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JANUARY 15, 2021, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3 Schools still planning for Feb. opening BY MATT RAWLINGS Of the Keizertimes After Gov. Kate Brown announced last month the goal of having students re- turn to in-person classes by mid-February, the leaders of Salem-Keizer Public Schools (SKPS) have been coming up with a plan to have kids safely re-enter their school build- ings. On Tuesday, Jan. 12, as- sistant superintendent Kraig Sproles addressed the Sa- lem-Keizer School Board and informed them where the district was at in the reopen- ing process. The message that ele- mentary students are the priority and will be the fi rst ones to return to school has been consistent throughout the pandemic. That empha- sis hasn’t changed as Sproles stated that getting elementa- ry students back to in-person instruction will be the dis- trict’s main focus. “Some of the gaps that happen in early elementa- ry are really hard to get over with a digital learning expe- rience. If you can’t read and you don’t have someone to sit next to you to help you nav- igate a computer, it’s going to be hard to learn to read. That’s why that focus is there,” Spro- struction, that still is a hybrid les said. Over the last sever- model. They will still have al months, SKPS has been the digital learning compo- working collaboratively with nent,” Sproles said. “When we Marion County and Polk bring back students, we will have to cohort County health students real- author ities. ly tightly. We The groups need to follow are still in the all of our phys- process of de- ical distancing, veloping a our facial cov- vaccination erings and our schedule for 35 square feet SKPS educa- per person in tors. a space. All of H oweve r, those things Sproles did still need to be inform the followed.” board that If or when school nurses, a student tests occupational positive for therapists and C OV I D - 1 9 , physical thera- the cohort will pists in the dis- return to tem- trict received porary online vaccinations learning. on Jan. 4. “We will While the — Kraig Sproles have cas- district is do- es from the ing their best communi- to bring stu- dents back to in-person ty brought into our schools. learning, Sproles clarifi ed that That just is something that students would still be under will happen. When that hap- a hybrid model and would be pens, we will work closely in cohorts that go to class ei- with Marion and Polk to iso- ther Tuesday and Thursday or late the cases and trace them down using contact tracing, Wednesday and Friday. “When we say bringing which means we may have to students in for in-person in- pull out cohorts of students,” “When we say bringing students in for in-person instruction, that still is a hybrid model. They will still have the dig- ital learning component.” Sproles said. “That’s the posi- tive of the cohort. If you have a few people test positive, you don’t have to shut down the entire school.” Assistant superintendent Iton Udosenata also shared that the district will be solic- iting feedback on in-person plans from educators, students and others in the community. “We want to maximize our communication to make sure that all community mem- bers know the details about how we plan to bring stu- dents back safely. 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