• KSD COVID Site Supervisors will be administrators in the building, as the instructional and operational lead of the buildings, KSD Administrators will be responsible for monitoring the health of employees and enforcing COVID-19 job site safety.
• KSD COVID-19 Site Supervisor job duties are clearly outlined and who these duties can be delegated to assist in compliance, is described here.
• Healthy Safety School Planning Teams at each school will need to be comprised of key staff that needs to make decisions on school-specific items. They should include Nurse, custodian, teacher, para, office staff, health technician, and principal/assistant principal.
• KSD COVID-19 Site Supervisor, the Superintendent, and Executive Cabinet will be trained by the District COVID Site Coordinator, Assistant Director of Health Services, Lyndy Baron, who is a point of contact for compliance questions from building COVID Site Supervisors, training and reporting cases to public health authorities.

• Kent School District, in consultation with the Seattle King County Public Health, has established protocols to respond to suspected and positive cases of COVID-19 to maintain the health and safety of the school community.
• All staff and parents/guardians of students are required to notify the appropriate District designee (as outlined in the Pre-screening/Symptom Monitoring/Mandatory Reporting section below) immediately if a student or district employee experiences symptoms of COVID-19, has a positive COVID-19 test, or has been exposed to an individual with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis.
• KSD Protocols for Presumptive, Positive and Negative COVID-19 Cases.

• Due to current COVID-19 infection rates in the months leading up to the 2020-21 school year, and the mandatory health requirements for reopening, including the space needed to maintain 6-foot physical distancing in classrooms, KSD is not able to open in a traditional model or hybrid model for all students with 6-foot distancing requirements safely or equitably.
• In the Continuous Remote Learning model, KSD buildings will be open with full COVID-19 safety requirements so that staff who would like the flexibility to teach from their classrooms, or staff who will provide direct service to specific students, meals or direct resources, and/or staff who will provide other needed services for various academic and operational programs would be available as options for our at-risk students and families.
• Staff will be wearing face coverings unless they have a medical reason not to wear one.
• Students will be wearing face coverings unless they have a medical reason not to wear one.
• Families and visitors will have limited access to school campuses and district offices. Parents and visitors are required to wear face coverings while on school grounds unless they have a medical reason not to wear one.
• Parents and visitors entering the school for longer than 15 minutes must complete a health screening, including a temperature check.
• Providing physical distancing during drop-off and pick-up will be determined by the building site administrator. Students will wait outside until time for class rather than gathering in buildings. Guidelines and best practices in alignment with DOH and OSPI will be made available before our buildings reopen to students.

• Staff who will be asked to come to the building to provide service in an academic program or operational support during the remote/virtual learning model will need to be given specific guidelines of the health and safety processes and expectations of working in the building during a remote virtual learning model. For example, family members, children, or visitors would not be allowed in the building unless they are there for an approved academic purpose.
• Each school building should have a trained assigned building substitute to accommodate staff absences and provide needed support either remotely or at the school building for academic programs that will take place in the building.
• Student and staff temperatures checks are required daily before going to school. Anyone with a fever of 100.4 F or higher should not go to or stay at a school site.
• Health screenings will be in place daily for students and staff; questions will include:
  1. Do you have any of the following symptoms that are not caused by another condition? [On the first day after a break or for a new student, please ask about the past 3 days or 72 hours).] 
     • Fever (100.4°F) or chills 
     • Cough 
     • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing 
     • Unusual fatigue 
     • Muscle or body aches 
     • Headache 
     • Recent loss of taste or smell 
     • Sore throat 
     • Congestion or runny nose 
     • Nausea or vomiting 
     • Diarrhea 
  2. Have you been in close contact with anyone with confirmed COVID-19? 
  3. Have you had a positive COVID-19 test for active virus in the past 10 days? 
  4. Within the past 14 days, has a public health or medical professional told you to self-monitor, self-isolate, or self-quarantine because of concerns about COVID-19 infection?
• Per DOH guidelines, students, staff, vendors, parents, and guardians, or guests will not be allowed in school if they are showing symptoms of COVID-19, or have been in close contact with someone who has confirmed or suspected COVID-19 in the last 14 days.
• Staff and students with any illness must stay home.

• Arrival and dismissal times may vary depending on grade level to support physical distancing.
• Drop off and pick locations may be different to support physical distancing, and the process will take longer to accommodate health and safety requirements.
• To maintain physical distancing of 6-feet, during mealtimes and mixing of student groups, each building will create an individual plan to meet their specific requirements of 6-foot physical distancing.
• Classrooms that have tables instead of desks should consider changing to desks if physical distancing requirements with tables cannot be met.
• Bathrooms will need to be monitored and scheduled breaks by classes to ensure physical distancing requirements.
• Staggered mealtimes and recesses should be utilized to meet physical distancing requirements. Guidelines and best practices in alignment with DOH and OSPI will be made available before our buildings reopen to students.
• During transition times, gathering in common areas need to be limited. Guidelines and best practices in alignment with DOH and OSPI will be made available before our buildings reopen to students.

• Following CDC guidelines, the DOH, and OSPI all Kent School District employees, students, contractors, vendors, and visitors must wear a face mask that covers the mouth and nose at all times while in a District space (buildings, grounds, security desks, conference rooms, elevators, etc.).
• Face coverings, even when appropriately worn, do not replace the need to maintain social distancing, frequent hand washing, and our rigorous cleaning and disinfecting routines.
• Cloth face coverings will be made available to employees, visitors, and students that do not have the means to obtain them.
• KSD Health Services has provided training information for staff and families about how to properly wear face coverings, including safely putting them on and taking them off.
• Inclusive Education and specialty staff will be provided a face shield to use when a cloth face covering is not appropriate, such as when providing speech therapy services.
• Face coverings do not need to be worn by:
  • those with a disability that prevents them from comfortably wearing or removing a face-covering
  • those with certain respiratory conditions or trouble breathing
  • those who are deaf or hard of hearing and use facial and mouth movements as part of communication
  • and those advised by a medical, legal, or behavioral health professional that wearing a face-covering my pose a risk to that person as stated by Department of Health and OSPI.
• Students repeatedly not wearing a face covering and not exempt will be addressed by educating the student on safety compliance, implementing positive behavior interventions, recommending alternative face covering, and consulting with parent/guardian.
  • As a last resort, the exclusion would be considered, and an opportunity to receive educational services will be provided.
• Staff repeatedly not wearing a face covering and not exempt will be addressed by first educating the staff on safety compliance, subsequent occurrences will require progressive corrective action from the supervisor and human resources.
• Additional PPE needs to be provided for staff to address their comfort level. For example, staff may want to use gloves when handling documents.

• In a remote learning setting, Transportation will assist with meal delivery, device delivery and swap outs, delivering instructional materials to students, and transporting school staff to neighborhoods, combining these services to create a "Mobile School Delivery Unit" to support students and families.
• Physical distancing on school buses is not possible at normal capacity.
• Students and staff are mandated to wear a mask on the school bus and at bus stops.
• Students without a mask will be provided one upon entry.
• Windows will be opened to allow for maximum airflow. Students should dress accordingly.
• During AM routes, school buses will load back to the front. This will reduce the number of students passing each other in close contact.
• During PM routes, school buses based will load based on bus stop location. Students at the end of the route sit toward the rear.
• Drivers may assign specific seats to all students.
• Students should sit with their siblings and/or household members.
• In alignment with health and safety protocols, school bus drivers will disinfect school buses twice per day, once after the AM routes, and once after the PM routes. The school schedule will operate on a normal schedule. Bus routes will be adjusted to the extent possible to allow for additional loading time.
• Loading students at bus stops may take longer to account for mask compliance and distribution.

• Schools will follow cleaning and disinfection guidelines developed by Seattle King County Public Health and Washington State Department of Health for school campuses, including classrooms, workspaces, outdoor spaces, and playgrounds.
• Physical barriers may be installed, or other areas used, where physical distancing is not possible in a school building.
• All students and staff will be encouraged to wash or disinfect their hands regularly.
• Hand washing stations with soap and/or hand sanitizer will be made available in classrooms.
• Teachers will limit the sharing of supplies between students and disinfect shared materials between uses if sharing is unavoidable.
• Lunches will be served and consumed throughout the building, rather than in the cafeteria.
• Desks will be facing forward and spaced further apart to ensure a minimum of 6 feet distance between students.
• There will be no large gatherings such as assemblies and dances.
• Schools are working with daily schedules to stagger lunches, recesses, and other transition times to minimize student group interaction.

Seattle King County Public Health will provide guidance regarding the closure or dismissal of a classroom, school, and/or another District facility due to COVID-19.

• The decision to close or dismiss students and/or staff from any District facility does not rest with the District.
• Seattle King County Public Health will work closely with the Superintendent and appointed designee(s) to make the determination that best addresses the specific circumstances.
• Decisions about closures will be made carefully and with the health, safety, and needs of our students and families in mind.
• As a situation evolves and decisions are made, communications will be sent out to all necessary stakeholders. 

Contact tracing is an essential strategy used by health departments to prevent the further spread of infectious diseases.

• It involves identifying people who have the virus, determining who they have been in contact with, and notifying the contacts for further recommendations concerning potential quarantining to interrupt disease transmission. 
• Seattle King County Public Health is implementing a contact tracing program to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in our county.
• When notified of a staff member, student, or approved visitor with a confirmed case of COVID-19, the District will coordinate with Seattle King County Public Health on COVID-19 reporting and response efforts.