Facilities Improvements. How will the LEA use ARP XXXXX funds to repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission, address environmental health hazards, and/or improve ventilation? Consider the LEA’s Health and Safety Plan in developing the response.
Facilities Improvements. How will the LEA use ARP XXXXX funds to repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission, address environmental health hazards, and/or improve ventilation? Consider the LEA’s Health and Safety Plan in developing the response. DASD will use the remainder of the funds to target two primary need areas for our students: reading and mental health. Through the purchase and implementation of evidence-based reading instructional materials we aim to blunt the instructional impacts related to the acquisition of basic reading skills of our youngest learners. Our current data indicates that students in grades K-2, particularly with respect to reading, were most affected by school closures and virtual instruction. Our implementation of decodable readers in all of our K-2 classrooms across our 10 elementary schools will support strategies associated with the science of reading to help close current gaps. In addition, we recognize the impact that school closures and virtual learning had on the social-emotional and mental health of our students. We intend to support student attendance and social-emotional needs by using funds to support the addition of a high school counselor and a home and school visitor. These positions will allow us to focus attention on students with the most significant mental health needs as well as target students who may have trouble reacclimating to the school environment and attending school on a regular basis.
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Facilities Improvements. How will the LEA use ARP XXXXX funds to repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission, address environmental health hazards, and/or improve ventilation? Consider the LEA’s Health and Safety Plan in developing the response. The plan for the remaining funds will be to retain current staff and contract with additional professional support staff through 2024. Facility improvements and building reconfigurations will be done to address the districts safety and security needs. Reconfigurations to the school cafeteria and foods services will be done to enhance the nutritional needs of the students. Technology purchases will be made as necessary to improve and maintain the appropriate learning options for all students.
Facilities Improvements. How will the LEA use ARP XXXXX funds to repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission, address environmental health hazards, and/or improve ventilation? Consider the LEA’s Health and Safety Plan in developing the response. The remaining funds will go towards maintaining staff. As we look ahead towards the goals of the District, one of the main ones is the retention of staff that are excited to teach our students and continuously learn with our students. The affects of the pandemic will not be fixed in one year. Studies find that the educational loss and social emotional impact of COVID-19 will affect our students for years to come.
Facilities Improvements. How will the LEA use ARP XXXXX funds to repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission, address environmental health hazards, and/or improve ventilation? Consider the LEA’s Health and Safety Plan in developing the response. ARP XXXXX funds will be used to maintain current level of staffing in areas related to students' social, emotional, and mental health needs. This will include 4 intervention specialists, 10 counselors, 3 nurses, and 1 psychologist will be funded to provide support services and mental health well-being for students as a preventative measure in relation to COVID. The participants will be paid for the hours they participate in the training during the summer and the cost of the training will be included in the XXXXX expenditures. . The Danville Area SD will open all our schools on August 24, 2021, grades K – 12, for all students who want to attend the in-person traditional setting. The district will use and layer the five key prevention strategies: universal mask wearing, physical distancing, handwashing and respiratoy etiquette, cleaning and ventilation, and contact tracing per DASD Health and Safety Plan, that are essential to safe delivery of in-person instruction. The adherence to the Health and Safety Plan addresses the physical aspects of addressing COVID mitigation efforts while enabling the buildings to be open for in-person learning. Newer teachers will be attend APL training in relation to skills and strategies that address the following areas: - Increased student time on task, Improved student behavior, Improved student performance, Motivation of students, and Classroom management techniques that work. Additional technology, computers, and software were purchased to maintain virtual education regardless of levels of transmission and to address student education while being quarantined or isolated due to COVID exposure. Also, translation software will be purchased to support English Learners and their families with better communication and support with all areas of education and social emotional well-being.
Facilities Improvements. How will the LEA use ARP XXXXX funds to repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission, address environmental health hazards, and/or improve ventilation? Consider the LEA’s Health and Safety Plan in developing the response. The district will use most of the remaining funds to address students' academic needs. Classroom teachers are being added in K-5 in order to have smaller class sizes so that teachers can provide more individual attention and increased participation. Special education inclusion teachers are also being added at grades K-2 in order to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities, and an emotional support teacher is being added at the high school level to meet their SEL needs. Further, content-area positions that were or have become vacant are being filled. Special education is expanding its use of Read 180 (an intervention included on the list from the Evidence Resource Center) to grades 4-8 in addition to its continued use at grades 9-12 at the high school; this is being funded through the general budget. The district will utilize best practices that strengthen social-emotional health. A newly appointed supervisor of equity will not only work to ensure that every child has an equal chance for success but also research SEL programs and resources for implementation during the 21-22 and 22-23 school years. The district will be expanding counseling services both individual and small groups. Lehigh Valley Health Network will provide individual site-based programming. Valley Youth House will provide Bounce Back programming and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS). In addition, the schools will continue their School-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports. The school will continue its breakfast and lunch programs, providing free meals to all students. Additionally, there is a strong community partnership addressing food scarcity. Using the district's Student Information System, reports will be run, tracking student absenteeism. The district will establish baseline data, evaluate chronic absenteeism years prior to the pandemic, and run 20-21 report for comparison study. The district can also utilize case counts as related to truancy with Valley Youth House years prior to 20-21 and for the 20-21 school year for comparison study and utilize citation counts for years prior to 20-21. The district is using its Elementary And Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund II money to purch...
Facilities Improvements. How will the LEA use ARP XXXXX funds to repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission, address environmental health hazards, and/or improve ventilation? Consider the LEA’s Health and Safety Plan in developing the response. A significant portion of our ARP XXXXX funds will be used to provide a Continuity of Services to K- 12 students across the district. ARP XXXXX funds will allow us to sustain the services of the following positions to address the 4800 students' academic, social-emotional and mental health needs in the MCSD: Special Education-ALPHA, Special Education-EDES, Grade 1-IVES, Grade 3- SMES, Reading-MCMS, School Counselor-MCHS, English-MCHS, English-ALPHA, Counselor- EDES, Career Pathways Facilitator-MCHS, Guidance Secretary-ALPHA, Dedicated EL Teacher- MCHS/MCJHS, Elementary Technology Facilitator, Part-time Paraprofessional-ALPHA, LMS- APLHA, Math-ALPHA, Full-time Paraprofessional-LES, Full-time Paraprofessional-LES, Full-time Paraprofessional-MCJHS, Science-ALPHA, Math-ALPHA, Math-MCJHS, Tech Ed-MCHS, Math- MCHS, Grade 4-LIS, Grade 1-LES, Tech Ed-MCHS, Grade 1-EDES, Grade 5-LIS, English-ALPHA, Math-MCMS, Chemistry-MCHS, MCO Teacher-IVES, MCO Teacher-LIS, MCO Teacher-LIS, Administrator-ALPHA, Social Studies-ALPHA, Licensed Social Worker. Maintaining the continuity of services of the above positions during the pandemic is critical to our efforts to reduce the amount of potential learning loss caused by COVID 19. The MCSD will use ARP XXXXX funds to improve access to instruction to support the goal of increasing the opportunity to learn by supporting the following activities: Zoom license to support remote learning and virtual meeting opportunities, translation services for remote learning opportunities, online athletic ticketing registrations to support contactless purchasing to prevent the spread of infectious disease, SMART Notebook Advanced Software, LAN School System School Software, MIFI's to provide internet hotspot connectivity for remote learning opportunities, teacher and student laptops and desktops to support 1:1 technology initiative for differentiation of instruction. We will also purchase SMARTBoard displays, soundbars, mounts, carts, webcams, and HDMI cables to support K-12 purchase and installation of SMARTBoards to support 1:1 technology initiative for differentiation of instruction to close the achievement gap created as a direct result of the loss of learning from the COVID 19 pandemic. The MCSD wil...
Facilities Improvements. How will the LEA use ARP XXXXX funds to repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission, address environmental health hazards, and/or improve ventilation? Consider the LEA’s Health and Safety Plan in developing the response. We will utilize our funding to support students' social/emotional health, to expand to a full day kindergarten program, to make facilities improvements that will help us better serve students in flexible learning formats, and support staffing needs in the short and long term. We will also use our funding to expand and maintain the technology resources that have allowed us to provide continuity of teaching and learning; we learned a lot during the past 18 months about how technology can make teacher and learning even better and will use these funds to make permanent improvements to our systems in support of students.
Facilities Improvements. How will the LEA use ARP XXXXX funds to repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission, address environmental health hazards, and/or improve ventilation? Consider the LEA’s Health and Safety Plan in developing the response. As detailed below, the fund uses are as follows:In March 2020 the District’s proposed budget included restoration of three teaching positions and a paraprofessional position that were eliminated in the recession. The District had to eliminate these positions from the final 2020- 2021 budget in order not to raise taxes on the community. Concerning continuity of services, the District is including funding for a staffing plan that ultimately added five positions to further aid students in receiving the best education possible. The added positions include the four positions noted above and a school psychologist. A phase-in plan was developed to reduce dependency on federal funding to be fiscally responsible with taxpayer dollars. To provide equitable access to instruction and increase the opportunity for students to learn, the District has prioritized initiatives that will aid all students. These priorities include: (1) the funding of a Chromebook implementation plan, providing high-quality devices to students at all grade levels so instruction can be delivered in any model, (2) the purchase of webcams and microphones to allow students to join classes remotely and participate in synchronous learning,(3) obtaining licenses to continue to provide access for students opting into a fully remote learning experience through our digital academy,(4) the creation and continuation of an afterschool program for middle school students that began with the set-aside grants, and (5) funding for the purchase of STEM materials is included in this grant request. Funding for this area will ensure students have more hands-on learning and provide more significant opportunities to develop understanding in Tier 1 instruction.For mitigation strategies and facility improvements, the district took the approach of understanding the most critical needs to support those that use our facilities while also supporting our employees tasked with maintaining these buildings. The requests include the continued purchase of masks, PPE, and other sanitation supplies that we’ve continued to purchase since March 2020. In addition, we are including funding for MERV- 13 HVAC filters to provide clean air to those in our buildings. Finally, we include a requ...
