Prevention and Safety

 (all settings)

• Adults will be required to use face masks throughout the school day. Students are required to wear their masks as well
•  Classroom objects, student desks, student resources, door handles, etc will be wiped clean between transitions. Students and staff share this responsibility.
• Install hand sanitizer dispensers throughout the building in areas with a high rate of transition. Train students to use the dispensers responsibly.
• Students and staff are allowed to bring hand sanitizer and face masks/coverings to use from home
• Instruction will be provided on proper use of hand sanitizer and face masks.
• Masks must be worn by all adult parties when participating in meetings that require face-to-face appointments

• A committee to address vulnerable populations and isolation of the sick has been formed. This committee will develop a plan to be executed in the event students or staff classify in one of the categories.
• Measures for staff and students with underlying conditions will be consistent with district measures taken to address needs.
• Measures for staff and students that require isolation will be consistent with district measures taken to address needs.
• School facilities will not be available for use outside of scheduled school-based events. Outside parties will not be allowed to use facilities for events at this time.
• Professional learning will be restricted to job-embedded learning which can be conducted virtually whenever possible.
• Face-to-face training will be limited based on size of space, and number of people who will be able to participate while social distancing.

Parent/Visitor Information

• Visitation will be restricted to visitors/community members who provide essential services. Signage will be prominently displayed to provide direction for visitors to the building
• Visitors will be cordially reminded that face masks are required to be worn for admission into the building and while they are in the building.
• Periodic random screenings of visitors will be conducted. Those whose temperature indicates a fever will not be admitted.
• Virtual meetings and services will be utilized in place of face-to-face meetings as a means of reducing contact.
• Parents will not be allowed to access the building to walk their students to class
• Parents/visitors who have business with the school will be served through the transaction window located in the front lobby.

• Entrance to the school for conferences/meetings will be by appointment onlyMeetings/conferences will be held in the classrooms. Classrooms will be disinfected before and after the meeting.

Buses

• No traditional field trips are permitted.
• Teachers are encouraged to arrange virtual field trips for their students whenever applicable. Venues selected for virtual field trips must adhere to county guidelines regarding appropriateness and application to the standards.
• Students will be seated on buses according to guidelines published by the DPH.
• Teachers will provide PBIS-based instruction on proper bus riding behavior and procedures and on proper bus stop behavior and procedures

Meals/Cafeteria

• Breakfast will be provided as students pass through the cafeteria and at the car rider drop-off area. Students will receive bagged breakfast to go and report to homeroom class.
• Classes will be scheduled for hot and cold lunch days. Cold lunch days will be delivered to classrooms by cafeteria staff.
• On hot lunch days students will report to the cafeteria to pick-up their lunch based on the lunch schedule. All students report back to their classrooms to eat lunch and dispose of trash using trash bags provided in each classroom. Trash bags will be placed into a larger rolling trash can located on the hallway.
• Students will follow a set pattern for traveling to and from the cafeteria.
• Paraprofessionals will be assigned to provide a 10-minute
• A paraprofessional will be on duty in the cafeteria to encourage students to move through the lines seamlessly and quickly. The schedule for this assignment will rotate. break to teachers during lunch so that teachers may take a bathroom break.

Learning

• Auxiliary/Resource teachers will be utilized to provide small group assistance to students at the beginning of the year. Assignments will be based on data that indicates student need.
• In order to maximize space, teachers are encouraged to declutter their classrooms to allow ease of social distancing. Personal items which are not being used are to be taken home. School property which is not being used will be stored as space allows.
• In order to maximize space, teachers are encouraged to declutter their classrooms to allow ease of social distancing.
• Small group areas and teaching on the carpet will be modified so that students face one direction and are distanced as much as possible from each other.
• A concerted effort to practice social distancing must be evident in the teacher’s classroom.
• Restricted areas will be marked with tape to show students where they are to be seated in relation to their peers.
• Travel routes in the classroom will be organized, timed to stagger movement, and clear for students and staff who visit the room.
• Grades 3-5 academic teachers will rotate to their students and teach their assigned contents. Students will remain in their homeroom class during lunch, recess, and activity block.
• Routes to activity block classes will utilize outside paths whenever possible to avoid cross-group movement.
• Class equipment, desks, computers, chairs, etc. which are used during the activity block will be sanitized at the end of each class session in preparation for the next class to arrive.
• Movement to the activity block will be restricted during extreme weather conditions. Art and Music will rotate to the class to provide instruction. If under a Warning all Specials will be in the building.
• Teachers will plan activities for partner or group work using student technology on a regular basis (one to two times per week). Google classroom will be the medium for instruction using technology.
• Grades 3-5 teachers will rotate to their students. Students will remain in their homeroom classes for instruction.
• Bathroom breaks are limited to only one class in the pod area at a time. We will make a bathroom schedule for all classes.
• Observe social distancing while on the playground.
• Students who choose to play with each other face-to-face must maintain social distance and wear face masks.
• Playground equipment use is off limits to all students and/or groups.  
• Brain Breaks can be in the classroom. If they go outside it must be a supervised activity where social distancing is observed and classes do not mix.

Specials

• Activity Block Classes will be conducted as usual with teachers planning a 35-minute lesson and allowing the last 10 minutes to disinfect the classroom  and equipment before the next group of students arrives.
•  Alternate routes to avoid congestion will be utilized as much as possible as students transition to and from activity block classes.
• During extreme weather, Art and Music teachers will travel to the classroom and serve students in their homerooms. During a warning all specials classrooms will take place in the building.
• All activity block classes are subject to the same guidelines as the academic classes regarding safety precautions for students.

Arrival

• Supervision will be provided for students beginning 7:15am.
• Buses arrive at Glyndale and one at a time students walk with social distancing into the cafeteria.
• Upon entry in the cafeteria ( K-2) and ( 3-5 ) split into two groups and head toward the stage going down separate aisles ( on the map 3-5 is green  and K-2 is purple. )
• Carts are placed at the end of table 3 and 9.
• 3-5 students take breakfast and walk out the doors to the main hallway.
• K students come through the line and then sit at tables 13, 14, 15, and 16 with a set between them and all on the same side of the table.  K students will be escorted by staff to their classroom.
• Students in 1-2 ( will exit through the door closest to the stage and will walk to their classrooms.
• Walkers will enter the side door of the building and will come in the door on their right ( closest to the wall)  they will travel in a line walking toward the nurse. At that time they get in the correct line (k-2) or ( 3-5).
• Tables 1,7. 13  , 6, 12, 18 will be pushed up to make more room for social distancing.
• PreK arrival and dismissal will be conducted using the rear door of the Kindergarten building. Teachers or paras will greet parents and receive students only into the building.

Dismissal

• Kindergarten Paras will walk the K students to the buses and then will proceed to their assigned duty.
• Buses will be called one at a time and they will be called in groups ( K, 1. 4) and ( 2, 3 and 5) .
• GAP, Boys and Girls Club, Eagles Point Walkers , Clubs and Car Riders will be called to dismiss in this order. They will go to their designated areas and wait for individual students or groups  to be called .
• Car riders in grades K, 5, 1, and 2  will be spread out under the awning using social distancing. To lower the numbers of students in this location the following grade levels will stay in their classroom listening for student names to be called: 3 and 4
• Walkie talkies and an app for the phone will be used.
• Designated  parking spaces  will be reserved for parents who are waiting.
• PreK arrival and dismissal will be conducted using the rear door of the Kindergarten building. Teachers or paras will greet parents and deliver students to them.

Media Center

• The media center para pro professional will come to classrooms with a mobile library.
• Students will be offered the opportunity to check out books weekly.
• Returned books will be isolated for a week before being returned to circulation.
• Book bins will be up in the building so that students can drop off books.

Boost

• Classrooms will conduct Morning Meetings 7:50-8:00
• Live Morning announcements with  the administration focusing on SEL content.
• Closing  Meetings at the end of the day with students.
• Time-Space-Movement for teachers and students
• SEL During Specials
• Creekmore does an SEL lessons on Google Meets for Virtual Learners
• GAP program  will have a SEL Lesson once a week
• Express yourself ( Exercise, crafts, painting, line dancing)  With an SEL focus as a mini lesson.