Welcome

Dear Rancho Families,

As our superintendent shared with you in his last letter, on Tuesday of this week, our school board met to discuss reopening and determine a reopening timeline for LMSV schools. The board set a reopening date for LMSV schools for Monday, April 19, 2021.

As we prepare for reopening at Rancho Elementary, I wanted to reach out and share some specifics about how learning will look on our campus once school resumes. Our hybrid reopening model has been revised based on the time of year we are reopening, and due to new health regulations that require us to keep six feet of distancing between students. The key principles of this plan are:

• Ensure students remain with their current teacher and class
• Students will participate in core instruction together from home (over Zoom) every morning
• At least twice a week, students will have the opportunity to attend school, in the afternoon, in-person, with their teacher and a limited cohort of students
• In-person cohorts of students will be limited in size based on classroom capacity (to provide6-feet of distance between students)
• In-person time will be supplemental to the core learning provided to all students over Zoom in the mornings.
• Time on campus will not involve whole-school activities (such as lunch and recess) to avoid cohort mixing which could result in the quarantine of larger groups of students when there is a case of COVID-19
• Additional in-person time will be provided for select students based on need and capacity

The specific daily schedule for Rancho will look like this:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Core instruction over Zoom (with breaks, etc.)	7:50 – 10:50 a.m.	7:50 – 10:50 a.m.	7:50 – 10:50 a.m.	7:50 – 10:50 a.m.	7:50 – 10:50 a.m.
Lunch (at home)	10:50 – 11:30 a.m.	10:50 – 11:30 a.m.	10:50 – 11:30 a.m.	10:50 – 11:30 a.m.	10:50 – 11:30 a.m.
Arrival Supervision/Health Screening	11:30 – 11:50 p.m.	11:30 – 11:50 p.m.	11:30 – 11:50 p.m.	11:30 – 11:50 p.m.	11:30 – 11:50 p.m.
In-Person Cohorts (Asynchronous time for students at home)	11:50 – 12:50 p.m. Intervention/ Enrichment Cohort	11:50 – 2:10 p.m. In-Person Cohort A	11:50 – 2:10 p.m. In-Person Cohort B	11:50 – 2:10 p.m. In-Person Cohort A	11:50 – 2:10 p.m. In-Person Cohort B
Dismissal	12:50 p.m.	2:10 p.m.	2:10 p.m.	2:10 p.m.	2:10 p.m.

I recognize that for some of you, getting your students to school for in-person learning opportunities might be a challenge. We are working to see if additional transportation or ESS childcare options might be available for our families to help more students have access to in-person learning. If you think you might utilize transportation or ESS if it were available to you, please complete the survey linked here: Transportation/ESS Survey. Your responses will help us plan for what is feasible in support of our families. We will provide more information on these options once we have gathered survey responses and determined capacity for our buses and our childcare classrooms.

We are so excited to welcome students back to Rancho Elementary School, and are eagerly preparing for their arrival. Next week I will send out a survey to see if you have changed your mind regarding your selection of “In-Person” or “Distance”. Once we hear back from you, I’ll be sharing more information about your assigned cohort day for attendance and additional details and information that you’ll need to prepare your students and your family for our first day back. In the meantime, please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns you might have.

Sincerely,

C. Elisa Holston-Arteaga
Principal
Elisa.HolstonArteaga@lmsvschools.org
(619) 668-5885 (x4699)