Back to School Facilities Toolkit
Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools toolkit presents facility ideas that make the return to school better for ALL students and staff.
January 11, 2022
Tag: Physical Environment
Step-by-Step Lunch Procedure in Classrooms
This video from Sha Tin Junior School in Hong Kong communicated to families, students, and staff how students will eat lunch safely.
January 11, 2022
Back-to-School Meal Service Toolkit
No Kid Hungry’s toolkit provides guidance and ideas on how to feed students and keep students and staff safe amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
January 11, 2022
Step-by-Step Options for Serving Meals
Schools serve the important function of providing nutritious food to students throughout the school day. This toolkit offers detailed protocols for serving and eating meals while staying safe, including meal delivery and distribution, physical distancing while eating, hand-washing/sanitizing, and more.
January 11, 2022
How to Transform Your Learning Environments for COVID-19
Design firm Sasaki provides ideas of how to change classroom layouts to keep students and staff members safe for in-person instruction.
January 11, 2022
Back to School Instructional Program Scheduling Map
This Scheduling Map from Equity by Design incorporates guidance on social distancing for reopening school while pulling together options regarding where, what, when, how, and with whom components of learning happen
January 11, 2022
Practitioner Toolkit: Learning Together In Socially Distanced Classrooms
In-person learning with social distancing has many educators wondering how to adjust their teaching strategies. This toolkit offers ideas to incorporate one-on-one, small-group, and collaborative learning while staying six feet apart.
January 11, 2022
5-Step Guide to Checking Ventilation Rates in Classrooms
Healthy Buildings, an initiative of the Harvard T.H. Chan Public School of Health, has created a detailed how-to guide for measuring ventilation rates, including materials needed and helpful strategies.
October 29, 2021
School Air Quality Assessment Guide
This toolkit from the Parabola Project is designed to assist district and building operations and facilities leaders by providing a checklist of priority steps related to improving air quality to prepare for in-person learning.
October 29, 2021
Stronger Together: A Guidebook for the Safe Reopening of California’s Public Schools
This was a guide put out by the California Department of Education and is meant to be a a guide for local discussion on reopening schools and not a one-size-fits-all document. This guide provides checklists, essential questions for consideration, and examples of best practices.
October 29, 2021