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All right, I think it's time to get started. Welcome, everybody. Good evening. Welcome to this evenings Town Hall in Mineola, those Bienvenidos a vessel compania nos esta noche Estancia. My name is Dr. Farris Subbu. I'm the county superintendent of schools. And I'm joined by all 10 Santa Cruz County school district superintendents and two special guests. Dr. Steven McGee from Dominican foundation and Dr. NET then that Mickey Wits who is president and CEO of Dominican hospital. Together we'll be discussing school plans to safely bring students back to the classrooms, vaccination of school personnel and health and safety procedures that schools are taking to minimize the risks of COVID-19 on our campuses. Before we get started, I'd like to let you know that this meeting is being recorded. And that simultaneous Spanish translation is available this evening. Our translators name is Jessica said Annika Sonia, you may access the setting by selecting the globe icon at the bottom of the screen. Those who said yeah, this is good. k is the compassionate Rosita it means that someone's gravano C is interesa escuchado is accounting espanol is pedimos our k by n econo then global castagna partner inferiority la Hina alto Corolla wedding seleccionar Spanish espanol. Yes, Eve wedding escuchado Annalisa para Tora. Jessica Sara Naka, Sanjana, he escuchado toda la junta de la presentazione. In espanol. tonight's meeting, we're going to begin with a brief presentation from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education. We'll be hearing from each of our district superintendents and our partners from Dominican hospital and Dignity Health. We're going to reserve time at the end of the meeting to answer questions from the public. Please feel free to enter your questions in the question and answer icon that you have on the zoom screen. We're going to try to address as many questions as possible during the the zoom meeting today. And please know that we are going to since we are presenting this as a countywide group, we may not be able to answer very specific questions that relate specifically to your school or your school district. Those questions will probably come from communication that you'll be receiving from your from your school district superintendent.
Throughout the pandemic, schools and parents and school personnel, I've shared a deep sense of urgency to help students return to their classroom safely. We have reached a grim milestone 500,000 deaths caused by COVID-19 in the United States, and so many of us have personally experienced tremendous loss and grief. It's been a year since most of our students have walked into our classrooms, our students, our parents, our teachers, our school staff and leaders are tired, they're exhausted. We're working as hard as we can to restore the safety net that our schools represent for our communities. Maximizing safe face to face time with students is crucial not only for their academic well being and success, but for their social emotional well being. Expanding in person instruction. And service is especially important for all our students, and especially for our students of color. Our special education students, language learners or foster youth students, students experiencing homelessness, those with food insecurity and those with limited internet connectivity. Because they're these students have have experienced have had the hardest time during this this pandemic. For many of our students, it's been a year since they were on campus. And despite this, and with the continued limited opportunities for in person social interactions, our students and parents and our entire school community have demonstrated remarkable resilience and strength. Our teachers and support staff have continued to work together tirelessly to provide students and families with educational services, food services, internet connectivity and mental health support. Our education community and public health leaders have worked in partnership throughout this crisis to develop readiness systems that will facilitate a safe return to classrooms for hybrid instruction. We are so excited to share the latest developments regarding our response to COVID-19 in our community, and its implications for schools, updates regarding vaccinations for school personnel and school plans, and expansion of inperson hybrid instruction and protocols to minimize the risks of COVID-19 at schools and in the classrooms. I'm now going to invite the Santa Cruz County superintendents, superintendents of all the districts in Santa Cruz County to introduce themselves I'm going to ask them all to turn their cameras on and take a moment to introduce themselves. I have had the opportunity to work with this amazing group of leaders very closely. And I have been inspired by their fierce advocacy for students and families. Mr. Hefner, would you start by introducing yourself.
Good evening, everybody. My name is Mike Hefner, and I work as the chief advocate for Bonnie doon union elementary school district as their superintendent.
Hi, good evening, everybody. Thanks for being here. My name is Michelle McKinney and I'm the proud Superintendent of Happy Valley School District.
Welcome. Hello, my
name is Dr. Laurie Chamberlin. I'm the superintendent of the Lego School District.
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there it is. Yes, sorry. My name is Diane Morgenstern and I am the Grateful Superintendent of mountain Elementary School District.
Good evening. I'm Eric gross. And I'm the superintendent of Pacific elementary school districts in Davenport.
Good evening.
I'm Dr. Michelle Rodriguez, Superintendent of partial Valley Unified School District. Thank you for being here tonight.
Evening, I'm Chris Monroe. And it's my honor to serve as superintendent in Santa Cruz city schools. We appreciate you taking the time to join us this evening.
Good evening, everyone. I'm Dr. Laurie Bruton from San Lorenzo Valley. unified. Glad to have you here.
Good evening, everyone.
I'm
Tanya Kraus, very proud Superintendent Scotts Valley unified.
evening, everybody. Thanks for joining us tonight. My name is Scott Trumbull, and I'm the very proud Superintendent of socail. Union Elementary School District.
Thank you to our superintendents, thank you for joining us tonight. And thank you for your leadership, your leadership as champions for our students and for bringing our students back to the classroom. Good to share my screen once again. And I'd like to invite and introduce the Santa Cruz County Office of Education's director of school safety Jennifer busying who's going to give us a brief update on the state of the pandemic in our county. Miss busying works as our liaison to public health and helps keep us up to date on guidance from the state as well as interfacing with all the different agencies and partnerships that we have. And as we address the pandemic and the needs of our community is busying.
Hi, good evening, everyone. Thank you. And thank you so much. Faris, Dr. sebata. It is great news that our local health leaders really have a lot of growing optimism right now about our local response to COVID-19. And as you can see, we are continuing on a downward trend and all of our important numbers, such as our case rates, the number of new cases per day hospitalizations, and deaths and the 446. current active cases in Santa Cruz County is a tremendous reduction from where we were just a few weeks ago. And Santa Cruz County remains in the state's widespread purple tear right now, we did not quite make a tear change this last week. But our numbers are on a really good path for doing so. As you can see, our adjusted case rate is 8.6. And our positivity rate is 2.9. We were hoping that case rate would come down to seven but we're almost there. And we do need to have read metrics for two weeks prior to going into that red tear. So this could be week one and next week could be week two. And so just in a couple weeks, we could be there. But regardless of our numbers, I look forward to continuing to support all of our schools, all of our school districts and staff and students and families as we safely return to more important and in person services. And thank you so much again. And that concludes my presentation on the current state of the pandemic in Santa Cruz County.
Thank you so much, Mr. Singh. And now I'd like to welcome Superintendent Scott Trimble. He's a superintendent of So Cal union Elementary School District. And he'll be talking a little bit about what this COVID-19 data means for our schools.
Thank you, Superintendent Subbu. Many of our schools have been providing in person instruction to small stable cohorts of our county's highest needs students since the fall. And now, based on the California Department of Public Health guidelines for schools, we're able to expand those crucial in person services. Since the county's COVID-19 adjusted case rate dropped below 25 or 100,000. population. We reached this important milestone earlier this month. And as Miss busying mentioned, our adjusted case, right now stands at 8.2. we're now able to reopen our elementary schools for in person instruction. The state defines the reopening technically reopening schools when we invite an entire grade level to participate for in person instruction. Thank you so
much, Superintendent Trimble. And I'd like to now introduce Dr. Laurie Burton from San Lorenzo Valley to discuss what will happen when Santa Cruz County transitions to the red tier.
You know, there's been a lot of interest in the county as to when we're going to open up schools not only Elementary in hybrid, but when we'll be moving to middle school in high schools. So I just think it's important that we understand right now we're in the purple tier with an adjusted rate of 8.6. But we're believing that in the weeks to come, we will drop below seven cases per 100,000 in the adjusted rate and we will move into the red tier and be able to begin to offer on campus and in person services did both middle school and high school. I believe every district in the county is committed to that we all have a reopening plan that includes in person services for students as well as an online option. So as soon as we move into the red tear, we'll be able to to offer more information and exact specific information for each school district. Thank you.
Thank you, Superintendent Burton. You know, vaccination has been such an important aspect of our multifaceted plan to expand in person services for students. Through a crucial partnership with Dominican hospital and Dignity Health, we've been working hard to vaccinate all educators using a strategic phasing process, beginning with our kinders students, preschool teachers and support staff and proceeding in order from the lowest grades through the highest grade levels. We believe wholeheartedly that the COVID-19 vaccination effort represents an important part of our of the steps that we've taken to stop the pandemic and unnecessary element in the effort to bring our students back to classrooms as quickly and safely as possible. We've been so fortunate to work with Dominican hospital and dignity foundation to help vaccinate over 75% of our K 12 education staff.
I'd like to take a moment to introduce two leaders in our community who have been heroes in many ways for our educators, Dr. Nanette Markowitz, who is the president and CEO of Dominican hospital, and Dr. McGee, who works leading the vaccination effort for dignity foundation. These two people helped us vaccinate over 4500 teachers and other support staff over 75% of our of our community of educators. And it is as a result of their relentless efforts and them championing the importance of opening a schools that we've been able to achieve this milestone and make such giant leaps and moving forward with our ability to open up our schools. I'd like to give them both an opportunity to introduce themselves. And tell us a little bit about what is driving them to support schools with this important work. Dr. Markowitz? We can't hear you, Dr. mikovits.
Isn't that the phrase of the year you're on mute. So thank you, Paris, what a great opportunity and your kind words are really helpful for us. So to make it possible, we're very proud of the opportunity that we've had to collaborate with the County Office of Education to vaccinate our teachers. We're fortunate that in the beginning to mid December We had enough vaccine to get all of our health care providers, as well as many first responders and other tier one individuals. So our parent corporation, a common spirit health was gracious enough, as was the county of Santa Cruz, to provide us vaccine to continue to deliver to the community. I think the kudos should go out to Ferris. He is the relentless one on Ferris found me down in watsonville. One day we were vaccinating ag workers. And he said, Let's start with kindergartens and who doesn't love kindergarteners? After all, we started with kindergarteners. And now we've worked our way through, you know, it was a great opportunity to collaborate with Gail Newell, she was a great integrate leader for us. And we could start doing our vaccine efforts with the teachers. And so I think it's really important to us to have our teachers back in the classrooms, it's important to us for them to be safe. And for our students to be safe. As many of you know, we have about 1700 employees, many of them who are collaborating with you to school children remotely. And I think it'd be great for them to have that opportunity for their kids to have more in person learning. You should also know my dad was a school teacher, and so as my sister so obviously I recognize and respect greatly the work that you do. And I know how hard it's been for you to teach via zoom and other creative activities. And so whatever we can do to get you back to some semblance of normalcy is important to us. Dominican has an 80 year commitment to this community were 80 years strong. In this pandemic, we are celebrating one year of being open with our incident command and I use the term celebration very loosely. But we are coming upon that milestone and our hospital has done the bulk of inpatient work here up in North County. So it's really important to us to put ourselves out of the inpatient COVID business by keeping everyone safe and getting more people vaccinated if possible. I just want to comment how grateful I am to the partnership with the county and with their leaders. They have been stepping up they have worked with us tirelessly, they have supported our efforts. And overall I think, you know truly does take a village to get us out of this present situation. Going forward. We intend to pass the baton to our colleagues and friends over at the Dignity Health Medical Foundation. These doctors are your neighbors, your friends, your kids, classmates and parents and they are very committed to expanding services to the people of Santa Cruz. So I'm going to pass the baton literally and figuratively to Dr. Steve McKee. on Periscope I want to introduce you, but I
thank them. So I'm happy to join you actually, literally from Barbara, Hi, Jim, where we just wrapped up our 27th vaccination clinics since January 20. So I just can't say enough about efforts for providers or staff or volunteers. In terms of getting these clinics up and running and successful. The partnership with Arbor has been fantastic for us. I think the facilities been great and really helped out the community a lot. Thanks to everybody's efforts, we were fortunate enough to get through our first priority target group of the 65 and over population for the most part about two weeks ago and had the opportunity to open up for some extra vaccinations with short notice. We were able to partner with Ferris and the county office of education to was, again very short notice getting hundreds of over 1000 teachers scheduled to get them in quickly. And so we recognize that the cost of the pandemic is not just measured in deaths and hospitalizations, but really the impact on lives and certainly the schools being closed as a huge cost to our youth and so anything we can do to help get the schools back open. We're excited to be part of so we look forward to continuing to collaborate and try and keep keep the ball moving here.
Dr. McGee and Dr. mikovits Thank you so much for your leadership. Thank you so much for everything you've done in support of the educational community in our students. It's you or your efforts have helped us to move our our timeframe forward and able enable us to opened up our elementary schools. And so we are so grateful to you for that. Your partnership has meant so much and your commitment to the health and well being of our students. Because as you said, it's not only about helping our school staff and teachers be protected, but it does mean that we are able to bring our students back and provide them that those create that safety net for students, we are so grateful for your leadership, thank you. And I'd like to talk a little bit about the kinds of things that we've done in our schools to prepare our schools, when it comes to the kind of the factors that we've put in place and systems that we've put in place to make sure that that we are protecting this for the safety of our staff and our students. And vaccination was one of those efforts. But there's also a wide range of efforts and systems that we put in place to make sure that our students are our safe. And I'd like to invite two people, Superintendent Rodriguez from baja Valley Unified School District and Superintendent Monroe, from Santa Cruz city schools to discuss the COVID-19 mitigation systems that we've been we've put in place.
Sorry about that I was muted. Thank you, Dr. Saba, we've worked hard to put many systems in place to minimize the risk of COVID-19 at our school sites and our central offices. Because of the comprehensive health and safety procedures we have put in place, we're really proud to share that contact tracing processes have shown us there not been any instances of COVID-19 transmission among the in person services we've already been offering since fall. For example, in Santa Cruz city school schools, we have 1000 students participating in small cohorts. And although community spread has come to campus, there's been no transmission in the time that we've been open since October. And we feel confident that the systems we have in place will continue to keep both our students and our staff safe moving forward. Dr. Rodriguez is going to share with us some specifics about those systems. Yes,
thank you so much. So what as each and every superintendent. So we meet twice a week, the key thing that is a common thread is that we are placing the safety of our students, our families and our staff as paramount. And so this entire time, we have been working to ensure that the systems and the protective mitigation strategies that cdph and our county have put in place are there for us. And so when we look at this graphic, it does a really wonderful job of talking about all the protective layers, which are within there. So first and foremost, it's really ensuring that we are screening and quarantine any of our students and and staff that's coming onto campus. We know the importance of face coverings. And so whether it was through the county through the state or through individual districts, we've ensured that every single staff member and students are going to have the protective pp. So personal protective equipment that they need in order to ensure so we will be requiring that they unless they are exempted that they are wearing the face coverings. You hear a lot about the physical distancing and the stable cohorts. So our teams and our contingency teams, which include both of our unions are csta. And our certificated unions have really worked together to identify solutions and ways in which we can serve students and maintain them in those stable cohorts. We have all of us have done intensive work around h fac systems. So we had an inter agency, each school district within the county work together to develop an interagency group, which went school to school to really evaluate our h fac our air quality to ensure that we have that and we also have HIPPA filter or HIPAA purifiers so that when we need an extra even an extra layer of air purification that we have that and of course, cleaning and ensuring that we're disinfecting and surveillance testing. So through the support that Dr. spa, he reached out to Stanford University so we as a county, we have been doing surveillance testing for months prior to really need Unit, I'm ensuring that we have our systems up and running so that we can provide that surveillance testing and ensure that we are protected that way. And then lastly, and we've already talked about it, something that we all felt was important, which is vaccinations for all members of our educational community. So that's our teachers, our staff, including our classified and certificated substitutes our coaches and student teachers. And so we are, we believe that we've been very detail oriented, and we're ready to implement those mitigation strategies so that everyone is safe, and we can continue to serve students in person. So thank you.
Thank you so much, sir, superintendent, Rodriguez and Monroe. I'd like to now introduce Superintendent Morgenstern of mountain elementary school district to discuss a little bit about what safe state school safety will look like, when schools are opening up and bringing students back to the classroom.
Dr. Rodriguez, set the table for me very nicely there. Thank you. We want to reassure the community that safety has always been our ultimate priority. So pivoting into the demands of COVID-19 prevention is already a natural priority for us. And one of the silver linings of the unfortunate long wait that we've all had in the height of the pandemic, is that it's given us significant time for a deep dive into all of our safety planning and protocol. So we are in fact, ahead of the curve. Our shared priority, which I'm sure you share with us is that we not only safely open but that we stay open, we don't want a yo yo our community with incomplete efforts to make sure that once we receive your students, we can do so in such a way that they can stay with us throughout the school year and beyond into next year. So as our students are returning to the classroom, as Dr. As Mr. Turnbull said, that's already begun in many of our school districts in a targeted fashion. But as we uptick and size up, scale up our ability to serve your children in our schools, we want you to know and take to your heart with confidence that we will continue to adhere to all of the Department of Public Health California Department of Public Health safety regulations and best practices, which we have been studying very closely. So as we move forward here into March and April, approximately half of our students will be present on our campuses on any given day at the elementary level. And we'd like to give you the analogy of a layered approach based on the latest public health guidelines which are continually being revised based on the science so all of our decisions and planning is rooted in the science. And Dr. Rodriguez referred to some of those in her presentation, the screening that we'll do when students arrive at school to ensure they're safe to be on campus, the face coverings, the shielding that we'll use, the distancing that's part of the guidelines, hand washing and disinfecting and more on all really feeds in on what I would best describe as a layered approach to ensuring that students are safe when they're at school. So each of the particular details and protocols will be outlined by your school district, I'm sure that you are already receiving ample communication. And we'll continue to do so from your superintendents and your site principals about all the mitigation strategies that are in place to make sure that our schools are COVID safe. So in terms of the granular details, the dates and the schedules will be provided by each school district. Later in our presentation tonight, you'll see a little bit about the initial rollout dates that are coming first and foremost, which as the doctor mentioned, begin with pre K, TK and kindergarten. And they vary somewhat according to key factors, examples of which are the size of the school and the district, the capacity of the facility, the grade span that we're serving, and more. We also want to reassure you that if for reasons unique to your family, that you're not able to come on campus at this time that you wish to continue in distance learning that all of the districts have been planning for strategies to ensure that your children can stay connected to schooling and their educational experience and receive that optimal educational benefit. Even at this time, you need to opt into remote learning, although we're expanding our in person services. So we just want you to hear and reinforce from a safety lens that we are primed and ready to receive your students and on an emotional level. We are floating high with excitement. Our hearts are singing because like you we waited a long time to get to this next phase. So it's my pleasure to have the responsibility to reassure you that our systems are up and running and ready to go and we're just so very excited to receive your children. Thank you
Thank you Superintendent Morgenstern. And now I'd like to introduce Superintendent Chamberlain of Live Oak school district to illustrate what teaching and learning is going to look like when schools are able to bring students back to the classroom in greater numbers. Dr. Chamberlain,
thank you, Dr. Silva. So this is an exciting time for us, we've taken so many steps and been preparing, there's so many precautions in place. And now we get to talk about the exciting piece of teaching and learning and having kids back in school. So with this plan, we'll be able to provide in person instruction for all students in every district through hybrid models. So if you see at the top of that screen, hybrid means that part of the time they're being taught in school in the classroom, and part of the time they're going to continue working online. And and doing asynchronous work, as we call it. This, these hybrid schedules are put into place because we have to provide a six foot distance between every student so by doing that, you have half as many students in the classroom at any one time, which is very important. each district has developed their own hybrid schedule. And this is all been done with staff and parent input. And the schedules can either be an AMPM schedule in a district, where half the students come in the morning and half come in the afternoon, or it can be an alternate day schedule, where certain students come to schools, for example, on Monday, Wednesday, and other students come to school on Tuesday and Thursday. So what that looks like in terms of their an instructional day really depends on each district in which model that district has adopted. But I'll give you an example. So if you are a third grade student, and the state has required certain number of instructional minutes per day, for every, every grade level, so third grade student would be four hours, if they have an AMPM schedule, they might come to school in the morning for approximately two hours of web instruction in class. And then they would go home and they would complete their online instruction for two hours. And that online instruction is independent. So they're going to be using one of the programs or many of the problems that each district has adopted for math, language arts, other subject areas. So they would do that independently, because their teacher is going to be in school with the pm group when they're at home. If it's an alternate day schedule, and the student completes four hours a day, it would be four hours a day, on Monday and Wednesday, if that's those are their days in class, and four hours a day at home doing independent work, if that is their schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So it varies based on district models. If If a family chooses to continue in distance learning, they would just need to make sure they select that option. And that is communicated through their school, most, most likely through surveys. And so every, every family does need to determine if they're going to have their child participate in school in a hybrid model, or if it can continue in distance learning. So that would look a little different than it looks now. Because teachers are in class with students. And it could look like the teacher the students are zooming along with their classmates who are in school and, and they're having that live inter interaction online, and then they do their independent work for the remainder of their day. In some situations, there may be some classes that are distance learning only. So it really depends on each district. And then finally, with special education services, we will continue to offer either in person or online classes for special education with students special education instructors, RSP speech, occupational therapy, and then also those students in specialty classes. They will also be returning with everyone else with all the other grade levels. So again, parents would have the option if you're a special day class parent to continue just to come in or to do distance learning. And otherwise, each district is going to vary and how the the additional special ed services
are offered.
Thank you, Superintendent Chamberlain. I'd like to now introduce Superintendent Trimble to introduce a video that will help us illustrate what schools are going to look like what we returned to the classrooms.
I'm very excited to introduce this this was our first foray into in person learning after the pandemic hit. And it was filmed. Main Street elementary go blue herons. Not all the protocols in this video are ones you'll see at your school, but it'll give you an idea of what school might look like.
Thank you, Superintendent
As schools across the country prepare to reopen for the new school year, we know many of our students and parents have questions. We're here to help inform you on our approach to ensure the safety of all of our students and staff. Each school site will have a dedicated staff waiting to greet and process students before entering the campus. When students arrive at the designated drop off area, they must place their mask on before leaving the car. To
put on your mask, make sure it covers your entire mouth and your ears shrink should be lifted and yours if your mass has strings that tie together make sure it's tight enough so that it doesn't fall
off. Before entering the campus students will meet with staff members at the front of the school to get their temperature check. Students who record a high temperature and or exhibit COVID symptoms will need to return home with their parents. Once students are cleared and able to enter the campus, they will wait to be escorted to their classroom the rest of the students. Classrooms will maintain desks at six feet apart when possible. Teachers will have minimum direct contact with students during class time. Everyone, including instructors and guests will be required to our face coverings when in the classroom at all times. When students enter the bathrooms, they'll see some stations blocked off to create space between each student.
After using the restroom, make sure to wash your hands for 20 seconds before going back to class.
Students who receive a school lunch will need to wait in a single file line distance from each other and pick up a grab and go lunch box from the non contact lunch counter. We hope that our students and parents feel confident in the safety precautions that the county office of education is taking to keep your child healthy.
Thank you so much, Superintendent Turnbull for allowing us to film that, that those those protocols over there at the at Main Street and and you know, I think that it does give us a little bit of a sense for parents as to what what school is going to be like it's going to be very different. At the same time, seeing students coming back to classroom is bringing so much happiness to parents and students and teachers and support staff alike. Now I'd like to invite Superintendent McKinney from Happy Valley to describe the proposed reopening plans for our elementary schools.
Hi, everybody. I just wanted to talk about what our districts have been working behind the scenes, each districts have been working closely with their teachers and classified staff for a plan to return their students safely back into the classroom. every district has developed a plan to bring back students in hybrid schedules, and a lot of variables impact timelines. So this is why you see differences in start dates between the districts. This table illustrates current plans start plans for each of the districts, the specific of hours, times and other details will be spoke you'll be able to speak with your district separately about those. I just want everybody to know that everybody is excited to see your children. Our teachers are ready. We are ready. We have open hearts and open arms for you. And I just want to say a big shout out to every single teacher in Santa Cruz County for putting your heart and soul into distance learning and we're looking forward to seeing them on campus and fers. Thank you for all of your hard work.
Thank you so much. Superintendent McKinney. I'd like to now invite Superintendent Krauss from Scotts Valley Unified School District who's going to share some recent updates from the California Department of Education and the California Department of Public Health as it relates to sports. Superintendent Krauss
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so thank you Dr. savant. Good evening, everyone. So I'm going to be providing you just a brief overview of the recently updated cdph guidance that takes effect tomorrow February 26 for youth and recreational and adult sports. This guidance applies to all organized youth sports and recreation including school and community sponsored programs and privately organized clubs and leagues. There are three categories low contact, moderate contact and high contact sports. High contact sports or team sports with frequent or sustained close contact and in many cases face to face contact between participants. While are a contact sports or team sports that can be played with only incidental or intermittent close contact between participants. There's general guidance provided, however that local health departments and school districts may have stricter rules and should be consulted to confirm what is allowed. Other general guidance includes face coverings, physical distancing, informed consent, testing, hygiene and equipment sanitation, and limitations on mixing of participants. Depending on risk level, whether it's high or moderate risk, and our county case rates, general guidelines may be required for play about door sports, depending on which color Tier or county is in, purple, red, orange or yellow. The guideline has outlined a matrix for what outdoor and indoor sports will be allowed in each of those respective tiers. Certain sports are now allowed in the purple in red tears, but only outdoors. For high contact sports such as football, rugby and water polo weekly antigen antigen testing, which is a saliva swab is required for student athletes and coaches. If competing test results must be made available within 24 hours of play. It's important to note that for sport participants 13 years of age and under that is not a requirement. Of course sanitation of shared equipment is still a requirement and it was recently communicated to us like within the last few days by Santa Cruz County Public Health that spectators on campus will not be allowed. Of course, we are still required to limit mixing of participants and limit participation by athletes and coaches. at Santa Cruz County progresses into the red tear as you've heard us talk about outdoor moderate contact sports will be allowed to initiate and if we are able to move into the orange here, additional outdoor high context sports and indoor low contact sports are allowable. Well, we are supportive of student athletes being able to return for social opportunities and athletic competition. We need to do so safely and here to adhere to the Department of Public Health guidelines. Thank you.
Thank you, Superintendent Kraus. I'd like to take a moment before we move into our questions and answered to really recognize the amazing collaborations that have taken place on behalf of our community. And a lot of the work that is being done has been done with a with an eye into equity, because we know that certain parts of our community have been even more deeply affected and impacted by COVID-19 than others. And these amazing collaborations with organizations like baja Valley prevention Student Assistance, like Salut Birla hand they encompass community bridges, the list goes on and on Second Harvest Foodbank. So many organizations have come together to support our community and our families, and especially those that have been having the most difficult time. And so I just like to give a shout out to all of the different organizations working together with our public health department, some amazing lifts on behalf of our community, all to try to wrap our families, our students with as much support as possible, caring not only about their education, but also about their basic needs, and their well being. And so we know that a lot of the information we shared today was General because we are coming to you as a community of educators as a community of districts coming together. But we also wanted to give you to let you know that we are working together and that same spirit of collaboration supporting each other, making sure that we're learning from each other and making the very best possible opportunities for our students. We'd like to open it up for questions. Many of you have been sending questions into the q&a box. And we have been trying to answer as many of those as possible. We do have over 700 people on this on this call. And so we know that we're not going to be able to get through what we would like to also show you when it comes to specific questions about what's going on for your child and your district. And I'm a father with suit with children in the Powerball Unified School District. And so I may have questions for Superintendent Rodriguez about about my children's what that program is going to look like I will have ample opportunities with my with that superintendent in a separate forum. And so we're going to try to use an approach that is more general general meaning it's it's we're going to answer the questions as much as possible describing what our approach is. And it may not be as detailed as you'd like it to be. But we want to assure you that you will have opportunities to get that information directly from your superintendent and your school districts. I'm going to welcome Debbie Bodenheimer who is our Associate Superintendent of educational services at the at the Santa Cruz County Office of Education to help us with some key questions and I'm going to stop sharing my screen and I'm going to ask our superintendents to turn on their cameras, and see if any of them are interested in answering other questions as they come about. Miss Bodenheimer, can you give us some questions that we can start answering for for our participants? Hi, thank
you, Ferris. Yes, I've been monitoring the questions. And I've noticed that the superintendent's are going in and answering a lot of them. And so if you're putting a question in the q&a, a lot of them will be answered, especially this district specific ones. And we just want to make a note, again, as as Dr. Saba mentioned that these are very districts, a lot of them are very district specific. And so we will focus on the more general ideas, but please reach out to your district for their specific information. I know they have updates on their websites, I know they're also holding town halls and information sessions that can give that specific information. So a few a lot of questions are coming up, and I don't see if Jen busying is still on the call. But there are a lot of questions that are coming up that we will address about vaccines. Specifically, will students be vaccinated? What if they don't want to be vaccinated? And will staff be vaccinated which we are working on and what it staff do not want to be vaccinated? So that is one thing that we will follow up on, and make sure that we can give some answers to that as well, as far as vaccines for students and vaccines for stuff and fairs? I don't know if you wanted to elaborate on that. Well,
thank you for that question. I think that it's important to note that none of the vaccines currently are authorized for students, for children under the age of 16, only one of them is authorized for 16 to 18 year olds. And so the current vaccine effort is not for children, it is it is only for adults. And the effort with Dignity Health has only been a focus on educators, they are working on developing vaccines for children. And then so that'll be something in the future. I think that it's important to know that neither our vaccination program for staff, and we don't anticipate the vaccination of children in the future to be required. That's a possibility that, that somebody may require that of in the future, and that would have to be done through legislation and other other kinds of steps. But, but vaccination for children is not something that we're able to even contemplate at this point. Because there is no it doesn't exist as an authorized medical procedure or process. And so at this point, our efforts really are working as through the 75 and older 65 and older and now folks in an occupation, specifically education. Thank you.
Great, thank you. The next theme that I'm seeing in the questions is really about social emotional learning and support. And I think the superintendent's might be able to answer that. As far as we've had kids who have been out of school now for almost a year, and will be out of school for over a year once they come back to in person hybrid learning. So what are some things that districts are planning to do to support students and also to support teachers with that social emotional learning and wellness that they will really need after a whole year of being in lockdown for COVID?
Debbie, this is Dr. Bruton from San Lorenzo Valley. I think many of our districts have mental health counselors or social workers, or people dedicated to help students recover, and have someone to talk to and hold social emotional groups. But our regular education teachers are also committed to developing systems and practices in their classroom that support all students and learning. So I think teachers are acutely aware, aware of the needs around social emotional learning, and we'll key into that primarily as we come back for this end of the school year. In fact, to some extent, that will be many of their priorities.
Really appreciate that question. Just because we recognize the incidence of students experiencing depression, isolation, anxiety, and suicidal ideation has seriously increased during this time. And not only because of the, the grieving that has happened with many people who have lost family members, but but also the lack of connection that many students have experienced without their safety nets and connections with with their peers and other aspects of this environment. And so we are extremely cognizant of the importance of students mental health and doing our best to provide services today, our counselors and our teachers and staff have been working very, very hard to maintain those connections. And, and now we hope that we'll be able to sit our students in person to provide them additional supports face to face and and help students work through these mental health challenges and experiences.
And we just add to this extremely important question, two points. One is, just having them back at school is going to be a huge positive contributor to their overall sense of competence and competence and emotional well being. Just being in the presence of their peers and their teachers will lift their spirits, we see that in the small cohorts that we're serving in person. Now. Secondly, teachers, especially at the self contained elementary level, are continually conducting child welfare checks, which is much more difficult to do on zoom than it is in person being able to interact with a child outside on the yard as they arrive at school in class in between lessons gives teachers a spot on read on what children might need to be referred for additional support, as opposed to those that internally inside the safe walls of the classroom, they can address what's coming up for them. So just the fact that we're bringing them back into the safe harbor of our schools is going to give our children a huge sea change in their ability to feel comfortable in the world.
And I'd like to also add on is that not only do our children need a shot in the arm, but our teachers need to have the joy and the excitement of kids in their lives, they've been holding the candle and making sure that the kids are good. So I am just very excited that our teachers are going to be able to see all of our kids back or half of our kids during the day, but be able to have them get the joy that they deserve after almost a year. And we're coming up on a year anniversary on March 13. And so I'm very happy that our teachers are going to be able to have some joy. And we should be watching to make sure that they're okay along the way.
So I know this obviously is important to us, because we all are wanting to speak to this. But so I if I could just talk just briefly about the work that we've been doing. So we've been doing this this entire year, but really ramping up to return back on some systematic training on FCL, which is social emotional learning and trauma informed care. And so we've really been focusing with our teaching staff on how trauma impacts our school population, and how social emotional competencies are critical to learning effectively. So we've been focusing on such things as relationship building skills, self awareness, self management. And so we've been giving our teachers tools, so when our students were doing it in the morning already, but when they come back, they'll really be able to capitalize on using that trauma reducing learning environment as a way to support students.
Maybe I think we're ready for another question.
Okay. And I just wanted to also make a note, thank you, superintendents. For your responses. I know every district is working really hard on the social emotional component. I also want to point out that the county office is running a social emotional learning community of practice, which is supported by the state and the California Department of Education. And we have representatives from our districts attending. So again, we're really looking at ways to support our students and to make sure that we are supporting health and wellness for our families, our community and our teachers, as many of you mentioned, because they they really need it during this time as well. So for all parents out there who are concerned about health and wellness of your students, we are absolutely concerned about that as well. And we are making that a huge priority. So thank you all for your contributions on that. Next question, which is actually kind of a fun one. His has come from a few people about the use of outdoor spaces. And I know that our county office has been supporting some outdoor space work at Santa Cruz city schools and we're also working with live oak. And now with So Cal, and so would love to hear from the superintendent about even when we come back and we feel that we're safe, what our plans to utilize outdoor spaces to to keep kids outdoors to keep them distance a little bit and to continue with health and safety precautions.
Chris go ahead.
We have collaborated with the County Office of Education and outdoor school program to identify the best spaces for instruction outside on our campuses and have been providing outdoor instruction since October on all of our at all of our schools will continue to do so when school returns. It'll look a little bit different because there'll be more students there and we'll have identified areas of the school yard that are dedicated to different classes. Students will have outdoor academic instruction at times and definitely outdoor time for for study. Distance play and
exercise.
We were just talking earlier today, and some of our planning meetings with teachers and in many are very eagerly crafting lessons to be held outdoors and how those can be shared with students on their off day. So a lot of detail going into the planning, and making sure that all the all the outdoor space on my campus can be optimized, because we know it's just, it's just good in general to be outdoors and learning and enjoying our beautiful community. And really, teachers getting down into the detail having as teachers are often doing, making sure that there's a schedule of who will be using which space when so that there's not that overlap and very excited about having having that part of education being something we do now, and will just be a continuing practice
is that we are taking for the outdoor using outdoor spaces eating outdoors. So we're setting up areas where students can eat. And most of our many of our schools have already have outdoor eating areas, but spacing them apart. Schools also have life lab gardens, which is a really nice place to be outdoors and engage with nature. And then play time like recess or any other activities are by cohort. So they stay with their class, they don't mix with other groups, and they'll have assigned play areas. So that'll be fun in terms of like, you know, today we're using this area and tomorrow we're going to be using parts of the play structure or we're using games that require social distancing. So really creative ways to be actors.
That we purchased a lot of outdoor picnic tables, we have plexiglass on some, we have also positioned them throughout the campus so that we'll have more opportunities for kids to be able to be on campus and also have some collaborative opportunities as well.
Great, thank you. And I know a lot of the questions that are coming up, they're very specific to each district has a slightly different variation of how they're planning to reopen and what their plans are. So I'm trying to keep the questions as general as possible. Another question that is coming up that perhaps can be addressed, is what our plans for the end of the school year and summer plans and intervention plans. And I know, I had a meeting today with the assistant superintendents and directors, and everyone is talking about summer school plans and intervention plans, which is a huge priority. I know for everyone. So I wondered if anyone would like to address just some some plans, I believe that the end of the school year is as planned on the school calendars. But if anyone would like to address some summer plans that they have, and perhaps where we could gather more information.
So Debbie, a variety and to our parents and families that are participating a variety of summer program, program options are being discussed right now. And we'll be planning that and more details and specific information from each district will be distributed. But I would safely say that every district is planning to offer some kind of a summer program. And there'll be a variety of options. So parents have to consult their district.
Great, thank you, Dr. Bruton. Would anyone else like to add are people putting on their summer plans on their website so parents can access that? So they have up to date information?
Yeah, so PV PV USD will have their schedules up within about two or three weeks where, as was mentioned, where we're doing an expanded version of, of summer learning, and so we'll have not only some of our traditional enrichment, but we'll also have a larger jumpstart program. So we do plan on doing some inperson jumpstart, so that our students can start the year off. We'll do about two, three weeks prior to school starting and make sure that we're recuperating some of that unfinished learning. And we do plan on using the doing a combination to speaking to the social emotional needs. We're planning on doing a combination of both academics and enrichment so that students want to be there and also get some of the social emotional needs addressed at the same time.
Santa Cruz City Schools has a similar plan to PAHO with both academic and enrichment offerings at each grade span.
Great, thank you and superintendents, I'm assuming I can direct parents that the information will be sent out soon to parents about summer programs, and probably will be on the website as well. And I know that when we had our discussion today with our curriculum leaders, we talked about also creating some resources on our county office website so we can share those and collaborate. I know socail also has plans SLV, Scotts Valley, so I think that parents can reach out to their district, but there definitely will be plans for summer programs and summer intervention. So stay tuned for that information. Um, okay, the next question, I'm actually not going to necessarily pose it as a question, I'm going to just acknowledge the questions that are coming up in the QA that I'm taking note of that we will address more specifically based on the district. So here are some of the things that are coming up, and I want to just acknowledge them, but then say that we can't address them as a whole group. They really will be district specific. However, superintendents, you are welcome to chime in. So here are some of the things that I'm seeing beyond the vaccines, which we've already discussed. And how will health screening happen for students and temperature checks? And will that happen at the classroom door? Or will that happen upon entry to school? How will quarantines work for students who are sick and exposed and also for teachers and school staff? So how will that policy be maintained? What will happen with students who refuse to wear masks? Or who have medical excuses? How will masks be enforced? What are the updates about h fac, and plexiglass and school safety social distancing six feet apart?
What are the plans for each school to ensure that all of those guidelines are being met? How do we know what our school district has done to make our school and classrooms safe? and disinfecting of schools and classrooms? What are the plans for that? So I'm not really posing that as a question because it's very specific to each district. But I want to put it out there that we are noting those questions, and that we will make sure that those are answered and Dr. Saba, I believe those are also answered in the school safety plans that have been required by the CDE. So you might want to just answer that in maybe a general.
Yeah, I just, I would like to share a little bit about our process. Because we get a lot of information from the California Department of Public Health and our local public health officials. And we develop, we have guidance that we follow that is different that is based on that on those guidelines. Right. And so California Department of Public Health just came out with new guidance. So we look at that, and it talks about all the things that were just mentioned in your question, such as distancing and disinfecting and and, and so a lot of the details, I do want to share that we have been working very hard to be as consistent as possible in the implementation. You heard, Dr. Rodriguez mentioned that we conducted visitations to all the different schools to create to ensure that we are adhering to the standards that we're reviewing. And we're providing ideas and solutions to these to these many challenges. So I do think that there is going to be some some differences. The video we saw was an example of how many of those guidelines were being implemented. And I think it is gonna vary. And I do think that each school district has been extremely thoughtful about how to best implement drop off practices and screening practices. And I think that as much as possible, what I would like to share is that we see this as a community challenge, not only as a school challenge, that our students are going to have responsibilities, to, things to adhere to, our parents, of course, are going to continue to have responsibility to help screen children at home, to help communicate information about about what's going on. And I think that, you know, our we're working with our doctors in the community, our physicians, we're working with, with our service providers who are providing mental health services. And so we're all working together to make sure that we're putting these systems in place. And I think that so where parents can get this information they can get, they'll be able to get it directly from their, from their superintendents, and from the websites that that. And as you mentioned, Debbie, that schools are have put together different kinds of plans to be able to define all of these different important components. But I think it's important also to hear that we are committed to making sure that we are minimizing the risks for our students, for our staff and for the whole school community. And that a lot of the things that are established in the cdph guidance are things that you're going to find in our schools. We are doing everything that we can to make sure that we're implementing those things. But at the same time, I also want to share that what we've seen is that in school transmission, what you heard earlier and what the research is showing with doctors who have come to speak with us have told us The likelihood of unskilled transmission is very low with the implementation of the guidance the way we've implemented it. So we feel confident that we aren't we've we're creating safe environments for students. And, and all of those details some of the things we've already addressed. And and, and some of them, we're going to, you know, be getting new guidance, and we will continue to adapt our programs and services to meet the needs of our students.
Great, thank you, Dr. Saba. So I have another question. And this, I'm going to put the high school principal or high school superintendents on the spot here, people are definitely asking about high school graduation and end of the year activities for high school. And I know, it definitely depends on the status of our county and what tier we are in. But perhaps the high school districts could speak just quickly about what the plans are for the end of the year. For our high school seniors.
We're creating a continuum of plans, just like we did last year, because we won't know what the levels of restrictions are. So we're creating a continuum of possibilities.
And I just saw along with that continuum, I think all of us are serving and providing or finding additional options, I just say to all the parents and students just like we did last year, that we want you to feel valued, we want you to have a special end, and we want you to have a graduation that you can remember. And so we'll do everything that we can, within the health requirements to provide you something that's memorable allows your family to safely celebrate with you. And we will make sure that we have every option available to us, we will make sure that you have access to
I will ditto my colleagues, we are committed to making sure that we can provide some kind of celebration for our seniors, we acknowledge that this has been a very unique senior year, similar to last year, at the end of the year for the seniors, we did what we could within our power within the local guidelines. And like my colleagues, we are already beginning conversations and our senior class and parents are also asking the same questions. And so we will be sharing the information as we can, however, the end of May and early June is far far away. And it's difficult for us to know exactly what status we will be in in Santa Cruz County.
I would like to take a moment just to answer some of the questions that I've seen. And one is about why can't we not be why do we have to do hybrid? Why can't we go to bring all students back five days a week. And that really is not an option. And the reason it's not an option for us is because of the distancing requirements that are established by the California Department of Public Health as part of an it's one of the fundamental pieces of our protocols that we have to adhere to. And if you read the guidance, it talks about students needing to be seated six feet apart in the classroom. And to be able to set up a classroom with that kind of distancing, it's impossible to bring back all students to class. And that's why if you take the number of students that have that that would be there one day, you would only be able to bring about half your students back. And that's the that's why until those distancing requirements are are not in place, we would have to we have to do a hybrid approach. And that's why we're not able to bring back since we only had 15 students, 12 students in a classroom, that we could probably do it and many private schools are able to do it because of that they're able to maintain distancing because they have such low class size counts. But that's not the reality for the majority of our of our public schools. And so until we're we are no longer needing to adhere to distancing requirements, we will we have to adhere to a hybrid format. And if you look at the Gurkha guidance, that would mean that the pandemic levels are so low, that it would we would be more in the yellow tier. And that would mean that they would, they would remove the restrictions, including the distancing restrictions until that happened until the California prime and public health says you don't have to worry about distancing, we won't be able to, to to have our full classrooms back in place.
So as I'm viewing the questions, I see two more big buckets. And again, these are very general buckets. So I'm just going to put them out there but not expect necessarily specific answers. So a lot of the questions that are coming in are about hybrid and distance learning. So first of all, the question which I believe all districts have answered is can parents opt to stay in distance learning for the rest of the year? Do they have to go back to hybrid That's the first question that's coming up. And also, what will the distance learning opportunities be for the 2122? school year? There are also a lot of technical questions about moving into hybrid, which I know districts will have to answer specifically, but I just want to put it out there so that parents know that we are addressing this, that is there fluidity and moving in and out of hybrid versus distance learning. So if students opt into hybrid, and then they want to opt back out to distance learning, do they have that option? Can people switch teachers or change their schedule? And of course, the big question, which Dr. subvod just was talking about is when will we move into in person instruction? So I know that that's very specific for each district. So I'm not expecting that people will have to answer that necessarily right now. But I just wanted to acknowledge the questions that are coming in about that, so that the district superintendents can address those questions, and make sure that their parents and family members know what the answers are to that. And then the other big question that's coming up, which, of course, again, we do not have an answer to yet, is when will we know what the plans are for 2122. And again, that will be very dependent upon the status of our county. So those are really the the last two big buckets of questions that I see in reviewing the q&a. And looking at all of the questions that are coming in that are not specific to to districts, as well.
I can start us off by just saying that. We've all, as you all know, pulled our families extensively, and you probably have answered more surveys in the last year than you're accustomed to, and then several years thereafter, put together. But one of the trends of those who wish to stay in distance learning that's come through and districts large and small is that they really essentially fall into two categories. One are those families for whom there are medical issues either of the students themselves or a family member with a fragility in terms of their health condition, or their high risk status, for COVID infection, who out of an abundance of health caution need to stay away from physical and personal learning, even though the schools have extensive mitigations in place. And what we've learned from our survey is those folks are likely to stay in the distance learning modalities that we offer for a longer period of time, then there are a second category of folks who are anxious, want to kind of see how it works. And begin when we go into hybrid still in distance learning, but have expressed to us through their formal and informal feedback to the district that they see on the horizon, that period of time will they will return. They're just not quite ready yet. And the reasons what will give them that open door to return will be the red tear will be a period of time are very unique and specific to families. And so essentially what links those two subgroups, who will choose distance learning is that they can anticipate compassionate understanding and empathy from the school districts that we are in a pandemic, that we want to keep you and your children safe, both physically and emotionally. And so we're going to be responsive and as flexible as our agencies allow to be able to work with you whether it is for a particular medical reason, or because you're just essentially not quite ready yet. And so to that extent, I think you'll see some fluidity of those who might start in distance learning and then move into in person as they become ready. So obviously our is our intention to work with you and to bring them maximum educational benefit to all of our students whether they are physically in the classroom, or learning from a remote a home based location. Just good.
Just to add that we are anticipating that some families will want to continue in distance learning in the fall as well and we're looking at at planning on providing as many options as we reasonably can to meet the needs of all families. We understand that everyone has different situations and different needs.
We are getting questions about exemptions for masks and generally speaking, the California Department of Public Health only allows for exemptions if they're done under through a physician and we are working with a pediatric group to develop a consistent process for that. It's they're very rare cases where where a mask exemption is is is warranted and and so that that process is going to be handled by pediatricians. And when a student would have a mass exemption, we anticipate that there could be combinations that would have to be made like wearing another kind of face covering or face shield. And so that would be part of the process that we get evaluated to shape my district.
So doctors have I don't have any other general trends for questions, a lot of them that are coming in right now or are very specific. And so I know that the superintendent's are going through and they're answering them and trying to respond as best as possible, I know that we will be able to save the q&a, and respond to it after the meeting as well.
And I think that's what we're going to be planning on doing as much as possible. And a lot of a lot of some of my answers, as I've been going through and writing is, is basically giving a general response and then saying, you're going to have to get the details from your from your local principal or local superintendent, when it comes to what that's going to look like. I would like to take an opportunity for the superintendent's if they'd like to make any final statements. Before we we kind of end our our presentation. Just again, I also would like to take a moment to thank the charter schools that we also work with in the private schools that we also work with. This really has brought us together as a community as an education community. And I think we've been able to support each other in a great way. And so we're, we're grateful for the many partnerships and again for the leadership of this group of superintendents and guiding this effort and the and, and trust us even with knowing that we're in a pandemic. And with the challenges that remain, we are extremely excited about having our students back on campus and in our classrooms.
Anybody would like to
say a few final words before we close down our our, our zoom meeting.
So I just like to thank everyone that is out there. I think when we think about the pandemic, and the time that we've that we've passed in this last year, it's really solidified our need to be unified and really support each other in service of students and in service of our community. So I so appreciate the partner ecosystem that I have within my school district. I know that the other school districts have within their area, we couldn't do it without the community partners that we have out there without the supportive parents. We know this has been a challenging time. But we do really believe that because of our unification because we have been committed to children, that they've benefited from our work. So thank you.
And I'd like to just give one last shout out to Dr. spa, just over a month ago, just a little over a month ago, we did not know how we were going to give give vaccinations to our teachers and he was able to solidify and be able to bring vaccinations to our teachers with and we just thought we were going to be able to open up k one. And now with the vaccinations that he's worked with all of the MCs, the multi county entities, he has done the impossible. So thank you, Dr. Stovall for your incredible work, because it's because of you are going back to school and I really want to thank you for that. You are
too kind, I want to redirect that shout out to Dignity Health and Dominican hospital for for leading the vaccines, and also to our labor partners for working with us on on putting together the plans for return. We couldn't do it without you. And we know that this this they're part of I love that word ecosystem that Dr. Rodriguez just shared. They're such a fundamental part of that ecosystem. And we're proud to partner with you on and, and appreciate your commitment to to returning back to to in person services as quickly and safely as possible. I would like to, again, thank my my wonderful colleagues, the superintendents, thank you for for your voice, thank you for championing the needs of students, for leading this this county and educational system and helping us get to this point of being able to be so close to to bring in more and more of our students back to school. It's really an honor to work with you. And we want to thank our students and our parents, many of you who have joined me and told us bothers you spun off dentist I mean, as a companion, thank you for joining our community and and we're going to continue to try to answer as many of the questions as possible and send those to you. Hopefully, will we have your contact information. And I think what we'll do is we'll post the responses so that you'll be able to, you'll be able to see both the recording of this of this event as well as the answers to the questions to be shared with with everybody. So please stay tuned. And your superintendents are going to be sending out more information with newsletters with emails with town halls of their own. So stay tuned because lots of key information is going to be there that are going to give you more those details specific questions that you were that you were looking for. Thank you superintendents for your time thank you Dominican hospital and dignity and thank you to our community for for always advocating on behalf of our students and our and and our especially students who have some of the biggest challenges and they've experienced the biggest challenges during this pandemic. Thank you, everybody.