Goals of Returning to School
District and school leaders are faced with a host of questions and decisions to make before schools reopen. The goal of this guidance is to offer clear and straightforward decision-making points of considerations for all districts to consider. The fall will be a time for focusing on a few critical things:
- Keeping students and staff physically safe;
- Caring for the social-emotional and mental health needs of students and staff;
- Keeping learning coherent by creating a scope of standards with aligned systems of assessments, bound in units of instructions -- whether learning is in-person, virtual, or physically-distanced;
- Meeting the needs of every student by considering the unique experiences of students and by considering students' families as active partners in learning; and
- Designing flexibility into school scheduled, built-environments, protocols, and norms for being together in-person, physically-distanced, and through virtual learning.
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