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PRINCIPAL'S RESOURCE GUIDEfor Baseline and Periodic Testing, Return to Campus
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Office of COVID Response
PRINCIPAL'S RESOURCE GUIDEfor Baseline and Periodic Testing, Return to Campus
SECTION 1COVID-19 Testing Process Overview
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SECTION 2Initial Baseline Testing
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SECTION 3Periodic Mobile Testing
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SECTION 4Connection to Daily Pass
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SECTION 5Community Engagement
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SECTION 1COVID-19 Testing Process Overview
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SECTION 2Initial Baseline Testing
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SECTION 3Periodic Mobile Testing
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SECTION 4Connection to Daily Pass
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SECTION 5Community Engagement
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COVID-19 testing of all employees and students will be done on a regular basis, at frequencies recommended by a consortium of leading health experts from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University. LAUSD has partnered with Infiniti Health to administer COVID-19 tests throughout various sites in the District.
SECTION 1: COVID-19 Testing Process for Return to Campus Overview
List of Testing COVID Sites
COVID-19 Testing FAQ
Messaging Toolkit
UTLA Side Letter
Baseline Testing Flyer( English)
Baseline Testing Flyer (Spanish)
9 Baseline Testing at one of our Stationary Sites
9 Periodic/Mobile Testing at Individual Schools
9 Testing will be scheduled to test individu-als who missed scheduled periodic/mobile testing
9 Testing sites at schools are open 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
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COVID-19 testing is required at least 7 days before entering school for each student/staff member. Persons must have a negative test within seven days of school campus entry.
When parents consent to Baseline Testing, they may also consent to the Periodic Testing for the remainder of the school year.
If School Start Date
April 12, 2021 April 5 - April 11
April 19, 2021 April 12 - April 18
April 26, 2021 April 19 - April 25
9 Principals notify returning students and staff via Blackboard Connect, email, U.S. Mail, and/or text to schedule a baseline test at one of our stationary COVID Testing Sites. Principals review that all In- person Cohort students have active Parent Portal accounts. Parents will schedule COVID baseline test through the Daily Pass using the Parent Portal login information.
9 Principals progress monitor and assist parents of returning students that do not have current Parent Portal accounts to create one.
9 Principals assign school staff to provide assistance to parents of returning students that need to create Parent Portal accounts.
https://achieve.lausd.net/covidtestingappt
Parent Portal
List of Testing COVID Sites
http://dailypassdb.lausd.net
Community Engagement Hotline(213) 725-5637
Monday - Friday 6:00 am - 3:00 pmSaturday - Sunday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
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SECTION 2: Initial Baseline Testing
Baseline Test Must be taken between
To Book a COVID Test:
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9 Principals monitor the Principal’s Daily Pass Dashboard to ensurethat attending students and staff have a baseline negative test onfile.
9 Principals assign school staff to call families of students selectingin-person instruction who have not scheduled a COVID-19 test.
9 If test results are negative, the student/staff will be cleared togenerate a Daily Pass for entry to the campus.
9 If a student/staff member has tested positive in the past and hasnot been cleared by the Community Engagement Team, have themreach out to the Community Engagement Hotline for assistance at213-725-5637.
Testing and Operations Coordinator Contact Information
Local District Central | Linda Lee [email protected]
Work Cell: (213) 408-9424
Local District East | Leilani Morales [email protected]
Work Cell: (213) 408-2965
Local District Northeast | Ernestina Gandera [email protected]
Work Cell: (213) 408-2168
Local District Northwest | Roger Avila [email protected]
Work Cell: (213) 408-2011
Local District South | Martha Contreras [email protected]
Work Cell: (310) 780-9323
Local District West | Zelendria Robinson [email protected]
Work Cell: (213) 369-5598
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9 Principal notifies In-person cohort parents that students will be tested at school during regular school hours.
9 Principal works collaboratively with Infiniti Health and Office of COVID Response Testing& Operations Coordinator to develop a weekly testing schedule.
9 Principal to print MiSiS 5-column roster foreach classroom weekly to share with Infiniti mobile testing team. Infiniti mobile testing team will ask for MISiS 5-column rosters in the main office when they check in.
9 Principals to give site map and Bell Schedule to Infiniti Health with classroom numbers clearly labeled.
9 If a student or staff member misses their testing appointment , the principal will advise to make an appointment to take the test. The test can be taken at one of our testing sites or at an extended school testing site within the community of schools from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm on the same day.
9 Principals or authorized staff will monitor the Principal’s Daily Pass Dashboard to ensure that attending students and staff have a weekly negative test on file.
http://dailypassdb.lausd.net
COVID Testing Stationary Sites Map
List of Testing COVID Sites
Parent Consent to Periodic Testing (English)
Parent Consent to Periodic Testing (Spanish)
Parent Portal
Sample School Schedules
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SECTION 3: Periodic/Mobile Testing
1. As a condition for continued clearance forcampus entry, LAUSD requires all persons(Students and Staff) to undergosubsequent COVID-19 testing (i.e.periodic test). We are partnering withInfiniti Health for this testing.
2. Process steps for Periodic Testing: Staffand students will be required to be testedperiodically.
3. If test results are negative, the student/staff will be cleared for entry to the cam-pus by using the Daily Pass and Principal’sDaily Pass Dashboard.
a. People with positive test results willbe denied access to campus untilcleared by Community Engagementteam.
b. Employees will receive clearance viaemail notification from CommunityEngagement.
c. Principals have access to clearancestatus on the Principal’s Daily PassDashboard.
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Mobile Testing Model Based on 3 Testing Teams Per School. All mobile testing will take place one day per week. The Mobile Testing Team will complete all student and staff COVID testing for the AM Cohort, and return to the same school in the afternoon to test all PM Cohort students and staff.
*3 rooms at a time.
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What can my teachers expect?
9 Teams will be divided into 3 units.
9 Testing will take place outside the classroom: Hallway/Breezeway.
9 Each team will have:
• Health Care Provider
• Registrar
• (Floater will support)
9 Unit Arrives to Classroom: (minimal disruption)
• Test Staff
• Test Students
What happens if a student or staff is absent or parent wants to accompany their student?
9 Mobile team will stay at the last scheduled site until 7:00 pm.
9 Parent can take student to one of our stationary sites for testing.
Interoffice Correspondence on Baseline and Periodic Testing
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FOCUS AREA ACTIONS RESOURCES
Los Angeles Unified has launched a one-stop shop web-based tool created specifically for the District to ensure students, faculty and administrators return to schools and district offices as safely as possible. In addition to completing a daily health check, users will be able to book COVID-19 tests and receive test results and messages.
Principals can use Daily Pass to monitor baseline, weekly, testing, and active COVID-19 cases to ensure student and employee safety while on campus.
SECTION 4: Daily Pass
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Daily Pass
LAUSD COVID-19 Containment, Response and Control Plan
http://dailypassdb.lausd.net
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement (CE) is the process of mitigating further exposure of the COVID-19 virus by providing isolation instructions, providing testing & medical referrals, conducting contact tracing, and reporting to the Department of Public Health (DPH).
Exposure Management
Exposure management is an outcome of a positive case of COVID-19 via LAUSD’s COVID-19 Testing or if the case tested outside the District and submitted their external results and has been on campus during their infectious period.
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Principals can use Daily Pass to monitor baseline, weekly, testing, and active COVID cases to ensure student and employee safety while on campus.
Confirmed Positive Case - Positive test result or medical provider diagnosis (part 1 of 2)
Immediately:
If positive individual is an employee who has been on campus during their infectious period (48 hours prior to the date of the test if asymptomatic or the date of symptom onset).
1. If on campus when you learn of case: Isolatefrom others immediately and send homesafely.
2. Provide LACDPH isolation instructions andworkers’ compensation form (DWC1).
3. Identify close contacts (those within sixfeet for 15 minutes or more in a 24-hourcumulative period).
4. Identify areas on site that need to be closedand disinfected.
AB685 Interoffice Correspondence
Interoffice Correspondence on Community Engagement
Sample Blackboard Connect Messages
Principals’ Daily Pass Dashboard
LAUSD COVID-19 Containment, Response, and Control Plan
LAUSD Covid-19 Initial Exposure Management Report
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Daily Pass Dashboard
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5. Instruct employee to notify their supervisor(s) if you are not their supervisor or the employee works at multiple sites.
6. If on campus when you learn of case: escort student to isolation area immediately, provide a medical-grade mask and call parent for pick-up.
7. Identify close contacts.
8. Identify areas on site that need to be closed and disinfected.
9. Print and provide LACDPH isolation instructions to parent when student is picked up.
• A vaccinated person who is a close contact to a confirmed case is not required to quarantine and test for up to 90 days from the date of the last dose if they are:
1. fully vaccinated (i.e. 2 weeks or more following receipt of the second dose in a 2-dose COVID-19 vaccine series or 2 weeks or more following receipt of one dose of a single-dose COVID19 vaccine), AND
2. have remained asymptomatic since last contact with the infected person
Public Health Guidance
LAUSD Covid-19 Initial Exposure Management Report
T1: Reopening Protocols for K-12 Schools
T2: Protocol for Covid-19 Exposure Management Plan in TK-12 Schools
Protocol for Covid-19 Exposure Management Plan in Early Care and Education Sites
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PRINCIPAL'S RESOURCE GUIDEfor Baseline and Periodic Testing, Return to Campus
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9 If positive individual’s result is from an external test or a physician’s diagnosis
9 Instruct individual to submit test result to LAUSD’s Daily Pass
If positive individual has not been on campus during their infectious period, the only remaining action is to ensure that the person does not enter campus until he or she is cleared by the Community Engagement team.
If the identified close contacts are students on campus
9 Quarantine and call parents for pick up
9 Print and provide LACDPH quarantine instructions to parent when student is picked up
If any other identified close contacts are staff members on campus
9 Provide LACDPH quarantine instructions via print out or email
9 Instruct the staff member to notify their supervisor(s)
9 Send home to quarantine immediately
9 Where feasible, close off affected areas (locations that the positive individual occupied) until they have been disinfected. If the school’s on-site staff needs help disinfecting the affected areas, inform ComplexProject Manager.
9 If the infected individual was on the school bus during their infectious period, notify the Transportation Division at [email protected]
Inter-Office Correspondence/Alerts
AB685 Interoffice Correspondence
Covid-19 General Notification Letter in Educational Setting
Guidance for Supervisors Regarding Exposure Management
Guidance Regarding Expsosure Management - Students
School/Site Exposure Management Checklists
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Confirmed Positive Case - Positive test result or medical provider diagnosis (part 2 of 2)
Within 24 Hours:
9 Create the LACDPH line list. Keep it up to date as it may berequested by LACDPH or the Community Engagement team. If youhave already created a line list for another confirmed positive caseat your site within the past 14 days, add this case to that line list.
9 Use the District’s template to send the notification letter toemployees and contractors who were on site during the positiveindividual’s infectious period. Copy the employees’ unionrepresentatives.
9 If positive individual is an employee and has been on campusduring his/her infectious period: open a Sedgwick workers’compensation claim.
9 When you receive an email from the Community Engagementteam with case details and the close contacts that have been addedto the central database for tracking, review the list right away. Ifit is inaccurate or incomplete, fill out the LAUSD COVID-19 InitialExposure Management Report and send it to [email protected].
Public Health Guidance
LAUSD Covid-19 Initial Exposure Management Report
T1: Reopening Protocols for K-12 Schools
T2: Protocol for Covid-19 Exposure Management Plan in TK-12 Schools
Protocol for Covid-19 Exposure Management Plan in Early Care and Education Sites
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Ongoing until each impacted individual is cleared:
9 Prevent positive individuals and close contacts from enteringcampus until they are cleared by the Community Engagementteam. Each individual’s Daily Pass access will be turned off untilhe or she is cleared. You will receive an email from the CommunityEngagement team when an individual is cleared to return andyou can also track individuals’ clearance status on the COVID-19principal dashboard (https://dailypassdb.lausd.net).
Two Confirmed Positive Cases Within a 14 Day Period.
9 Follow steps listed above for Confirmed Positive Case.
9 Implement additional infected control measures as directed byLAC-DPH.
Three Confirmed Positive Cases Within a 14 Day Period
9 Follow steps listed above for Confirmed Positive Case.
9 If DPH deems that outbreak criteria are met and DPH OutbreakManagement Branch (OMB) is activated.
9 Close the campus only if directed to do so by the District’s medicalpersonnel in consultation with LAC-DPH.
9 Provide updates to OMB investigator until outbreak is resolved.
9 Re-open the campus when LAC-DPH completes their investigationor when directed to do so by the District’s medical personnel inconsultation with LAC-DPH.
Inter-Office Correspondence/Alerts
AB685 Interoffice Correspondence
Covid-19 General Notification Letter in Educational Setting
Guidance for Supervisors Regarding Exposure Management
Guidance Regarding Exposure Management - Students
School/Site Exposure Management Checklists
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Unconfirmed Suspected Case - Individual with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 (part 1 of 2)
Note: Entry screening symptoms are the same for all individuals, but symptoms requiring isolation are different for employees[1] and students.
COVID-19 Symptoms Requiring Isolation
One or more of the following for employees and students:
9 Fever greater than or equal to 99.9 F
9 NEW cough (different from baseline for asthmatics or allergy sufferers)
9 Diarrhea
9 Vomiting
9 Additional symptoms requiring isolation for employees only:
9 Feeling feverish (chills or sweating)
9 Shortness of breath
9 Muscle or body aches
9 NEW loss of taste or smell
If an individual has symptoms different than listed above, but there is still concern, evaluation of the individual by their medical provider is recommended.
Public Health Guidance
LAUSD Covid-19 Initial Exposure Management Report
T1: Reopening Protocols for K-12 Schools
T2: Protocol for Covid-19 Exposure Management Plan in TK-12 Schools
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Immediately:
If symptomatic individual is an employee
9 If on campus: isolate from others immediately and send homesafely.
9 Instruct individual to get tested for COVID-19 as soon as possible,preferably at an LAUSD COVID-19 Alternate Testing Site.
9 Collect information that you will need if the employee testspositive for COVID-19 by completing the LAUSD COVID-19 InitialExposure Management Report.
9 Instruct employee to notify their supervisor(s) if you are not theirsupervisor or the employee works at multiple sites.
If symptomatic individual is a student
9 If on campus: escort student to isolation area immediately, providea medical grade mask and call parent for pick-up.
9 Instruct parent to get student tested for COVID-19 as soon aspossible, preferably at an LAUSD COVID-19 testing site.
9 Collect information that you will need if the student tests positivefor COVID-19 by completing the LAUSD COVID-19 InitialExposure Management Report.
Inter-Office Correspondence/Alerts
AB685 Interoffice Correspondence
Covid-19 General Notification Letter in Educational Setting
Guidance for Supervisors Regarding Exposure Management
Guidance Regarding Exposure Management - Students
School/Site Exposure Management Checklists
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Unconfirmed Suspected Case - Individual with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 (part 2 of 2)
If symptomatic individual tests positive for COVID-19
9 Follow checklist above for confirmed positive case, includingquarantine of all close contacts.
If symptomatic individual tests negative for COVID-19
9 Individual must remain home until symptoms improve and fever-free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medication.
If symptomatic individual gets a non-COVID-19 diagnosis from a medical provider
9 Individual must remain home in accordance with medicalprovider’s instructions and until fever-free for 24 hours withoutfever-reducing medication.
If symptomatic employee does not get tested or does not see a medical provider
9 Individual must stay isolated at home for a minimum of 10 daysbeginning with symptom onset until fever-free for 24 hourswithout fever-reducing medication and symptoms improved.School should consult with HR for assistance if employee is notreachable or unresponsive.
Public Health Guidance
T1: Reopening Protocols for K-12 Schools
T2: Protocol for Covid-19 Exposure Management Plan in TK-12 Schools
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If symptomatic student does not get tested or does not see a medical provider
9 Student must stay isolated at home for a minimum of 10 daysbeginning with symptom onset until fever-free for 24 hourswithout fever-reducing medication and symptoms have improved.The school must track cases when the student does not test or seetheir medical provider. The CE Team will not track a suspected caseunless they take a COVID test or submit their external results.
Ongoing until symptomatic individual is allowed to return:
9 Prevent the symptomatic individual from entering campus until heor she meets the criteria above for safe return.
9 School must track employee and student cases when they do nottest or see their medical provider.
[1] For screening purposes, “employees” applies to all adults over 18 who are not students.
Inter-Office Correspondence/Alerts
AB685 Interoffice Correspondence
Guidance for Supervisors Regarding Exposure Management
Guidance Regarding Expsosure Management - Students
School/Site Exposure Management Checklists
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