• No outside or parent classroom volunteers will be allowed until the County Health Officer approves their participation.
• Any adult checking-in or picking up a student must wear a mask and maintain social distance.

• Students will line up in a scheduled fashion with their respective class to enter any indoor instructional area.
• Students will only move with their respective class. 
• Social distancing will be maintained during the travel between instructional areas.

• Staff will take steps to reduce traffic at drop-off and pick-up locations.  Staggered schedules will be established.
• Staff will lead students to navigate travel on the campus with the previously prescribed paths of travel.
• Students will be monitored by staff before school to ensure adherence to social distance and minimize social mixing.

• Any staff member that is symptomatic of the virus including a temperature above 100.4 degrees should remain home and contact their immediate supervisor.
• Each school site will have a separate quarantine room for any student or staff displaying symptoms of the virus. Students and/or staff displaying a temperature or symptoms of the virus will be contained to the quarantine room until they can be safely released from campus. The quarantine room will receive immediate deep cleaning after use.
• If any student or staff member is confirmed to have the virus the entire school community will be notified and the County Health Officer will direct next steps for that respective student population

• The Superintendent will coordinate the actions of our staff regarding testing and periods of quarantine. The Superintendent will also coordinate all return to work stipulations.
• School Site Principals and School Nurses will coordinate the actions of students regarding testing and periods of quarantine. The respective Site Principals and School Nurse will coordinate any return to school stipulations for students.
• Testing protocols for asymptomatic individuals will be dictated by the State or County Public Health Office. 
• Our plan is to follow state guidance from CDPH updated on January 14, 2021 and test all staff every two weeks.  This will begin when state testing services are set up.  Until such time, Hickman School employees will participate in staff testing under the testing initiative being coordinated Self Insured Schools of California every two months. 

• The school district will provide the local health department with contact information of all those students or staff who have been determined to have COVID or have been a close personal contact to someone with COVID.
• The local County Public Health Department will use that information to contact trace as necessary. 

• In coordination with the County Public Health Officer, the HCCD will use ParentSquare posts and direct messages to immediately communicate to affected stakeholders of potential virus exposures. 
• The HCCD Pandemic Plan, a guide for maintaining safe school, structures and buildings has been updated to include protocols and procedures to implement when there is a pandemic or like situation (i.e. COVID-19).  

• Restrooms will be wiped down twice daily and thoroughly cleaned at the end of each day.
• Hand sanitizer will be available in all instructional areas.
• Staff will be provided with sanitation kits with gloves, disinfecting solution, and paper towels.
• Student device keyboards, screens, and mice will be wiped clean by each student at the end of their use on each school day. Students will have devices assigned to each specific student for the entire school day. Devices will not be shared.
• Students will not share basic school supplies.
• Tissues will be available within each classroom.  
• Atomizers will be used in all instructional areas on a nightly basis. 
• Afternoon/Evening Custodians will be assigned to deep clean each school site on a daily basis. This cleaning will be consistent with the established protocols from the Centers for Disease Control.
• HVAC systems will be updated with MERV-8 filtration and addition iWave filtration system
• Drinking fountains have been made inoperable.  Only no-touch bottle filling stations are available for use.
• Any student displaying signs of sickness will be immediately referred to the school site nursing station for assessment.

Students will be taught to wash their hands for 20 seconds or more:

• before leaving for school in the morning.
• when they arrive at school.
• before and after eating.
• after using the restroom.
• after playing on the playground.
• before entering any indoor instructional area.

• Signage will be prominently displayed at all sites reminding individuals of proper virus safety protocols.
• Students will frequently be reminded of virus safety protocols.
• Hand sanitizing stations will be available in all instructional areas and bathrooms.
• Portable hand sanitizing stations will be utilized at strategic locations on the playground and lunch areas.

• General COVID-19 safety procedures and protocols have been posted on the HCCD website and at all school sites.
• All staff will receive on-site training.
• All staff will complete the Target Solutions COVID-19 and all other trainings noted in HCCD Reopening Plan Checklist. 
• The HCCD website and ParentSquare will be utilized to communicatewith parents.

• All bus routes will be continuously evaluated to make physical distancing by cohort.
• Students will be required to sanitize their hands upon entering the bus.
• Masks will be required for all on the bus unless medical exemption.
• Social distancing will be utilized when possible with cohorts or families sitting together.

Effective 2/22/2021

• Student desks will be spaced at maximum but not less than 4 ft.
• All student desks will be faced the same direction.
• Plexiglass or similar sneeze guard barriers will be placed on all desks
• Doors or windows will be opened to increase ventilation.
• Classes will beencouraged to meet for periods outside when weather permits.

• Cohorts breaks will be scheduled to reduce the overlap at restrooms.
• Students will be frequently reminded of social distance and of the need to wash their hands.

• Students will be reminded of social distance practices.
• Each class will be instructed that their play needs to be within a prescribed area to limit social mixing of classes.
• All students will return to class in a scheduled fashion to limit hallway and entry congestion.

• Masks will be required for all students unless a medical exclusion note is on file. 
• Masks will be required by all staff unless a medical exclusion note is on file. 
• Students and staff may wear a face shield for pedological or developmental reasons or if there is a medical exemption from a physician.  Face shields must include a drape to the shoulders.