AASD has sent out a letter to parents of K-6 students explaining how the hybrid learning model they intend to start on January 19 will look.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday students will receive ½ day in-person instruction and ½ day virtual instruction.
Students will be divided between 2 in-person sessions, and AM session (8:27-10:57 AM) and a PM session (12:50-3:20 PM).
In order to limit risk, there will be no scheduled recesses or in-person meals but “to go” breakfast and lunch options will be provided to interested families.
The virtual portion of the day will include “asynchronous instruction” and support via Canvas.
Wednesday’s will be fully virtual and will include “asynchronous instruction” in the morning and “synchronous/asynchronous instruction” instruction in the afternoon. [As an aside, AASD’s insistence on using consultant and industry speak is very aggravating. Why not just use a normal term like “scheduled, teacher-lead classes” instead of “synchronous instruction”, and “non-scheduled online learning opportunities” for “asynchronous instruction”? Speaking as someone who works in an industry with a lot of lingo, if I were not able to use plain language and talk in a way that was easily understandable to my clients, I would by failing my job.]
Families will have the opportunity to move from virtual to hybrid instruction or vice versa at the second semester. If they want to switch, they need to complete a School of Choice request by contacting the AASD Attendance
and Enrollment Department at 920-832-6116 or hayesholly@aasd.k12.wi.us. The deadline to apply is 4 PM on Monday, December 7, 2020.
From the letter, “If the number of requests exceeds the number of seats available, a lottery will be conducted for that grade level and a wait list developed. Families will be informed of their School of Choice application status no later than the week of December 14.”
Thus far, the response I’ve seen from parents to this plan is dissatisfaction. Some have voiced that 2.5 hours is not even a full half day and the logistics of getting kids to and from school Fort so little instructional time make it not even worth it.
[I myself am confused by this plan. I thought the original reason to have no in-person instruction on Wednesdays was to deep clean the buildings between different groups of students. But now they’re having two groups of students coming in on the same days, using the same rooms and touching the same things. How does that reduce the spread of germs? And what is the new purpose of having no school on Wednesdays?]
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