Our Reopening Fall 2020 Plan

Health & Safety

Screenings
Students and staff must stay home if they experience any of the following symptoms:

• Fever (a temperature greater than 100.0F) or chills
• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Fatigue
• Muscle or body aches
• Headache
• New loss of taste or smell
• Sore throat
• Congestion or runny nose
• Nausea or vomiting
• Diarrhea

Face Covering
Students and staff are expected to wear a face covering unless unable to tolerate a face covering, including where such covering would impair physical health or mental health. District will provide masks for students and staff. Full guidance on wearing face coverings can be found under “District Resources.” (Top)

Clean Hands
Hand washing breaks for students and staff will be incorporated several times during the school day as determined by building administration. At a minimum staff and students will wash their hands:

• Upon entering the building and each classroom
• After using shared objects or surfaces (e.g. electronic devices, musical instruments, writing utensils, tools, toys, desks, table tops)
• Before and after snacks and lunch
• After using the bathroom
• After helping a student toileting
• After sneezing, wiping, blowing nose, or coughing into hands
• Upon coming in from outdoors
• When hands are visibly soiled

• Cover your mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing.
• Cough or sneeze into your elbow if no tissue is available.
• Use tissues and throw them away in a trash receptacle.
• Avoid touching your nose or mouth.
• Wash your hands or use a hand sanitizer after touching your nose or mouth.

When You Have Symptoms or are Ill
Any person, staff or students, who are suspected to have the COVID-like symptoms are asked to go to or are escorted to the isolation room. Immediately call the parent/guardian if the person is a student and request the school nurse to assess the individual. Any staff member who is assessing a symptomatic person must wear the proper personal protective equipment as outlined in the personal protective equipment sections. Full guidance can be found under “District Resources.”

COVID-19 Testing
Persons tested for COVID-19 who have active symptoms are to stay home until the test is resulted. Persons with active symptoms or who have been diagnosed with positive COVID-19 follow the  return to work or school guidelines. Full guidance can be found under “District Resources.” (Top)

Health Services Staff
All Health Services staff will be required to wear a face mask while performing job duties when 6 feet of social distancing cannot be maintained. All Health Services staff will be required to perform self-temperature checks before coming to work and to stay home if sick.

• Fever (over 100.0F) or chills
• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Fatigue
• Muscle or body aches
• Headache
• New loss of taste or smell
• Sore throat
• Congestion or runny nose
• Nausea or vomiting
• Diarrhea

Training & Compliance
A COVID-19 Safety Coordinator who assists with compliance with reopening plans and phased in reopening activities will be identified.

Meal Service

Meals at School
Meals will be available to all enrolled students at scheduled mealtimes. Students will consume breakfast and lunch in classrooms while practicing social distancing, remaining six feet apart while consuming meals.

Face masks for all students physically able must be worn, and hand hygiene must be practiced during meal time. Hand sanitizer units will be present for students to use during meal pick up as well as additional face coverings for students to wear if needed.
Sharing of foods and beverages will not be allowed. (Top)

Clean Space
Any space where students eat will be disinfected and sanitized between class and staff uses with approved cleaners (i.e. after each class comes through the line, the line will be sanitized with Sani-wipes or equivalent). (Top)

Meals for Home
Pre-packaged school meals will be distributed at dismissal containing breakfast and lunch to be consumed off site during remote learning for the remainder of the week.

Pre-packaged school meals will be distributed containing breakfast and lunch to be consumed off site during remote learning at various sites throughout the district.

All other students participating in remote learning will be provided bulk pre-packaged breakfast and lunch meal kits available at established meal pick up sites including but not limited to: community centers, public libraries, school buildings, bus stop locations and more during pre-selected meal service times.  All Meal pick up sites will be available three days per week as grab and go meals. Meal pick up sites will display signage alerting students off potential allergens located in grab and go meal units to warrant caution for individual meal consumption. (Top)

Home Bound Options
Home bound and medically fragile students will be provided breakfast and lunch meal kits through delivery. Medically fragile or homebound students who will receive at home meal delivery with food allergies/special meal accommodations will be identified through our student information system. 

All home delivered specialized meals will be labeled appropriately and developed by the Food and Nutrition department. (Top)

Staff Procedures
All Food & Nutrition Services Department staff will complete covid-19 related instructional education as a part of their minimum hours of annual training per Professional Standards for school nutrition professionals mandated by the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010. Instructional materials and guidance will be provided throughout the school year to remind staff and students of the importance of being safe and practicing good hygiene habits. This will occur through small group settings at a designated training school location.

All Food & Nutrition Services staff will be required to wear a face mask while performing job duties, especially in shared spaces. All Food & Nutrition Services staff will be required to perform self-temperature checks before coming to work and to stay home if ill or registering a temperature of greater than 100.0F. Food service staff will ensure that all district guidelines related to health & safety are adhered to; this includes but is not limited to, regular hand hygiene, wearing of gloves and face masks, sanitation of workspaces, use of hand sanitizer when appropriate. Standard operating procedures will reflect these. Social distancing between staff members required when applicable and feasible, utilizing open café spaces for food service operations as appropriate when not in use. Reminder memos will be issued to staff to stress the importance of compliance with these practices.

The department will also include instructional material related to COVID-19 in the mandated annual continuing education provided to staff.

Hand sanitizer units will be present for staff to use during meal pick up as well as additional PPE (such as gloves and masks) to wear if needed at all off site meal pick up locations.

Staffing will be allocated based on Meal Equivalent (MEq) data from average daily participation data to ensure appropriate staffing levels at service sites and production kitchens while maintaining social distancing as able. This will ensure adequate staffing at all service and production points in the operation.

When 100% remote, Off-Site Partner agencies will be staffed with Food Service employees. In addition, grab and go products will be on hand in par stock quantities and made available to all meal site pick up locations.

All applicable materials and methods of communication will be translated into spoken languages by district Communications Department.

MySchoolApps will be the primary platform for Household Eligibility Applications to promote an electronic platform for completion. (Top)

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