No Change in Graduation Requirements for School District 1

Students in Sheridan County School District 1 missed eight days of school before returning to classes on Monday this week.

District Superintendent Pete Kilbride said that’s put the district a little behind schedule, but the district’s graduation requirements haven’t changed.

Speaking at a virtual work session of the district’s board of trustees Tuesday, Kilbride said in terms of educating the district’s students, nothing has changed.

All of Wyoming’s school districts were required to submit adaptive learning plans to the state education department, lining out how the districts would provide instruction to students when classes resumed this week.

Kilbride said students in District 1’s kindergartens through third grade are being provided with packets to be worked on at home and returned to teachers the following week.

Students in the upper elementary grades, middle and high schools receive instruction through a combination of packets and online learning.

He said the district initially planned to provide some instruction to special education students in small groups at the district’s schools, but that plan changed. Now there are no small groups, but students are receiving instruction through one-on-one time with teachers.

Kilbride told trustees that the learning plan is going well so far. He said students’ emotional needs are the district’s first priority at this time.