Cohorting refers to the practice of keeping students together in a small group throughout their school day, with limited exposure to multiple teachers or a wide variety of classmates. By limiting the number of other students a single student has contact with, will make it easier to facilitate contact tracing should that be necessary.
This means that a student in an elementary school will be cohorted with their classmates and their homeroom teacher, with limited contact with other subject teachers for classes. The elementary cohort will be approximately 50 students. At the secondary level students will be limited to approximately 100 student contacts by introducing a quadmester timetabling model (see below).
Quad #1: Period 1&2 from September 10th until November 9th
Quad #2: Period 3&4 from November 12th until January 28th
Quad #3: Period 5&6 from February 3rd until April 16th
Quad #4: Period 7&8 from April 21st to June 23rd