Safely Return, Safely Remain

QUARANTINE PROCEDURE UPDATE
We will follow the CDC guidelines for length of quarantine
and adhere to all federal, state, and local guidance on contract
tracing and quarantine protocols. We will be asking
your child to quarantine in the following ways, but will not
be limited to the following scenarios:
If you answer “yes” to any of the daily health screening
questions, we may require you to have your child tested
for COVID-19. Should you answer “yes” but not pursue a
COVID-19 test, we will follow CDC quarantine guidelines
and require your child(ren) to quarantine 14 days and be fever/symptom-free
for 72 hours before returning to school.
If your child has been exposed to someone with a
COVID-19 diagnosis, we ask that they stay home for 14
days. We will be following the CDC definition of “close
contact” – contact with an active case within 6 feet for at
least 10 minutes.
If your child tests positive for COVID-19, we will follow
CDC guidelines on returning to Overbrook. At this time,
your child cannot return until 10 days from the onset of
symptoms and until they are fever/symptom-free for 72
hours.
If your child experiences COVID-19 symptoms while at
Overbrook or on Campus, they will be isolated and monitored
in our designated quarantine space until they are
picked up. Please come promptly. While private, this space
can be enclosed to limit spread to other classrooms. After
the student is assessed by our school nurse, we will ask
you to take them to be tested for COVID-19 and follow the
testing protocols above. When someone has arrived to pick
them up, we will bring your child out to the front of the
building.
In any of the above situations, please notify the front
office and Nurse Mire as soon as possible.
Any child awaiting testing or in quarantine will be entered
into our Remote Synchronous Learning Option. See details
in the Remote Synchronous Learning Option section, on
page 10.
Additionally, as recommended by the CDC, we ask that you
self-quarantine your child(ren) from school if you choose
avenues of higher exposure for your family such as certain
travel choices. We trust that such higher exposure choices
would be for emergency purposes only. Please refer to the
CDC for guidance on this and contact the front office in advance
so that we can respond accordingly. All adults in our
school are expected to follow the same procedures.
CONTACT TRACING
We will continue to follow all state and
local guidance on contact tracing within
our building and community. Upon
learning of a COVID-19 confirmation, we
will notify the local health department
and the State Department of Health and
will follow their suggested next steps and
protocols in contact tracing, cohort, or
faculty/staff quarantining, and cleaning.
Please note that all preschool through
5th-grade classrooms will be defined as
individual classroom cohorts at this time
and will not mix with other classrooms of
students, even those in the same grade.
Again, cohorts will not be using any shared
indoor spaces such as the dining hall or
gym. Junior High students (grades 6-8)
will be in general cohorts that will involve
some mixing for math and languages. In
these cases, we will follow the CDC definition
of “close contact” for tracing purposes
– contact with an active case within 6
feet for at least 10 minutes. Cohorts will
spread out on the campus grounds for
recess and avoid mixing when recreating
together. Only one cohort a day will utilize
the playground equipment, which will be
sanitized after each use.
It is likely that contact tracing could result
in groups of people, entire cohorts,
or faculty moving from in-person learning
to Remote Synchronous Learning. We will
follow all CDC guidelines on deep cleaning
spaces and high-touch areas after a
confirmed case.
We will follow all state and local guidance,
and cooperate with all local health officials,
in notifying families who may have
come in contact with a presumptive positive
case. We will not disclose the name
of anyone who has tested positive.
Due to these dynamic and fluid possibilities,
it is possible your student(s) will need
to be quarantined, isolated, or move into
Remote Synchronous Learning at any
time throughout the year. Please be prepared
for this possibility.
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