Vaccination UPDATE

short story: 100% of Common Ground Teachers have received their first dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine!

long version: What a week!

On Monday we published a vaccination plan that we shared (and has now been removed) that would have 100% of our teachers fully vaccinated by the end of March. It was exciting and we were so proud of our staff for being willing to get vaccinated in the first place.

However, later that afternoon we were informed that all of our appointments after Jan 25th, we canceled! Luckily, Miss Simi had her appointment already set for the 25th.

This left us in limbo until yesterday, we we received a new link to join a waiting list to schedule our appointments. We quickly signed up the remaining 9 staff that needed to get their first dose, not knowing when we would be invited to schedule…. until last night! At nearly 7pm, every staff member was invited to schedule their first shot and we were very lucky to get them all in TODAY! (Thank you so much for dealing with the inconvenience of the early pick up today)

This was AMAZING LUCK because it will actually move our “fully vaccinated date” up about a month!

So here are the classroom CLOSURES for February:

• Friday, February 5th: OWLS (Liz, LJ, and Victoria)

• Friday, February 12th: HONEYBEES (Adella, Mimi, Josh - and Simi goes on Saturday, so the panda’s aren’t affected)

• Friday, February 19th: BUBBLE BUDDIES/LITTLE PENGUINS, PLAYFUL PANDAS, RISING STARS, and DANCING MONKEYS

Of course, this is IF we can coordinate appointments on the 18th or the morning of the 19th. We will keep you up to date as we know more!

This feels like one SMALL STEP towards getting back to a more normal life! Thank you again for your support!