LOCKWOOD – Students at Lockwood’s top schools will return to a new logo facility on August 26, when school district principals will paint to fill full-time replacement positions, Lockwood School Principal Tobin Novasio said Tuesday.
“Replacements are a challenge for each and every school in Montana right now. Many of our submarines are retired, so they belong to those high-risk categories. We know some of those other people probably wouldn’t come back,” Novasio said. .
The school board was hoping to rent three full-time replacement teachers at their board assembly on Tuesday night, Novasio said. The district will help pay staff with the help of approximately $300,000 in federal CARES (COVID-19 relief) grants, Novasio said.
“We’re for more. So if someone has a coaching degree and is still for a coaching assignment, we’re contemplating hiring full-time submarines for that first semester,” Novasio said.
In general years, Lockwood substitute teachers teach for other school districts in the area. Novasio said full-time replacements will help stifle the need for others to teach at several schools a week.
“The concept is to have those extra hands on board, but they would still be in the Lockwood bubble. They would be exposed to the virus potentially elsewhere,” Novasio said.
Lockwood principals have launched a three-tier plan to bring students back to class. The plan is based on a red light, in which red indicates a severe outbreak of COVID-19 and green if the number of cases is low.
To read the plan and more main points about kindergarten in eighth grade in Lockwood, click on the school district’s online page by clicking here.
“We try to move from one plan to another with as little disruption as possible. So, if there’s a primary epidemic here in Lockwood, we may go from yellow to red with minimal disruption,” Novasio said.
Individual schedules will be little more for Lockwood students, Novasio said.
From kindergarten through fifth grade, students will be divided between morning and night. Sections
“We felt it was vital to bring those kids here on campus every day for timely feedback on reading and informed math,” Novasio said.
The morning and afternoon department allowed 10 to 15 young people to attend elegance at once in elementary school, Novasio said.
“This gives us the space to move socially away from the classroom. Kids won’t have to wear their mask all day because they’ll be grouped together. They can be two meters away and take the mask,” Novasio said.
From grades 6 to 12, schedules vary more. These older academics will have a combination of online and in-person courses.
Students will be divided into 3 teams and will come to the user school at least one day a week from Tuesday to Thursday, Novasio said. The grouping of about 50 young people a day to form cohorts at the school at the same time, Novasio said.
On Mondays they will be reserved for special-wishing students and teachers to prepare for e-learning. Fridays will basically be by invitation only for students who want more help.
“For young people who follow, who are struggling, who might not have such intelligent access to the Internet or so much at home, on Fridays we will bring those young people looking to stay under 50 young people in an organizational cohort,” Novasio said.
Choice courses such as music, shop and circle of relatives and customer sciences will also be available to academics on Mondays and Fridays, Novasio said.
“The first 20 young people, or what the instructor feels it is like to have in this area with social distance, these young people can enroll and can do practical things for a few hours a week,” Novasio said.
With older students in elegance two days a week, Novasio said his other days would be complemented through online learning. He said that an instructor could record a conference with audiovisual elements that the student can see on rest days. Then, when they come to elegance in person, instructors can expand the lesson and answer questions.
“Hopefully, what parents will see is that many younger ones are getting while they’re here at school and doing general data at home. Don’t check paintings on missions at home so much without Array,” Novasio said.
Lockwood High School students will have the thrill of attending the construction of a new school with this year’s logo. Novasio stated that tape cutting would possibly not be the case because of COVID-19. There will still be small visits from organizations after a rite scheduled for August 20 on the high school football field.
“No one but our teachers, like our students and parents, need to go back to general and we don’t know what it will look like for a while. This evidently threw a monkey key into our plans to open the building. But I inspire other people to pass out and see it. It’s a beautiful and amazing facility,” Novasio said.
To learn more about Lockwood schools for next year, visit the school district’s website, lockwoodschool.org.