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Town Hall Meeting - Phase 3, Robstown ISD transition plan

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are trustees and myself. I like to thank everyone for taking time this evening to be part of this interactive session and during this a virtual Town Hall 9 purpose of this town hall this evening be able to provide you the plan for phase 3 of opening schools or reopening or schools in order to and also to be able to answer your question so in order for this to be interacting what I'm requesting is that you type in any person to see her and that will more than anything to give us an idea as far as what you our community is wanting to know about transitioning to transition back into school as well to be able to answer the questions that we can now if there is not a question I can answer this evening I can assure you the presentation will be posted on our main webpage and if you haven't had a chance to do this already please check out our new one we hope that that you would like that admit it becomes user-friendly for you to deal with a look at that specific session or we will have a presentation and like I said as well as I do the presentation so we're going to go ahead and get started and remember as a virtual town hall is not just for me to stand here and talk and is there with you I want to make sure that we're serving you Austin ISD Community together we're going to get through this together do you want to serve our children and our school community when you started with a presentation so we begin with R blueprints for reopening schools and now we're going to be discussing phase 3 so this is Todd call Bath Community please make sure that you know this in your calendar so all students will remote will report return to remote learning from January 6th Ruby a message to the president please Marcus in your calendar so school will return school will begin on January 6th but we like to do is go ahead and continue additional 3 days of remote Russian that way we get in our school on our for Desert a time to transition because we know that during the holidays and I will have families together and especially also during the January 1st New York so we want to give some time to be able to to transition safely and for our school and so in person instruction will start on January 11th of 2021 alright so we're different priorities is number one to provide all of our students a quality education do body instruction as well as stop safety now these are two areas we take very very seriously community and about our academic options that we have but as well as a base 3 summer program social programs number one is that we offer remote instruction we had an opportunity to be able to implement remote instruction throughout this first semester and 1/4 of all of you know also we do have the option of in-person inspection where our students to attend our school face-to-face with our amazing teacher now again our schools are completely open at this time so in any student any family but chooses in person construction we definitely don't welcome them with open now on remote instruction assuming that thing but I want to make sure that we stress is if your child is learning from home now we know that at the high school we have computers are not very tall are we just recently with the support of our Board of Trustees and everyone working together we just received our our big shipment so now we can considers ourselves a 101 School District start a return back to school or we will have a device available for every town to not only be able to do to work and impertinent Russian but also remotely at times as long as you have a Wi-Fi service in your home now we do have a limited amount of hot spots and we've been able to share with our student but those are limited so parents we hope that that we as we work together we find ways and Dad really know and help you navigate on ways to be able to get some Wi-Fi at don't forget though we do have Wi-Fi capability outside of every single School building that we have I just so you know that that is available to everyone in our community students are required to participate in remote learning through Friday so we understand that at our intermediate and the rest of our elementary schools we don't have enough devices in every child's hand just yet but we do have it are instructional and we do know that remember and will we have to find at a school district is he be evidence that every child is learning every day so you'll definitely continue to upload any type of document for assignments that are peaches are requesting as well as prove that you have participated in that particular day Monday through Friday can't wait until the end of way to turn in a packet in order for our children to be counted present in our tendon everyday we hit you have to upload some type of Warrant whatever our teaching her requesting to show evidence of learning for that day State requirement live instruction as well as pairs of self-paced Independent Learning so during remote instruction there's going to be a hybrid of both again from life is nothing coming from our teacher what's a remote and self-paced learning as well as learning programs are required to attend online classes and are facing up in the morning one more time this is Bailey a current Monday through Friday and there has to be evidence every Monday to turn into our teachers in order to be able to under Texas Education Code 25.092 students are required to attend 90% of the classes to receive credit has to be promoted where is this is this is something that that I want to stress because this is where we need your help this evening is that we have definitely a good amount of our students are participating everyday and showing the evidence but I need to stress that he even if you're working through remote instruction that our students still must follow become compulsory attendance law requires 9% of the class has to be for them to be present at Weatherby remote or whether be a course in person that is a state requirement now let's talk a little bit about dinner Construction in-person instruction is available to all students Monday through Friday again we ask for your commitment to continue to send your children our student store are full where we know that they learn the best in front of our amazing teacher all the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills are what we call the teks standards are taught and its entirety but one thing. We sure you is that last your texts are required at every campus and we also have face shield that are available for every student or every teacher gets if needed so we do have these available for every student and every staff member in our school district students participating in the person is thrush and experienced a blend of face-to-face instruction from their teacher as well as your life devices to access lesson so now that we have all of our computers and students as they come back in person to our classroom or students will get to experience a true 21st century type of instructional program will there be interactive not only online as well as Facebook page receiving direct instruction now let's talk about phase 3 and I want to make sure I'm clear on this we're going to can remote instruction for students at risk of not graduating or green promotion so let's talk about the little bit and clarify now this is only for students that the right now aren't being a successful working from home remotely so what you should expect as we start to transition back to any person construction or students need a little more support visually from our teachers and class you will be receiving a letter from your campus principal again stating that if your child falling behind in a certain area and more pork at the very end for seniors right now are seniors who are at risk of not graduating by the end of the school year so we're here to help with your lesson make sure everything with child is successful the criteria that that goes back to the end of remote instruction for students that at this point are falling number one have a class average of 65 or below in one or more subjects so that'll be the first year that has been looked at if you receive this letter the second thing is student has three or more unexcused absences six will you look at that if your child has an unexcused absence you can only have up to about 8 unexcused absences at Berkeley master and eight or nine is second semester and then at that point they do not meet the 90% compulsory attendance law now that's not just here in Robstown ISD every school district across the state of Texas and here we believe in partner with you and here we believe in working with you so work with his hand in hand it will do whatever we need to do to make sure that your child is simple but again if your child has categories or requested for them to come back once we start the next semester in January parents now you do have an option you do have an option to Steel in one of two ways number one by submitting a medical exemption but this is something that has to be reviewed and a substitute certification from your medical doctor if a child if your child or if someone in your household is at high risk especially right now because we're leaving in navigating through this pandemic so that is one option that you continue to work with you in that manner the second thing is requesting a transition meeting so our principles are here to serve you able to look at them here out every single special circumstances there may be but ultimately in an educate the public have a responsibility to ensure that every single child is successful do parents know that if you receive this letter for request for child to come back to you in person and when I'm right now either they're at risk of graduating from high school or the risk of not being promoted to the next grade level but also if there's a three or more unexcused absences per 6 week together we can look at these two areas if you choose to it will be there for your parents at the same time we need to make sure that our kids continue to move forward and work and work successfully so we're looking for your support system were required to file state requirement as a first name let's talk about some of the students and staff the safety protocols that we've established North school safety is everyone's responsibility that begins from a home and once you children with us here in our school system and social in order to maintain healthy and safe learning environment in Robstown ISD we're implementing proactive help Safeguard the  and the safety of our students and public health guideline campus contact our daily operations as well as we working as one system to be able to navigate and even warmed up with a director of health services in order to make wise decisions decisions Azteca North Pole is a weave install hand sanitizer dispensers stations throughout the campuses and all of our students that we sanitize sanitize out in order to continue to read weave install hand sanitizer dispensers on all of our buses so if you haven't had a chance to 24 students that just pretended papen remote this whole time know that if they are providing transportation services will sanitize in do sanitizer as well as get your temperature where you guys at a design isolation room and isolation protocols for systematic students and staff so that means every single as one isolation room just in case we have a child or staff member who may be exhibiting certain symptom or they test positive and that helps to keep the rest of our population say we've installed covid-19 related signage and decals across our school district so that's the beauty of our school district as a transition from different areas but also then we'll work in Houston we can stop plexiglass fence. Shields and targeted areas we've also even passed out Shield such as these call embarrassed Placid lacrosse our school district Facility Cleaning the Russian Ice Age using the DEA Public Health Plan and guidelines and operation operational consideration so basically parents are Community know that we're following protocol not only that we've developed here but that's another District Arthur Lee cleaning and disinfection on a daily basis and different items sprayers that we use daily to clean and I use areas in order to again keep our students and our staff healthy call me Pat surfaces such as door knobs and rails are disinfected frequently throughout the day by Iron Maiden Castilian who has been so dedicated and committed to be able to serve all of our students we routinely Paul I miss classroom and sensibilities with disinfectant and this is a day-to-day occurrence parents in that house again to be able to continue providing education to all of us we have sanitation Navarre every 3 months we have a solution that we put into Hall of our HVAC system in order to ensure that we have safe are then we take in Social distance and practices is key to reproduce devices likelihood of spreading and to minimize the risk of exposure protocols will be implemented to the following campus visitors we will continue the same protocol this next semester this will be limited Personnel all need to come in for a campuses before school, screening temperature today in our school district we believe that we have to monitor our students and are stopped by not only at home temperature to pass and that's one of our together before anyone enters our building we all make sure that our our students back and students go through a screening as far as the temperature check after school with sensitivity flag of all the times to exit or building synonym before we go and arrival and dismissal times entry and exit procedure have officer teaching planned out and are amazing principles have you ever find I'm better drop his first semester 2021 we're going to be even stronger and moving forward the musical Arrangements in our classroom physical Arrangements in her office has everything has been equally set up to where we can try to maintain 69 line classroom 7 declutter and student desk facing One Direction in again what that helps is to continue to maintain the safety in our classroom setting call Wayne D we continue to encourage our our students to invest to practice on a daily basis to walk in a single-file line that way again we don't have different transmission restroom again we have separate separate but again soon as are required to wear a mask all day even when they're supposed to rest and making sure that they wear masks playground again we're very thoughtful about that far as looking at limited equipment to use and also looking at the number of Our Guest request breakfast let's start this again we have some variations at the different campus or different needs at every campus so we have a mixture of classroom as well as cafeteria abusive this is the expectation is for screening for all of our our staff including prior to reporting to work each day directions to take in order to ensure that they come to work and and not feeling well they need to stay home and we all know that because we want to make sure the right move forward that must report to Ross and Ice-T and they didn't sell any covid-19 system or our last firmware covid-19 so by us following this protocol parents and Guardians Bowser state additionally teachers and staff must report to Robstown ISD if they have contact with an individual who is lab confirm this allows again for us to. We have all the information is coming to in order to make a decision that we need a night now I'm just doing parkour we're asking for your parents is to not think your school and I think your child to school if they're showing a symptom that made 19 or if they're just not feeling well will work with your parents but were asking is to please do not send your children to school if they're not feeling well Gila monster students to refer them to the nurse if symptoms are suspected to be present now I'd like to open up with that three people we asked questions and then she progressed to the presentation I'll remember I'll be answering some of your questions and if there's something I can't answer tonight know that we will discuss Washington October tab on a webpage so this is the biggest biggest in our school district is what determines when a school return to remote instructions like right now for today we made a decision as a school district thinking about the safety of our students and go back as a school district to remote instruction this is the first time we taking this type of Johnson said no that have been well thought out and know that we're putting the sake of our students and our staff and play one of the reasons that we made that decision is because when we talked identify multiple A+ cases on Berry we start to find a pattern then we know that there may be the possibility that there has been some type of community spread for something that may have allowed for multiple student or staff member who has come positive now one of the things that we know during the holidays it gets very difficult and I'm going to give you some recommendations today but think about again we're always going to put the safety of our students and what determines when a school return to remote instruction so whenever we have to make that level of decision whether to campus or whether we have to quarantine a class we do that it was called Contact tracing connecting the. We start from Resorts about which against the person who is positive we have a series of questions that we have their formula to question their very specific question that helps to really get us in tub who has a child who has the staff member been in contact with for more than 15 minutes or less than succeed because our phone calls we required where I'm at so through contact tracing that helps to determine quarantine a person with a class or do we have to quarantine a school always only putting our students in a fast-paced T-Bird because I know throughout the semester we've had various levels of quarantine daughter but at different times you've also noticed that one campus may have to go back to remote in another campus is not know that there is a process that we follow to the term contact pricing so it's not always going to be the same another question that we've been asked if my child has passed and it has good attendant will he or she be expected to return to enforce construction if your child is right now you're in Construction and your child is doing well academically and for participating daily your child will not be required to return back to in-person instruction 22 phase 3 Ameriplan is many to ensure that all students that and I'll take the seed and those are the children that were requesting to come back to school once we return on January 6th remember January 6th 7th and 8th we will still operate remotely as we are on we did today as a school district starting January 11th is when we will start to have our in-person coming back as well as those students who have record we requested come back to school what options do I have if I choose not to send my top back to school so the state of Texas has given us two different options instead of the public school system we must offer and follow let's talk about that a little bit call Dave and there's two different areas in price. I know that we just got a student has a class average of 65 and below one more subject to Austinville that you will have an apparent number one by submitting a medical exemption remember that medical exemption level certification that comes from your doctor medical doctor with a child's medical doctor so if we have one way that I can serve as an option but the other option is requesting a transition meeting principal if there's a special condition or case and we have to make to take note of that will also help us in helping you to make a final decision on the same person now these are some safety reminders for the holidays and again these are recommendations that only on DDC but from DNA and an across-the-board we understand that a little bit more challenging we know that going to want to be with family and friends but these are still recommendations and guidelines that then we definitely want you to think about during this this celebratory time of your own household so basically that's who ever lived in your own house think about that opportunity during quarantine for 10 days after returning from travel out of the country so this is something parents and Guardians in a community as a whole if you're planning on traveling the country it's always a recommendation to make sure you quarantine yourself for at least 10 days keep your hands away from your face stay home and away from others if you're sick right now a runny nose that's considered a symptom don't take it lightly I've heard time and time again throughout the semester I was just allergies right now a runny nose remember is one of the symptoms that could be in the you may be positive so make sure that if you have a runny nose don't take a chance make sure you go see your physician and again you don't wear a mask when I'm outside of your household always wearing outside that's one of our best defenses is to where I'm at and monitor for signs and symptoms of pelvic and a report your position if you have any symptom now on our website we do have a covid-19 which provides all the letters that we sent out to provide information we also are going to be loading this particular brochure to our website and will also make is Jennifer Mason on covet some best practices how to make some decisions based on Colvin and specially if you're at home so we'll make sure to make sure the post is a brochure on a website as well in case you need to review anything German holidays we also have recommendations and strategies to avoid any type of contamination we also Define what isolation mean and what quarantine mean for you so this brochure will be available to all of you review before we end this presentation and then I answer some of your questions remember this is hot off the presses so make sure you tell your neighbors tell your friend and if we have any more make sure that you tell your friends as well all students will return to remote learning on January 6th through the 8th for that Wednesday Thursday Friday will the remote MLB game in person instruction on January 11th of 2021 what I like to do now is on all start reviewing the chat box and try to answer as many questions as I can but again if I don't answer I know that we will start to put some responses to somebody's question on our length of our website question all right parents Guardians and I are again our school community and in all of our staff administrators or has everyone who know again that were here know that every decision is well thought out and know that we're always been put the safety of our students in our staff personal decision making and myself I want to thank you for taking and spend some time with us this evening and I look forward to 2021 coming in and again I enjoy your families make sure to keep you safe and sound I wish all of you a Merry Christmas or holiday and enjoy your and we'll see you in 21

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