TBP’s guidelines regarding masks will comply with applicable government orders. Currently, all staff and students are encouraged to wear masks or face shields covering their mouths and noses while on campus, including during arrival and dismissal and while in school hallways.

Staff and students are encouraged to bring their own masks. However, TBP will make disposable masks available to any staff and students who want them.

• Staff will be required to self-screen for COVID-19 symptoms before coming onto campus each day.
• Before coming onto campus, parents will be provided with the COVID-19 screening checklist and will be instructed to screen their child every day before sending them to school. If the child or anyone living in the home has tested positive for COVID-19 or experiences any symptom listed on the checklist, the parent will be instructed to contact the campus point person. In addition, when parents are dropping off students at school, staff members are encouraged to ask parents about COVID-19 symptoms when possible.
• Any individual suspected of having COVID-19 is not permitted to be on campus until further guidance is provided by TBP.

• If practicable, multiple doors may be used promote separation of students entering and exiting the building.
• All employees, parents, and students will wash/sanitize hands upon entry to the building.
• Students who arrive at the campus early will be encouraged to practice social distancing while waiting outside for the doors to open. Once the campus opens for students, they will go to the cafeteria for breakfast or to wait to be escorted to their classroom.

• If practicable, multiple doors may be used promote separation of students entering and exiting the building.
• All employees, parents, and students will wash/sanitize hands upon entry to the building.
• Students who arrive at the campus early will be encouraged to practice social distancing while waiting outside for the doors to open. Once the campus opens for students, they will go to the cafeteria for breakfast or to wait to be escorted to their classroom.

Dismissal procedures should be developed so that students maintain appropriate social distancing.

• Students should engage in supervised handwashing for at least 20 seconds at least two times each day, in addition to after using the restroom and before eating.
• Students who are suspected to have COVID-19 while at school will immediately be removed from the class, escorted to the office and will wait in a room for their parents to pick them up. The door to the room should stay open so that staff can monitor the student, however any staff members who enter the room should take appropriate precautions.
• The room designated as the isolation room must be closed off and thoroughly disinfected once the student goes home.
• A staff member who is suspected to have COVID-19 while at work will immediately be sent home.

• Any teacher, staff member, or student who is suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19 must self-isolate until the below conditions have been met.
  • In the case of an individual who was diagnosed with COVID-19, the individual may return to the school program when all three of the following criteria are met (the “Rule of 3”):
    • at least one day (24 hours) has passed since recovery (resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications. Fever is a temperature of 100° Fahrenheit (37.8° Celsius) or higher); and
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    • the individual has improvement in symptoms (e.g., cough, shortness of breath, etc.); and
    • at least ten days have passed since symptoms first appeared, or, where the individual is asymptomatic, 10 days have passed since taking the COVID-19 test.
  • In the case of an individual who is suspected to have COVID-19 and does not get evaluated by a medical professional or tested for COVID-19, the individual is assumed to have COVID-19, and the individual may not return to work until the individual has completed the same three-step criteria listed above; or
  • If the individual is suspected to have COVID-19 and wants to return to the school program before completing the above self-isolation period, the individual must either (a) obtain a medical professional’s note clearing the individual for return based on an alternative diagnosis or (b) obtain an acute infection test (at a physician’s office, approved testing location (https://tdem.texas.gov/covid-19/), or other site) that comes back negative for COVID-19.
• Schools will notify all teachers, staff, and families of students in a classroom or extracurricular or after-school program cohort if a test-confirmed COVID-19 case is identified among students, teachers or staff who participated in those classrooms or cohorts.
• Schools will immediately notify parents where a student is determined or suspected to be actively sick with COVID-19 or receives a positive test result for COVID-19 while on campus.
• The district nurse will notify the local health department if a teacher, student, or staff member tests positive for COVID-19.
• The district will submit a report to the Texas Department of State Health Services each Monday that documents all teachers, staff members, students, or visitors at a school who were test-confirmed to have COVID-19 during the previous week.

• Individuals are considered close contacts where they have been within 6 feet of an infected person (someone with a positive COVID-19 test or who is symptomatic) for a total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period (for example, three individual 5-minute exposures for a total of 15 minutes).
  • Exception: In the indoor classroom setting, the close contact definition excludes students who were within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student (laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) if both the infected student and the exposed student(s) correctly and consistently wore well-fitting masks the entire time. This exception does not apply to teachers, staff, or other adults in the indoor classroom setting.
• The school will notify all staff members and parents of students identified as close contacts on campus or during a school-related event.
• Quarantine Times:
  • Unvaccinated individuals identified as close contacts must quarantine for 14 days after their last exposure. Individuals shall remain off campus and not attend any school-sponsored events during this quarantine period.
  • Consistent with CDC guidance, the following individuals need not quarantine:
    • Someone who has been fully vaccinated and shows no symptoms of COVID-19.
      • Vaccinated students should get tested 3–5 days after their last exposure even if they don’t have symptoms.
      • Fully vaccinated staff who continue to work on campus must receive a rapid test at the start of the day, at least once every other day until the end of day 10 after their last exposure. Fully vaccinated staff who live with someone who is suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19, whether they have a positive COVID-19 test or not, and who continue to work on campus must receive a rapid test at the start of every day until the end of day 10 after their last exposure. In many cases, where the staff member is continually exposed at home, this 10-day period will begin when the COVID-19 positive individual meets the 3-step reentry criteria outlined above.
    • Someone who had COVID-19 illness within the previous 3 months and has recovered (Rule of 3) and remains without COVID-19 symptoms (for example, cough, shortness of breath).
• All close contacts are encouraged to wear a mask while inside any TBP building, should social distance as much as possible, and should continue to monitor themselves for 14 days after their last exposure.
• If any individual identified as a close contact (1) experiences symptoms and is suspected to have COVID-19 or (2) tests positive for COVID-19, they must self-isolate until the conditions outlined above have been met.