2021-2022 Reentry Plan

Posted on 08/03/2021

Requirements for Reentry:

According to the New Mexico Public Education Department, the following are the minimum requirements for all reentry:

To begin, all districts and schools across the state are permitted to operate strictly according to the COVID-Safe Practices and Department of Health criteria.
Schools must adhere to the social distancing requirements.
Face coverings are required for all students and staff except while eating and drinking, with limited exceptions for students or staff who have been instructed otherwise by a healthcare provider.
All staff must be screened on a daily basis, including a temperature check and review of COVID-19 symptoms. While not required, this is also recommended for students. Los Lunas Schools will be screening students daily.
All sites must work with state and local health officials to create a plan for contact tracing.
Bus transportation requirements:
-All staff and students must wear face masks

Visitors:

Schools should limit nonessential visitors, volunteers, and activities involving external groups of organizations with people who are not fully vaccinated, particularly in areas where there is moderate-to-high COVID-19 community transmission.

Adults that come on campus during school hours and who have not provided evidence of vaccination are required to complete the District Health Screening, including temperature check, upon entry. All visitors must wear face masks while indoors on our campuses.

Definitions:

Asymptomatic Confirmed Case:
A person who has tested positive for COVID-19 by laboratory testing but did not experience any symptoms of illness within 10 days of the test.

Close Contact:
Someone who-
• Has an exposure of three minutes or longer within six feet of a confirmed COVID-19 case with or without a face covering, or
• Was in the same class or cohort as a confirmed COVID-19 case in a school.
• Was on the same bus as a confirmed COVID-19 case

Confirmed Case:
A person who has tested positive for COVID-19 by laboratory testing.* *Confirmatory laboratory tests include Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and antigen testing from a respiratory specimen.

Cohorting:
The practice of keeping groups of students, and staff together over the course of the school day with the goal of limiting exposures to only those within the same cohort. This practice may help reduce the spread of COVID-19 by:
• Limiting exposure to an individual with COVID-19 to one particular cohort and not posing a broad risk to the rest of the school.
• Reducing contact with shared surfaces.
• Facilitating more efficient contact tracing in the event of a positive case.
• Allowing for targeted quarantine, testing, and/or isolation of a single cohort, instead of school-wide measures in the event of a positive case or cluster.

Contact Tracing Process:
Contact tracing is the process of reaching out to individuals who have been exposed to a confirmed case of the virus in order to ensure they take the necessary precautions and receive any needed testing.

COVID-like Symptoms:
Fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of smell or taste, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea.

Infectious Period:
Time during which an infected person is contagious and most likely to spread disease to others. If students, staff, contractors or volunteers were at school during their infectious period, all of their close contacts must be identified and quarantined.

• For a confirmed symptomatic COVID-19 case, the infectious period starts two days prior to the illness onset date and continues 10 days after illness onset AND until patient is fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications AND symptoms have improved.
• For a confirmed symptomatic COVID-19 case with severe illness or severe immunosuppression, the infectious period starts two days prior to illness onset date and extends to 20 days after illness onset date AND until patient is fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications AND symptoms have improved.
• For a confirmed asymptomatic COVID-19 case, the infectious period starts two days prior to the specimen collection date and continues for 10 days after.
• If a confirmed asymptomatic COVID-19 case has severe immunosuppression, the infectious period starts two days prior to the specimen collection date and continues 20 days after.

Isolation:
The act of keeping someone who is sick or who tested positive for COVID-19 away from others by staying home from school, work, and other activities while infectious.

• Isolation should last at least 10 days after the onset of symptoms, and until fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications, and experiencing improvement of symptoms.
• For people who never had symptoms, the isolation period is 10 days after the date their first positive test was collected.
• If someone has a severe illness or severe immunosuppression, the isolation period should be extended to 20 days.
• A negative test is not required to determine when to end the isolation period. Nor does a negative test end the isolation period. When in doubt, the New Mexico Department of Health should be consulted.

Quarantine:
Keeping individuals who were in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 away from others. Close contacts with a confirmed case of COVID-19, should stay home from school, work, and other activities for 14 days following their last exposure. Exposed contacts should be tested for the novel coronavirus (SARS- CoV-2) no sooner than three days, ideally between seven and 10 days, following the last exposure to a confirmed case. If the close contact has a positive result, isolation should be implemented as described above.

Severe Illness:
Indicated by hospitalization in an intensive care unit with or without mechanical ventilation.

Severe Immunosuppression:
Severe suppression of immune response of an individual includes being on chemotherapy for cancer, untreated HIV infection with CD4 T lymphocyte count <200, combined primary immunodeficiency disorder, and receipt of prednisone >20 mg/day for more than 14 days.

• Other factors such as advanced age, diabetes mellitus, or end-stage renal disease, may pose a much lower degree of immunocompromise and not clearly affect decisions about duration of isolation.

Reporting:

The Deputy Superintendent and the district Charge Nurse must be notified immediately by a school/department site if a confirmed case of COVID-19 is detected. Los Lunas Schools must notify the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) as soon as a confirmed case of COVID-19 is detected.

Prevention:

Maintain physical distance..
All staff and students must wear a face mask at all times (except when eating or drinking.
Wash your hands often with soap and water.
Clean and sanitize daily.

Transmission:

The virus spreads from person-to-person primarily. Los Lunas Schools will maintain a daily sanitization schedule with a focus on frequently cleaning high-touch surfaces and areas where students and staff are present. If a staff member or student is feeling ill, please stay at home until the symptoms disappear. Los Lunas Schools will screen all staff and students on a daily basis.

Incubation:

Individuals generally become ill between 2 and 14 days after exposure.

Face Coverings & PPE For Schools:

Reasons for Wearing Face Masks
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that all Americans wear face masks to slow and stop the spread of COVID-19. Universal mask-wearing along with social distancing and hygiene practices are crucial for stopping the spread of this virus. All staff and students on school campuses and district campuses must wear a face mask at all times. There are limited exceptions for staff and students who have been instructed otherwise by a healthcare provider.

Face Mask Criteria
Face masks must cover the mouth and nose and fit snugly against the sides of the face. The types of allowable face masks include:

-Face masks made of two or more layers of cloth.
-Face masks with a clear plastic window.
-Surgical, procedural, N95 or KN95 face masks.
-Face masks must be appropriate to wear at school and must follow dress code requirements.
-Face shields must be worn with face masks.
-Neck gaiters or neck fleece must have two layers.
-Bandanas,scarves, neck gaiters or neck fleece are not considered face masks.

Personal Protective Equipment
The New Mexico Public Education Department requires all district to have a district Point of Contact for PPE. The district Charge Nurse is Los Lunas Schools’ Point of Contact. The following PPE is required by the NMPED:

-Two multi-layer cloth masks per staff member
-Two multi-layer cloth masks per student
-Additional disposable masks for students and staff
-Medical masks (surgical, procedural, KN95 or N95) and a face shield for each staff member with a close contact assignment
-At the request of the employee, a reusable or disposable full-length gown for any employee whose duties subject them to conditions in which social distancing and PPE standards cannot be guaranteed
-Bottled hand sanitizer (with at least 60% alcohol) or soap and water hand-washing stations available for use by employees and students
-Employees who work with staff or students with COVID-like Symptoms (school nurses, staff in isolation rooms, etc.) shall have N95/KN95 masks and face shields

Mask Requirements
Masks are available to those students and staff who need them (including on buses). No disciplinary action should be taken against a student who does not have a mask.

If a student removes the face mask and refuses to wear the mask, then the student will have to be picked up from school and taken home. While waiting for pick up, the students should be supervised and quarantined from other students. Site/District administrators will make the final decision to have students picked up from school.

Discipline Matrix for Violating Mask-Wearing Requirements

1st Occurrence: Staff-Student Contact
2nd Occurrence: Administrator-Student Contact
3rd Occurrence: Administrator-Parent Contact
4th & Subsequent Occurrence: Administration will meet with parents to discuss remote learning. Principal will determine further referral.

Recess and Instruction Outdoors
Students and staff are not required to wear masks while outdoors. Outdoors is considered being entirely outside the school building. Students and staff must adhere to the mask requirement upon entering the school building.

Student Rest Breaks
Students, including preschool students, who rest or nap at school are not to wear masks during their rest breaks and must maintain social distance. Student mats must be spaced at least three feet apart and placed head-to-toe.

COVID-19 SANITIZATION

Daily Custodial Duties During COVID-19
The health and safety of the staff and students is our number one priority. Los Lunas Schools will employ a Supervisor of Custodial Services to oversee the cleaning and sanitization of school sites. Effective and thorough cleaning and disinfection of surfaces, especially those that are high touch, greatly decreases the risk of transmission of infectious disease such as COVID-19. The daily custodial duties are outlined in the Custodial Handbook provided to every custodial employee. During this time of uncertainty with the COVID-19 pandemic, there are additional actions required of the custodial staff. There are several levels of cleaning and it is important to recognize the difference.

Cleaning: removes germs and dirt from surfaces or objects. Soap or detergent and water are usually used to physically remove germs from surfaces. Cleaning does not necessarily kill germs, but removes them and thus lowers their numbers and the risk of spreading infection.

Disinfecting: kills germs on surfaces or objects. Disinfection works by using chemicals. This process does not clean dirty surfaces, so the surfaces must be cleaned first.

Sanitizing: lowers the number of germs on surfaces or objects to a safe level. This process works by either cleaning or disinfecting surfaces or objects.

The CDC recommends cleaning and disinfection of high touch surfaces at least daily. In areas of high traffic, it will be necessary to clean and disinfect more often. Follow the district’s standard procedure for routine cleaning and disinfection. High occupancy areas will require multiple daily cleanings. In addition, staff must use disinfectants that are specifically effective against the coronavirus per the manufacturer’s instructions. Please pay specific attention to the following instructions:

Clean and disinfect correctly, following label directions on cleaning products and disinfectants. Wash surfaces, where appropriate, with water and a cleaner, rinse and follow with a disinfectant to kill germs. If a surface is not visibly dirty, you can use a product that both cleans and disinfects per manufacturer label. Please keep in mind that disinfection usually requires that a product remain on the surface for a period of time (called dwell time) before being wiped off. Manufacturer guidelines will identify dwell time.

Pay close attention to the hazard warnings and directions on product labels. Wear proper PPE, including eye and skin protection and do not mix cleaners and disinfectants unless the labels indicate it is safe to do so. Combining certain products such as chlorine bleach and ammonia can result in serious injury.

Deep Cleaning days will include the daily routine as outlined above plus vacuuming carpets and mopping floors, clean and disinfect window sills, door jams, desks, chairs, cabinets, paper towel, soap and sanitary dispensers, sanitize trash cans and any other items that were missed during the daily cleaning routine.

Items that need to be specifically disinfected during a pandemic:

Restrooms/Bathrooms: doorknobs and handles, light switches and cover plates, paper towel dispenser knobs and handles, faucet handles, toilet and urinal flush levers, partitions, and doors, other items identified on inspection

Cafeteria, dining areas and lounges: refrigerator door handles, microwave door handles and buttons/keypads, table tops, counter tops, doorknobs and handles, light switches and cover plates, vending machine buttons, drinking fountain and other items identified on inspection

Classrooms, offices and locker rooms: doorknobs and handles, light switches and cover plates, telephones, other commonly touched items identified locally such as keyboards, keypads, copiers, mats and mirrors, locker door surfaces, etc.

Other locations: Elevator call and operating buttons, stairway handrails, doorknobs, and light switches, hallway doorknobs and handles, drinking fountain and faucets and other identified high touch objects.

Procedure for a site that has a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 case
First use the reporting protocol to notify the management that a possible or confirmed case of COVID 19 is present. Ensure that individuals without PPE are NOT present in the area to be treated. Place signs or other warning indicators that a cleaning is in progress. Bystanders may not enter into the area until two to three minutes after the process is complete (or manufacturers guidelines).

Use all of the cleaning and disinfecting procedures mentioned above and in addition, employ a disinfectant sprayer to spray all areas from high to low until all surfaces and objects are covered and visibly wet with disinfectant. Allow for the recommended dwell time.

Wipe down where necessary to polish or remove visible residue.

Communications
For Schools:

COVID-19 Point Person:
The COVID-19 Point Person on our campus is Paul Carder. This person is responsible for communicating any confirmed cases and/or any individuals on school campuses who are presenting COVID-19 symptoms to the Deputy Superintendent and COVID Administrator. The point person is also responsible for maintaining a current inventory of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on the school campus. The point person will work with the district Charge Nurse to maintain the NMPED required PPE on the school campus.

Communication With Families:
The NMPED requires the following communication with families:

“Every effort should be made to maintain confidentiality of the infected individual. Within four hours of the school being notified of a positive case, the close contacts should be notified by the school of the requirement to quarantine for 14 days from the last exposure. Students and staff identified as close contacts are highly encouraged to be tested.Within four hours of the initial notification of the positive case, schools must also notify families and staff that a positive case has been identified at the school site.”

Confidentiality Considerations:
An individual’s right to privacy will be considered at all times. In the event of a positive COVID-19 case on campus or of an individual presenting COVID-19 symptoms, the individual’s privacy will be maintained. The district will report the fact that an individual in the school has been determined to have COVID-19. If a staff and/or student has been in contact with an individual with confirmed COVID-19 or with an individual presenting COVID-19 symptoms, the students, parents/guardians, and/or staff member will be notified. Los Lunas Schools must follow the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). In relation to the sharing of information with NMPED Rapid Response members or New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH), FERPA permits communication of Personally Identifiable Information under the health or safety emergency exception.

Surveillance Testing:

The New Mexico Public Education Department requires all schools providing in-person student services, including athletics to conduct COVID-19 Surveillance Testing. The following information is from the NMPED COVID-19 Response Toolkit for New Mexico’s Public Schools:

“The purpose of surveillance testing is to detect COVID-19 outbreaks as early as possible by screening asymptomatic individuals.”:

1. Districts and charter schools must ensure that 25% of their faculty and staff who have not provided evidence of COVID-19 vaccination and work onsite participate in COVID-19 testing each week that student services are provided at school.
2. No staff member should be required to participate in weekly surveillance testing more than once every four weeks.
3. Schools are required to provide student surveillance testing programs to all unvaccinated students on a voluntary basis.
4. Access to COVID-19 testing is provided at no cost to the individual. Insurance information will be required, but deductibles, co-payments, or other out-of-pocket charges will not be incurred. Testing also will be provided to
people without insurance. If payment is requested for COVID-19 testing, please notify Ashley Garcia.

The Los Lunas Schools District COVID-19 Point People are the Deputy Superintendent and the COVID Administrator.

Districts are required to report the number of staff tested for COVID-19 weekly. Los Lunas Schools employees report their test results to the Deputy Superintendent and COVID Administrator once received.

Test to Stay (Modified Quarantine)

All schools will participate in test to stay programs so that unvaccinated close contacts may either be tested for COVID-19 or quarantine at home.

Students and staff participating in test to stay may ride school transportation and participate in instructional activities at school. They may also participate in extracurricular activities, including athletics. Test to stay is only available to those individuals who are exposed to COVID-19 in the school setting. Anyone with exposure to COVID-19 in the household setting is explicitly prohibited from participating in test to stay.

To participate in test to stay requires an individual to test negative on rapid COVID-19 tests on days one, three, and five following exposure (day zero is the day of exposure). A school may require individuals test more frequently than the required three tests. When there is a delay in being notified of exposure, the testing sequence begins on the first day in which a school is notified of the exposure and the individual is in attendance. When a testing day falls on a day that schools are not in session, or a day that a student is absent, the testing sequence resumes on the subsequent school day. Failure to test (regardless of reason) when the individual is at school on a required testing day terminates test to stay for the individual and a return to quarantine at home for the duration of the quarantine period is required.

In the case that an individual participating gin test to stay has a second close contact exposure while on modified quarantine, the testing sequence must be restarted for the most recent close contact.

If an individual on test to stay exhibits COVID-19 symptoms requiring self-isolation, then modified quarantine is terminated and the individual must self-isolate at home pending confirmation of a negative test for COVID-19 ideally, an alternative explanation of the symptoms. If COVID-19 is confirmed, then self-isolation continues for 10 days following the day that symptoms began.

All schools are required to participate in test to stay programs to help ensure more students may continue in-person learning. Schools without current capacity to provide regular rapid COVID-19 testing at school should pursue funding and testing opportunities available through the Department of Health's Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) grant in an effort to successfully implement test to stay programs. Additional information, including registration instructions for the ELC grant may be found at Home-NM Schools COVID Testing. Tests are provided at no cost to schools, and funding through the grant opportunity may be utilized to hire support staff, or pay stipends to existing staff, for administration of the test to stay program.

Test to stay does not change self-isolation requirements for those who have tested positive for COVID-19 and are within the infectious period.

Rapid Response To A COVID-19 Case In School

Reporting of a Positive COVID-19 Case is Required:

Action Step:
1. Ensure the positive individual has been isolated at home. Inform the positive individual and his/her parents/guardians, that the positive individual will need to self-isolate for 10 days from the specimen collection leading to the positive test result AND until fever-free for 24 hours without fever reducing medication AND until symptoms are improving.
Responsible:
School administrator or district/school COVID-19 point person
Timeline:
Within 4 hours of notification

Action Step:
2. If a staff member, also report the positive case within 4 hours to NMENV.
Responsible:
School administrator or district/school COVID-19 point person
Timeline:
Within 4 hours of notification

Action Step:
3. Report the positive case (if infectious while on campus) by the next business day of the school being notified. Be ready to provide information about the positive case.
Responsible:
School administrator or district/school COVID-19 point person
Timeline:
By the next business day

Action Step:
4. Shut down impacted facilities/classrooms for a minimum of 2 hours (24 hours recommended) and perform enhanced cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting of facilities in accordance with CDC guidance.
Responsible:
School administrator or district/school COVID-19 point person
Timeline:
Within 6 hours of notification

Action Step:
5. Provide a COVID-19 Positive Case Letter to all staff and families in appropriate languages and on district/school letterhead. If the positive individual was not at school from 2 days prior to symptom onset (or of asymptomatic, 2 days before the specimen leading to the positive test result was collected) through the isolation period, there is not a school exposure and there is no need to notify the school community.
Responsible:
School administrator
Timeline:
Within 6 hours of notification

Action Step:
6. Call your regional School Health Advocate for any guidance needed regarding testing, cleaning, closure, etc.
Responsible:
School administrator or District/School COVID-19 Point Person
Timeline:
No time requirement

School Quarantine/Isolation Decision:

Person with COVID-19 (PWC) Isolation:
1. Standard: Ends 10 days after date of symptom onset or 10 days after date of test collection for asymptomatic PWC.
2. Severe COVID-19 Illness: Ends 20 days after date of symptom onset.
3. Severely immuno-suppressed: Ends 20 days after date of symptom onset.

NOTE:
Isolation or quarantine are not extended because of the Delta variant.

Exposed Contact (EC) QUARANTINE:
1. Fully vaccinated with not continuous exposure:
-Does not need to quarantine but needs to monitor symptoms for 14 days.
-Recommended to test 5 days after exposure.
-If tested before 5 days and test was negative, recommended to retest 5 to 7 days after exposure due to Delta.
-If becomes symptomatic, needs to self-isolate and test immediately.
2. Fully vaccinated with continuous exposure:
-Does not need to quarantine if remains completely asymptomatic.
-If develops symptoms, must immediately isolate, and get tested.
-Recommended to test 5 days after initial exposure, preferably with a PCR test. Should test again 5 days later and 5 days after PWC finishes isolation when continuous exposure ends. If any of these tests are positive, immediately self-isolate. If all tests are negative, should continue to wear a mask when out in public, as mandated by the public health order.
-Does not need to quarantine for 19 days after PWC finishes isolation and continuous exposure ends.

Not Fully Vaccinated:
1. Not continuous exposure:
-Begin test to stay protocol or needs to quarantine for 10 days after last exposure and continue to monitor for symptoms for 4 days after that.
-Those who quarantine rather than participate in test to stay protocol are recommended to test 5 days after exposure
(If tested before 5 days and test was negative, recommended to retest 5 to 7 days after exposure due to Delta).
(If develops symptoms, must immediately isolate, and get tested).
2. Continuous exposure:
-Needs to quarantine for 10 days from first date of exposure to PWC who they are continuously exposed to (i.e. family member).
-After PWC has finished 10 days of isolation and meets criteria for recover, EC must then quarantine for an additional 10 days (20 days total) from last date of exposure. Last date of exposure is the day PWC completes isolation and is considered recovered.
-Continue to monitor an additional 4 days after 20-day quarantine period.
-Advice for testing is the same as for non-continuous exposure (above).
3. Continuous exposure + PWC with severe COVID-19 illness OR severe immuno-suppression:
-Since PWC has severe illness OR severe immuno-suppression and needs to isolate for 20-days, EC living in home will need to quarantine for those same 20 days and then quarantine for an additional 10 days after PWC isolation is over. This is a total of 30 days of quarantine.
-This guidance will come into play with ECs who choose not to get vaccinated as well as young children who cannot get vaccinated yet.
-PED has questioned kids staying home for 30 days. However, exposure was not a PED exposure but instead a household member exposure.

DEFINITIONS:
Severe COVID-19 illness:
Hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit with or without mechanical ventilation
Severely immuno-suppressed:
One or more of the following:
-Currently on chemotherapy for cancer
-Untreated HIV infection with CD4 lymphocyte count <200
-Combined primary immunodeficiency disorder
-Prednisone >20mg/day for more than 14 days
NOTE:
Unvaccinated students and staff who are close contacts are encouraged to participate in test to stay program and should follow guidance on page 5 of Toolkit.

School Staff & Student Decision Tree:

Are you experiencing symptoms of COVID-19?

NO:
Continue going to school, unless close contact with an infectious individual (see Close Contacts below)

Yes AND NOT tested:
If at home, stay at home and get tested for COVID-19.
If at school, tell your teacher/supervisor immediately and go into isolation unit until you can leave school or get picked up as soon as possible.
GET TESTED:
(strongly encouraged)
Call your doctor. If you do not have a doctor, call the NMDOH hotline at 1-855-600-3453.
Test Result is NEGATIVE:
Stay home until 24 hours fever-free and with improved symptoms.
Test Result is POSITIVE:
Stay home until released from isolation (10 days after symptom onset, 24 hours fever-free, and with improved symptoms)

Are you experiencing symptoms of COVID-19?
Yes AND POSITIVE test:
Stay home until released from isolation (10 days after symptom onset, 24 hours fever-free, and with improved symptoms)
No BUT POSITIVE test:
Stay home until released from isolation (10 days after symptom onset, 24 hours fever-free, and with improved symptoms)

CLOSE CONTACTS:
Have you been in close contact with a confirmed case during their infectious period (in or out of school)?
NO: Continue going to school
YES: Begin test to stay protocol or stay home for 10 days after last exposure to confirmed case (vaccinated individuals do not need to quarantine when they are in close contact with a confirmed positive case).

Air Filtration in Schools

District/School Requirements

High-quality air filtration is one aspect of a multi-pronged strategy for ensuring healthy school environments to address issues and concerns surrounding air quality. The NMPED will work with each district and school to ensure installation of high-quality air filters.

In addition, each district shall have an established and written protocol on inspecting, repairing and providing maintenance on ventilation systems within all school facilities. Ventilation system upgrades and improvements will increase the delivery of clean air and dilute potential contaminants within each classroom and school facility.

Los Lunas Schools identified the highest quality compatible filters and will use MERV 8 filters. Additionally, we will take the following actions in accordance with the guidelines from the CDC:
• Run the central air fan continuously.
• Open dampers to increase air flow.
• Open window and doors (be mindful or possible safety considerations)
• Deploy HEPA air purifiers with high air circulation in every classroom.

Transporting Students:

• While transporting students to and from schools, require students to sit in spaced and assigned seating.
• To the greatest extent possible, a maximum of two students may sit together on a bus seat.
• Assign bus attendants or other additional staff to support with safety and screening of students to the greatest extent possible.
• Provide hand sanitizer for students, bus drivers, and bus attendants.
• Provide face masks for bus drivers and attendants.
• Require bus drivers, bus attendants, and students to wear face masks.
• Screen students, bus drivers, bus attendants, and students for symptoms or illness. Conducting temperature checks on students before they get on the bus is recommended, but not required.
• Clean, disinfect, and sanitize all frequently touched surfaces and the inside of the bus on a daily basis.
• Establish protocols for bus stops and loading/unloading students to minimize congregation of children from different households and ensure that students and staff remain at least six feet apart while waiting for transportation.

Social Emotional Learning:

Los Lunas Schools prioritizes the safety and social emotional well-being of ALL our students, staff, and families.

Social emotional wellness, behavioral health, and culturally responsive trauma-informed care need to be front and center and embedded across all of our work. When both students and staff are physically and psychologically safe, they are able to engage in formal, rigorous teaching and learning. We understand that our staff and students have not been on school campuses for an extended amount of time. Our focus is on ensuring the students and staff feel safe in their learning environment. School personnel will be supporting students and families with the reentry onto campuses. Los Lunas Schools has a Mental Health Team available to support our staff and students as we return to our campuses. Each school site has at least one member of the Mental Health Team available to support staff and students on a daily basis.

Relationships
• Create and maintain healthy, caring relationships among and between students and staff by creating a sense of belonging and connection
• Instruct teachers, educators, and other school staff to support students and families during hybrid and remote learning.
• Offer opportunities for students to share and process their emotions
• Support students and staff in adapting to a new normal and in understanding change in traditional school

Real-time Support
• Recognize and attend to trauma and grief.
• Build infrastructure that allows for screening, care, and connectivity with wraparound services or partners.
• Establish robust, site-based behavioral health support systems and frameworks for check-ins that focus on building healthy
coping skills.
• Create systems to monitor students, staff, and families in order to support those who are struggling.

Instruction During Quarantine:

Instruction will continue if and when students are required to quarantine.

All educators must be prepared to adapt the instructional model to rapidly changing needs due to the continued presence COVID-19 and variants. All students and staff are assigned a district-provided device for the purpose of learning in the classroom and to facilitate transitions between remote, hybrid, and in-person learning in response to changing conditions.

The Family School Digital Academy is the only full-time online option for families who choose to continue learning at home for the 2021-22 school year for grades K-8. High school students and families who choose to learn at home may enroll in a full-time online option at their high school. Families will not have a full-time digital model available at brick and mortar schools.

Educators in all brick and mortar school sites should be prepared for changing conditions by:
1. Continuing to use Canvas, not paper, for all assignments.
2. Continue using Nearpod.
3. Create the habit of bringing teacher devices to and from home daily.
4. Establish the habit for students to bring their devices to and from home daily.

In the event that a student or small group of students must quarantine, the teacher will ensure that the student is able to access in-class lessons either on Zoom or the teacher may video the lesson and post the video on Canvas for students to view later. Teachers may also assign projects, Kahn Academy, or other high-quality grade level digital lessons. Students on temporary quarantine due to COVID-19 exposure will not be enrolled in the Digital Academy in order to maintain continuity with the student’s established teachers.

In the event a class or school is shut down, all teachers and students will immediately transition to full-time remote learning without interruption.

Los Lunas High School