Welcome Back from Spring Break

Carlsbad Unified families and staff, I hope your week of Spring Break was a positive one, and that you are healthy and safe. As students and teachers return to Remote Online Learning this week, please remember that physical, mental, and emotional health continue to be our top priorities. We are all waiting to see whether or not there is an opportunity to return to our classrooms this school year. In the meantime, our teachers will provide a variety of learning opportunities for students to continue their learning during this period of emergency school facility closures due to COVID-19. We’ll continue in this format until we are told it is safe to return to school. Over Spring Break, we put together to help clarify our approach to teaching and learning during this time. In the coming weeks, we’ll provide additional documents like this. One of the questions we’ve heard most frequently has to do with how grades and graded assignments will be handled. The California Department of Education has left it up to each district to determine how to assign grades while school facilities are closed. We are working with teachers and principals this week, and will have a proposal to share with families and students on Friday, April 17. We’ll ask our Board of Trustees to approve that proposal at the April 22, 2020 Board meeting. There will be an opportunity for members of the public to send written feedback to the Board about the proposal; I’ll include more detailed information about that process at the end of this week. In the meantime, teachers will continue to provide required assignments to students and will provide feedback on those assignments in a variety of ways. Another question we’ve heard a lot has to do with our 12th grade students and the uncertainty of whether or not they'll get to participate in a graduation ceremony. Our high school principals are working now on a backup plan to move graduation to a later date, if that becomes necessary. We remain committed to providing a traditional commencement ceremony if it is safe to do so. While we are waiting to hear more, I encourage the parents of seniors to read this article and to share it with their students: These are challenging times for all of us. If your family celebrates Passover or Easter, I’m sure the celebrations this year were unlike any you remember. I wish you and your loved ones health and happiness in these unusual times - please continue to follow all recommended physical distancing practices, and please continue to take care of each other. Sincerely, Dr. Ben Churchill Superintendent

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