School will look very different in the fall for Chicago Public Schools. The district’s framework, released today, copes with the COVID-19 pandemic by including a hybrid model of virtual and in-person learning, and for students to be grouped into roughly 15-member pods that will stick together throughout the term and limit interaction with other students. Parents can also choose to keep their children entirely at home for online learning.
The framework is not yet final. CPS is gathering feedback from parents, teachers and students via meetings and a survey through the end of July, with final plans to be released in August. The first day of school is scheduled for Sept. 8. A final announcement on in-person learning will have to wait until late August, depending on COVID numbers at the time. You can read the full plan document below.
Half of CPS’ student population will attend school in-person on any given day, the district says. High school juniors and seniors “will learn from home full time,” unless they need additional academic or social and emotional supporter participate in specialty programming, CPS says. Pre-K students will go to school every day.
“As the leader of this district and as the parent of two CPS students, I know this has been a challenging time for families,” CPS CEO Janice Jackson said in a statement. “We aimed to create a draft framework that is flexible and capable of delivering high-quality instruction whether students are learning from home or at school. We look forward to gathering feedback from parents and staff so that we can finalize a plan that meets the needs of our school community.”
CPS plans to start the year “with a hybrid in-person and at-home learning model that can transition to fully remote or fully in-person as public health dictates,” a statement says. “Student pods will receive instruction in assigned rooms with assigned seating and use the same designated spaces in a building, such as bathrooms. Students within a pod will also wear masks and maintain social distancing to the greatest extent possible throughout the school day, with desks spaced six feet apart where feasible.”
“Through a hybrid 2-1-2 scheduling model, each student pod will spend the same two consecutive days each week learning at school, the same two days learning independently at home and each Wednesday they will participate in real-time virtual instruction” for three hours with their classroom teacher and combined pods, CPS says. Every parent will have the option to opt out of in-person learning.
Students will go straight to their classrooms, sit in assigned spaces, eat meals in their room and stay with their pod for the full school day. Teachers may rotate across pods.
Why pods? They allow for “rapid contact tracing” and the ability to quarantine only that pod, instead of the entire school, CPS said.
"Pre-K students will go to school every day while high school juniors and seniors will learn at home for the entire school year due to the complexity of their schedules and the inability to maintain small, stable pods when schedules differ to such a great degree," according to the plan.
For those entering the building, hand sanitizer will be available in all classrooms and throughout buildings and the district is hiring 400 extra custodians “to execute stringent cleaning and disinfection protocols.”
The district has bought 1.2 million cloth face masks and 40,000 containers of disinfectant wipes, installed 42,000 hand sanitizer dispensers, and has 22,000 touch-less infrared thermometers to screen students on the way in.
CPS did not provide an estimate on how much its reopening plan will cost.
Based on guidance from the state, at-home learning will include a minimum five hours of instruction or assigned work per day. Attendance will be tracked. Assignments “could include pre-recorded lessons, independent work to build skills and accessing digital curriculum resources. Students will access assignments through Google Classroom.”
In-person instruction will be available for special-education programs, “given the unique needs of students . . . the small size of the programs and the existing layout of spaces,” CPS says. “If schools have the space and staffing available to allow students back daily, diverse learners and English learners will be prioritized.”
Citing rising case numbers in Chicago and Illinois and uncertainty over the district's framework, the Chicago Teachers Union earlier this week called for all-remote learning to begin the year. See the latest COVID figures for the city and state in the charts below.
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