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of instruction that would meet the needs of both in- been experienced up to this point. Stacey Schakel person and remote learners. Protocols and practices served as our MPS District COVID-19 Health were put in place designed to keep students and staff Coordinator for school year 20-21 and became our healthy and safe. All students and staff wore masks— expert on all things COVID. She did an outstanding in accordance with School Committee policy, student job making sure we were following all health/safety desks were positioned six feet apart in all practices and protocols, securing all necessary PPE, classrooms—all facing in the same direction, hand and providing 24/7 COVID-19 guidance and support sanitizer dispensers were placed outside every to students, families, and staff. Our students, our classroom door for frequent hand cleaning, detailed families, and our staff collaborated and seating plans were maintained in all settings each communicated so well during this school year— day, students ate their lunches at individual desks in leading to a positive and successful outcome. the cafeterias and gymnasiums, all facing the same Throughout our 20-21 school year journey, we direction. An outdoor tent was installed at each learned many new things, discovered different ways school for outdoor learning. The ventilation system to accomplish tasks, and created valuable at each school was inspected and upgrades were connections with each other in creative ways. made. All units were adjusted to maximize fresh air flow. Our custodians cleaned and disinfected Consuelo Carroll continued as our District common areas multiple times throughout the school Outreach Coordinator. Consuelo's office is located day and all classrooms at the end of each school day. at our#WeAreMashpee outreach site/store located at Bus transportation was limited to 23 students per Mashpee Commons. We are grateful for our valued bus—spaced one student per seat with every other seat partnership with the Mashpee Commons. At this site, occupied. Families were given learning options to we build connections with our Mashpee community, begin the school year: For students in kindergarten highlight our school programs and opportunities, through grade 3,a student could be a 100%in-person showcase accomplishments of our students and staff, learner at school or a 100%remote learner. In grades and offer school-related and school-created items for 4 - 12, students could be a hybrid learner or a 100% sale. remote learner. Students participating in our hybrid learning model were assigned to either the Mashpee We continue to work hard to ensure that every cohort or to the Falcons cohort. Each cohort of Mashpee graduate is well prepared for his/her post- students participated in one full week of in-person MPS endeavors—that each graduate possesses the learning at school and one full week of remote five competencies included in our Portrait of a learning—on an alternating basis. All remote Graduate: Purposeful Communicator and learners in Mashpee participated in school virtually— Collaborator, Engaged Citizen, Resilient Me, connected to their in-person classmates. Mashpee Empowered Knowledge Seeker, and Critical Thinker had no remote-only teachers. and Problem-Solver. In March of 2021, following Department of The Mashpee Public Schools is proud of the Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) equity work we are accomplishing in partnership with guidelines,plans to leave hybrid learning behind and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Our efforts were return to full time in-person learning began. Parents recognized on the national level by the National and guardians of students in grades 4 - 12 had to School Boards Association (NSBA) as the grand choose between having their child be a full time in- prize winner in the under 5,000 enrollment category person learner or a 100% remote learner for the for the 2021 Magna Award balance of the school year. Desks in classrooms (https:Hvimeo.com/524062920). Sponsored by (grades 4- 12)were repositioned with a minimum of NSBA's flagship magazine, American School Board 3-foot distancing. Our PreK - Grade 3 classrooms Journal,the Magna Award honors districts across the remained at 6-foot distancing as we had made smaller country for their programs that advance equity and classes at the beginning of the year to accommodate break down barriers for underserved students. 100% in-person learning. A 100% remote learner's Mashpee Public Schools was selected as a winner by day included a significant amount of independent an independent panel of school board members, asynchronous learning—a difference from what had administrators, and other educators. Pictured on the 139