Geneva City Schools central tenant is to provide its students with the safest, most appropriate and meaningful learning conditions possible. To ensure the quality of instruction, administration, teachers, students, parents and community will share expectations and decisions that will be data driven and designed to be what is best for the district and the community. The LEA plans to implement prevention and mitigation strategies to continuously and safely operate schools for in-person learning through our reopening plan, procedures, and protocols. Geneva City Schools will plan and implement strategies to provide its students with the most appropriate and meaningful learning atmosphere possible. To ensure the quality of instruction and learning, administration, teachers, students, parents and community will share expectations and decisions will be driven in regards to what is best for the district and the community. The plan outlines screening protocols, health protocols, sanitizing and disinfecting, physical health and well-being, social and emotional wellbeing of students, child nutrition guidelines, and a daily schedule to reflect suggestions from CDC, ADPH, and ALSDE. Additionally, the plan includes guidance on health services, transportation, and other pertinent information for students to return to in-person learning. The Geneva City Schools System will make decisions concerning physical distancing, mask-wearing, and contract tracing as data and information becomes available about COVID-19 cases from local public health officials, school nurses, and the ADPH. The school district will implement other protocols if it becomes necessary. The Superintendent and each school administrator will communicate any changes in the plan and protocols to teachers, students, families, and community members. Geneva City Schools may modify this guidance based on changes to the ADPH and CDC guidance or as conditions may warrant. The plan is fluid and subject to change due to data from the county and each school.

Geneva City Schools will ensure that all materials, strategies and services are evidenced-based. Interventions will meet the ALSDE definition of high-quality and be appropriate to address all academic, social-emotional, and mental health needs for all students impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. All subgroup data will be analyzed to include subgroups from different ethnic backgrounds, children from low-income families, children with disabilities, English Learners, gender, migrant students, homeless students, and children in foster care. Each individual school will conduct a Needs Assessment that will help identify the areas of academic, social emotional, and mental health needs of their students. Subgroup data will be disaggregated and individualized. Each school's ACIP will have goals, strategies and action steps to support the learning needs of identified areas and groups of concern. Each school will monitor progress through data meetings that will work in conjunction with the Response To Intervention Process in place. Additional data to be utilized will be survey data, school assessments, state assessments, individual student plans and the health status of students, teachers, and the community.

Geneva City Schools will use our funds to address the academic impact of lost instructional time (learning loss) through the implementation of evidence-based interventions, such as summer learning and summer enrichment, comprehensive after school programs, and Saturday Schools. Further, the district will purchase high-quality instructional materials. All of the curriculums that the district plans to purchase will be used to address any forms of learning loss or the after effects of it. Further, ARP Act ESSER III funds will be used to address unfinished learning that tends to have a disproportionate impact on certain students. The items described below are inclusive but not exclusive uses of the ARP ESSER money.

• Intervention Teachers (Elementary)

• Intervention Teachers (Secondary)

• High Quality professional development for staff through A+ College Ready and LETRS

• High Quality online curriculum- Edgenuity

• Learning Recovery materials and instructional supplies

• Providing traditional remedial summer school opportunities

• Literacy Act Camps

• Providing additional Academic Recovery Support personnel for students with special needs

• Continue the use of a School-Based Mental Health Coordinator to support students and families with academic, attendance, and social/emotional needs, as well as to help develop effective family partnerships during the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years (2021-2022 school year funded by ESSER II and state grant.

Geneva City Schools continues to plan, monitor and adjust to challenges and barriers created by COVID-19. It is the goal of the district to utilize and maximize ESSER funding to create equal access to participation in activities, and lessen barriers for all students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries with special needs. The district will ensure that no student or teacher will be denied participation based on gender, race, national origin, color, disability or age in the participation of activities.

• Cleaning schools and providing schools, classrooms, teachers and students with sanitizing solutions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

• The district will provide remote curriculum and classroom management software to make virtual delivery in the event online learning is needed.

• School embedded mental health services will be continued and expanded for families and teachers.

• General classroom materials and supplies will be purchased by the district.

• Professional Development will be provided for staff K-12 to address learning loss.

In developing the ARP ESSER Plan, Geneva City  Schools conducted consultation with stakeholders using surveys and face to face meetings. Those meetings included school and district administrators, teachers, educators, school staff, business leaders, local government officials, and parents from multiple parents.

Geneva City Schools will continue to actively request input from the community and families within the district. The District acknowledges the importance of stakeholder input and understanding of the utilization of ARP ESSER and other relief funds. Parent and community input will be solicited through surveys and representation on school and district advisory committees. Initial plans, as well as amendments, for each funding source will be shared at public budget hearings, Advisory Meetings, community organization meetings and publicly posted on the district’s website. 

Further, individual schools will gather input from their stakeholders during their ACIP meetings and other school-initiated connections between the school and the home. Input from parents, families, and community will be recognized and considered when creating events to engage and support families during these challenging times. 

Finally, in the event traditional channels of engagement are interrupted, the district will develop emerging best practices like connecting virtually, provide teaching toolkits, and access to classroom management systems.