This guidance includes information on physical distancing, facial coverings and personal protective equipment, symptom screening, COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, quarantining, cleaning and disinfection, ventilation, and sports.
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This CDC guidance outlines several strategies, including how to serve students with special needs, how to create cohorts, and how to stagger parent drop-off and pick-up.
- Tools & School Guidance
Based on guidance from the CDC, this handbook describes safe practices for in-person learning, including masking and physical distancing.
- Tools & School Guidance
This document provides concrete guidance on how to implement important mitigation strategies—masking, physical distancing, handwashing, cleaning, and contract tracing.
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This website includes decision-making tools with guiding principles and mitigation strategies for school reopening.
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This website compiles resources for child care administrators and providers, including state-by-state information on vaccines, public health guidance, child care closures, and supporting emergency workers.
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This brief lays out model standards for child care facilities to mitigate the risk of virus transmission, including standards for ventilation, bathrooms, and classroom configuration. It is intended to help states deliver consistent guidance on reopening child care programs and to help providers assess their own programs.
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This guidance outlines mitigation strategies for schools, including COVID-19 testing strategies and guidelines to inform school closure determinations when active in-school transmission is suspected.
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This toolkit provides several documents and guidance on how to encourage vaccination among staff, including printable posters and social media strategies.
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This document reviews the evidence on transmission rates and community spread and presents strategies for reopening schools, including how to create effective in-person safety plans.
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This document provides health and safety guidance on teaching in small group environments.
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This page contains several guidance documents for administrators, including a 5-step guide to checking ventilation in classrooms and 20 questions for families to ask before sending their children back to school.
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This guidebook offers a planning guide across four core areas (community health context, facilities and school operations, safe school environments, and cohorts for safe learning) to guide decision-making for in-person instruction.
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This document compiles guidance from various California authorities on meeting health and safety requirements in early childhood education programs in California, and it includes a checklist for administrators.
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This report explains the different types of COVID-19 tests, strategies for surveillance and screening testing, and a risk assessment tool to help educational leaders.
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This website consolidates existing guidance; provides resources on funding, mitigation, and transparency; and explains the science behind the state’s reopening plan.
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This website provides concrete and actionable toolkits for operating schools during the pandemic, including strategies for cohorting and scheduling.
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