We will be returning to a daily schedule similar to what we had in place prior to the pandemic, with two small changes: 

No. If a student is unwell, they should stay home, seek medical attention, and return to school only when they are no longer symptomatic, and have received a negative COVID-19 test result. 

With the exception of evening D Blocks, we will not be offering any virtual classes this year, unless extraordinary circumstances warrant a school closure. 

As always, we will continue to monitor public health information and we reserve the right to change our masking policy as community health warrants.

The health and safety of our community is of paramount importance. At CSW, vaccinations are required for all employees and enrolled students. Given that many of our students and faculty also live on campus in shared spaces, it is critical that those around them — including outside visitors — adhere to the school’s COVID-19 policies and procedures. 

All visitors are asked to please make note of the following prior to their arrival:

We thank you for your partnership in keeping our community safe.

CSW has suspended the routine surveillance pooled testing. We will continue to conduct rapid antigen testing of symptomatic individuals.

No, we will no longer be asking students, faculty, or staff to complete online daily symptom checks.

Specific details and instructions on return requirements are available in the "Public Health Response Protocol" section of the COVID-19 tile.

No. If a student is unwell, they should stay home, seek medical attention, and return to school only when they are no longer symptomatic, and have received a negative COVID-19 test result. 

With the exception of evening D Blocks, we will not be offering any virtual classes or listen-in-learning this year, unless extraordinary circumstances warrant a school closure.

Student health and counseling support will be available during the school day. If a student would like to talk with Toni, Jenn K, Tracy or Bernice - please contact us directly to schedule a same-day check-in through Zoom, Google Hangouts Meet or a phone call.

 

Tracy Dormitz

School Counselor 

tdormitz@csw.org

 

Toni Singleton

School Nurse 

 

Jenn Kusch

Athletic Trainer/Assistant Director of Athletics

CSW counselors provide social/emotional support to students with the primary goal of supporting student engagement in school. The meetings are private and information is shared with others only with permission of the student, unless there is a safety concern. When students are facing clinical issues such as depression and anxiety, CSW counselors will provide referrals as necessary and can communicate with outside providers with parental permission. In the case of emergency, when a student’s safety is the primary concern, a CSW counselor will contact the student’s parent or guardian and/or local emergency services to provide swift assessment and care.

The CSW nurse and athletic trainer can provide health consultation on an as-needed basis. 

While CSW is online, all counseling/consultation will be provided via phone, Google Hangouts Meet, or Zoom. A request for counseling/consultation should be submitted by email request. The clinicians will make every effort to respond to message requests within the school day, however, due to the timing of the email and prior engagements, it may take up to 24 hours for a response. If the student is in a state of crisis or emergency, students or families should call 911 or call the nearest Emergency Department.  Students are encouraged to use the Crisis Text line: 741-741, or or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255.

CSW counselors’ use of standard phone communication, Google Hangouts Meet and password protected Zoom meetings will allow for direct and private communication. Each student is encouraged to create and use additional safeguards if the phone/computer used to access services may be accessed by others, such as creating passwords to use the computer, keeping their email and chat IDs and passwords secret, and maintaining security of their wireless internet access points by having a Wifi password. The counselor will address these considerations with each student early in the first remote counseling session so as to develop strategies to support privacy and limit risk.

Meals will continue to be the time in which our community is most vulnerable to COVID-19 and other viruses. To begin the school year we will continue to prioritize our boarding community and will not be offering breakfast or dinner, except on special occasions, to our day student community. We hope to once again offer breakfast to our day students community, for a fee, at some point during this school year. We anticipate that dinner will not be served to day students at any point this year. If your child is experiencing food insecurity and would benefit from breakfast at school please contact Rosanna Salcedo, Dean of Equity and Inclusion, to make arrangements for your child to receive breakfast at school.

Hot lunch will be served daily to all students. There will be seating available in the dining hall at a reduced capacity. We encourage students to eat outside when the weather permits and we will make several indoor spaces available for students to eat inside during inclement weather or as the temperature gets colder. More information about indoor dining options will be available at the start of the school year.

Our plan at the moment is to return to a self-serve model. Understanding that many of our community members will opt to take their lunch “to-go,” we will be providing each student, faculty, and staff member with one 9”x9” to-go container with three separate compartments. Each person will be responsible for keeping track of their container, bringing it home each day to wash, and back to school again for lunch the next day (note: our kitchen staff has generously offered to wash our boarding students’ containers for them. More info to come). This system will not only reduce the chances of costly kitchen plates and utensils getting damaged or going missing, but will also vastly cut down on the waste that we accumulate, in keeping with our mission to promote green and sustainable living.  

While assemblies and group gatherings will function much as they did prior to the pandemic, we are at this time planning to require all community members to wear masks at such events, unless they are speaking on stage or performing. 

We are planning to offer a range of weekend activities for both day and boarding students. We will continue to focus on outdoor activities as much as possible and will monitor the COVID-19 numbers in the surrounding area in an effort to mitigate risk.

No. We will be closing the dorms for all major school vacations; families should prepare travel arrangements and accommodations accordingly.