Distance Learning and COVID-19 Response
Distance Learning at Académie Lafayette
This section contains teacher websites and resources, schedules, tutorial videos, and expectations for online learning.
All of our students have an Académie Lafayette email through Gmail.com. It is generally the first letter of their first name followed by their last name @academielafayette.org. For example, Jane Doe would be jdoe@academielafayette.org.
If you need assistance with your child’s login credentials, email your child’s homeroom teacher.
COVID-19 Dashboard
To best protect the privacy of our community, we will not differentiate between cases among students and cases among staff members. You will find below the data for new cases and new quarantines by week.
Cases
The table to the right indicates the number of fully vaccinated AL students and staff who were close contacts to a positive case but were not required to quarantine because they have submitted proof of vaccination to the school.
Per the CDC: “People who are fully vaccinated do NOT need to quarantine after contact with someone who had COVID-19 unless they have symptoms.
Quarantines
- Oak
- Cherry
- Armour
COVID-19 Testing Information
AL has entered into an agreement with Concentric by Ginkgo to provide weekly PCR pool testing for all three of our campuses. This testing is done by a simple anterior nasal swab, collected by the student, and processed by healthcare staff. Please note that this is not a deep swab and is not uncomfortable for the test taker.
Similar to the testing that was provided to middle and high school students and our entire staff last year, the collected swabs will be run as a pool. This means that if any pool tests negative, all samples contained within the pool are negative. Any pool that tests positive contains one or more positive samples.
Tests will only be administered to students whose parents/guardians have completed the consent form on the Concentric website.
- In the event of a positive pool, the Concentric staff will return to our buildings on Thursday mornings and collect Antigen tests on all students or staff who were in that positive pool. These tests take 15 minutes to complete and are conducted in a very similar manner to the pool testing samples, with a brief nasal swab. If all antigen tests are negative, the pool will then be given a PCR test to confirm the negative results. Students may continue to report to class until the positive case is identified. Once a positive case is identified, the nursing staff will determine necessary quarantine measures for close contacts.
- Families of students in a positive pool will be notified as soon as possible by our nursing staff using the email on file.
- We will notify families who were in a POSITIVE pool by email as soon as possible.
- We will not do mass notifications of negative pools.
- With a few exceptions, all consented participants will be tested every Tuesday. The exceptions to this schedule will be weeks when we do not have school later in the week such as Tuesday October 12, and the week of Thanksgiving (Tuesday November 23rd). Without having our students and staff in school, there would be no way to provide the necessary follow up testing on any potentially positive pools.
- We strongly encourage our families to use the system in place to avoid unnecessary time out of school, however, you may choose to do follow up testing with the healthcare provider of your choice. You should not use an at-home test as a follow-up test. Follow-up testing from a positive pool must be administered by a healthcare provider.
- We make every attempt to separate pools by classroom, however in the event that a particular class does not have at least 5 participants, that group of students will be added to another pool.
- Yes! You may consent to participating in this testing program at any time by completing the consent form on the Concentric website. Your child will be consented to participate in this program until or unless you revoke that consent.
- See consent information to the right.
- Consents received after midnight on Sunday into Monday may not be tested that Tuesday, but will be included in the following week’s pools.
- Yes! You can opt out of testing by emailing your school nurse and asking her to delete your consent going forward:
Oak: acook@academielafayette.org
Armour: kcarlson@academielafayette.org
Cherry: mwhisenant@academielafayette.org
- Pool testing will be done on a weekly basis each TUESDAY. Generally, we receive the majority of our results back within 12 hours, and all of the results back within 36 hours.
- Follow-up antigen testing on any positive pools will be administered at school that Thursday. Students in a positive pool are not required to stay home until the positive case has been identified. Only the positive case and any close contacts will then be required to isolate or quarantine. Detailed information about returning to school after isolation or quarantine will be provided to the families at that time.
Use the button below to complete the Concentric consent form for each of your students. You will be asked to provide an access code for your child. The codes are as follows:
- Oak Campus: AL-OAK
- Armour Campus: AL-ARMOUR
- Cherry Campus: AL-CHERRY
If, at any time, you choose to withdraw your child from this program, please email your campus nurse immediately:
- Oak: acook@academielafayette.org
- Armour: kcarlson@academielafayette.org
- Cherry: mwhisenant@academielafayette.org
General Information
Review our school reopening plan via the link below.
All tours have been cancelled due to health concerns for all involved. For additional information, visit our Tours & Open House page.
About COVID-19
The following are additional helpful resources in understanding and talking about COVID-19, but please don’t hesitate to reach out to our school social workers if you feel your child needs additional support:
- General information from the CDC
- Talking to children about COVID-19:
- Our AL social workers’ website
ESSER III Community Input – See below for survey link.
More FAQs & Current Logistics
Teachers have daily online office hours for children who have questions or need additional help.
Courses are recorded and/or live depending on subjects and put on Google Classroom for students in grades 1–9. Grades K uses a different platform. Parents will receive more information from their children’s homeroom teachers.
If you need a Chromebook, please fill out the technology waitlist form on the side.
You can find various school updates through the resources on this webpage.
Food, toiletries, and cleaning supplies can be donated from 12:30–1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the east door of the Armour campus off McGee Street.
Please leave a message on the answering machine and it will go to our front desk person. You can find the office numbers for your student’s school in the website footer or on the Contact page.
You can also contact teachers and staff directly through the school directories:
Please contact the IT Department via email.
Please contact your child’s teacher.
Please contact one of our social workers found under the Who should I contact? heading on the Contact page. Our Counseling & Social Services Department website is also a great resource.
Here are some ways you can support your child in virtual learning:
- Ensure that your child can access his/her assignments and that he/she completes them daily.
- Regularly check email from Académie Lafayette, your child’s teacher(s), and Google Classroom.
- Identify a space in your home for your child to work with the least amount of distractions.
- Decide what device your child will use with adult help to view videos and other messages sent by his/her teacher(s). Please contact the IT department if you have any concerns about your internet capabilities or devices.
- Continue to supervise your child when he/she is using devices with online access and have your child put phones and other electronics away during scheduled classroom time.
- Share feedback with your child’s teacher(s).
- Contact teacher(s) with questions or concerns related to virtual classroom learning and assignments.
- Establish routines and expectations for your child.
- Remember the importance of movement throughout the day, as well as recess time outside.
Request a Chromebook
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