COLLEGE PLACE, Wash.-- Students in College Place Public Schools will begin hybrid learning on Monday, October 19th.


After weeks of meeting to review the data used to evaluate a safe return, the district’s Return to School Decision Team determined that local data indicated a safe return was possible.  The primary determinant in the process was the level of “community spread,” which county health officials rated as low. 


The College Place School Board voted last month to adopt a hybrid model that has students attending classes in-person for half the day, attending classes either in the morning or the afternoon.


College Place Public Schools’ AM/PM Hybrid Model has students divided into two groups with PreK-12th grade students onsite from 8:00-10:45 a.m. or 12:15-3:00 p.m. daily Monday through Friday. 


When students are not onsite they will work online on assignments and activities directed by their classroom teacher for the other half of the day.


District officials say about one hundred students have opted to continue with distance learning for the remainder of the school year.


Superintendent Jim Fry stated, “Our staff and students have shown unbelievable flexibility and resilience through this time.  I have never witnessed such awesome teamwork, collaboration, and creativity.  What we have done to date has been done in an incredible way, the College Place way.  I expect that what we will bring to our students and community in this model will be no less.”

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