Cathedral School Fall Learning Plan 2020

Fall Learning Plan 2020 The Cathedral Approach “Bonded by open-heartedness, hope, compassion, and concern.” Cathedral School for Boys Mission

We have worked steadily over the last few months to prepare a school that is both safe for students and faculty and continues to provide, even under changed and ever-shifting circumstances, “an excellent education for boys.” The last few months have reinforced our longstanding belief that students, especially those in elementary and middle school, learn best in person. However, we remain mindful that there are many factors beyond our control that will ultimately determine whether and when we return to campus. For that reason, we have also continued to improve upon the successful Distance Learning plan that we implemented last spring. Either way, we are well prepared for the eventualities of this fall.

Cathedral School Fall Learning Plan 2020 is designed to provide our community with an outline focusing on the people, program, and place needed to safely and effectively educate our students when they return to campus. It also briefly outlines our revised approach to Distance Learning. As such, we operated with the following goals in mind:

1 Maintaining a necessary high level of health and safety 2 Assigning each student to a self-contained grade-level cohort that operates within a designated instructional space and avoids, as much as possible, contact with other student cohorts 3 Offering a high-quality educational experience within the spirit of our Mission

As we all recognize, these are unprecedented times. Our ability to teach on campus must take into account a variety of public health guidelines that necessarily alter the school day, how we operate, and how our campus is configured. It must be noted that our ability to support learning on campus is contingent on individual and family health. Thus, our approach incorporates recommendations and expectations for healthy practices that take place off-campus and outside of the typical school day. We ask our community to followSan Francisco Department of Public Health guidelines.

The complexities of returning in the fall are myriad and unlike any schools have had to face in recent history. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we respond to these most unusual times. I remain grateful that your family is a part of this special place. Rest assured that we remain committed to providing our boys with the best possible educational experience and that they will return to an institution “bonded by open-heartedness, hope, compassion, and concern.”

Finally, we are especially appreciative of the time and expertise committed by the members of our Fall Planning Task Force. Without them, none of what follows would be possible.

Very truly yours,

Burns Jones Headmaster

Fall Learning Plan 2020 1 We would like to thank the Fall Planning Task Force members for their time and dedication to our Fall Learning Plan 2020.

Co-Chairs

Naureen Hassan Burns Jones Parent, 5th grade, Board Member Cathedral School Headmaster, Parent, 4th grade, Board Member

Health Policies & Practices

Wells Blaxter Melisa Block Dr. Linnea Hur Parent, 8th grade Cathedral School CFO Incoming Parent, 5th grade

Dr. Chris Lehman Elizabeth Sparks Dr. Vance Vanier Parent, 8th grade Parent, 3rd & 5th grades, Parent, 7th & 8th grades Chair, Board Member

Academics & Scheduling

Chad Harlow Kate Juergens Jorge Klor de Alva Shipley Salewski Director Upper School Co-Chair, Director Parent, 2nd grade Co-Chair, Parent, 3rd grade, Lower School Board Member

Jimmy Santosa Educational Technology

Space & Building Planning

Melisa Block Thayer Hopkins Alex Iljas Mark MacDonald Cathedral School CFO Chair, Lifetime Board Member Director of Athletics Parent, 3rd grade

Bridget Maley-Cannon Parent, 7th grade

2 Our approach to learning at Cathedral this fall is premised upon three learning modes.

On-Campus Learning

Students will learn on campus with appropriate health and safety protocols in place.

Distance Learning

Students will learn off campus as mandated by governmental officials or if dictated by specific circumstances at Cathedral School.

Extended Distance Learning

Students with specific diagnoses or families who have general health concerns about returning will be distance learning while the majority of students learn on campus.

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In order to return to campus safely, our procedures focus on PEOPLE, PROGRAM, and PLACE with guidance from the CDC, California Department of Public Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, and the School’s Fall Planning Task Force.

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RETURNING TO CAMPUS At-A-Glance

PEOPLE PROGRAM PLACE

SMALL STUDENT COHORTS HAND WASHING/SANITIZING STATIONS MASKS & REORGANIZED CLASSROOMS

6 FEET K 2nd

1st etc. NO ON-CAMPUS VISITORS

DEDICATED GRADE-LEVEL SOCIAL DISTANCING TEACHING TEAMS +

HVAC AIR FILTRATION & PURIFICATION UPGRADES PRIORIZATION OF CORE MORNING HEALTH SCREENINGS ACADEMIC CLASSES

NEW CLASSROOM FURNITURE/ SCHEDULED TIME FOR PE, PLEXIGLASS PARTITIONS NEW HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR RECESS, & BRAIN BREAKS

SCHEDULED TIME FOR EXTENDED COVID-19 TESTING SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING ARRIVAL/STAGGERED DISMISSAL

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PEOPLE Our community is our most treasured resource. Your boys are our boys. We believe that in-person learning is the best way to educate, so we have put new school-wide protocols in place to help ensure a healthy return to campus.

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Before returning to campus in the fall, all students, faculty, and New School-Wide Health Protocols staff must take a COVID-19 test. The beginning of the school year represents our most vulnerable Masks represent one of the most effective mechanisms for diminishing the spread of the virus. period as families return from The School will issue two types of face coverings to students—an ear-loop style and a gaiter travel and students return from style. Both types of coverings will be composed of multi-layer fabric and compliant with WHO guidelines. Students will not be allowed to wear non-CSB issued masks. If a student forgets to camps. For these reasons, we bring his mask, a disposable one will be provided for the day. Teachers will be issued a variety feel COVID-19 testing before of face coverings to ensure their safety and comfort and to support phonics. our return to campus, and also at intervals during the school year, represents an Students and staff will sanitize hands upon entering the building and frequently during the day. important component of a Each classroom will have its own sink or hand sanitization station, and mobile stations will be comprehensive strategy to deployed in the entrances and throughout the School. We have also added additional janitorial staff. promote healthy behaviors and reduce the spread of the virus.

No locker use or sharing supplies. Students are expected to carry supplies to and from school each day. Testing will occur through a well-vetted, third-party provider commissioned by Cathedral School. Cathedral Cathedral will hire a new full-time Health Administrator who will be the point of contact for students and families will be questions or concerns surrounding health practices, protocols, or potential COVID-19 exposure. expected to follow shelter- The Health Administrator will educate the staff and school community on the School’s health policy and practices. This individual will be responsible for managing adherence to our Health in-place guidance between the Policy as well as screening and testing processes. The Health Administrator will also be the administration of the test, prior School’s liaison to public health officials with respect to our testing results, potential to returning to campus, and COVID-19 cases, and contact tracing. the first day of school.

REVIEW OUR The School’s Health Policy has been updated to incorporate recommendations from the HEALTH POLICY Centers for Disease Control and the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

Upon campus arrival, all students, faculty, and staff Parents agree to abide by a Social Contract that outlines community expectations, as mandated by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. will pass through one of two entrances (Lower Schoolers, Sacramento Street entrance and Upper Schoolers, Jones Street Visitors will not be allowed on campus. Parents will only be allowed to enter through the entrance) with infrared Sacramento Street doors and must remain within a designated area inside the entry. thermometers, taking each individual’s temperature. Anyone registering as having a fever Parents and caregivers must take their child’s temperature and check for symptoms before (100.4 degree temperature or leaving for school. All students will be screened again before entering the school building. higher) will be isolated for (All staff will be screened, as well.) This screening will involve a temperature check and responses to a series of required questions issued by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. additional follow-up with our new Health Administrator. Fall Learning Plan 2020 7 On-Campus Learning

PROGRAM We are a small school and have always believed in small class sizes. Our Co-Teacher Model in the Lower School, in particular, has given us a leg-up on understanding how best to organize and educate small grade-level cohorts on campus.

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Programmatic Changes

ALL SCHOOL

Each grade will be split into roughly small student cohorts in both the Lower and Upper School. The rationale for this includes:

1 Reduced community exposure and better contact tracing

2 Additional grade-level planning and schedule flexibility for teachers

3 Improved learning outcomes due to smaller class sizes

4 Potential for interdisciplinary projects

3 8:30 1 2 Students remain Classrooms Extended In-classroom Aftercare in a limited capacity, in a consistent configured to arrival period from lunch provided. prioritizing adult caregivers with classroom, limiting support social 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Students eat in work obligations, requiring some movement throughout distancing. for safe distancing their individual mixing of cohorts, and more the campus. and flow work spaces or distancing protocols. Families of students. outside places, asked to confirm aftercare Staggered dismissal when available. needs via a form the week of (see page 11). August 17, 2020. Aftercare provided for younger siblings until older siblings’ dismissal.

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Programmatic Changes

LOWER SCHOOL

Lower School Students assigned to a stable Grade levels will be assigned 2 core teachers and 1 grade-level cohort of between 12 and 15 students. specialist teacher. Lower School specialist teachers rotate to a new grade level every 5 weeks. UPPER SCHOOL

Upper School students will be divided into three cohorts Each grade level will have three dedicated teachers of 12 to 13 students. Each cohort will have its classes (in the subjects of humanities, math and PE) who in a single room, and teachers will move from room to room. work solely with that grade.

Upper School teachers Grade-level project time World Language teachers in science, World Language, will be given to students time to work will conduct in-person classes only for art, and music teach in independently, often on interdisciplinary grades 7th and 8th. 6th-grade students 5-6 week intensive projects designed by the will receive World Language rotational blocks. grade-level teams. These periods, instruction via live streaming classes. in concert with advisory, also World Language instruction provide additional time for social will be postponed for 5th grade emotional education. until spring.

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ON-CAMPUS SCHEDULES

Lower School Program Upper School Program Sample Sample

Drop-oﬀ Drop-oﬀ

Morning Meeting/Chapel Advisory

Core Instruction 1st Period Recess/Brain Break Break Core Instruction 2nd Period Core Instruction

Lunch Lunch

Specialist Class 3rd Period Core Instruction Break PE

Closing Circle 4th Period

Dismissal Dismissal

K 3rd/4th 6th 8th

STAGGERED DISMISSAL TIMES 1:45 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:40 2:50 3:00

1st/2nd 5th 7th

Please note: Aftercare provided for younger siblings until older siblings’ dismissal.

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PLACE The campus will look and feel different this fall. Cathedral has reimagined the available learning space on campus for the health, safety, well-being, and enrichment of the boys.

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CLASSROOM PLACEMENT THAYER HOPKINS ARCHITECTS

300 MONTGOMERY STREET SUITE 860 The School has been reconfigured to support social distancing recommendations for grades and grade-level cohorts. SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA, 94104 TEL: 415-660-9870 Each cohort will be assigned to its own classroom.

ENTRY LEVEL 1st 1st 2nd 2nd K LOBBY APN # JONES STREET

RESTROOM

OFFICE LEARNING CENTER LEARNING CENTER -- BOYS ISOLATION RESTROOM ROOM HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR

NEW STORAGE PRODUCTION/ MAIL ROOM FACULTY LOUNGE DEVELOPMENT HAWKSPITAL OFFICE RECEPTION STAFF KITCHEN RESTROOM LOBBY K

HEADMASTER OFFICE ADMISSIONS ACCOUNTANT ADMISSIONS WAITING CFOO DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AREA OFFICE OFFICE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS GRAPHIC MAPPING 1275 SACRAMENTO STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108

Drawing Issue / Date

SACRAMENTO STREET THAYER HOPKINS ARCHITECTS

300 MONTGOMERY STREET SUITE 860 SAN FRANCISCO CATHEDRAL CALIFORNIA, 94104 TEL: 415-660-9870

TERRACE LEVEL Drawing Title

Scale

Drawn By

Drawing Number

-- TERRACE 1802 SFV SACRAMENTO STREET LEVEL PLAN 0 5’ 10’ 25’ 50’ 100’

APN 6th #

MECHANICAL 6th 7th 7th 4th 4th ROOM JONES STREET

-- RESTROOM

7th CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS GRAPHIC MAPPING 1275 SACRAMENTO STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108

6th Drawing Issue / Date THAYER HOPKINS ARCHITECTS

300 MONTGOMERY STREET SUITE 860 SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA, 94104 TEL: 415-660-9870

SACRAMENTO STREET

Drawing Title

Scale ROOF 3rd Drawn By Drawing Number

LOWER LEVEL PLAN 0 5’ 10’ 25’ 50’ 100’ APN #

TECHNOLOGY JONES STREET

3rd CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS GRAPHIC MAPPING 1275 SACRAMENTO STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108

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SACRAMENTO STREET

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Scale

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ROOF LEVEL PLAN 0 5’ 10’ 25’ 50’ 100’ On-Campus Learning

CLASSROOM PLACEMENT

THAYER HOPKINS ARCHITECTS

300 MONTGOMERY STREET SUITE 860 SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA, 94104 PLAZA TEL: 415-660-9870

CATHEDRAL

8th

GRACE APN CATHEDRAL # PUBLIC 5th 8th PLAZA

5th JONES STREET CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS GRAPHIC MAPPING 1275 SACRAMENTO STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108

Drawing Issue / Date 5th

SACRAMENTO STREET

Drawing Title

Scale GRESHAM HALL LEVEL Drawn By Drawing Number

PLAZA LEVEL PLAN 0 5’ 10’ 25’ 50’ 100’

GYMNASIUM GRESHAM

KITCHEN 8th

MENS RESTROOM WOMENS RESTROOM

Please note: Upper School classroom assignments are subject to change.

CRYPT LEVEL PLAN 0 5’ 10’ 25’ 50’ 100’

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Classrooms redesigned to ensure physical distancing per CDC recommendations. New furniture and plexiglass screens, as applicable, have been added to create 22 small cohort appropriate learning spaces.

HVAC / air ventilation system upgrades include the addition of MERV-13 filtration with ionizing purification technology. Air purifiers are also present in each classroom. Exterior doors and windows will remain open during the day.

Outdoor space has been maximized. Classroom seating has been added on the Terrace. In addition to the roof, we will leverage areas of the Grace Cathedral Plaza for activity, outdoor classrooms, and lunch-time rotations.

New janitorial service will oversee the cleaning and disinfecting of our facilities. Additional day-time staff will ensure high-touch areas and bathrooms are being disinfected at a minimum of three times per day. High-touch surfaces such as door knobs and railings will also be treated with a NanoSeptic self-cleaning product. Electrostatic disinfectant sprayers will ensure even the more challenging classroom surfaces are routinely

Fall Learning Plan 2020 15 Distance Learning

Over the summer, faculty and staff have continued to work diligently to refine and improve our Distance Learning programming to ensure we are prepared at any point in the school year to return to a Distance Learning mode. The following pages will provide more details on our Lower and Upper School Plans.

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ALL SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY APPROACH The effectiveness of the Distance Learning mode is dependent on the use of several technologies. Both teachers and students will use the following programs to engage in learning, manage workflow, communicate with each other, and assess and reflect effectively. Lower School Plan

Platform for student engagement that uses creative tools to Guided reading program with comprehensive leveled reading take pictures, draw, record videos, and more to capture learning resources for students. Allows students to listen to, read at in a portfolio. their own pace, and record themselves reading.

SUPPORT AND COMMUNICATION

Rotating stationary robot that follows a teacher Platform that allows teachers to create and manage classes, automatically (by swiveling) by connecting to an infrared assignments, and feedback online. Marker worn on a lanyard. Online students can hear and see the teacher through a remote video call even as the teacher moves throughout classroom. Platform to host meetings/calls or in our case classes, conferences, one-on-ones or small group sessions.

Student information and management system that connects parents, teachers, and students. Functions as a database for

Learning program for language arts and math that provides real-time community information and forms. diagnostic, guidance, and actionable analytics to give each student personalized instruction and help them progress faster.

Learning tool for students to explore pre-made flashcards and quizzes. It can be used in a game or study mode and sets of flashcards can be shared or kept private. Message board to facilitate video discussions. Teachers pose COMMUNITY questions or “topics” and students can post video responses.

Learning tool that allows teachers to give live assignments Reading assessment tool for K-8 students that identifies A-Z reading to students allowing instant feedback. levels, diagnoses skill gaps, screens students for reading difficulties, and monitors progress.

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Lower School Plan

Distance Learning for Lower School students will maintain the cohort structure developed for 2020-2021. Distance Learning will be a combination of asynchronous and synchronous activities that support and extend social-emotional and academic skills.

SUPPORT AND COMMUNICATION

Communication, including schedules Families are invited to Monday Teachers will provide student check-in and student assignments, streamlined morning meetings to hear about periods every afternoon that will be for easy access via Seesaw an overview of the week reserved for small groups and individuals

Courtney Graham, our Lower School reading Teachers will offer a bi-weekly parent specialist, and Joanne Cohen, our school class meeting where teaching tips, counselor, will be meeting with grade levels objectives, and expectations will on a weekly rotating basis be articulated

COMMUNITY

Lower School Chapel continues Friday Hymn Sing continues to be a Monthly Town Hall Meetings to be asynchronous community-wide event via Zoom continue to be a community-wide event

Please note: Attendance will be taken during Distance Learning Mode. All students are expected to show up to Distance Learning classes in their uniform shirt.

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Lower School Plan Upper School Plan

Daily Schedule

8:15 - 8:55 Chapel or Morning Readiness

9:00 - 9:15 Morning Meeting

9:30 - 10:00 Synchronous Class #1

10:15 - 10:45 Synchronous Class #2

10:45 – 11:30 Break and Asynchronous Work

11:30 – 12:15 Lunch

12:15 - 12:45 Optional PE

1:00 - 1:30 Cohort A Specialist Class/Cohort B Asynchronous Work 1:00 - 1:30 Cohort B Specialist Class/Cohort A Asynchronous Work

1:30 - 2:00 Closing Circle

2:15 - 2:45 Small Group/Individual Student Check-in

*Please note: Synchronous sessions will be longer based on the grade level.

SCHEDULE

The schedule is All classes are at the Every day begins with a Boys have 2 synchronous, Asynchronous lessons the same each day cohort level morning meeting and ends academic classes every complement the with a closing circle morning before lunch synchronous learning

Specialist teachers rotate grade Specialists classes taught, in Daily PE classes levels on a bi-weekly basis cohorts, in the afternoon

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Upper School Plan

Distance Learning in the Upper School will capitalize on our experience from last spring and will maintain the basic structure of our on campus program. Students will remain in their small cohorts for their Distance Learning classes, and the grade-level teams will follow the same model as when we are on campus, including 5-6 week “red” and “gold” units. Teachers will deliver content and assignments using technology platforms already in use in the Upper School: iPads, the School’s Community Portal, Google Classroom, and apps like Quizlet and Formative.

Schedule M-T-TH-F Schedule W

8:45 - 9:05 Class meeting, 8:45 - 9:45 Advisory Advisory, Chapel 9:15 - 9:55 1st Period 9:45 - 10:00 Break

9:55 - 10:15 1st Period Tutorial 10:00 - 10:40 1st Period

10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:40 - 11:00 1st Period Tutorial

10:30 – 11:10 2nd Period 11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:10 – 11:30 2nd Period Tutorial 11:15 - 11:55 2nd Period

11:30 - 12:15 Lunch 11:55 - 12:15 2nd Period Tutorial 12:15 - 12:45 Lunch 12:15 - 12:55 3rd Period

12:55 - 1:15 3rd Period Tutorial 12:45 - 1:25 3rd Period

1:15 - 1:30 Break 1:25 - 1:45 3rd Period Tutorial

1:30 - 2:10 4th Period 2:00 Faculty Meetings

2:10 - 2:30 4th Period Tutorial

EACH DAY BEGINS AT 8:45 a.m. WITH MOST CLASSES WILL MEET FOUR TIMES Our Distance Learning schedule includes ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: A WEEK. THESE CLASSES INCLUDE: a tutorial period immediately after each MONDAY = Grade-Level Team Intro to the core class. These tutorial periods, coupled • Three 40-minute classes, each followed Week (parents invited) with the maintenance of small cohorts immediately by a 20-minute tutorial. TUESDAY = Advisory even during Distance Learning, will • One 60-minute asynchronous work period provide a level of student support that WEDNESDAY = US Chapel or Advisory that will be initiated by a 10-15 minute did not exist in last spring’s Distance THURSDAY = Advisory meeting with the teacher. Learning program. FRIDAY = Advisory or Hymn Sing Fall Learning Plan 2020 20 Extended Distance Learning

When campus is open, the Extended Distance Learning mode is offered to those students with health concerns who prefer to learn at a distance during the COVID-19 pandemic. We ask families to use this option sparingly and only if necessary. Families who prefer this option of learning will be asked to confirm their decision via a form the week of August 17, 2020.

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Extended Distance Learning (EDL) students will remain in their usual cohorts, and will be expected to attend advisory (Upper School), morning meetings (Lower School) and classes according to the cohort’s on-campus schedule. Teachers will live-stream classes using Swivl or Zoom so that students can follow along with the instruction and activities in real time. Students will complete assignments and take assessments according to the same schedule as their on-campus peers.

LOWER SCHOOL (EDL) UPPER SCHOOL (EDL)

• Daily learning will include the following: • Students will need two devices: one with - Live-stream morning meeting which to view the live class telecast, and - Two live-stream academic lessons ranging their school iPad for accessing materials from 10-30 minutes and completing assignments. -One live-stream specialist class • The live-stream will be primarily “one direction.” • A grade-level teacher will meet with student(s) The teachers’ focus will be the on-campus via Zoom 2x/week after school for 15 minutes. experience. In most, instances, this will mean that EDL students will message teachers and • All work will be posted asynchronously on get responses after class. Seesaw or Google Classroom (4th grade). • When a given cohort has multiple EDL students, • Students will be expected to attend all teachers will facilitate group work between the live-stream classes and complete assignments EDL students. in a timely manner. • Each week, EDL students will have two • This is a Monday-Friday commitment. fifteen-minute one-on-one meetings with the • Grade-level teachers consist of cohort lead EDL advisor. They will also have the ability to teachers and one specialist. schedule extra help meetings with primary instructors as needed. • Hayley Richards will support technology.

• Jimmy Santosa will support implementation.

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