Current Status: Last Updated on September 24, 2021
Increased Spread of the Virus
At this time we have met all of our criteria for Safe ReOpening. In keeping with Urban Discovery's Core Value of serving as a catalyst of community, our Safe ReOpening Plan is designed to empower families with choices of multiple learning formats and the flexibility to opt for the format that best supports their unique needs. Urban Discovery Schools offers three learning format choices:
At this time we have met all of our criteria for Safe ReOpening. In keeping with Urban Discovery's Core Value of serving as a catalyst of community, our Safe ReOpening Plan is designed to empower families with choices of multiple learning formats and the flexibility to opt for the format that best supports their unique needs. Urban Discovery Schools offers three learning format choices:
- ON-CAMPUS LEARNING - Four days of on-campus classes with one day of virtual learning.
- HYBRID LEARNING - Primarily virtual learning with customized on-campus learning opportunities for additional support.
- VIRTUAL LEARNING - 100% virtual learning for your Urban Discovery Student.
COVID-19 Policy Updates: Vaccinations
At Urban Discovery Schools we have dedicated ourselves to scientific based decision making. Based upon consultation with medical professionals, current research, and guidance from the World Health Organization, the United Stated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The United States Food and Drug Administration, The United States Department of Education, the California Department of Public Health, the California Department of Education, and the San Diego County Department of Public Health, the following policies regarding vaccinations have been adopted:
Evaluating COVID-19 Information
While information has helped people stay safe and healthy, incorrect information sometimes increases confusion about health-related issues. Many people are suffering as a result of incorrect information. This type of information can be spread widely very quickly because it is easy to share. Misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information can spread through many different ways, such as word of mouth, social media, e-mail, and text, which may seem valid at first, but is the information coming from a credible source? Please click here for this resource on evaluating COVID-19 information.
Our Commitment:
Urban Discovery Schools takes a cautious approach to in-person instructional offerings. This approach will be based upon:
- the leadership provided through the Governor's office, and state and local health agencies;
- local university partners and their medical research and advice on safety considerations during the pandemic;
- an understanding that we are an inner-city school system in a densely populated area with those areas having a higher propensity to spread the virus;
- that our learning community is comprised of members that are of multi-generational households, are themselves at higher risk, or care for others that are of higher risk;
- that our faculty and staff members are members of our learning community and must not be placed at risk as this undermines our ability to serve our broader learning community; and
- that we serve a diverse population that includes members that are essential workers that ensure that base service requirements for the maintenance and dignity of human life are provided for on a day-to-day basis.
We believe that these are prerequisite requirements and considerations for successful in-person learning to occur. Therefore, we have established a 28-day review cycle of these conditions before considering the reopening of schools so that we have a broad base of timeline-dependent medical and health data to make decisions in consideration of the opening of schools.
COVID-19 Prevention Program (CPP)
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), better known as Cal/OSHA, protects and improves the health and safety of working men and women. Utilizing their established model framework, you can review the Urban Discovery Schools CPP dated February 1, 2021, below.
COVID-19 School Guidance Checklist
On January 14, 2021, the California Department of Public Health released the COVID-19 School Guidance Checklist to help establish safe procedures for the reopening of schools once the school systems established metric framework had been met. You can review the Urban Discovery Schools School Guidance Checklist dated February 1, 2021, below.
Learning Continuity & Attendance Plan
Senate Bill 98 (SB 98) established the Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan (Learning Continuity Plan, LCP), which is intended to (1) require a written report and envisioned an off-cycle Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) due December 15th, and (2) the ongoing need for local educational agencies (LEAs) to formally plan for the 2020–21 school year in the midst of the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This plan is intended to memorialize the planning process that is already underway for the 2020–21 school year. You can review the UDS LCP by clicking here.
Comments and Feedback
Please direct feedback on specific actions and expenditures to ceo@urbansd.com.
Please direct feedback on specific actions and expenditures to ceo@urbansd.com.
Overview of COVID-19
Current Understanding of Virus
- Symptoms most commonly include: fever with cough or shortness of breath; Some people have fewer or no symptoms at all. Headache, sore throat, and runny nose also occur with this virus.
- Spread is most likely from droplets (cough and sneezing).
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers this a serious public health threat, but with health risk from this virus to be low at this time.
- It is not yet known whether people carrying the virus, but have no symptoms, can spread the virus to others.
- Symptoms of COVID-19 may appear in as few as 2 days, or as long as 14 days, after exposure.
- Most people with this infection will recover on their own. There is no specific treatment for novel coronavirus infection yet.
- For patients who are more severely ill, hospitals can provide supportive care.
