Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, board members gave updates on the current hybrid instruction model and expressed a commitment to returning to normal in-person education in the fall at a meeting Wednesday evening.
The meeting came 17 days after prekindergarten through second-grade students returned to in-person learning, and three days after students in grades three through nine returned. 10th through 12th-grade students will have the option to return to limited in-person instruction April 19, according to BUSD superintendent Brent Stephens.
Presenting on remote instruction, Michelle Sinclair, the newly appointed online instruction coordinator, noted that 751 students and 35 teachers are currently pursuing the remote option, leading to the creation of what Stephens said amounts to “Berkeley’s largest elementary school.”
Students wait in line before entering Emerson Elementary on the morning of April 13. Third, fourth, and fifth graders returned in person to school in more than a year on April 12. Photo: Pete Rosos.
This week, several thousand Berkeley students returned to campuses in person for the first time in months, joining students in transitional kindergarten through second grade. Celebrations settled into a new sense of normalcy as BUSD elementary and middle schools filled with students once again.
On April 12, elementary students of all grades were back in person and middle school students returned in a hybrid model of four hours of in-person instruction a week. A final count indicated that 80% of elementary students returned to school for in-person instruction and 20% remained remote, according to Trish McDermott, a press information officer for BUSD.
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