AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE REOPENING PACKET - Welcome Back! You Were Missed! 2020-2021
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Welcome Back! You Were Missed!
AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE
REOPENING PACKET
2020-2021
0INDEX
1. IMPORTANT REMINDERS 2
2. 3 OPTIONS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 3
3. OPTION 1 4-14
A. LAYERS OF MULTIPLE PROTECTION 4-5
B. CLOTH FACE COVERING RECOMMENDATIONS 6
C. SAFETY PROTOCOLS 7-14
I. DROP OFF, PICK UP AND OFFICE VISITOR 7
II. CLASSROOMS 8
III. HALLWAYS AND COMMON AREAS 9
IV. RESTROOMS 10
V. CAFETERIA 11
VI. SCHOOL CLINIC 12
VII. RECESS 13
VIII. MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES 14
IX. BUS TRANSPORTATION 15
4. OPTION 2 16
5. OPTION 3 17
1Schedule and Chromebook Pick-Up
In order to pick-up your student’s schedule and/or Chromebook, please bring your completed opening packet, previously
mailed to you, to the front of AIS on the following dates. Weather permitting, there will be a table outside to turn in
packets and collect your student’s schedule and/or Chromebook. Please remember social distancing guidelines when
waiting in line.
• Option 1 Students 8/24 or 8/25 from 10am-2pm both days
• Option 2 Students 8/21 from 10am-2pm or 8/22 from 11am-2pm
• Option 3 Students 8/21 from 10am-2pm or 8/22 from 11am-2pm- This is a packet drop-off only. For
information about obtaining a school-issued Chromebook, please contact Ms. Polish, Director of E-
Learning, or Mrs. Kopp, Dean of E-Learning.
Beginning of School
• First Day of School- 8/31/20
• Students are off for Labor Day- 9/3, 9/4, & 9/7
Water Bottles for Option 1 Students
We are encouraging all students to bring a water bottle to school each day. Water fountains are not going to be
in use. Students should have enough water to drink throughout the day.
Masks for Option 1 Students
Students will be required to wear masks during the day. There are many different types of masks and we
encourage families to find one that is comfortable for your child. Masks must be school appropriate. Students
will be given the opportunity for mask breaks several times a day, so please provide a lanyard for your child for
these times. Please have your child practice wearing a mask before school starts. Face shields or alternative
face coverings are not permitted without a documented note from a physician.
23 OPTIONS TO RETURN TO SCHOOL
OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3
Traditional Face-to-Face Remote Learning E-Learning
✓ Students attend class five ✓ Students will be educated from ✓ Students will be educated
days a week in a regular home. through a self-paced
classroom setting with ✓ The goal is to match remote online learning program.
proper safety precautions teachers to remote students. ✓ The E-learning
in place. ✓ Teaching will be led by an curriculum, ACE, differs
Austintown teacher, following the from the Austintown
same curriculum as those in curriculum but is still
traditional classes. aligned with the Ohio
✓ Teaching and learning will take place Learning Standards.
during regular school hours unless ✓ This option is not led by a
prior arrangements are made due to teacher but help is
a circumstance at home. available if needed.
✓ Daily teacher/ student interaction
will take place utilizing Zoom and
Google classrooms.
3Option 1- Traditional Face-to-Face
Multiple Layers of Protection
Health Physical Hand Surface
Screening Distancing Washing Disinfection
Face
Handlings Ventilation Cohorting
Coverings
Limited
Access
4AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S MULTIPLE LAYERS OF PROTECTION
The Austintown Intermediate School goal is to safely educate our students during the COVID-19 public health crisis is
based on guidance from the CDC and the Ohio Department of Education. Using multiple layers of protection to
protest against catching and spreading the virus is key. The fundamental layers of protection are:
✓ Health Screening: Each student and staff member will have their temperature screened in the
beginning of each day.
✓ Physical Distancing: Students and teacher will maintain maximum physical distance. There are
plexiglass separating individuals when in classes.
✓ Hand Washing: Students and staff will routinely wash hands and use hand sanitizer throughout the
school day.
✓ Surface Disinfection: Surfaces will be cleaned throughout the day.
✓ Materials Handling: Sharing of student supplies, equipment will be minimized.
✓ Face Coverings: All students and staff (unless medical exception) will wear face coverings.
✓ Ventilation: State-of-the-art HVAC systems are in service. Outdoor classes will be regular features
this year.
✓ Cohorting: Students organized into bipods to create ‘cohorts’ or groups of students whose
interactions are minimized with students outside their cohort.
✓ Limited Access: Only the people and materials that are needed in the buildings will enter
5AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S CLOTH FACE COVERING RECOMMENDATIONS
The Austintown Intermediate School goal is to safely educate our students during the COVID-19 public health crisis.
The following are recommendations from the CDC:
✓ To put on your face mask:
o Wash your hands for 20 seconds with antibacterial soap or hand sanitizer that is 60% alcohol.
o Put it over you
o Cover your nose and mouth and secure it under your chin.
✓ Don’t touch the face mask. If you do, wash your hands with soap and antibacterial soap or use hand
sanitizer that is 60% alcohol.
✓ To take off your face mask for lunch:
o Untie the strings behind your head or stretch the ear loops
o Handle only by the ear loops or ties & fold outside corners together
o Be careful not to touch your eyes, nose, and mouth when removing.
✓ Face coverings should never be shared or swapped.
✓ Face coverings should be washed at the end of each day.
✓ Face shields or alternative face coverings are not permitted without a documented note from a physician.
6AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Drop Off, Pick Up and Office Visitors
Parent/ Caregiver Expectations Student Expectations Teacher/ Paraprofessional
Expectations
✓ Provide a face mask for your student to ✓ Students are expected to follow all
wear throughout the duration of the day. handbook expectations including PBIS.
✓ Wear a face mask throughout the
Please remind them to wash hands with ✓ Students are required to wear a cloth.
soap and water or use a hand sanitizer face mask throughout the entire school duration of the day. Please wash
with 60% alcohol before putting on a face day. hands with soap and water or use
mask. ✓ Students are required to wear a face a hand sanitizer with 60% alcohol
✓ Conduct a student wellness check mask on the bus. before putting on a face mask.
including temperature prior to sending a ✓ Limit touching your face mask as much as ✓ Supervise hallways and common
student to school. Students with NEW possible. Please wash hands with soap areas to ensure students are
uncontrollable cough that causes difficulty and water or use a hand sanitizer with reporting immediately to assigned
breathing or NEW onset of severe 60% alcohol before touching your face areas and not congregating in
headache should stay home to monitor mask. hallways or common areas.
progression of symptoms. Students with ✓ School doors open at 8:15 am. Students ✓ Provide reminders, issue
temperatures 100°F or more are required will walk through a temperature check warnings, contact
to stay home. with staff members relocating students parents/caregivers, and report
✓ Limit visits to school whenever possible. with a temperature of 100 degrees or repeated expectation violators to
You must schedule a meeting in advance more to the school nurse. the office.
in order to meet with any school ✓ Students are to immediately report to the ✓ Remind students to avoid touching
personnel. cafeteria for breakfast or to their their face mask as much as
✓ All visitors must wear a face mask when homeroom if they are not eating possible.
entering the building and follow all breakfast. The cafeteria will provide a
physical distancing protocols. breakfast that students will take to their
✓ Please follow this link to our website for homeroom to eat.
our dismissal procedure: Dismissal Link. ✓ Maintain maximum physical distance from
Parents/ guardians must wear a mask peers whenever possible in hallways,
when entering the gym. Please maintain common areas, classrooms, etc.
social distancing the best you can.
7AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S
AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S SAFETY
SAFETY PROTOCOLS
PROTOCOLS
Classrooms
Parent/ Caregiver Student Expectations Teacher/ Paraprofessional Expectations
Expectations
✓ Students are expected to follow all ✓ Create PBIS expectations with students for face-to-face and
handbook expectations including online.
✓ Provide a face mask for your PBIS. ✓ Remind students during Morning Meetings: 7 Healthy Habits
student to wear throughout ✓ Students are required to wear a Behavior Matrix, mask safety, coughing/ sneezing protocol,
the duration of the day. face mask throughout the entire sanitize hands whenever entering/ leaving a room.
Please remind them to wash school day. ✓ Ensure the classroom is set up to maximize the distance
hands with soap and water or ✓ Plexiglass shields/dividers are between students.
use a hand sanitizer with provided for students' ✓ Wear a face mask at all times.
60% alcohol before putting desks/tables. Students are ✓ Assign seats for students and require them to sit in their
on a face mask. required to sit behind this shield, assigned seats daily.
✓ Conduct a student wellness in their assigned seat, daily. ✓ Ensure students maintain physical distance whenever
check including temperature ✓ Student plexiglass divider is to be possible.
prior to sending a student to cleaned by the student, with the ✓ Provide reminders, issue warnings, contact
school. Students with NEW disinfecting supplies provided, at parents/caregivers, and report repeated expectation
uncontrollable cough that the conclusion of the class. violators to the office.
causes difficulty breathing or ✓ Students are required to wear a ✓ Reduce shared classroom materials as much as possible.
NEW onset of severe face mask during the entirety of ✓ Use disinfecting supplies provided to clean common
headache should stay home their class. materials before new students transition into the room.
to monitor progression of ✓ Students are to maintain ✓ Have a sign-out sheet for students ANYTIME they leave.
symptoms. Students with maximum physical distance from ✓ Take students outside (weather permitting) for at least 2
temperatures 100°F or more peers whenever possible in mask breaks a day- socially distanced.
are required to stay home. hallways, common areas, ✓ Take at least 2 sitting mask breaks. Students have hooks on
✓ Please provide your child classrooms, etc. plexiglass to hang their mask. Please remind them to wash
with a lanyard to hold their ✓ Disinfect hands whenever hands with soap and water or use a hand sanitizer with 60%
mask during mask breaks. entering or leaving the class. alcohol before taking off & putting on a face mask.
✓ Students are to sign out anytime
they leave the classroom and
sign-in when returning.
8AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Hallways & Common Areas
Parent/ Caregiver Expectations Student Expectations Teacher/ Paraprofessional
Expectations
✓ Provide a face mask for your student ✓ Students are expected to follow all
to wear throughout the duration of handbook expectations including PBIS.
✓ Wear a face mask throughout the
the day. Please remind them to wash ✓ Students are required to wear a face
hands with soap and water or use a mask throughout the entire school day. duration of the day.
✓ Lead the students during class
hand sanitizer with 60% alcohol ✓ Students are to maintain maximum
before putting on a face mask. physical distance from peers whenever changes away from other students as
✓ Conduct a student wellness check possible in hallways, common areas, much as possible.
✓ Maintain maximum physical distance
including temperature prior to classrooms, etc.
sending a student to school. ✓ Students are to walk on the right side of during class changes.
✓ Provide reminders, issue warnings,
Students with NEW uncontrollable the hall at all times.
cough that causes difficulty breathing ✓ No loitering in halls is permitted. Students contact parents/caregivers, and report
or NEW onset of severe headache are to immediately go to their destination. repeated expectation violators to the
should stay home to monitor office.
progression of symptoms. Students
with temperatures 100°F or more are
required to stay home.
9AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Restrooms
Parent/ Caregiver Student Expectations Teacher/ Paraprofessional Custodian Expectations
Expectations Expectations
✓ Students are expected to ✓ Wear a face mask
follow all handbook throughout the duration
✓ Provide a face expectations including PBIS. ✓ Wear a face mask throughout the of the day.
mask covering for ✓ Students are required to duration of the day. ✓ Clean restrooms on a
your student to wear a cloth face mask ✓ Supervise hallways and restrooms to routine schedule.
wear throughout throughout the entire school ensure students are not congregating
the duration of the day. in them.
day. Please remind ✓ Students are to maintain ✓ Provide reminders, issue warnings,
students to wash maximum physical distance contact parents/caregivers, and
hands with soap from peers whenever report repeated expectation violators
and water or use a possible in restrooms. to the office.
hand sanitizer with ✓ Students need to sign out to go to
✓ Students are to walk on the
60% alcohol before right side of the hall when restroom for contract tracing issues.
putting on a face going to the restroom.
mask. ✓ No loitering in halls or
restrooms is permitted.
✓ Students are expected to
wash their hands with soap
and water for 20 seconds.
✓ Students must sign out of
the classroom prior to
leaving the classroom and
when returning.
10AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Cafeteria
Parent/ Caregiver Student Expectations Teacher/ Custodian/
Expectations ✓ Students are expected to follow all handbook Paraprofessional Cafeteria
expectations including PBIS.
✓ Students are to maintain maximum physical Expectations Workers
✓ Please provide your distance from peers whenever possible in the ✓ Remind to wash or
cafeteria or gymnasium. Expectations
child with a lanyard to sanitize hands on
✓ Students will sit on each end of tables to ✓ Wear a face
hold their mask. the way to and
✓ Provide a face mask for maintain social distancing. returning. mask
your student to wear ✓ Students are to walk on the right side of the hall ✓ Supervise throughout the
when in hallways, in the when going throughout the building. designated eating duration of the
cafeteria line and when ✓ Face masks are required to be worn when in the areas to ensure day.
not eating in the cafeteria line and while moving throughout the students are ✓ Students/
cafeteria. Please remind cafeteria. Sit in designated seating areas. following custodians are
students to wash hands ✓ Students are to stand on markers in each line. expectations. to sanitize
with soap and water or ✓ To buy extras, students will raise their hand and ✓ Provide reminders, plexiglass.
wait for the teacher/ paraprofessional to send ✓ Wear masks
use a hand sanitizer issue warnings,
with 60% alcohol before them. Only five students can be in line. contact when serving
putting on a face mask. ✓ The only time face masks are to be removed is parents/caregivers, food.
✓ Provide your student after sitting down (sanitize hands if possible), and report repeated ✓ All open food
with a water bottle daily socially distanced, in order to eat. If students expectation violators will be served
as water fountains will have sanitizer with them, please sanitize hands to the office. by a food-
not be available for before replacing the face mask while remaining ✓ Wear a face mask service worker.
seated. ✓ Follow the
use. while on lunch duty.
✓ If possible, provide ✓ Students are to remain seated until they are ✓ Monitor student health
students with a small released by a paraprofessional, teacher or restroom requests. department
hand sanitizer to use to principal. Students are not to move about the ✓ Release students food guidelines
take off face mask and cafeteria without permission. with hands raised to working with
put back on after eating. ✓ Follow guidelines for restroom use during lunch: extras. Only 5 our Food
sign out and sign back in. students in line at a Services
✓ Students/ custodians are to sanitize plexiglass. time. Department.
11AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S
AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S SAFETY
SAFETY PROTOCOLS
PROTOCOLS
School Clinic
Parent/ Caregiver Expectations Student Expectations Nurse/ Medical Assistant Custodian
Expectations Expectations
✓ Provide a face mask for your student to ✓ Students are
wear throughout the duration of the day. expected to follow all ✓ Wear a face mask
Please remind them to wash hands with handbook ✓ Wear a mask when throughout the
soap and water or use a hand sanitizer expectations working with students. duration of the
with 60% alcohol before putting on a face including PBIS. ✓ Ensure the clinic is kept day.
mask. ✓ Students are to walk clean and sanitized. ✓ Disinfect the clinic
✓ Ensure physical
✓ Conduct a student wellness check on the right side of on a schedule or
including temperature prior to sending a the hall when going distancing protocols are as necessary.
student to school. Students with NEW throughout the followed whenever ✓ Disinfect the
uncontrollable cough that causes difficulty building. possible. isolation area after
✓ Isolate a student who is
breathing or NEW onset of severe ✓ Masks are required students who
headache should stay home to monitor to be worn when in showing symptoms to a utilize the area
progression of symptoms. Students with the clinic. separate area away from have left the
temperatures 100°F or more are required ✓ Students must get a other students. The building.
to stay home. pass from their quarantine room is close
✓ Ensure a current Emergency Medical Form teacher to go to the to the clinic to avoid
and contact information is up to date in the clinic. further interaction with
event the school needs to contact home. ✓ Students must sign peers/ teachers.
✓ Ensure there are MULTIPLE, pre-arranged out when leaving the ✓ Ensure the clinic is
methods of getting a student home from classroom to go to disinfected immediately
school should they become ill or exhibit the clinic. following a student
symptoms. All students need to be picked ✓ Use provided hand entering who is exhibiting
up within an hour of being notified. sanitizer when symptoms.
✓ Parents will be picking up sick children arriving in the clinic.
from Door 18 (look for a sign). Please call
when you arrive; a nurse will escort your
child to your car.
12AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Recess
Parent/ Caregiver Expectations Student Expectations Teacher/ Paraprofessional
Expectations
✓ Please provide your child with a ✓ Students are expected to follow all
lanyard to hold their mask. handbook expectations including PBIS.
✓ Provide reminders to students of
✓ Face masks are required when ✓ Students must be wearing a mask unless
walking to recess. Provide a face they are engaged in an exercise. recess expectations.
mask for your student to wear on the ✓ The masks may be removed when they ✓ Provide reminders, issue warnings,
bus and for the duration of the school are more than 6 feet from each other. and report repeated expectation
day. Please remind them to wash ✓ During indoor recess, maintain distance
violators to the office.
✓ Ensure all students disinfect their
hands with soap and water or use a from other students and follow the
hand sanitizer with 60% alcohol teacher/ paraprofessional instructions. hands when returning to class.
✓ Have indoor recess activities on board
before putting on a face mask.
✓ Provide your student with a water
prior to recess e.g. drawing video.
bottle daily as water fountains will not
be available for use.
✓ If possible, provide students with a
small hand sanitizer to use to take off
face mask and put back on after
eating.
✓ Provide students with their own
supplies for indoor recess: colored
pencils, markers, crayons, coloring
book, etc.
13AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Meetings & Conferences
Parent/ Caregiver Expectations Teacher/ Paraprofessional Expectations
✓ Phone and Zoom meetings are preferred. ✓ Use Zoom to hold meetings as much as possible.
✓ All meetings with school personnel are to be scheduled in ✓ Wear a face mask anytime you have a meeting/ conference.
advance.
✓ Conduct a personal health screening prior to coming to school.
Do not come if you are running a fever 100°F or higher or
showing other symptoms.
✓ All visitors must wear a face mask when entering the building
and follow all physical distancing protocols.
✓ Appropriate physical distancing protocols will be practiced for
all in-person meetings. Face masks must be worn whenever in
the building.
14AUSTINTOWN INTERMEDIATE’S SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Bus Transportation
Parent/ Caregiver Expectations Student Expectations Bus Driver Expectations
✓ Face masks are required when riding ✓ Students are expected to follow all ✓ Drivers are required to wear a face
a bus. Provide a face mask for your handbook expectations including PBIS. mask while students are on the bus.
student to wear on the bus and for the ✓ Maintain appropriate physical distances ✓ Provide reminders to students of bus
duration of the school day. Please while at the bus stop and when expectations- assigned seats, wear
remind them to wash hands with soap entering/exiting the building. mask, seated facing forward, etc.
and water or use a hand sanitizer with ✓ Students are required to wear a face ✓ Ensure the bus is disinfected following
60% alcohol before putting on a face mask in order to ride the bus. district safety protocols.
mask. ✓ Siblings will be seated together.
✓ Families are encouraged to drop-off ✓ Students are to sit in their assigned
and pick up their children at school seats.
each day. Buses will still be able to ✓ Students are to remain seated and
transport students. It is important to facing forward while riding the bus.
note that ensuring physical distancing
is extremely challenging on buses and
six feet of separation is not possible.
✓ Conduct a student wellness check
including temperature prior to sending
a student to school. Students with
temperatures 100°F or more should
stay home.
15Option 2- Remote Learning with Austintown Teachers via Zoom
Parent/ Caregiver Expectations
✓ Monitor student progress on coursework. ProgressBook is available to all students, parents and guardians to monitor
grades and assignments 24/7.
✓ Students are to follow their school schedule and are required to log into their class during their regular class time. Daily
class meetings will occur with students and teachers.
✓ Communicate questions and concerns immediately to staff.
✓ Students may return to Option 1, if they wish, at the end of a grading period.
✓ Be aware that students will be required to go to Option 1 (in-person school) or Option 3 (online curriculum and platform) if
they are not completing work and failing on Option 2.
✓ Parents can use your child’s Google Classroom login information to check on assignments or have access to previous
lessons.
✓ If you have any concern, question, feedback, positive praise- your child’s teacher is your first point of contact. Please email
him or her at anytime to discuss. Teachers are expected to reply within 24 hours.
Student Expectations
✓ Students are expected to follow all handbook expectations including PBIS.
✓ Students will not come to school for instruction. Instruction will be through Zoom and supplemented with Google
Classroom.
✓ Student’s camera functions must be turned on during Zoom lessons for engagement.
✓ Student’s are expected to be sitting in a well-lit area that is free from distractions.
✓ Students will not be in the same classes or with the same teachers as students participating in Option 1.
✓ Students must complete Google Classroom assignments for each of their classes or they will be required to move to Option
1 (in-person) or Option 3 (online instruction with an online curriculum and platform) at the end of a grading period.
✓ Students are required to follow their regular school schedule.
✓ Students are required to attend a daily Zoom check-in meeting for each class.
✓ Students must communicate questions or concerns immediately with teachers.
✓ If the state requires the school to close, students in Option 2 will continue with this option without interruption.
✓ Students may participate in after-school activities at their building, including extra-curricular activities.
16Teacher/ Paraprofessional Expectations
✓ Online teachers will utilize a combination of Zoom (with live teaching) and Google Classroom for their online classes.
✓ Teachers doing online will still plan and work alongside other teachers in the same grade level and content. Lessons being
delivered for Option 2 students should mirror the same content that Option 1 students are seeing in school each day.
✓ Teachers are to follow their regular school schedule.
✓ Teachers will start each class, everyday, with a 10 minute Zoom check-in meeting.
✓ Live teaching should be happening daily via Zoom or Google. Every zoom meeting or live teaching stream must be
recorded and saved. Those saved videos must be made available to any parent or student who was absent, or just wanted
to play them again. Videos should be of you teaching the lesson. You should continue to stream to help students, watch
them work, or allow for them to show you their content.
✓ Find ways to engage your students. Zoom has ways to poll, do breakout sessions, etc. Check out this link:
https://www.unr.edu/tlt/instructional-design/instructional-technology-resources/web-conferencing/zoom/best-practices.
✓ Communication with students & families: Teachers are required to email or call parents/guardians at least every two weeks.
Teachers will report students who are MIA or not completing work to the administration.
✓ Teachers will check their email multiple times during their scheduled hours. Expect a reply within 24 hours.
✓ Students must log into Google Classroom, join Zoom meetings, complete assignments, etc. If a student is failing, teachers
will contact their parent/guardian. Students that do not complete their assignments, and as a result are failing for 1 full
grading period, will have to go to Option 3 e-learning or Option 1 in-person. Teachers must contact the parent at week 7 to
inform them of their student failing and what would happen if they fail for the grading period (Option 1 or 3). The student
would have 2 weeks to complete work and get above failing. If they do not, the parent would be informed of the required
change at the end of the grading period.
Option 3- Austintown School District’s E-Learning Program
You will be contacted by either Ms. Janet Polish, Director of E-Learning or Mrs. Angela Kopp, Dean of E-
Learning. If you have any questions, please contact them at:
Janet Polish- jpolish@austintownschools.org
Angela Kopp- akopp@austintownschools.org
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