PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, FEBRUARY 12, 2021
More details on
return to in-person
schooling unveiled
BY MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
After Salem-Keizer Public
Schools (SKPS) announced
last week that K-1 students
would be returning to school
buildings on a part-time basis
in early-March, members of
the district cabinet outlined
further plans to get the re-
mainder of students back in
the classroom in a presenta-
tion to the school board on
Tuesday, Feb. 9.
Elementary staff will begin
returning to their respective
schools on Feb. 22. K-1 stu-
dents will return on March
2, followed by Grades 2-3 on
March 9 and Grades 4-5 on
March 16.
Students will go to school
two days per week and then
continue with their classes on-
line for the remainder of the
week. State health guidelines
require masks and physical
distancing — classrooms need
to have at least 35 square feet
of space per person and will
hold approximately 15 stu-
dents at a time.
Though nearly the entire
school year has been held re-
motely thus far, the district has
been doing Limited In-Per-
son Instruction (LIPPI) since
the fall. SKPS Superintendent
Christy Perry believes that the
success of LIPPI has helped
the district facilitate a good
plan for a hybrid model.
“The way that we have
used limited in-person in-
struction has prepared us for
this moment,” Perry said. “If
we had to go back and do it
again, we would do it just like
we did, because we practiced.”
While the dates for return
for elementary education are
set in stone, the district, at
this point, is still unsure when
secondary education (Grades
6-12) will be able to return to
in-person school part-time —
the soonest they could come
back is in early-April, but
a date for return has not yet
been set.
Assistant
superintendent
Iton Udosenata explained to
the board that secondary ed-
ucation is more diffi cult to
facilitate due to limited space,
larger cohorts, scheduling and
transportation issues and the
lack of access to some class-
es — such as certain perfor-
mance arts classes.
“We know there is a lot of
movement with the second-
ary schedule, going through
periods one through fi ve, and
that creates some stress on the
master schedule,” Udosenata
said.
The district is currently
considering two hybrid op-
tions for secondary students.
The fi rst option looks similar
to the elementary model as
students would attend in-per-
son school two days per week
and do the rest of their school-
work remotely. SKPS is also
considering having a model
that includes applied learning
days for students along with
two days of in-person classes.
Applied learning days
would allow students to re-
ceive extra support from ed-
ucators — either in-person
or via distance learning — on
the days where their cohort
isn’t attending school. While
it’s not a clear substitution
for core in-person instruc-
tion, it would allow students
four days of engagement with
school staff.
“We’re looking at very cre-
ative ways to make it a pos-
sibility to work to adjust the
student cohorting so there
might be availability for a
teacher during the applied
learning days, but we don’t
have those details worked out
just yet,” Udosenata said.
If families request for their
students to stay in remote
learning, they should contact
their resident school admin-
istrator, who will discuss op-
tions with the family, answer
questions and submit a request
for the family’s student(s) to
remain in remote learning.
Udosenata also said that the
district is planning to allow
strings/orchestra and percus-
sion to begin instruction at
the secondary level under the
LIPPI model — the district is
still awaiting safety protocols
in order to plan for band and
choir. Elementary choir and
orchestra began virtually last
week and will remain online
for the foreseeable future.
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