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Recovering, rebuilding, and renewing the spirit of our schools school reopening guidance
1. Recovering, Rebuilding, and Renewing:
the Spirit of New York’s Schools
Reopening Guidance
Presentation to the Board of Regents
July 13, 2020
2. 2
Development of the Guidance
Informed by five
virtual regional
educator and student
forums, attended by
over 1,000 parents,
students, teachers,
administrators, and
stakeholders,
representing New
York’s diversity.
The Region 2
Comprehensive
Center, led by
WestEd, provided a
synthesis of the
information gathered
at the 4 Regional
Task Force Meetings
and the Student
Forum.
P-12 program offices
worked along with
multiple SED
program offices to
develop draft
guidance to best
support students and
schools.
Guidance is student
centered; has equity
and flexibility at the
heart of the guidance.
3. 3
Introduction to the Guidance
The 2020-2021 school year will be our time to recover, rebuild,
and renew the spirit of New York’s schools.
Working together, educators, students, parents and communities
will continue to address this challenge with resiliency, tenacity, and
grit.
This document is intended to provide guidance to local
educational agencies (LEAs) as they plan to reopen their schools
– whether instruction occurs in person, remotely, or in some
combination of the two.
New York is a large and diverse state – so there will be no “one
size fits all” model for reopening our schools.
4. 4
Table of Contents
Foreword from the Chancellor
Foreword from the Commissioner
Executive Summary
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Communication/Family & Community
Engagement
• Health and Safety
• Facilities
• Child Nutrition
• Transportation
• Social Emotional Well-Being
• School Schedules
• Budget and Fiscal Matters
• Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism
• Technology and Connectivity
• Teaching and Learning
• Special Education
• Bilingual Education and
World Languages
• Staffing
• Glossary of Terms
5. 5
Health and Safety
Focused on preventive actions in schools:
Health Checks
• schools must instruct staff to
recognize signs and symptoms of
illness in students and staff, and
health screenings per DOH guidance.
Social Distancing
• schools must develop plans to
maximize social distancing
whenever possible.
Management of ill persons
• requires persons with signs and
symptoms of COVID-19 to be
isolated until they can be sent
home.
Health Hygiene
• schools must instruct students
and staff in proper hand and
respiratory hygiene and provide
necessary supplies.
Face Coverings and PPE
• requires students and staff to wear
face coverings (or PPE based on
job functions), per DOH guidance.
Cleaning and Disinfecting
• reviews cleaning and disinfecting
procedures for the school in
accordance with CDC
recommendations.
6. 6
Nutrition
Include school
food service
directors in
reopening plan
discussions.
Provide all
enrolled students
access to school
meals each
school day.
• Students in
attendance at
school
• Students
learning
remotely
Address all
applicable health
and safety
guidelines.
• Update
standard
operating
procedures
Ensure
compliance with
Child Nutrition
Program
requirements.
• Election and
utilization of
USDA flexibility
waivers
Communicate
with families
through multiple
means in the
languages
spoken by
families.
7. 7
Social-Emotional Well-Being
Social emotional well-
being must be schools’
and districts’ top priority
in supporting school
transitions, not at the
expense of academics,
but in order to create
the mental, social, and
emotional space for
academic learning to
occur.
Communicate social emotional well-being
and learning as a priority and engage
members of the school community in
implementation efforts.
Identify or build a team to lead your
implementation. Decide how students,
staff, and family will contribute.
Consider a prolonged orientation or
transition period to support the social and
emotional well-being and resiliency before
phasing in academic content.
8. 8
Social-Emotional Well-Being
The district’s school counseling/guidance
program should be reviewed and revised to
plan, develop, and implement a Multi-
Tiered System of Supports (MTSS).
As part of an MTSS framework, SEL,
mental health, and well-being supports
offered at all levels should reflect school-
wide implementation of effective, efficient,
and evidence-based practices and
strategies that all students can access.
Offer all staff opportunities to heal
together, to build strong, mutually
supportive relationships, and to process
their own emotions, including bus drivers,
cafeteria workers, office workers, nurses,
pupil personnel services staff,
and administrators.
Leverage Transformative SEL to support
the work of adult anti-racism and anti-bias
work.
9. 9
Facilities
Promote social distancing while maintaining existing safety requirements that protect students
from fire or other hazards:
Physical Footprint / Utilization of Space
• Districts may expand their physical footprint or change the way they utilize spaces.
Planning
• Many potential changes require that plans be submitted to NYSED's Office of
Facilities Planning for fire/building code review. This includes leased space
or temporary classroom units.
Fire and lockdown drills
• Must still be conducted – districts must plan to ensure that social distancing
measures are considered.
10. 10
Facilities
Ventilation
• Schools should continue to meet or exceed minimum ventilation requirements
and may wish to consult with design professionals to increase ventilation and
filtration.
Plumbing Facilities
• Maintain minimum fixture quantities, access to drinking water.
Operations & Procedures
• SED will expedite review of COVID-19 Projects.
11. 11
Transportation
The school bus is an extension of the
classroom and services need to be
provided to all with consistency and equity.
Each district will need to develop its
own plan, considering its own geography,
community resources, and resident
student needs.
12. 12
Transportation: Mandatory Requirements
School Bus
Regular Cleaning/Disinfecting
School Bus Staff
Must be trained and supported
Routing Considerations
Sharing, Municipal, Piggybacking, Parents, Students with Disabilities,
Foster Care, Homeless, Nonpublic, and Charter School Students
Student Riders
Training to social distance at stops, at unloading times
Wearing masks, per DOH guidance
School Site Loading/Unloading
Safety, Separation, Staggered
13. 13
Budget and Fiscal
All existing state aid reporting
requirements and deadlines
must be maintained.
The content of data
submissions will largely remain
consistent with past practice,
except where modified by law,
regulation, or executive order.
14. 14
Attendance
Attendance for State Aid purposes
• Districts will continue to report attendance for state aid purposes through SAMS
Form A, in accordance with the guidelines for instruction. Charter schools should
continue to follow applicable guidance.
Attendance for instructional purposes
• Schools are responsible for developing a mechanism to collect and report daily
teacher/student engagement or attendance regardless of the instructional setting.
Attendance for reporting purposes
• Attendance of any student of compulsory age, who resides in the district or is
placed in another public school district, a charter school, or in an educational
program outside the district, must be reported in SIRS.
15. 15
Chronic Absenteeism
School policies and procedures must focus on the academic
consequences of lost instructional time and address absences before
students fall behind in school.
Critical for schools to use a variety of creative methods to reach
out to students and their families who have not engaged in
distance learning.
Before initiating Educational Neglect or PINS processes,
schools and districts should collaborate with local
Departments of Social Services.
16. 16
School Schedules
Schools must create
a comprehensive
plan for a schedule
that includes:
In-person Instruction
Remote Instruction
Hybrid Instruction
(in-person and remote)
Plans should be clearly communicated with as much advanced notice
as practicable to students, families/caregivers, and staff.
17. 17
Teaching and Learning: Mandatory Requirements
Clear opportunities for equitable instruction for all students
Maintain continuity of learning when using any of the three
instructional models (in person, remote, hybrid)
Standards-based instruction
Substantive daily interaction
(teacher to students and students to teacher)
Clear communication plans between parents and schools
18. 18
Teaching and Learning: Flexibility
Flexible student/staff ratio
requirements in
Prekindergarten
Flexibility with the 180
minutes per week Unit of
Study requirement
Extended time for
Prekindergarten and
Kindergarten screening to
be completed
Flexibility in the delivery of
Physical Education
When appropriate, schools may utilize
remote or virtual work-based learning
experiences for CTE and CDOS programs
Waiver allowing districts to
convert UPK seats from full-
day to half-day
Allowance for a blend of
hands-on and virtual
science laboratory
experiences
19. 19
Technology and Connectivity
Sufficient access to a computing device and high-speed broadband is essential for
educational equity.
Districts and Schools must:
Have knowledge of the
level of access all
students and teachers
have in their places of
residence.
To the extent
practicable, address the
need to provide devices
and internet access to
students and teachers
who currently do not
have sufficient access.
Provide multiple ways
for students to
participate in learning
and demonstrate
mastery of learning
standards in
remote/blended models.
20. 20
Technology and Connectivity
Districts and schools should provide:
Instruction on using technology and IT support for
students, teachers, and families.
Professional Development for teachers and leaders on
designing effective online/remote learning experiences
and best practices for instruction in online/remote
settings.
21. 21
Special Education: Mandatory Requirements
Provision of a
Free
Appropriate
Public
Education
consistent with
the need to
protect the
health and
safety of
students with
disabilities and
those providing
special
education and
services
Meaningful
parent
engagement in
the parent’s
preferred
language or
mode of
communication
regarding the
provision of
services to their
child
Collaboration
between the
CSE/CPSE and
program
providers
representing the
variety of
settings where
students are
served
Access to the
necessary
instructional and
technological
supports to
meet the unique
needs of
students
Documentation
of programs and
services and
communications
with parents
22. 22
Special Education: Recommended Elements
Consider in-person services a priority for high-
needs students and preschool students with
disabilities whenever possible; and
Consider contingency plans developed by the
CSE/CPSE to address remote learning needs in
the event of intermittent or extended school
closures.
23. 23
Bilingual Education and World Languages: Mandatory Requirements
Communications and translations to parents/guardians must be in their
preferred language and mode of communication.
Instructional Units of Study must be provided to all English Language
Learners (ELLs) based on their most recently measured English
Language Proficiency, including Former ELLs.
Update to the Identification timeline, including proposed regulatory
change for newly enrolled students during COVID-19 closures as well as
newly enrolled students within the first 20 school days of 2020-21 re-
opening.
Professional learning opportunities for all teachers need to cover topics
that support best practices and an equitable instruction for ELLs and help
address the learning gaps caused by COVID-19 school closures.
24. 24
Bilingual Education and World Languages:
Considerations and Best Practices
Align policy to the
Blueprint
for ELL/MLL
Success
Ensure
coordination
content and
ENL/BE teachers
Adopt progress
monitoring tools
to measure ELL
proficiency
Provide SEL
supports to ELLs,
in home
language
Continue utilizing
technology in ELL
instruction
Support for SIFE
and other
vulnerable
populations
Ensure EMLL
Profile supports
early learning
Support
completion of
NYS Seal of
Biliteracy
25. 25
Staffing and Human Resources
Among school-based factors, teaching and school leadership are the two greatest influences on
student learning. As LEAs create their plans for the 2020-2021 school year, they:
Must ensure that all teachers, school and district leaders, and pupil personnel
service professionals hold a valid and appropriate certificate for their assignment.
Can continue to utilize incidental teaching when determining how to staff their
classrooms.
Can also employ substitute teachers to address staffing needs for the allowable
amount of days, given their qualifications and teaching assignment.
Should work with educator preparation programs to identify appropriate ways in
which student teachers can support classroom instruction.
Should consider whether their currently approved APPR plans may need to be
revised in order to be consistent with their plans for re-opening under an in-person,
remote, or hybrid instructional model.
26. 26
Guidance and Portal Timeline
Wednesday, July 15th Dissemination
• Guidance will be ready for dissemination on Wednesday, July 15, 2020.
Friday, July 17th Portal Opening
• The School Reopening Plan Portal will open on Friday, July 17, 2020.
Friday, July 31st Submission Deadline
• School Reopening Plans must be submitted to the Portal by Friday, July 31, 2020.
27. 27
Submitting Reopening Plans to the Portal
All districts and schools are required to create Reopening Plans at the school level.
Plans should be posted on the LEA's public website.
Plans must contain mandatory elements outlined in NYSED’s School Reopening
Guidance Document.
By July 31, 2020, districts and schools must provide to NYSED
Live, public links to reopening plans for every school under their responsibility.
Assurances that their plan contains all mandatory elements outlined in NYSED's
Reopening Guidance Document.