We are previewing with families some of the guidelines students who are attending in-person can expect on a typical school day, and we wanted to share these with staff as well. While you can find all of this information in the Safe Schools Field Guide, this post pulls out high level items including what a day will look like on our campuses including social distancing, sanitizing, transitions and meal times. 

Distancing within Buildings and Classrooms

• In Class: Classrooms will be situated to maximize the space between desks with a minimum allowable distance of 3 feet. Students must remain in their assigned seats to ensure we can effectively contact trace should there be a positive case.
• Out of Class: During transitions, students and staff will maximize distancing, maintaining a 6 foot distance whenever possible. This includes classroom transitions, PE and any other time students aren’t at their desks.

Bathrooms and Drinking Water

• Bathrooms:  To minimize contact between students, your school will have a system in place to restrict the number of students either filling up bottles or going to the restroom at any given time. Students and staff will need to sanitize and/or wash their hands thoroughly after using the restroom.
• Water bottles: It turns out that for now, drinking fountains are a thing of the past. With that, it’s critical that staff and students bring a water bottle with them to school to fill up at one of their school’s handy water bottle filling stations.

Sanitizing

• Nightly Deep Clean: Clean is the name of the game. We have worked with our district partners (DPS and APS), who own and clean our buildings, to ensure that all relevant surfaces and spaces will be sanitized nightly.
• Sanitizing During The Day: Staff will also have surface disinfectant on hand and will be cleaning surfaces between classes to further minimize the potential for the spread of germs. Hand sanitizer will be on hand for students and staff to use throughout the day. 

Meals and Breaks

• Masks and Distancing During Meals: It’s hard to eat through a mask - so this will be the one moment in the day when students can remove them. We’re ensuring that space between students will be maximized by using common spaces like cafeterias, commons, gyms and outdoors for meals. Students will also have assigned seats at lunch time so that we can effectively contact trace. This will ensure that, at a minimum, students will be 6 feet away from one another. Staff monitoring meals will have their masks on and be safely distanced from everyone. Students should bring warm clothing for comfortable meals and breaks outside. 
• Free and Reduced Price Lunch: Students who receive free and reduced price meals will continue to receive those services and will get specific instructions from their school on how to pick up their meals.
• Breaks: Weather, time and safety dependent, there may be time for student breaks outdoors. Students will need to maintain 6 foot distancing and wear masks.