What Does the Research Say About COVID19 Safety Protocols?
This article was written originally for MultiBriefs Education . I noticed the other day as I walked the halls of my high school that no one follows all the one way floor stickers we placed all over the building last summer --- no one. The funny thing is, no one has been following them at the Demoulas Market Basket grocery store I shop at either. Maybe that is why the grocery store got rid of them last week. I just told my head custodian to do the same this summer when they do their annual deep clean and waxing of our school floors. The floor stickers may be one example of a safety protocol that we won’t need this fall, but we know that COVID won’t be gone. The question is, what protocols will we need? In a recent article, Education Week’s Sarah Sparks reports on Masks, Tracking, Desk Shields: How Much Do School Measures Reduce Families’ COVID-19 Risk? She writes, “The number and kind of protections schools put in place now can make a big difference in the risk that those students w