Dates Confirmed for Phased Return to In-Person Learning
The Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) has reaffirmed the dates to implement the phased return to in-person learning and looks forward to welcoming students back to all FUSD school sites after spring break. The Governing Board approved the return dates after considering improved community COVID-19 data, the District’s ability to implement consistent and layered mitigation strategies, the prioritized availability of vaccines for school personnel, and students’ learning and social emotional needs.
*Special Education Specialized Programs: Students are out of the general education classroom for a majority of their day.
The Governing Board amended the thresholds of the COVID-19 benchmarks it monitors to align with the current Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) as shown below.
Upon returning to in-person learning, data and trends of these health benchmarks, numbers of FUSD students and staff with COVID-19 or who are in isolation and quarantine, and the District’s ability to implement health and safety measures will all be considered in any reassessment of a decision to continue in-person hybrid learning or to return to full remote learning.
In- Person Learning
In-person learning will be provided five days per week with a concurrent teaching model in which the teacher will deliver instruction to students both in-person and online simultaneously. Students returning to in-person learning will be required to follow mitigation strategies while at school including being free of COVID-19 symptoms, quarantining if having close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, wearing a face mask, and maintaining appropriate physical distancing. Families will be sent an acknowledgement form to sign which outlines these safety expectations and a consent form for optional onsite COVID-19 testing prior to the first day of in-person learning.
Remote Learning
FUSD students will have the option to remain in remote learning for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year based on student/family preference or student health needs and will be supported with concurrent teaching by their assigned teacher. Students and families who initially decide to remain in remote learning may be permitted to return to in-person learning at a later date this school year with advance approval by the school principal.
For more information about the FUSD Safely Forward Plan, please visit www.fusd1.org/safelyforward.