School Reopening Considerations Checklist

• Scool Name

• School Location
  Address

• Conducted on

  Date

• Prepared by

CLEANING AND SANITATION

• • Frequent disinfecting of door handles, desks and other common spaces.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Require handwashing in regular intervals.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Keep libraries, gyms, and playgrounds off limits unless they can be sanitized between groups.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Provide hand sanitizer.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

SICK POLICIES

• • Implement temperature checks and / or symptom screening when practical.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Require anyone (students or staff) with COVID-19 symptoms to stay home.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

LIMIT CLASS SIZES

• • Consider breaking larger classes into smaller groups.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Students may alternate school days or attend for half days

  Yes

  No

  N/A

MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCE

• • Consider use of face coverings by all staff and students

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Keep students with the same group and in the same classroom, with teachers rotating when practical.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Consider students eating lunch in the classroom to help limit mixing of students.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Cancel extracurricular activities.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Prevent any non-school staff, including parents, from entering school buildings.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Consider reducing bus loads to allow for one student per seat.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

GRADUATION CEREMONIES

• • Provide a live stream of graduation

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Consider limiting spectator attendance

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • For larger schools, consider grouping graduates or providing multiple ceremonies

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Follow social distancing between families

  Yes

  No

  N/A

ACCOMODATIONS

• For students, teachers, and staff in an at-risk group

• • Schools that reopen will need to take into consideration that some teachers and staff will fall into the at-risk category because of their age or other health risks. These individuals should have additional accommodations including: teaching classes remotely, utilizing a larger classroom where social distancing can be maintained, or given an option not to return until the risks are reduced.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Students who are high risk or who have family members who are high risk should not be penalized for failing to attend and should continue to receive remote support.

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Accommodations should also be extended to students and staff who are required to quarantine due to exposure or potential exposure

  Yes

  No

  N/A

CONFIRMED or SUSPECTED case of COVID-19

• • Collaborate with public health to ensure each school has a plan for reporting, contact tracing and both short-term or extended closures in the case of a positive COVID case related to the school or community

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• • Utilize CDC guidelines https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/guidance-for-schools.html

  Yes

  No

  N/A

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