Class Supply List 20-21 (PDF) |
It has been quite the roller coaster ride for the last few months with COVID-19. I want to applaud our families that pushed through the end of the school year and hung in there through the many challenges that remote learning brings. Thank you for your dedication.
As we look at the next school year, everyone is wondering the same question. What does education look like for students in the 2020-2021 school year? That is a great question! Our hope is that the school year will begin in green. However, TECS faculty and staff will be prepared for all scenarios. We have already experienced red and orange (high risk, moderate risk) and have ideas and strategies to help streamline and improve what we already did for our students during those times. The question is what does yellow look like (low-risk phase). If we open the school year in yellow or move to yellow, this will be the trickiest to navigate. Yellow means that we can have students at school for learning, but we will need to have additional safety precautions in place. Yellow will have the following guidelines and precautions to ensure that student safety is our priority:
This is the current plan for students attending school in yellow. What about immunocompromised students or students with higher risk populations at their home? To accommodate all of our families, we are making preparations so that everyone can be at school and can feel that they are safe and that those that cannot be at school, can still access the TECS learning environment from home. Though we DO NOT recommend it, if there is a real need, we are able to work with students in getting remote learning set up. We have seen that there are significant drawbacks to students learning from the home environment and that you, as parents, were faced with significant challenges in facilitating their learning at the high level we are accustomed to at TECS. If you do have a student that falls into the immunocompromised category or have family members that do, please contact me ASAP via email at [email protected]. We will need to have something in place before school starts. I also need to know which students might choose this option so that we can balance classes. There are specific guidelines that are required to be followed with this option. Thank you for your continued support. We have amazing students and parents and I have no doubt that the 2020-2021 school year will be wonderful and that we can successfully navigate any and all challenges that may arise. Melani Kirk, Principal |
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March 2024
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