Safe Reopening Plan
2020-2021 School Year
Families choose from the following options:
- 5 Days Per Week Onsite Program – Regular Hours
- Classroom configuration to ensure healthy spacing
- Appropriate COVID-19 safety measures to be followed
- On-Site and Remote Learning Combination
- Select specific day(s) and times when your child is on-site in combination with remote learning
- For those days when your child is not on-site, active participation in Veritas Academy’s learning community via our online learning system
- Remote Learning
- Your child is an active participant in Veritas Academy’s learning environment, receiving a robust academic and social, spiritual and emotional educational experience via our online learning system
Campus Safety Plan
- Infection prevention measures
- Prompt identification and isolation of sick persons
- Communication of necessary infections keeping with HIPPA laws
- Administrative controls for reasonable school-setting social distancing
- Custodial maintenance and management necessary to ensure effective daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing
- Communication and training necessary to implement and sustain the plan
- Continued compliance with evolving Executive Orders and CDC guidelines (Romans 13)
Safety Procedures
- A maximum of 12 students in each classroom
- Outdoor pickup and drop off to limit classroom exposure
- Coordinated entry and exit to ensure appropriate social distancing
- Appropriate social-distancing in lunchroom
- Gloves used when cleaning lunchroom tables
- Routinely clean and disinfect all areas
Information Sources
Veritas Academy utilizes guidelines and regulations provided by the following agencies and organizations in making decisions regarding school operations, academic planning, and health/safety:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Minnesota Department of Human Services (Children and Family)
- Minnesota Department of Health (DOH)
- Minnesota Independent School Forum (MISF)
- American Academy of Pediatrics (Guidance for School Re-entry)
Guiding Principles
- Prioritize student, faculty and staff health, safety, and well being
- Plan and act with fidelity to Veritas Academy’s mission, values and vision
- Ensure that health and safety-related policies are research-based, clearly-communicated, effectively implemented, and carefully enforced
- Adapt to new health and safety guidelines as they are issued
- Maintain continuity of learning to the greatest extent possible through multiple instructional models, including on-campus and Veritas Academy online learning models, with an emphasis on in-person learning as safety permits
- Maintain consistent communication with all school community stakeholders
Program Overview
Why Choose Veritas?
Small Class Sizes
Your child will be seen and heard and will be given opportunities that wouldn’t be available to them in a larger class setting. Learn more.
Christian Values
Your child will be taught Biblical values that are instrumental in leading all of us towards goodness, love and hope in a world that oftentimes seems hopeless. Learn more.
Academic Acceleration
Your child will not be held back or pushed too far forward. We ensure each student is appropriately placed based on ability, giftedness and motivation. Learn more.
Caring Teachers
Your child will be loved and cared for by highly trained staff committed to nurturing every student in a safe and supportive learning environment. Learn more.
What Everyone Is Saying About Veritas
We want the best life for our child. A best life starts with a strong foundation. Veritas Academy is that foundation. We couldn’t be happier with our choice to choose Veritas.
Because of Veritas Academy’s commitment to students, my children are motivated to learn, they are challenged at their skill level instead of being held back due to their ages.
Transition from other educational models is seamlessly supported. Staff and teachers are proactive and caring to the smallest detail. Leadership goes above and beyond for ALL students.
Veritas Academy prepared my child for college. His biology professor said his papers are some of the best first-time college papers she has ever seen.