COVID-19 Closing Information
District Support for Distance Learning | |
Student Services | Non-Traditional Instruction (NTI) | ||
Mental Health Services Mental health services are being provided by our school-based therapists. Please see the information to the right if you feel your student needs additional support. Medical Support If you have medical questions regarding COVID-19, please contact the Christian County Health Dept at 270-887-4160 OT/PT/Speech Speech and language/OT/PT practice activities will be sent home and the therapist will follow up. | At the request of The Governor, CCPS will operate using Non-Traditional Instruction (NTI) days starting on Monday, March 16th and extending through April 3rd. The following week (April 6-10) will be spring break. NTI days will provide learning opportunities created by teachers. These will be available by either paper copy or quality online learning activities. Our teachers will remain available during set school hours (primarily between 8:00-3:30) to support student learning through their normal means of communication such as Google Classroom, email, Remind, etc. This is a very fluid and rapidly changing situation. Please check the district website and social media outlets daily for updates. Staff Availability Support staff is available in the front office of each building during limited operating hours. School buildings are closed to all parents and students. If you need to contact someone from your child’s school, please do so by phone or email. All staff in CCPS are available through district email. Mental Health Services Mental health services are being provided by our school-based therapists. Therapists will be contacting all students who were previously assigned. If you feel your child needs mental health support during this time, please reach out to one of the following: Elementary Brandy Westerfield: brandy.westerfield@christian.kyschools.us CCMS/CCHS Stacy Jones: stacy.jones2@christian.kyschools.us HMS/HHS Brooke Burkhead: brooke.burkhead@christian.kyschools.us Food Services Meals will be served at each school from March 16-April 2, 2020. (Monday through Friday Only) Meals may be picked up at any school within the district between the hours of 10:30 am and 12:30 pm on these dates. There must be a student present for meals to be received. If other children are present and between the ages of 2 and 18 they may also receive a meal at no charge. Food may be picked up at the front of each building except for: Indian Hills-Country Club Lane side of the building Christian Co. Middle-Back of the building Martin Luther King-Back of the building Other options for distributing meals to students are being addressed and there will be communication as decisions are made. Please be patient and understanding with staff that are there to help provide this service. | ||
EL/Migrant | Family Resource Support | ||
If you have any questions, please contact the EL teacher for your school or your Migrant Education contact. | Family Resource and Youth Service Centers Please contact your school’s Family Resource/Youth Services Center if you have a need for food or other assistance. A list of your school’s contact and their email is in the above link. | ||
Information for COLLEGE BASED LEARNERS, THE ACT, and AP | College Based Learning College Based Learners… For students enrolled with HCC, please communicate with your professor for changes specific to that course. Hopkinsville Community College has communicated the following: Consistent with other institutions of higher education across the country, the college is moving to an all-online mode of delivery as mitigation for the COVID-19 pandemic. The start date for this is Monday, March 16, 2020 with a plan to return to normal operations (including on-ground) classes on Monday, April 13, 2020.
All other college operations will continue as normal with the exception that everyone should begin to practice social distancing to minimize exposure to others as much as possible. Open labs on campus are being planned so that students who need assistance or who have limited internet access can come to campus for help. Social distancing protocols will be in place in these computer labs. The ACT/AP ACT Impact The ACT is communicating their updates at the following site about closings to testing sites for the ACT:https://www.act.org/content/act/en/covid-19.html. AP Courses: Currently, the college boards are treating this pandemic as they would a natural disaster; they have not made any decisions about changes to AP exam test dates for spring 2020. Updates can be found here: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/coronavirus-update At this time, we do not know if a later testing window is an option for CCPS. The AP Coordinator for each high school will communicate information to students as it becomes available. |
ATHLETICS/EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES | |||
Facility Usage Beginning Monday, March 16th CCPS buildings and grounds are NOT available for public use until at least April 10th. Please feel free to contact Brad Hawkins, Chief Operations Officer 270-887-7000 with any questions you may have. Follow Us! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChristianCountyPublicSchools Twitter: @Christian_Co270 Website: Contact Us: (270)887-7000 Community Resources | The KHSAA has mandated a ‘Dead Period” starting on Friday, March 13th and continuing through Sunday, April 12th. This involves all of the following: Students shall not participate in any organized team activity, or organized or semi-organized team competition in any sport or sport-activity in any format at any location in any state where school personnel (paid or unpaid) are involved, in attendance, or receiving reports of performance. Prior approval for sanctioned events through the NFHS sanctioning system, both in and out of state, is hereby rescinded for this period. Member schools should note that without appropriate NFHS sanctioning, provisions of the KHSAA Catastrophic Insurance policy are not in place. Students may not participate in activities such as weight training, skill development, individual camps (with per team limits on participation), team camps, or open gym or field activities even if no inter-school competition is involved. Students may not receive coaching or training from school personnel (either salaried or non-salaried) in any KHSAA sanctioned sport or sport-activity; School facilities, uniforms, nicknames, transportation or equipment, may not be used in any KHSAA-sanctioned sport or sport-activity; School funds may not be expended in support of interscholastic athletics in any KHSAA-sanctioned sport or sport-activity; This restricted period does not preclude communication between school, athletic department and coaching representatives to team members and/or families of players on the current roster. Postseason wrap-up activities, celebrations and recognition events relating to a sport or sport-activity team at a school may not be held. ALL EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ARE POSTPONED TENTATIVE GRADUATION INFORMATION Graduation Information 2020 Graduation Ceremonies are currently scheduled for Friday May 22 at The Stadium of Champions. 5:00PM Hopkinsville High School 8:30 PM Christian County High School Charter will offer free Spectrum broadband and Wi-Fi access for 60 days to households with K-12 and/or college students who do not already have a Spectrum subscription at any service level up to 100 Mbps. To enroll call 1-844-488-8395. Installation fees will be waived for new student households. Parent’s Guide to Google Classroom
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