From our broad experience working with schools during crises or any atypical circumstances, we know that assigning a single individual from your Response Team as a Pandemic Coordinator can put schools in the best position to effectively and efficiently maintain instructional and operational continuity. This will ensure that one person is in charge of monitoring the current situation, disseminating information as necessary to your team, and helping coordinate the response actions and tasks within the response team. This does not mean that they are doing 100% of the work, but they are aware of changes as they are happening and keep their finger on the pulse of all pandemic-related school operations as a unifying thread.

If necessary and more fitting for your community, responsibilities can be split between multiple people, but each person should be very clear on who is in charge of which specific assigned areas.

You know your people best, so a good person for this role will vary from school to school (it may be the school nurse, CFO, Facilities Director, Athletic Director, etc.) In order to help you determine the best person for this role, we have put together this guiding document outlining the role as we envision it.

This training will be entirely virtual. We are committed to serving as many schools as we can, while adhering to all current safety recommendations. To that end, we will be delivering this training via virtual video meetings and webinar platforms, to allow for live interaction between instructors and participants.

Yes, we are allowing up to 3 members of your team to attend the training. We will also send out the recorded sessions and training materials after the course for you to share with additional members of your team.

We will be sending out Registration Packets in advance of the training with information about signing up your school's participant(s), a few items of pre-work, login instructions for the training, and any other logistical details your participant(s) may need.

We have outlined the agenda for the course and roughly what you can expect from each in this document .

Please note that we are making every effort to adapt our trainings to the most current needs of schools in this ever-changing time. The agenda is therefore subject to change - thanks for understanding! However, this will give you a good idea of what can be expected as part of the course.

In our Registration Packet, to be sent out the week before the training, we will send you a few items to ask you to prepare before the course. We know you’re already managing a global pandemic, so this will take a reasonably short amount of time, promise! It’ll involve an assessment of what your school has already been working on, what your unique challenges are, and what you hope to gain from the training.

This course is designed predominantly for new participants who have not gone through our 6-day full training and certification course. However, you are more than welcome to join if it would be valuable to ensure you have the most updated information and recommendations! If you are a previous participant, we would offer you a 30% discount on this course (just send us an email to inquire!)