FAQ
Updated 2/22, 3:21pm
*Most recent FAQ is at the bottom of each section.
General
- Why is Eanes ISD offering families options? Why not offer full remote or full in-building instruction?
- Where is Eanes ISD receiving its guidance?
- What should families with health issues or a high-risk member of the household choose?
- Are students and staff required to wear masks or face coverings?
- Will there be temperature checks before entering school each day?
- Who are the taskforce members?
- Will the school year calendar change?
- How do I get a refund for cancellations?
- What is synchronous vs asynchronous instruction?
- What if a family wants to stay in remote year-round?
- How long is the commitment for in-building/remote instruction?
- What is the story behind the numbers on the dashboard?
- What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
- Will there be COVID-19 testing for staff and students?
- When is the next selection for returning to in-person instruction?
Why is Eanes ISD offering families options? Why not offer full remote or full in-building instruction?
Where is Eanes ISD receiving its guidance?
What should families with health issues or a high-risk member of the household choose?
Are students and staff required to wear masks or face coverings?
Will there be temperature checks before entering school each day?
Who are the taskforce members?
Will the school year calendar change?
How do I get a refund for cancellations?
What is synchronous vs asynchronous instruction?
What if a family wants to stay in remote year-round?
How long is the commitment for in-building/remote instruction?
What is the story behind the numbers on the dashboard?
What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
Will there be COVID-19 testing for staff and students?
When is the next selection for returning to in-person instruction?
Remote Instruction Option
- What supports will families receive for remote learning?
- How will Spanish Immersion operate remotely?
- How are you planning to provide OT, PT and ST remotely?
- If students opt for remote learning, can they still participate in athletics and extra-curriculars?
- What is TEA's guidance that K-2 students learning remotely have to be taught via asynchronous instruction (not learning at the same time the teacher is teaching)?
- What kind of counseling support will be provided for students who have to begin preparing for the college application process?
- What is the elementary school schedule during remote learning?
- How long is the commitment for in-person/remote?
- What if a family wants to stay in remote year-round?
What supports will families receive for remote learning?
How will Spanish Immersion operate remotely?
How are you planning to provide OT, PT and ST remotely?
If students opt for remote learning, can they still participate in athletics and extra-curriculars?
What is TEA's guidance that K-2 students learning remotely have to be taught via asynchronous instruction (not learning at the same time the teacher is teaching)?
What kind of counseling support will be provided for students who have to begin preparing for the college application process?
What is the elementary school schedule during remote learning?
How long is the commitment for in-person/remote?
What if a family wants to stay in remote year-round?
In-Person Learning
- Are students and staff required to wear masks?
- Will there be temperature checks before entering school each day?
- What safety protocols will be taken inside buildings?
- What if a child has a health condition and is advised not to wear a face mask?
- What if I am attending school in-person and I get sick, or someone in my class gets sick?
- Will staff and students be required to disclose recent travel info?
- How will the wearing of masks be enforced?
- How will the Spanish Immersion program operate?
- How long is the commitment for in-person/remote?
- How are Close Contacts identified?
- If a student in a class or a bus tests positive for COVID-19, do all the students in that class or bus need to self-quarantine based on being a Close Contact?
- How are families notified of a positive case on their campus?
- How long does a close contact quarantine?
- What is the close contact tracing process?
- What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
- Are schools considered a "high-risk setting" in the new quarantine guidelines?
- How long do I quarantine if I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual but I was wearing a mask?
- If I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual and I was wearing a mask, can I still quarantine 14 days?
- I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual in my household, do I quarantine 14 days?
- Will there be COVID-19 testing for staff and students?
- When is the next selection for returning to in-person instruction?
Are students and staff required to wear masks?
Will there be temperature checks before entering school each day?
What safety protocols will be taken inside buildings?
What if a child has a health condition and is advised not to wear a face mask?
What if I am attending school in-person and I get sick, or someone in my class gets sick?
Will staff and students be required to disclose recent travel info?
How will the wearing of masks be enforced?
How will the Spanish Immersion program operate?
How long is the commitment for in-person/remote?
How are Close Contacts identified?
If a student in a class or a bus tests positive for COVID-19, do all the students in that class or bus need to self-quarantine based on being a Close Contact?
How are families notified of a positive case on their campus?
How long does a close contact quarantine?
What is the close contact tracing process?
What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
Are schools considered a "high-risk setting" in the new quarantine guidelines?
How long do I quarantine if I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual but I was wearing a mask?
If I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual and I was wearing a mask, can I still quarantine 14 days?
I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual in my household, do I quarantine 14 days?
Will there be COVID-19 testing for staff and students?
When is the next selection for returning to in-person instruction?
Staff FAQs
- Will staff have a choice of working in-person or remote?
- What if I contract COVID-19? Will I be required to use PTO if they I am required to take time off due to exposure?
- What if I do not have childcare?
- If I choose to teach remotely, will my child lose his/her spot in the CDC?
- Are students and staff required to wear masks?
- What if I am teaching school in-person and I get sick, or someone in my class gets sick?
- How will Eanes ISD utilize substitute teachers?
- How will the wearing of masks be enforced?
- How long does a close contact quarantine?
- What is the close contact tracing process?
- What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
- Are schools considered a "high-risk setting" in the new quarantine guidance?
- How long do I quarantine if I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual but I was wearing a mask?
- If I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual and I was wearing a mask, can I still quarantine 14 days?
- I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual in my household, do I quarantine 14 days?
Will staff have a choice of working in-person or remote?
What if I contract COVID-19? Will I be required to use PTO if they I am required to take time off due to exposure?
What if I do not have childcare?
If I choose to teach remotely, will my child lose his/her spot in the CDC?
Are students and staff required to wear masks?
What if I am teaching school in-person and I get sick, or someone in my class gets sick?
How will Eanes ISD utilize substitute teachers?
How will the wearing of masks be enforced?
How long does a close contact quarantine?
What is the close contact tracing process?
What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
Are schools considered a "high-risk setting" in the new quarantine guidance?
How long do I quarantine if I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual but I was wearing a mask?
If I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual and I was wearing a mask, can I still quarantine 14 days?
I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual in my household, do I quarantine 14 days?
Contact Tracing & Quarantining
- Will staff and students be required to disclose recent travel info?
- How are Close Contacts identified?
- If a student in a class or a bus tests positive for COVID-19, do all the students in that class or bus need to self-quarantine based on being a Close Contact?
- How are families notified of a positive case on their campus?
- How long does a close contact quarantine?
- What is the close contact tracing process?
- What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
- Are schools considered a "high-risk setting" in the new quarantine guidelines?
- How long do I quarantine if I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual but I was wearing a mask?
- If I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual and I was wearing a mask, can I still quarantine 14 days?
- I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual in my household, do I quarantine 14 days?
Will staff and students be required to disclose recent travel info?
How are Close Contacts identified?
If a student in a class or a bus tests positive for COVID-19, do all the students in that class or bus need to self-quarantine based on being a Close Contact?
How are families notified of a positive case on their campus?
How long does a close contact quarantine?
What is the close contact tracing process?
What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
Are schools considered a "high-risk setting" in the new quarantine guidelines?
How long do I quarantine if I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual but I was wearing a mask?
If I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual and I was wearing a mask, can I still quarantine 14 days?
I was exposed to a COVID-19 positive individual in my household, do I quarantine 14 days?
Student Support Services
Services
Safety/Health
- Are students and staff required to wear masks?
- Will there be temperature checks before entering school each day?
- What safety protocols will be taken inside buildings?
- What if a child has a health condition and is advised not to wear a face mask?
- What are some of the cleaning materials used in buildings/classrooms?
- How are Close Contacts identified?
- If a student in a class or a bus tests positive for COVID-19, do all the students in that class or bus need to self-quarantine based on being a Close Contact?
- What is the close contact tracing process?
- What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
- Will there be COVID-19 testing for staff and students?
Are students and staff required to wear masks?
Will there be temperature checks before entering school each day?
What safety protocols will be taken inside buildings?
What if a child has a health condition and is advised not to wear a face mask?
What are some of the cleaning materials used in buildings/classrooms?
How are Close Contacts identified?
If a student in a class or a bus tests positive for COVID-19, do all the students in that class or bus need to self-quarantine based on being a Close Contact?
What is the close contact tracing process?
What are Eanes ISD's revised quarantine guidelines as of 12/8/20?
Will there be COVID-19 testing for staff and students?
Co - and Extra-Curriculars, Special Programs
- How will the Spanish Immersion program operate?
- If students opt for remote instruction, can they still participate in athletics and extra-curriculars?
- How will the after school extra-curriculars like HOSA , CERT, Model UN, theatre, art, etc. take place in high school?
- How do I get a refund for cancellations?