Administrators, teachers and board members of the school district, like others across North Dakota, are trying to figure out how to navigate through the 2020-2021 school year in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Devils Lake School District board voted Tuesday, July 21, to delay the start of the school year to Sept. 2, said Matt Bakke, Devils Lake Public Schools superintendent. The delay was made to give teachers and school staff more time to prepare a plan for the upcoming year.
Gov. Doug Burgum announced Tuesday, July 14, that individual school districts can decide how to execute education for their students this school year.
“When the government came out with the announcement, there were a lot of ‘what ifs’ and ‘How is this going to look?’” Bakke said,
At a meeting in Fargo last week, Bakke and other superintendents from around the state talked about what education options their schools can offer students, Bakke said. They also discussed questions that will need to be answered in the next month before the school year begins, so students will be provided with the best learning opportunities and support from the school staff they can, under the circumstances.
Options for student learning include in-school education, distance education or a combination of the two, Bakke said.
Which options the schools choose will be different based on their enrollment and other factors, he said. For example, Manvel Public Schools, where Bakke was superintendent last school year, has an enrollment of 191 students, compared with an enrollment of 1,700 in Devils Lake, where he started working about three weeks ago, he noted.
“The challenge for each and every school district is unique,” Bakke said. School districts need to determine how to provide education in their own ways, at the same time reaching out to other districts to see what they’re doing and collaborating with them, where it’s possible.
Last spring, when Gov. Doug Burgum issued a closure order for schools in mid-March in an effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus, there was no choice but to hold online classes.
“It was an emergency-type situation, and the best option we could do for students and families, knowing that it wasn’t ideal,” Bakke said.
One of the things that staff at Devils Lake and other schools will discuss as they formulate a plan for the school year is what worked and what didn’t during the two and a half months of online learning last spring.
“That will be a key component: How do we provide a better education for our students?” Bakke said.
For example, if schools have classes online, they need to figure how they will ensure that students have good conductivity, he said. Last spring, many technology companies provided support to schools, but it’s unknown if that will be the case this year, he said.
Another uncertainty is how Devils Lake Public Schools will provide lunches for students if they are learning online instead of in the classroom, Bakke said, noting that for some families, buying food strains their budgets.
This week, Devils Lake administrators will meet with the school board and Ramsey County Public Health representatives to begin to devise a plan for the upcoming school year, Bakke said.
“It’s coming around before we know it,” he said.
Though there are many unanswered questions about how education will be delivered, it’s certain that it will be, in some way.
“School will start. It’s a matter of how will it start and what will it look like,” Bakke said
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