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August 3, 2020
Dear Parents and Guardians,
The District has established a Reopening of Schools Committee, made up of 25 individuals who are representing students, parents, staff and administration. The Committee has been meeting weekly, and will continue to do so for the rest of the summer, to support the TLSD in its effort to reopen its schools this fall; while remaining in compliance with all governmental rules and regulations. For a list of the Committee’s membership click here, and for a list of FAQs click here. Should you wish to communicate with the Committee, you may email them at reopening@toutlesd.org.
The following is an update of the Committee’s progress:
- The first day of instruction for students will be Wednesday, September 2. The District plans to have face-to-face instruction, a hybrid model, or 100% remote learning for families who are not yet ready to return to the school facilities. If we end up with a hybrid model, alternating A and B Groups, we will need to make certain that both groups have the same number of instructional hours (more information to follow).
- We are getting very close to having our remote/online program (referred to in #1 above) finalized and believe that parents and students who are not ready to return to our school building will be very pleased with this alternative program. Recently, we received OSPI’s approval of our online program, with our Board’s approval to hopefully follow.
- Last week, the District sent out a survey to each family to determine their choice of learning plan (face-to-face or remote). If you have not yet responded, please do so as soon as possible. That will help us immensely as we attempt to finalize our plan.
- The safety and health of all students and staff members is of upmost importance. We are continuing to finalizing our process and procedures in order to adhere to all rules and regulations in place per the Governor’s and/or Health Department’s COVID-19 guidelines.
- We will continue to provide meals to the students who participate in our food program (more information to follow).
Our school board has scheduled a special school board meeting for 7pm on Thursday, August 13th. The agenda will include hearing about our reopening plan, and hopefully include the Board’s approval of it. The meeting will be open to the public via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/99606999215?pwd=WXptWXhRZG1WdDVwQ2NnbCtuU09zZz09
Please continue to check our website for updates often, and in the meantime, stay safe and healthy!
Sincerely,
Bob Garrett, Superintendent
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July 17, 2020
Dear Parents and Guardians,
The District has established a Reopening of Schools Committee, made up of 25 individuals who are representing students, parents, staff and administration. The Committee will be meeting weekly for the rest of the summer, to support the TLSD in its effort to reopen its schools this fall; while remaining in compliance with all governmental rules and regulations. For a list of the Committee’s membership click here, for the OSPI guidelines on reopening schools click here, and for a list of FAQs click here. Should you wish to communicate with the Committee, you may email them at reopening@toutlesd.org.
The following is an update of the Committee’s progress thus far, and the initial reopening plan of TLSD:
- The first day of instruction for students will be Wednesday, September 2. The District plans to have face-to-face instruction, a hybrid model, or 100% remote learning for families who are not yet ready to return to the school facilities.
- In early August, the District plans to contact each family to determine their choice of learning plan (face-to-face or remote). Once we have those numbers, we will be able to determine if the families who prefer face-to-face instruction can be accommodated at school five days a week. If space does not allow for that, a hybrid model that combines face-to-face instruction and remote learning will be implemented. Within this model, students will attend 2-3 days a week in person for face-to-face instruction and participate in remote learning the rest of the week. Students from the same family will attend in person on the same days.
- The safety and health of all students and staff members will be of upmost importance. We will adhere to all rules and regulations in place per the Governor’s and/or Health Department’s orders. That will include, among other things, daily screening of all who enter the District’s facilities (more info to follow); the wearing of masks by everyone while on District transportation and in District facilities (with some exceptions); social distancing within the facilities; and frequent cleaning and sanitizing as per COVID-19 guidelines.
- The District will be providing each student and staff members with four washable cloth masks free of charge. Anyone wishing to purchase and wear their own will be allowed to do so.
- We will continue to provide meals to the students who participate in our food program (more information to follow).
Our plans will be formalized by August 15, and we will continue to keep the public updated as we learn more.
Please continue to check our website for updates often, and in the meantime, stay safe and healthy!
Sincerely,
Bob Garrett
Superintendent