To: Board of Education From: Dr. Lori Casey Re: Hybrid Update Date: April 22, 2021

1. In - Person and Remote Learning Status

2. Relocation Update

We had 17 classes/areas relocate to a safe center as a precautionary measure to allow the classroom/areas to be cleaned and re-sanitized. This was necessary due to an individual in the classroom/area being sent home complaining of having a symptom listed on the COVID-19 symptom list.

3. Thought Exchange for Staff A Thought Exchange from Woodland Staff was completed this week. The question was asked: As you reflect on the past year, schools adapted and made changes to respond to the health crisis. What have we done well in the past year that we should continue doing? What can we do together to make next year even better? Top responses include:

1. Parent teacher conferences should remain virtual as an option due to more conducive to parent schedules and higher turnout.

2. IEP conferences should be virtual as an option to parents 3. Staff meetings should be scheduled virtually 4. Seasonal approaches to facility care. Continue with the higher level of cleaning & disinfecting as a base

approach going into the cold and flu seasons to help keep all illnesses lower 5. Remote or In-person for next year. Please have teachers either be "remote" teachers or "in-person."

6. More teacher recognition and grace. This has been the hardest thing we have ever had to do and we are also going through trauma. We are struggling.

7. Listen to the teachers. We often know more about how procedures will or won't work, but are not consulted on them. Let us help, but don't force us to make the decisions.

8. Shout out to the parapros that are back in person! They have been pulled to help wherever administration needs them, and a lot of times it's at the last minute!

9. Provided time on planning days for teachers to collaborate and plan. Allowing teachers to use professional time for what will benefit the students most, instead of requiring attendance at an overload of meetings

We will examine these responses as we plan for the fall. The full report can be viewed here: The Thought Exchange

4. School Year 2021-2122 Preparations Work has begun to prepare for the fall. Below is the current status for our fall return: All principals are devising plans to bring back all students in person five days a week. They are still planning on three feet of distance between students except during lunch and breakfast where we need to have six feet of distance. A survey is being developed and will be conducted with parents to invite them to apply for a full virtually learning year. Another survey will be sent to parents asking them feedback on what worked well and did not work well for their child. This will go out in May. Focus groups will be conducted with parents for their feedback during the first week of May. Focus groups will be conducted with students for their feedback in May. Principals and the Director of Transportation are meeting with staff and asking them for priorities based on needs and wants for their school in the area of Social Emotional Learning and Physical Health, Teaching and Learning and Social Distancing and Facilities.

Vaccination Update as of 4/5/21

Remote Learning Student Engagement Update - Steve All data reported in this section is as of April 5th

Remote Student Attendance The official attendance rates for students in remote areas are reported below. This only includes students who are absent for Unexcused Absences. Students attending medical appointments or other approved family matters are excused and are not included in this chart.

Total Number of Remote Students

Number of Remote Students with Unexcused Absence

Percentage of Remote Students in Attendance

Week of March 29th 2460 205 8.3%

Teacher Survey of Student Engagement* Teachers are surveyed at the end of each week on the level of remote student engagement in their classroom(s). The data is then averaged for each of the categories identified. * After a review of data, there appears to be some response errors. Some respondents reported remote students only and some reported all students. Over the next interactions of the survey, the language will be corrected to produce the desired response.

Week of: March 29th

Early Childhood - 5th Grade Sixth - Eighth Grade All Grades and Areas (n=255) Core Classes Specials Classes Core Classes Encore(Specials)

Classes

Students ConsistentlyEngaged1

84.2% 85.2% 75.9% 79.6% 80.2%

Students Regularly Not Engaged2

10.4% 13.0% 18.9% 20.3% 15.9%

Students who Teachers are Concerned3

14.3% 11.8% 20.7% 13.5% 16.9%

1 Percentage of all students (in-person and remote) who missed less than 15 min of remote instruction this week. 2 Percentage of all students (in-person and remote) who missed more than 15 min of remote instruction at least three times this week. 3 Percentage of all students (in-person and remote) teachers’ replied they are concerned with the student’s level of engagement.

Summary of most common comments by teachers for why students who are remote are not engaged.

! There is insufficient remote supervision and/or support of remote students ! Students are not keeping their cameras on and there are limited consequences

! Distractions in the remote space: student phones, siblings, noisy environment ! Internet connectivity: weak, intermittent or slow connections ! Family needs, other siblings appts, sick relatives ! The complexity of hybrid instruction slows teachers ability to support remote students ! Student motivation

5. Summer School Update

! Offering a combination of remote and in-person summer support ! Virtual Wildcat Summer Adventure June 21-July 8 and July 26-August 12

3 hours each session (8:00-11:00am) ! Extended School Year (ESY) and Wildcat Summer Adventure Camps will

run concurrently June 21-July 22 at Intermediate School Full-day (9:00am-2:30pm) Monday-Thursday

! Afternoons will focus on STEAM activities and experiential learning (ie., field trips) ! District transportation offered to in-person participants ! All summer session and transportation will be offered at no cost to families ! Program hours and/or scope may need to be revised based on summer school teacher availability ! The Board had directed to increase our summer opportunities for all students due to the pandemic. The chart

below depicts those changes.