Craft Category: Strategies

Teachers kick off each day of virtual learning with a warm-up activity and a clear plan to set students up for success.

Schools have incorporated virtual advisories so students can feel connected to and supported by teachers, despite not meeting in person physically.

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Schools should implement distancing measures to reduce potential exposure to COVID-19. With physical distancing measures in place, schools needed to reimagine arrival and dismissal so students are not walking in close proximity with their classmates and to prevent congregating of students, staff, and families. Here are the ways that schools have reconfigured arrival and dismissal to make sure they are safe for students, families, and staff.

Staff members can help ease anxiety around the return to in-person instruction by showing excitement at seeing students and families in person.

All students should be screened either at home and/or at school to make sure they are not showing symptoms of COVID-19. See the different approaches schools are choosing for this process.

Schools had to implement new arrival and dismissal procedures so that students and staff are at a safe distance to reduce the potential exposure to COVID-19. Schools had to find ways to communicate these changes to families.

With so much uncertainty surrounding schools during the pandemic, leaders stressed the importance of repeated, transparent, humanizing over-communication of plans and expectations with students, family and the community.

The closure of school and navigation of COVID-19 felt traumatic for students and adults alike. As they reopen school doors, leaders are focusing on how to welcome students back with joy and celebration (while also implementing new safety policies).