A Cohort is a group of students who are educated in the same location at the same time.  The cohort also contains any adults who are regularly with any one group of students.

Examples of a Cohort as we will use it for considering the elementary learning models:

• All students, teachers, and teaching assistant who are assigned to the in-person classroom for hybrid learning
• All students, teachers, and teaching assistant who are assigned to a virtual learning group

The Virtual-Plus (hybrid) learning model includes:

• A cohort of students learning 2 consecutive days per week in school via in-person instruction and 3 days per week learning  virtually from home, childcare facility, or other non-school location
• A probability of students and teachers remaining together, but that will depend on family choice of learning model and teacher availability.  It is possible that students may be assigned a new teacher.  These students may have the same teacher for in-person and virtual learning or they may have one in-person teacher and a second virtual teacher.
• A possibility of the start and end times of the learning day to be changed due to busing.

The Virtual-Half Year learning model includes:

• A cohort of students learning 5 consecutive days per week virtually from home, childcare facility, or other non-school location.
• A possibility of students and teachers remaining together, but that will depend on family choice of learning model and teacher availability.  It is possible that students may be assigned a new teacher.
• A possibility of the start and end times of the learning day to be changed due to busing.  Even though students will be learning virtually, they and their teachers are part of the school community.  If the school schedule times change, then they change for the virtual cohort of students as well.
• Another opportunity for the family to choose to move to the Hybrid Learning Model for the second half of the school year (beginning in February 2021).

The Virtual-Full Year learning model includes:

• A cohort of students learning 5 consecutive days per week virtually from home, childcare facility, or other non-school location for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year ending in June 2021.
• A probability of students being assigned a new teacher for the remainder of the year.
• A probability of students from neighboring schools assigned to the Virtual Full-Year learning cohort with a certified teacher who may or may not be from your student’s current school.
• A learning schedule with times that remain as they currently are in place.
• A consistent virtual learning model in place from November 2020 through June 2021.