Trumansburg Central School District

December 15, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you I am writing with another COVID-19 update. The DOH has confirmed that one of our elementary school students, one middle school student and one high school student have tested positive today, December 15th for COVID-19. Our school nurses continue to work closely with the Department of Health to identify those in close contact. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individuals impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

December 14, 2021 Dear Families, Today I am writing to you with much gratitude. Thank you for the trust, patience, kindness, and commitment to our schools you have shown over the past few months. We have successfully welcomed all students back to in-person instruction with your partnership. Our return to entirely in-person instruction has been both challenging and joyful. In addition to instruction, I am very grateful that our adults have brought back athletics, homecoming, a concert, a play, and much more with appropriate safety protocols. Our personnel has provided your children with academic support, emotional care, medical access and expertise, exemplar school nutrition, a clean and safe learning environment, and safe/reliable transportation. This year reflects much of the "normalcy" we experienced before the pandemic in so many ways. This school year, we have several factors contributing to our success in remaining open to in-person instruction. First and foremost, the dedication and hard work of all school personnel! Additionally, approximately 90% of our staff are vaccinated. Children who are five years or older have access to the vaccination. We implemented distancing protocols in our classrooms that prevent an entire classroom from going into quarantine when there is a positive COVID-19 case. These measures, combined with universal masking, daily health screenings, access to testing on campus for symptomatic students, and your active participation/partnership, have allowed us to remain open with 100% in-person instruction. We recognize the benefit of having students in front of us and will continue to do everything within our power to maintain this model. With that said, we are seeing a local spike in COVID-19 cases with regional impact. Today, Cornell University moved to remote instruction due to red alert status. Two of our neighboring schools have recently switched to remote instruction for short periods due to staffing shortages. I am optimistic that we will not need to go 100% remote. However, we must plan for the unexpected. We have just six days of in-person instruction (and one half day asynchronous 12/23) remaining before the December break; please have a tentative plan in place should we need to shift to remote learning with little notice. We have learned a great deal from our experiences last school year and will be prepared to deliver instruction remotely should we have that need. To be clear, at this time, I am just sharing a concern based on Tompkins County's increase in COVID-19 positive cases. We intend to remain open to 100% in-person instruction assuming we have adequate personnel to carry out all responsibilities. May you have a joyous, healthy, and safe holiday season. I look forward to all that the New Year will bring. Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us Please consider the environment before printing this email. PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail and any attachments, or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipients, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, downloading, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, permanently delete the e-mail and any attachments immediately, and destroy all copies.

December 13, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with yet another COVID-19 update. The DOH has confirmed that one of our middle school students tested positive for COVID-19 today. Additionally, one of our adults that supports an extra-curricular sport tested positive for COVID-19 on December 12th. Our school nurses have led the charge in contacting those in close contact. The Department of Health will also be in contact with those impacted. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individuals impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

December 6, 2021 Dear Community, It has been brought to my attention that the community alerts about COVID-19 positive cases have recently only gone to families and employees of the district. For all other community members, it is essential to share the data below: 11/23- (1) one positive elementary school student 11/29- (2) two positive elementary school students (1) one positive high school student 12/1- (2) two positive elementary school students 12/3- (1) one positive elementary school student Please help us to remain vigilant with all public health precautions. Kind regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

2021-2022 CALENDAR CHANGE! Instructional Asynchronous ½ Days for Grades PreK-12 (students do not report to campus) & Professional Development Days for all staff on 12/23/21, 01/31/22 & 03/17/22

November 15, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with a COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our elementary school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Wednesday, November 10, 2021. Our ES school nurse has worked in collaboration with the Department of Health to notify all students that may have been impacted. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the child affected. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

November 9, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with a COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our elementary school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Friday, November 5, 2021. At this time we do not believe any other students will be impacted. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

November 6, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with a COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our high school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Tuesday, November 2, 2021. Our school nurse is working in cooperation with the Department of Health on contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify all persons on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

November 6, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Families: For those of you that have children ages 5-11 and are seeking the Pfizer Pediatric COVID vaccine, almost all pharmacies are booking at this time. Currently Wegmans has slots starting 11/11, Kinney T-burg starting 11/16, Kinney Triphammer starting 11/18, Walgreens in Dryden starting 11/12. Additionally, Trumansburg Family Medicine will be doing clinics twice weekly – follow them on Facebook or their web site for details. Also Tompkins County Health Department will be having another large-scale clinic next weekend. Wishing you all good health. Kindly, Kimberly Bell Superintendent of Schools TCSD

Dear Trumansburg Community, Today, November 2, I write to inform you that the DOH has notified us that one of our supporting personnel members has tested positive for COVID-19. No close contacts have been identified therefore, only the positive individual is impacted. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to our co-worker. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

October 27, 2021 Dear Community, Please see below for an official statement from Tompkins County Public Health Director, Frank Kruppa. “Tompkins County Health Department is no longer requiring the siblings of symptomatic children to be automatically excluded. If they can be checked and found to have no symptoms, they can remain in school pending a test result from the sibling”. If the symptomatic sibling tests positive for COVID-19 then the siblings would be excluded based on contact tracing rules both school based and in the home. “Our effort is to avoid unnecessary exclusions from school and with the onset of cold and flu season we want to ensure that a case is confirmed by test result before excluding siblings”. Kind Regards, Kimberly Bell Superintendent of Schools

REMINDER: No School for PreK - 12 on Monday, November 1st

10/21/21 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with another COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our elementary school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Friday, October 15, 2021. Our school nurse is working in cooperation with the Department of Health on contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify all persons on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

October 19, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with another COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our high school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Friday, October 15, 2021. Our school nurse is working in cooperation with the Department of Health on contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify all persons on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

October 13, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with a COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our middle school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Friday, October 8, 2021. Our school nurse is working in cooperation with the Department of Health on contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify all persons on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886 P: 607-387-7551, ext. 4421 | F: 607-387-2880 kbell@tburg.k12.ny.us

Announcing Homecoming the week of October 12 - 15. Please watch for more details coming soon from Charles O. Dickerson High School! Go Blue Raiders!!

September 27, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide yet another COVID-19 update. We have two new adult COVID-19 cases, with the last day of attendance being Friday, 9/24/21. We also have two additional student cases in our middle school. It is important to note that the student cases have been traced to contact outside of school. Our school nurses are working extra time and in cooperation with the Department of Health for contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify any person on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individuals impacted. Best, Kimberly Bell

September 24, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that I am writing to provide you with another COVID-19 update. The DOH has notified us that one of our middle school students has tested positive for COVID-19. The last date of attendance was Wednesday, September 22, 2021. Our school nurse is working in cooperation with the Department of Health on contact tracing. The Department of Health will notify all persons on the contact tracing list. Our sincerest well wishes for a quick and complete recovery to the individual impacted. Regards, Kimberly Bell TCSD Superintendent of Schools

September 23, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, I regret to inform you that we have been notified by the DOH that one of our MS students has tested positive for COVID-19. There are no additional contacts to report for exposure for this particular case. As a point of clarity, of the two cases reported yesterday, only one attends our MS, the other child attends an alternate program. Thank you for working with us to keep you and your family safe. As always, our thoughts are with those directly impacted. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to your building principal. Respectfully, Kimberly Bell Superintendent TCSD

September 22, 2021 Dear Trumansburg Community, Our safe return to in-person instruction requires that we are vigilant in creating a health and safety culture. We continue to use multiple mitigation strategies to eliminate the spread of COVID-19 however, with the increase in the number of cases locally it is inevitable that we experience more exposures at school. With that said, we have notified by the DOH that two of our MS students have tested positive for COVID-19. The two cases (1 of the 2 students attends an alternate program and does not report to our campus) are unrelated. We are working closely with the contact tracing staff of Tompkins County Department of Health to notify all parties of exposure and the next steps of the protocol to keep our community safe. Thank you for working with us to keep you and your family safe. As always, our thoughts are with those directly impacted. Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to your school principal. Respectfully, Kimberly Bell Superintendent TCSD