While the Panorama School District was required to submit to the Iowa Department of Education the “Return to Learn Plan,” a checklist of yes or no questions by July 1st, they now work to fully determine how the beginning of school will look.

The Board held a work session following their regular meeting with the School Improvement Advisory Committee to discuss what methods the District will use to educate students while stemming the spread of COVID-19. Superintendent Shawn Holloway says the Board will give final approval on their plan on July 27th which will include seven critical areas identified by the Department of Education: Leadership, Infrastructure, Health and Safety, Iowa Academic Standards, Social-Emotional and Behavioral Health, Equity, and Data, “We’re currently putting together health and safety procedures for transportation, for food service, for extracurricular for both of our buildings. Really within that is where we talk about just the different mitigation strategies that will be in place and try to make it as clean and safe an environment, regardless of which learning model is chosen and so obviously face masks may be a part of that or may not be.”

The Board has determined three options of how school might look this fall, though Holloway says there’s a good chance that the 2020-2021 school year will feature all three models or a possible combination. To read more about these models, visit here.