{"id":3619,"date":"2020-10-13T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/grizzell\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2020-10-13T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:50:42","slug":"press-release-12-dearborn-board-of-education-extends-online-learning-into-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/grizzell\/2020\/10\/13\/press-release-12-dearborn-board-of-education-extends-online-learning-into-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release #12-Dearborn Board of Education extends online learning into November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Dearborn Public Schools Board of Education voted Monday night (Oct. 12) to extend online learning into November, but set another meeting for Oct 26 to reevaluate conditions.The approved motion also called for continuing and expanding in-school learning labs where, under current conditions, up to three students at a time come in and meet with teachers.\u00a0 If local COVID conditions stay favorable, those groups will expand up to six students. Learning labs for some special education students started last month and then expanded to every school last week.Trustees voted 6-1 in favor of the measure.\u00a0 Only Trustee Jim Thorpe dissented, expressing that the district was ready to slowly start bringing students back.\u00a0 Since the September meeting, the average COVID test positivity rate for outer Wayne County has fallen below 5 percent and the average daily cases in Dearborn have declined significantly.\u00a0District administration had recommended starting to bring elementary students back in a split model where half of students would be at school at one time.\u00a0 Three options were presented for student attendance including every other day, half days every day, or a shortened day every other day. In each case, students not at school would have done asynchronous work at home. More information about each option is available in the\u00a0presentation to the board<\/a>.The plan included options for starting with preschool through third grade or preschool through fifth grade.\u00a0 Siblings at the same school would attend at the same time.In all three options, elementary students would have stayed mostly in their classrooms with any special teachers like art or music coming to them.\u00a0 Desks and other touch points would have needed to be sanitized every four hours, or between groups of students.Maysam Alie-Bazzi, Executive Director of Staff and Student Services and a co-chair of the district\u2019s reopen committee, made the presentation.\u00a0 She also touched on options for starting to return middle and high school students, although probably not until after elementary schools restarted.\u00a0 Secondary students are more difficult to bring back because of the number of students in the buildings and the need to have them switch classes.\u00a0 Each class change will mean students mixing in the hall and the state requirement to wipe every desk.\u00a0 Options for middle and high school include \u201cZoom in the room\u201d where teachers would simultaneously teach students in the classroom and online.Monday\u2019s meeting stretched more than five hours, past midnight, as trustees discussed the plans and heard more than 50 public comments submitted online and by residents at the meeting.Information presented also stressed that students and staff would be expected to wear face masks while at school.\u00a0 Bazzi also told trustees that the district would need two or three weeks to finalize and launch any blended learning model the board adopts.\u00a0 The time would be used to group students, figure out busing, finalize cleaning routines, create teacher schedules, adjust the school meal programs, communicate the changes to parents, and more.Parents who were not comfortable returning their child to school could ask to have their child moved to the Virtual Learning Program by calling their child\u2019s school and asking to be put on the waiting list.\u00a0 The program will teach students online all year, but elementary students would be required to switch teachers.Bazzi also noted that entire schools would not close for one or two cases of COVID in the building.\u00a0 Referencing the district\u2019s\u00a0COVID flyer<\/a>, she said the district would start by requiring close contacts to quarantine, which might mean whole classrooms temporarily return to online learning.\u00a0 Entire schools would only close if that was the recommendation of the Wayne County Health Department.Administration had targeted restarting with the youngest students because they struggle the most with online learning. It also is easier in elementary school to follow safety protocols like better social distancing and not allowing different groups of students mix.\u201cWe know online learning is the most difficult for our youngest students and their parents,\u201d said Superintendent Glenn Maleyko.\u00a0 \u201cWe continue to work towards the day we can start to bring our students slowly and safely back to school.\u201d by Katie Hetrick on October 13, 2020<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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