Aspen School District plans to take a “layered” approach to COVID-19 mitigation that requires masks and staff vaccination but also includes distancing, testing and isolation policies for the 2021-22 school year, according to an opening plan released Aug. 12.
All schools and child care facilities in Pitkin County will require universal masking for people over the age of 2 this fall to curb the spread of COVID-19 and keep kids in school as much as possible.
David Bull of the Aspen School District’s facilities department swabs his mouth while self-administering a COVID-19 test outside of Aspen Middle School on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. This is Bull’s third test and the previous results were negative. He explained he takes the tests because he has a wife and son at home, as well as wanting to make sure he’s keeping the elderly employees he works with safe. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Aspen School District will not mandate vaccines for students and does not plan on implementing quarantines but is still evaluating mask policies for the 2021-22 school year, Superintendent David Baugh confirmed this week.
New Aspen School District human resources director Amy Littlejohn stops for a photo on Friday, July 2, 2021, inside Aspen High School. Photo by Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times.
Fresh faces abound on the Aspen School District administrative roster for the coming 2021-22 school year, including a new human resources director, a new principal and assistant principal at Aspen Middle School and a new principal at Aspen Elementary School.
The new guard is the latest batch of hires in a year-plus of more than a few changes at the administrative level, including the hiring of superintendent David Baugh as well as the promotion of Tharyn Mulberry to assistant superintendent and Sarah Strassburger to Aspen High School principal last spring. (The district also brought on a new communications director, Kiki Lavine, this spring.)
Mark Munger will retire from his sixth-grade teaching position at Aspen Middle School at the end of this school year, but he’s keeping his roots planted in the Roaring Fork Valley,