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Reopening Schools Advisory Bellingham Public Schools July 29, 2020
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Bellingham Promise
WorkGroup
Updates
Planning & Updates
Current Guidelines Updates
What Else?
ValuesNews
HealthWork Teams
Social
Emotional
Next Steps
Values
News
Work Teams
Feedback
Breakouts
Next Steps
Agenda 7.29.2020Purpose: Work team updates for Reopening
Welcome
News & Updates WEA recommendation, statewide district updates
District Planning Updates Draft reopening stages
Work Team Updates 1. Level Schedules: High School2. Virtual Academy
Stay Connected
The Bellingham
Promise:Relationships
Matter
Values
“Reflections on reopening schools
and keeping our community safe”
--July 29
Values
News
Work Teams
Feedback
Breakouts
Next Steps
• We want our schools to open in the fall with students and staff
at school. Each passing day, it seems less likely that will
happen, at least for the majority of students.
• Keeping our students, staff and families safe and healthy is
a top priority.
• We continue to plan for different scenarios including an option
for families who know they will want a fully online option all
year.
• As we think about whether learning occurs fully online or a
mix of online and in-person, we all need to be ready to shift
as conditions change. We are considering a model that would
allow us to have different stages and criteria.
Values
News
Work Teams
Feedback
Breakouts
Next Steps
WEA Recommendations
We must prepare for quality distance learning.
“…at this time we are calling for the 2020-21 school year to begin with distance learning and virtual
instruction”
https://www.washingtonea.org/this-fall/faqs/post/wea-demands-safety-first/
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Washington State District Updates
Seattle, Bellevue, other King County schools announce intentions to go online-only come fall. Seattle Times July 22, 2020
“As of late Wednesday, the districts that had announced an online-only start to the school year included Auburn, Bellevue, Federal Way, Highline, Kent, Northshore and Seattle. The moves followed a cautionary health report,…”
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Updates Across the Country
Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced metrics to guide school re-opening Oregon Live July 29, 2020
To open for full- or part-time in-person learning in all grades, schools in each county would have to meet these metrics for three weeks in a row:
• The state testing rate must remain at or below 5%.
• The county must have 10 or fewer new cases per 100,000 residents over seven days.
• The countywide test positivity rate must be 5% or less over that same time period.
A small Georgia city plans to put students in the classroom this week New York Times July 27, 2020
Draft BPS Reopening Plan: Hybrid7/28
Scenarios Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
PreKCohort AIn-Person3 hours
Cohort AIn-Person
3 hours
ALL STUDENTS: AT HOME LEARNING
Staff: Planning, collaboration, family engagement
Cohort BIn-Person
3 hours
Cohort B In-Person3 hours
K-2 In-Person In-Person In-Person In-Person
3-12 Hybrid C
ohort AIn Person In-Person
At-Home Learning Remote
At-Home Learning Remote
3-12 Hybrid C
ohort B
At-Home Learning Remote
At-Home Learning Remote
In-Person In-Person
Full-Time At Home P-12
At-Home LearningOnline
At-Home Learning Online
At-Home Learning Online
At-Home Learning Online
Values
News
Work Teams
Feedback
Breakouts
Next Steps
Who is in the Zoom Room?
Breakout 1
*Mike CoplandAmy Carder
Matt WhittenSarah RoseRey Ramos
Jami PittmanLaurette
Rasmussen
Breakout 2
*Steve ClarkeMike Anderson
Ari FeeneyRonni WestonDavid Webster
Samantha DangJoAn Steiner
Breakout 3
*Bob KuehlTrina HallSonia Bell
James WalshNyla Thursday
Robin Montague
Breakout 4
*Jackie BrawleyPatrick DurganTom Gresham
Jeff NymanKaranbir DeolSerene Salam
Dr. Sara Mostad
Breakout 5
*Kurt GazowRae Anne ThonLisa Peterson
Shirley Prichard
Gladys SerranoNigel Naylor
Breakout 6
*Jay JordanIsabel Meaker
Rebecca SauterNic Castona
Mike HabermanShannonMillican
Alyssa Johnson
* Next to a name makes you the notetaker and first one to share out.
Values
News
Work Teams
Feedback
Breakouts
Next Steps
• Strengths?
• Wonders?
• What are other questions we should be asking?
Discuss
• Start by sharing first
• Help track time
• Ensure everyone gets a chance to speak
Facilitator
Values
News
Work Teams
Feedback
Breakouts
Next Steps
Work Teams
Where are we to date? Workgroup
Updates
Be stubborn toward your goal and flexible in your methods
-- Rae Anne Thon
Schedule Teams: High School
Virtual Academy: Charisse Berner
HS SCHEDULE PROPOSAL
JULY 29, 2020
High School Schedule Committee Task
▪ Adhere to health and safety recommendations
▪Create a schedule for students farthest from opportunity
▪ Student needs prioritized over adult needs
▪ Flexibility to move between remote and in-person learning
▪ Address concerns brought up in remote learning feedback from the spring
▪ Need for consistency, flexibility, and accountability
▪ Bell Schedule
▪ Accessing 8 classes- Rotation Schedule
Things that will still need to ironed out…▪ Continue working with elementary and middle schools on cohorts to ensure it is the same for families
▪ Continue working with transportation to ensure feasibility across models
▪ Work with food service to support each of the models
▪ Develop metrics that would be used to determine when we move between the different phases
▪ Provide options for having staff work in the building no matter what phase
▪ Provide options for having some students in the building no matter what phase to support those furthest
from opportunity in collaboration with transportation and food service
▪ Collaborate with Instructional Work Teams to develop units that support the rotation model
▪ Collaborate with labor leaders and elementary and middle schools around what Wednesday asynchronous
learning day will look like and if asynchronous learning counts towards instructional minutes
Bell Schedule
Rotation of 8 class periods
Recommendation22 Day Rotation
HS Schedule Team provided input
and details on how we landed on
this model:
16 staff favor 22-day rotation
4 staff favor 45-day rotation
22-Day Rotation – Key Points
▪Teachers connect with students more frequently – minimizing large gaps of instruction
▪Better connections for support courses – SPED/AVID/ELL/ Academic workshop etc.
▪For our struggling students, it provides the best mix of consistency and routine
▪Best way to serve students consistently – Math example
▪Make connections and develop relationships – SEL impact with teachers and peers
▪Maintain the impactful school courses that build culture and provide rigor: Yearbook- Leadership-
AVID – Video Production
▪Allows for all schools to maintain grading set-up and master schedules as built.- HUGE Plus
Additional thoughts from team:
❖22-day rotation is the better of the options: It allows us to see all of our students sooner than later to build
and make those relationships that are going to be ever more important this school year.
❖22-day (Option B) for the entire year - In my opinion it is the model that allows for consistency and a
continuum of services for all students.
❖I prefer a 22-day rotation. It gives flexibility for 2nd semester. For our struggling students, it provides the
best mix of consistency and routine.
❖Students want to be engaged. Let them be engaged with 8 amazing teachers, let them be engaged with 8
different classes of students. Let Leadership and Link Crew classes and video production classes that build
culture exist on a more frequent basis. Listen to our counselors. We're supposed to give kids a high school
experience and education, not a community college experience.
❖I prefer a 22-day schedule. My main concerns focus on supporting students with special needs--ELL,
sped, freshmen, those who are below grade level in math, etc.
❖There is no perfect solution
Who is in the Zoom Room?
Breakout 1
Mike CoplandAmy Carder
*Matt WhittenSarah RoseRey Ramos
Jami PittmanLaurette
Rasmussen
Breakout 2
Steve ClarkeMike Anderson
*Ari FeeneyRonni WestonDavid Webster
Samantha DangJoAn Steiner
Breakout 3
Bob KuehlTrina Hall
*Sonia BellJames Walsh
Nyla ThursdayRobin
Montague
Breakout 4
Jackie BrawleyPatrick Durgan*Tom Gresham
Jeff NymanKaranbir DeolSerene Salam
Dr. Sara Mostad
Breakout 5
Kurt GazowRae Anne Thon*Lisa Peterson
Shirley Prichard
Gladys SerranoNigel Naylor
Breakout 6
Jay JordanIsabel Meaker
*Rebecca SauterNic Castona
Mike HabermanShannonMillican
Alyssa Johnson
* Next to a name makes you the notetaker and first one to share out.
Values
News
Health
Work Teams
Social Emotional
Next Steps
• Looking for specific feedback on the bell schedule & rotation pattern.
• Generally: strengths, areas of focus?
• What are other questions we should be asking?
Discuss
• Start by sharing first
• Help track time
• Ensure everyone gets a chance to speak
Facilitator
Values
News
Health
Work Teams
Social Emotional
Next Steps
Virtual Academy
Bellingham Public Schools
Department of Teaching and Learning
Families to make a choice
School Based Learning
Partial In-Person/Partial Remote
Pivoting as needed
Synchronous & Asynchronous
100% Home Based Learning
Online Virtual Academy
Family Choice
Mostly asynchronous
Supported by BPS Staff; Connected to Community
Values
School Day Structure
Guidance
What else?
Local Progress
Next Steps
Scenario
ONE100% in-personinstruction
Subject to approval from the Governor and Department of Health
WITH ability for individuals to continue learning, working from home
Scenario TWO
Hybrid of in-person instruction and online learning
Provides 100% in-person for vulnerable populations
Provides 20/40/50% in-person and 80/60/50% online learning for most students
WITH options for short term (one day closure) through longer-term closure (one week through one semester)
Scenario THREE
100% online learning
Provides 100% online learning based on family choice
Fall Schedule Scenarios
Work Teams
DTL
Scenario 3: 100% online
• Option for families who do not wish to have their children return to school for any onsite learning next year
• Web-based curriculum supported by Bellingham teachers
• Elementary likely 50/50 on and offline activities
Bellingham Virtual Academy
Family Choice
Commitment to the model
All instruction at home online
Assumptions
• We will use our own staff
• Current HS schedule model lends itself to blend in 100% remote students with partial in person students, so parents less likely to opt into Virtual Academy
• Families need to commit for a pre-determined period of time-optimum is full year (especially at elementary)
We need your input!
Synchronous engagement:
Purposes-
Class meetings- Develop social emotional connections with teacher and peers. Monday mornings/weekly? Three X/week? Daily?
Office hours- 2-3 days per week? Provide instruction and review
Optional school level events
We need your input!
Commitment requirement for families (semester, year long?)
• Semester long commitment?- provides flexibility for families to change mid-year
• Driven by family/parent choice-
• Shift staffing and schedules mid year at secondary if families are ready to return to brick and mortar hybrid
• Not an option for elementary because the staffing model has to be set for the year
• Year-long commitment?
• Driven by staffing needs-
• Elementary model is not flexible mid-year
• Some staff teaching remotely may not be able to return mid-year
We need your input!
Curriculum and Instruction
• Class pacing?• Should students work at a common weekly pace or should it be more
independent?
• Should the scope and sequence mirror the hybrid instruction?
Curriculum being finalized
Who is in the Zoom Room?
Breakout 1
Mike CoplandAmy Carder
Matt WhittenSarah RoseRey Ramos
*Jami PittmanLaurette
Rasmussen
Breakout 2
Steve ClarkeMike Anderson
Ari FeeneyRonni WestonDavid Webster
*Samantha DangJoAn Steiner
Breakout 3
Bob KuehlTrina HallSonia Bell
James Walsh*Robin
MontagueNyla Thursday
Breakout 4
Jackie BrawleyPatrick DurganTom Gresham
Jeff NymanKaranbir Deol*Serene Salam
Dr. Sara Mostad
Breakout 5
Kurt GazowRae Anne ThonLisa Peterson
Shirley Prichard
*Nigel NaylorGladys Serrano
Breakout 6
Jay JordanIsabel Meaker
Rebecca SauterNic Castona
Mike Haberman*ShannonMillican
Alyssa Johnson
* Next to a name makes you the notetaker and first one to share out.
Values
News
Health
Work Teams
Social Emotional
Next Steps
Class pacing?Should students work at a common weekly pace or should it be more independent?Should the scope and sequence mirror the hybrid instruction?
Discuss
• Start by sharing first
• Help track time
• Ensure everyone gets a chance to speak
Facilitator
Values
News
Health
Work Teams
Social Emotional
Next Steps
Values
School Day Structure
Guidance
What else?
Local Progress
Next Steps
Next Meeting: WeeklyAug 5, 10 am-12 pm
Look for Zoom link in your email
Agenda, Notes & Resources posted on BPS website
Contact [email protected] with questions or resources to share