Our Covid-19 Safety Protocol

In addition to following CDC and DOH recommendations, here is our protocol for best practices.

Our Practices:

These practices are subject to change based on official guidance and updated information.

  1. All students and staff will be screened upon arrival.

  2. Only students and staff will be permitted inside the facility.

  3. Families are asked to take all possible precautions to avoid exposure to Covid-19 (such as social distancing and mask-wearing in public) and to follow CDC guidelines to keep our students and staff safe.

  4. Students and staff will be required to socially distance inside at all times (as much as is possible), wear masks, and wash or sanitize hands before and after all activities.

  5. The studio will be sanitized daily, often in between activities, using CDC recommended cleaners. The facility will also run an ozone machine nightly to sanitize.

  6. We have installed a Molekule filter with PECO technology proven to destroy a proxy virus for SARS-CoV-2 (RNA virus MS2) and also satisfies performance criteria outlined in FDA guidance for use in helping to destroy SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus.

    For more info: molekule.com/papers

  7. We request that if your child is not feeling well, you keep your child home “just in case”. Even if it is “just a headache” or “just a stomachache”.

  8. Additionally, we request that when parents get sick, children stay home too.

 
CSS Accordion

  1. The student must go home immediately. At that time we will inform all parents of the situation (see letter below).
  2. We will ask that the student not feeling well either be:
    • symptom free for 24 hours and
    • have a negative COVID-19 test before returning to class or
    • have a doctor’s note letting us know they are confident the illness was something other than COVID-19.
  3. If a child develops symptoms during our day we will take all students outside and run the ozone machine for 30 minutes to ensure the air quality issue is addressed as thoroughly as possible.
  4. We do not intend to close our facility in this scenario.

  1. We will inform all parents of the positive case.
  2. We will strongly suggest (but not require) each of our students get a COVID-19 test.
  3. Our facilitator will get a COVID-19 test and will not return until there is a negative result.
  4. We will have a substitute facilitator.
  5. The student may return after:
    • at least 10 days have passed since their symptoms first appeared and
    • 24 hours after symptoms are gone and
    • you have a minimum of one negative COVID-19 test.
  6. We will continue our regular practice of cleaning and sanitizing the facility.
  7. We will contact the Department of Health and will follow their guidance.
  8. The DOH has the final word regarding facility closures.

  1. The parents will be immediately notified of the situation and the facilitator will call the substitute.
  2. The facilitator will take the students outside and turn on the ozone machine
  3. The substitute will come and clean and sanitize the community space.
  4. The students will return to the clean space with the substitute.
  5. The facilitator will get a COVID-19 test and will not return until:
    • they are symptom free for 24 hours and
    • have either two negative COVID-19 tests within 24 hours of each other before returning to class or
    • have one negative COVID-19 test and doctor’s note stating they are able to return to work.
  6. We do not intend to close our facility in this scenario.

  1. We will immediately inform parents of the positive case.
  2. We will have a substitute facilitator.
  3. We will request (but not require) all students get a COVID-19 test.
  4. The facilitator will not return until:
    • they are symptom free for 24 hours and
    • at least 10 days have passed since their symptoms first appeared and
    • have either two negative COVID-19 tests within 24 hours of each other before returning or
    • have one negative COVID-19 test and doctor’s note stating they are able to return.
  5. We will continue our regular practice of cleaning and sanitizing the facility.
  6. We will contact the Department of Health and will follow their guidance.
  7. The DOH has the final word regarding facility closures.

 
 

Additionally, we ask that parents inform the facilitator if your family has experienced a potential exposure to a known case of COVID-19.

As per CDC and DOH, depending on the level of exposure, the student may need to stay home for the duration of the incubation period of 2 weeks. This will be determined on a case by case basis and will depend on the requirements of the DOH regarding each individual case.

Sample wording for the text we will send parents if we have a student develop symptoms:

A student/staff member did not come to the learning community/left the learning community early because they are exhibiting one or more of the symptoms of COVID-19. We will update parents as needed.

Local Testing Resources:

1st Choice Urgent Care

128 NW 137th Dr
Newberry, FL  32669
‭+1 (352) 332-1890
1stchoiceicc.com

Appointments typically within 24 hrs / test results within 48 hrs.

Copay on insurance or $189 cash. Nasal swab.

Celal Erbay, M.D.

7109 NW 11th Pl Ste B
Gainesville, FL 32605
352-333-9909
nfrmc.com/physicians/profile/Dr-C-Gurol-Erbay-MD


Same day appointment typically. Test results within 10 minutes. Blood draw. $50 cash.