Summit Middle School
Health/Safety Criteria Plan For In Person Learning
Current Community Indicator Metrics
Update 12/3/2020
This document provides a framework to evaluate if Summit Middle School should return and/or continue in-person learning.
The framework was developed to align with BVSD using:
If indicators are in green, Summit will continue to monitor for safety and preparedness.
If indicators are in yellow, Summit will continue to monitor the situation in consultation with Boulder Health officials to ensure that any plans for a safe and gradual return to or continuance of in-person learning continue to be grounded in health and safety.
If any indicators moves to red, Summit will develop a plan with Boulder Health officials for the next steps needed to keep our students and staff safe which may include returning to Distance Learning only.
Community Indicator metrics will be evaluated on a weekly basis after current data is received from Boulder County Health each Tuesday.
Operational metrics will be used to confirm that the school is ready to provide in-person learning.
| Community Indicator Metric | Comment | Green Threshold (in-person or hybrid) | Yellow Threshold (hybrid or remote) | Red Threshold (remote) | Current Level |
1 | Boulder County Case Number - Total number of new cases per day over a 14 day period. | Measures the magnitude of COVID-19 infection in a community and is the single best indicator for the likelihood of transmission across the community. Excluding cases associated with long-term care facilities. Boulder County population 326,000. | Less than 50/100,000 | 50-100/ 100,000 | More than 100/100,000 | Red - 708.5 100,000 Per State Dial 12/3 |
2 | Trend in Boulder County case numbers per 100,000 in the past two weeks | Trend in case rates informs the directionality of transmission within a community and provides context to interpreting and responding to different levels of case rates. Boulder County population 326,000. | Less than 25% increase | 25-50% increase | Greater than 50% increase | Green: Compared to the previous 2 weeks, the most recent 2 weeks (11/16-11/29) have had 1% less cases - Per PPC Calculation 12/1 |
3 | Percent Positivity on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing | Provides insights as to whether testing across the community is sufficient to measure the true magnitude of infection and also how testing is impacting case rates. | Less than 5% | 5.1-7% | Greater than 7% | Red- Current 14-day -6.7% Per State Dial 12/3, 5 day rolling average 6.2% per BCPH 12/1 7 day rate Ages 10-17 below 7% (11/30), |
| Community Indicator Metric | Comment | Green Threshold (in-person or hybrid) | Yellow Threshold (hybrid or remote) | Red Threshold (remote) | Current Level |
4 | Trend in case rates (numbers per 100,000) in the past two weeks for school-age children (5-17) | Assessing trends in case rates among school-age children may provide unique insights on the impact of schools and COVID-19 transmission in the event that they change before overall community-wide case rates do. | Less than 25% increase | 25-50% increase | Greater than 50% increase | Green: decrease trend PPC Calculation per BCPH data for 11/16-11/29 |
5 | Local public health agency is able to implement Colorado’s case investigation and contact tracing protocol | To be able to effectively and timely respond to outbreaks and contain the spread of the virus. Measured weekly. | Greater than 85% of cases contacted within 24 hrs. | Between 40% - 85% of cases contacted within 24 hrs. | Less than 40% of cases contacted within 24 hrs. | Red: BCPH estimates they can investigate and contact trace 12 new cases and their contacts per day. Per BCPH through 11/2 (update not provided as of 12/1) |
6 | Sufficient PPE Supply | To include PPE for teachers, health staff, isolation room, and students. N95/KN95 masks and face shields for staff. | Greater than one month | 2-4 weeks | Less than 2 weeks | Greater than one month |
| Operational Metric | Comment | Green Threshold | Red Threshold |
OM1 | Student In-Person Attendance | Adequate number of students in-person to allow for teachers to be able to support both in-person and remote students. | Yes
| No |
OM2 | Staffing Availability and Staff In-Person Attendance | Number of staff available to provide needed coverage for the Health Room/Isolation Room and exempted teachers. Substitute Teachers - enough to cover needs Adequate number of teachers and staff in the building. | Yes | No |
OM3 | Testing Availability for Staff | Summit provides access to free testing to teachers on a bi-weekly basis as well as on-demand. | Yes | No |
The following are operational metrics that will be used to confirm that the school is ready to provide in-person learning. These metrics will not be shared with the general public but are for administrative use only.
| Operational Metric | Comment | Green Threshold | Red Threshold |
OM4 | On-line access for all classes | Equipment and training complete to allow for students that are either at home or in another classroom in the building to access in-person classes and support if cohort/teacher quarantined. | Yes | No |
OM5 | Operational Preparations Complete | Building preparations complete to include signage, partitions, classroom furniture, cleaning supplies, sanitation stations, verification of proper airflow, etc. | Yes | No |
OM6 | Health Protocols Manual and Training | Manual and teacher training complete. | Yes | No |
OM7 | Passive Daily Screening Tool and School Tracking | BVSD daily passive screening tool completed and implemented to allow for daily screening tracking and school tracking. | Yes | No |
New Colorado COVID Dial:
During October 2020 the Metro Denver Partnership of Health decided to transition from the recommended K-12 metrics to using the COVID-19 Dial. Boulder County Public Health and BVSD transitioned to newly adopted COVID Dial. Summit is now using this tool in addition to our original criteria to guide decision making on in person learning.
Dial Criteria:
To move to a less restrictive level (e.g., Level 2 to Level 1), counties need to meet and sustain all three metrics for two weeks. Counties must engage in a consultation process with CDPHE, which may entail moving to a more restrictive level when they are out of compliance with any of the metrics for more than two weeks.
To move to a less restrictive level (e.g., Level 2 to Level 1), counties need to meet and sustain all three metrics for two weeks. Counties must engage in a consultation process with CDPHE, which may entail moving to a more restrictive level when they are out of compliance with any of the metrics for more than two weeks.