A HUGE THANK YOU to all of the parents that participated in our parent town hall meetings last week to provide feedback about their experiences with distance learning. Overall, we had over 360 parents register for one of the eight town halls and 65 complete the follow-up questions with additional feedback. (If you have not yet provided your feedback, please do so here.)

This week, nearly 90 instructional and classified staff - in the form of three task forces - met over the course of four days to share research, review all of the feedback parents and staff presented, and narrow the focus of options as we move forward with education in the 2020-21 school year. The task forces include instruction, health and safety, and parent engagement.

Each task force's goal is to create a list of viable recommendations that will work in Garfield Re-2. Principals and directors will take these recommendations to develop specifics around three possible models (face-to-face, virtual, and hybrid) for the 2020-2021 school year. Our greatest hope is to start school on August 17 with a face-to-face education model that we know works best. It is essential to develop the other models so we are able to move between them in the event that public health data necessitates throughout the year. The feedback from the staff and community, in addition to the work from our task forces, will lead to changes and improvements in the way distance learning looks, should we need to implement it at any time next year.

Next week, these task forces will all meet on Thursday, June 25 to share themes, thoughts, and ideas, and then reconvene on Friday, June 26 to develop their final documents. These documents will then move to principals and directors who will develop the specifics of all three scenarios and send a recommendation to the board of education for review.

On July 27, a decision will be made as to what model we will use to start the 2020-21 school year. This decision will be made based upon the ever-changing state and public health guidelines, as well as the recommendations from the Colorado Department of Education and the governor. Again, we will continue to keep you apprised of our work, as well as any changes that come from either state or public health guidance that impacts our plans.

Thank you for your continued patience and support.

Reasonable Assurance and Contracts will be addressed during Governence Discussion section of the school board meeting.

The zoom link is the same for both. There will be a break in between.

The Board will be reviewing the public audience policy, however, for this meeting - the meeting will be provided virtually. Please provide your citizen's comments/questions by 4:30 p.m. on June 23 to publicaudience@garfieldre2.net

Agendas are provided below.

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