E. and band ac@vi@es - as long as the weather is conducive 4) enrichment ac@vi@es and student organiza@ons to meet either virtually (if nothing else) or to gather in small groups (following safety protocols) - in an effort to connect like-minded peers who have similar interests and passions Parent Shorewood High I am deeply concerned about how the students can I appreciate that this is really hard to manage and you are School stay safe in a stricty inside school and having to pass on doing the best. And, I think our kids' educa@on is going to two flights of stairs to get to class. I'm already seeing con@nue to suffer, especially at the high school level, without how liDle care high school students are taking with highly structured days and teachers actually teaching if they social distancing. It won't be long before COVID is have to be at home. Self-learning is not working. My spreading around the school. At the same @me, I children are in a privileged situa@on. I'm even more know these students' educa@on is suffering due to not concerned for those children from marginalized communi@es. being in school and ac@vely taught. They are choosing I can't begin to imagine how their educa@on is suffering and what they want to do and not do, especially because yet they need the boost more than anyone. their grades couldn't go down. I would be surprised if my son retained much, if anything. I'm most concerned about math as it is cumula@ve.

865 Parent Shorewood High I am responding with my "Treehouse hat on". this is As an Educa@on Specialist for youth who have experienced School . Please feel free to contact me for foster care, it is my job to work with each youth on my more informa@on caseload 1x minimum per week. This was done primarily - I'm filling out through zoom and tex@ng. I worked with 3 youth at this survey in an aDempt to get my perspec@ve out Shorecrest and 14 youth at Shorewood. For each youth, I there and I'm not sure how else to do so. I'm happy to access their Canvas at least each week. This means I was provide clarifica@on or more informa@on at any @me checking on 100+ unique canvas classes each week. This gives me a BROAD view of how students are being served or impacted by the processes in place. I want to provide some details about the contrast between the buildings and their expecta@ons/prac@ces. First of all, I want to make sure to CALL OUT the amazing job that teachers have done at both buildings. I have some thoughts that could be construed as nega@ve and that concerns me. This informa@on is not meant to be cri@cal of any one teacher or the staff/admin in general. They have ALLLLL been amazing to work with. Here are my observa@ons. ***Shorecrest*** Shorecrest moved ALL remote learning to a MODULE SYSTEM. Shorecrest teachers were REQUIRED to do so. Shorecrest teachers allowed the Admin to communicate the remote learning plan and then each and every teacher (18) put the expecta@ons at the top of their Modules. Shorecrest teachers communicated their ZOOM class appointments and office hours in mul@ple places. Shorecrest communicated a SCHOOLWIDE policy on when deadlines were for 3 different phases of work. 1) pre-closure 2) April sort of warm-up remote learning 3) New Learning This was incredibly helpful. Each class was treated the same way and youth could request excep@ons. But, the basic policy was consistent and easy to remember. Some Shorecrest departments standardized their expecta@ons and then communicated them. (Math, for example) Shorecrest teachers limited the way they communicated with students. For example, a teacher can communicate by: Email, Canvas Email, Announcements, Modules, individual assignments, Class calendars, home page calendars, and the home page in general. Shorecrest standardized the way they would make new informa@on known. As a result of these prac@ces, Treehouse youth needed less interven@on AND, fewer interven@ons from me to know what to do and by when to do 866 Parent Shorewood High I am very high risk so if my son goes back to school face School to face in the fall, there beDer be some very strict guidelines in place Parent Shorewood High I am very worried about the health risks that my child I am also concerned about the staff. Some staff have health School will be under if she returns in the Fall for school. She problems, what will happen to them? What if they get sick has asthma and other serious allergies that are life from this disease? How will you care for them? It isn't their threatening to her. Many @mes when she catches what fault for geyng this horrible disease, I hope that they aren't we call a liDle cold, her's turns into something more penalized for something that they can't control than a 'liDle common cold'. She gets very sick and ends up missing a great deal of school. She is very worried about her health and the effects of the COVID-19 disease. She is immune compromised and already very sickly. She'd rather learn from home than to be worried about whether she will live or die from possibly catching this disease is what I am hearing from her. My daughter is not a slacker, she is a 4.0 student who works very hard and diligent for her grades, so it isn't that she wants the easy way out but she does know what is best for her in order to learn. Not only that I too am worried because I have Lupus and a history of childhood asthma. I also am worried that if she comes home and brings the infec@ous disease home to me, what will happen to me? I am the sole provider of my kids at this moment. Her brother is a 2020 graduate from Shorewood and is soon to aDend SCC. They need me as I also need them. So I feel that to remote learning is best for our family.

867 Parent Shorewood High I appreciate the huge effort suddenly put into distance School learning this year but children and teens simply don't learn well this way. I ask that school return to in- person next year. The distance learning was very hard on the kids, both academically and socially, and I fear for their growth and mental health if another long shut-down occurs. Obviously some steps may be needed to limit the spread of Covid-19 such as masks and taking some steps to separate students, and some ac@vi@es might not return. Many reputable scien@fic ar@cles say that kids are at much lower risk of geyng the disease or spreading it than adults. Obviously some faculty and some student's family are higher risk of the disease, and I hope the School District can mi@gate these risks while s@ll allowing in-person school for 2020-2021. Thanks for asking our opinion! Parent Shorewood High I believe we need to get our kids back in school. This will be detrimental to kids if we don’t get them back School Keeping them mo@vated is a full @me job and my on a schedule. In my opinion, the risk of COVID-19 is husband and I have full @me jobs. Keeping them off extremely small compared to the risk of emo@onal, academic other websites like YouTube is a constant burden. They and mental delays and problems. don’t have the self discipline to do school online and I think very few kids do. The middle school had almost no teacher connec@on through videos or zoom. The canvas assignments and communica@on for Einstein and Shorewood were absolutely a puzzle. Every teacher (yes that is 18 teachers for my family) puts their communica@on and assignments in a different spot. My kids were on their computers working 5 days a week all day and s@ll didn’t get half of what they are supposed to done.

868 Parent Shorewood High I don’t think it is safe for the kids to wear masks for School the length of a regular school day. I personally have no issues of illness and I’m pro mask, yet at the end of a 40 minute grocery ou@ng, I can’t wait to get to my car so I can take that mask off- because I feel a bit light headed. My daughter needs social interac@on! Teens are really having a hard @me! It would be ideal to try a half day a few @mes a week so they can receive instruc@ons in person and see their peers. Parent Shorewood High I don't know yet. School

869 Parent Shorewood High I expect if there will be online school this coming fall, I would strongly suggest that during in person or on line class, School need the following areas to support the students: 1. A teacher should not include any of her opinion on poli@c view structured school day and meet online during the class to the student. It's was@ng student's @me. School should be a in a regular certain @me, daily. 2. A clear weekly plan place to study not to listen to teacher personal poli@c point of from teacher to be published to student not later than view. Thursday for the next Monday class. 3. A clear to the point, short email about daily plan from teacher. 4. Teacher commitment to response back to student's ques@on or should open online daily office hour in certain @mes so student who need more help or ques@on can meet teacher during open office hour. 5. Video created by the teacher that related to the lecture given on that day / chapter on that day. It will be great if on the weekly teaching plan already come with what student need to study/read to include day and date and video related to the lecture by the teacher. Below is also important: Too many links and video links to student from many different sources and too many very long emails with too many links will only confusing to student and made student lose interest to even read the email nor to understand which video to watch. Video link should only related to only one link related to the lecture plan to discuss for the date/week and specify for when? SUGGESTION : The best is video link created by the teacher. I suggest to refer to videos and how prompt she response to her students. I wish that all teacher as compassionate and dedicated like her. Very structure, responsible to her lecture and her students and dedicated to her job. Thumb Up to during Covid-19.

870 Parent Shorewood High I feel in person teaching is necessary to provide a more School structured and rou@ne environment to promote learning academically. It’s difficult for parents to provide this learning atmosphere when both parents are working. Also there needs to be implementa@on of guidelines on precau@ons taken ie assessing symptoms, taking temperature and wearing masks of each individual coming to school and encouraging students to prac@ce social distancing. Parent Shorewood High I felt that the school district telling the students that School the work was not going affect their grades other than improve it, it became license @ do not much at all. In fact I read one of my students instagram posts saying “ I don’t have to do anything now for months†Parent Shorewood High I have to say that had one of teachers really School care she was there and gave Assignments did quizzes did Screen Time zooms at least once a week to the teachers really didn’t give a crap and he didn’t really get a whole lot from the other teachers so one out of six I think is really crummy for a high school student to finish their high school year out with one out of six teachers his chemistry teacher was really awesome and she at least sounded and acted like she cared Parent Shorewood High I hear a lot of chaDer about geyng elementary Yes. If remote learning is required in the Fall, I want to see School students in the classroom. Ridiculous! They can learn our students required to checkin for mul@ple classes each day the alphabet and add/sub from PBS. We must get the for accountability. Teachers should do their job and teach a high schoolers back in the classroom. These students class via Microsoj Teams pla[orm which allows a teacher to have gradua@on requirements to meet. Please help us teach a live class (not a prerecorded video) and interact with help them get ready for the real world and college. students in real @me. Students should be assigned daily homework, again to be accountable. Students should be graded for homework, quizzes and tests. Forget the “everybody gets an A for effortâ€

871 Parent Shorewood High I need my child to have one on one @me with his It was nice having more @me in the day for my child to work School instructors for help with his assignments, especially on schoolwork instead of being in school for 6 hours and then mathema@cs. Neither full classroom or distance having Several hours of homework, my child had only several learning work well for him in that subject. hours of schoolwork every day. I would love to see some combina@on of classroom and distance learning for next year. Parent Shorewood High I need the teachers to assign work that is required and Please do not dumb down our high school students. They ALL School will effect their grade. High school kids shouldn't be (race, gender, age) need someone, other than authority at reminded over and over again that their grade will not home, to hold them accountable, teach them that life is go down. My son ended with all A's (what he had when tough but when you work hard, do what's right and be kind school closed) but honestly didn't learn much and you will succeed no maDer your race, gender or age. didn't turn much in. He is very fortunate to have support at home, however, when we ask him why an assignment hasn't been turned in and his reply is my teacher says it's not necessary, grades can't go down and I have all As. What is his support supposed to say? He's right but what is that teaching him and all the other students. Parent Shorewood High I need to be regularly informed about how things are I am amazed at how differently each teacher used canvas for School progressing in the planning of returning to school this last quarter. Every single week it was like reinven@ng the wheel trying to figure out where and when the zoom classes would be, what the assignment was, and what the expecta@ons were for my child. If we have to go to online school again I am begging you to standardize this with the teachers. I want to be able to go the same place on each page to find the zoom informa@on. This was so maddening

872 Parent Shorewood High I need to know that the District is planning for the If you are even considering in person instruc@on this fall, then School possibility that distance learning will be necessary at you had beDer be planning on Daily ADesta@ons - every least in the Fall. I need to know that part of the equity student has to aDest to the checklist of items - no fever, no ques@on will be equity for families at high risk for COVID 19 exposure, no symptoms - every day. We can no COVID 19; that it is important to find solu@ons for longer have students, teachers or faculty coming in sick students who need tech solu@ons for equitable (because everyone does). Distance learning will have to be in distance learning while also keeping in mind that there place for anyone that has any sickness symptoms but that can are students in high risk categories and students that s@ll do school work. Teachers will need alterna@ve ways to have family members at high risk, so how is in person teach their classes when they cannot physically come in to learning going to be equitable for them. I need to know work because they have symptoms of any illness. And then that beDer solu@ons are being sought because the way you need to figure out contact tracing. When someone tests it went this Spring was NOT successful. I need you posi@ve, how will you contact people that have been in know that the communica@ons this spring were contact with that student, how will you know based on inconsistent, and that teachers were NOT reaching out hallway passing or "hanging out" in the commons? How are to my student. We received emails suddenly saying you going to enforce masks? Though surface transmissions that my student was not engaged. HUH? Teachers appear to be low, the aerosol transmission is HIGH explained this was now a required thing they had to par@cularly indoors, and students s@ll don't get that though do. One teacher said she was surprised my student they may not be at high risk, it is contact that spreads it to hadn't been doing assignments yet had not once tried those who are. I just hope that we will be beDer than the to contact my student, the first we heard was through State OSPI, who seems to have thrown in the towel on these emails saying my student was not engaged. We distance learning and does not seem to fully understand the had good teachers, that reached out, had plans, did threats posed by students being in school. The threats to work. And then we had teachers that did very liDle. their families, the teachers, faculty and staff. We've got 3 months to prepare, I hope you will consider tapping your community resources and not limit yourselves in this @me of great need. Thank you. Parent Shorewood High I think my child's teachers did an outstanding job of I applaud all the efforts the school district has tried in School communica@ng and trying to engage students. My engaging students under these very challenging @mes. child has been depressed, lacked mo@va@on, and is definitely a student who does much much beDer when they have a structured day with clear accountability. My child did the bare minimum and it was sad as they were really doing well (overall) before Covid hit. My child is also an athlete and thrives on the physicality of sports and the structure. Part of my child's depression and lack of mo@va@on came from not seeing friends and par@cipa@ng in sports.

873 Parent Shorewood High I think that for the upcoming school year, my child I appreciate the district's cau@ous approach and hope that School would need to be held accountable (somehow) to this survey will be taken into account when making a final "come" to class in whatever form that the school decision. district decides on for fall. At home there are a lot of distrac@ons that hinder my child's learning, he's bright but lacks the mo@va@on and needs the structure of a school schedule and people around him to "go" to class every day. Parent Shorewood High I think the highschool students need a more structured School day with required aDendance and par@cipa@on. Parent Shorewood High I want instruc@on at a set @me every day if they are not School in school with a teacher teaching lessons and knows who is there. Zoom or what ever. Parent Shorewood High I want my children to return to school and con@nue School their educa@on Parent Shorewood High I want to make sure my child is moving forward in School school. Compared to friends at private school, she wasn't geyng the material she needed, with the excep@on of history. Even then, because the other students weren't necessarily showing up, it was difficult for her to take it seriously. Parent Shorewood High I would like my child to see/hear from all teachers We were very disappointed on how long it took to get online School every week, not just some (Zoom required at least instruc@on going. Valuable @me wasted. But now that once/twice a week). More assignments/challenging we’ve been though it, I hope that by the @me school work. Reading requirements, quizzes, papers all can be starts up again, there is no delay and flip flopping. Online done remotely. More check-ins. Stricter deadlines and learning can work and students can and should be expected more structure. Pre-recorded lessons. Required Zoom to work just as hard as they do in the classroom and should aDendance. Small group discussions on Zoom. As close be given all the necessary resources to do so. Realis@cally to in-classroom experience and expecta@ons as online learning will happen in the Fall, hopefully along with possible. And right away, no delays. Ready on day one. in-person learning, so we must make it work. Parent Shorewood High I would like reasonable precau@ons to be made for I received many phone calls. Some I appreciated, but I am School cleanliness, but feel students should be back in school not sure the calls I got about aDendance were all accurate. in the fall.

874 Parent Shorewood High I would love for our kids to have in person learning. If I REALLY appreciate all that the Shoreline School District did, School that is not going to be possible, Online teaching/ and all the effort that was made to develop learning and classes need to be structured and live. Teacher/ modules for the spring. I understand that this scenario was student interac@on is absolutely necessary. The crisis not one that any of us thought could happen a year ago, and learning model from this spring was not something am thankful for all of the planning in a short amount of @me anyone (admin, teachers, students) would look to as a to make the spring s@ll happen. If a return to school in the sustaining model. It was important for that period of fall is not possible, I would deeply appreciate more @me, however, if the dura@on of schooling will be interac@ve online classes and content. The zoom mee@ngs at online, it needs to have more structure, live learning, the high school level were not produc@ve, and never included and interac@on on a regular basis (not just zoom check rolling out new content or learning. If classes could be held ins and office hours). online, and recorded and available for playback for those that cannot aDend during that @me, would be much more conducive to my student's learning style. Parent Shorewood High I would love for our kids to have in person learning. If I REALLY appreciate all that the Shoreline School District did, School that is not going to be possible, Online teaching/ and all the effort that was made to develop learning and classes need to be structured and live. Teacher/ modules for the spring. I understand that this scenario was student interac@on is absolutely necessary. The crisis not one that any of us thought could happen a year ago, and learning model from this spring was not something am thankful for all of the planning in a short amount of @me anyone (admin, teachers, students) would look to as a to make the spring s@ll happen. If a return to school in the sustaining model. It was important for that period of fall is not possible, I would deeply appreciate more @me, however, if the dura@on of schooling will be interac@ve online classes and content. The zoom mee@ngs at online, it needs to have more structure, live learning, the high school level were not produc@ve, and never included and interac@on on a regular basis (not just zoom check rolling out new content or learning. If classes could be held ins and office hours). online, and recorded and available for playback for those that cannot aDend during that @me, would be much more conducive to my student's learning style. Parent Shorewood High I’m impressed with how well Shorewood implemented I would like to see this @me as an opportunity for my child to School distance learning. be included in Gen Ed with less special ed. Parent Shorewood High If in-person learning resumes, students need to be School distanced and wearing masks un@l the pandemic is under control. If home learning is con@nued, strict due dates and aDendance should be enforced as it is with aDending school under normal circumstances. Clear expecta@ons, homework and teacher presenta@ons are crucial.

875 Parent Shorewood High If online learning, video lessons that can be accessed Would like to see math and science done at school and the School and watched at a convenient @me. Then follow up other classes Online if necessary. zoom or office hour mee@ng to answer ques@ons from the video. Higher expecta@ons from the teachers for the students for their work turned in. Regular zoom hours instead of at different @mes Or days each week . Parent Shorewood High If students are to return to online learning, clear School informa@on on assignments and use of CANVAS and online tools would be needed. Each teacher had several different resources and videos and links, and it wasn't clear what was expected and what was suggested. Teachers used CANVAS differently, as well. Trying to manage that for 6 different classes for each student was difficult and was the main reason engagement was low. Parent Shorewood High If there is distance learning next year, I think there School should be more structure and guidelines for the teachers to provide informa@on to students in a more consistent manner. Also, aDendance and a regular schedule for class mee@ngs (ie, Zoom) should be required. Links for videos, zoom mee@ngs and assignments should be easier to find. A weekly schedule with assignments and due dates would be extremely helpful. These should be required and graded. Parent Shorewood High If there is no in person instruc@on provide a list of Zoom sessions should match their class schedule.Replay School tutors for math and science. availability of Zoom sessions.Online learning should be available any@me, so kids could access if they missed it. Live Zoom sessions for instruc@on 2 @mes a week. Parent Shorewood High In person classroom learning, engagement from I feel high school students need on-site, in person classroom School teachers and with peers. Con@nue involvement with learning to keep engaged academically and socially (and school (sports) mental health concerns). Parent Shorewood High In person if it’s safe Regular class zooms with teacher My children have some anxiety around covid-19. Our School lectures Regular subject @mes daily daughter who will be going to Einstein is a type 1 diabe@c and we want to Mae sure she is safe. Parent Shorewood High In person instruc@on School

876 Parent Shorewood High In person instruc@on School Parent Shorewood High In person learning and structure. This is very important If possible please allow some sort of extracurricular ac@vi@es, School on many levels. Even if we can only do it half of the ajer school athle@cs etc. This helps keep the kids focused @me, the full online model for teenagers did not work and out of trouble. well in our house. Please have at least some physical in person por@on of school. Maybe a hybrid model where each week it alternates who is physically aDending. For some students, full online does not give the direc@on and guidance afforded by in person contact with teachers. Developing teenagers need the social interac@on and environment to keep them on track. I think the simplest way to do this is have two or three groups of students and rotate through each week who is aDending physically and who is online. This will greatly help ground the students and keep them on task. Require online students to aDend class at same @me and par@cipate virtually. Parent Shorewood High In person learning, access to sports and ac@vi@es, School ability for teenagers to socialize in a way that isn't all screen based. Parent Shorewood High In person school. Fulfill your obliga@on to educate. Other schools will able to provide zoom instruc@on within a School week or two of schools closing. We were very disappointed in Shoreline School's abdica@on of their role in educa@on. It felt like 'every child lej behind.' When zoom was finally used it was to talk about feelings, never to learn something new. Other school districts figured out how to educate, why couldn't you? Parent Shorewood High In school learning and socializa@on. Thank-you for working on geyng students back to school. School Parent Shorewood High Informa@on before fall that shows evidence / School prepara@ons to be safe to open schools. Parent Shorewood High Informa@on. Even it that is, "We don't know, yet." Not I believe in person should be used for social/emo@onal School having any contact added to stress and confusion. needs, first. Our students need peer group interac@on, and support for the stress, anxiety, and confusion of the @me, right now.

877 Parent Shorewood High In-person learning. We are considering an E-learning op@on, because we are School nervous online school will return to what it was due to Covid-19 cases. We feel our child needs a more robust, structured on-line experience. If days are split, our family would prefer a pm slot & maybe keep students that have been hanging out together in the summer together during the school year. Maybe create pods of students. Parent Shorewood High In-person teacher-led teaching with clear expecta@ons I hope overall the school system is looking at systemic failures School for our kids and clear consequences. These past three in mo@va@ng kids to learn, and be self-mo@vated learners months were a disaster for our kids as they are not instead of test-learners. I feel sorry for teachers who have to self-mo@vated and online learning didn’t work for uphold a system that is broken and who are geyng evaluated them (which has a lot to do with them but also with based on their students test performance. how schools are mo@va@ng kids and what schools are focusing on, namely: tests, ojen content that is not relevant to their lives, ....). Parent Shorewood High In-person, at-school lessons, even if it means wearing School face masks all day. My child really misses seeing teachers & friends in person. Parent Shorewood High needs to know what is expected of him. He has The online textbooks are EXTREMELY frustra@ng to use. School trouble naviga@ng several classes at once with different Please give us books. Downloading assignments, prin@ng expecta@ons in each. Each class has different ways to them, doing the work on paper, and then scanning them to get assignments and to complete them and he has upload somewhere is an enormous hassle. Please find online trouble discovering what he is supposed to do. curriculum that students can work online (typing), rather than on paper. Maybe excep@ng mathema@cs. The Chromebook is cheap and frustra@ng to use, but s@ll way more capable than iPad I've seen previously. Would like to see a real computer. Parent Shorewood High keep the kids and the staff safe. enhance the online School teaching so that ready if needed for next year. Parent Shorewood High Keeping everybody safe School Parent Shorewood High Keeping everyone safe School Parent Shorewood High Keeping informed/updated. School

878 Parent Shorewood High Keeping them engaged in learning. Educa@onal Games like they have at Sylvan, Would greatly School benefit my student. This helps with Severe ADD Parent Shorewood High Kids must go back to school They are very stress Kids are crazy if let them home school like this No good School hopeless and anxiety when home school They must Schools must reopen and teach them as usual Thanks see teacher in person Please reopen school This is way too much!!!! Thx Parent Shorewood High Kids need to be produc@ve and learning. ADendance I know it’s hard for parents and teachers but we need to School The same pla[orm Well schedule classes Clear do our best to educate our kids to make them ready for expecta@ons to parents and students More than college and universi@es. I hope we will have a beDer schedule anything ADendance and expecta@ons have to be clear and expecta@ons for next school year. Students need to learn every day and follow their schedule just as they are in a school seyng. This is if it’s going to be in virtual learning. Thank you for all your hard work you’re done for the kids. Be healthy and safe. Parent Shorewood High Kids need to get back in school. Parents can't go back School to work with kids s@ll at home -- companies are not so understanding about parents working from home with children also being home schooled, though they pretend they are. There are studies from other countries showing the infec@ons in school environments is not as much as would be expected. Things need to move forward. The cost of the response may be outweighing parts of the costs of the disease. Parent Shorewood High Kids need to go back to school and all grade levels If we repeat the same model of distance learning i would School need to have some.comparable structure. There can't moat likely withdraw my children. be complete teacher discre@on for schedules workloads and expecta@ons. Having 3 grade levels and 15 teachers created total inconsistency and wasmt even possible to manage it all. Even the messaging was completely conflic@ng and we even@ally felt we had no choice but to almost give up en@rely on aDemp@ng to par@cipate.

879 Parent Shorewood High Know what to expect from school for my child so I It would be nice to receive a list of things explaining ahead of School know how to help and support him. As he needs @me what to expect on distance learning requirements so I explaining instruc@ons in details. know what to expect from my child. I didn’t know what my child’s daily responsibili@es were un@l he has missed assignments. I rather know ahead than receive no- engagement email ajer the fact. Thank you Parent Shorewood High La salud de mi hijo Shorewood es una muy buena escuela. Mi hijo se ha sen@do School apoyado todo el @empo. Parent Shorewood High Less piled on work of 4 teachers expec@ng their class Submit the whole quarters work at once so you can see School being the most important. Too many bulky whats expected. Get rid of the duck hunt for points style. assignments that once you slip behind you have to Finish lesson before unlocking next. So you cant skip aheD either forget it or focus on it to catch up then your and pick and choose what work you do. Finish something other classes get neglected. means you learn it vs skipping around. But seeing whats next to come to work through what you are ha@ng to get to something more enjoyable vs stagna@ng and giving up. Parent Shorewood High Limi@ng our son's exposure. Crea@ng a schedule that Concern for the safety of my son and our family is our top School would limit his @me on campus and in classrooms. priority. With an immunosuppressed family member in our home, we are concerned about the amount of exposure he will have each day. We are currently looking into running start to help curb @me spent on campus. If it would be possible to create a hybrid mix of in person and online, that would help. As a college instructor myself, I understand the difficul@es in doing this. I would hope that the hands on learning courses (labs, arts, culinary, band etc.) would get priority for on ground instruc@on and academic content courses might be able to have a hybrid or fully online op@on. It would be nice to provide op@ons for students much like the community colleges are offering. However, I do understand that giving students op@ons doesn't help teachers who may not have a choice. I believe the teachers should have a voice in this decision making at every turn. Thank you for being so diligent about keeping us informed. Be well. Parent Shorewood High Live Zoom type mee@ngs with teachers at the same School @me he would be in the classroom if in person learning isn’t available in the fall. Only 1 of his teachers had zoom mee@ngs. I feel it was highly under u@lized.

880 Parent Shorewood High Lo que me preocupa es que mi hijo hacà Serà School Parent Shorewood High Lots of structure. My oldest aDended online school 1 Virtual learning is not for everybody. My son struggled with it School year (connec@ons academy) and they had a very good and did not feel like he learned much. He had a hard @me structure on how the day was planned out for older engaging. Structure and clear expecta@ons will be important kids. It was very clear what they were expected to do for next year and when. Parent Shorewood High Making sure our student will be able to graduate next Thank you for all the work that has been done during this School June unprecedented @me to provide students with learning opportuni@es. Well done! Parent Shorewood High Mee@ng gradua@on requirements and actually Only some teachers provided weekly Zoom mee@ngs- all School obtaining the needed knowledge to advance to next classes need to have weekly scheduled zoom classes in order levels- at home learning could be beDer implemented to maintain connec@on and interest and accountability with structured class @mes, “live†Parent Shorewood High Mi hija me comento que para ella fue difà se me hizo muy difà School Parent Shorewood High More "virtual" contact with their teacher! My kids I said a strict schedule above because that is what works for School need that connec@on with their teacher. They need my kids. They do NOT thrive with loose schedules. I know their teacher to teach the lessons, not teach other students do and I wonder if there could be two op@ons. themselves. Teacher checks in at the high school level are cri@cal. Students need to know their child cares, has expecta@ons for them, and believes they can do the work and will offer support when needed. Teachers need to be on the same page across departments. Two of my kids took the same class. One had a lot of work and was graded much harder. The other teacher had led work and was more flexible in grading. In the end, one of my kids was penalized because of this. Child 1 did less work and got higher grade. The fall needs to have requirements that are known from the start and common across departments. If the CC was not on an alternate schedule, I would have my kids do running start because of this. They love SW though and will want to return in some capacity. Some teachers were truly phenomenal and reached out regularly, kept the parents updated and even called to check in. This meant the world to the success for one of my kids. MORE teacher presence please at the secondary level. It is a must for kids.

881 Parent Shorewood High More communica@on on "how" you plan to: - open I feel as if the at home teaching for my highschool student School the schools - address more stringent educa@on that was a waste of her @me and efforts. She was not challenged, matches in school teaching if we have to stay home nor did she feel as if she learned anything. Parent Shorewood High More structure, higher workload, more organized School assignments. Things were beDer from Shorewood than Meridian Park. Realizing that other students have other needs, we are low on wan@ng emo@onal support, flexibility, or understanding. Our kids performed best with more assignments, clear due dates, and as close to a regular school day as possible. Parent Shorewood High More structured @mes/assignments. My kid suffered in at least a couple of classes for the past few School months. The Pride teacher was amazing as well as the band teacher but the other teachers were not as amazing. I know everyone's struggling to juggle everything and create things, etc. so I'm not too worried about it for this past year. Plus, my kid was in middle school so it "counts less" than high school will next year. The math teacher just telling kids to go on to Khan Academy was dumb, in my opinion. What is needed for next year: Structured @me - there was none for basically the whole last semester and it was very bad for my kid. I am an essen@al worker with a 2 hour commute so there was no way I could have stayed on top of it and "homeschooled" my kid as well as do what I need to for work. Structured @me with accountability would have helped. Flexible due dates (within reason). VERY CLEAR teacher expecta@ons for both the student and parent, especially as we go forward. I ojen was not sure what the expecta@ons were. Perhaps think about some "hang @me" or some other sort of thing for kids to socialize with each other online. This could be done by class (as in, applicable to the class the kids are taking) or interest. But the social withdrawal is really hard. Parent Shorewood High Most important is that there is accountability and clear Some of the teachers did a good job working to keep the School expecta@ons set in place for aDendance and learning process moving forward and others didn't seem to engagement. The flexibility and not being held to any have the skills to engage virtually with their students. If you set schedule or accountablity has been the biggest plan to move forward with this model of learning then the problem in finishing out the school year. teachers need to have a plan for moving their students forward.

882 Parent Shorewood High Most importantly school should only open in person if School it is safe to do so. Canvas helped my son be organized enough to know what to do, but it can be hard to navigate when teachers list things in different places in canvas. (Not all zooms or assignments were in the calendar etc.) Flexible due dates are cri@cal. It is nice to have some scheduled face to face (over zoom) @me each week and it would be beDer if it were required or counted for an assignment so more kids would aDend. Parent Shorewood High Mostly con@nua@on of her accommoda@ons And My biggest concern in addi@on to exposure first teachers and School teachers that are more open to students using the staff is that many students have rela@ves such as their accommoda@ons parents or grandparents that they live with and they themselves may be impacted by COVID-19 due to health condi@ons. There has been no men@on of either these topics Which is a cri@cal public health concern. I do agree that the students need more structure and hope that the district can con@nue to work with our pandemic un@l it is more under control.

883 Parent Shorewood High My 9th grade son aDended private schools in SeaDle I understand that online learning has been a really difficult School un@l this year. He was just beginning to make friends transi@on for everyone and that some teachers are beDer and create a social network at Shorewood, but that fell equipped to understand the limits and uses of technology apart in March and he's been in his room, glued to a than others. Your ques@ons about which techniques worked screen ever since. He needs to be around other kids. and which didn't leaves me scratching my head. It all seemed He needs physical in-person interac@on with his like such a patchwork of different teaching styles and teachers. He needs help geyng engaged in the world expecta@ons that I couldn't tell what his assignments were, again. He needs to find a reason to like school. He what he was supposed to be doing, when Zoom calls were needs to be mo@vated to learn and to get excited by happening and what he needed to do everyday. I'd ask him educa@onal possibili@es. I need you to figure out and he wasn't sure either. You list daily and weekly student how to make this work. plans, but I never saw those. You list videos and learning resources, but I wasn't aware that those were offered. Canvas was a necessity but it's an awful program. I know because I've used it for my own coursework. What a mess. This has been an awful experience for our family. The fact that my son is being graded during this @me is preDy appalling. How can he be graded when teachers spent weeks trying to understand the basics of how to teach online? Why bother with leDer grades at all? There are so many inequi@es inherent in this system that slapping a "A" or an "F" on the efforts of these kids just adds insult to injury. Trying to get a teenage boy to engage with his classwork has been extremely difficult. As he said over and over again, "Why does it maDer? Who cares?" Good ques@ons. He's not alone in the feeling of hopelessness engendered by this process. High school kids need so much aDen@on, as much or more than the liDle guys. They are not graduate students capable of guiding and monitoring their own educa@onal process. They need your help as talented educators to shepherd them through this insanity, not leave them adrij in a technological morass. By the end of the quarter my son made an effort to catch up and submit as many assignments as he could, but his grades suffered while he tried to figure out how to get centered in this new reality. He's behind and I'm not sure he'll ever catch up or regain any sense that educa@on is actually important.

884 Parent Shorewood High My biggest concern is my child's readiness for his Please, please use this pandemic as an opportunity to School classes next year, many of which are progressive in fundamentally rethink how we educate our children. Take the nature (meaning success will depend on the body of @me to create and develop a curriculum that incorporates a knowledge and learning from the classes he took this combina@on of in-person and online/remote learning so that year - e.g., Spanish 4 requires comple@on and core any later disrup@ons to in-person aDendance will have a less competency in Spanish 3, which was disrupted this of an impact. Addi@onally, it would be helpful for all teachers, year; Geometry requires core competency in Algebra, at least at the junior high and high school level, to webcasts which was disrupted this year). the core classes that their lessons every day so that kids who cannot aDend due to were missed this year). illness can s@ll remain engaged in what is happening at school. Un@l we develop a vaccine, we will be forced to keep our kids out of school for much longer periods of @me if there is any suspicion of COVID-infec@on or exposure (as compared to the tradi@onal rules pertaining to the flu, for example), and significant absences are detrimental to success in school. Parent Shorewood High My child has life threatening food allergies, emo@onal Per my child’s 504, food is not allowed in the classroom. School needs and a 504 learning plan. Whatever plan is I have heard that one op@on being suggested was to have created for him for the fall absolutely must priori@ze The kids eat in the classrooms....This would create an unsafe those needs. If he is not safe in his environment and environment and undue anxiety and therefore make it given the proper learning supports, he cannot be impossible for my child to learn at school. Please consider expected to learn as if nothing is happening. I see this this when crea@ng your plans... there are many children in with most of the children in our community right now. our school system with food allergies. They have big issues on their minds, life and death with COVID affec@ng families and loved ones, poverty and fears amongst their peers due to job losses, racial discord turning their neighborhoods upside down. Their minds are not on learning, they are scared. They need ways to connect with their peers that are safe. Parent Shorewood High My child is a straight A student but she wasn’t High school kids need to wear masks -if they are able- period. School mo@vated she craves interac@on in person and Of a parent doesn’t agree they can home school. It has distance learning is. Not good for her. I would rather turned poli@cal when the science says masks prevent spread. see a staggered schedule where there is a combina@on Just as shoes and boards are required so should masks (other of hybrid of in person and online learning. Distance then special educa@on students who may not be able to) or learning was hard for her to manage! And she’s an there should be penalty. It should be mandatory not op@mal. excellent student Hand sani@zer sta@ons before entering rooms. Thanks!

885 Parent Shorewood High My child is going to be a Senior in the fall. The biggest Hang in there, I know it's also extremely hard on all the School challenge is that they feel they have lost a 'normal' end people working for and suppor@ng the Shoreline School to school and will miss out on the events and District. experiences that have come to define the American High School experience. What we are seeing is this transi@on into hopelessness and behaving like nothing they do will be posi@ve or maDer to their future. As adults, we know this is not true, and that there is so much more ahead for them - but they do not have the benefit of hindsight and life experience. This is a challenge for any that are college bound, or perhaps more importantly undecided, as they embark on what is the beginning of adulthood. Parent Shorewood High My child needs in person instruc@on and Please consider the unique needs and socializa@on needed School accountability. Classes junior year are very challenging for high school students. They will greatly benefit from in and I feel they could only be successful in person. person instruc@on to finish out their high school careers and be prepared as best they can for college. Also, the subject maDer is complex and I feel those topics are best presented in person. Lastly, my student personally did not do well with the remote learning model so I'd like to see them back in the classroom. I'm fine if everyone wore masks. Parent Shorewood High My child needs in-person teacher instruc@on. online School learning was not successful for him. Parent Shorewood High My child struggled with the sheer amount of email I am totally against the mask wearing and see this a threat to School content and keeping up with assignments with the lack social and emo@onal learning. As well, the data con@nues to of structure. He was also very depressed with no social show that the response is extreme and if such an extreme interac@on. This is a greater threat than COVID19 response con@nues, then the results of our response will be given the way the virus is now playing out in our devasta@ng for years to come with regards to trauma and communi@es. The destruc@on from lack of societal social development. Thanks to the school system for structures is much more devasta@ng overall. inves@ga@ng parent's experience and concerns. :) Structured school days are essen@al and teacher interac@on is as must.

886 Parent Shorewood High My children need to be in school, in their school My 8th grader kept a "cry journal" tracking how many @mes a School buildings, with their teacher and classmates and day during "distance-learning" she cried for "no reason" and counselors and all the academic supports they deserve could not stop. She became very depressed from the under their Sec@on 504 plan and State and Federal law. isola@on from friends and in person contact with teachers in Online "learning" was not learning. My high school classmates, and learning nothing the last three months of 11th grader did not "learn" anything from March to school, although she got As in every subject on her grade June. My student struggled to stay on track, and only report. She did not learn and was emo@onally damaged by daily prodding and managing by me as to what she the isola@on of on-line "school" versus in person school. She needed to do kept my student on track but nothing cannot handle another semester or par@al semester of that, was learned or retained. Assignments were just turned and is concerned that without a normal in-person in to secure a grade. My student will fail her senior introduc@on as a freshman to high school that she will not year of high school if school is on-line in any form. She make friends or feel comfortable the rest of the high school needs to be in her classroom with regular contact with years. My 11th grader has a 504 plan and needed the her teacher to stay on track and to actually retain any supports at the school and in the classroom, and was robbed informa@on. My incoming freshman needs the in- of all those when school went on-line. Ajer months when person introduc@on to other students and the teachers began having scheduled Zoom calls, she engaged opportunity to have ac@vi@es, assemblies, sports, to beDer, and learned more, but those calls were few and far make friends and start off high school in an between. I work full @me but had to spend hours of my day emo@onally healthy way. You are robbing students of checking emails and Canvas and prodding her to engage and essen@al learning if you con@nue to try and replace in- try and catch up. She "learned" nothing. She completed classroom learning with on-line learning with any form, assignments to get a grade, but absorbed nothing. She is or to deprive them of sports, ac@vi@es, assemblies, and taking essen@al subjects, and needs her 12th grade year on all that high school is supposed to be. If they have to campus to be able to apply to colleges and be aided by wear a mask to be allowed to go to school, I will send counselors in the applica@on process. PLEASE let them get them with masks. But please do not waste anymore of back to their lives and their educa@on. The @de of public their limited and precious high school learning @me opinion is turning with all the in person protests and the lack with "distance-learning" or whatever other subs@tute of the "spike" of COVID-19 cases that kept being threatened. the government tries to force on us. Let them GO High schoolers have been essen@al workers all this @me, BACK TO SCHOOL!!!!! If staff are at high risk of working in grocery stores and day cares, delivering food, etc. COVID-19 and do not feel comfortable teaching in They did not get sick. If they can do those jobs -- as they have person, then the District needs to find subs@tutes who been doing throughout the en@re school shut down, then can teach in the classrooms while those staff take surely they should be allowed to be back in their classrooms leaves of absences. Our kids should not be kept out of actually learning and experiencing this essen@al milestone in school another semester to protect at risk staff. life. LiDle kids of essen@al workers have been in day cares, crowded together, not wearing masks, throughout the school closure (and such day cares were ojen staffed by high school students), and again the kids did not get sick. The District, and OSPI, is fast losing the trust of its public, as we observe those truths. Take temperatures if you must, clean desks, 887 Parent Shorewood High My children returning to school School Parent Shorewood High My daughter did fine with online learning since she's School preDy good at mo@va@ng herself to do what's required and study. But there wasn't enough online content, and she was ojen bored. If virtual/online learning was more rigorous and more like in person learning, I feel she would be doing beDer during this @me. Parent Shorewood High My daughter has many elec@ve type classes that are This was rough on everyone! Thank you for trying as you did. School required for gradua@on. Making sure she gets into Hopefully we can all learn from what worked over the last classes that are available is our highest priority. Our couple of months to be able to have a successful 20-21 school second highest priority is making sure the educa@on is year! actually racking with grade level, if Shorewood can’t commit to actually teaching this next year, there should be some form of allowance to move to running start so colleges can teach the juniors and seniors since they do it regularly online anyway. Both my daughter and I don’t believe that she really learned much of anything since March. Students entering college s@ll need to hit certain requirements academically. It’s frustra@ng that that we e may need to pay for college classes to get her up to speed for things she should have learned in high school. Parent Shorewood High My daughter with special needs cannot learn from The current system leaves the special needs and low income School home with the current model. This was a complete students in the dust. Please priori@ze these students. wash out for her. She needs educa@on that actually works for her. I don't see that happening without a return to in person school.

888 Parent Shorewood High My family is doing well, all things considered. We are Teachers should be expected to post work in a consistent School fortunate to have been healthy and remain employed. fashion- the same place on canvas. And teachers should have at least two weeks of due dates in the grade book for me to see. The expecta@on should be for teachers to grade or at least mark things as “submiDed” within one week of receiving them. Teachers must do more than ask students to read a textbook and takes notes. I am a teacher so I know these demands are intense but I feel strongly the experience needs work for students and parents to manage the online learning process successfully. Parent Shorewood High My incoming 9th grader is going to be u@lizing an IEP The instruc@on varied so much by teacher this spring that it School and will absolutely need to have in-person instruc@on was completely ineffec@ve. Why can't they have Google and support. My 11th grader absolutely needs peer Classroom or Teams and be expected to be online, on video interac@on and in person instruc@on. The instruc@on in class just like an adult has to show up for a mee@ng? If in- varied so much by teacher this spring that it was person isn't possible, this is a must! completely ineffec@ve. Why can't they have Google Classroom or Teams and be expected to be online, on video in class just like an adult has to show up for a mee@ng? If in-person isn't possible, this is a must! Parent Shorewood High My kid needs expecta@ons - if he doesn’t “need to” do Good luck! I know this has to suck but I have confidence in School something, he won’t. our district! Just please make it streamlined and the same across schools/ the district as much as possible. I’ve decided I’m not a good canvas archeologist. Parent Shorewood High My most important needs at this @me is to keep my With all that has been going on. I am great full for all the School kids healthy. teachers. They are truly amazing going the extra mile for our kids.

889 Parent Shorewood High My most pressing concern is geyng my son back into If school ends up being online, really wish all assignments School the building whatever it takes. He is languishing at would be required for pass/fail if not for a grade. Very hard home and I worry that if he does not go to school for to mo@vate some high school kids to do any work if it is not his senior year he may not go to college either??? He is mandatory. going to lose his study habits and forget concepts. He needs the structure and rou@nes school provides. I have lej many of the above ques@ons blank as my son does not want me involved in his school life (which seems normal at his age) and I have no idea how much was really assigned or how much he actually accomplished or learned. If he was in the building at least half-@me next year I do believe he would be more mo@vated to do his online work than he has been this spring because he would then have to see and answer to his teachers in person on a regular basis. Parent Shorewood High My needs are that my child get the best educa@on I do not believe children should have been graded at all. I School possible. I do not believe that the school was prepared, think that the district administra@on and school that teachers were organized or prepared and knew administra@on did a terrible job in geyng all of their teachers how to do the basics like Zoom. I need to see a lot up to speed. My son reported days when he was counted more prepara@on and communica@on. I would have absent because the teacher did not know how to Zoom. He appreciated at least one call from his counselor to also told me at least once in a class the teacher ended the seriously discuss where he was at and what we could class early because of low aDendance. Yet these teachers do as parents. My son and I worked hard through were grading students. Ridiculous. The schools HAVE A middle school trying to understand math together. I MANDATE to teach and get these children ready for the next know I’m not a teacher and cannot home school level. I was totally shocked by the two weeks at the beginning effec@vely. A ques@on on the previous page asked of the shutdown with no school. Not anything. I also want to about other learning resources. What haven’t I underline the importance of organized physical ac@vity. If not heard about any of these op@ons? PE then something for these kids to get that physical energy out in a posi@ve method. The same applies to elec@ves like art and music. I think you’d have less need for counseling if they’re kept busy and engaged.

890 Parent Shorewood High My needs for my 12th grader are different than my School needs for my 1st grader. (I did a separate response for my 1st grader.) My 12th grader did OK with Canvas, so I'm not as concerned about her being in the building. However, it would be nice if there were some socially distanced class mee@ngs periodically - once a week? - just to keep in touch and have that social connec@on. What I would like to see more for my 12th grader are structured @me - due dates with graded assignments (even if the due dates are somewhat flexible, I'd like to see that they are happening) - class mee@ngs whether in smaller or larger groups - some@mes Zoom, perhaps some face to face... I would like to see more structure. Parent Shorewood High My son failed math because he didn't know what to do School and neither did I. My son also had a tutor for this course due to the difficulty of understanding the content; therefore, when COVID happened, we lost the tutor and everything went down hill from there. If there was a pre-recorded video of the class that helped show the problems and how to complete the assignment would be helpful.

891 Parent Shorewood High My son is a 4.0 student. The biggest challenges were I absolutely detested did the system of sending me emails School lack of structure, Lack of direct contact/instruc@on by saying “my student was not engaged during second teacher, no grading system, no evalua@on of work. period†There was nothing to mo@vate him to do school and he is a student who does everything to maintain his A. My youngest child’s school was where you logged on at 8:30 and went class by class in a zoom class mee@ng and had instruc@on un@l 2 o’clock that day. She essen@ally had class every day like normal. My highschooler needed that. There’s nothing to mo@vate them. The best courses were his math which was through UW, his AP history and his mandarin. However, his Mandarin teacher never gave him no@ce. She would email the night before about a 9 AM zoom mee@ng the next day. He missed one because he did not check his email ajer 1030 and didn’t get up in @me. There needs to be a much more structured schedule. Parent Shorewood High My son is going to be a junior and is intending to study It would great if there was a consistent format that the School music in college. Our concern is that music programs teachers used in the highschool. Maybe a weekly learning may not happen this year (school play orchestra, band calendar or modules. Having every teacher do things events and fes@vals, etc.) and the impact that would different as far as communica@ng assignments (and some have on his college applica@ons. teachers hardly doing anything - UW PreCalc) made it more hec@c to keep track of and find assignments. The best set up my son had was his Honors Chem class which included a weekly module with daily agenda and 2 zooms. It was super easy to follow and stay on top of and was probably the class he was most connected to during distance learning. Parent Shorewood High My Son is very rela@onal. He needs contact with his I know this is a difficult @me for the school. You have my School peers and access to sports. support. Good luck. I think Zoom mee@ngs might work. (with student microphones closely monitored

892 Parent Shorewood High My son misses the in-person interac@on that school I do think that Shoreline SD was doing its best with the tools School provides...both in-person instruc@on from his teachers available to it on very short no@ce when school closed where he can ask ques@ons and hear the give & take of suddenly. But, I get the sense that the District was more discussion around him, and the in-person socializa@on concerned with legal ramifica@ons more than educa@on. that he can only get from being on the school campus. My experiences are different than a parent with much His 504 plan is for social skills, and so because he is an younger children, as my high school student was issued a introvert by nature, he doesn't reach out to his Chromebook by the district so already had tech capability teachers for help with ques@ons. He has a hard @me that younger students may not have had available from their doing so in class, and just won't reach out online. So, schools. But, having a younger child in a different school he feels disconnected from school and from his classes. system (4th grade), who had very clear expecta@ons of when Since expecta@ons are very low for student to log in each day and very clear deadlines of when to turn in engagement because of differences in students' work, the difference was night & day. She also had the varying living situa@ons across the district, he is benefit of star@ng online learning almost immediately, within therefore slipping through the cracks and not being a week of school closing, so it kept her connected to her held accountable for any missing or late work. I do my classmates, her teacher, to her school. My teenage son best to get him to do the work and turn it in, but he's a had almost a MONTH from the @me school closed to when he teenager and so old enough that I'm not able to was geyng actual assignments from school, and in that @me "babysit" him when it comes to classwork like I can he just disengaged. I could see the teachers' emails via with my younger child who is in a private school Canvas, reaching out to check in on their students, clearly outside of Shoreline. If he had a regular schedule he wan@ng to share lessons & projects, but also clearly weren't had to keep to, with clear consequences is work is allowed to "assign" anything by the district. I felt so badly for missing, it would help. (Not solve the problems the teachers, because it was so plain that they cared for the inherent with online learning, but it would help.) He kids and wanted to stay connected, but legally could not was thriving in his 9th grade classes, with a couple of assign anything that was required to be completed. So, he excep@ons, and just isn't anymore with online learning. just didn't do any of it because there were no repercussions if I cannot wait for him to return to school! he didn't turn in work. So, my opinion is that if we do indeed to have to start the school year with online learning, then we need to allow the teachers to teach whomever they can possibly reach, and then the district can figure out how to reach the other kids as they can & when they can. But don't hold up my son's educa@on because a FAPE isn't planned out ahead of @me for Every.Single.Kid in Shoreline. No one wins in that scenario, not the kids who need the extra support and not the kids who are ready to learn and are not allowed to, and not the teachers who want to teach and are not allowed to.

893 Parent Shorewood High My son needs a much more rigorous curriculum in the School fall where he is required to do work and show he understands it. He did less than two hours of work a day and was not challenged. Parent Shorewood High My son needs engaging learning. If there is no in- I understand that this is all hard and appreciate how hard School person school, I would hope for at least 1 scheduled everyone is working. The level of schooling this past quarter mee@ng per week with each teacher and a fairly is much too low to keep students on track. If we need to structured day. I don’t believe my son had any con@nue, a more robust structured system is needed. We scheduled zoom mee@ngs with any of his teachers. We can’t let our kids fall further behind. didn’t even have any contact with 1 or 2 of them un@l the last phase of learning. Parent Shorewood High My son starts high school in the fall. I feel he would School need to develop a connec@on to his new school and teachers. He also needs opportuni@es to be around peers and would love to run cross country and play soccer for his school. Parent Shorewood High My son very concerned that he won't be able to start Our biggest problem with the remote learning was that every School high school next year, with in person learning and on teacher had a different method and instruc@ons. Different campus. He asks about it every day. He very much web sites, differend instruc@ons, different links, different would like to go back to school this fall. lessons. There was no consistency. You need to consolidate and use one or two pla[orms, so kids and parents can easily navigate. If this were the case, we could probably beDer handle. Parent Shorewood High My son, grade 10, greatly benefiDed from a later start My son is scheduled for advanced auto tech in the fall and is School for the weekdays!! Please take this into considera@on desperately hoping it can happen in a modified form. He is for the fall, thank you! the kind of student who needs that hands-on/kinesthe@c work @me in the auto shop!! Parent Shorewood High My son’s safety, and the op@on to elect distant learning Shorewood School staff is amazing. We are so deeply School if I’m not comfortable sending my son to school. apprecia@ve for all you do. Thank you. Parent Shorewood High My student gets the support he needs from teachers to Thank you for all your hard work! School be successful in his classes. Face to face @me and flexible assignments

894 Parent Shorewood High My student is an 11th grader and academically she is I’m very concerned that vulnerable students are not being School doing very well. Her needs at this point center on the seen by teachers or other mandatory reporters. Our health need for steady socializa@on with kids her age. te: COVID 19 is very important, but I would like to see some type of in-person instruc@on where possible to ensure that there are eyes on kids vulnerable to neglect or abuse. Parent Shorewood High My student is in the medically fragile program at School Shorewood and her services are incredibly difficult to deliver in a distance-learning model. Her teachers and interven@onists did the absolute best they could, but it's not even close to having highly qualified, skilled professionals working 1:1 with my student. My child is immunocompromised so having her in the classroom is a difficult choice, regardless of the social distancing/ safety measures implemented. Knowing that this is the most, if not the only, effec@ve way to deliver her instruc@on, we're faced with a challenging choice. Parent Shorewood High My student needs to have INSTRUCTION in the coming I appreciate the tremendous challenges that the school School school year (Senior year) to be prepared for university district is wrestling with, and at the same @me the following gradua@on. It does not have to be in-person, tremendous challenge for students - even those who are but the classes need to be more than the independent mo@vated to learn - in distance learning. study style of what was offered this term. I understand that teachers have been doing the best they can but most of what my student has received is a list of assignments and due dates with a "contact me if you have ques@ons and I'll get back to you when I can." Courses benefit from conversa@on and discussion, and online message board threads just don't bring the same benefits to learning. Parent Shorewood High My student will be a senior next year. I am concerned Some teachers were great at communica@ng with my School about her readiness for college. student, others not as much. My child is en@rely responsible for her own learning. I do not peek over her shoulder and baby her along. So, many of these ques@ons about me accessing teacher assignments do not apply.

895 Parent Shorewood High My teen needs socializa@on. She enjoys sports -- I appreciate all that the school has done to work in this new School playing and aDending. Math was very difficult for her environment. My daughter was mo@vated at first to do her on-line, with science being the second most difficult. schoolwork, but I saw this waning as @me went on. She didn't In-person math teaching would be high priority, as do anything "extra." Zoom mee@ngs were not appealing to would opportunity to connect with school friends at her. I think she would learn much more if she were in the school and to play sports. In-person schooling would classroom with her students and teachers, if at all possible. be highly beneficial to her academic and social She wants very much to be back in school with her new development. friends. We had transferred from a different school system this year, and she really missed out in growing her new friendships. Of course, the health of the community is of upmost importance, but her emo@onal, mental, and physical health would benefit greatly with school back in session! I don't think she learned much academically from home. THANK YOU for asking and THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK! Parent Shorewood High Need a break from online learning! Slideshows are not an effec@ve way to teach. Google forms School are not appropriate for math test submissions. There were too many requests from teachers for my children to reflect on their emo@ons during this @me! Just teach them the content for the class, and leave the counseling to the parents. Parent Shorewood High No busy work for high schoolers. Some teachers were Teachers are taught to be consistent with technology and School very adept with technology, some need more help. My have available hours for students to reach out individually if student is very mo@vated and wants meaningful they are not comfortable with Zoom calls. lessons that don’t waste her @me. Parent Shorewood High Normalcy and protec@on from the virus. School Parent Shorewood High Of course like many this gas been challenging and School difficult for my student and his parents. Every student and family are different. But our student really needs to be in school under as normal circumstances as possible. The online learning with school out was difficult and challenging and he needs structure which is hard when parents must. work. Thanks Parent Shorewood High Open school and teach as normal. Thx Kids needs go back to school and do as usual School

896 Parent Shorewood High Opportunity for hand hygiene with masking will make I would be willing to donate hand sani@zer, soap, Masks or School me comfortable having my student return to school. other items That will help kids in need return to school Socializa@on is important teenagers/high schoolers but would give priority to marginalized students, BIPOC, or or students with support needs they cannot get outside of school. Parent Shorewood High Our child has ASD, and we have strong parents at home Please open up the schools and tough it out. Covid-19 is very School that can cover math and wri@ng, so the actual reading, mild with children, and the emo@onal impact of closing wri@ng, and arithme@c is not of too much concern, schools is going to cause more deaths and mental illness than except that during this spring there was not enough Covid-19 will for our children. It's @me for our adults to work assigned during remote learning. Our child favor our children's health over our own health. requires a lot of repe@@on to learn things, and being told to do more problems by parents doesn't have the same weight as being told by the teacher. A very important aspect at school for our child is social interac@on. A child with ASD ojen has to be forced into social interac@on (e.g. band, athle@cs, working into groups), and this is very true for our child Remote learning has none of the social interac@on, and we fear our child will regress socially/emo@onally without the enforced social interac@on school provides. Video conferencing is no subs@tute for social interac@on, as some of the issues are physical, and video conferences don't convey the physical very well. Addi@onally, It's far too easy to be passive in video conferencing. Another issue with remote learning is our child has yet to take any foreign language, and foreign language requires a lot of verbal listening and talking @me that just won't work well with video conferencing. We hope he can start Japanese or Chinese this fall, which have both visual and audio aspects that are more compa@ble with out child's abili@es than La@n alphabet languages. Parent Shorewood High Our child sees school as a place of suffering, a place School where bad things happen to our child. Our will be super stressed returning to school.

897 Parent Shorewood High Our most important needs at this @me are more School structure and beDer connec@on with teachers and students. Some amount of in-person learning is cri@cal, esp. with more challenging subjects such as math and science. It would also be great to have live classes online that were required so that remote learning didn't feel so self directed. Parent Shorewood High Please keep the staff safe and consider their needs too. Some of my child's teachers were diligent and transparent, School making it easy to know what we needed to do. Some classes were not as transparent. Canvas was helpful, but only if teacher kept it organized and up-to-date. My student needs hard deadlines, clearly outlined direc@ons to follow, and lots of connec@ons and check-in from his teachers. He did not thrive with distance learning, but I think he could, if other measures were in place for him to be successful. Parent Shorewood High Proveer más estructura. Dar créditos por todas las tareas, de lo contrario mi hija no School se esfuerza por las opcionales. Parent Shorewood High Provide opportunity for real learning of new material School with structure to each day. These past few months have been frustra@ng. We have had to supplement to make sure our children are progressing and learning the material they need to succeed in next year’s courses. Parent Shorewood High Providing my daughter with "life-coach" or "mentor" School type of support at this cri@cal juncture in her life. Parent Shorewood High Providing some flexible structure. March to June off School due to Covid19 felt like an extended spring/summer break. I felt my son preDy much had a lost semester in his junior year. I am not confident he will be college bound. Parent Shorewood High Regular updates regarding curriculum and School transporta@on planning for 2020-2021 school year.

898 Parent Shorewood High Remote learning was very challenging for middle The remote learning Shoreline provided was not good and School school. The email communica@on and expecta@ons needs to be more consistent among teachers. Clear were confusing and inconsistent at first and each expecta@ons and clear grading of assignments. Even if teacher used Canvas differently. Assignments were assignments are not leDer graded per se, the students need difficult to figure out what was required and what was to know if what they are turning in is adequate. The teachers op@onal and I do not feel my child learned much at all. need to provide concrete feedback. The amount of school He had to teach himself and then somehow figure out work screen @me way too excessive. My kids were doing the assignment and very frequently it was unclear school work 3-4 hours each day in front of the screen. And, I what the assignment was. There will need to be some do not think they learned much. It was more trying to figure catch up in the fall to solidify educa@on and make sure out the lesson and then what the assignment was and then that there is a good founda@on for moving forward. how to load it into Canvas... This is especially important for math at the middle school level and at all levels. There was no good feedback from many teachers as to whether what was being turned in was mee@ng/exceeding expecta@ons. Therefore, how are we to know if my son learned anything. Parent Shorewood High Remote learning was very difficult for us. My child has I am very concerned that my child needed far more help than School ADD and difficulty with memory, processing speed, and she was able to receive, given her medical Dx (ADD) and execu@ve func@on (organiza@on especially) and I am learning disability. I realise that there really was no other not very good at teaching. I know she struggled in way but I feel strongly that if you have only some kids aDend school as well but I believe the structure she gets AT school, please have the kids on IEP's or 504 plans be the first school is beDer than what we had at home. In to return. addi@on, my child was unable to ini@ate or complete work at home if I wasn't home as well. This prevented me from returning to work.

899 Parent Shorewood High Requirements. Both my kids related to school as Thanks for all your hard work!!! School op@onal because grades were already set. This child had all As so figured out immediately he didn't need to do any work in respect to his keeping his grades up. Then during the last week of school, one teacher said if students did 70 percent of the remote learning, they could get an A in remote learning (whatever that means) so my child decided to cram 70 percent of his semester's work into the last three days of grading for ALL of his classes. This was actually amazing to watch. He spent roughly 7 hours each day working on all 6 classes. No amount a talking to him throughout the closure could get him to do more than a minimal amount of work. Making up this goal during the last week of school was described to me as "gamer". The meaning of this s@ll eludes me. However, it shows me that if he has specific goals, he does work to get them. Especially if he chooses what those goals are. My kid is extremely introverted and has no interest in being at school for anything but academics. And even he is hoping to go back because geyng himself to do homework at home is so difficult. In summary, teachers need to be absolutely clear what quan@ty and quality of work is needed to achieve what grades. My kid in par@cular likes to make up his own goals in games besides what is required to win like winning in a certain way, or using certain variables in the game, or not winning at all but finding some really hard thing to do that he finds interes@ng. He also generally func@ons on a least-amount-of-effort philosophy. I'm not sure how school can tap into these things for him. But thanks for asking!! Parent Shorewood High Safe environment for students to aDend classes. School Parent Shorewood High Safe environment for students to learn. College School preparedness.

900 Parent Shorewood High Safety and academic content a kid can learn from his School school Parent Shorewood High safety and equity. School Parent Shorewood High Safety and structure for the students. The If can't go full back to school in person, please consider a School unstructured @me has been a disaster for our students hybrid, for example half the students aDend in person, while in many cases. If have to hold online, please, please, the other aDend live online at same @me, then the next day keep it required for students to aDend at same @me as (or week) it switches. This would reduce the classroom classes normally would be held, this requires them to occupancy by 50%, and allow for social distancing. It is keep the standard @me schedule; take online cri@cal that the online students are required to aDend live at aDendance just like in person. With a flexible or the same @me, aDendance needs to be taken, just like for the 'watch the video any@me' schedule, means many @mes in person students. Use sojware like MS Teams, or Goto they won't get to it at all. Best to have a weekly quiz Mee@ng, or Zoom etc. and homework due consistently at end of week, this will further reinforce aDending class on @me online. Parent Shorewood High Safety and teacher led instruc@on. The kids need some socializa@on. My daughter was stressing School more without having the ability of an outlet. Parent Shorewood High Safety from virus Zoom classes are really helpful School Parent Shorewood High Safety is first; I don’t want my daughter to aDend Sports outdoors should be priori@zed for mental health if School school if safe condi@ons can’t be met. I think possible—maybe also in alterna@ng schedules to synchronous learning needs to happen if we do accommodate popular sports... remote learning and hybrid with alterna@ng days and maybe Friday as learning from home would be best. I also think elementary and secondary needs are different. Secondary can be remote or hybrid while elementary needs to be considered with day care. More streamlined apps/online programs—canvas and not also google classroom for example— and streamlined family communica@on are essen@al too. Parent Shorewood High Safety of students and teachers I appreciate you! School Parent Shorewood High Safety. My son is asthma@c and high risk. He also needs I prefer a schedule of alterna@ng in person instruc@on School social interac@on with his peers. Keeping him on track combined w/remote learning. Clarity on social distancing academically. requirements, along with safety protocols - masks, temp checks, sani@zing of surfaces.

901 Parent Shorewood High School adapta@ons should be tailored to those with the Appreciate all the thought, effort and crea@ve thinking School greatest need for a structured learning environment; required to ensure our valuable educa@on system remains in mainly younger and underprivileged. Also need to tact for all students. ensure Seniors are geyng support to complete gradua@on and secondary educa@on requirements. Parent Shorewood High School reopening. School Parent Shorewood High Sense of normalcy by in person ac@vi@es. Structure School and deadlines and expecta@ons to aDend Zoom mee@ngs. It was too easy for my students to not par@cipate because there were NO CONSEQUENCES. Expect more from your students! Parent Shorewood High Shorewood needs to do special educa@on Evalua@ons School when students have a valid reason. My au@s@c, adhd, anxiety, ptsd, truant child was told there were no special Ed programs at Shorewood that fit his needs - but he can do running start at shoreline cc. I’m disappointed in Shoreline’s special educa@on program and wish this affluent district would support the assessment of students. My child has not been well served in Shoreline and was very well served in SeaDle public schools. Parent Shorewood High Social aspect and in-person learning Sports will be We'd be open to a mix of in-person and online learning if it School more of a concern in winter than fall helps to space out classes and kids Parent Shorewood High Social Emo@onal Support School

902 Parent Shorewood High Social interac@on with students and teachers The lunch bag distribu@on was disappoin@ng. The apples School were inedible. The oranges were great! The main course was appealing to my child only half the @me. The person who agreed to buy the red delicious apples should be ashamed—as well as the person who sold them to the district. What ! The small bags of snacky crackers were not eaten even though they meet the federal requirements for school lunches. Please focus on geyng a) food the kids will actually like to eat and b) food that is nutri@ous. Nutri@ous food is wasted if the student will not eat it. Provide the teachers with EASY ways to share school work with kids and make it consistent from on e class to the next whenever possible. Make it easy and automated for teachers to grade and comment on schoolwork. Avoid solu@ons where district or state repor@ng takes precedence over student learning. Make par@cipa@on mandatory and clearly stated with requirements. When giving extra ac@vi@es incen@vize students with grades or prizes(gamifica@on) Parent Shorewood High Socializa@on and classroom learning Thank you for asking for our opinion School Parent Shorewood High Socializing for my child School Parent Shorewood High Some normalcy and an expecta@on to actually do work Really wondering about buses but mostly for younger kids. School and turn it in clearly stated by all teachers for all subjects. Rigorous academics for higher achieving kids to prepare for college. Parent Shorewood High Some sort of modified in-class instruc@on especially for I think the school district and Shorewood High school in School those with an IEP or 504 plan. Distance learning was par@cular did the best they could under extenua@ng not successful for many of those students without the circumstances and I think it's important that it is school resources available to them. acknowledged even though many of my answers are nega@ve

903 Parent Shorewood High Some way for high schoolers to be more social in a As a junior, my daughter is very concerned about her OccEd School structured environment that's not @ed to class. My and Fine Arts gradua@on requirements, as these can be high-schooler ojen found herself one of few in the anxiety-triggering subjects for her (depending on the class) class Zoom meetups. On the other hand, whenever a and she's worried that an online setup would limit her club/ac@vity had one, there was more turnout. She's choices even more than her anxiety already has. While we not the type to ins@gate these so having more support put ac@vi@es/athle@cs first in the 'in-person' ques@on, for that, whether online or in person, would be great. content is really @ed for first due to this worry. So much of the answers were dependent on content due to my child's anxiety; short quizzes were stressful if they were grade- driven, but great for use as a form of drills. She's always been good about reaching out for help as needed, so shijing to distance learning in that respect wasn't that big of a difference, but she very much missed study groups. Parent Shorewood High Some way for my son to finish comple@ng his volunteer Thank you all for all that you’ve done under such a School hours required for gradua@on, or a waiver to not have stressful situa@on. I appreciate it! Also, I really appreciate all to complete them if it is impossible to do so (i.e., if a the emails and canvas no@fica@ons regarding classroom deadly second wave of coronavirus occurs). For assignments. I especially appreciated the emails no@fying me teachers to be beDer organized for online learning this that my son had not checked in with his teacher in a while or Fall. I am not cri@cizing them by any means. I think at all. That really helped me as a parent to make sure he they did a great job this year considering how rapidly stayed in touch and on task. we went from normal to full shut down. At the beginning I had a teacher tell me that the district would not provide any online learning because not everyone had access to WiFi. I’m glad it was figured out, no learning would be disastrous. Parent Shorewood High Special Educa@on support. Thank you to all the staff at Shorewood High School who have School helped our children through their learning needs through this crazy year! You are so appreciated! Parent Shorewood High Special needs students who need to be in structured School environments for learning should be given priority. Parent Shorewood High Staying safe and focused School Parent Shorewood High String level of instruc@on for AP/Honors classes. School Parent Shorewood High Structure School

904 Parent Shorewood High Structure and predictability - For high school Our family had COVID-19 and based on our personal School academics, the complete coursework for a learning experience the closure of school in the fall seems excessive. It period (equivalent to a semester of tradi@onal school, should also be understood that our family was quaran@ned but with OPSI hybrid plans that would have students for 6 weeks in order to meet the 2 week quaran@ne ajer last take fewer courses at a @me for shorter periods would exposure to an individual because we had it successively. I be the full course work for the class) needs to be expect this to be a typical situa@on for families. I strongly available at the start with defined due dates. recommend making small cohorts of students that can Addi@onally, closures should typically be scheduled at socially interact with each other, but that limit the impact to least 24 hours in advance and preferably to take effect the overall school situa@on when a student in a cohort is the following week. The uncertainty caused by diagnosed with COVID-19. Even if the students have virtual cancelling events prior to the school closure caused contact with their teachers at the middle school and high excessive unneeded stress in an already difficult school level, I believe that the social interac@on and presence situa@on. Academic challenge - The coursework that in a learning environment will be a substan@al improvement we were able to have our children most effec@vely over home learning. engage in were exis@ng online coursework that were more challenging than the classes they were enrolled in through the school district. Both children were engaged in structured academics at an accelerated pace for the period of @me schools did not provide any learning materials. Our high school student con@nued to complete her addi@onal coursework concurrently with her high school work for the remainder of the school year, but complained about the limited engagement of most of her high school work. Parent Shorewood High Structure, as much transparent communica@on as School possible, space and @me to complete tasks Parent Shorewood High Structure. so far not much content for students to More content. Student was very bored since hardly any School learn. Also teachers are not upda@ng the grades so homework or learning opportuni@es were provided. students have no clue how they are doing. Parent Shorewood High Structured learning School Parent Shorewood High Structured learning My high schooler needed more structure and I was working School and couldn’t provide much - he preDy much checked out Parent Shorewood High Structured learning with clear expecta@ons and Need accountability on part of both students and teachers to School commitments on part of students and teachers. fulfill educa@onal requirements of classwork. Parent Shorewood High Structured lessons that enable my child to con@nue School learning and prepare for college. Social interac@on.

905 Parent Shorewood High Student contact. In person aDendance This didn’t work for him School Parent Shorewood High Student needs sports and ac@vi@es. Social interac@on School with other students is important. Parent Shorewood High Students need a regular rou@ne @metable like a normal During lockdown, my daughter gets emo@onal. She feels School school day. and need strict rules for class aDendance or alone and no mo@va@on with no exci@ng events like a normal homework due. Students are hard to manage schedule day. But she didn't lose her iden@ty, strength, hope, and love. by their selves and easy to fall behind. Online classes We are just concerned how she will be when she returns back are only interac@ve if students are posi@ve to to school. communicate with teacher. Parent Shorewood High Students socially distancing, and not all students at Un@l there is a vaccine everyone has a chance to catch this. School school at the same @me. I would prefer an A/B Students may not feel any symptoms and bring it home to schedule To reduce the number of students on campus their parents which concerns me greatly. and in each classroom. Just need to be 6 feet apart and masks required Parent Shorewood High Taking care of my family's emo@onal health. School Parent Shorewood High Taking health of family seriously. Providing safe op@ons Some teachers really helped and made lessons and others School where less kids at a @me can happen and less days. We checked out completely (math of all classes) and only have vulnerable elders we care for that I want to be assigned work but did no lessons. Some other teachers over able to have my children contNiue to See and help assigned and emailed too much. with.

906 Parent Shorewood High Teach,parent,student conversa@ons. Lack of clarity Appreciate the effort teachers and administrators are doing. School between my students percep@on of what he needs to In our case though, School is not working for our son. do and what Is required is an on going challenge. Nothing against the school - just specific to our situa@on. Canvas con@nues to be a struggle as we can’t Maybe we will figure it out. We have 1 more year lej. determine what is really going on. Very difficult for us to hold our student accountable. This improved however while we were at home. I actually like the flexibility and the email communica@ons to set what’s due and by when. Most of this is due to my child’s lack of interest and possibly ability. We need 1 regular scheduled virtual check-in each week with the student and teacher so we can partner beDer. I feel my case is unique though so I don’t expect this can be done. My student is struggling to pass classes consistently. Could be anxiety depression, adhd, lack of discipline. Without a checkin with his teacher I doubt we will be able to figure it out. It’s unfortunate cause I feel he has poten@al but we are not sure how to help him. Learning is not our goal anymore, it’s just geyng him through the system and past these difficult years. He feels like a failure and so do his parents at @mes. Parent Shorewood High Teacher accountability. Make contact with the students Priori@ze elementary kids and high school can go online. School at least once a week. Zoom or conference call is fine. Math, Science need daily or 2x per week classroom instruc@on via Zoom or something. Links to projects and no interac@on with instructor don't work. Parent Shorewood High Teachers ability to teach new content and materials to I want the teachers and students to embrace using School maximize curriculum expecta@ons for college. technology and online live zoom or teams or google classes as a daily rou@ne. Corpora@ons use online live zoom and team mee@ngs ALL DAY LONG with groups from 2 to 400 and share content and back and forth in a dialogue or a presenta@on or break out in small groups. A virtual classroom that requires students to show up and ac@vely par@cipate is very possible. In 2020.....not “someday”

907 Parent Shorewood High Teachers need to establish consistent best prac@ces I appreciate all of the hard work everyone is doing. Teachers School and be very steady in their communica@ons and are challenged enough being teachers so if best prac@ces and pos@ngs on canvas. It was super frustra@ng that expecta@ons are clear, they won’t have to learn online everyone had different prac@ces and expected the kids teaching by trial and error. to figure out how to follow each differently. It was also tough as a parent to get answers some@mes. More regular “class @mes†Parent Shorewood High that my child will be able to play sports this school School year. Parent Shorewood High That my child would have a format for fall that is My daughter was a senior...there was no box to check for School mo@va@ng and social. He needs teachers to put fire post-high school next year...just men@oning because I said I under to keel him going. Direct instruc@on with in- had two kids at Shorewood but only 1 next year. person support is important. I don’t think high schoolers are interested in op@onal Zoom mee@ngs - they need required assignments. Parent Shorewood High That my child’s sec@on 504 accommoda@ons are School implemented, whether learning in school or at home. Parent Shorewood High That the children be together to be social and learn School together. This past few months for a single child at home has been very lonely and there has been extreme boredom. We need more from the school to keep these minds busy and ac@ve. More ways for the children to be together. There should be more physical requirements and alterna@ve ways of learning rather than just staring at a screen. Thank you. Parent Shorewood High That the teachers actually have blocked hours for there Highly dissa@sfied with teachers and school district. Maybe School classes to teach. Only two of my daughter teachers you should get some lessons from teal online schools and actually had regular zoom mee@ngs. Iam very adapt what they do. Are tax dollars are paying your wastes disappointed of how the online learning went. I hope and no one is doing a good job. About ready to pull my kids in the fall the teachers actually work with students out of public school. instead of just siyng at home puyng you tube videos as assignments.

908 Parent Shorewood High That we allow children to be children, provide a School structured environment, promote physical fitness, athle@cs, social events, health and proper diets; TEACH the children, don't just give them homework (that is a cop out), bring in experts from their respec@ve fields, support student transi@on to universi@es, internships, cer@fica@on and mentor programs (I see liDle support for this :( ). Parent Shorewood High That we find a way to have in person class in some School fashion. Not necessarily 5 days each week, but standardized expecta@ons and communica@on. Parent Shorewood High That you teach our kids in person. Fulfill your core and You failed to provide effec@ve online educa@on. This year School overriding responsibility to educate! was a disaster for kids and will have very real consequences Parent Shorewood High The ability for teachers to teach rather than offload the All classes need to have a similar structure for this to work School teaching responsibility to widgets and online teaching out. The big issue with the past few months is that every systems. The best experience by far, for my child, is the teach/class had a different way of providing materials and ability to have the teacher engage personally and teaching and scheduling; so schedules conflicted all the @me, provide adequate examples of expecta@ons and the informa@on was lost or looked over, kids were confused, and resources to go with it. Nothing is worse than "here is a staff was confused. Some experiences were amazing for my 15 minute video" or "here are digital widgets lessons" child but on the other hand, many experiences were a total to run through. Teachers should spend more @me failure and really set my child back. I am a firm believer that teaching it seams rather than using their @me to this comes down to teachers who want to teach and engage compile digital resources to teach. vs those that seemed to be more of a student/follower in these @mes were the teachers really need to step up and lead. I understand that that isn't always prac@cal or expected as teachers didn't, in the past, have an expecta@on of using zoom and all these other forms of modern tech. But this should be a huge wakeup call to invest in great teachers and have a system setup to move out those that aren't up to par. I look at it in line with the BLM movement we are going through right now. We need a system for cops and teachers to be documented and public so there can be repercussions for those that aren't standup individuals. Parent Shorewood High The ability to choose either in person OR home School learning for my student in the Fall.

909 Parent Shorewood High The district to use the summer to figure out alterna@ve School plans and set academic schedules before the start of the school year. Parent Shorewood High The hardest part is the lack of structure and School accountability. He is a hard worker but he losses direc@on easy. It has been hard to keep him on track and he is less likely to listen to me and more likely to listen to his peers, teachers and he is more likely to do the right thing when he is in the school enviroment. Parent Shorewood High The model most private schools are using seems best - These were extraordinary experiences, the district had to School kids aDend their classes with their instructors at learn how to deliver content in a completely new way scheduled @mes. I have two ninth graders, my children prac@cally overnight. I think the school did a preDy great job had almost zero instruc@on from the teachers with considering, however I think the pandemic demonstrates that some notable excep@ons. All the teachers provided public schools need to have a rigorous con@ngency assignments and were understanding with due dates educa@onal-delivery system that is in place *prior* to the and concerned for our children’s well being - that said, next emergency. the kids were not “taught” - it was definitely a homeschooling experience with curriculum provided rather than an instruc@onal school experience. That really has to change. Parent Shorewood High The most important need for my incoming junior at I wish that virtual learning would have been able to get off School Shorewood is keeping on track for gradua@on and the ground and going in a more @mely fashion. I hold the being ready for the rigors of junior year. state not the school district responsible for that one. I was also frustrated even though I understand some of the reasons for the grading system for high school students during the quaran@ne. My son is a good student so it was difficult as a parent to keep him mo@vated to con@nue to do his work when he already had an A in many of his classes. We had a lot of discussions about how important it is to con@nue learning for the sake of learning and not just a grade. It would have been more helpful for me as a parent to be able to have the school make him a bit more accountable in tangible ways.

910 Parent Shorewood High The past few months went really well. I was able to I thought the school and teachers did a phenomenal School homeschool l and keep him focused on his work. job these past 3 months. These are unprecedented @mes and Granted I was only working part @me at home, because I was thoroughly impressed with the work that put into I knew I had to be home to help Luke. One thing I helping all students learn. I realize that both and I are had trouble with early on was finding assignments via very privileged to have such a great experience. I was able to canvas. Ajer about 2 or 3 weeks I figured it all out and adjust my work hours and work from home so I could devote I know this system and all his teachers preDy well when 4 or 5 hours a day working with . And he loved remote it comes to loca@ng informa@on and assignments. But, learning!! each teacher used canvas very differently from one another and that made it more difficult ini@ally. It would be helpful next year (assuming some or all school work is remote) if each teacher could post a video or a descrip@on of where to locate assignments for that class and also confirm the best way to communicate during remote learning. Parent Shorewood High The quality if educa@on and keeping them (and myself I take immunosuppressants and am very afraid my kids will School as I'm immunocompromised) safe bring covid home to me. Parent Shorewood High There are many Facebook mom groups all chayng School about how important it is to get their kindergartener into a classroom. As a parent of an incoming freshman, I think that is a bunch of . You will be doing high schoolers a gross injus@ce if you do not priori@ze geyng them back to school. You need to prepare these kids for the real world and college. If parents did their job as a parent, they should be able to teach their kid the alphabet and basic addi@on/subtrac@on. It’s not difficult. Sesame Street can do that for them. You have four or less years to help high schoolers get their min requirements. Help them!

911 Parent Shorewood High There needs to be a clear expecta@on with online See above comments. School learning. Choice and flexibility is good but it all cannot be op@onal otherwise it is a waste of @me and a loss of the learning opportunity. I struggle with everything being electronic and whether they are actually focused on school or doing something else. As a parent you can only monitor what you see in Canvas (a graded assignment) when students turn in assignments and there is not regular/@mely feedback it is difficult to know if it is the student or teacher. My students are not going to elect to aDend a zoom mee@ng just to check in they do not need that interac@on. Parent Shorewood High This is not a great ques@on as need is easily confused I think one important component would be to make sure that School with want. What we all need is for everyone in society in the first few weeks of the school year that all kids get to to take covid seriously and do their part to reduce their have at least some in person interac@on with their assigned spread con@nuously for the next year. What I want is teachers. Even if it means school is open for just two weeks for the kids to go back to school so that they get out of and then needs to go back to online learning, as long as the the house and interact with other social creatures like kids have a rela@onship that they can understand with each their kids and teachers. of their teachers, then they may know how to beDer navigate the online learning that they are direc@ng. Freshman especially should make sure to be able to get as much in person @me as possible, seniors probably less as they already have rela@onship with teachers and know how to navigate high school.

912 Parent Shorewood High This survey missed a very important part un@l the end - I will repeat from the above: PLEASE be beDer at School the opportunity to discuss what made the learning communica@on on aDendance/par@cipa@on/assignment from home part so difficult. The communica@on lej a comple@on expecta@ons. And PLEASE figure out how Canvas lot to be desired. I understand that this was difficult for will accurately reflect grades in real-@me. Or don't use it at everyone, and that we were all in uncharted waters. all. Technology that works intermiDently or unreliably is Nonetheless, the communica@on was very poor and worse than no technology at all. One more thing: PLEASE extremely frustra@ng. Some examples: 1. Please focus make clear whether the mass emails are addressing an issue more on communica@on quality and clarity than on with my child or not. I work in informa@on management and I frequency. We would regularly receive mul@ple understand the value in being able to send a mass email to communica@ons saying the same thing, but would not thousands of people - all parents of all students. But ojen receive CLEAR communica@ons on the things that those are wriDen in a way to suggest that the topic of the maDered. 2. There was a flood of emails about all email is an issue with my child - for example, an email is sent sorts of things that may be important - athle@cs, class out saying some fee or deposit is due. Ajer checking my bank elec@ons, yearbooks, PTA, etc. - but that are not as records and calling the school, I find out, oh, no, that wasn't important as the the academics. 3. ADendance/ for me. I paid that fee months ago. But yet you sent an email par@cipa@on/assignment comple@on expecta@ons sugges@ng otherwise. Please manage your messaging system were never clear. 4. MOST IMPORTANTLY, it was NEVER beDer so as to only send emails to the targets that need to made clear how Canvas and grades were working. receive them, to the extent possible. There were grades from the period before the shutdown. Then there was work-from-home work. It was very poorly communicated how everything would come together. I s@ll don't know how that worked. My child's grades in Canvas fluctuated wildly. In some cases going from a 75 or something like that to "100%" literally overnight. There is no logic for that. In fact, it defies the laws of mathema@cs. It almost seems like there was no clear plan, no strategy, and no real decision made, and so vague messages were sent, and poorly-worded and inconsistent at that. Parent Shorewood High Time management tools for my teen. School Parent Shorewood High Title/ Learning Assistance Program School

913 Parent Shorewood High To be able to have a break and not worry about Fall yet The social emo@onal toll was great even for a 16 year old School introvert. She was energized/joyful when she had a zoom mee@ng. I am concerned about the requirements (classes) my child needs in order to graduate not being able to happen - choir and PE. What will she be asked to do instead if they will not be offered next year? Parent Shorewood High To be communicated with. My child did not receive Step up your game and do what’s right. School ONE email from a teacher regarding an assignment un@l this last week. Shameful. The flexibility of expecta@ons did not sit well with this teacher mom. Shoreline failed to expect the teachers to provide instruc@on, assignments, and feedback. My child received none of this. If we go to a digital pla[orm in the fall, I hope there is more accountability for staff and students. It is hard to not compare my own rigorous expecta@ons of my students and the experience of my district to the lack of expecta@on for my child. I’ve been teaching every day for 14 weeks. My own child deserved that from his teachers. Communica@on is key. Parent Shorewood High To do what is best for my child: for their personal We understand the challenge and difficul@es of dealing with School growth, their socializa@on maturity and for their the educa@onal process during this most difficult of @mes. educa@onal needs and progress that will help them in And we know you all are doing the best you can. I just hope their future. we can figure it out so they do not become lost in their educa@onal development and that they get to fully enjoy the experience of their childhood. Parent Shorewood High To get back to a normal environment! Remote learning was a complete failure. Zoom class @mes School changed all the @me, due dates changed all the @me. There was no consistency!! It was like a constant moving target! Some teachers sent WAY too many emails, some teachers sent NOTHING! Complete inconsistency! Parent Shorewood High To get my child to aDend school. School

914 Parent Shorewood High To get our child's normal life back as soon as possible. This whole lockdown was a huge disservice and vast School detriment to the students and never should have been ins@tuted. Clearly the data shows that children are the least likely to contract, the least likely to present symptoms, and the least likely to experience hospitaliza@on or serious harm from COVID-19. When students of this age are already experiencing an epidemic of anxiety, depression, and loneliness, the worst thing we could have provided them was further isola@on and baseless fear. This closure was just plain foolish and the emo@onal and psychological damage will likely be with these children for years, if they ever get over it fully. Adults are supposed to be the ra@onal, clear-thinking ones ac@ng with good sense with the bigger picture in mind rather than reac@ng to and enhancing unsubstan@ated fear based on "science models" that uDerly failed by "orders of magnitude" (hDps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cuomo- admits-we-all-failed-at-making-coronavirus-projec@ons/ar- BB14A1s3). We recognize that closures were solely driven by the governing authori@es and the districts were obligated to comply with various direc@ves, but the last thing we should be doing going forward is to repeat the same folly and you should be pressing the state authori@es to reopen in-person schooling without restric@ons for next year. Look at the data, serious youth COVID-19 cases were almost non-existent (hDps://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-condi@ons/ coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-in-babies-and-children/ art-20484405) while the horrific signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression skyrocketed (hDps:// www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/21/covid-19-hits- bame-youth-mental-health-worse-than-white-peers-study). Please do your absolute best to return these young people to full, in-person schooling for the new year. Other countries are opening schools already and finding no deleterious COVID-19 condi@ons or posi@ve rate increases. (hDps:// www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/04/no-rise-finlands- coronavirus-infec@on-rate-since-schools-reopened/) we should likewise should be confidently returning to full schedules and full classes by September. Educators are leaders and leaders make tough decisions in the face of tough 915 Parent Shorewood High To get our kids/teachers back into school! School Parent Shorewood High To have my daughter return to school, at least a few I think all teachers in the district should hold zoom mee@ngs School days a week, to socialize, play sports and receive and/or send videoed instruc@on for each virtual class they instruc@on on all of her classes (not just a few).. are teaching. My daughter had a couple of EXCELLENT teachers that did just that every week. Amazing teachers!! The rest of my daughter’s teachers provided no instruc@on, opportunity to ask ques@ons (office hours), videos, or mee@ngs. I know all teachers work very hard and this was a quick turn around for teachers to figure out virtual learning. My ask would be to please evaluate each teacher and how you can help those that were unable to provide any instruc@on to their students... and the reasons why. Thank you for the opportunity Parent Shorewood High To know what to expect from the high school this fall The high school response was a disaster. Please create some School so I can help prepare my child. My high schooler's sort of cohesive, structured plan that promotes learning. I experience was chao@c and completely unproduc@ve fear my 15 year old is not behind given the poor response by compared to my 2nd grader. Please put together a Shorewood educators/administrators. Perhaps work with the similar structure that the grade schoolers had. My high grade schools as they created a program that promoted a school student had a hard @me keeping track of what great deal of growth and learning for my 8 year old. each of her teachers' expecta@ons were in terms of checking-in, what assignments needed to be turned in and which didn't, how grading worked. In contrast, my 2nd grader was able to use SeeSaw and work through lessons, complete and turn in assignments, get feedback and interact with the teacher - all in all a great experience for my 8 year old. Not so for my 15 year old. Please fix! Parent Shorewood High To make sure my student receives an adequate 11th My student needs some required parameters in order to School grade educa@on. par@cipate in school. If there are none, they will figure that out and will not par@cipate. Parent Shorewood High To me what would be most helpful to feel clued in to Good luck ! Hang in there. School what our Junior will be working on would be an email (maybe on Friday) providing a quick snapshot or summary of what is going on that week. Wouldn't need to be lengthy -- in fact concise would be easier on us and on the teachers.

916 Parent Shorewood High Vaccines for everyone I concerned about my boys 7 years old. He cannot control School himself when he is at school..social distance, hand sani@zer by himself all of @mes, and Teachers can not follow all of students and remind them during school hours.. Special, if students wear mask all day in school, they are not be sick by Corona, they will be sick the other ways..!!😡 Parent Shorewood High We are all good here, things have been great, the I think it would be a good thing to have a choice of u@lizing School school district, teachers and counselors have all been the online pla[orm for aDending school or aDending in very accommoda@ng. person. But I also like the idea of split days for school with 3 of 5 days are in school and the other 2 of 5 are online, or the younger kids, 5 - 12 years, go to school in the Mornings and the older kids, 12 - 18 go to school in the ajernoons. Parent Shorewood High We are hoping Shorewood will have the AP Human School Anatomy class this year. Please hire an engaging teacher who is prepared to teach this content. Thank you. We are so sad that the regular teacher lej. Parent Shorewood High We are managing and don’t have immediate needs. Teacher emails with weekly learning plans and assignments School were most helpful. Thank you to all teachers and district staff for your commitment to student learning and success! We are grateful for your hard work. Parent Shorewood High We are OK at this @me. Thank you for your energies to help find a workable solu@on School for all families. This is the hardest thing any of us has ever encountered on this scale. I appreciate Shoreline Schools very much.

917 Parent Shorewood High We don't have any. We didn't buy into all the Structure. This "op@onal" criteria doesn't work. Luckily for School nonsense. Luckily neither of us lost our jobs. We're just our son we have laid out expecta@ons for him and his glad this disaster of a school year is over. par@cipa@on level. His grades reflect it. He wasn't doing well in one class so he worked very hard to get that grade up. The problem is with everything being "op@onal" and no consequences, it was difficult for us as parents to keep him engaged. He was already at a 3.9 GPA and since the grades couldn't be reduced why even go and par@cipate? That was a struggle especially when his friends weren't technically going. As for in school, the guidelines that the State have followed are all flawed. Kids don't fall into the category for exposure. If anything those teachers who are in that "age" category, they should be the ones at home. This year has been a disaster and the Board and leadership have not done a good job. Panic and hysteria with no sta@s@cal data hurt all these kids. Just because cases "go up" doesn't equate to DEATHS. This pandemic has been a media nightmare. If this con@nues to go into the Fall, you may as well make strict guidelines with "actual teaching and grading." Specific login / check in @mes. Actual due dates on assignments. Pass/Fail = no kids learning. If thats the where we're headed, may as well go ahead and give everyone a diploma regardless of grade. Parent Shorewood High We feel it is important for teachers to establish School expecta@ons and structure at the beginning of the year. Too much ambiguity on the part of our teachers causes ambiguity by our student about the importance of the subject maDer and requirements. Parent Shorewood High We have a mul@-genera@onal household and so are School higher risk. We are lucky that we have complete availability to work from home as long as needed. So we can easily structure a school @me for the kids and help coordinate homework @me as well as help manage @me effec@vely.

918 Parent Shorewood High We have high risk people in the household so our most I think it would be awesome if you had a structured way for School important need is to stay safe. Second most students to provide class-specific feedback at any @me. important need is that my child feel emo@onally supported and has opportuni@es for flexible learning in the fall. Parent Shorewood High We need a vaccine. I’m high risk and I need that so my I think from the start daily class on zoom would be ideal just School kids can return to school and have that personal like if they were aDending school Although he didn’t want to interac@on with teachers and friends. I need him to zoom I think having the teacher present via zoom instead of have all A’s. He has that but one. These kids need hope op@onal. You can set it up so the zoom doesn’t show anyone that this virus is not going to set back their college and it’s just the teacher. If they have ques@ons they can put admission and scholarship goals. I feel like our them in chat. Organiza@on is the key and star@ng off with teachers were gracious. My son has good grades but in structure. Having a due date but the day before it’s due ask his one class It was fine when they lej school and then if anyone needs an extension or no due dates on Friday. His two weeks later it dropped. I think it was because the one teacher sent him an email and said good job on his teacher hadn’t finish grading. But that drop and not assignment and that really helped move him forward. At being able to see the teacher or talk to her was first the pandemic was shocking to everyone and so many detrimental to his future homework response. And changes happened at once. Everything changed so fast! although other teachers were saying turn in old Hopefully this year if we start of right it will be good. And I homework you can improve your grade. He didn’t need pray for a vaccine. that here. He needed to redo the test/homework for that sec@on. Parent Shorewood High We need my son to graduate and get into college! School Parent Shorewood High We want in-person teacher instruc@on and sports (he Some teachers followed up with assignments and students School played tennis at school team). very well, and I appreciate it. My 9th grader did not par@cipate in zoom mee@ngs and online hangout @me to connect with teachers and classmates, because it was not required and it's too bad he did not take advantage of that. He didn't feel connected when there are 30 people on a conference call, which I understood. It would be ideal to do zoom mee@ngs with 8-10 students at a @me, if possible. I s@ll think it was the next best thing to in-person, and commend the teachers who made the effort.

919 Parent Shorewood High We want our kids back at school. Home learning is not We vote for kids to be back to school 100% of the day. School beneficial unless they have virtual classes with teachers leading them. Kids can follow face mask and hand washing guidelines. They need to be with their peers. This is detrimental to their growth. Parent Shorewood High We were just about to begin the 504 assessment for Thank you for all of your hard work! We are grateful!! School my son when school shut down. I would like to get that completed and accommoda@ons set. Parent Shorewood High We would like the students to go back to school!!!!! We want the kids to be back in school and the schedule to School They need to be in school and our district needs to be resume. We really hope that the athle@cs and extracurricular crea@ve and think out of the box. (Unlike the way that events occur, too. We also would like they handled the senior [email protected] disappoin@ng. I don't believe that they were advocates for the seniors like other districts around the state---especially the SW principal. He could have been so posi@ve with students and was not. I don't think he even knew the seniors' names ajer being with them for 4 years. It is so sad. The most important need for our students is to have a suppor@ve, though[ul, empathe@c, ac@vely engaged principal who inspires not only his students but his staff. A true leader who creates a safe environment for all.

920 Parent Shorewood High What is the district doing to support ALL students, I witnessed (and heard the same from other parents) my 9th School including those with learning differences, students with grade son struggling greatly to get the instruc@on, guidance, 504s & IEPs? Even most 'neurotypical' students are not and contact from his high school teachers in order to meet well equipped from an execu@ve func@on, learning objec@ves in his courses. Principally, I no@ced a huge mo@va@onal, and/or parental support standpoint to disparity between what different teachers are providing - navigate an online learning environment. My child has from sending encouraging a 504 plan and self-guided schoolwork and @me emails, helpful comments on assignments, and offering two management is beyond what he is capable of, from an Zoom sessions per week and execu@ve func@on standpoint. There need to be some communica@ng regularly, seeking feedback, and adap@ng addi@onal assistance from counselors, who are their Bio Expo assignments to virtual, to not receiving a stretched incredibly thinly to begin with, to be SINGLE communica@on from his checking in with students. Engaging my teenager with from 3.11 when school ceased in-person un@l 5.12 remote learning was virtually impossible. There were (ajer I complained). Other teachers are in between, where very few resources or tools for parents and older my child received a sporadic email and weekly assignment children to help with the social emo@onal impact of posted to Canvas, with zero follow-up or regular virtual learning. Once he knew that his grades could communica@on. According to the district website, he should not go down, my son largely disengaged from have been receiving communica@on at least twice per week academics. Comple@ng homework became a constant since 4.27. This did not occur and nega@vely impacted baDle and he sunk into a serious funk not being able to learning. As a parent, I couldn't even find syllabi or learning see friends for months on end. Wondering if there objec@ves for courses and units. The counselors are could be online, supervised (perhaps PTSA?) forums for hamstrung obviously since they are not seeing kids in the different 'club' interests on a regular basis? Kids need hallways and aren't able to call teachers. This creates an structure and rou@ne. There MUST be concrete untenable situa@on for students and parents, and impedes expecta@ons for students to be online daily, checking in children's ability to learn. It appeared that teachers were with teachers, spending @me on homework, etc. Every largely lej to fend for themselves to figure out the teacher needs to provide instruc@on - whether via pre- technology and system that worked for them, with extremely recorded videos, live video, third party weblinks, etc. uneven results (even the use of Canvas, how to find and also have regular 'office hours' where students can assignments, parents' ability to access parts of it, etc.) I'm call or video conference to get clarifica@on and ask unclear whether teachers had the resources they need ques@ons. As a single parent, working a full-@me (computer, high-speed internet, webcam, instruc@ons, etc.)? demanding job from home, I cannot babysit my Teachers need to be provided district support to transi@on to teenager constantly to monitor whether he is doing his online instruc@on and consider more 'out of the box' work, aDending online sessions, etc. The district, methods, such as 'flipped' classrooms, Khan Academy, school, and teachers need to provide clear YouTube, etc. I frankly worry more about families lower on expecta@ons and hold students accountable, along the socioeconomic spectrum who don't have computers at with enough flexibility and understanding due to the home, where jobs have been lost, and/or facing food scarcity. stressful nature of virtual learning upon everyone. I would really love to see more that the community can to rally around our families to provide support.

921 Parent Shorewood High While academics are most important, we would like I know each teacher has their preferences on how they like to School every effort be made to accommodate athle@cs in use Canvas to post assignments, etc, but perhaps they could some capacity. My kids eventually started catching on each make it clear on their home page where to look to the distance learning, but missed high school team (modules vs assignments vs calendar) I found it hard to keep experiences are so valuable and can’t be made up. track of all the different ways the teachers liked to use Canvas. I wouldn’t want them to all have to conform to one way, just make it super easy to know where to look Parent Shorewood High While I understand that distance learning is not ideal, it School is most important to me that we only reopen schools if we can do so safely, both for our students and our communi@es. Parent Shorewood High With a rising senior, we want to make sure that he is School prepared for the college selec@on, applica@on process and making sure that he is mee@ng all of his gradua@on requirements. We haven't known how to start with college visits since many are closed and not doing tours. At a loss of where to start while also keeping my student on track with finishing out the year. We have felt since the pandemic that we hit a "pause" on our process and since we don't know when things will resume to a more predictable environment, we don't want to hit a panic mode when it comes to applying for colleges and making decisions. Parent Shorewood High Would be helpful to have all teachers using the same This is challenging and I think you're all doing a great job. School canvas tabs for communica@ng assignments. Would also be helpful to have a common format that teachers are required to use. It has been a challenge to gather assignments and put them in a common format for our kids to use when planning their days.

922 Parent Shorewood High Would love to receive instruc@on on how best to We received mul@ple phone calls saying our child had not School navigate canvas, google docs , upcoming due dates etc connected with various teachers along the way but when I in the most efficient way possible. This was a big called the number provided to follow up on it as requested, stressor for my husband and I and hugely added to the the person I spoke with was not certain why we got the call. stress in our household, This happened mul@ple @mes despite my child saying she had connected with the teacher. All in all, way too much informa@on coming at us , in a fragmented way. Also there were emails coming to me that were not going to my daughter requiring that I sij through everything. All in all , very stressful for both my husband and I while we con@nued to work front line in the hospitals Parent Shorewood High Consistency - teachers at same school using a similar School template for messaging on Canvas. Helseth did a GREAT job at providing the informa@on in simple manner, explaining weekly expecta@on and du@es. Easy to find assignments. Parent Shorewood High Flexible assignments and due dates if retuning to all remote School learning Parent Shorewood High For my child a structured day would be beneficial, a day that School starts ajer 9am. She aDended Washington Virtual Academy (WAVA) part of her freshman year and their set up worked very well. WAVA has a beDer interac@ve calendar. It puts all the classroom past due and due informa@on in one place right when you log in. You have to do a lot of searching when it comes to Canvas and things are not very centralized. What i no@ce this year is all the teachers had a different expecta@ons. I completely understand this was new for everyone and very difficult.

923 Parent Shorewood High For my sophomore - I would like to see some small group School sessions and greater structure shared with the parents. They need to see other students doing the work and being connected that way. They need to get the content from the teachers and then have some support as they discuss and work through the issues with their peers. It was painful to watch zooms that were poorly aDended with "meh" content. And, with the various levels of expecta@ons, it was hard to know how much I had to push him to aDend. In fact, I didn't "make" him aDend un@l the last month. I feel with the uncertainty of it all, clearer and perhaps more frequent communica@ons with the parents would have been super helpful. I'm sure it was difficult for everyone, but the going from "op@onal" to more required learning was quite impossible. My son would say, "well, it's not going to effect my grade," and there wasn't much to argue except that learning itself was cri@cal. Consider having "groups" facilitated by teachers with small work groups to help keep kids accountable to a single teacher and a set of peers. That would be game-changing with the distance learning. For my 5th grader - ajer the first month, we had preDy solid structure for what was expected. I was never quite sure of progress, so perhaps that would have been worthwhile. Again, I totally understand the fluidity and confusion due to the pandemic, allowing for a huge swath of grace. it was hard. for everyone. i would love to see greater peer learning communi@es that pushed the kids - regardless of age - to be curious and seek knowledge around specific topics. that was definitely how we operated in a pandemic, but could be for the next semester when we're back into the thick of things. thanks to all the administrators, teachers, paras, and others who pivoted. It was hard. we're working our way through it. May the next year come with greater ease and greater learning for everyone involved!

924 Parent Shorewood High For online learning at the high school level, I think it is really School important that teachers have consistent prac@ces across the board regarding when and how they post assignments (weekly? daily?) and have regular zoom classes and opportuni@es for students to interact with them in small groups or one on one. My freshman had a lot of varia@on in how her teacher communicated assignments and due dates and it was very distressing. Also, she very much felt that everything was independent learning which is not a good learning approach for her. Also, with the excep@on of a few emails I did not feel there was clear and regular communica@on with parents about expecta@ons. Finally, I don't know how to get on Canvas but I had to rely on my kids to show me what was happening on Canvas so some support for parents to access Canvas would be helpful. Parent Shorewood High I appreciate your efforts and realize reading the ques@ons School that I didn't check in ojen enough on what my kiddo was supposed to be doing. Parent Shorewood High I do hope that you'll find a way for students to at least split School @me in the fall with occasional face-to-face exposure to teachers/students under appropriate social distancing guidelines. I do worry that the hiccups associated with distance learning will have las@ng implica@ons for our students unless there's an ability for some in-person instruc@on - assuming that the second wave of COVID isn't worse than the first. In that circumstance, I understand that distance learning will be cri@cal. I also want to register that in the event a vaccine is available by the fall, it must be required for any student to be vaccinated before returning to school. Students whose parents decline a vaccine should not be allowed back into schools.

925 Parent Shorewood High I don’t think the school district should rush to make a plan for School next year un@l the situa@on is very clear on what restric@ons are needed. If a hybrid of online learning and in class learning occurs then please make sure the online is not just busy work. My high schooler definitely did not have enough to do each week. Make sure that there are actual grades given for the work done and meaningful feedback from the teachers. Parent Shorewood High I don’t think it’s feasible to screen/temp check all School students and staff each day. We would like a staggered model where students come on A or B days to reduce the number of humans in the building and allow for faster daily screening. Parent Shorewood High I feel that my child missed on his normal educa@on. Online/ School remote classes are not as structured as regular school. Parent Shorewood High I have three children in Shoreline School District. Of those School three children, one is in high school. He had a horrible experience and I was very disappointed with the lack of expecta@ons set for him at the very beginning of all this. He was told it didn’t maDer how much work he did with the online learning pla[orm because his grade wouldn’t go any lower it could only get beDer. When you set that as an expecta@on for some teenagers, they do not see the need to really do anything. As a parent this made it really difficult to get him to engage in the online learning plan. It seems like it took the high school a lot longer to get things in place for students and their wasn’t very clear expecta@ons set early on. I’m an essen@al healthcare worker therefore I was not able to be home to micro manage this early on. However, my children in elementary school had a completely different experience. Expecta@ons and instruc@ons were very clear and as a parent easier to support and enforce. Parent Shorewood High I just want my son to s@ll receive a high level of educa@on School while s@ll be able to maintain a social life with his school peers and friends. I of course want this to be in the highest level of clean and healthy atmosphere.

926 Parent Shorewood High I know this came as a surprise to everyone, but distance School learning isn't new. I think it could have been done beDer, for those that were able. Not having a set schedule made it hard for my student to focus, or even think it maDered to aDend. Parent Shorewood High I think it is bad for students to say that they can do School homework or not and they can join Zoom or not. They think it doesn't maDer. There were few students in many zoom @me. I hope it is proceeded with the idea that students must do what they do. Parent Shorewood High I think the high school volunteer hours requirement for School gradua@on, should be modified or eliminated, due to severely restricted volunteer opportuni@es because of Covid. Parent Shorewood High I understand this is going to be incredibly difficult, but even School some return to normalcy in the form of having the kids in the school building, with teachers, for part of the @me will be very helpful. Parent Shorewood High I want this online learning to stop and go back to a regular School School schedule. My teenagers treated this as a vaca@on and gave very liDle effort in learning. They need a structure in class teaching/schedule. I feel like the online classes were pointless and my kids did not care about checking in with their teacher or doing the zoom mee@ngs. They would sleep in @l noon and had nothing to do all day. Parent Shorewood High I was disappointed in the lack of zoom for learning. Every School @me I observed they were just checking in on how lives were going. I wish it would have been used for lessons and learning We really miss school especially ac@vi@es and sports What she most needs if there isn’t in person school is structured learning and doesn’t do well with online self paced learning without due dates Parent Shorewood High I would like to see some way to do independent study for School students to get some of their educa@onal needs met.

927 Parent Shorewood High It would be great if the school district could use scien@fic data School to measure 1) the actual chance of their students contrac@ng COVID-19 and their chances of spreading it (since there are some sugges@ons [unproven observa@ons?] that young people don't contract or spread them) and 2) detrimental effect the remote learning has on the student's development, impact to the family, local economy, and the future of the students/family/society , and make the decision based solely on scien@fic evidence. Parent Shorewood High It's a bit hard to know....online classes were definitely difficult School for us. I feel that school aDendance would best be suited for us. Thank you Parent Shorewood High More specific emails when a student isn't engaging. The School "your student hasn't engaged in one or more classes this week" isn't helpful when you have a student who swears he has engaged in all 6 classes. Trying to figure this out included me emailing all of his teachers to ask which class the message was regarding. It seemed later on I received one sta@ng that he hadn't engaged in 3rd period, which was helpful. Parent Shorewood High More structured school day with class par@cipa@on is a must School next year - whether it is in person, on line or a hybrid solu@on. She would par@cipate in zoom calls, but only a few kids got on line so she stopped aDending. Very hard to mo@vate her during this @me with no grades. I appreciate the school not wan@ng to add more stress to the kids, but this did not work for this age group. Having work to do might have actually helped ease the stress by keeping her busy and focused on work. Parent Shorewood High My boys have never said they wanted to go back to school, School un@l now. So the upside is they realize that in person leaning is greatly preferred to remote learning. The lack of social interac@on was a preDy big nega@ve impact for all of my kids. Parent Shorewood High My child is going to be a Junior and I worry she won't get the School knowledge needed to prepare her for college.

928 Parent Shorewood High My child needs the social part of school. Without it, he is School unmo@vated to par@cipate in online schooling. I realize safety is more important but his mental health took a big hit during this pandemic. It would be great if we could have fall sports, at least the no-contact ones. This again speaks to the socializa@on aspect of school that my child desperately needs. If you opt for some form of online schooling, there needs to be a uniformed online format for teachers to give assignments and communicate. It was overwhelming (for me, too) trying to find assignments, e-mails, etc. from six different teachers with completely different styles and requirements. Also the lack of any structure (at the beginning) caused my child to "check-out" and it was very difficult to get him to study or care about any of the classes once there was a plan. There needs to be a plan BEFORE schools starts. Finally, teacher contact (part of the social aspect) is most necessary for my child to engage in his learning. He opted out of most of the zoom mee@ngs. I would make those "mandatory" as much as possible (with excep@ons due to equity). If possible, even just seeing each teacher once a week will make a big difference. Parent Shorewood High My daughter was a senior this year. So my input is limited. School However I do want to note that she was very independent in her work and I was not involved in keeping her schedule or accessing any lessons. She did so completely on her own. Parent Shorewood High My rising 12th grader is already self-mo@vated. She gave a School big thumbs-up to her teachers and the online learning when asked.

929 Parent Shorewood High My son struggled with finding some of his course School assignments during the school shut down, and he was frustrated that his high school teachers were inconsistent in how assignments were posted/communicated to him. Some of his teachers emailed out assignments, and some posted them to Canvas; and on Canvas, there was varia@on in where the assignments were posted, some@mes the assignments were a link within a post to somewhere else. Some teachers posted the week's assignments consistently at the beginning of the week and others posted them throughout the week. All the varia@on between teachers caused him a lot of anxiety. He felt that he had a hard @me knowing whether he knew about all the assignments, and he said that he felt he needed to constantly check a number of loca@ons to iden@fy his assignments, and s@ll never felt fully sure that he had iden@fied them all. Also, some teachers made use of Zoom to conduct class mee@ngs and others did not. It seemed like many of the Zoom mee@ngs were treated more like "check- ins" and op@onal, rather than mandatory with class learning content being disseminated. Perhaps that is due to the issue of equity, but it seemed like the quality of learning in the remote seyng was far from adequate if this approach is something that will be required for a long period of @me. I believe requiring consistency in how and where class work requirements are communicated between teachers and students is very important for making remote learning more successful. There needs to be a single place for all assignments to be communicated. In the fall, it will be very important that plans for more typical academic learning are in place, whether in remote or in person. The shut down period this spring felt like it was more of a "survival mode" to wait out the virus, but I am concerned that if this persists that it will take a significant toll on learning leaving students further and further behind. Thanks. Parent Shorewood High Neither of my kids engaged with the school work un@l the School assignments were put on Canvas. This is a must if we are remote in the fall. I was very disappointed there was no Zoom band op@on at Einstein.

930 Parent Shorewood High Some form of in person school is paramount. Even if it is a School split schedule, in person keeps my child going. Not to men@on interac@on with others. Parent Shorewood High structure and socializa@on are most important for my child, School daily class lessons with due dates are beDer than weekly, not having grades that maDered made it difficult for my child to remain mo@vated Parent Shorewood High Students need each other and a classroom BoDom line is School kids need to be around other kids. I’ve been doing virtual preschool teaching and there is NO WAY I am able to teach them the things I do in class.I believe this is true for all ages of students. It’s hard enough when they’re physically in front of you to keep a students focus and aDen@on to stay on task so on a screen in their home with all the distrac@ons—they’re not geyng even a 1/4 of what we can do in person. Besides the social skills they need to learn by physically interac@ng with peers and adults other than their parents. Yes there are lots of great online resources but they cannot replace real life interac@ons. Parent Shorewood High Thank you - I know this isn't easy for anyone - especially School administrators, teachers, and staff. Take care

931 Parent Shorewood High There were two issues that we encountered. 1) In my son's School 9th grade Algebra I class, I did some spot checking of his skills. He wasn't able to complete fairly easy problems. However, he received an A-level grade in the course. This indicates to me that following up on understanding of the material in math may be a major issue with remote or virtual learning. In my view, he did not learn the material. Some problems he had not completed at all--for example, making guesses for answers and . He lacks ini@a@ve in math and requires a higher level of accountability, which I was impossible for me to provide for personal reasons. I didn't realize what was happening un@l it was too late because his grades were good. 2) It was difficult to track grades in real @me. They were not being updated for my 11th grade daughter. She contacted her teacher(s?), and they said they knew of this issue but that she would at least receive the grades she had prior to remote learning. This was problema@c for her because she was working hard to get all As for college applica@ons and did not know whether she could or should pursue extra credit projects to achieve this. Parent Shorewood High This is a deadly disease for some and we cannot pretend that School it Durant exist. Face masks need to be mandatory for all, and you’ll need to provide an outdoor area to eat year round. Thanks for puyng out the survey. Parent Shorewood High We are all @red of the restric@ons the pandemic has placed School upon our society. That does not mean the dangers from the pandemic have gone away. The safety of the students and their families should remain a top priority despite the changes this causes to everyone's day to day lives. Parent Shorewood High We would like to see online op@ons for learning at different School levels.

932 Parent Shorewood High We would prefer consistency among teachers and School assignments. Also, consistency in technology/pla[orms, etc. teachers be required to use if home learning is needed. Some subjects need more direct instruc@on (like algebra, sciences) than others. A weekly email from the algebra teacher isn't helpful for someone struggling in algebra. Also, help with mo@va@on. Our kid hit a wall and wasn't always engaging with home learning, despite our expecta@on that he par@cipate. Parent Shorewood High While I understand and appreciate the though[ulness and School equitable way the Shoreline School District came to develop its Home-Learning plan for this school year, and I also realize it was an ever-changing and evolving, once in a life@me world health crisis, I feel it had some definite shortcomings that could have been beDer mi@gated. Having a more consistent approach to what learning outcomes are expected will certainly assist students and families in naviga@ng @me management and school responsibili@es. Parent Syre Elementary Reopen in person classes. Kids need it on so many biopsychosocial levels. The costs don’t outweigh the benefits. Period. Look at the data Parent Syre Elementary Not sure I will send the kids to school next year. I It would be nice to NOT have to send kids in for in-person prefer the op@on to do full @me on-line learning. learning. Although I strongly desire face coverings, I don’t think it’s realis@c for kids to wear it for hours and hours. In fact,it may encourage more face touching. It would be great to have an op@on to keep kids home for full @me on- line learning. It can be op@onal for in-person learning and reserved for those who need in-person or prefer it. Parent Syre Elementary - Social interac@on in small groups/ friendship - Work hardest part was keeping track of the kids calendar and books that are easy to follow instead of assignments in assignments. Zoom links kept changing. I’d love to seesaw - subscribe to a calendar that pops on my phone which kids has which class.

933 Parent Syre Elementary 1)face to face structured school @me either online or in person, but daily and structured. 2)mandatory peer socializa@on @me (as opposed to op@onal Lunch with counselor, or whatever it was they tried out on zoom). 3)Mandatory one on one @me to go over problems with work, either on zoom or in person. Parent Syre Elementary 1. Being able to focus on my Full @me job vs. Being Thank you to the Principal and all the teachers at Syre distracted with the at home school learning plan and Elementary. We know this has been hard on everyone. Thank requirements. 2. Peace of mind knowing that my kids you for the communica@on and for ALL the fun learning are being provided a structured school environment assignments and TLC you provided. Please have the conducive to learning and social interac@on with younger grades kindergarten to 4th or 5th return to school. friends and teachers that is desperately missed. 3. The importance of the classroom experience is cri@cal for Being able to decrease stress at home, with school and growth and development. with work. There is no denying that our en@re family is under durress and massive stress. Parent Syre Elementary 1. In person teacher led instruc@ons. 2. Full day of Full school day teacher engagement is absolutely necessary teacher led schooling. for 4th graders. Zoom mee@ngs are hard for 8/9 year old kids. LiDle kids (3rd grader going to 4th grade) can't stay focused to really learn and pay aDen@on during Zoom mee@ngs. Parent Syre Elementary 1. Opportuni@es for my daughter to connect/socialize Despite challenges of schooling from home we discovered with others, while s@ll maintaining safe health some benefits too. If schooling from home con@nues in some protocols. She was very lonely during quaran@ne and form I believe we can be successful. missed her friends terribly. Parent Syre Elementary A break from juggling kids, house maintenance, job. Google classrooms worked o.k. for my 3rd grader last Summer is a non-starter this year because I need to fix semester. Seasaw, however, was a trainwreck for my the and paint house exterior before we're back to 8 kindergartener. He couldn't do any of that on his own without more months of crap weather. Not looking forward to my full-@me aDen@on. I'll vent more on seasaw and the then having to home school a 4th grader and 1st whole Meridian Park kindergarten fiasco when I do the grader this fall. I'm already at burn out phase, with no second survey for my first grader. oppiton to recharge this summer. 2020 - Embrace the ! Parent Syre Elementary A defined, organized and structured schedule including There should be a more organized program structure in place. resources and tools that meet needed quality and It is very important for the students to not fall behind and required for a proper educa@on; this would help giving deal with repercussions and consequences in the future. direc@on and support needed to the students.

934 Parent Syre Elementary A flexible learning schedule (that could fit into work In our opinion, distance learning did not work well for our day). Social and emo@onal considera@on when family. It was absolutely impossible for my three young choosing classes for next year. In-person full days (at children to be independent with their learning plans. The least some days of the week). Well designed on-line distance learning required an adult helping them at all @mes. curriculum that students can do independently. My children do not know how to type, upload, download, etc. There were mul@ple glitches and frustra@ons which brought them to tears. Some curriculum was done very well. We were happy with SeeSaw, but much of the Google classroom curriculum required making game pieces, prin@ng, and playing the game with an adult, links to science experiments which required adult supervision, etc. We thought it was impossible to get through a workday when the curriculum was not designed for independent learning.Things like Zoom schedules were difficult to maintain with three children and work as well.We strongly feel that the younger students simply could not navigate what was expected of them. Things which were helpful were having the prerecorded lessons and a flexible learning plan. We are very concerned about the impact of mask wearing and isola@on in the school as well especially for young students. The mental health of our children has suffered and while we want to be safe, we are very concerned for their "emo@onal safely". We would be in favor of them rota@ng school days with easy (and independent) distance learning that was well designed to be flexible for the whole family. Going to school half days would be extremely difficult due to childcare, but rota@ng full days (ex. T/Thur., M/W, etc.) would be difficult, but manageable as long as our kids would be aDending together. This is a difficult situa@on and we do appreciate the efforts of teachers, staff, at our school. Thank you! Parent Syre Elementary A scheduled rou@ne for our kids. SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY! As hard as it may be, I am willing to sacrifice in person learning of the virus con@nues to spread this fall. Parent Syre Elementary A structured learning environment where we know the Keep itera@ng, being inven@ve, and doing what it takes to get kids are learning, not always in front of a screen, and our kids buDs back in the classroom. Appreciate all that we are able to work at the same @me without having everyone is doing and don't be afraid to ask the parent to help along. community for help!

935 Parent Syre Elementary 希望更多的线上å Parent Syre Elementary As a mother with adhd Children, they need to be in the classroom. :( Parent Syre Elementary As a single parent my child needs to be in school during the day. I am unable to educate my child via distance learning, unable to socialize my child adequately without in-person schooling, and unable to insure that all learning objec@ves are being met for my child within the home. We need to return to in-person schooling this fall or I am convinced my child will begin to fall behind academically. Parent Syre Elementary As I have 3 kids coming into first grade the in person I very much appreciate and am boggled by all the instruc@on and socializa@on is irreplaceable. All the considera@ons and "no win" situa@on for educators in this tech and tools sadly mean nothing as we can't get current pandemic environment. As a parent I have to balance focus or aDen@on in a virtual environment on a an obviously very big health risk we are all facing but also the consistent basis. But, things that might help would be.. risk to the development of my kiddos. I would prefer full @me One consistent schedule and curriculum all teachers instruc@on for my children with precau@ons like regular are using as in my case I might have 3 in the same cleaning, masks, volunteers and staff exposure limited to only grade. One portal for access to all tools/apps. I.e. Epic, those they really need to see, etc. If there is a split schedule super kids, Kahn, etc. If possible no need for a ton of or AM/PM schedule which means they are in school "half" apps or different tools, but rather just a couple @me than that means to me a full year curriculum has to be fit in this "half" @me schedule. The end of this year taught us that at home schooling is not an op@on for our children and its a bonus on a day when we get 15-30 mins of good, focused work. So, the ques@ons in this survey about tools or virtual schooling for young kids is really not applicable in my mind as virtual learning is not an environment suitable for them. Ul@mately, if there is a way to priori@ze younger children for in person instruc@on and focus remote learning to older children that might be a solu@on that can work for all. Parent Syre Elementary Being able to have my student do the work As a parent I’d like my own access to google classroom etc. independently. Having to help all of the @me is difficult while working.

936 Parent Syre Elementary BeDer communica@on about what is expected of the For what it’s worth, I would not like an everyday, but half day student. I have a first grader this year. My impression model. My first choice would be one week at school full @me was she should do whatever worked for us. However and then one week at home with online learning. Switching liDle or as much as we could manage. She picked back and forth for students. Second choice would be full whatever Seesaw assignments she wanted to do. I was days alterna@ng. Half days just don’t quite seem worth it for fine with it for this year understanding that no one was valuable in person instruc@on @me. But I very much prepared. But next year I would like clear expecta@ons appreciate the extremely difficult problem you will all be and assignments for each week. trying to solve!! Parent Syre Elementary Both my wife and I work from home. It's excep@onally Khan was great for some subjects. SeeSaw is problema@c hard for us to provide instruc@on @me to our children because my kids found their way to YouTube and watched (K and 2) because they are not old enough to be able other unrelated videos and required constant supervision. to concentrate for extended periods of @me or work in a self-directed manner. Parent Syre Elementary Childcare is the limi@ng factor for us. We can't work and homeschool and care for our two other young kids without more help. We probably needed more rou@ne from our teacher around daily check-ins so that we could keep things moving forward. Parent Syre Elementary Choices Depending on how COVID case numbers play out, the possibility of second wave, and more (health) knowledge from public health as it becomes available over the next few months is going to con@nue to shape how Fall 2020 is looking and whether or not we feel comfortable opening up our bubble. Thank you for the ques@onnaire. Parent Syre Elementary Clarity and a plan. If we need to make plans for next When will SSD have a plan in place for next year? school year the most @me we have to adjust and make accommoda@ons, the beDer. When will we know about next year? Parent Syre Elementary Clarity so that we can plan our daily lives. Consensus from respected healthcare and science leaders regarding the safety of in-school learning for children and staff.

937 Parent Syre Elementary Clear communica@ons from school. Parent learning I am very concerned about the amount of screen @me sessions when new programs (ie, Zoom, Seesaw, required of kids with distance learning. Videos created by Google classrooms) are being rolled out. We really the students’ individual or grade level teachers (especially appreciated the Zoom sessions with their classrooms, math and wri@ng) were extremely helpful and instruc@onal teacher office hours and the lunch opportuni@es with for new material. However, I would like to see more wriDen peers and school counselors. My kids LOVED being materials for actual assignments to prac@ce those skills. I able to see their teachers and friends! Thank you so think more prac@ce is needed than was expected of the kids much!!! More op@ons for printed materials / to really learn the new concepts presented (especially for assignments in the event of more virtual / distance reading, wri@ng and math skills), and I would like to see more learning (see below) assignments requiring pen and paper, rather than 90%+ of it being completed on the computer. Photos of completed work could s@ll be uploaded to Seesaw/Google Classroom for the teacher to evaluate and provide feedback. More teacher feedback on assignments would also be helpful. I think mo@va@on wanes when you are not geyng any (or very liDle) feedback on your work. I also think this is important for learning when addi@onal help or prac@ce is needed. It would be great to have PE requirements / planned movement breaks to help get kids moving and take a break from screens. When expecta@ons (requirements) are clear, my kids are highly mo@vated to do the work. But if they are told it’s op@onal by the teacher or school, mo@va@on is much lower. I wish it wasn’t that way, but that seemed to be the case with virtual learning. I think partly they were geyng burnt out on screens, so again more paper op@ons for the actual work may help. As a parent, Receiving the weekly class bulle@ns with the plan for the week (what/when assignments would be coming out, zoom @mes and links, etc) was extremely helpful. It was really nice to receive this Sunday evening. And having the bulle@n posted for the kids in Seesaw/Google Classrooms was also VERY helpful, so all the links were in one place. Thank you so much! We appreciate all the district is doing during this challenging @me.

938 Parent Syre Elementary Clear expecta@ons Safety/Health Time for our kid This whole experience has made our whole family REALLY to be with other kids A structured learning appreciate Sure. Our kid misses school so much. He even environment (in-person whenever possible) misses learning and is annoyed with himself that he hasn't been learning much during quaran@ne. He has so much more trouble focusing at home. Parent Syre Elementary Consistent communica@on and direc@on from a The ques@on about ability to return to work was confusing. I teacher. It’s very helpful for learning direc@ves am able to work from home regardless of school’s (instruc@on and requirements) to come from someone opening status (I am employed and will remain employed), other than her parents! And connec@ng with a trusted, but will be unable to return to my office un@l school opens consistent adult is an important part of being able to fully (full days, full @me). learn. Parent Syre Elementary Consistent structure for our child, and feeding her desire for learning. Parent Syre Elementary Con@nued use of school IPad and learning through My child is an only child and I am concerned she is not geyng Seesaw and learning through Apps, the social interac@ons with peers that she needs. Parent Syre Elementary Daily class zoom mee@ngs with a teacher with Yes, my 3rd grade son at Syre had only one day a week zoom academic instruc@on/teaching, (in math mainly), class mee@ngs that lasted only 30 minutes! He was very because I cannot give appropriate instruc@on myself. disappointed because the mee@ngs were not frequent Class instruc@on should be academically focused with a enough to feel like he had a structured rou@ne nor did he feel format that allows for individual feedback, with engaged in the mee@ngs because of the lack of frequency. supported instruc@onal videos. Also, because the mee@ngs were not academically instruc@onal but rather just social and he felt lost and unrecognized. He wanted more one on one feedback to ask ques@ons about math in par@cular. I am very disappointed with the low frequency of the zoom mee@ngs because my sons day had no structure and no feeling of accountability or accomplishment. Why did shoreline fail to have any structural model as compared to SeaDle schools who had daily instruc@on and highly structured assignments? My son lost half the year academically. Parent Syre Elementary Do not judge or harass the parents who are seriously Covid is fatal. My kids are likely not going to school this fall. considering keeping their children home un@l more Not worth the risk. informa@on is at hand Parent Syre Elementary Emo@onal supports/interac@ons with friends. I'm not too confident if children will follow hand washing 20+ Academic progress seconds/wearing a mask/social distancing ideas. One reason would be peer pressure (to not do.) Hope the school can create the atmosphere that they ac@vely follow the ideas.

939 Parent Syre Elementary Enough income to allow us to stay in our home, pay the bills and buy food. Parent Syre Elementary Enough income to make sure we can stay in our home, pay the bills and buy food. Parent Syre Elementary Ensuring siblings are on the same schedule if hybrid approach due to parent work schedule. Having childcare op@ons Having before school child care if no bussing Ensuring child has appropriate transi@on once back at school-social/emo@onal support. Ensuring child gets appropriate IEP support. Parent Syre Elementary Ensuring that my child is geyng a standards based Yes, if you con@nue to use See Saw, please make sure there educa@on and that his teacher is explicitely no@fying are less complicated and @me consuming science me regarding the areas that he needs the most work experiments. There was an abundance of science for first and support in. graders, and each of them required quite a bit of materials and @me, making it difficult to accomplish during the week with two working parents. Parent Syre Elementary face @me with teacher and students for the kids. Pick one app. Mul@ple apps mean spending too much @me integra@ng systems, flipping between systems, etc. to get things to work. Make it simple for everyone (PS. Google wasn’t that great. Seesaw was super easy.) Smaller zoom mee@ngs. It’s hard enough to command 20+ adults over webex, even harder with kids. The weekly scheduled assignments and learning programs were fantas@c! More please. Hang in there! Parent Syre Elementary Figuring out a way to get my student to follow a I don't think you'll be able to keep elementary school kids schedule for schoolwork, and socializa@on with his socially distanced. And even if you could, wouldn't that friends. defeat one of the biggest benefits of them being together (geyng to play, etc.) Parent Syre Elementary Flexibility of instruc@on if online (parents work all day “I miss my friends.†and can’t help every day)—but the work load and weekly assignments were perfect! Parent Syre Elementary Flexibility. We are working parents of a soon to be 2nd grader, so cannot dedicate much @me through the day to suppor@ng his instruc@on. Teacher Zoom calls and email have been great.

940 Parent Syre Elementary Flexible educa@on plan but somehow geyng Rota@ng homeschool teacher for those that don’t learn in socializing and sped services a constantly changing scenario. Parent Syre Elementary -Flexible school schedules -Flexible due dates -Weekly -Organiza@on and the ability to access online assignments check ins -A list of requirements that my child needs to were such a challenge. -If there could be more @me spent on meet to be at the appropriate level of learning. - using one cohesive pla[orm and for all ac@vi@es and Weekly zoom check ins with the whole class and assignments to be organized in a way that is user friendly, and teacher -1 on 1 zoom mee@ngs with teacher at least so easy that a first grader could navigate it that would be once every 2 weeks -daily schedule with assignments ideal. We spent a lot of our @me trying to find things and and links for videos that reinforce lessons (sent at the navigate through assignments that were not clear or just start of each week) difficult to find. Some of the programs used were not easy for my kindergartener to use on his own. He doesn’t know how to type or it was difficult to “draw†Parent Syre Elementary For my becoming first grader I need more worksheets I think we need a more interac@ve and engaging computer for subject s like wri@ng and math , more science and game , I been using [email protected] and others that can be art /craj Ideas that can be done at home and paid by school in a very low price or even free. communica@on from the teaches on things that kids need to work on a more personalize approach . Parent Syre Elementary For my child to aDend school everyday at least half a day if possible. I am worried about social regression . Parent Syre Elementary For summer, con@nued use of apps like seesaw I understand this has been a hard thing to figure out but I believe there needs to be more structure if this needs to be con@nued. Assignments with due dates, online aDendance and live lessons from teachers. I’m worried about my daughter being behind ajer this. The past few months have not been effec@ve for my daughter, a lot having to do with different priori@es in her two households but also the lack of structure to this whole thing where it’s felt op@onal rather then required learning. There should be specific assignments and due dates not just here’s a ton of stuff figure it out and maybe do some of it.

941 Parent Syre Elementary For the schools to con@nue to follow cdc and state Should the school district return to hybrid learning, recommenda@ons for managing COVID-19. A communica@on between teachers & parents regarding their thorough assessment of my student's understanding of student's performance must improve. One of my children had grade-level concepts & academic benchmarks. An a teacher with zoom office hours and excellent individualized learning plan to support learning in communica@on whereas my other student's teacher had no areas where understanding and academic performance communica@on about my student. The end-of-year report have not been demonstrated. cards were a waste of paper. Had I known there would be no teacher comments and all Ps I would not have driven to pick them up. The teachers couldn't even explain to my students ehat the P represented. Was this explained to parents in any manner? Perhaps I missed the email. Overall, I feel the Shoreline schools did their best to manage a challenging situa@on. I'm thankful for teachers and staff remaining dedicated to student learning. Parent Syre Elementary Geyng kids back in school full @me in front of Please put kids back in school FULL TIME Kids don't do well teachers. NO HOME LEARNING AT ALL IS MY at home and will not learn at same rate. PREFERENCE. Kids are fine and least vulnerable.

942 Parent Syre Elementary Geyng the kids back into school Our original need with keeping kids home and shuyng down the economy was to flaDen the curve and not over run the health care system. I work in that health care system and have been at work every day. Our ini@al concepts about Covid 19 were based on data from other areas, and what we did was needed. But as new data has been generated and we have updated the models. As we have kept our hospitals empty and our ability to manage those that are ill have not been taxed, we need to update our ways. Our leaders have not always followed what the heath care data has shown and are allowing a fear of being sick to drive our decisions. The virus is not going away, but we have shown that those not showing symptoms do not have enough virus to be contagious. Out door equipment does not maintain enough virus to be contagious. Surfaces that are cleaned daily are safe and by not sharing common items such as utensils or office equipment, the virus is not spreading. A fear of being sick has spread, and yes some that have come down with Covid 19 and had other medical issues have been very sick. But many have had such mild symptoms that a possibility of being sick was never noted. The virus is not going away, but we can manage it. Look back 40 years ago. There were not vaccines for everything that there is today. Kids were told to wash there hands, get fresh air, be ac@ve, and don't drink out of other's cups. Those same guidelines are what the CDC is saying now. How can a new kindergarten learn on line when they have no formal educa@on? How is a 1st grader to learn coming to a new class that they don't know the teacher? How is a 6th grader going to Middle School for the first @me to learn? How about a Freshman in High School? How are parents that need to work suppose to manage their kids days? Our kids need to be in school. They need the interpersonal rela@onships. They need their wonderful, qualified teachers that we have in Shoreline. They need their sports and ac@vi@es. Parents need to be able to work and know their kids are safe at school. Thank you

943 Parent Syre Elementary Google classroom was And never seemed to work I bet if clroom ADendance was volunteer. Like I have two correctly. Assignments late, links not working. op@on. We’d have half snow up which would be just Passwords not working. We and a lot of other parents I perfect for beDer distancing. know just said forget it. Parent Syre Elementary is depressed not being at school and not being I would love it if classroom zooms were in the morning and around other kids. I am most worried about the social not 3:00 in the ajernoon. It’s really hard to get kids engaged emo@onal aspect of not aDending school. I am not so that late in the day and by 3:00 school is an ajerthought. worried about the academics because I feel like we will Submiyng work on Google is a serious pain in the neck. catch her up if need be. was great but not There has to be an easier way if you expect kids to turn stuff having her for long during the year and then having to in. We both work and that was just one more thing on the list zoom with her was quite challenging for She that we did not have @me for. There was no way could had no buy in and no real connec@on with her. have ever submiDed her work by herself and she is preDy good at the computer. Parent Syre Elementary HAVING A MORE STRUCTURED AND SCHEDULED ONLINE LEARNING PROGRAM Parent Syre Elementary Having a very structured syllabus for the fall and winter Our teacher was on top of it from the get go. She was quarters with set expecta@ons and due dates with easy amazing and made amazing effort to stay connected. Other accessible links for assignments but classes in person friends teachers struggled a bit with the technology and it should not be required! There should be regular was obvious and I know they were disappointed. I think contact with the teachers...several @mes a week and you guys are doing a great job!!! Thank you!!!!! also have them instruct on zoom and not just a check in. Parents who absolutely have to work and need their kids to aDend school then they should get first pick on seats available. Hopefully the families that do not need childcare can be flexible and keep their kids home. Parent Syre Elementary Health safety. Clear communica@on from teachers Thank you for providing this survey. about expecta@ons. Forward movement in academic learning. Parent Syre Elementary Helth and safety for students and staff. I'm also very concerned that my son will be behind next school year. I'm worried he didn't have enough assignments this year to prepare him for next year.

944 Parent Syre Elementary Home learning tools upgraded - the laptops we used If home learning is conducted again, it would be helpful to were so grainy for using Flipgrid etc. have assignments 2 weeks in advance so days can be planned out - rather than rushed on Monday mornings when kids should be working on assignments, not planning out the week. Also, addi@onal/supplemental assignments for kids who breeze through assignments. Access to learning programs that really help: Khan Academy, Typing.com, ABC Mouse, Epic!, etc. Parent Syre Elementary Home school doesn't work when parents are working Look at the sta@s@cs on healthy children being seriously full @me. It doesn't maDer how much resources or affected by Covid-19. As an educa@on organiza@on, I'd hope tools you throw at us. Working parents do not have you make decisions based on data and evidence not by @me to dedicate on schooling. What district is asking irra@onal fear and herd mentality and set an example for our us an unreasonale and impossible tasks. I am very children to think and process our feelings rather than make concerned that our children will be lej behind in their decisions based on fear. School shut down for younger educa@on because of the irra@onal fear of COVID-19. If children makes no sense. The burden it has placed on I am to pay property to support public educa@on I working parents is beyond imagina@on. It is unfair our expect the district to deliver it in a manner where children do not get as much educa@on becase their parents learning can actually happen. Especially young children need to work for living. At least let us choose the risk we are cannot focus online for a long @me. Doctors tell to limit willing to take rather than making a blanket decision for all. screen @me while the district is pushing for more. Now Parents who are scared can keep their children home and not I am concerned of other long term harm caused by the learning. Educa@on must con@nue for young mind. I appeal online learning due to extended screen @me. to you to open up the schools and let the kids learn and grow their mind. Parent Syre Elementary I actually have my two children at two different Honestly, distance learning ended up working for our family schools. No bussing might be a bit of a struggle (we (beDer than I expected). were Syre and North City, to be Syre and Briarcrest). I think missing the social piece of school was the hardest thing. That and my child who accesses Special Educa@on really didn’t get speech, OT and PT.

945 Parent Syre Elementary I am hoping that as a parent of an incoming kindergartner and two other students who have struggled through distance learning, considera@on would be made for their ages. I felt that what was expected from the parents in terms of curriculum was not manageable. Games, uploading, downloading, logging into other websites, projects which required constant adult supervision are so difficult to manage for younger kids. I simply cannot imagine my kindergartner going through the same frustra@ons as my other two young children. I do feel that these early years require interac@on with other teachers and students. Although I am concerned for their physical health, I am also concerned for their mental health and the effects of being isolated from their peers. If school is on an alterna@ng basis, half days would be very difficult to manage due to childcare. A rota@ng full day schedule (i.e. T/Th, M/W) would be more feasible with an easy to use at-home curriculum to supplement with paper packets sent home for younger students. Thank you for considering. Parent Syre Elementary I feel like my child needs in-person learning to be successful at school.

946 Parent Syre Elementary I honestly don't know. I think because she's s@ll in I think all the staff and teachers at Syre did a fabulous job elementary school that there is @me to "catch up," so I under truly chao@c condi@ons. It was extremely difficult for am not worried too much about academics. Knowing all of us, there is no ques@on about that. The ability to pull what to focus on at home would be helpful, and that together and eventually get guidance was appreciated, and it way I can iden@fy trouble spots. Some content that was eye opening to me how much planning has to go into the was iden@fied this past spring was difficult for me to school year. I appreciate all the work being done now to guide her on - either due to my own knowledge/talent prepare for next year. I want to support our teachers and gaps or because she didn't want to hear it from me as school staff in any way I can. Since our house has the her mother. I think those areas are going to be privilege of being able to make online learning work, we will different for each student. Having a @me when my respect whatever the school system decides is best for all the student or a maybe a few other students with the students. We recognize not everyone has the same luxury of same problem (e.g. wri@ng, or a math lesson) can log in home childcare and unfeDered internet and computer in for live support/instruc@on by the teacher would be access. While I want my child in a live classroom, I respect helpful. If she gets the concept, it's hard to stay on a that the need of the community may override my want. I live zoom mee@ng. I can tell if she understands the trust our system to do what is write for all of us, not just my interac@ve videos where it's taught and she prac@ces house and child. Good luck and best wishes! while pausing the videos. Those worked extremely well in our house. But when it came to wri@ng and needing support, having a teacher interact with her to cri@que her wri@ng and help explain the goal was sorely missing. It was also hard for me to be at work while she was at home with child care doing her lessons; I couldn't help her check in with the teacher to iden@fy the problem (though I know we could have asked for Zoom support from the teacher at almost any @me, some@mes it wasn't un@l a week later that I was even aware of the problem). Parent Syre Elementary I just think the kids need their friends, and the I applaud you all for all you've done. It's really an impossible structure of school (my kids are young). I feel like situa@on, with no easy answers un@l there's a vaccine and/or they're s@ll at an age where they can catch up reliable and safe treatment. So I don't envy your tasks. I academically, although that won't last forever. So I hope we can all find a way to thread the needle this fall. really feel like they need other kids and other adults around.

947 Parent Syre Elementary I need my childeren to leave our house and have Please ROLL OUT A SOLID PLAN ON DAY 1. Whatever it is, someone teach them the basics in a focused PROVIDE A CLEAR ROUTINE FOR THE PARENTS that they can environment. Both parents in our household work communicate to their kids. With CLEAR ASSIGNMENTS and from home and cannot spend the @me the children EXPECTATIONS. Something that you STICK TO FOR A FULL need to developing their educa@on. QUARTER. And don't just roll it out to the kids. Roll it out to the parents in a Zoom call before you roll it out to the kids so we can ask the teacher ques@ons and then help our children. It took way too long for our class to roll out assignments, well beyond the point that my kids, or us as parents, were able to care and get re-focused. We had already developed our own rou@ne by then and we wanted to get with our teacher's weekly program but it was exhuas@ng to figure out something totally new again that fit into our work schedules and never really commited to it. Parent Syre Elementary I really feel that my son needs socializa@on with other The quality of the recorded asynchronous lessons varied kids. However we can make this happen safely, I greatly. I hope there are quality trainings for all staff for how strongly believe that it needs to be a priority. to make any home learning more engaging. Parent Syre Elementary I really need my kid to go to school. Please open up the school Parent Syre Elementary I think for my daughter the most important thing is One nice thing about remote learning was geyng to see my having opportuni@es to socialize with other children. daughter's teacher in ac@on and no@cing how good she was And during this @me of social distancing, it's also hard at making her students feel special and supported. to structure her days and build variety in to her ac@vi@es, which I think leads to boredom. Parent Syre Elementary I understand the importance of social distancing from a public health perspec@ve. The reality is that COVID is here to stay; we need to accept that and reopen the economy. I cannot go to work with schools closed. Distance learning is adequate, but far inferior to actual in-person school where my children can socialize with other kids.

948 Parent Syre Elementary I would like more content from the teacher with grading and evalua@on for how the child is doing. Our third grader is in high cap math and I love how the teacher did both small group (with groups geared towards the math level of each child) and full class mee@ngs. His regular class only did two mee@ngs a week and it was more of a check in and less about content and learning. I understand that equity is important, but I think breaking class up into small group mee@ngs can help those that are ready and capable to learn more. Parent Syre Elementary I would like you to figure out any possible way to open My husband and I are both employed full @me. We simply schools next year. My son was just star@ng to learn a cannot work or do our jobs if we are also responsible for lot and improve in many areas before the schools were remote distance learning of our two children. closed in March. I know that he has con@nued to learn the last few months but I worry he is now behind in his learning and that he will con@nue to be even more behind next year if schools are not open. He also gained a lot from socializing with people around him and was very sad when he was not able to see his friends anymore. Parent Syre Elementary I would love for our kids to have in person learning. If I REALLY appreciate all that the Shoreline School District did, that is not going to be possible, Online teaching/ and all the effort that was made to develop learning and classes need to be structured and live. Teacher/ modules for the spring. I understand that this scenario was student interac@on is absolutely necessary, but I can not one that any of us thought could happen a year ago, and imagine will be hard with classroom management at an am thankful for all of the planning in a short amount of @me elementary school level. The crisis learning model to make the spring s@ll happen. If a return to school in the from this spring was not something anyone (admin, fall is not possible, I would deeply appreciate more teachers, students) would look to as a sustaining interac@ve online classes and content. The zoom mee@ngs at model. It was important for that period of @me, the elementary school level were not learning focused. If however, if the dura@on of schooling will be online, it classes could be held online, and recorded and available for needs to have more structure, live learning, and playback for those that cannot aDend during that @me, it interac@on on a regular basis (not just zoom check ins would be much more conducive to my student's learning and office hours). Zoom class mee@ngs were helpful style. social interac@ons for my student, however, the lack of live learning was detrimental.

949 Parent Syre Elementary I, as the parent, need to know what the plan for fall is going to be. I need lead @me to figure out child care for alternate @mes and dates for when school is not is in- person. Addi@onally, I will need to figure out the logis@cs of geyng my children to and from school. I am in graduate school at University of Washington and, while classes have been temporarily moved online, fall is poten@ally going to be in-person. Parent Syre Elementary ì•ˆì „ 건강해야 공부ë ì•„ì Parent Syre Elementary I'd rather start with a hybrid program of sorts, so that See above. Just a few thoughts on how it could work. I know all kids are geyng into the schools to have face @me you are considering EVERYTHING. Thank you... with teachers and in-person lessons, but since the class sizes will need to be smaller, I'm hoping there can be a virtual component for the kids who are at home each day. Maybe the students come every other day on a two-week schedule? Maybe core classes only? No meals at school. No significant breaks. In for 3-4 classes, then home for online elec@ves/office hours? Parent Syre Elementary If all virtual, we need daily live interac@on with the teacher and class. An hour every few days is nice, but not consistent enough. Other school districts have daily virtual classes. Our child is struggling with the virtual classroom and the non-physical social aspect of it and self teaching. Both parents work full @me so policing her educa@on while managing our work is a challenge.

950 Parent Syre Elementary If at-home learning con@nues, for our family, it will need to be flexible and easy to use. I have three kids who struggled to use the computer and do not have the skills to upload, download, type, log-in, create passwords to mul@ple websites etc. It required an en@re day of an adult to lead them through it. Many things were games which an adult must play with them (and my children did not understand so the adult must also watch the video), science projects in which an adult must prepare and supervise, etc. It was impossible to work during this @me and the frustra@on of computer usage would bring my children to tears. I am also hoping that the Zooms will not be mandatory as trying to schedule Zoom sessions with three children and work was very challenging for our family. If there is an alternate day in-school program, I am hoping that it will be a full day rota@on (ex. M/W, T/Th) as half days will be difficult to coordinate with childcare. Lastly, having small children (including an in-coming Kindergartener and a child who deals with anxiety) I am very concerned about the LACK of social interac@on and mask wearing all day. I really hope that the school takes into considera@on friendships, etc. when choosing classes and am hoping that mask wearing will not be mandatory all day as it is difficult for some kids to learn in this situa@on. Thank you! We know that this is hard for all involved! Parent Syre Elementary If home learning con@nues, then there needs to be a To my comment above, even the ability to be able to sort by much beDer structured online learning pla[orm. topic would be helpful. General organiza@on and some sort of method to be able to track progress like they have on Khan academy. Parent Syre Elementary In person classroom @me with his teacher and classmates. Parent Syre Elementary In person instruc@on and learning.

951 Parent Syre Elementary In person learning as much as possible. If distance learning is necessary, it needs to be available immediately not ajer another format has already been implemented by parents individually and then expected to switch over. Parent Syre Elementary In person learning in a classroom seyng. It is almost impossible for younger kids to learn on their own or online. Flexibility with schedules and due dates are important if they are not in class. Not for their sake but for the parents who are ac@ng as the teacher and monitoring the work. Just geyng them set up for learning on line cant be done well independently. Parent Syre Elementary In person learning. If distance learning is needed materials should be available immediately, not ajer another format has been implemented by individual parents and then expected to switch. Parent Syre Elementary In person teacher led instruc@on. Sports teams and clubs are super important to my students emo@onal and social needs. Parent Syre Elementary In-person connec@on to my child's peers and teachers. Parent Syre Elementary In-person instruc@on in the fall is not a priority for our family. The safety and well being of our family and the en@re school community is paramount. I do not think my child should have to return to in-person instruc@on in the fall if we can successfully use remote learning op@ons. Parent Syre Elementary In-person instruc@on, ajercare, socializa@on, reliable We both work. And in this economy we can’t risk our structure and schedule that is sensi@ve to working livelihoods by taking @me off to be at home trying to teach parents. our kids. In the midst of working and mee@ng household needs and trying to teach I found it nearly impossible to keep track of email updates from all the different sources and to navigate the endless list of links for learning resources. The schedules from the teachers helped a liDle, but only if we had the bandwidth to prepare and lead class. The modern family has not evolved to func@on this way and my kids educa@on is suffering severely. I understand this is due to circumstances outside all our control, but this is the reality of our situa@on at home and I honestly don’t know what to do.

952 Parent Syre Elementary In-person learning Socially distance learning is not working for our family. Neither my wife nor I were able to really work because we were spending so much @me trying to teach our kids. Parent Syre Elementary It's very important to us that, as parents, we are able I don't know if this is possible, but I think it would be to choose what is best for our children. We do not wonderful for the school district to be able to partner with want to be required to aDend if we feel it is unsafe to some kind of online learning system already in place that is do so. Also, we are both educators who have monitored by the teachers. For example, we have had good homeschooled before, so are able to provide an experiences with Zearn for K-5 math and EIW (not IEW) for excellent educa@on for our children at home, so if we wri@ng. Zearn is already free and a full, interac@ve, feel the online or hybrid learning is inadequate, we responsive online math curriculum with an excellent teacher need the op@on to educate at home un@l school and parent interface. It is much more engaging than Khan, so returns to normal. is beDer for the younger ages, and it also involves a paper component. It would be easy as a teacher, to track progress remotely and give feedback, allevia@ng the pressure on parents. Children not doing well could be selected to have to come in in-person to the buildings un@l they become more independent. I think children would learn the most, and families would be helped the most if the district focused it's resources on veyng and partnering with online programs already established, especially in the most essen@al subjects; AND on geyng internet access and training for families who cannot access these resources easily; AND on targe@ng children who are not succeeding with that method for in- person school assistance. I imagine the biggest challenge will be families with less economic resources or a language barrier. School buildings could be used for assis@ng these families, while those who are able to follow pre-established curriculum at home do so with less assistance. Parent Syre Elementary Less emails. I don't have near enough @me to read through them all. Please be much more concise. Need a strict regimented schedule. That is a good part of learning is having and s@cking to a schedule.

953 Parent Syre Elementary Lessons/tasks that my child can reasonably complete Screen learning was very challenging for us. My child found it independently and direct support to do so. Social difficult to stay engaged unless the interac@ons were live- opportuni@es for interac@on with peers. prerecorded content, while well prepared, was very challenging for him to complete. Being able to work at his own pace and on a variety of tasks was/is a posi@ve of online learning. He benefited from having extra @me to work through things. (My child has learning delays in reading and wri@ng.) Parent Syre Elementary Let people voluntarily go, my child needs to go. We Lets try to go earlier and get out around Thanksgiving. If we already had the virus and ready to learn :) skip midwinter break and just have extended holiday break we will get through this. We need to mi@gate what will likely be a nasty flu season!!! Parent Syre Elementary More structure and accountability for the kids. My Thank you for working with us! I know this is challenging for husband and I are working full @me and find it really everyone hard to keep my 2nd grader focused enough to do her classwork and do the extra teaching that is required at @mes. More zoom mee@ng teaching would be beDer. Parent Syre Elementary More structure for at-Home learning and hopefully so I have 2 students at Syre and it seems like each teacher was opportunity for in person gatherings of smaller groups. taking a different approach to online instruc@on. Don’t A more structured learning from home program with get me wrong, they were both good given the circumstances beDer consistency across grades and teachers. but we were lej with a lot of open space to fill and huge gaps where the kids were on there own and drijed towards the areas they liked vs what they needed. More consistency across the school and more structure would help improve the learning from home model if we con@nue that next year. Thanks! Parent Syre Elementary Morning schedule for my son and I could go to work, I am kind of worried about recess and the use of masks too. because children get agitated and they may be geyng enough carbon dioxide from just wearing the masks inside the classrooms. It would be good to get out for fresh air at least for a few minutes but not for playing sports.

954 Parent Syre Elementary Most important is maximizing the ability to have in- person learning. Even though we got assignments via seasaw and google classroom - the learning that happened was very minimal and [email protected] of my children is on an IEP - kids with IEPs were not served appropriately with remote learning and should be the number 1 priority for having full in person learning. Parent Syre Elementary My child is behind in reading and I feel that he isn't Thank you all for the hard work in this trying @me. I know going to be prepared. that this was a surprise to us all, and appreciate that the school system handled it with grace. Although this didn't work well with my child doesn't mean it didn't work well for others. I think it is a ever changing world and we just all do the best we can. Parent Syre Elementary My child is on an IEP and an FBA. Online learning at What is the plan for children who put literally everything in home has been very challenging for both of us, their mouths? especially with the con@nuous change in how informa@on was relayed and where to find it. Going forward, I am concerned about the lack of structure and consistency with online learning from home. Please consider a more rigid approach to delivering material and expecta@ons. Parent Syre Elementary My child misses her peers, her teacher and her rou@ne. If we can safely have in person school, that would be wonderful. Parent Syre Elementary My child needs face to care interac@on with her Being a single mother on a single income is not conducive to teacher and other students. Being without that along learning at home. I am not able to go back to work with with being an only child was emo@onally trying on her. remote learning in place and will ul@mately lose my job. She also needs a teacher to help her learn, not her mother who isn’t trained to teach. Parent Syre Elementary My children need to be in a classroom taught by a professional, around their peers and friends for mental health sake and learning at the pace needed to be prepared for future years. Parent Syre Elementary My daughter misses her peers, teacher and rou@ne.

955 Parent Syre Elementary My daughter was really turned off by online learning. I myself am a teacher and had a really hard @me geyng her excited about online learning. She didn’t want to do zoom (she can be shy) and would good around on seesaw. She previously loved school and by the end started saying “I hate school.†Parent Syre Elementary My husband and I both work full @me and we simply can't go back to work as usual if there is no in person instruc@on in the fall. Please do everything you can to ensure there will be in person instruc@on in the school in the fall. Parent Syre Elementary My husband and I work full @me. If our children are Though the final phase of remote learning was the most not able to be in school full @me next year it will be a organized and easy to follow, it s@ll required a lot of adult great hardship on our family. I wasn't completely sure involvement. We needed to watch each of the teachers what the different op@ons meant on the ques@on videos in order to provide guidance and answer any about deciding who gets in person educa@on. I believe ques@ons from thr kids as they completed their required that families who have two working parents should be work. Adults are also required to help troubleshoot any priori@zed as well as children that are not old enough technology issues as well as assis@ng with submission of all to stay at home alone. Addi@onally I have no@ced that assignments. Science lessons required a lot more adult our kids are struggling emo@onally. I am hoping that guidance and were especially @me consuming due to by being back in a school seyng with their peers much gathering materials and taking videos for submission. of these emo@onal issues will fade away. Addi@onally, we would have liked to have goDen the lessons earlier than the night before in order to prepare for the next day's lessons- whether that's previewing the video to understand the lesson, gathering materials or prin@ng out worksheets. Parent Syre Elementary My kids need more support and connec@on from the school and the teacher academically emo@onally. Parent Syre Elementary My most important need is for safety and low risk I am also most worried about the students in our school that scenarios for reopening of schools. will be dispropor@onately affected by no internet service or families who need to work and are without childcare access. I am willing to help the district in any manner possible to help assure that children have an equitable opportunity for remote learning.

956 Parent Syre Elementary My most important need is the ability to CHOOSE I don't know if this is possible, but I think it would be involvement as the parent. I do not want my children wonderful for the school district to be able to partner with required to aDend if I do not feel safe sending them, some kind of online learning system already in place that is even if part-@me. I also do not want to be required to monitored by the teachers. For example, we have had good par@cipate in the distance learning if I feel it's experiences with Zearn for K-5 math and EIW (not IEW) for inadequate...we are very fortunate to both be wri@ng. Zearn is already free and a full, interac@ve, educators who have homeschooled before, so can responsive online math curriculum with an excellent teacher provide an excellent educa@on at home by ourselves. and parent interface. It is much more engaging than Khan, so is beDer for the younger ages, and it also involves a paper component. It would be easy as a teacher, to track progress remotely and give feedback, allevia@ng the pressure on parents. Children not doing well could be selected to have to come in in-person to the buildings un@l they become more independent. I think children would learn the most, and families would be helped the most if the district focused it's resources on veyng and partnering with online programs already established, especially in the most essen@al subjects; AND on geyng internet access and training for families who cannot access these resources easily; AND on targe@ng children who are not succeeding with that method for in- person school assistance. I imagine the biggest challenge will be families with less economic resources or a language barrier. School buildings could be used for assis@ng these families, while those who are able to follow pre-established curriculum at home do so with less assistance. Parent Syre Elementary My son needs structured presenta@on of clearly I am an advocate for smaller classrooms and an scenario communicated content in a face to face environment where teachers travel to the classrooms to limit unnecessary which challenges his knowledge and abili@es. Online, exposure in the hallways. I would like to lobby for a full day he responded best to professionally developed program so I can work a full days dinner stay out of debt. curriculums for instance Apex Learning programs and Thank you! Prodigy. We got through the school year, but I fear that he will lose mo@va@on to learn with con@nued home schooling.

957 Parent Syre Elementary My student u@lized para educators during class to help The hard copies of the curriculum and assignments was with math and reading for 2nd grade. There was highly beneficial. If a grandparent is assis@ng for class work it minimal assistance for at home. If there was a one-on- makes it easier to complete assignments as there is a learning one para to log in and setup a @me for a zoom mee@ng curve for those child care providers who don't know the or in an office with the student and one para at the systems in place for assignment turn in. school for extra help on something would be highly beneficial. This was not provided to use at the end of this school year. Parent Syre Elementary My youngest is not prepared for kindergarten because preschool was cut short. We are working with him at home, but feel a lot of anxiety about him being ready for kindergarten. We feel that it would nega@vely impact him to go into Kindergarten without being in a physical classroom. Parent Syre Elementary Need to know what the plan is ASAP so we can plan accordingly! Parent Syre Elementary Needing in-person teaching. I am a single parent that relies on full-@me in person-schooling in order to go to work to provide for the family. Parent Syre Elementary I think you did a great job this spring. Parent Syre Elementary On-line educa@onal instruc@on, support, and clear It would be great to provide or give an op@on to full @me goals for students. online learning (in-person school not required) for families that do not feel comfortable sending their kids back to school. Parent Syre Elementary Online resources/ learning materials for HiCap students Parent Syre Elementary Op@ons that are directed by facts, and a plan that you thinks works best for students/families. Parent Syre Elementary Our biggest need is the socializa@on aspect for our child. As a student in the BLS classroom, his biggest need is for his social skills and acceptance to be stressed/tested in the classroom. We are concerned that if this doesn't happen, that he will be ill-prepared for being successful in middle school (and on) where there is far less support (our current understanding) and allowance for the behaviors that he exhibits when escalated.

958 Parent Syre Elementary Our child meets her acedemic goals for the year but Thank you for how hard the school district has worked to she is struggling With social/emo@onal. I feel like my feed the families in our community. This was the most child desperately needs rou@ne and interac@on with important thing to Do! We also appreciate that the district other children her age but our number one concern is has tried to implement learning in ways that meet all safety. Our child has asthma and is highly suscep@ble students needs. for respiratory illnesses. COVID-19 for her would be much more serious than a child without underlying issues. We also do not want our child to be exposed and then poten@ally pass something along to grandparents or others who are compromised with our community. Parent Syre Elementary Parent is high risk for Covid-19 so reducing poten@al exposure of all family members is very important. Parent Syre Elementary Placement with the best teacher for our child. A teacher with strong communica@on skills - the ability for our child to be with her friends. Parent Syre Elementary Please priori@ze dual income households and kids that are too young to stay home alone and who don't have older siblings if you need to pick who gets to come for in person learning next year. If kids will not be in a tradi@onal classroom with their peers next year, their mental health will con@nue to decline. So mental health resources will be cri@cal. Parent Syre Elementary Possibly geyng to know our kids' teachers before the If we were to start the year with remote learning, we would school year starts so that there is @me to connect prior be highly in favor of a more structured day and inclusion of to school star@ng, especially if it will be remote. the classroom teachers in teaching lessons via zoom. It would be also great to see more small groups of students working on projects together. Perhaps parent volunteers could assist in modera@ng smaller zoom breakout groups so students could do project-based work via zooms. It would also be great to be able to have students work on small group projects outside of zooms (via email or google classroom). In addi@on, we would like to see more individual check-ins with teachers and students. Perhaps 10-15 mins/week (or every 2 weeks) to check in on progress and provide more personalized social/emo@onal support.

959 Parent Syre Elementary Return to in person school. It is too stressful as a Shoreline school district seemed preDy late to the game with parent to take on the role of teaching while working online learning. Log in details were inaccurate. I think phase full @me. My child is young and s@ll developing 4 is when it actually made sense. It was unclear what the friendships. He needs the interac@on at school to true expecta@ons were for parents and students. If online con@nue learing to interact with others. learnig is required in the Fall please have a clear plan in place from the beginning. Let us know what the expeca@ons are and when required assignments are to be completed. We did the best we could with both parents working full @me. If you do not place clear and easy to understand expecta@ons of assignments and when they are required to submit, it's too easy to let it go. Parent Syre Elementary Returning to in-person school in the fall Parent Syre Elementary Returning to normal school with normal rou@nes. I am Kids need to return to school. And they need it to be low a teacher and I am even struggling to teach 3 kids anxiety. Masks are not effec@ve in a school that shares air and effec@vely while trying to work. The spring pla[orms the kids touch their face more with masks. Kids get snot in like see saw, zoom, etc. are NOT effec@ve for this type masks and then what. Kids drop mask in toilet and then what. of learning. Give the kids things they are able to do Kids say they can't breathe and then what? Have parents on their own with some support, not total parent keep kids home if they have fevers, wash hands regularly, and support. Bridges is not made for home learning. We return to school is what is best. need to change with the @mes. Go back to reading, reading comprehension and math facts to make sure k-4 doesn't fall behind. If the lessons were too complicated, we ditched them. My own children skipped out on zoom on week 2 and we did our own program with IXL. If public school is odd and private school resumes normally, we will be switching schools. If other districts open and we don't, we will be going to school at our cabin. It is @me to get back to learning.

960 Parent Syre Elementary Rou@ne and a clear defini@on of expecta@ons, due The teachers and administrators did a great job in a tough dates and process. I would prefer if a single portal or situa@on. We appreciate all the effort made to finish the sojware suite was used. Bouncing around to different year. resources, sites, tools, portals, zooms, logins was the most challenging part. Frustra@on would mount quickly. Being more streamlined and clear with distance learning would be ideal. The Canvas online learning tool, or a compe@tor product, would be ideal. I found seesaw to be confusing, in how it related to the district portal, the apps within that portal, and then the links from within the learning plan. Too many emails from too many people - having 2 children in the same school, it was hard to track what was happening with 5-6 emails from district staff during the week. Parent Syre Elementary Safe learning environment for staff and students. If that For elementary students a daily zoom mee@ng with teachers, won’t be in person at school then no@fied at least 2 similar to the “morning mee@ng†weeks before the start of school to plan accordingly. Parent Syre Elementary Safety Parent Syre Elementary SCHOOL Please don’t fill my kids head with fear and incorrect informa@on about Covid. Parent Syre Elementary Seeing and connec@ng with friends and teachers Parent Syre Elementary Seesaw is very tedious for young learners. I We want our children back in school very much, but we are recommend another program is used. I think it is very concerned that it will only lead to illness. In a typical important that expecta@ons are put in wri@ng from the year we always expect for our children to come home sick teachers for homeschool instead of just told during and spread it around the family. It is hard to imagine that will ZOOM calls. Even liDle things like incen@ves need to not be the case next year, but with worse consequences. It is be outlines so parents are aware. I think it is also hard to imagine my young children being able to wear masks important that if a teacher assigns an assignment and for long periods of @me. I think it will be a challenge, but the student is required to submit it, that they received important. We are concerned about the chemicals being feedback on it. There is no need for students to be used to clean and sani@ze the schools and there impact on watching movies on ZOOM calls, that @me should be the health of our children. reserved for social interac@on and learning. ZOOM calls can be very stressful.

961 Parent Syre Elementary Since the school year is nearly over, there aren't a lot of The response by the Shoreline School District for elementary needs right now. But I do need a much beDer response aged children was extremely sub-par and makes me ques@on and plan from the district for the next school year. The the funding we have been pouring into the schools via bonds schoolwork from home this year mostly consisted of a over the last years. I do not think we are geyng the quality few work sheets that were just busywork. There was that we are paying for. If it doesn't dras@cally improve, I may very liDle new informa@on learned. There was only begin to look at alterna@ve op@ons. about 60-90 minutes total of teacher/class live video @me (Zoom) each week. That was ridiculous. Why weren't the teachers expected to con@nue teaching daily? This put an unrealis@c burden on parents to teach their children with the addi@onal difficulty of not knowing what the typical curriculum was supposed to be or what we were supposed to be teaching them. And trying to do all of that while s@ll working our jobs. I need the schools to actually educate my child next year. Parent Syre Elementary Social emo@onal learning when kids return, helping In thinking of hybrid approach, ensure siblings are on the them transi@on. Ensuring siblings are on similar same schedule. Example they are at school at same @me. If schedule, less disrup@on home. bussing not happening then is before care an op@on for working parents? What are childcare op@ons for working parents? Parent Syre Elementary Social interac@on, guided in-person learning, and It was challenging having two children on different learning structure. pla[orms, using different sojware. It was also challenging to keep us a significant pace for our seven year old while s@ll working full-@me... Having said all that I would like to share my gra@tude for teachers who responded to an ever changing world with comfort, grace, and peace! I could not lead a class of seven year olds, or nine year olds. The team at Syre has been amazing and helped as much as they possibly could. Thank you for your faithfulness! Parent Syre Elementary Social @me with other kids Parent Syre Elementary Socializa@on

962 Parent Syre Elementary socializa@on with other kids; teacher-led learning; One of the most helpful moments in this process for me is consistent physical ac@vity (e.g. PE, recess), variety of when OSPI released guidance on the max @me per day that ac@vity should be dedicated to student learning at home. At 45 min/ day for kindergartners, it was drama@cally less than the @me we were asking our children to engage in learning. I wish we had received this informa@on sooner, as adjus@ng to this expecta@on reduced stress in our household. Parent Syre Elementary socializa@on with other kids; teacher-led learning; consistent physical ac@vity (e.g. recess, PE); variety of ac@vi@es Parent Syre Elementary Some sense of how my Special Ed student is doing in Rou@ne is crucial. rela@on to grade expecta@ons. Same for my gen ed child. Parent Syre Elementary Structure Parent Syre Elementary Structure and a more flexible support system. The online model may work well for kids that are able to (Meaning more access to para support). Also receiving manage their own instruc@on and are mo@vated by checking appropriate assignments for my individual child would off assignments as done. For my child I had to really change be required. Also assistance in jhelping my child up the lessons and had to sit with my child in order for her to organize their day with less parent involvement. access what was put out. I understand that this was a learning process but I think that many parents did not understand why we were so slow to get what we needed for our special educa@on students and even then it was hard. I did not feel any connec@on to the teachers during this @me. I did get check ins from resource room. Overall I personally can support my child but hate how that blurs the line of parent and teacher. I am OK in the name of safety to start school online in the fall but there has to be a more engaging way of doing things. I felt SO BAD for the teachers during this @me- how can we support kids and teachers? Parent Syre Elementary Structure and accountability for my student Ability to return to work Art, music, sports programs Op@mism

963 Parent Syre Elementary Structure and support and posi@ve teacher influences Lack of a strict learning schedule was very difficult for us to for our children to con@nue to keep them mo@vated manage this spring. We would be very welcome to ins@tu@ng and engaged in learning. A strict schedule for remote a strict schedule for future remote learning. Having too much learning would be very valuable and highly welcome to loosely scheduled @me was detrimental to our kids our household. mo@va@on and learning effort. We tried to build structure using our own learning resources, but being given a weekly schedule from our kids' teachers explaining exactly what was expected of them each day of the week would have been a huge help. Parent Syre Elementary Structured educa@on that is being provided from I wish you all well. This is not an easy @me, and not an easy teachers. I have not and will not believe myself to be a area to tackle and address. We, parents, are here with you stand in for our educators. While I believe my son to all. I look forward to working together with the district, have goDen a decent bit a new knowledge with school, and teachers in naviga@ng this all. distance learning, I am most worried how these founda@onal items will be possibly re-taught to ensure kids are truly at the level required. Parent Syre Elementary Structured school day and work. Felt haphazard last consider using something like class dojo app. this was used in year. Kindergarten for my sone when he was at Meridian Park. Communica@on to parents about everything including assignments was MUCH easier to find thanks just know email as was experienced at Syre this past school year. At one point we had not heard from the teacher for about a month un@l we realized emails were being filtered to spam. Apps on smart phones are much more efficient. Parent Syre Elementary Students to return to as normal a structure as possible The google classroom was not an effec@ve means of online without the requirement of masks. learning. Ojen @mes videos referred to links or resources that were not available. It was much beDer coming from his classroom teacher and having one place rather than checking mul@ple sites and geyng informa@on from the district/ school/and teacher. Ojen @mes informa@on conflicted.

964 Parent Syre Elementary Support and care for two children, one of whom I feel like Shoreline has tried to do their best with an receives special ed services and needs extra mental unfortunate situa@on. I am a liDle surprised the district health care while having to work from home. wasn't more prepared (compared to the school district north to us) with technology as I feel we are well funded. I think once we pivoted to the situa@on, teachers and the district did the best they could. I hope that if we aren't in a typical situa@on next year, we all will have learned from our experience. Parent Syre Elementary Thank you for your work and care on behalf of our kids... Whatever plan, whatever piece of normal, whatever progress will be worth it and important. We will stay flexible! If we can align the curriculum with a consistant way to shij between school and home work it would be helpful. Maybe gravitate toward more student directed learning tracks that let the kids stay connected and s@ll work at their own pace. Either way, we are grateful for all the teachers, staff, and administrators that are keeping the dream alive! Looking forward to beDer things ahead for us all. Parent Syre Elementary That the expecta@ons for the students performances Less e-mails would be nice. We feel flooded.. next year’s school year, will be much lower than normally. We’ve all done the best we could home schooling/learning, but our kids are definitely academically behind. 😉 Parent Syre Elementary The biggest needs for our 2nd grader at this moment are some meaningful @mes to connect with teacher and students. The large class zoom mee@ngs didn't work well for our student. We have an other student who had small group mee@ngs each week with 5 or fewer students involved. This really helped her feel supported and cared for by her teachers and other students. Our second grader desired those small mee@ngs too. It was very hard for him to pay aDen@on to whole class happenings in the large zoom mee@ngs, and he ended up no wan@ng to par@cipate.

965 Parent Syre Elementary The district cannot expect full-@me working parents to sit side by side with children during their school day. If we must have virtual learning next year, we need REAL TIME instruc@on for a couple hours spread throughout the day. We need one on one instruc@on @me carved out so our students can get the support they need from teachers. Teachers need to hold students accountable -- no more 'op@onal' assignments. It is unfair and inequitable to expect that students with working parents, limited access to wifi, etc. can keep up with school they way it was managed this year. Parent Syre Elementary The Kids need to go back to school for a beDer learning structure. Parent Syre Elementary The most important need for my children is to return This virus has not hit every family equally. Families like mine to school, in person, this fall. While there has been a have had the luxury of working from home. We are not silver lining in that my children have been able to build financially at risk and our kids have a peer in one another to a closer bond with one another (I am so grateful they remain socially s@mulated. We are the lucky ones. had each other) it will never be a subs@tute for the Unfortunately, it is also families like mine, who have the daily social, engaging interac@ons they need, at school, ability to stay at home, that have the loudest voice about not to thrive. I say this fully aware of what current science "returning to normal." There is another side with a sojer is suppor@ng with regards to coronovirus. My family voice that is ojen not heard. It is spoken by families who are has weighed the pro's and con's. While that data struggling week by week and day to day to make it during changes from day to day we believe the harm posed by these "not normal" @mes. They ojen have children who a con@nual disrup@on of children's educa@ons and were behind in school and are falling further behind because their need to return to a rou@ne clearly outweighs any they cant seem to find the @me to teach and provide. They mi@ga@on the proposed alterna@ve school schedules have been hit so hard by the avoidance of a virus that most might have on the virus. likely, by the current numbers, would have had liDle to no impact on their household. I have heard them. I would ask that those in a posi@on to dictate the lives of the children and parents come next fall truly seek a path that is just to that second voice. I know it wont be easy as I know there is s@ll a lot of fear out there.

966 Parent Syre Elementary The most important need for my incoming fijh-grade I will have some concerns if the elementary kids will need to student is being academically ready to start fijh-grade be in masks all day. I think there is a possibility that they may in the fall. He struggles with wri@ng especially and is cause more harm than good at that age. not as compliant at home as he is at school. We worked hard this spring and will con@nue to work through the summer, but geyng him to where he needs to be will a challenge. I think being in school is also more than just academics and I am excited for him to be back with his friends and teachers in a community we love. Parent Syre Elementary The most important thing for my child is to not be I am concerned about my child wearing a mask for more than isolated from her peers. This has really affected her an hour at a @me. I think this will be difficult for them to self-esteem and well being. I think it would be great maintain, keep clean, use appropriately, focus, etc. We would for the kids to come into school in small co-horts that prefer a reduced class size with the windows and doors open are balanced for social-emo@onal connec@ng. I think and social-distancing in the classroom! Also, if they have to students need to feel connected to each other and feel wear masks, I think the teachers should be trained in some some accountability from in-person check ins with the sign language to help students show their emo@ons since teacher. This would improve their experience with their faces will be covered. Appreciate being asked for home learning a lot! input. Parent Syre Elementary The school district understands that a lot of parents are You've been doing great managing a very difficult situa@on. unable to work and provide effect home schooling. In We look forward to geyng things back to normal quickly, but our household, both parents are employed full-@me at we also understand that the best way to do that is via an busy, high stress jobs. Only 1 parent has slightly more effec@ve vaccine. Please let us know how we can best work flexibility during the day. with the Shoreline School District to support our child's remote educa@on, and our full-@me jobs. Parent Syre Elementary The school year to be as normal as possible for the health and sanity of us all! Parent Syre Elementary The social-emo@onal needs of my children. My older Mental health of our children is as important as physical daughter transferred to Syre in January and only had health. I think it is cri@cal to have some in-person schooling two months with her new peers and is feeling isolated. this fall. My younger daughter is star@ng kindergarten and is also feeling isolated and craving friendships. I worry about their mental health more than their physical health.

967 Parent Syre Elementary The sooner we know what the plan is for the school Small group, online learning worked the best for my kids. year, the sooner we can adjust our schedule to This structured allowed for more streamlined instruc@on than accommodate our child's needs. In addi@on, if the whole class zoom or requiring us parents to be aDen@ve sojware/programs are going to be u@lized, providing during school hours. Our work schedules made parental this informa@on with tutorials in advance so parents support more challenging. The small group instruc@on and kids can become more familiar with the tool and seemed to be most effec@ve and takes less @me than comfortable u@lizing it. independent learning or parental teaching. Also, much of the school work over SeeSaw seemed to be more busy work and designed for families that have significant parental availability and/or kids that learn well in a self taught environment. While this may work for some, it isn't universal, so having op@ons could be a solu@on. Parent Syre Elementary There was so much overload of informa@on I gave up I feel very let down by the school district for how the because we spent a whole month without resources so educa@on was all handled. There was no way we were set up I had to create my own plan. There was complete for success and when it came it was too late because we overwhelm and I don’t feel like my kids got the already moved on to other things to try to bridge the gap. My proper educa@on they needed and because I Had to kids need to go to school in person in order to get the work remote at the same @me trying to school my kids, learning that they need. it never happened. The priority was feeding our family first. Parent Syre Elementary To have my child get used to the basic hygiene in public before school starts; hand wash, hand sani@zing, using a face mask, do not touch face or unclean surface and social distancing. Parent Syre Elementary To have some kind of in-person instruc@on and connec@on to the school. Even if this is on a reduced schedule it would set expecta@ons, establish sense of community and increase the buy-in from students. If home learning con@nues would need clear direc@ons, lessons and instruc@ons and deadlines and the expecta@on that it counts to help to keep mo@va@on.

968 Parent Syre Elementary To make sure that my children and our family stay Just wanted to share a liDle about the online learning system. healthy and safe and to have a learning system that For my 1st grader while some assignments on seesaw worked works for them during the pandemic as well as not be great. Others did not. And she struggled to get some of the in an environment that would involve masks all day as assignments to work properly. Some of the assignments also well as the other guidelines that would need to come went to YouTube which when they were done playing went into place to have in person school. As I believe this into to play something else which could Not be appropriate would cause more emo@onal stress. for there age group. As well as some of the other apps in class link. Everything popped up with a new username or password that needed to be put in. Most the @me one we did not have. My daughter worked best off of weekly paper worksheets. But I would suggest if online learning con@nues that the online learning be re-assessed and worked on to provide an easier method to assess all learning. Parent Syre Elementary To understand what the district will put into place for the Fall. Parent Syre Elementary Use common sense, allow kids to goto school. The I think the virus affects people over 50 the most, so virus isn’t spread on surfaces so dont be weird about considera@on foe those staff, teachers, parents and play structures etc. Probably makes more sense to volunteers should be considered— especially for ajer school start school early August and Have a break to events. Recommend masks for audiences and volunteers for Thanksgiving to Valen@nes Day like the East Coast and anything extracurricular. Have an@body tes@ng drive to many colleges are doing. My family has been sick find out if we already had this— I believe my family already nonstop since moving to SeaDle during those months had Covid 19 last februaury. and if the virus comes back, at least we can be prepared. Parent Syre Elementary We are a dual-parent working family with minimal outside support. It is cri@cal for our children to return to school with consistent schedule + transporta@on. Parent Syre Elementary We are doing ok but we are not able to enforce online I really appreciate all the effort the teachers took to transi@on learning. Both parents are working from home full @me to online and making weekly schedules. I wish we could have and do not have the training or @me to mo@vate the taken more advantage of it. kids to do their school work. The younger one (5) cannot even read yet so she cannot do anything on her own. The older one (8) is not self-mo@vated to do school so one of us would need to sit with him the en@re @me he works which is unsustainable.

969 Parent Syre Elementary We expressed this in the placement survey, but with all The beginning of distance learning felt VERY challenging (I the change and uncertainty, placement with the right know everyone was doing their best!) but the classroom teacher would be paramount for us. One where she communica@on and expecta@ons were spoDy at best. Once already has a rela@onship to ease the anxiety and they got set up on Seesaw ajer spring break, and got weekly minimize SOME uncertainty, also a teacher we know assignments it was MUCH easier to navigate and we could has strong communica@on skills if they are distance take more ownership of her learning and understand the learning. Second would be to placed with some of her expecta@ons. friends for the same reason, some familiarity, socializa@on given possibly less classroom @me. Parent Syre Elementary We need a district plan so that we can make a plan. We Please see this @me as an opportunity to fundamentally did not use the con@nuous learning model beyond change how we approach early educa@on and what is most weekly, class Zoom calls because our son needs to be important- if their social/emo@onal learning was beDer ac@vely engaged and moving. We used Outschool for developed we wouldn't have had so many students failing to live lessons, Kumon workbooks, online art ac@vi@es, transi@on to a learning at home environment. School is not and con@nued Spanish and Music lessons remotely the only place children learn and parents need prac@cal, real- (these were always family ac@vi@es- not district @me support. This support should be priori@zed for the provided). Our son needs structure and live students most in need of services and resources. Our child is instruc@on. However, he currently refuses to use a not an example of someone that needs this school mask, so if this remains a criteria for returning to scaffolding, he just enjoys being about a bunch of peers as school I don't see how we can. opposed to watching his parents work all day. Thank you for asking these ques@ons. Parent Syre Elementary We need a teacher that doesn't assign kinders 10 Please make sure your main concern is safety for students, assignments a day and is the teacher should be teachers and staff. There will be a lot of pressure to try and flexible. We need someone who runs one check in open for daycare purposes, but that should NOT be the driver zoom a week and assigns reasonable amounts of work. here. If you choose to open, please remember the families Zoom calls should not be 1.5 hours for kinders. Also, I that are uncomfortable sending in students and s@ll provide have an immuno-comprimised student and I do NOT some online learning for them. feel comfortable sending him to school un@l there is a vaccine or good treatments. If you open K-3, please make sure to have an online component for those of use that do not was to fully homeschool, but are also not able to send the kids in-person. Parent Syre Elementary We need to know what the Fall looks like so we can plan accordingly. The sooner the beDer. Thank you for all your hard work during these difficult @mes.

970 Parent Syre Elementary We need to know what the school is and isn’t The Syre at home learning program was very hit and miss. capable of in order to keep our kids safe. Instead of Please have the teachers streamline all the links, all the pretending certain issues don’t exist at Syre, just be google docs, all the random forms, surveys, and files. It’s open and honest about the issue. There’s no room too scaDered. One of our teachers went above and beyond to to social distance (not for students or staff) AT ALL create videos and do something every day that was an actual because our principal focuses most of her efforts on real lesson that didn’t rely on vague internet links and the BLS program (not the BLS kids-the program) than videos. Other (and most) staff used internet links to sites and running an actual school and healthy environment for videos that were not age appropriate (too young-think baby kids. Staff and students are unsafe at @mes because of read along books for a 4th grader!). I felt like 80% of what we this understaffed, underfunded, and poorly organized did was busy work. The last thing our family needs when we program. It’s not a maDer of if, but when, someone are trying to work and home school our kids is busy work. gets hurt because this program has no proper Sure you checked the box that you did something as a oversight. Put Covid-19 into the mix and you now have teacher but you didn’t actually teach. Syre only had three a health and safety issue. Someone needs to whistle real lessons a week. THREE! Last @me I checked my taxes blow about Syre and the BLS program. The BLS kids were to pay for five instruc@onal days a week. The other two deserve more and so does the en@re student body. days were “pick an ac@vity off this random website†Parent Syre Elementary We need to work and have a school that works for our Get kids to school. Almost no risk for students. If there are kids. Normal Teachers are ill prepared for Distance vulnerable staff members they should teach distance and stay leaning in my opinion. My high school kids will Typically home. My wife and I need to work and we cannot home work 6-8 hours a day 6 days a week to finish their school our kids. If we have to home school again this fall we assignments. That’s unacceptable and puts huge will likely withdraw our kids to a more accomplished/polished stress on all Of us. When my wife and I head back to distance learning/home schooling program. work, we cannot do this anymore. Parent Syre Elementary We need transparency from school leadership around The Syre at home learning program was very hit and miss. their decision making process. We want to feel safe One of our teachers went above and beyond to create videos going back to school. If it’s not very safe-please just and do something every day that was an actual real lesson tell us! that didn’t rely on vague internet links and videos. Other (and most) staff used internet links to sites and videos that were not age appropriate (too young-think baby read along books for a 4th grader!). I felt like 80% of what we did was busy work. The last thing our family needs when we are trying to work and home school our kids is busy work. Sure you checked the box that you did something as a teacher but you didn’t actually teach. Syre only had three real lessons a week. THREE! Last @me I checked my taxes were to pay for five instruc@onal days a week. The other two days were “pick an ac@vity off this random websiteâ€

971 Parent Syre Elementary We work and will not be able to have kids out of school The remote learning wasn't very effec@ve. mid-day or for alterna@ng days. Parent Syre Elementary We would like the kids to be back at school this fall but understand if it is not safe to do so. I do feel that more accountability with online learning would be helpful. One of my children's teachers responded to each of his assignments and my other child's teacher did not. The daily acknowledgment and feedback was very helpful and mo@va@ng. Parent Syre Elementary We would love the school to group the students via their different level of academic performance to go back school and have in classroom learning couple @mes a week. In this way, the kids get to learn what they need to learn when they are in school and has less chance to get the COVID19. Parent Syre Elementary What is the plan for special educa@on at Kellogg Middle School?? My child has an IEP and no mee@ngs have taken place for my child. Parent Syre Elementary While the district's model fit our needs well and was We really do appreciate how though[ul the district was in handled though[ully (thank you....), our oldest child coming up with the at home learning plan. Overall it was did express missing real-@me learning where he could really just right and we are happy that we could find a interact and ask ques@ons. Besides class mee@ngs, a schedule that fit the needs of our family. Thanks to everyone lesson or two live (which could be watched by those for the huge amounts of work and learning that you have that can't aDend?) may help students feel more done to make this possible. connected. Even something like "number corner" or a live read aloud once a week where kids could be placed in break out rooms to discuss... Also, while there is a fine balance in not wan@ng to place too much pressure on families in this very difficult situa@on, when given "the op@on" to do something one of my kiddos will never take that op@on :) He is an incredibly capable minimalist, and if online learning con@nues it would be nice to see a liDle bit more rigor at @mes. A difficult thing to accomplish, I realize.

972 Parent Syre Elementary Workbooks/textbooks really supplement the learning process for math. Work sheets and/or workbooks provided at the school child aDends, not a satellite school would be helpful. If there are financial resources, small science kits/materials provided for students would be great. Parent Syre Elementary Working more on helping my daughter with reading. Parent Syre Elementary Because we have a high risk, immune-compromised person in our home, we will not be able to send our child to school un@l there is a vaccine available to all. Parent Syre Elementary Finding the balance between lessons that are complex enough for kids to learn something vs. needing too much parent support was very tricky. For the 2nd grader - the shorter lessons in Seesaw he could do by himself, but then he needed help manipula@ng Seesaw to submit his response. Some of the longer Seesaw lessons: do this, then do this, then do this... got overwhelming, and needed parent support to work through the steps. For the 6th grader: the online lessons were really good, but ambi@ous. There was a lot of material covered, which was GREAT. But also, with my par@cular kid, required a parent nearby to support her. They were daun@ng enough that she couldn't just run with it. BoDom line: Either they could be produc@ve, or I could be produc@ve. I could sit with one kid, both on our devices, and I could work, in small increments, where I could be easily interrupted/switch focus to their tasks. If I worked with both kids at the same @me, I got nothing done. And if I was 100% focused on my work, they got very liDle done. Parent Syre Elementary I feel like online learning worked okay for us - once his teachers got organized and had all the assignments available in Google Classroom, it was considerably easier for my son to manage his assignments. The zoom mee@ngs were nice but not totally necessary - they didn't really seem to facilitate his learning but it was nice to maintain some contact with his homeroom teacher.

973 Parent Syre Elementary I have a lot to share. First, thank you for giving us a chance to provide feedback and input. I did find this survey difficult to fill out as it was created- I have two kids and their experiences with distance learning was very different and their needs are different, and it felt hard to answer some of these ques@ons since the responses would differ so much for each child. I thought about doing it twice- once for each kid, but given the free write in sec@on, I will just give the more specific info here. As a full @me working from home parent- I found distance learning very difficult. My kids are very bright, with one in high cap. However, one is quite anxious, and both needed me there while they worked to navigate the technology or the lessons. Without the teacher right there to answer ques@ons, that fell on the parents and while I didn't think the work was challenging, the tasks were difficult for them given the technology. Also- they were on two different systems, seesaw and google classroom, which was hard for me as a parent in the geyng up and running phase. The tasks though felt odd- most too easy for my kids- but again- the technology made it hard. My first grader was asked to draw a picture of a knuckle, wrap, and a gnome using a mouse. On a good day with a crayon, those things would be hard for her- let alone trying to navigate coordina@ng her fingers on a mouse pad. My 3rd grader needed help figuring out flip grid, etc. The zoom class @mes for my first grader led by were excellent. She always provided a book that she read in a video, and was inten@onal with their topic for class @me. She used the breakout op@on to have small group discussions each @me. My kid felt like she had been to school in the classroom. Overall, the videos and the assignments were far too easy for her, and there was dread related to having to use the seesaw tool to respond, rather than feeling challenged by the content of the work. My 3rd grader did not have the same zoom experience. The zoom @mes were really just a check in- my kid never really knew what the point was, and there was only one day where they tried break out groups. I wished they were going to the classroom and really having a chance to learn something. Instead, it felt all of the "learning" was only in the videos and tasks, which I don't 974 Parent Syre Elementary I hope that if online learning has to happen in the fall that there will be more meaningful feedback from the teachers about the work that is turned in. I agree that it was appropriate to give the students a "P" on this year's report card, but there needs to be more accountability for students and parents if this becomes a more normal way that school is done. Parent Syre Elementary I used a supplement digital learning programs that my children learned independently from. I would like more of these available. Such as IXL, Raz kids, Lexia core 5, etc. Parent Syre Elementary If there is home learning I would like to see structured schedules with consistency and regular/daily Zoom classes for lessons and assignments. Make the day as close to an in- person schedule as possible. I would expect there to be mandatory Zoom lessons. When Zoom classes are op@onal students don't show up. I would like teachers to be able to teach lessons on Zoom and not just have Zoom classes for once a week check-ins. I feel it is an unrealis@c expecta@on to give students all their work at the beginning of the week and then expect them to be able to schedule, priori@ze and learn their lessons independently. I realize home learning needed to be figured out very quickly, but I hope we learned what works and what doesn't and improve for the next @me this happens. I did appreciate the 6th Grade Learning Bulle@n that started at the end of April. It was very helpful to have the informa@on for all classes on one page.

975 Parent Syre Elementary Ini@ally, the online learning was preDy confusing (understandably). We found a groove once a specific pla[orm, Seesaw, was seDled upon. The reliability of this single pla[orm allowed our first grader to fall into a predictable schedule. Seesaw worked for our student and our family. Lessons from (our daughter's teacher) and the other first grade teachers from Syre were effec@ve, and we appreciate the work these teachers put in. The lessons became increasingly thorough and produc@ve as the year progressed. In the event that remote learning is required, we would like to see two things from these lessons. 1. More of them. We need more content on a daily basis to fill a "virtual" school day at home. 2. BeDer connec@on to broader learning targets/themes. We know this was on the teacher's minds, as they do a nice job with learning targets in the classroom. However, on our end, many of the lessons seemed like "one-offs." Some of the lessons included learning targets at the beginning the lesson but it would be helpful to see these targets interface between mul@ple lessons. We'd also like the targets communicated more ojen and more concisely to students and parents. For instance, during in-person learning, there were weekly learning topics that were reinforced throughout a week, such as "-er" endings. In the virtual classroom, themes would really help our child in mastering targets and also help us as parents to support at home. We strongly disliked the lessons that linked to Youtube and other videos online. We found them most ojen in the Science lessons distributed through Seesaw. These lessons were at @mes unclear-- ojen a lesson would include many links and the learning objec@ve of the lesson became watered down. These lessons also required much more parental guidance, partly for seyng up experiments and also for monitoring websites being visited-- we found some links containing inappropriate content. We deeply believe in the importance of Science in our schools and think that we would find success with Science lessons taught without the distrac@on of third-party videos. Epic was a great tool for our first grader, she enjoyed the reading and we saw measurable growth in her reading skills during her @me 976 Parent Syre Elementary It seemed like the 1st graders we're subjected to a lot of science projects that needed special supplies and constant parerental supervision. It felt like an 'out'. Also teacher feedback wasnt that great for assignments that were turned in. May e it was just our teacher... Parent Syre Elementary My 5th grade student did not receive nearly enough instruc@on or ac@vi@es. Since he qualifies for High cap math next year in 6th grade (new evalua@on) he was able to do both the 5th grade and 6th grade lessons. He was finished with everything required for the day even with extra lessons in 1.5 hours. VERY liDle was given (nothing new) on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This was not the same at other schools. When I compare what he received in the learning plan other schools were providing more ac@vi@es and op@onal support. Standards need to be raised GREATLY next year. Teachers need to work their contracted hours. Yes some are working very hard...but from my experience most were cruising. The students need lesson EVERY SINGLE day. I forgot to include on my second graders survey - The last week of school they were given 3 lessons on Monday. That was it for the week. What about Tuesday? Wednesday? Thursday? Friday? We had 2 zoom check ins. We missed so much instruc@onal @me. How could the teachers not provide lessons every single day. I mean these students are going to be missing huge chunks. How could that @me not be used? what were the teachers doing? Not report cards because there were not grades or comments. Parent Syre Elementary My son is totally unprepared for 7th grade in middle school academically. With online learning, teachers hardly check his work or not requires him to submit his work. Yes, he had homework but he just did it. His teacher didn't ask him to submit it to her for review. He has no idea that he did it correctly or not. I would ask for more teacher involvement to check on student works and give the feedback.

977 Parent Syre Elementary My son was in first grade for distance learning. Switching from pre-recorded videos throughout the district to recordings from teachers he knew and lessons via SeeSaw was a gamechanger for him and allowed him to engage beDer with the lessons. I think more frequent live mee@ngs with the teacher, poten@ally presen@ng a lesson versus just having a social check-in, might be another effec@ve mechanism. Parent Syre Elementary one of the choices that was listed for what helped us was a daily learning plan. We WERE NOT given a Daily learning plan. We only received lessons on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. NOTHING on Thursday or Friday. I know teachers were only required by the district to provide 9 lessons. That is WAY too few. We had 5 teachers providing lessons for our grade level we should have goDen Much more support than we did. One teacher only did one lesson a week. There is no way she was working her contracted hours. I am a teacher and know this. I understand that this was very hard on the teachers and there had to be a whole new system but when I compare what my student at 2nd grade received with those from other schools it was NOT EQUITABLE. other classes at other schools had daily lessons and the teachers gave support lessons or op@onal lessons or sites they could do. Other teachers where reading aloud every day to their students. I feel like some classes at some schools got WAY beDer home learning and "things to do" than my student. One teacher visited everyone of her students in person twice! My child very liDle. 3 lesson Monday. 3 on Tuesday and 3 on Wednesday. 2 zoom check ins. that is it. Others were giving 7 to 9 daily lessons or ac@vi@es. Or her are some links to support the teacher video. It was very frustra@ng. I have teacher friends who only work a .5 and they were working 4 @mes harder than some of the teachers at my child's school. I believe much of this also falls on our principal that did not require much.

978 Parent Syre Elementary Please stop sending so many emails!! It was overwhelming to receive emails from the district only to be followed up by the principal and then from the teachers. Not only were there too many emails but the amount of informa@on within the email was ridiculous. When you have kids in different schools it was too difficult to keep up. While my child liked the Zoom mee@ngs so that he could stay connected to the teacher and other kids, the zoom mee@ngs would crash if the teacher or other students shared their screen. If the teacher was sharing the screen then he/she wouldn’t realize that my child was wai@ng for them to be allowed back in the class. He basically missed the mee@ngs if this happened. Parent Syre Elementary Really hoping that schools can restart in fall with in person student aDendance. All social distancing guidelines, masks, hand sani@zers, temperature checks on entry at school etc should be ins@tuted Parent Syre Elementary Socializa@on/school structure for the younger grades. That is so vital for their development. More important then academic, in my opinion. Also in person learning for my child who is on an IEP. Parent Syre Elementary The ability of my daughter to feel connected to the class greatly depended on the teacher she had for instruc@on during zoom mee@ngs. Her math teacher was fantas@c at spli@ng the class into small groups and was able to make sure everyone got the help and aDen@on they needed. Her regular class teacher ojen forgot about the 4th grade students in the class and would speak directly to the fijh graders, even sta@ng aloud at @mes that he hadn't really been thinking about the 4th graders. It was a very difficult situa@on. If online classes are to con@nue, some teachers may need a liDle extra help on planning and making sure that par@cipa@on by the whole class is available and encouraged. Parent Syre Elementary Try best on wash hands, mask and keep appropriate distance. Parent Syre Elementary Unfortunately, if masks are required in the fall, i will not be enrolling my 2 children, grades 3 and 5.

979 Parent Syre Elementary While we enjoyed lessons via Seesaw, more ojen than not, embedded videos we were expected to watch would not load or play despite being logged in. It was ojen hit-or-miss but usually a miss which was frustra@ng. I do really appreciate all the effort made to convert to online learning - not a small task. Hoping kids are back in class in the fall. District Central Kitchen A plan from the district so we can plan for the department. District Central Kitchen If the kids father goes back to work and my kids school I hope a model is chosen soon that way there is sufficient day becomes staggered, this will cause issues for us as @me to plan both work and family life to accomodate for the it will require someone picking up kids during odd changes. @mes if daycare is not available to shuDle. I also don't know how we will keep up with online learning if the before care/ajer care program does not help the kids with their lessons while we are both working. If we have to do lessons with the kids on off days, there should be the expecta@on that parents can not get to that work un@l ajer work hours, so Zoom during the day is off the table. Pre-recorded lessons would be best so we can get the content at 6PM when we are home to help the liDle ones with their lessons and to keep the older ones on track. District Central Kitchen To work and to take care of our school kids District District Office A clear, public @meline of decision making. Clear, public guidelines and protocols in place for safety (entry screening, management of movement of students through buildings, etc.). Clear plan for how to respond when a staff/student/community member is diagnosed with COVID -19. A clear, public plan for instruc@onal model. A district-wide focus on managing and suppor@ng the trauma impact this closure has had on students and staff. Having adequate PPE available for everyone.

980 District District Office As an employee who is in the most vulnerable Schools should have nurses full @me in every building to demographic, the ability to work remotely. triage students and staff as well as to support the inevitable student who is sent to school ill because the parent has to work at any cost. There will be liability in not mee@ng the needs of all students and liability in the possible illness and death of any student or staff member. We must both provide FAPE and insure health for everyone in our community of learners.

981 District District Office At the District office (Instruc@on Department in I realize that not every posi@on is set up to work from home, par@cular) it is currently badged so *any* employee of but there are so many of us in Instruc@on where we can. I Shoreline can badge into our office. Many just badge don't understand why the culture in Shoreline for classified in the back door and whiz on by our desks (less than staff has been across the board "no working from home". two feet away). Most of whom we have no idea who There is a huge difference between a crossing guard or a para they are. This access includes when we are closed and I vs. Instruc@on Specialists who have laptops. It should be find this to be a huge security issue. There are many something that is worked out between Admin and employee. other departments which isn't accessible to every I have worked consistently since the close and have daily employee (IT, Payroll, HR) . My concern is the traffic mee@ngs with my Administrator. Other than needing printer in the Instruc@on building. PLEASE can it only be access, I've had no issues. If there is accountability by badged for only for Instruc@on employees and Administrator, I don't see any issues. I know you have a Administrators? If people enter as they wish this huge task in front of you. Thank you for all you do to support causes them to walk through the building within feet of Shoreline Staff!!! everyone's desks. I find it un-necessary for all employees to have access. Everyone should use the unlocked doors in the commons entrance (west entrance) and come through the front door. My other concern is the public. There are parents/ families who come in all the @me. Is there a way for them to be only in the foyer? It also seems un-necessary to have the public in the building un@l there is a vaccine or a treatment. Is it possible to have plexiglass installed at each desk in the main area? Can we require people to wear a mask? Do we really need to be open to the public or can it be by appointment? Do we really need to risk daily exposure or can we please keep it contained behind doors. I'm concerned (as I am immune compromised) at the amount of people who will be there. If we need to social distance, I would prefer to have as few people in the office as possible (no public or appointments with other staff in small offices). School: I absolutely think that students need to have in person instruc@on per OSPI guidelines and that wearing a mask should be mandatory for those who can wear them (I understand that special needs would be accommodated). If you are able, one should be required. There should also be some sort of hand sani@zer at every hall entry and students need to use it. I feel completely unsafe to return to work at this @me 982 District District Office Being able to work. Although I am on the borderline of I am a classified subs@tute in office/library seyngs. None of a higher risk group. the classifica@ons seemed to reflect the various jobs that I do. District District Office Clear expecta@ons for staff who are reluctant to return, especially is the staff person is not personally at risk but other household members are. District District Office Ensuring the safety of building staff and access to The reality of King county entering into Phase 4 by our return "realis@c" learing for special educa@on students. Many to school does not appear to be realis@c. Instead of of our resource room/co-taught/directed studies spending @me and money on unrealis@c measures for students would contniue to have access to thier SDI- student learning in a "tradi@onal" building these resources however the low incident students with the highest should be challened to increasing/improving our online level of needs are the biggest concern. The logis@cs of systems, increase parent educa@on for online learing and teaching these students in the hand over hand manner increase rela@onships/conversa@ons with community many of them require does not meet the health resoruces for famlies that need support in ensuring child department guidelines. Addi@onally, many of the staff safety and learning as parents return to work. The that support these students fall into the high risk measures required for a physical return to school will have category for returning to work. long social/eom@onal and pyschological impacts to students and staff. The reality of social distrancing, PPE use and instruc@on is does not support best prac@ce for student learning, will create behaviors in students that will be disrup@ve to the learing environemnt crea@ng unsafe working situa@ons for staff. I have concern over staff burn out and dissa@fca@on over becoming "distancing monitors" and not the teachers they hired as- further devaluing the important and hard work teachers do. District District Office For employee's who are in high risk group the ability to work from home most days. District District Office Geyng back to some kind of "normal". District District Office Guidelines for number of people allowed in a room at any moment, guidelines for cleaning of equipment. guidelines for staff who serve mul@ple buildings and rooms. District District Office Having a faster computer system with which to do my work. VERY VERY slow to the point of needing to shut everything down and start over...... and geyng kicked out of VPN or financial sojware ojen.

983 District District Office Health and safety. Availability of PPU: (masks, shields, etc.) Social distancing. Minimize in-person contact with staff. Plexiglass and reminder signs/mats to maintain social distancing. Ability to work remotely or perform tasks to maintains social distancing. Building access. Limit the number of people in the building. Daily logs of employees. Temperature checks. District District Office I need a plan and a runway so that I can make childcare arrangements that feel safe. District District Office I predict strong tensions between the desire to come Thank you. I know this is a very hard @me for leaders in back to school in person and protect staff members educa@on. I encourage our Superintendent to make frequent who are at risk. I don't see how we can meet the video messages like I've seen in Northshore. Even if she expecta@on of providing online learning for any cannot communicate clear answers, having regular messages student who wants it. Maybe we harness the power of builds trust and video connects beDer than text. That kind of Khan Academy and other free online resources given communica@on has been lacking this spring. the absence of current digital curriculum stand alone op@ons. I hope we have a clear plan by early August which includes agreements with the unions. Dragging out decision making un@l the last minutes will make it VERY hard for all stakeholders. District District Office I think an alterna@ng schedule or working as much It is becoming more apparent what can be done with working from home as possible in departments when applicable from home. Alterna@ng schedules or at home work also does should be used. It would be unfortunate for one person help with the impact of the environment, traffic and other to be exposed, then for an en@re building to have to factors not related to the school district but important all the shut down. Any reduc@on in contact un@l this is under same. I am very proud of our school district for how we all a somewhat controlled environment would make me have come together and how all have risen up to make this feel safer. difficult @me a liDle easier. District District Office I think the emphasis should be wearing masks at all I think it is unrealis@c to expect a sustainable par@cipa@on @mes and sanita@on rules must be reminded from the students in this effort as they are by nature fearless repeatedly for the first few weeks.As everyone seDles and dismissive.so what disciplinary measures are chosen into a manageable rou@ne all the pieces fit into a more must be prac@cal and easy to follow.too many rules lend organic paDern. themselves to diminishing returns. Therefore the new rules must be simple,easy to follow,prac@cal,and effec@ve.

984 District District Office I want to make sure that I am safe and not bringing I think the ability to work from home has alleviated some of home something to my family members because the the stress of being exposed to COVID-19, so if we can district opened to the public. That is my most con@nue this un@l a vaccine is available, I would be extremely important concern. While I am aware we will happy. The anxiety that comes with worrying about geyng eventually have to open completely at some point, I sick (or making someone else is sick because who knows who would like to know what would happen if one person has it but isn't showing symptoms) can make the working in my building were to get sick. We all come into close environment stressful. I also think that if there are other contact every day. That means we would all have been natural emergencies, like if there is a snow storm, I think exposed and need to stay home for a 14 day period. I similar measures should be considered. Instead of making need something that will make sure I am less likely to staff that HAVE to take vaca@on if they feel unsafe coming to be exposed and for an en@re building to be shut down work, allow them to get a computer and do the work from for that long. I think it would be smart to use an home. It has been proven by COVID that many of us can do alternate schedule for employees so we aren't all in the our jobs from home for an extended period of @me. building at the same @me and can maintain social distancing. If someone walks or stands near my desk, people aren't six feet away. With half the staff in the building one day, it reduces how many people can invade that space. District District Office I work in the T&L building in an office with three other staff members (4 people in total) with no windows for fresh air. I am extremely concerned about social distancing even with masks in this type of small, enclosed space with so many people sharing the space and overlapping in @me in the office. What is the plan for staff in these situa@ons? Are there alterna@ve work sites? Can we ensure social distancing and separa@ng people? Can we work from home? I am par@cularly concerned as someone who is pregnant and receives childcare from my parents who are elderly and immunocompromised. District District Office Just wai@ng to hear District District Office Keep everyone safe. District District Office Mask, Hand sani@zer.

985 District District Office My most important needs are to ensure that students I think we need to provide childcare if we have a hybrid get a chance to develop socially to some degree, in model where students are only aDending school part-@me. addi@on to their academic learning needs. Isola@on of Families need to work, and if school is part-@me, then we young people can exacerbate mental health issues. need to work with our community partners to provide safe childcare for non-school @mes. District District Office My needs are covered for my assignment. I appreciate the flexibility that the District leadership has provided has we work through these unprecedented @mes. There are no easy answers. District District Office -Protocols and procedures for all staff to follow if and when we are expected to return to buildings -Ini@al and ongoing training for staff in protocols/procedures that includes how to have crucial conversa@ons with one another when we feel uncomfortable (i.e. a peer doesn't follow social distancing guidelines in the workplace, not wearing a mask, makes fun of you for wearing a mask, etc.) -PPE supplies readily available for staff (masks, face shields, gloves, sani@zer, plas@c dividers between cubicles and public space, social distancing markers) -Protocols and procedures for interac@ng with parents and public -The social/ emo@onal needs of staff are huge and need more aDen@on and focus - this is taking a huge toll on everyone. Staff are experiencing their own stress, secondary stress from students and families - this is going to be a long haul and we need to be helping everyone take care of themselves in healthy ways. Needs to be modeled by all district leaders so people know it is important (i.e. mindful moments, take a breath, the recent work by Sound Supports with our P-12 leaders was work in this direc@on - Highline SD has an ini@a@ve around this) District District Office Reduced confusion for teachers, for parents, and FOR STUDENTS regarding student instruc@on and progress. Reduced overt intrusion from district in classroom instruc@on.

986 District District Office Required masks, ability to work from home when needed District District Office Safety Social Distancing Masks District District Office strict guidelines from the health department on what If possible, please do not open school this year or un@l there should be done and what not be done. strict is a vaccine and a medicine that could control the spread and precau@onary measures at all district facili@es. Prompt the number of deaths. Also un@l the number of cases or cleaning and disinfec@ng at all facili@es. Strong deaths doesn't increase. enforcement on quaran@ne, isola@on, social distancing and PPE requirements. District District Office That we are following the health guidelines FIRMLY Please be aware that staff is uncertain as well. When we stop being careful, we create risk for all. District District Office To do to the best of the districts ability to maintain safe distancing and limit groupings of individuals, especially in “confined” spaces. Con@nuous tes@ng of staff and students to ensure we are working in a safe environment and not providing a haven for Covid19. District District Office Understanding that as we get more factual informa@on, our views may shij or our priori@es may change. Having the flexibility to work remotely to avoid possible exposures or risks as situa@ons develop. Considera@on of a par@al work remotely/par@al office loca@on schedule to provide space and decrease contacts on a regular basis. District District Office District District Office Although I responded that alterna@ve schedules would affect childcare, I think it is important to explore this op@on if it increases safety for students, staff, and vulnerable family members and decreases infec@on spread. District District Office barrier at front desk due to many walk in visitors District District Office need barrier at the front desk due to many outside visitors District Maintenance All needs have been met in maintenance. Leadership has been great if we have a need mask or ppe. District Maintenance Having leadership that has a clear designated plan of Sanita@on of the schools is going to require maintenance to ac@on before school begins, in wri@ng. No grey areas. hire more custodians for disinfec@ng. District Maintenance Safe working environment. Morale. Clear direc@on Let's get it done! with 2-way communica@on.

987 District Maintenance We need @me to get the schools ready for the If you are planning to have students eat in their classrooms following school season, so clear district next year for lunch, please keep this in mind. Most communica@on with principles and teachers that we classrooms have carpet. We average roughly 1 gallon of are NOT ready to start seyng up classrooms and spilled milk and fruit juice as well as 5 gallons of other food offices while we are in our summer prep and upkeep that ends up on the school floor each day in the lunchroom. @me. Clear communica@on that fabric furniture is not To be able to successfully clean these items out of carpet and class appropriate and should be removed to help keep sani@ze the room ajerwards, we will need to double the FTE the buildings and students safe and healthy. for the custodial staff per a regular work day. We will also need to confirm all buildings have proper carpet cleaning tools available as we will not be able to bring in a full sized carpet cleaner to each classroom at current classroom capacity. Most classrooms us tables and not desks for their students. Each table holds roughly 4 students. At current guidelines with all other furniture in the classrooms, we are not equipped to house a full classroom seyng. Early and direct communica@on with teachers, no@fying them that they will need to reduce their classroom footprint will be cri@cal as there will be a lot of push back and nego@a@ng before the following school year pertaining to what is a func@onal teaching environment. District Transporta@on 1. will we deal with Bathroom use and Sani@zing 2. Screening of Staff and Students each day and each Loca@on and each method of Arrival (Walk, Car, Bus). 3. Protec@ve Equipment, Barriers, Maintaining social distancing and Safety while trying to prevent spreading the virus. Teaching, Meals, Communica@ng, and Driving are all difficult, some@mes impossible, and poten@ally dangerous without well thought out supplies, equipment, barriers, etc. District Transporta@on As a 61 year old bus driver, the exposure to the virus from sick kids geyng on the bus, contamina@ng the bus and others. The refusal of the union allowing management to mandate social distancing and use of face mask.

988 District Transporta@on Clear, concise safety protocols in place prior to the start of the school year. Will students be required to wear a mask prior to entering school buses ? Will we decline transporta@on to students who do not follow safety procedures ? Expecta@ons for families when sending students to school on buses. Addi@onal @me alloDed for disinfec@ng buses before, during and ajer ajer routes. Department provided safety equipment. District Transporta@on Communica@on from the district which has been Supply masks dismal District Transporta@on For students to know that we will return to regular school soon and that Shoreline School District has safe schools like we have always provided. District Transporta@on Get kids back in school, safely. The virus is spread by mouth and other openings. Almost never by contact with a surface. As long as masks are worn and social distance is maintained, schools can open safely. District Transporta@on Have a safe environment within which to work. Daily Don’t short-cut safety just to get the schools open. cleaning, mask wearing and social distancing by all students and employees must be mandatory. District Transporta@on I didn't see very much discussion for transporta@on. District Transporta@on I only hope that, if we will be working on site, it will be Thank you for doing your best in this challenging @me. done in the safest manner possible. I trust the district and the state Dept of Health. District Transporta@on informa@on from the district. communicate to staff District Transporta@on Need to know if I will be able to work enough to renew I have been very frustrated with the lack of communica@on my health benefits in the fall. My family is dependent from our district administrators. I have wriDen leDers and on me for health insurance. never got responses. District Transporta@on Please provide ppe (face masks AND gloves) to transporta@on drivers. Daily. District Transporta@on Safety for students and staff on the bus and at school District Transporta@on social distancing perameters

989 District Transporta@on Timely informa@on Availability of PPE Sani@sed As a bus driver who is an at risk employee I am very equipment concerned about hearing that the union is pushing back on mandatory use of mask by staff. There are people in transporta@on who are not wearing mask and are not required to do so. This is not right! District Transporta@on To get back to normal as much as possible. I’m a school bus driver and feel that our opinions are needed as well, but would like to see kids riding the bus again with whatever precau@ons are needed for them to have some type of normalcy. District Transporta@on To get back to working as much as possible District Transporta@on Very concerned about being protected from virus as students enter and exit the bus. A clear protec@ve barrier between driver seat and exit would be great. District Transporta@on We need to come back to work ASAP to get the fleet I appreciate the concern for staff and all the accommoda@ons back into shape . We had a horrible WSP inspec@on. I made for us . This has been a very difficult @me for everyone . would feel beDer knowing the buses , support vehicles Thank you for all you guys do. Cant wait to get back to work and school generators were up to par before school a see everyone. starts. The soon we get back to work the the more capable we will be at mee@ng that goal. District Transporta@on Please be advised that I was diagnosed with Covid 19 in early April which is why I'm less concerned about risk to me. However, I do believe that everyone should lead by example and wear a mask, distance, and quaran@ne regardless of whether you have had it or not. District No Answer I work 1:1 with special needs kids who never wash their hands, some of them spit, etc. I am very concerned about this. District No Answer I’m concerned about differing opinion of parents and I feel like primary secondary and middle need (at least, the environment this may cause stress and hinder alterna@ng,, maybe part @me?) days in the classroom. The learning. social impact has been devasta@ng to the younger kids. High schoolers are more independent and may benefit greatly from these opportuni@es to be more independent planning, in my opinion. They also have stronger immune systems and can advocate for for themselves and their friends to follow guidelines of preven@on.

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