September 2021 Update
Our Schools Start Here series of guides and
ESSER Strategy Planner & Spending Calcuator
dives into the resource side of ESSER strategy and planning
- including staffing and scheduling -
for the 2021-22 school year and beyond.
Because returning to in-person instruction too soon and without comprehensive health and safety measures will lead to dire risks and consequences, many districts are choosing to start off the 2020-21 school year fully remote. However, districts can still leverage this period of fully-remote time as an opportunity to proactively address the complicated details that are sure to arise when it becomes time to gradually transition into safely serving more students in person.
The Economics of Remote to In-Person School Transitions outlines four starting points and shares sample analysis of three key design levers that district leadership teams can use to help plan and implement these transitions when the time is right for their context.
District leaders can use our Staffing Tool to calculate the staffing that schools will need under different reopening scenarios and which models are most viable for different schools. This tool focuses on staffing for grades K-8, based on students’ opt-in levels and your desired in-person and remote staffing ratios; it does not include grades 9-12 where the factors for in-person/hybrid staffing and feasibility are more complex.
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