In-Person Instruction Plan

In order to ensure student and staff training as well as mitigate the spread of COVID -19, we have created the following plan to guide us through the school year while amidst a national pandemic.


Delivery of Instruction

Akii-gikinoo’amaading will offer in-person learning 4 days a week and 1 day of virtual learning. Virtual learning day will be used for classroom sanitation, and staff planning.

School Start Time

The school will be open to students by 7:45am each morning. Students whom ride the bus will be dropped off in front of the school each morning. If children are driven by parents they are expected to drop students of in front of the building as well. Students not taking the bus should be at school no later than 8:15am each morning.

Face Coverings

At Akii-gikinoo’amaading, all staff, and students are required to wear a cloth face covering while attending school or a school function in any school building, facility, or other school-controlled area, and when riding on the busses. All face coverings must cover the nose and mouth. Face coverings must be worn regardless of the ability to maintain six feet of distancing and vaccination status. Face coverings shall be worn at all times except for the following limited exceptions:


  • When eating or drinking;
  • Students or staff may be exempted from wearing masks and face coverings due to documented medical condition;
  • Students may be exempted from wearing masks and face coverings due to special behavioral or individualized needs as determined through the IEP process
  • All other rules of the school related to student dress (e.g., prohibitions against clothing or jewelry containing messages related to sexual references, profanity, drugs, etc.) apply equally to face coverings. Students and staff members who refuse to wear face coverings without proper documentation shall be subject to discipline consistent with other school attire rules violations.

Based on Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines, cloth face coverings are an important mitigation strategy to help slow the spread of COVID-19, especially when social/physical distancing is not possible. As I have previously communicated, we cannot promise to eliminate the possibility that someone will contract COVID-19 while at school, but we need to do what we can to mitigate risk. Mitigating risk is incredibly important to maintaining our in-person learning option


As a reminder, CDC guidelines state that cloth face coverings should not be placed on:


  • Children younger than 2 years old.
  • Anyone who has trouble breathing or is unconscious.
  • Anyone who is incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove the cloth face covering without assistance.