Colorado will make up to a million rapid COVID-19 tests a month available to school districts, charter schools, and private schools as part of its effort to get students back to the classroom and keep them there.

Grab and Go breakfast/snacks at the High School! An opportunity brought to you by the Food Service department and student input at our Health Advisory Council’s meeting this year in November. A discussion around food, kids habits and our HKCS (Healthy Kids Colorado Survey) 2019 data (which stated that 65.5% of the High School students surveyed did not eat breakfast), lead to a suggestion from Junior Arden Blakemore that students want and need snacks, just not necessarily at breakfast time. Thank you to Todd Stevens and his staff for making this happen! The Health Advisory Council is made up of parents, school staff, students and community members.

ASD schools plan to return to in-person learning on Monday Jan. 4. To read the full letter from Superintendent LeBlanc-Esparza click here.

On Tuesday of last week, the Governor met with superintendents to share highlights from the report. In the report, the task force called for increased testing and mitigation. He shared that the state is planning to provide BINAX rapid tests to schools and districts. We are not sure exactly when those will arrive, but the plan is to have testing available, should a student or staff
member begin to experience symptoms during a school day. The test would allow for early
detection and therefore, minimize spread of COVID. The District is hopeful that this will be yet another tool that we can use to help us keep our students and staff safe.

Roadmap to return Colorado students to school calls for more testing, contact tracing

ASD's Food Service team along with our Transportation team organized and orchestrated not only the delivery of daily meals to our students during remote learning, but they partnered with the Food System/ Food Equity Coalition to package and deliver food boxes to hold families over during the winter break. They
delivered boxes to 81 families! They also delivered gifts of sports equipment that was provided in collaboration with Axis Health. Thank you for going above and beyond and making a difference for families.

The deadline for Holiday Food Boxes has been extended to 4pm on Tuesday, December 15th. Contact the District to grab a food box for the Holidays.

Alimentos para todos durante las vacaciones A través de donaciones, Food Equity Coalition puede ofrecer 150 cajas de alimentos para apoyar a las familias durante las vacaciones. El distrito escolar transportará cajas a las paradas de autobús escolar

Add to Your Holiday Celebration The Food System |Food Equity Coalition is offering boxes of food to support families in Pagosa Springs and surrounds during the holiday season. To aid delivery, Archuleta School District will transport boxes to established school bus stops. See attachments for more info.