Guest Blog Post: Seven Steps to Sending Elementary Kids Back to School and Parents Back to Work
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over the country, states, districts, and task forces of every sort are
wrestling with the question of how to safely reopen schools. This scenario
planning is daunting, as schools must navigate a minefield of health, safety,
legal, and instructional issues, and do so blindfolded by our ever-changing yet
imperfect understanding of the virus itself. The AEI “blueprint for back to
school” does an excellent job spelling out the major considerations that
leaders must take into account, but it stops short of providing specific
advice. In a blog post that originally appeared online on May 15, AASA friend Mike
Petrilli walks through the considerations and logistics to be addressed if we
are to have elementary kids back to school and parents back to work this fall. Read the article in PDF here.