Reset-Reconnect-Resume
The Reset-Reconnect-Resume section of this newsletter will be a feature most weeks moving forward in an effort to keep all families informed around the work that we are doing to prepare for the eventual addition of an in-person schooling option for our students. Remember, Reset is the work we are doing at Hamilton to prepare for an in-person return. Reconnect is the work we are doing to connect students to each other in our current distance environment, and the work we will be doing in-person with students when we return to campus. The third item, Resume, pertains to the work we are doing throughout the remainder of this year and will be doing all of next year to ensure that students are on their expected and desired trajectories for their learning. Depending on where we are in our work, not all three of these items will have new information in each newsletter.
Reset: Two developments in our work at Hamilton to ready for an eventual addition of an in-person option for school. First, this week our Planning for Safety Committee just about wrapped our work developing procedures and protocols that will help to maintain a safe schooling environment at such time that the choice for in-person schooling is made available. Our list of procedural and protocol items currently numbers 75. Our Leadership Team will soon review the 75 items and provide feedback, after which updates will be made by the committee and a user friendly document will be created and shared with our entire community. Second, the district has communicated to all staff members that it believes that educators will be in the 1B vaccination group, and that a process of scheduling vaccines for school district staff members will begin to take place soon. Keep in mind that the 1B group includes around 1.5 million people state-wide, and that the state is currently receiving about 70,000 vaccines per week. As such, it will likely be many weeks before all MMSD staff are able to get the first of their two vaccination shots.
