Below is a list of practices that will ensure Pima JTED continuity of services, including but not limited to services to address student’s academic needs and students’ and staff social, emotional, mental health, and other needs, which may include student health and food services:

• Contracting with professional services to provide resources and professional development in the area of social, emotional, mental health, academic and other needs to staff and students.
• Purchase supplies, equipment and services to support the academic needs in an educational environment that can provide learning experiences in multiple modalities.
• Contracting counselors during off contract periods during the school year and summer and weekends as needed.
• Provide multiple pathways to solicit feedback from all stakeholders (i.e. surveys, committees, one-on-one meetings, etc.).
• Purchase advanced sanitization services and supplies.
• Contract with security vendors to ensure students and staff are protected from community spread.
• Offer incentives to staff to mitigate turnover and lapse of educational opportunity.
• Purchase supplies, equipment and purchased services that will promote virtual/remote learning.
• Pima JTED will track individual student performance and engagement with our instructional system.
• Pima JTED will be able to compare student performance data at the individual level.
• Pima JTED Student Services will log engagement activities with students to include: engagement type and outcome.
• Consistent communication to parents and students via multiple media (i.e. in-person, email, phone, Newsletters, etc.)

Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs

• Contracting counselors during off contract periods during the school year and summer and weekends as needed.
• Contracting with professional services to provide resources and professional development in the area of social, emotional, mental health, academic and other needs to staff and students.

Pima JTED posted the plan to its website (pimajted.org) and sent the plan to all stakeholders via multiple modalities to include: direct email, public meetings, and other communication from faculty/staff. The district asked for meaningful feedback from these stakeholders via electronic survey. The data was then taken and developed into a report that was used to modify the plan.

We welcome you to take our survey:
https://pimajted.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82nsMn80ot1PiWa

• An LEA must describe in its plan under section 2001(i)(1) of the ARP Act for the safe return to in-person instruction and continuity of services—
  • How it will maintain the health and safety of students, educators, and other staff and the extent to which it has adopted policies, and a description of any such policies, on each of the following safety recommendations established by the CDC:
    1. Universal and correct wearing of masks.
    2. Modifying facilities to allow for physical distancing (e.g., use of cohorts/podding)
    3. Handwashing and respiratory etiquette.
    4. Cleaning and maintaining healthy facilities, including improving ventilation.
    5. Contact tracing in combination with isolation and quarantine, in collaboration with the State, local, territorial, or Tribal health departments.
    6. Diagnostic and screening testing.
    7. Efforts to provide vaccinations to school communities.
    8. Appropriate accommodations for children with disabilities with respect to health and safety policies.
    9. Coordination with State and local health officials.
  • How it will ensure continuity of services, including but not limited to services to address students’ academic needs and students’ and staff social, emotional, mental health, and other needs, which may include student health and food services.

• During the period of the ARP ESSER award established in section Start Printed Page 212022001(a) of the ARP Act, an LEA must regularly, but no less frequently than every six months (taking into consideration the timing of significant changes to CDC guidance on reopening schools), review and, as appropriate, revise its plan for the safe return to in-person instruction and continuity of services.
  • In determining whether revisions are necessary, and in making any revisions, the LEA must seek public input and take such input into account
  • If at the time the LEA revises its plan the CDC has updated its guidance on reopening schools, the revised plan must address the extent to which the LEA has adopted policies, and describe any such policies, for each of the updated safety recommendations.

• If an LEA developed a plan prior to enactment of the ARP Act that meets the statutory requirements of section 2001(i)(1) and (2) of the ARP Act but does not address all the requirements in paragraph (a), the LEA must, pursuant to paragraph (b), revise and post its plan no later than six months after receiving its ARP ESSER funds to meet the requirements in paragraph (a).

• An LEA’s plan under section 2001(i)(1) of the ARP Act for the safe return to in-person instruction and continuity of services must be—
  • In an understandable and uniform format;
  • To the extent practicable, written in a language that parents can understand or, if it is not practicable to provide written translations to a parent with limited English proficiency, be orally translated for such parent; an
  • Upon request by a parent who is an individual with a disability as defined by the ADA, provided in an alternative format accessible to that parent