OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio -- After a late spring and summer filled with uncertainty related to beginning the 2020-2021 school year during a pandemic, Olmsted Falls City Schools Superintendent Jim Lloyd said any apprehensive he had last week as the district began operating in a hybrid mode was normal.
“The concerns are always the same going into any new school year regarding the transition for students,” Lloyd said.
“Obviously with our district being one of the very few in our county to start with in-person, the concerns had to do with how would that go, as well as transportation and students logging in from home. Would everybody get to where they needed to be and then would learning happen?”
The superintendent said it was apparent early on last week that the district’s planning was a success.
“From everything I’ve been able to ascertain from our staff, it’s been successful thus far,” Lloyd said. "Now, we’re four days in and this is the beginning of day five, but proper planning by the staff -- particularly our principals and our building level committees -- really put us in a good position to be able to hit the ground running.
“I visited every building last week, talked to lots of teachers, lots of kids and it was one of the smoothest starts we had in the opening of a school year.”
Roughly 2,730 students involved in Pathway A hybrid instruction are divided into the blue group attending school Monday and Tuesday while the gold group is in class on Thursdays and Fridays. Wednesday is a virtual day.
The solid beginning also applied to the 596 students involved in the district’s Pathway B or Distance eLearning 2.0 for remote learning during the entire first semester.
“This is somewhat of an educational experiment across the country,” Lloyd said. “Having half of the students in class -- going from 25 to 28 down to nine to 12 kids -- it’ll be interesting to see if that one-to-one close attention to students may very well pay off in ways that we didn’t anticipate.”
The district’s Pathway A plan is tied to the state’s four-tier public health advisory system, which is currently at level 2. Olmsted Falls City School’s plan is in-person instruction will take place during level 1 with the hybrid model for level 2 and 3 and remote learning in level 4.
Regarding how a potential spike of COVID-19 could affect Olmsted Falls City Schools' hybrid fashion model, Lloyd said the district will continue to keep a close eye on Cuyahoga County Board of Health’s numbers, the positivity rate and the number of new cases.
“As we are gaining experience of having students in school, and effectively mitigating this virus, our experience in doing that successfully is also going to be a factor in (our decision),” Lloyd said. "It isn’t as though, well, now the county numbers are up again, so immediately we’re going to just take everybody out of school and go to remote.
“That’s not going to happen. We’re going to certainly look at those numbers, but we’re going to rely on the experiences that we’re gathering as we work our way through this.”
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