COVID RESPONSE
Flying Higher: Persevering through the Pandemic We want to thank each and every team that was instrumental in making this year work for our special community.
Task Force Teams
The facilities team installed a new air purification system that will also serve the Heritage campus post-pandemic. They reconfigured classrooms and offices, added sneeze guards to desks, and installed PPE/cleaning kits in every classroom.
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his COVID-19 year brought about many unique challenges into every sphere of our lives. But our Heritage community has continued to rely on the Lord’s provision and sovereignty every step of the way. We are profoundly proud of our teachers, staff, students, and families for the incredible work they’ve put into adapting to an ever-changing school year. After a tough ending to the 2019-20 school year, Heritage CEO Jeff Freeman, Academics Director Brenda Klingerman, COO Nathan Beadle, and the administrative team put together several task forces to work toward reopening safely this fall. These task forces spent the summer pouring over contingency plans and safety protocols, changing nearly every school operation. The months of work landed them a hard-earned waiver from the Marion County Health Department to reopen school in August. Through it all, Beadle, Klingerman, and the administration are grateful to have the school running in-person. “My greatest joy this year has been seeing that what we have done has worked, spread at school has been minimized, and we have been able to fulfill our mission during this challenging year,” said Beadle.
Transportation reconfigured bus routes, added new car pick-up lanes, and designated door entrances by student grade level. The foodservice team developed a pre-order delivery service so students could eat in classrooms. Each grade level eats lunch in designated classrooms; for younger students, this means they eat in their cohort with their homeroom class. Middle and high schoolers were assigned a lunch classroom for the year. Academic teams hired additional teachers, scheduled students in smaller class settings, helped specials teachers adapt to traveling by cart from classroom-to-classroom, and set up safe recess options for younger students.
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SPRING 2021 HERITAGE MESSENGER
