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Reopening Resources from Districts

Reopening Plans and Resources

  • Baltimore City Public Schools—This page contains information on reopening schools. The district’s reopening plan provides in-depth guidance on model transitions, academics and instruction, and community engagement.
  • Boulder Valley School District—This page contains information about the return to in-person learning, including information on COVID testing protocols. The district’s frequently asked questions page provides responses to questions from the school community, including in-person learning, COVID testing, and vaccinations.
  • Broward County Public Schools—This page includes information on eLearning, criteria for reopening schools, and the district’s reopening plan. The district’s frequently asked questions page provides responses to questions related to the 2020-2021 school year with details about academics, transportation, and mental health and wellness, among other topics.
  • Clarksville-Montgomery County School System—This page includes the district’s reopening plan and provides answers to frequently asked questions from parents and staff related to school reopening.
  • Cleveland Metropolitan School District—The district’s reopening plan includes a timeline, expectations around safety and learning, health advisories, and operating scenarios. The district’s frequently asked questions page provides responses to questions related to the 2020-2021 school year with details regarding hybrid and remote learning.
  • Chicago Public Schools— This page outlines information about in-person and remote learning, key dates, and guidance to parents and staff. It also tracks COVID data. The district’s reopening framework outlines expectations related to remote and hybrid learning.
  • Denver Public Schools— This page provides details about the 2020-2021 school year including frequently asked questions, guidance to parents, COVID information, and learning options. A family guide provides reopening information aligned to COVID response levels. The district’s remote learning plan outlines additional information on remote learning and programming supports.
  • Guilford County Public Schools—This page provides information related to reopening schools including frequently asked questions and multiple procedures and protocols that guide the reopening process.
  • Highline Public Schools—The district is implementing a hybrid learning model based on this decision tree that uses community COVID data to determine if schools can reopen. The district will continue to provide distance learning as well. Those resources include an Instructional Model for Distance and Hybrid Learning, which provides guidance to support teachers and school administrators in planning and facilitating distance and hybrid learning, as well as distance learning overviews for elementary and secondary schools.
  • Miami-Dade County Public Schools—The Reopen Smart, Return Safe guide includes criteria and expectations for face-to-face and online learning. Additionally, the Parent Handbook prepares families for the 2020-2021 school year with answers to frequently asked questions, health and safety details, and COVID response information.
  • NOLA Public Schools—This document provides a roadmap to reopening schools in three phases and contains guidance on protecting vulnerable populations, along with a public-facing one-page fact sheet. In addition, the district is partnering with public health providers to vaccinate district staff. This document provides staff with training and vaccine registration information. The district used this presentation to engage with its schools and charter management organizations regarding vaccinations.
  • Oakland Unified School District—This guide provides a roadmap to safely reopening schools. As distance learning continues, the Resources include “Strong Start Plans” for elementary and secondary schools and school curriculum blueprints. The Secondary Strong Start Plan and Secondary Distance Learning Toolkit consist of resources to prepare for the quarter system; priority instructional content; pacing guides; sample units; and best practices for distance learning.
  • The School District of Palm Beach County—This plan includes distance learning expectations and supports; benchmarks for reopening; wellness guidance; risk-reduction strategies; and sample daily schedules. In addition, the district’s reopening plan explains how the district will re-open schools and provide virtual learning in the interim.
  • Phoenix Union High School District— The district provides parents with the choice to return to in-person learning or remain online through the duration of 2020-2021. Guidance regarding both can be found through this page. For staff continuing to provide online instruction, the “Every Student, Every Day” resource guide outlines how staff can check on students’ wellness and provides for different situations involving virtual interactions. Ahead of in-person instruction, the district provided vaccines to staff and communicated instructions through this announcement along with a vaccine FAQ.
  • Providence Public School District—This document outlines guiding principles for reopening; changes from spring 2020; reopening scenario plans; and information on curriculum, assessment, and instruction for remote and in-person learning.
  • San Antonio Independent School District— The Safe School Start Communications Hub includes a school opening and instructional continuity plan, information on academic options for students, The School District of Philadelphia—This page provides information related to reopening plans; curriculum; family and staff supports; and mental health, trauma, and emotional supports.
  • The School District of Philadelphia—This page provides information related to reopening plans; curriculum; family and staff supports; and mental health, trauma, and emotional supports.
  • Tulsa Public Schools—This page provides information for the 2020-2021 school year, including the return to in-person learning, health and safety protocols, and a guidance document, which contains sample schedules and activities for all grade levels as well as visuals of classroom and bus configurations.

Covid-19 Testing and Vaccination

  • Boulder Valley School District—This page contains information about the return to in-person learning, including information on COVID testing protocols. The district’s frequently asked questions page provides responses to questions from the school community, including in-person learning, social and emotional well-being, COVID testing, and vaccinations.
  • Denver Public Schools— This page provides details about the 2020-2021 school year including frequently asked questions, guidance to parents, COVID testing information, and learning options. The district’s family guide provides reopening information aligned to COVID response levels. The remote learning plan outlines additional information on remote learning and programming supports.
  • Miami-Dade County Public Schools— This page provides information about COVID testing, resources for parents, and the protocols in place for the safe reopening of schools. The Reopen Smart, Return Safe guide includes criteria and expectations for face-to-face and online learning. Additionally, the Parent Handbook prepares families for the 2020-2021 school year with frequently asked questions, health and safety information, and COVID response information.
  • The School District of Philadelphia—This page provides information related to reopening plans; COVID testing; curriculum; family and staff supports; social, emotional and mental health, trauma, and emotional supports.
  • Ector County Independent School District—The district developed a thorough communication and registration plan for staff vaccination.
  • Everett Public Schools—The district developed a thorough communication and registration plan for all staff to register for and receive a vaccine.
  • Hamilton County Schools — The district created a comprehensive planning spreadsheet for their vaccination event which can be accessed here. They also developed guidance for event volunteers and an FAQ for vaccine recipients.
  • Henry County Schools — The district has developed a thorough vaccination strategy plan, the Comprehensive Vaccination Closed Point of Distribution Plan, and released an employee vaccination toolkit.
  • NOLA Public Schools—The district is partnering with public health providers to vaccinate district staff, this document provides staff with training and vaccine registration information. The district used this thorough update presentation to engage with its schools and charter management organizations regarding vaccinations.
  • Phoenix Union High School District— The district partnered with public health providers to administer vaccines to district staff and communicated instructions through this announcement along with a vaccine FAQ.

Learning Acceleration and Social Emotional Learning

  • Dallas Independent School District—This site provides information related to the district’s efforts to reimagine the school calendar and accelerate learning. This board presentation offers insight into Dallas’s approach as does this family-facing FAQ.
  • DC Public Schools—This website includes school-based reopening plans and extensive information about DCPS’s efforts regarding health & safety, emotional wellnessschool-based COVID-19 testingsummer learning, and academic acceleration.
  • Boulder Valley School District—This page contains information about the return to in-person learning, including information on COVID testing protocols. The district’s frequently asked questions page provides responses to questions from the school community, including in-person learning, social and emotional well-being, COVID testing, and vaccinations.
  • Broward County Public Schools—This page includes information on eLearning, criteria for reopening schools, and the district’s reopening plan. The district’s frequently asked questions page provides responses to questions related to the 2020-2021 school year with details including but not limited to academics, transportation, and mental health and wellness.
  • The School District of Philadelphia—This page provides information related to reopening plans; COVID testing; curriculum; family and staff supports; social, emotional and mental health, trauma, and emotional supports.
  • Tulsa Public Schools—This page provides information for the 2020-2021 including returning to in-person learning, social and emotional support, health and safety protocols and a guidance document which includes sample schedules and activities for all grade levels and visuals of classroom and bus configurations.