After months of remote learning, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is considering a transition to hybrid instruction for the spring.
Interim superintendent Jim Causby presented an outline of what the transition to hybrid education could look like at Thursday's CHCCS board meeting.
Under Causby’s proposed plan, students would come back to school in two phases — one phase beginning in November and another phase in the second semester. Causby said the board will be able to determine the timeline for the implementation of hybrid instruction.
“Whatever decision the board makes, we will implement,” Causby said.
The board approved Phase One of the plan, which will include hybrid instruction for students in the adaptive curriculum or alternative education program SPIRE@Phoenix. On-site standardized testing will resume and the district will provide additional funding for YMCA learning centers.
Phase Two of Causby’s proposed reopening plan would bring all students in CHCCS back to school under a hybrid instructional model while allowing parents to choose to have their students stay in remote learning for the rest of the academic year.
The board stopped short of fully approving Phase Two and will continue to work with Causby to plan for a hybrid school reopening.
Under Phase Two, students would be separated into two cohorts, A and B, and would attend in-person instruction on Mondays/Tuesdays or Thursdays/Fridays, with Wednesdays reserved for school cleaning. For the remainder of the week, students would have remote instruction. Students from the same family would be assigned to the same cohorts.
Causby’s proposal included a staggered return for students starting in the spring, with the district’s youngest students, in pre-K through second grade, returning in late January and other class year cohorts phased in throughout February.
