The Panorama School District is getting ready to return with all classes in the buildings this fall.

Superintendent Shawn Holloway says face masks will be encouraged but not required for students and staff, and the District has a hybrid learning policy for shared online and face-to-face learning if that model is recommended from Guthrie County Public Health. Total remote online learning was offered to individual students, and currently the high school has 23 students registered for that option, as well as 12 middle school and 13 elementary students.

The School Board approved the purchase of Odysseyware at their recent meeting for about $15,000. Holloway explains how this program will serve the online students, “It’s the curriculum, online textbook, workbook, place for students to provide their completed work so it’s kind of the management system along with the curricular piece and then what we’ve done is assigned certified teachers depending on if that’s K-6 and there’ll be a certified teacher there to assist students with questions and what not and then at the secondary level then we have content area teachers that will be assigned to do the same thing.”

The Board also approved having a 1 p.m. dismissal on Wednesdays during the first term, or nine weeks, of the fall semester. Holloway says this early dismissal will allow time for staff to update online materials for students, and the Board will revisit whether the early out should be extended in October.