Maricopa County Community College District dba Gateway Early College High School

We plan to hire additional instructors which will reduce our class sizes. This will allow for additional social distancing opportunities within the classroom.

Purchasing enough laptops to provide 1:1 technology to our students will allow for continuous learning if we are to move back to a hybrid or remote learning situation. It will also provide students the opportunity to log in to a virtual classroom when they are quarantined at home due to COVID-19.

Upgrading the computer systems in 5 of our classrooms will allow teachers to teach students who are learning remotely due to COVID-19 via webcam.

GWECHS will ensure that the implemented interventions will address the academic impact of lost instructional time and will respond to the academic, social, emotional and mental health needs of all students and particularly students disproportionally impacted by COVID-19.

GWECHS will pay Bayless Integrated Healthcare to have certified counselors come to campus to provide group support to students over the course of 2 years to address social, emotional and mental health needs of all students. This will be especially important for all of our students as 100% of our students are from low-income families.

GWECHS will hire a Reading Specialist, Math teacher and ELL teacher to help reduce class sizes and further assist students at their academic level. This will be especially important in helping those students disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in order to address their learning loss.

GWECHS will purchase laptops so that students can continue learning during school closures as well as during remote learning, hybrid learning and/or while in quarantine.

GWECHS will be extending the school day by 1 hour during which teachers will provide tutoring to any students who need academic assistance.

GWECHS will provide summer school in order to increase classroom learning time and to decrease summer learning loss.